industrial lord

Chapter 52 Almost Forgot to Plant Vegetables
Recently, there was a rumor in Wessenburg that the girl the young master liked ran home. He was out of his mind under grief and indignation, and said that now he wanted to grow vegetables.

Those who had just heard the rumor looked at the autumn clothes on their bodies, and then burst out laughing.

The time has entered October, and the autumn sowing has ended. It is too late to plant vegetables and only grow some leaves before winter comes in November.

People just laughed it off, treating it like the little master playing a child's temper and messing around, and it will be fine after a while.

One also thought Frederick was messing around, until the headmaster actually took himself into the field.

At the University of Wessenburg, Diesel was first in charge of personnel placement and other work, and then was busy with the research tasks arranged by the principal. He did not leave the campus until today to report on the work progress. Unexpectedly, he was caught working in the vegetable field when he came to the manor. .

Living in a stone castle in winter is making yourself uncomfortable, so every October everyone will move to a manor outside the city to live until March next year.

"Blow up the well?" Diesel asked, pointing to the grass by the small river.

"Yes." Frederick replied, "The rivers in this manor will all freeze in winter, and several deep wells need to be dug for use in winter."

Diesel looked at the vegetable field next to which the rammed earth wall was being built, and asked suspiciously: "Principal, don't you really want to grow vegetables in the cold weather?"

Frederick has heard a lot of questions like this recently, and replied a little impatiently: "Just do as I tell you, and don't eat the vegetables you can grow."

Seeing the situation, Diesel agreed, and it was just a matter of little effort anyway.

He waved the wand in his hand and chanted a spell, and several blue cones appeared above the grass in the blink of an eye.

The first cone in the middle fell and plunged into the grass in an instant, followed by a loud noise, and the soil erupted from the ground like a volcanic eruption.

Immediately afterwards, other cones entered the hole one after another. After a series of explosions, a hole with a diameter of about 2 meters and a depth of about 9 meters was dug.

Diesel said triumphantly: "This is the latest magic that I have improved according to the principal's suggestion. It can concentrate a large number of shock waves in one direction, and it can be used to blast the mud out."

Frederick asked happily: "Well, can the magic circle be miniaturized?"

Diesel replied: "It's a bit difficult at the moment."

Frederick nodded, and we will talk about the study of magic later, and now call someone to strengthen the walls of the well.

"I'm busy with some things this morning." He said to Diesel, "I'll check your results in the afternoon."

He was so busy that he forgot about one very important matter, which he remembered when Tarot was reporting to him on the dried and pickled vegetables stored this winter.

Diesel naturally agreed, and at the same time was curious about what the principal was doing.

He was then assigned to blow up several wells.

After Diesel finished his work, a convoy came to the side of the vegetable field.

BASF personally followed the convoy, and the carriage was filled with bundles of transparent slime films.

"Principal!" BASF said mysteriously as soon as he jumped off the carriage, "You have time to visit our workshop, there will be a surprise!"

Frederick didn't ask what the surprise was, and he wouldn't say it if he wanted to.

He pointed to a vegetable field with rammed earth walls and wooden shelves and said, "Take a cart of film over there and see if we can build a shed this morning."

Everyone was talking nonsense, BASF asked the carriage to pull the film to the vegetable field, and Frederick asked the stewards to call the tenant farmers to work.

This vegetable field is 50 meters long and 5 meters wide. There is a wooden frame in the field, which is high in the north and low in the south. On the north side, there is a thick rammed earth wall with a height of 4 meters. There are several wooden doors and windows on the wall. .

Frederick and the steward of the manor went to measure the size, and BASF asked someone to remove a roll of greenhouse from the car and unfold it beside the field.

"Tall!" Diesel asked BASF in surprise, "How did you do it?"

The rolled film is now 3 meters wide, estimated to be 20 meters long, and 1 mm thick.

"It's simple." BASF said proudly, "I prepared a 3-meter-wide and 5-meter-long stone floor, poured slime glue on it, let people spread it first, and then use a scraper with wheels to fix the height. When the board is scraped over, it becomes a large film when it cools down."

"When the next piece is made, three finger-width pieces are left side by side on the previous piece and blended with the new one, and it will become a big piece when it cools down."

Under his gesture, Diesel saw that there were thicker marks on the film at intervals.

Frederick measured the size of the film needed for the greenhouse, and then started splicing the film.

A small fire was raised on the side, and the cut film was boiled in an iron pan. After boiling, a brush was used to brush the overlapping parts of the two films while it was hot, and it was pressed into a large piece before it cooled and solidified.

The spliced ​​film was rolled into a large piece, and a large group of people carried it to the rammed earth wall together. As soon as they let go, the film rolled over by itself and spread it on the wooden frame that had already been set up.

The adults fixed the membrane, the rammed earth wall, and the ground. Some girls who were about the same age as Frederick, with ropes around their waists, carefully slid to the top of the slippery and sloping shed on a slide, holding awls in their hands. , with thin hemp ropes tied to his arms, he cooperated with the adults in the shed to tie the film to the wooden frame, and finally painted a thick layer of slime glue on the thin hemp ropes and the perforated places.

Everyone was busy until noon and finally set up the film of the greenhouse. The sun is still quite bright today, and a group of people gathered here for a long time and felt quite hot.

Diesel said in surprise: "It seems that we can really grow vegetables in winter."

Frederick smiled and said, "It's almost there. Straw curtains are needed to cover the shed at night, a carbon stove must be prepared, and thick cloth curtains must be hung behind the doors and ventilation windows."

"In the past, when it snowed, we had to remove the snow in time. The most important thing is to do a good job of safety education, otherwise we may get carbon poisoning."

The coldest winter here in Weisenling is around minus ten degrees Celsius, with strong winds and a lot of snowfall.

For thousands of years, it is unknown how many people died of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide poisoning when warming at home. However, the development of alchemy is limited. People only discovered carbon dioxide that can make limestone cloudy, which is called carbon gas.

These two points are what Frederick is most worried about, so the slope of the roof of the greenhouse is very large to facilitate the snow to slide down, but it must be removed in time when it snows heavily; at the same time, several windows are opened on the rammed earth wall, which can be opened to lower the greenhouse when necessary. In the carbon dioxide concentration, while adjusting the humidity.

Frederick had a few words with the manager of the manor, and he will be in charge of the construction of the next greenhouse. Every time a greenhouse is built, the farmer will immediately arrange the land inside, and plant some lettuce, lettuce, and arugula after fertilizing. Green leafy vegetables with a short growth cycle.

(End of this chapter)