Lord Helanza

This year’s winter storage is well prepared. Every household has a granary filled with it. After all the troubles of previous years, the smile on the old village chief’s face is obviously much greater.

The old village chief’s wife made a pot of lemon tea for everyone, and a faint fragrance scented in the living room.

Surdak was holding a teacup, sitting in the living room and talking to the old village chief about Dal’s magician wanting to buy sulfur mines.

The old village chief sat down and knocked the pipe on the corner of the table. After cleaning up the ashes, he filled it with shredded tobacco, and did not rush to light it. Put it in his mouth and listen in silence. When Surdak finished speaking, he suddenly became energetic and said excitedly: "This is a great thing!"

After speaking, he laughed sadly and talked to Surdak about the doubts of the villagers. "Those sulphur is stored in the warehouse. Everyone doesn’t know the use of these yellow stones. It took so much effort to dig it back at the foot of the pustule mountain. If you say it’s not hard, it’s all fake. They say they can be exchanged for Silver Coin, but I haven’t seen the value they create. These people have been idle recently, and there are always people discussing these things, but I can’t give any reasonable excuses."

He paused, then put a match in the pipe The tobacco was lit, took a deep breath, and then he said, “It’s the best to sell them.”

Charlie asked with a worried look: “It’s just that it’s down outside now. With heavy snow, the road in the mountains has almost been blocked, how should we transport these sulfur mines out?"

The old village head pondered for a moment and said, "The carriage will definitely not work right now. "

"In addition to discussing this matter with you when I came back this time, I just want to take a batch of sulfur mines out..." Surdak reached out to the magic pocket on the patted waist and asked the old village chief and Lee said: "The first batch of sulfur mines was put in a magic pocket and I took them out."

Surdak glanced at Charlie and said, "The subsequent sulfur mine transactions will have to wait for this mountain road. It’s clear, you will drive it into Helanza."

After hearing Surdak’s words, Charlie said excitedly: "Okay, I need to dig the snow on this mountain road manually. I dug it through."

Then he looked towards Surdak's magic waist bag very enviously, and said: "The magic waist bag is really a good thing. I heard that this thing is a must for adventurers. The product, the pattern on it is so delicate..."

Charlie was carefully looking at the delicate magic pattern on the waist bag, and he saw Surdak throwing things out of the magic waist bag, piles of stiff frozen fish. In the living room, with a smell of salty sea, he opened his eyes and asked Surdak: "What is this?"

Seeing that Surdak throws more and more frozen fish, even The old village chief’s wife and Charlie’s wife, who were busy in the kitchen, both ran out, looking surprised at the living room full of frozen fish and ham.

Surdak felt like he was full of fishy smells, and said to the old village chief: “That’s what happened to the sulfur mine. It’s rare to return to the village of Vol. I bought them at the market. The frozen fish are sea fish, these are ham...Bright uncle, you can distribute it to everyone for me."

Charlie said excitedly:" Wow, we can fry the fish at night."

Charlie’s wife stood by and looked at the frozen fish on the ground that were longer than arms, and said in surprise: "There is such a big fish... "

Looking at the living room filled with all kinds of ingredients, cleaning up the ingredients and cleaning the living room, these things are done by the women, the old village head waved to Surdak and said: "Let's go, follow me to see Look at the reservoir above, the water in the pond is already full..."

Surdak and the old village chief walked upstream along a winding snow road in the village.

A group of women were carrying water by the stream, and Rita was among them.

When the village women saw Surdak come back, they all greeted very enthusiastically. A group of women chirp chirp twitter twitter, chatting voices spread far.

In front of me is a three-meter-high arc-shaped dyke. The dyke is made of volcanic ash and cement. The length is about 400 meters. It just connects the mountain walls on both sides of the ravine together, forming the first Dao Dam. The top of this dam is nearly one meter wide. The top of the dam can be passed freely, but the steps leading to the dam on both sides are surrounded by simple wooden fences. This is to prevent the village Brats from sneaking up the dam and accidentally falling into it. The cistern is the worst. There are two sluices on both sides of the dam. The cistern is full of water, and the stream slowly flows out of the sluice, forming a narrow ice waterfall.

