Lord of Rot

Chapter 11 Magic Farming and Manure

The one who came to lead the way was a respectable old man among the common people in the Porcupine Territory. The lord will be responsible for solving all the problems in the territory, such as whose family has stolen black bread, whose family has been bitten by a dog, etc., all trivial things, but also Some people are needed to organize and arrange, and a respected old man is a good helper.

"Good day, my lord, I am the wheel, your faithful...servant" The old man bent over. He is not young, but his body is very strong, but bending over and working all day makes him very hunchbacked.

These words should have been taught by "Rabbit" Simon, and he was a little stuttering.

The baron was riding on the horse, looking down at the old farmer half kneeling on the ground, he nodded slightly: "Good day, Mr. Wheel, can you please take me to the home of the four sacrificed warriors? I want to visit their families."

"Your kindness will surely be blessed by the woman."

Woman, one of the four gods, is a female in appearance. She is the god of love, because the image of motherhood is also considered to be the god of benevolence and kindness.

"The Four Gods will bless every believer," Li Qi replied.

If belief in God is useful, he doesn't mind believing in it, but if it's useless...then let's make peace with each other, but a verbal chat is still okay.

Leaving the stone road of the castle, the front suddenly turned into a muddy dirt road.

The sea breeze will quietly float to the shore every night, and leave fog after dawn, making the ground wet.

The people in the porcupine collar thought it was a sea monster making trouble. If they got caught in the mist, they might die, and they would indeed die if they caught a cold.

Next to the castle is the wheat field of porcupine collar, with a few dry fruits on the thin ears of wheat, which are more like weeds than wheat.

Half of the field is planted with sparse wheat, and the other half of the field is covered with unmanaged weeds. The castle's horses, sheep, and chickens eat the weeds here.

Li Qi is not very good at farming and farming. He only knows that this should be a fallow system. Farmers use half of the land for planting and the other half for soil fertility. Now it is almost the harvest season, but this year's harvest At a glance... there are very few of them, and I am afraid that many people will starve to death in my territory when winter comes.

The excrement was piled up beside the road, but it was strictly separated from the fields, and it stinks.

The flies that are indispensable in any world lie on it in swarms, and they are still struggling in autumn, and their buzzing makes people irritated and disgusting.

In memory, the former Baron Li Qi did not participate in anything other than the castle. As aristocrats, he didn't need to care about agriculture at all. They only needed to know how to collect taxes, and the former Baron Li Qi was very shy.

"Have you considered fertilizing before?" Li Qi turned to ask the old farmer who was following him.

The open-air cesspool, which looked like it had been pooping for years, was on the main road, but everyone took it for granted.

Even if the Leopold family's golden mule made a trip, the golden hooves would have to be sticky.

"Fertilization?" Wheel wondered: "What do you mean?"

"Make manure into fertilizer and pour it into the farmland to moisten the soil."

For example, the easiest way to ferment manure is to add water. He probably knows the crops in his territory. After the autumn harvest, he should plant oats. When the harvest is next year, the fertilizer will make the harvest more gratifying.

"This! My gods! You must be joking!" The wheel's reaction was bigger than Li Qi's imagination, his old wrinkled face flushed red, and he opened his mouth wide to defend himself: "We will never You will do such a thing, please rest assured!"

"What? Didn't you know that feces can moisturize and make wheat grow faster?" Li Qi asked.

Anyone who urinates in the dirt will soon find out that urine can make plants grow faster.

"My lord, wheat is the crystallization of the earth, it is a gift from God! We can't use feces to stain the gift, that is a blasphemy against God!" Wheel said excitedly: "You must know nothing about agriculture, we will come out early Wan Gui collected pests, pulled weeds, and caught mice in the farmland, we tried everything, but the fields just didn't... didn't grow much."

That's because there was no fertilization, Baron Li Qi thought to himself.

Not only was there no fertilization, but he found that some people had already started weeding and preparing to use the idle land to plant oats. They used hoes to dig the ground and loosen the soil over and over again, but there was not much iron on the hoes, and some people used wood to dig the soil. Or planer by hand.

The dug holes are very shallow.

Li Qi thought to himself: "Repeated work, the production efficiency is very low."

"My lord, maybe I know the fertilizer you're talking about." The servant Pitchfork said, "I once heard from Mr. Barrel that there is a magical thing in the church. As long as it is sprinkled on the farmland, the land will be moistened, and the plants will grow wildly and produce fruit." Fruits that can't be eaten..."

"Magic, miracle." Li Qi nodded, not surprised.

Maybe it is because of the existence of magic that farmers will not try to use fertilizers, because there are more "correct" guides in front of them, they will only reflect that they are not pious enough, and God has not given blessings.

Magic and miracles are the native products of this world. Maybe they are more suitable for planting than fertilizer, but for the barren porcupine collar, the manure everywhere is more cost-effective.

The farmers along the way saw the young lord riding a tall horse, and put down their work one after another. The children running barefoot in the fields also wiped the mud on their faces, and stood obediently on the side of the road under the severe reprimand of their parents. The child looked up at the gorgeously dressed man on horseback, fascinated by the tall horse, but soon his parents pressed his head down, and the child tried to look up with his head pressed down, and the highest he could only see was Moccasin boots with pedals.

That is the noble lords, their lords. When they grow up, they will take up the sword to serve the lord during the war, and return to the fields to harvest and cultivate with sickles when the farming is busy.

Under the watchful eyes of the people, Li Qi rode a horse and followed the wheel to the home of the first dead farmer.

He had a young wife, and despite the freckles under the eyelids and the rough skin roughened by hard work, she was a pretty woman.

Knowing that the lord is coming, the woman stood early at the door of her small house where a few piles of dry excrement were piled up.

The horse stopped.

"Good day, my lord~" the woman immediately bowed down to say hello.

Li Qi glanced down at the side of the road, and gave up the plan to dismount. The sanitation was worse than he imagined, no wonder the former Li Qi rarely left the castle.

He is the lord, so it is natural for him not to dismount. No one in the room felt dissatisfied, and they were even envious that the woman could get the lord's visit in person.

"Bird Shit is a warrior, he sacrificed for me." Li Qi asked possessively, "Do you have any difficulties? As his family member, I may be able to help you."

If it weren't for the corpses of the four farmers, he would not be able to kill James, nor would he be able to patrol the territory on horseback. When he saw a helpless woman, he would be willing to help. kindness.

"Yes, my lord." The woman pinched her long linen skirt, wrinkling her hands nervously: "This winter is very difficult, there is not enough food, and I don't have a husband yet."

Li Qi nodded slightly, waiting for the woman to tell her request, he can give food, seeds, and silver moon.

But the woman said, "I want to marry an old man with a broken tooth in one ear."

(End of this chapter)