Mayor Bright and a dozen villagers stood on the bank of the tidal flat in the lower reaches of the river. In front of him was a large submerged reed pond. There was also a large amount of red thatch growing on the periphery of the reed pond. Only in the summer when rainfall is abundant, can the grass grow.
Stream water will continue to pour into this tidal flat, and currently the river bend has turned into a wild lake.
In autumn, this area will be completely dry. In addition to using red thatch to repair roofs and reeds to weave mats, after these grasses are dried and crushed, they are also used as winter rations for the yellow sheep in the village during winter storage. Such a large tidal flat
The ground is the biggest guarantee for the yellow sheep's ability to survive the winter.
The dazzling sunlight shone on this wild lake, and a few wild ducks were darting back and forth among the reeds.
More than a dozen young villagers rolled up their trouser legs, holding sickles in their hands, and stepped into the tidal flats covered with red thatch. They harvested clusters of red thatch and transported them back to the shore.
The mud at the bottom of this wild lake is so soft that it will almost reach your thighs if you step on it. It is very difficult to walk back and forth on the river beach, so the red thatch is almost always relayed to the shore. Sur
Dak originally wanted to go down to the river to cut the red thatch together, but Uncle Bright pulled him back and said, "How could you, a majestic knight of the Empire, go to the wild lake to cut thatch..."
Just when Suldak and village chief Bright were asking for advice on how to hunt gray rock iguanas, a villager ran from a distance and shouted to the old village chief: "Uncle Bright, there are people from Guta Village again.
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When the villagers who were cutting red thatch in the wild lake heard someone shouting loudly, they stopped what they were doing and turned their heads to the shore to watch.
The old village chief standing on the bank quickly pointed to the villagers and shouted: "Hurry up and cut the grass. It will take a long time to dry the grass before you can use it on your house. It won't be dry after a while... You
Go and bring the people from Guta Village here."
When the villager heard the old village chief's instructions, he quickly turned around and went to find the person from Guta Village.
When two villagers from Guta Village drove a dozen yellow sheep and led a yellow and white cow over here, the village chief Bright was a little dumbfounded. He puffed his beard and glared at the villager and said angrily: "
Can't you find a way to resettle the cattle and sheep they brought, and you have to rush here?"
"Uncle Bright, they said these sheep and cows were given to Duck! I don't dare to place them casually..." The young villager ran directly to the old village chief and said in a low voice.
Surdak heard the villagers say this and asked in surprise: "For me?"
Before you, the young villager, could answer the question, one of the Guta villagers holding the cow said first: "Sir Knight Surdak, the people in the village offended you before, and this time I brought you some gifts.
, Sir Knight, please accept it. This time I return Beigou Grassland to Wall Village. I also want to ask you not to hold grudges against Guta Village. I ask you to forgive me for any offense I made before!"
"Uh, I forgive you!" Suldak said. Then he looked at a dozen yellow sheep gnawing on the grass next to the river beach and said, "However, I can't take your cattle and sheep. These cattle and sheep are yours."
It’s better to rush back!”
"Sir Knight, we..." The faces of the two Guta Village villagers were bronzed by the sun, and their faces were covered with dry areas. At a glance, you could tell that they were honest farmers. The two of them stood there with embarrassed expressions.
In front of Surdak, he put on a posture of refusing to leave until he gave this gift away.
Surdak felt that as this matter dragged on, it would obviously delay the progress of repairing his house.
If they were two villains or cunning people, Surdak would have a way to deal with them. However, they both looked so dull and honest. Surdak rubbed his forehead in distress and turned his head.
Ask the old village chief how much these cattle and sheep would be worth in an estimate.
Village Chief Bright frowned and murmured: "A yellow sheep costs about seven silver coins, and a cow is even more expensive. You can sell it for at least one gold coin in Helensa City..."
"That's two gold coins!"
After Suldak finished speaking, he took out two golden coins from his pocket behind his back, grabbed the ancient pagoda villager, stuffed the gold coins into his palm, and said to the ancient pagoda villager without any doubt: "These
I have accepted the cow and sheep. Please give these two gold coins to your village chief. From now on, the grudges between our two villages will be settled."
