In the past two days, the old village chief built another simple thatched pavilion on the north side of the village central square. All the caravan carriages arrived at the village square. Under the call of the old village chief, a group of village women began to move around.
The carriage wheels and axles were all moved into the pergola.
The old village chief stood in the center of the square, standing with Suldak, pointing to the pergola on the north side and said: "I thought about it last night and planned to set up a carpentry workshop in the village. All villagers with carpenter skills can
You can enter the carpenter's workshop to work and build this pergola. It was originally intended to store the purchased wheat flour, but now it seems that it would be good to turn this place into a carpenter's workshop."
These carriage axles use bearing bushes, which are coated with dense lubricating oil. As long as they are gently moved by hand, the carriage wheels can rotate easily and freely.
The axle is forged from black iron, but the wheels are made of wood. Some wooden strips are nailed to a round wooden board to increase strength. This kind of ordinary wheel is easily damaged in rough places and requires a carpenter's workshop for repair.
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The old village chief held the carriage wheels with his hands and said to Suldak confidently: "We will build these twenty carriages first, and then we can also build a large waterwheel here. Although the carpenters in our village are skilled
They are ordinary, but they are all good children who are willing to endure hardship and learn, and they are worth cultivating."
There are indeed several good carpenters in Wall Village, but they are still digging sulfur mines in Pudu Mountain. The old village chief has sent someone to deliver a message to them, and it is expected that they will be able to return to Wall Village in the next two days.
Suldak looked at the wood piled inside the pergola and asked the old village chief: "When the main dam of the reservoir is built, we need to make some wooden boards for pouring volcanic ash cement. Since we want to establish
Carpentry, we need to buy more wood, do you know where there is a wood factory nearby?"
The old village chief was stunned for a moment. Probably according to his idea, the wood in the pergola was enough to make a truck carriage. He was a little confused as to why more wooden boards were used when building the main embankment of Xu Suichu.
At this time, a caravan leader standing nearby quickly took the opportunity to interject: "Knight Suldak, it is said that Baron Lloyd is the most famous forest owner in Helensa City. He owns at least five lumber mills.
, you can buy some wood from Baron Lloyd. If you don't want to come forward in person, our caravan is willing to buy it for you, and we will only charge a pitiful shipping fee."
After hearing this, Suldak was a little tempted. He just wanted to discuss it with the caravan leader, but saw the old village chief winking at him calmly. It was obvious that there were some words that were not convenient to say, so he immediately understood and pondered.
After a while he said: "I will consider this matter..."
When the caravan leader saw that Surdak did not accept the topic, he said no more.
After the caravan leader walked away, the old village chief whispered to Suldak: "There is no need to buy wood. There are many public forest areas over the mountain pass. You can just find two pine trees in them and it won't cost you at all."
what money."
"Isn't it said that cutting down trees is not allowed in the mountains and forests over there?" Surdak asked strangely.
"This is not the only thing you are not allowed to do. As long as it doesn't really touch the interests of those lords, who cares? It's not the Golden Oak." The old village chief said with a smile.
At this time, the village woman who was transporting the carriage axles to the pergola approached the old village chief and said distressedly: "Uncle Bright, the warehouse can't be filled anymore. What should I do with so many bags of wheat..."
"These wheat flour will be stored at the construction site first..." The old village chief looked at the sky midway through his words. He hesitated, and then he could only grit his teeth and said: "Forget it, I don't know what will happen in the next few days."
If it rains, keep this wheat in my house."
More than two hundred bags of wheat flour can almost completely fill the house of the old village chief.
Just when everyone was unloading wheat flour to the old village chief's house, they saw a horse team walking on the mountain road from a distance. Without even looking at the faces of the young people leading the horses, the sharp-eyed villagers shouted at the top of their lungs: "Our
The cavalry is back..."
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This time the village's horse team came back from the Puduoshan sulfur mine. In addition to bringing back twenty bags of sulfur ore, they also brought back bad news.
Two new neighbors appeared in the sulfur mine in the rocky area. There were actually two young salamanders. I don’t know where they ran out. They occupied a corner of the rocky area. Although they were not interested in the miners in the rocky area.
There is no hostility, but it has seriously hindered daily mining work. No one dares to get close to the two salamanders and only dares to hide far away.
However, there are only so many stalagmites with sulfur mines in the rocky area. After being occupied by salamanders, the area left for the masons was pitiful. This time Luke came over in person, just to come back to invite Surdak, even if he couldn't
Hunt those two salamanders, or at least drive them away.
Moreover, in the sulfur mines in the rocky areas, they have to swallow a large amount of sulfur ore every day, which is the most fatal thing.
Seeing that there are sufficient supplies at the reservoir construction site in the village, the next step is to build the foundation of the reservoir as planned. The old village chief can fully handle it here.
There were no more urgent matters for Surdak to solve, so Surdak decided to leave for the sulfur mine of Pudu Mountain to have a look. In addition to expelling the two salamanders, he also wanted to give the people of Pudu Mountain
The masons sent some long thick-soled leather boots, dust masks, cross mining picks, water gathering scrolls and other supplies.
Once all the sulfur mines were moved into the warehouse, Surdak was ready to set off.
Luke just sat under the shade of a tree and took a sip of the cool stream water, then mounted his horse again and set off with Suldak back to the sulfur mine in Pudule Mountain.
Along the way, you can also see long lines of laborers, walking quickly into the depths of Paglos Mountain. They have to go to the places with volcanic ash. Those places are far away from the village of Wall. It takes at least a day to walk back and forth.
, even so, the volcanic ash in that area is very thin, only a thin layer is spread on the ground. When you get there, you need to use a shovel to sweep the volcanic ash on the ground into a pile before putting it into a linen bag.
If this horse team helps transport some volcanic ash, it can also solve some problems of insufficient transportation capacity. However, this horse team still needs to travel between the sulfur mine and Wall Village, so it cannot help yet.
When we passed Beigou Grassland, the 'Thirsty Everlasting' growing here was completely withered and yellow. Only the grass near the pond still had some greenery. However, the bottom of the huge pond was already bottoming out. As soon as the rainy season was over,
Without new rainwater, the water level here is dropping at a speed visible to the naked eye. By next spring, it will probably be completely dry.
Suldak only stayed at Beigou Pasture for a short while, then led the group of young people on horseback to the sulfur mine.