I Want a Low-key Traverser, So I Try to Act in Secret

Because her hands were covered with clay, Rita kept her arms open, and she didn't need to touch her father's armor with her hands. She put her hands in front of her and spread her fingers, showing the earl the clay on her hands, and said: " I am helping Brother Xu to make that kind of thing out of clay.”

With a smile on his face, Alfred stood quietly while holding the sword on his waist, watching his father and sister interact.

"What is that thing for?"

"Brother Xu said that after it is dried, it can be calcined with fire to obtain very hard building materials, which can be used to build houses, and will not be much weaker than walls made of stone...Brother"

After answering her father's question, Rita also hugged Alfred next to her. She was only tall enough to hug their thighs.

"Clay can be used to make pottery. Speaking of which, it is made into a cube. After calcination, it should indeed be able to obtain a solid and dense material similar to pottery." Alfred stroked the top of his sister's head and looked at his father. said the eyes.

"Hmm..." the count pondered after hearing the words.

"By the way, Rita." Seeing his father pondering, Alfred looked down at his sister and asked, "I see that your health is much better than before. What's going on?"

"Yeah." Rita nodded vigorously, and said with some pride: "Brother Xu has been giving me exercise and treatment these days. Rita, I have recovered."

Alfred was surprised by this sentence, and the earl next to him also came back to his senses in surprise. He was originally thinking about Li Xu's matter, and he looked at him after hearing the words.

Not far away, Tohsaka Rin and Artoria among the three were wearing turbans and sleeves, and they were also using molds to make brick prototypes. When the two girls saw the Earl and his son coming, they smiled and waved.

Li Xu's upper body could not be seen. He bent over and stretched into the inside of the firing table that had been built, and moved around, as if he was tidying up the inside of the firing table.

The count nodded with a smile and asked Rita:

"Then, does Rita know why Brother Xu fired these... these building materials?"

It is estimated that there is no noun for "brick" in the local language.

Rita tilted her head and thought for a while, then said, "Sister Lin complained that the sanitation facilities at home are too backward, so she begged Brother Xu to renovate them."

"so……"

The earl couldn't think of what to say for a while. The sanitary facilities at home seemed to him to be a standard aristocratic system. Most of them, including those who owned castles, were also equipped in this way. Why did the word "backward" come from?

"Will dad and brother stay home today?"

Rita asked, leaning on his lap, looking up at him with a hopeful little face.

Fernando's heart moved, and he saw some shadow of his late wife on this face, and bent down to hold his daughter in his arms.

"Daddy and brother stay at home today"

Anyway, they wanted to talk to Li Xu and the others. The father and son returned to the mansion, took off their military uniforms, changed into normal clothes, and then came out to make brick embryos with Rita.

……

Although it was just a show, after all, when Li Xu, the traveler from the "Infrastructure Maniac", returned in the afternoon, he subconsciously wanted to build a large brick kiln.

Immediately realized that for ordinary people here, it is very shocking to rub brick kilns by one person alone, and it takes up a lot of land, consumes a lot of energy and is difficult to control, so it was changed to this kind of "worker story". Small single burner stove.

While mobilizing everyone to make brick embryos, he quickly piled up the firing stove, the simple furnace and the blacksmith's anvil. While responding to the earl's father and son's conversation, he lit the fire and built a tens of meters long brick. The earl and his son did not know the specific difficulty of making seamless steel pipes, nor did they know that this kind of steel pipes could usually be directly used to make barrels and mortar barrels during war years. It is a real high-tech product.

Taking advantage of the fact that the language communication between the two sides is not very smooth, Li Xu created a member of the mysterious magic side force for the three of them in a few words, the kind of large organization that spans the kingdom, and when he was traveling and encountered a falling incident in the mountain, he rescued Kubo The character design of the little princess of the Er family.

While compiling, he blatantly informed Tohsaka Rin and Artoria in Chinese.

It is estimated that although the supernatural phenomena in this world are rare, there are still a little bit, such as the witch forces he killed in the morning, but the concept of "monsters" has always only existed in the myths and legends of people here.

In the morning, Rin Tohsaka just learned some basic characters here with the little girl Rita, and has not yet begun to understand the historical background here.

However, Earl Fernando himself has the concept of a "magician". After talking to Li Xu, he learned that in the kingdom he belongs to, there is a "magician" serving the royal family, and his position is "Kingdom Great Magician". The traditional Chinese concept is "National Teacher".

Provide a series of traditional performing arts services such as astrology, divination, and potion making.

Listening to his description, Li Xu feels that the abilities of the great magicians in this kingdom seem to be very low-level... they can't even make a fireball, and they are more like a slick astrologer.

Unknowingly, it was time for dinner, and the group stopped the work at hand, cleaned up briefly, and moved to the dining room in the mansion.

It's just that it wasn't the two maids who did it, but Li Xu.

