Lord Helanza

Helanza is surrounded by many mountainous areas. The oak forests produce golden and silver oaks, but the oak forests are also mixed with chestnut trees, cassava trees, wild autumn pear trees and some hard miscellaneous trees. Wood trees and chestnut trees are also known as tree rice. They are one of the most important winter grains for villagers in the nearby mountainous areas in autumn. When many wheat fields decrease in production, the people in the vicinity of Desolate Land will enter the mountains in autumn and collect a large amount of wild plants. Chestnuts to survive the long winter.

The most important reason why cassava is not accepted by the mountain people is that it has a certain degree of toxicity. Even if the cassava is cut into small pieces and soaked in water, it is difficult to completely remove the paralysis. Toxins not only swell the mouth after eating, but also cause abdominal pain and other conditions.

Surdak brought more than a thousand kobold slaves from Pena City. These kobold slaves need to eat at least 3,000 pounds of cassava every day, so when Surdak brought the first batch of cassava from the carriage husbands, Just let them continue to buy cassava in the free market in Helanza City and transport it to Daowal Village. Surdak promised that the purchase price of cassava per cart should not be less than 20 silver.

This is a big deal for the carriage industry in the spring when the transportation industry is sluggish.

Of course, the twelve carriage husbands will not let go of this good opportunity to make money. On the 2nd day after returning to Helanza City, the carriage husbands arrived at Wall Village, the old village, loaded with twelve carts of cassava. Chang Bright has a sum of money in his village, which he saved from several sulphur ore transactions with the White Elephant Trading Company in the winter, and it happened to be used by him to pay the settlement commission for purchasing cassava.

By the time Surdak returned to Wall Village, it has been two weeks since the kobold slave came to Wall Village. In just two weeks, twelve four-wheeled carriages were in Helanza City with Wall. The village went back and forth five times, and the twelve four-wheeled carriages of cassava alone allowed the old village chief Bright to build three warehouses at the entrance of the village.

But after the third batch of cassava was transported to Wall Village, other carriage husbands in Helanza learned about this news and bought cassava from the free market in the city and shipped them to Wall Village until Surdak. By the time of returning to Wall Village, the old village head has built five warehouses at the entrance of the village. Although the old village head has spread a message to the carriage that the purchase of cassava has been suspended, there are still four rounds of carriage filled with cassava that have arrived in Wall continuously. village.

Seeing these piles of cassava, the old village head Bright didn’t know whether to cry or laugh, and wanted to reject these cassava, but these carriage husbands were struggling with the old village head I beg, it is not easy to arrive at Wall Village with a full load of cassava. I would rather leave the cassava here at a discount.

The old village chief Bright was worrying about whether to accept these cassava. He felt that someone was secretly pulling the corner of his clothes. He turned his head and glanced at Selena behind him, and Selena looked at him. In the direction of Beigou Meadow, there were hot rays of light in his eyes. The old village chief followed Selena’s gaze and saw a motorcade slowly approaching the village of Wall. Knight walking in front was impressive. It was Surdak. He held the horse's reins with one hand, moved towards the old village chief and waved.

In the twilight, the old village chief stood up with his chair, a relieved smile on his wrinkled old face.

"Duck, you can count as coming back!" The old village chief shouted to Surdak loudly.

Surdak jumped off the horse. The Gubolai horse made a long hiss. Holding the Gubolai horse, Surdak walked quickly towards the old village chief.

ogre Gulitum followed Surdak like a mountain of meat, attracting the attention of many villagers and carriage husbands, but Aphrodite and Samira behind the team were ignored by everyone NS.

Surdak saw that many four-wheeled carriages were stuck here, so he stepped forward and asked the old village head: "Bright uncle, why are there so many carriages here?"

The old village head Bright told Surdak the whole story.

Then the old village chief said: "The others are nothing, but now I have bought so many cassava, there are still so many carriages filled with cassava waiting here, I am worried about those kobold slaves. I can’t finish it at all. This stuff is all over the mountain. I don’t think we need to waste so much acquisition, Dark, or we will collect less, and let them take all the rest back?"

Surdak looked towards those four-wheel carriages that lined up at the entrance of the village, and immediately said to the old village chief Bright: "Come on, Bright uncle, we will accept all these cassava!"