Charlie opened the fence gate, and the old village chief and Surdak walked up to the dam. Standing on the dam, you can see that this area covers about six acres. Level 1 reservoir is full of water. , The surface of the pool was frozen and covered with a thick layer of snow, and there were a few lines of footprints on the ice. The old village chief saw these footprints and shouted at Charlie furiously: "Go and check it out for me. Check out who is not afraid of death on the ice, can you become a warrior by walking around on it?"

In front of the old village chief, Charlie was scolded so much that he could hardly stand up. Nodded quickly said to investigate the matter immediately and promised to punish the offenders severely.

"The next time, I will be exempted from the benefits given by his family in the next village!" The old village chief said fiercely.

Charlie protested in a low voice with a bitter face: "Otherwise, it's better to corporal punishment, or the welfare should not be exempted. It is not easy for everyone to get a bit of food!"

To reduce the difficulty of the project, Surdak did not build the dam too high, and further refined the project into five stages to form a progressive stepped reservoir. The Level 1 reservoir is now considered preliminary, and the Level 2 reservoir has also been completed. The outline was drawn. Before the land was frozen, the old village chief and the people had leveled the bottom of the Level 2 reservoir, already had the outline of the dam, and dug the deep trenches needed for the foundation along the outline.

The volcanic ash is piled up next to it, which is covered by heavy snow, like a huge tomb bag.

Surdak’s design expects that after the construction of the Level 2 reservoir is completed, it will ensure normal irrigation water in the village during the dry season during the dry season. When the construction of the Level 5 reservoir is completed, the reservoir will continue to store water after the rainy season. Water is used to reduce the erosion of tidal flats in downstream rivers by abundant rains, forming a large area of ​​wetlands. If the tidal flats covered with reeds and red thatch can be used, they can at least be turned into hundreds of acres of wheat fields.

However, it is not enough to build a reservoir in the upper reaches of Wall Village. We must also dig drainage ditches around the beaches of the river and find a low-lying place to dig a large pond for drainage. It's a big project, and it can only be started next spring.

The old village chief looked at the reservoir under his feet with a contented look, and pointed to the gates on the left and right sides, and said: "When the freeze is thawed next spring, there will be two large waterwheels. When the time comes, two water mills for grinding lime powder can be built. After the Level 2 reservoir is built, the tidal flats can be cleaned up by a part of hands. I have already figured out where to dig drainage ditches..."

After seeing the reservoir, the old village chief took Surdak to see the carpenter's workshop in a frenzy in the village. At the invitation of the old village chief, Surdak ate at the old village chief’s house. After lunch, we went to the village warehouse with Charlie and Luke to fill the sulphur ore, but even if the Surdak Earth Demon was packed, the sulphur ore in the fully piled warehouse was simply not seen.

Surdak returned home in the afternoon and spent a long time playing crazy in the yard with Peter. He also made a small round oak shield for Peter and corrected Peter’s correct defensive posture in the yard. Seeing little Peter brow beaded with sweat standing in the yard swinging a sword, Old Sheila was sitting in the sun on the chair at the door of the room, with a faint smile on her face, but her thoughts did not know where she flew.

While little Peter was practicing the basic sword technique, Surdak walked up to Old Sheila and sat beside him basking in the sun.

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Surdak did not eat dinner at home, he walked out of the house at dusk.

When I left the door, I heard Rita pouting and whispering while sitting beside Natasha. Surdak could only pretend not to hear.

Walking outside of Selena’s yard, the sky is getting darker, and the glass windows of many houses in the village are gradually lit up with faint lights. This kind of light will not last for too long. Sleeping is common in the village. It was very early. The purpose of this was to save lamp oil. Most of these glass windows were newly replaced in the fall of a few years. This house of Selena also has a small glass window.

Night came and the house was lit.

A small silhouette approached the glass window. Her head was photocopied on the glass window. Surdak knew that it must be Signa. She stretched out her hand and painted on the frosted glass window. With simple lines, big smiling faces appeared on the windows with icy grilles.