The villagers of Guta looked at the gold coins in their hands in astonishment, and looked at Suldak in bewilderment.
"If you have nothing else to do, please come back!" Surdak said to the two villagers of Guta Village.
The two ancient pagoda villagers held two gold coins. After being stunned for a moment, they quickly left with happy faces.
Surdak looked at the cows and goats grazing next to him with some distress, wondering whether he should drive them to the Beigou pasture, or Village Chief Bright told the villager who reported the news: "Go and take these
The cow was brought to Duck's house and handed over to old Sheila, and the fifteen sheep were rushed to Beigou Pasture."
"...I understand, village chief." After receiving the specific instructions, the villager quickly followed Bright's instructions.
The red thatch at the river bend has basically been cut, and it can be completely dried under the scorching sun as long as it is exposed to the sun for half a day on the edge of the river beach.
As for how the red thatch is laid on the roof, it is also very particular.
The red thatch needs to be tied into bundles and tied to the hardwood rafters of the roof. If the bundles are too tight, there will be gaps between the red thatch bundles, which will inevitably cause leakage when it rains. But if the red thatch bundles are not tied tightly,
The thatch on the roof will not be able to withstand strong winds. Once there is a strong wind, the thatch on the roof will be blown into the sky.
Surdak returned home with the villagers who were harvesting red thatch, only to find that work was also in full swing at home.
The roof of the stone house has long been lifted off, and several carpenters wrapped the interior walls of the old house with wooden boards. This way it looks like a stone house from the outside, but from the inside it looks like a very elegant wooden house. The main part of the roof is
The beams are still strong, but the rafters are a bit sparse. Some villagers climbed to the roof and added some new wood to make the rafters more densely arranged, so that the thatch on the roof would not be lifted by strong winds.
The firewood shed belonging to Suldak next to it has been completely dismantled. Several masons have built the stone building as high as a person, and together with the bathroom, a new stone house has been expanded next to the old house. It seems that the posture is still ready to be built.
Open a small window on the roof.
This kind of limestone strips can be seen everywhere in Pagolos Mountain. This kind of stone is not very hard and is very easy to dig. People here are used to using this kind of limestone to build stone houses. It feels like building blocks with ease.
Sometimes clay and lime are mixed together as mud. This mixed soil will become stronger and stronger under the erosion of rain.
The kitchen of the old house had been dismantled to pieces. Old Sheila asked the masons to build a simple stove in the yard. Old Sheila gritted her teeth and took Rita to build the few egg-laying hens in the house.
Kill them, prepare to mix these chickens with the salted pork legs brought by the old village chief, stuff them with some peeled chestnuts and stew them into a pot of stew, and entertain the villagers who come to help.
Many women from the village came over to help, making the yard noisy.
When it was almost dark, the dried red thatch was spread on the roof, and a new stone house was built on one side of the old house. Although the main frame of the stone house was built, and the main beams and roof were
The thatch has been laid, but the carpentry work inside the house has not been completed. Several carpenters will be busy for at least one more day tomorrow.
In this dinner, the villagers not only ate the six hens that Old Sheila had, but also half a bag of wheat flour.
Old Sheila also asked Rita to make the last half bag of wheat flour into baked wheat cakes to entertain the helpers in the village. The good land for growing wheat in Wall Village is very limited, and it is rare for the villagers to have a meal of baked wheat cakes.
There was almost nothing left from more than a dozen baked wheat cakes.
When the villagers who had eaten and drank enough were dragging their tired bodies away one after another, the yard was in a mess, and it would take a lot of time to clean it up. Old Sheila was a little worried looking at the empty flour bags, and was harvesting new things.
Before the introduction of wheat, probably the only food available at home was chestnuts and cassava.
Old Sheila did not expect that Surdak would actually launch such a big battle. Not only did he renovate the old stone house, but he also asked the villagers to build a new stone house. The two stone houses, one high and one low, were just next to each other.
The closets in the two rooms are connected to a chimney. Old Sheila knows that this winter will not be too difficult...