Chapter 533 532. The first order of the old village chief

  With the arrival of summer, no cassava can be found in the free market in Hailansa City.

The cassava trees in the mountains cannot be excavated until autumn. Due to the lack of raw materials, the starch workshop in Wall Village has suspended the production of starch. There is only a row of neat water tanks beside the laundry pool in the village. A flat concrete platform was built, and women in the village squatted beside the concrete platform under the shade of trees when they washed clothes here.

   A group of half-grown children jumped into the clear water to swim. This is the holy place for children in the village in summer.

   Entering summer, the water volume of the creek becomes very abundant, and the clear springs in the mountains are like beating notes, ringing non-stop in the valley.

Only one gate of the secondary reservoir was opened, and the stream flowing down from the gate hit the water wheel, causing the water wheel to rotate slowly. The water wheel drove the huge stone mill in the nearby mill to rotate slowly. Long Brett also built a mill in the village, and villagers could bring wheat to grind wheat flour here at any time.

The room where Suldak prepares gunpowder is some distance away from Wall Village. It is in a row house near the river. Suldak only prepares ten packs of gunpowder each time, and then guides the kobold slaves in the mountain wall. Dig a deep hole and stuff gunpowder inside before detonating.

  When the explosives detonated, the entire hill would tremble violently.

These shattered stones are the main target of the six hundred kobold slaves mining the rocks. They will pry the loose rocks out of the stone walls, and the huge stones will be smashed into smaller, some smaller stones. On the other hand, kobold slaves used a chisel to remove the sharp corners and trim them into rectangular stone bars as much as possible.

   Kobold slaves are good at digging stones.

In order to build the townhouses in Wall Village, 600 kobold slaves almost dug a big hole in the mountain outside the village. From a distance, the mountain wall looked like a hole punched by a giant. Big pit.

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   Another month has passed in a busy schedule.

  At the end of August, the veterans who joined the militia battalion from each village came to the public security station again to receive rations.

  They lined up and carried away the whole wheat flour. The Wall villagers imagined that they were training hard in the yard of the security station, but they did not show up. They still left the village after receiving the rations.

  Seeing such a scene, many villagers in Wall Village felt as if they had eaten sour lemons. They finally realized what they had missed.

  Many people regretted it and wanted to ask the old village chief to intercede in front of Suldak, willing to join the militia camp, but they were scolded and ran away by the old village chief Bright on the spot.

  A group of villagers held tools and stood on the construction site of the townhouse, watching the veterans leave with food enviously.

   "It's no big deal!" A villager stretched his neck and looked at it for a long time, then withdrew his eyes in a complicated mood, and said to his companions: "The wheat flour may be full of moths..."

   "Yes, it must be like that!" said the villager next to him. "In more than a month, the wheat in our fields will soon mature. There is no shortage of water during the drought this year, and the wheat is growing very well. It is estimated that there will be a bumper harvest. It is estimated that there is no need to store cassava and miscellaneous grains. With these wheat alone, Enough to feed us all winter."

  Speaking of these, several villagers of Woer Village suddenly became energetic, and interjected one after another:

   "With the money we earn, how much wheat can't be bought?"

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  The townhouses in Wall Village look the same every day, and they are built at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  The earliest townhouse built has been sealed with a roof.

The first batch of villagers began to move into small townhouses one after another. The villagers who lived in this small building were all the people whose houses were destroyed when the rebels invaded Wall Village. Now they have become Wall Street instead. The first batch of beneficiaries in the village became the envy of the whole village.

  The walls of these houses are still slightly damp, and the walls in the houses have not yet been painted with white gypsum powder.

  A group of carpenters are installing windows and doors, everything is so new.

  All the villagers in Wall Village are very busy this summer. They have to build all the townhouses before autumn...

  The wheat in the field began to grow wildly, and many villagers from other villages were idle again during this period.

  The villagers from other villages went to Woer Village to find work, and some people brought their children to Woer Village. They sent the younger children to the children's home, and went to the construction site to carry stones.

  With the participation of these villagers from other villages, the speed of building townhouses in the village has been accelerated.