Village Chief Wright wiped his forehead with a handkerchief and shouted to the young villagers standing next to Okura: "Wal, you guys, come over and continue to weigh these cassava, all of these cassava will be weighed again, Selena , You are responsible for counting the weight of these cassava and how much Silver Coin we want to spend!"

"Okay, Bright Uncle!" several young villagers shouted.

The carriage husbands at the entrance of the village originally thought they wanted to bring the cassava back to Helanza City intact. They gathered together everyone talking at once to discuss the countermeasures, and when they saw that the old village chief was finally willing to let go and agreed to continue the purchase , Hurriedly ran back to their magic caravan, lined up to wait for the weighing.

When Surdak turned towards the old village chief, moved towards Selena, who was standing behind the old village chief, blinked and said hello quietly.

Selena stood on the spot holding the sheepskin account book, with a delicate pretty face. When she turned around, she avoided the old village chief and flew Surdak with a white eye, with an extremely charming expression.

The old village chief Bright came to Surdak, lowered his voice, and asked mysteriously and secretively: "Duck, I know you have some ideas. Tell me what you need me to do for you? "

Surdak pressed his forehead with his hand. He actually thought of a way to remove the toxicity of cassava, but he didn't know if this method would work, so he said to the old village head Bright:" I just have some ideas. I still don’t know if it can work..."

"You really need to uncle Bright for this matter. I need some water tanks and wooden barrels to move to the village. Usually you can wash your clothes by the sink."

"Oh! By the way, please ask some women from the village to help."

Mr. Bright’s personality is also swift and decisive, listen. When Surdak said this, he immediately agreed: "I will do it now."

After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the village.

"Okay! Bright uncle." Surdak followed, walking into the village together.

Selena took advantage of the old village chief not paying attention, came over to Surdak and asked in a low voice: "What are you doing?"

"You'll know when you wait and see. "Surdak said to Selena slightly smiled.

At this time, the young villager who was responsible for the load-bearing cassava yelled to Selena very dumbfounded: "Selena, one thousand and 57 pounds, hurry up and make a record!"

Selena glanced at Surdak, turned around angrily and walked back, holding the hem of the long-haired skirt.

Aphrodite looked curiously at the back of Selena turned and left, with a lightly smile on her face.

Surdak turned his head to the ogre instructed behind him: "Gulitem, help me get some cassava here..."

There are a few large boxes next to the cassava pile. Ogre handily carried a wooden box of cassava on his shoulders, followed Surdak walking into the village, and asked him slyly: "Captain, what do we eat tonight?"

I simply don't want to eat these cassava in the box.

Surdak saw the flock of yellow sheep being driven back from Beigou pasture by two and a half children, he smiled and said to ogre: "Let you taste the sheep soup of our village tonight... …"

"Wow...Lamb soup, Guliterm likes to drink lamb soup." Ogre grinned immediately after hearing that he was not eating these numbing cassava.

On the bank of the creek not far from the wood workshop, there is a natural pool here. The women in the village usually wash their clothes here, and the children in the village will also bathe in this pool in summer. Some slabs were laid next to the pool. Even if the river is currently dry, there is still a pool full of clear water.

Surdak asked Ogre Gulitum to put this wooden box of cassava first by the pool.

A few women in the village were chatting while squatting by the pool to wash their clothes. When they saw an ogre coming from the village carrying a large wooden box, they were so scared that they picked up the tub and ran away. While running, they secretly looked back...

Samira and Aphrodite looked at the poor village curiously.

Surdak pointed to the uppermost reaches of the village and said, "Let’s go, take you to the top to see it!"

The village’s reservoir project has resumed, and the rivers and streams have been completely completed. The flow was cut off, and four-wheeled carriages were full of volcanic ash, and they drove along the main road in the village moved towards the upper reaches of the village. Surdak brought members of the security team to the reservoir in the village.

As the Level 1 reservoir is fully completed, the sluice is also completed. The carriage in the village gradually pulls volcanic ash and lime powder onto the construction site. The shape of the Level 2 reservoir is completely surrounding. The Level 1 cistern has expanded ten meters outwards. The terrain here is obviously nearly two meters lower than that of the Level 1 cistern. More than fifty bricklayers are using cement to level the ground. The foundation of the dam of the Level 2 cistern Part of it has been completed, just wait for the ground to be completed before starting to repair.