The kitchen in the mansion looks not too different from the scene where the witch brews potions. It is a huge and heavy iron pot with a thick bottom hanging from the stove. The main cooking methods are stewing and baking, and the skills, materials and tools are poor. , the food made can be imagined, so Li Xu simply did it himself and asked two maids to help him.

The original professional cook in the kitchen was transferred to the barracks and the territory to take care of the big pot. The craftsmanship of the two maids is actually not bad locally, but it is not too much to compare with others.

Li Xuguang's knives at the chopping board made the earl and his son who were on the sidelines "fuck", but the language in the foreign world is too poor, so a word of "fuck" can be used in the world.

The subsequent cooking, frying and frying, not to mention the amazing technique of flowing clouds and flowing water, just the amount of oil used made the father and son of the aristocratic class terrified - it was too cruel, and a dish used that kind of transparent barrel Even the king's family is not so corrupt.

Restricted by the means of production and output, no matter whether it is animal fat or vegetable fat, it is a very, very high-end luxury in this world.

Afterwards, after eating a sumptuous and delicious meal made by Li Xu with local staple food and ingredients, the Earl, with tears in his heart, admitted that he was a country turtle, and said nothing about Li Xu's plan to renovate his mansion. And full of expectations.

Hmm... It was also from this dinner that the earl and his cubs decided that from now on, they will have this meal at home. No matter how busy they are with their official duties, they will come back to have a meal. People are iron and rice are steel, right? No matter who said this sentence, whether there is this sentence, they intend to follow it.

……

With Artoria's assistance, the difficulty of the monster annihilation battle in the Kubol Territory has dropped sharply. The blonde girl's ability to destroy monsters can support at least a hundred soldiers per person, and usually only need to bring a dozen to clean the battlefield. As a follower, just shout "666" by the side the whole time.

One day, she alone can clear the monsters in two to four village strongholds, mainly depending on the distance between the villages.

In this way, there will be spare energy, and the arrangement of soldiers and war horses will be richer, and they can get very sufficient rotation and supplement.

From the earl to the soldiers, they all knelt down to Artoria's strength very thoroughly. Three days later, the young master Alfred officially became a teacher, and the earl also appointed her as the chief instructor of the armed forces of the territory, similar to the instructor of the [-] imperial guards. kind.

At the same time, Li Xu's renovation of the earl's mansion is also changing day by day.

As an official residence, the earl's private residence also has some public attributes. For example, in a normal state without war, there are usually more than a dozen guards stationed there, so Li Xu should refer to this when renovating the sanitary facilities.

The original Roman-style public toilets that required manual maintenance were converted into squat dry toilets in a few days by him. A few seamless steel pipes were lowered into the ground, and a hand-pressed pumping well was built on the top floor of the mansion for storage. The water tanks and water pipes were installed throughout the mansion by him within a day. Although manpower is needed to lift the water, it can be regarded as running water to a certain extent.

Manpower is not a problem at all to the Earl's mansion, except for the servants and guards, and the hand-pressed water-lifting device is still a novelty for the people here, not to mention ordinary people, the Earl is now going to play a cameo when he has nothing to do. ground ground water pressure water people.

The private transformation is naturally Rin Tohsaka's heartfelt flush toilet and modern bathroom facilities.

Both cement and tiles were produced, and there were no problems in terms of waterproofing and aesthetics. Li Xu also handmade a durable civil boiler, placed it in the basement, and taught the maid how to operate and maintain it.

There are ways to play with electricity, and there are ways to play without electricity. With boilers, hand-pressed water lifting devices, and public squat toilets with a more reasonable structure, the entire mansion has basically completed its modernization. , and replace the windows with fired green glass like beer bottles, the living comfort of the Earl's mansion has risen sharply.

When the first snow falls in the entire territory, there is no way to overcome the disadvantage of burning lighting. The living experience of the mansion is similar to that of a modern city in the 90s. There are glass windows, good indoor insulation, and central heating, so you don’t need to burn The fireplace can provide hot water for drinking and washing 24 hours a day, and there are flush toilets available in the rooms of the main members.

Li Xu even made a plan for Count Fernando's urban sewer system, which can be used to centrally deal with the discharge of domestic sewage in the entire city.

Not only can it do pollution-free discharge, it can greatly improve the sanitary conditions of the entire territory, but it can also produce a certain amount of farmyard manure to increase the output of farmland.

Hmm... When necessary, and if you need to point out the relevant technology tree, this sewer system can also prepare some strategic materials by boiling "shit" and "piss" like the British did in World War II...

This plan made the lord's heart flutter. Of course, it is still in a state of war, and the heartbeat is the heartbeat. At present, it is not capable of implementing this plan.

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Section 290 0288

Originally there were mountains and mountains to block, after a heavy snowfall, to use the lines in the Dream of Red Mansions to describe, the world is clean.

The activity intensity of the monsters in the Kuboer Territory was originally not high. Affected by the heavy snow and severe cold, although it was not completely cut off, it was still maintained at a very low intensity.