The villagers of Woer Village felt the pressure brought by the competition from the villagers of the other villages, and they began to hug the villagers tightly together to squeeze the villagers of the other villages. As soon as this trend showed a little sign, it was quickly suppressed by the old village head Brett. Those who hinder the development of Wall Village will be strangled by the old village chief.

  According to the words of the old village chief, don’t think that you are from Wall Village, and you can do everything for granted. If anyone dares to cause trouble, I will send him to the slave camp to dig stones with the kobolds.

  With the words of the old village chief Brett, the villagers have become much more peaceful during this time.

  Recently, there are always horse-drawn carriages delivering supplies to the village, so the entrance of the village has become very lively.

  These coachmen who drove over from Hailansa City, in addition to the goods agreed by the owner of the goods, they would also carry some goods such as dried meat, chickens, ducks, and sundries.

  Many coachmen are willing to set up a stall at the entrance of Wall Village after delivering their goods, selling the private goods they brought over. These private goods range from all kinds of food to groceries and daily necessities, and there are various types.

  The villagers work on the construction site every day, and with some extra money in their pockets, they are more mindful.

  Occasionally, I will buy an air-dried chicken or an air-dried duck to take home, so that the whole family can have a good meal.

With the rising price of sulfur mines in the market, recently there will always be some adventure groups and mercenary groups from Hailansa City looking for sulfur mines in the village. These adventure groups also brought some caravans. Search for sulfur mines all over the Badlands.

   In this way, Wall Village has become the best place for adventure groups, mercenary groups, and caravans.

The adventure group rushed from Hailansa City to Paglos Mountain Pass, and usually arrived at Wall Village in the evening. Most of the adventure groups would not go further. They would choose to set up camp at the entrance of the village. Many members of the adventure group still They will enter the village and ask the villagers about the barren land, and some adventure groups will even hire guides.

Usually at this time, the villagers in Wall Village are not very willing to talk to them. If it was in the past, the villagers would definitely not refuse, but now every family is eager to live in a small townhouse. Running into the depths of the barren land to eat sand in summer, staying in the village to build buildings is far more profitable than being a guide.

  The old village head asked some villagers to pick some seasonal vegetables from the tidal flats and sell them at the entrance of the village.

  Whether it is an adventure group or a mercenary group caravan, in addition to wheat cakes and broth, it is also essential to add some vegetables for dinner.

  Unknowingly, the entrance of the village has slowly developed into a small market in just a few weeks.

Sometimes villagers from neighboring villages would bring some goods to sell here, and some businessmen who passed by also saw this opportunity. They rented a row house from the old village head as a warehouse, and usually sold some goods that could not be sold out. The goods are stored in the row house.

  A small market slowly appeared outside the village of Wall on Paglos Pass.

  Provides essential supplies for all expeditions into Mount Pagolos and the Badlands.

  …

Since the ogre Gulitum decided to herd sheep in Beigou pasture, the number of yellow sheep in the village began to shrink rapidly, so that Suldak had to purchase some yellow sheep to fill the village's sheep at regular intervals middle.

Gullitum has a high talent for cooking, and he quickly mastered the skill of roasting lamb. The whole lamb rack was roasted on charcoal fire until the skin was crispy and the meat was rotten. Then he stuffed it with wheat cakes, and finally Drinking a large pot of vegetable soup can make the ogre's belly bulge.

Occasionally, he would go to the lava river in the Pustule Mountain to hunt salamanders. Usually, new salamanders were found at the sulfur mine, and then Luke would send someone to Wall Village for help. What he likes to do is hunt salamanders, so he can eat the freshest salamander meat.

  Charley and Luke thought that this lava river must be connected to the mountainside, and these salamanders swam out of the mountainside along the lava river.

   These salamanders belong to the second-level monsters, with strong skin and thick flesh, and they are not afraid of flames. Ordinary fighters basically have nothing to do with them.

  Only fighters like Gulitum and Andrew have the ability to kill salamanders. During this period of time, seven or eight salamanders were hunted one after another, which became an extra income for Suldak.

   Salamander meat is delicious and rich in fire elements. Some magicians who are good at fire like to eat it, so this kind of monster meat is expensive in Hailansa City.

