forest kingdom

Chapter 299 The Cellar
After taking the people to briefly explore the vicinity of the Forester camp, Lawrence quickly returned to the manor.

The road back had also been opened up, and the belated land troops quickly reached the forest tribe.

Beoff brought the oxcart pulled by the villagers to load potatoes, and also escorted Lawrence back to the manor.

Three days after setting off, Lawrence and his party finally returned to the manor at night.

As soon as they arrived near the forest camp, Salil said happily: "Fortunately we came back early, otherwise we would have been in the rain. It will rain tonight!"

Lawrence heard it and said quickly: "Everyone, hurry up, it will rain tonight, hurry up and put the potatoes in the cellar!"

The person behind him quickly shouted: "Yes, Prophet!"

They walked through the forest to the lumberyard, and then pushed the car along the clean stone road to the public kitchen.

There was no extra space for digging cellars in the manor, and the original cellars and warehouses were full of trophies, so many buildings were lined up near the camp.

Everyone quickly pushed the bullock cart to the door of the cellar. The women dug up the soil at the entrance of the cellar and lifted up the wooden planks underground. The opening of the cellar was a round opening with a diameter of more than one meter, and it was pitch black inside.

Lawrence came over and said: "Don't go in yet. There is little air inside. If you go down directly, you will faint. Wait for 2 minutes and try throwing a torch below. If it goes out, wait. If it doesn't go out, you can go down."

Navia said: "Yes! Master!"

Lawrence arranged for the rest of the people to put the potatoes into baskets first. The forest tribe lacked baskets and bags, so most of the potatoes were simply transported in cars, and loading them into the cellar required many containers.

Fortunately, there were many sacks and baskets in the camp. These were made by women when they were bored at home and handed over to the church as regular taxes.

Soon a woman led a burning log from the kitchen stove and Lawrence dropped it into the cellar.

The firewood fell into the six-meter-deep cellar and burned for a while before going out.

Lawrence asked: "Who dug this cellar?"

Navia said: "Emma and her men dug it!"

Sariel asked curiously: "What's wrong? I was there when this cellar was dug. It was dug in the summer, together with the wool warehouse."

Seeing that Salil knew this place, Lawrence asked, "How big is it here?"

Since becoming a prophet, he has stopped doing many specific tasks. For example, carpentry and some construction work have been handed over to others, and he has rarely participated in farming.

This gives you more time to enjoy life and take care of more important things.

But on the other hand, things at the grassroots level of the manor are gradually becoming less clear, especially work in the cellar where most of the work is done underground, which is rarely seen.

Salil knew this very well, "It's four meters high. After you go down and walk to the side, there's a room that's six meters long, four meters wide, and two and a half meters high."

At this time, Emma ran over quickly from a distance and asked: "Master, do you have anything to do with me?"

Lawrence asked, "What's in this?"

Emma replied: "I put about a thousand kilograms of potatoes, all of which were just harvested this year."

Lawrence nodded and threw down another torch.

This time it burned for a minute and did not go out. Lawrence quickly said: "There should be no problem. Go down and try alone."

"I'll get down!" A young man volunteered.

Lawrence said: "Okay, tie it with a rope and go down. Anyone who drinks will not go down."

A rule can sometimes save many lives. Here in the alcoholic North, Lawrence felt it was very necessary to set various rules.It was still not enough to go down alone. After someone went down to pick up the torches on the ground and entered the cellar, Lawrence arranged for a young man to go down with an oil lamp to help.

Then the group of people dispersed and lowered the baskets of potatoes into baskets hung from ropes.

The two people below are responsible for carrying it, loosening the hook to let the rope go up, and then carrying the basket and potatoes directly to the place inside.

After 10 minutes, the two people below stepped on the pits on both sides of the well wall to climb up, and the other two strong people went down.

Lawrence looked at the ten carts of potatoes, and then at the busy people here, and ordered Navia: "The kitchen will have extra food tonight, turn on a small stove for them, and make chicken soup and bread."

Navia nodded: "Yes! Master."

People in the distance worked harder after hearing Lawrence's words.

Lawrence did not go back to the cave to take a bath like Sariel, but stood aside and watched.

The location of the cellar is far away from the mountain area and the river area. At the same time, the upper part is also chosen near the wasteland that is not close.

Nowadays, there are more and more buildings in the camp. When digging cellars and drainage pipes, you must pay attention to the location of various buildings. You must also be careful not to be in areas that are often trampled by people and livestock.

If there is a river near a warehouse or cellar, or if there are people and children jumping around all day long, it is indeed easy to collapse.

Lawrence waited for more than an hour and found that there were still a lot of potatoes in the car.

A cellar was obviously too busy, and there was something wrong with the design of the cellar's exit. I didn't expect to process [-] kilograms of potatoes in one night.

Lawrence said quickly: "Put these three carts of potatoes in the kitchen warehouse! Load the other five carts and take them to an empty house to take shelter from the rain, and send them to Dumu Port tomorrow."

"Yes!" Everyone who had nothing to do quickly took action.

There are now more than 300 people in the camp, and they consume four to five hundred kilograms of potatoes a day.

If you want to make potato flour and potato chips, the potatoes will be consumed faster.

Fried Chicken Day happens to be in a few days, and Lawrence needs to digest a lot of potatoes during this time.

Lawrence waited for a while, and when he felt it was almost done, he asked Durila's farmer to lead a few outstanding foresters to rest.

Lawrence returned to the cave at this time. At this time, several witches had finished eating and went to take a bath. Emma and Bull brought warm chicken soup and potato stew from the kitchen.

Lawrence washed his hands and sat at the dining table, looking at the beef stew with potatoes in the bowl.

"Has any cow died?" Lawrence felt a little pity.

Emma said apologetically: "Yes, yesterday a farm cow became very big in belly and then died slowly."

Lawrence said: "It is normal for livestock to die, but we must also find out the specific cause of death and let dedicated people be responsible for raising cattle in the future. Otherwise, we will always have people taking turns raising and herding cattle, and we will not be able to accumulate more experience."

Emma nodded: "Yes, Master."

Lawrence ate beef stew with potatoes for the first time in his life. He was not in a very good mood at first, but as he ate, his appetite increased and he became happy.

Maybe it’s because I’m too tired these days, or maybe the beef is so delicious. Usually the most luxurious thing is just mutton stewed with potatoes. This time I can eat potato stewed beef, which has surpassed 90.00% of the people in this area!

"One more bowl!" Lawrence ate even more enthusiastically.

(End of this chapter)