A few days later, spring in a real sense arrived, and the rain-contaminated water sources showed signs of recovery, albeit more slowly than during the last rain.

But what is worrying is that some weeds have withered. The trolls tried to grow potatoes in the farmland next to the town with the stream water that has not fully returned to normal, but there is still no sign of germination.

The experiment of the trolls made Xiang En also give up the idea of ​​watering crops with river water, and continued to add Unscaled Spring to the water in the cistern every day, or to add natural fertilizer to the urine pool in the toilet.

On this day, Xiang En made an extra-large mashed potato as usual for himself and Andrea.

He rummaged through the storage room and found that there was not much salt left in the 500 people's homes in the town, and the remaining amount was only enough for two or three months. past the salt mines.

After eating mashed potatoes for Andrea and leaving a pot of milk for her as usual, Xiang En took Naka, who had broken through the gold level, out of the room and continued to patrol his territory.

Today, the trolls also consciously came to the manor and began to do farm work.

Between the fields, the trolls began turning the soil, planting potatoes, corn, peanuts, sugar beets, wheat, and melons.

These crops are Xiangen's only crops that can be planted, and they all need to be arranged. The farmland in the front yard is temporarily only planted with sugar beets, peanuts and oil melons.

I planted potatoes once before, and it took a long time to make up for the fertilizer in the ground.

Therefore, the staple food was not planted on a large scale. The large open space in the backyard has now been reclaimed into farmland, one-third of which is grown for corn, one-third for wheat, and the remaining one-third for potatoes.

Although the taste is just so-so, those potatoes can be eaten in two or three months, and one acre of land is ten tons. Who can refuse this kind of grain!

As the chief wizard of the frost troll tribe, Auda also came to the field. He was assigned a test field, and he was going to try to use wizards to cultivate plants in the direction of greater yield and faster harvest.

Witchcraft is an alternative way of using natural magic power. It has the power to blaspheme life. One of its functions, like a delicate gene editor, can change the direction of the will of the life caster to a certain extent.

Such mutations, if they arise from seeds or embryos, are more stable.

In the distant era, trolls relied on special witchcraft to obtain high-yield food, as well as a large number of soldiers of the new race who were not afraid of death, and finally they were able to divide the world with elves.

In the end, because of his unscrupulous style and barbaric rule, he was spurned by most of the created races. In the end, various anti-water betrayals pushed the trolls to the altar.

Some trolls in the continent are still doing similar experimental research, but their time has finally passed, and most of the current trolls have become pitiful creatures struggling to survive.

Xiang En looked at Auda, who was dancing in front of a corn seedling, shook his head and walked away.

He doesn't look down on trolls, on the contrary, he thinks that their witchcraft is very magical, and it can change lives. However, the process of casting spells is difficult to control, and it requires a lot of time to interfere, so there are still many disadvantages of witchcraft. The key is that he learns Won't.

After leaving the farmland, Xiang En went to the iron workshop built next to the backyard fence.

This iron-making workshop is run by Maki and Duncan. In addition to making iron for Xiang En, the two of them, together with several trolls, burn at least one ton of pig iron every day.

Walking into the already burning iron workshop, I saw a few trolls pulling bellows and shoveling charcoal, while Maki and Duncan were forging the pig iron that had just been burned.

The pig iron is the size of an irregular human head. Duncan is responsible for fixing it on the anvil with iron tongs, and Markey is waving a sledgehammer to beat it. When it is knocked into a large discus, it will be quenched by them. will be thrown aside.

Later, if necessary, it can be processed into other shapes.

Seeing that the employees were all working hard, Xiang En couldn't help but nodded, and with his hands behind his back, he walked over to the iron-containing sandstones that had not been thrown into the furnace to be calcined.

He couldn't help but think of a question that he hadn't paid much attention to. The iron ore has been dug for almost two months. Has it been dug yet?

Iron ore is not a precious mineral. There are iron ore in many mountains, and most of them may be open-pit, but the reserves are very small and have no value for development.

Xiang En never cared about the reserves of iron ore, just because this thing is really common, and there are mountains next to it. If a place is lost, just find another place to dig.

But it has been two months, and the iron has been trained to dozens of tons. Bourne, who is going to mine, is still digging. Is it possible that there are a lot of reserves?

This question may have to wait until Bern pulled the ox cart back at noon to ask it clearly.

Patting off the injured sand, Xiang En turned his head and patted the dull-eyed Maki on the shoulder, encouraging: "Work hard, I'll give you two a rabbit as a reward next month!"

You seem to have said that last month...

Maki turned his head to look at Xiang En's encouraging eyes, his expression collapsed and he looked like he was about to cry.

Think about how easy their work was in the past. Even if they needed to be on call 24 hours a day, they still had a lot of time to enjoy and rest.

Since the beginning of iron making~lightnovelpub.net~ he and Duncan need to strike nearly fifteen hours a day.

There are fixed production targets. The trolls leave as soon as it gets dark, and the two of them are busy working to complete the work at night.

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A week or two is better, but after working for two whole months, I have to get up to burn charcoal every day before dawn, and the two of them have not come from the troll until the troll leaves at night, which can drag the exhaustion. body goes back to rest.

Every time I don't get much substantive rewards, if I want to be transferred, I will press it back with special treatment during a special period.

But what can it be!

Xiang En looked at Maki's face that was about to cry, and his smile became even brighter. It wasn't that he really wanted to squeeze the two of them to death, but the trolls' brains were really not very good, and it was easy to make mistakes. What a lot of hard work!

Maggie sold out her crying face, and under Xiang En's gaze, she slowly revealed an ugly smile, "Yes, it's all for the boss, so there's no reward... I'll keep doing it!"

"Okay!" After receiving a satisfactory reply, Xiang En put down the hand on Maji's shoulder this time, and said, "Don't worry, you will be able to change jobs soon... Hey, just tomorrow! You will bring two cattle tomorrow. Che, with Byrne and Hogan, go to the mountains to dig some salt mines, it should take a few days, you should have a good rest these few days, and by the way, come back from digging the two oxcar iron mines."

Maki was stunned at first, and then showed an expression of excitement and surprise.

This made Duncan on the side look anxious, "Old... boss, what about me?"

"The outside world is very dangerous now. Iron is an important material. We need to use iron to strengthen our walls. In the future, we will also need iron. If there is not enough iron, there will be no enough security. In short... how hard you work. Come on!"

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