At this time Rita, Natasha and several women in the village were cooking dinner for the bricklayers on the construction site.

Surdak stood on the dam of the Level 1 reservoir, pointed to a large piece of land downstream of the reservoir, and introduced to Andrew, Samira, Aphrodite, and Gullitum: "There will be three more stepped reservoirs to be built here to increase the water storage capacity of the upstream side. Helanza city is affected by the climate and monsoon. Spring is dry and less rainy, but in midsummer, there is plenty of rainfall. It is easy to form waterlogging, so we built a reservoir here. The water in the reservoir can irrigate some wheat fields in the lower reaches of the village to cope with this dry season."

The half-elf archer Samira is a little strange. I asked Surdak: "Since there is plenty of rainfall in summer, why is it still so deserted?" Surdak groaned for a moment before saying: "The geological feature of Desolate Land is that there are limestone rock formations that are highly permeable to water. The rain is very heavy. It easily penetrates into the ground. At the same time, there is a lack of fertile soil for plant growth, and the dry season happens to be in the late spring and early summer when everything grows. Many plants cannot survive in this land, only some spiny grasses and thirsty Undying Grass can survive. . Only some valleys with water sources can show a trace of vitality. In addition to the village of Wall, there are more than a dozen villages nearby."

"Here, except for the location. No matter where the main plane of Roland continent is, it can't compare with Vojmara." Andrew muttered from the side.

"But this is precisely the most important point." Aphrodite stood beside Andrew and fought back.

The native warrior's lips moved, but in the end he didn't expect any suitable words to fight back.

At this time, a youngster gasping for breath ran up to the dam and shouted at Surdak: "Duck, Bright Uncle is ready..."

"I'll be over..." Surdak waved to the youngster.

He did not take the security squad members directly back to the pool in the village, but took a detour to the stone mill in the village’s threshing ground and asked Ogre Gulitum to directly lift the stone mill base. , Andrew carried the ground mill on his back before returning to the pool.

In the surprised eyes of the villagers, ogre placed the nearly 1,000-pound stone mill base by the pool, and helped Andrew realign the stone mill.

The old village chief Bright has moved eight large water tanks, and dozens of wooden barrels have been collected. These wooden barrels are almost filled with the stone platform by the pool. A group of women in the village Seeing ogre, I was so scared that I looked pale, and my legs became weak. After being scolded by the old village chief Bright, my emotions stabilized.

"Duck, what are we going to do?" The old village chief Bright came up and asked Surdak.

"Bright Uncle, this process is not difficult, you just need to watch what we do..." Surdak said to the old village chief.

After finishing talking, Surdak asked Andrew to place the cassava in the box on the stone mill. Ogre Gulitum squeezed the stone mill to crush the crispy radish-like cassava. The same milk-white cassava juice flowed down the stone trough into the wooden barrel, which soon filled a wooden barrel, and then Surdak spread a piece of coarse linen on a water tank, and then the barrel of white pulp Pour it into the water tank, and add two buckets of clean water to the water tank.

In this way, Gullitum and Andrew grind all a wooden box of cassava into white pulp. After the white pulp is filtered, a large amount of clean water is mixed and placed in a water tank to stand still.

The old village chief led a group of women in the village to watch in silence. Everyone did not understand what Surdak was doing to squeeze the cassava juice.

Soon the water in the first water tank became clear and transparent, Surdak asked Samira to scoop out the water in the tank until only a thick layer of the bottom of the tank was left in the tank. White pulp was refilled with two buckets of water and the white pulp was stirred vigorously, and then waited for the pulp in the water tank to become clear. After repeated three times, Surdak collected the paste-like white pulp in a wooden bucket. inside.

The old village chief frowns walked up and looked at the two barrels of white pulp that had consumed a whole large wooden box of cassava, and asked Surdak: "Duck, is this potions or alchemy? What is this thing called?"

Surdak rubbed the temple vigorously and introduced it to the old village head Bright: "Now...we can call them'water starch' and wait for them to dry. Then there is starch. This thing not only removes the toxicity in the cassava, but it is also quite delicious to eat. I also cook this kind of food. People there call this kind of food "stewed seeds"... ”

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