It was so low that there was no need for Artoria to dispatch, a dozen soldiers could clear a village stronghold, or a few soldiers could safely investigate and monitor the situation of many village strongholds.

Even monsters need to shiver and hide in human dwellings, and light a bonfire to keep warm.

In the wooden village in the core area of ​​Kupol, we have been working hard to build long houses to accommodate the villagers and store supplies. Finally, before the first heavy snowfall, everyone moved in. The privacy may be poor, but it is definitely a long house to keep warm and cold. Inside the house, most of the daily necessities are also stored in the longhouse warehouse.

At the same time, farmers were organized to cooperate with military operations to harvest the surrounding farmland and save part of the agricultural income.

The original winter slack has now become a planned and targeted militarized training.The unemployed labor force was organized to learn various combat and military skills to prepare for the spring plowing in the coming year and the restoration of the village in the future.

……

In the morning, snowflakes floated in the sky.

Berfernando on the frontier was wearing thin clothes, the radiators radiated heat, and the room was as warm as spring, so he didn't need to wear warm clothes like before.

His room is also one of the few rooms in the mansion with a large window with a large view.Looking out through the purer glass on the window, there is a vast scene between heaven and earth, but he can enjoy warmth and tranquility in the room, which is an experience he has never had before.

The glass was smelted by Li Xu in the open space of the backyard with a relatively primitive method some time ago under his witness. The Earl seems to have learned it, but it seems to be useless. He always feels that the fired bricks, lime, cement, porcelain, etc. The piece of glass and this kind of glass have some important relationship with himself and the entire territory, but he has never had time to think about it carefully.

Near the mansion, two snow leopards, only a circle smaller than their mother, are chasing and wrestling in the thick snow without being affected by the weather and heavy snow. It makes people laugh, this kind of cat is not much smaller than a bobcat, it is really a cute thing.

But just as dangerous and deadly.

On the other side, a khaki figure was probing his head. It was the big lynx that Li Xu caught from the mountain later.This native big cat has only been domesticated for a short time, and it still has strong wild habits. It hides its cubs in a warm corner of the earl's mansion, and usually rarely shows up in front of people.

The Earl saw the snow leopard called Hairball, pausing like a madman, approaching the bobcat from behind, trying to... smell its ass?

Afterwards, the bobcat turned around and slapped it into the air. The snow leopard reacted very quickly. It jumped into the air on its own initiative, and it was also a cute pose with its limbs wide open. It seems that regardless of size, this movement is the iconic jumping posture of this snow leopard. up.

Even a middle-aged man like the earl couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Following the two figures, one yellow and one white, like a half-sized snow leopard not far away, they chased and frolicked in the snow with movements invisible to the naked eye, showing their excellent athletic ability.

A little farther away is the scene where my son and daughter are receiving guidance.

Rita was surprisingly healthy at this time. In the snowy weather, she seemed to be wearing only very thin clothes, without any fear of the wind and snow. She was maintaining a strange posture under a tree.

The count could see from afar that white air was wafting from his daughter's head and neck, and the little girl's body seemed to be exuding high fever and sweat.

Li Xu was right next to her, posing in the same posture physically, but he was in a relaxed state, not as strenuous as his daughter.

Difficult?Why do I feel this way?

The count suddenly realized, thinking to himself.

On the field farther away from the two of them was the scene of Alfred being beaten into a dog by his fencing teacher.

Arturia is holding a wooden stick, and is teaching her son swordsmanship with a serious and rigorous attitude. The teaching style of this group can be understood by the Earl. Although his son is in a mess, the growth of swordsmanship is obvious to all.

If he had been twenty years younger, Fernando would have been there below, accepting the guidance of this blond girl just like his son, but now, apart from a little bit of envy and full of gloating, he has no sympathy at all.

After about ten minutes, two guards from the family could be seen coming out of the mansion and walking towards the two teaching sites respectively. In Fernando's own room, a maid also told him to have dinner in the dining room downstairs.

Fernando simply tidied up his appearance in the room. As the lord, his room has been remodeled with independent bathroom facilities and a complete set of hygiene products presented by Li Xu. However, in order to maintain the majesty of the lord, he did not shave off his beard .

After washing her hands again and changing her coat, on the way to the dining room, she met her daughter who had simply scrubbed her head, face and neck. Rita's two little cheeks were flushed like two red apples. Fernando couldn't hold back the lord In the image of an adult, he turned into a doting girl and a madman. He lifted his daughter up high, and then pampered her face. The corridor was immediately filled with the cheerful laughter of the little girl.

"Damn it, Dad"

"Itchy"

"cluck cluck cluck cluck"

In the dining room, Fernando placed his daughter on the seat on his left.

The staple food is a kind of food called "fried dough sticks" served in a row of shiny metal basins. The production process is not complicated. Except for the oil, the two maids in the family have already mastered the method of making this food .