  After Suldak sold salamander meat in Hailansa City several times in a row, a magician flew to Wall Village to buy salamander meat on a magic horn.

  Sometimes, if a magician is lucky, he just happens to meet the ogre Gullitum carrying a salamander back from the depths of the barren land, and he can get some fresh salamander meat.

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The construction speed of the manor in Suldak is very fast. After all, it is the big benefactor of all the projects in Wall Village. Every day, more than forty bricklayers build the main body of the mansion in the new manor of Suldak, and trucks of volcanic ash and limestone are transported. When they reached the reservoir, the high walls on all sides soon appeared in front of everyone.

  At the beginning of September, a gorgeous three-story villa appeared at the uppermost part of Wall Village.

Old Sheila would take Little Peter around this gorgeous villa every day, and she would always secretly say to Little Peter: "Grow up quickly, my little Peter, grow up quickly, my little Peter!" Peter."

On the day the villa was built, Karl Casement from Hailansa personally delivered a cashmere carpet that can be spread in the living room. Expert in blanket weaving.

Bird tax collector and Mrs. Hoyle sent a set of walnut furniture, a whole set including sofa/coffee table/desk/display table/cloakroom/cabinet/double bed/dressing table in the living room, etc. These walnut The wooden furniture can almost fill three rooms. The walnut wood furniture in Hailansa city is second only to the indigo wood furniture. Surdak is not prepared to buy such high-end furniture. , the most common is oak furniture, strong, solid, thick, durable, and fire-resistant.

If he wanted to fill such a big house with furniture, Suerdak had to spend at least a hundred extra gold coins. In addition to the furniture, he also had to prepare the carpets in the corridors, the cashmere carpets in the living room, and the bedrooms. velvet blankets, various murals and ornaments, more than 50 sets of curtains, sheets for 14 beds, and some kitchen and bathroom supplies.

The entire exterior wall of the villa is made of limestone, and the uniform stone gaps are filled with volcanic ash cement. According to Suldak's requirements, the volcanic ash cement is applied very evenly, and it looks like a flat circular pattern from a distance. , the whole house with stone walls feels very heavy.

Karl stood in the empty garden of the Suldak's house, looked at the villa built by the mountains and rivers tens of meters away, looked a little jealous, and clamored to build a stronger one with volcanic ash cement and granite. A house at least as strong as the walls of Khan's Fortress in Durva.

  So the cement workshop in Wall Village, which has not yet been established, received its first order.

To build a villa stronger than the Khan Fortress for Baron Karl Casement in his territory, in addition to the three-story main building, there must also be an attic and a watchtower, and there must be a dungeon and underground storage below the ground. storage room.

In his own garden, Suldak asked Rita to bring a piece of parchment, and drew an architectural drawing for Karl on the spot. The connection between the winding stairs and corridors on each floor was properly handled. Karl stared at Su Erdak asked him curiously: "Dak, where did you learn this architectural knowledge?"

  Of course, Surdak can’t say how many tall buildings he’s seen in his previous life, so he can only bite the bullet and point his finger at the small townhouses on the slopes of the valley and say:

   "Look at how many small buildings I have built recently. I also made a model out of clay and wood and placed it in the central square of the village. Almost all the small townhouses are built according to that model."

  Carl looked at Suldak suspiciously. Although he felt that something was wrong, he didn't delve into it. He cheerfully said to the old village chief beside him, "Village Chief Brett, I'm just going to trouble you about my villa."

  Village Chief Bright did not expect to build a house in the village, but actually received a commission to build a house, and the project should be able to make a fortune after careful calculation.

  Remembering that he didn’t have any experience in undertaking construction projects before, Village Chief Brett said with a guilty conscience: “Dark, none of us have ever left Wall Village… and volcanic ash and stones…”

"Uncle Brett, it's okay, we'll transport the volcanic ash cement directly from the barren land, as for the stone materials can be purchased from nearby quarries, or dry firewood can be obtained locally, just follow the way I built this villa, nothing. Big deal."

  Suldak said to the old village chief.

Hearing what Suldak said, Village Chief Brett nodded. He thought in his heart that after completing this single project, he might earn more money than the annual harvest of Wall Village, and his heart was full of enthusiasm. .

  (end of this chapter)