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Chapter 291 Set fire to the mountain
A new day begins with a burst of chicken crowing.

Frederick was about to open his eyes when he felt something pressing on him, which was smooth and slippery to the touch.

If Aisha hadn't arrived in time, this black python would have become Frederick's breakfast.

"I'm very sorry!" Aisha kept apologizing, "Charcoal doesn't know why, but it likes the smell of soap since childhood."

Frederick looked at the black python with a thick calf and a length of seven or eight meters hiding behind Aisha like a child, and felt like a bad person.

The houses in the town are all wooden houses and mud houses, which are as simple as what Wesson led the newly arrived refugees to live in, even King Billa.

Now that there is a girl in Bila's family who is confinement, it is not convenient for Frederick to live in, so he lives in the woodshed next to him, which can be regarded as a single room after tidying up.

Nowadays, people in the town don’t expect to use soap as before when taking a bath. Everyone bathes with plant ashes mixed with water. Only Frederick has a few bars of soap in his backpack, which he used once before going to bed last night.

The firewood house is not far from Ayisha's home. She didn't expect that when her snake came out to eat mice in the middle of the night, she discovered the smell she liked and hadn't seen for a long time.

Only now did Frederick know that Aisha was an animal trainer and also the town's veterinarian.

Naturally, he would not care about such trivial matters, and Aisha continued to make breakfast for distinguished guests.

Bila's political platform has a deep trace of Wessen State, for example, Aisha's two children under the age of five, like the children in the town, eat an egg every day.

Frederick's breakfast was the same as theirs, a bowl of boiled peas with half a quail-sized bird in dried curd.

Aisha said to him apologetically: "In the past, I would have arranged a sumptuous banquet for His Excellency the Duke, but now we only have these. I also know that it is not good to eat too many beans, so I am very sorry."

Frederick didn't eat the meat, but cut it in half and gave it to Aisha's two children, saying at the same time: "It's okay, I can understand your difficulties. If it wasn't for Billa and other scholars in Wessenburg The city is settled, maybe I can't even eat these now."

"It's really not good to eat too much beans. How about this? I'm trying to make vermicelli with peas. Billa has eaten them before, so I probably can't make them."

Aisha thanked him graciously and collected the leftover bones of the children in a small jar.

After breakfast, the spring water square in the center of the town became lively.

There is a unique place here. This mountain is lower than the surrounding mountains, and artesian springs can be opened on the top of the mountain. The two-meter-square spring pools under several wooden sheds are the water source for everyone in this country. The water that flows out becomes irrigation water.

In the center of the square in the town there is a stone pool of about ten meters. Starting today, Hai Jiaqi and his apprentices will treat diseases for people all over the country.

Frederick wandered around, and finally he and Roseanne came to the chicken farm on the edge of the town to collect eggs.

The chicken farm here is quite similar to the one in Wessen State. There is also a special house for raising maggots to feed the chickens. In addition to worms, the chickens also eat grass and grass seeds cut from the mountains, but there is no high-tech equipment such as an incubator.

After picking up the eggs, Frederick went for a stroll outside the town. There were many beans, vegetables, and pumpkins planted on the surrounding hillsides.

The pumpkins in the field are as big as volleyballs. Judging from the output, it is estimated that the people in the town will not starve to death.

There were many people working in the farmland, mainly women and the elderly. Robbie was weeding in the pumpkin field, and Frederick went over to chat with him.

"I bought these seeds back from Wessen State." Robbie said a little embarrassedly, "I bought them and planted them in my garden. When I escaped, I took a few with me because I was afraid that there would be nothing to eat on the way. We settled here We tried to grow it, but unfortunately we couldn’t grow it, and it was getting smaller and smaller.”

Wesson's pumpkin wheels were so big, the ones here were much smaller, and his confidence took a hit.

Frederick shook his head and said: "There is no way. The seeds sold in Wessen State are all magically strengthened, and the production will be reduced in the second year. Also, don't plant consecutive crops, and you can alternate planting with beans every two years. .”

"Small pumpkins also have the advantage of being small. Build a grape trellis for pumpkins to climb up, and leave two of the strongest vines for each pumpkin. As a result, the melons hang down and are easy to pick, and they are not afraid of birds."

Robbie wrote down everything Frederick said and decided to try it later.The temperature here is high all year round, so it can be planted all year round.

Frederick asked curiously: "Isn't it ready for the rainy season, isn't it good to plant at this time?"

Robbie said: "It doesn't matter. The rainy season here is heavy rain every three or four days. You can build a shed first, and then tear it down when it grows up."

If Frederick sees him saying that, let him do it, the locals know better how to grow things there.

Robbie then said to Frederick, "We'll burn the mountains to the east when it gets hot at noon."

Frederick had nothing to say about them artificially creating soil erosion to fill the swamp, but it seemed feasible in theory, so he didn't say anything more.

If it fails, there is no shortage of such a forest fire in Lin Haili anyway.

He remembered one more thing. There was indeed a landslide accident in Wessen State a few years ago. At that time, the newspaper introduced the cause of the landslide. It is estimated that Billa found the inspiration from there.

At noon, Robbie set off on donkeys with more than 20 people. They walked the mountain road around the swamp and came to the foot of the mountain in the east.

It was windy at noon, and it was blowing from the south, and the wind was strong. Frederick felt that they had known it would be windy.

"Let's go here." Robbie jumped off the donkey, "Open a safe zone first, otherwise we may not be able to go back."

Half of them are fighters, cutting trees and mowing grass is no problem, and quickly cleared a safe area half the size of a football field.

Someone brought a lot of pots and jars, and poured the kerosene inside on the trees that were piled up in disorder.

Then several magicians began to chant, and after a while, a series of fireballs hit the place where the oil had been poured, and the flames quickly burst out.

It has just rained a few days ago, and the forest is still very humid. If you want to start a fire, the fire at the beginning is very important. It needs enough heat to dry the surrounding moisture, and then the fire can expand further.

Today's wind is not small, the big trees on the top of the mountain are blown to this side, and the branches at the foot of the mountain are also constantly swaying.

Thick white smoke filled the mountains and forests, and the flames grew bigger and bigger under the influence of the wind and the magicians' continuous throwing of fireballs, and soon became as tall as a person, and gradually flourished.

The terrified cries of birds and beasts continued to come from the mountains, and the smoke and fire were the footsteps of death to them, and they could escape as far as they could.

At night, the whole sky was burned red by the wildfires, and it looked like hell from the town.

The thick smoke was like a substance, covering the sky and covering the sky, and the ash fell on the town like snow, and everyone found cloth to cover their noses and mouths.

Frederick sat on the wooden wall, quietly watching one big tree after another fall in the fire.

During dinner, Hai Jiaqi told him that such burning of mountains is not uncommon in forests, and that slash-and-burn farming is very common in places lacking flat land.When the trees and shrubs on the hillside are burned out, crops are planted for two or three years, and when the fertility of the land is not enough, they are discarded. In the second year, the wasteland will be full of shrubs. Can burn once.

The fire did not end until the next morning, and the originally lush forest had turned into a mixture of scorched black and ash.

Many people went to collect charcoal with tools and bags, including the women who came to the town not long ago.

(End of this chapter)