Surdak stepped in and lightly knocked on the door.

There was the sound of Signa running from the house, and then the door was pushed open from the inside, showing Signa's silhouette inside. She looked up at Surdak with a smile hehe and looked at Surdak. Said: "We are still betting whether you will come, Surdak, I won!"

Seeing Selena standing in the room wearing an apron, her mouth pursed slightly. There was a bit of resentment in his eyes, and Surdak could only laughed with a guilty conscience.

Surdak walked into the room. There was a fire in the fireplace, but the room was not very warm. There was an iron pot hanging from the stove with pumpkin porridge cooking in it. Surdak closed the door and touched Signa’s first Head, and then stretched out his arms towards Selena.

The woman still took the initiative to throw into Surdak's arms, and the two hugged at the door for a long time. They didn't separate and didn't say anything.

The room is still the same. There is an extra shelf beside the fireplace. In addition to an extra frying pan, there are also some wheat flour, chestnut rice and other food on the shelf. The room is very small. Opposite the fireplace is Selena’s wooden bed, and Signa’s bed is laid on a wooden board separated by 2-Layer.

Surdak hangs the blanket that can automatically emit heat on the frosted north wall. Although it can't block too much cold wind, the temperature in the room rises suddenly, looking at Surdak When she was busy in the room, Selena just quietly helped by the side, but Signa seemed very excited, and continuously asked Surdak about this and that, it seemed that Helanza city had a deep attraction to her, the streets of the city, Restaurants, bazaars, shops, academies... If Signa has any clues, she will ask them continuously.

Signa also wanted Surdak to describe the city wall of Helanza. Surdak was also dry-mouthed when asked, and said to Signa: "What's the description of this? Wait for next spring. At that time, I took you to walk around the city for two days, and let you use your eyes to understand the city. If you only use your ears now, I have some words that are very one-sided. The Helanza city in your mind is incomplete and full My subjective consciousness."

Signa didn't even think about whether it would be dangerous, and hurriedly said: "Surdak, then you have to say it!"

"Of course ." Surdak patted his chest and said that it's not difficult.

"You won't take me to the city and sell it?" Signa looked at Surdak with big eyes, and asked suspiciously.

"Of course...not!"

In the face of the clever Signa, Surdak did not know whether to cry or laugh.

"Okay, ready to eat!"

Selena's voice came, and this was the end of the discussion between the two.

Dinner is a very simple pumpkin porridge. It was probably because of the arrival of Surdak that Selena cut two more slices of raw ham on everyone’s plate. Apparently Selena was also assigned to Surdak. The food brought back by the old village chief was fair.

However, Surdak is not that kind of person. He stood next to the shelf, and writhed in the magic pocket for a long time, digging out the few remaining cows from the magic pocket full of sulphur ore. Frozen fish and meat with the same thick legs come.

After dinner, Surdak looked towards Selena said what happened in the city. She did not hide the destruction of the Black Magician Order, but since there are four black magicians absconding, the days to come Still need to be careful, at least Selena can't leave the village of Wall.

I heard that Surdak was injured, and because of the black magic curse, the leg injury has not been completely healed. Selena insisted on seeing Surdak’s leg injury. Surdak couldn’t hold on to her. The shin was untied, and the leg of the linen trousers inside was rolled up again, revealing the bandaged right leg, untied the hemostatic bandage, Selena finally saw the wound that could not be healed.

Even Signa, who was sitting next to him, looked over curiously. When Selena’s finger passed through Surdak’s leg wound, the wound suppressed by the restoration of the body of God suddenly appeared violent. It started to squirm, as if there was an invisible force about to quickly escape from the wound, but it was bound by something, and it was about to tear the muscles of Surdak's calf completely.

Surdak almost yelled with sudden pain on his back.

"Is it painful?" Selena narrowed her amber eyes and said to Surdak, "There are some Dark Aura hidden in this magic. Maybe I can help, maybe I will let you My leg injury got worse, I'm not sure anyway!"