With the arrival of summer, cassava can no longer be found in the free market of Helensa City.
The cassava trees in the mountains cannot be dug until autumn. Due to the inability to purchase raw materials, the starch workshop in Wall Village suspended the production of starch. In the village, only a row of neat water tanks are left next to the laundry pool. The pool is surrounded by walls.
A flat cement platform was built, and the women in the village squatted beside the concrete platform in the shade of the trees while washing clothes.
A group of half-grown children jumped into the clear water to swim. This is a summer holy place for children in the village.
In summer, the water in the creek becomes very abundant, and the clear springs in the mountains are like beating notes, tinkling in the valley.
Only one gate of the secondary reservoir has been opened. The stream water flowing from the gate hits the waterwheel, causing the waterwheel to rotate slowly. This waterwheel drives the huge stone mill in the mill next to it to slowly rotate. The old village
Changbright also built a mill in the village, and villagers could carry wheat here to grind wheat flour at any time.
The room where Surdak prepared gunpowder was some distance away from Wall Village, in a townhouse near a river. Surdak only prepared ten packets of gunpowder each time, and then guided the kobold slaves between the mountain walls.
Dig a deep hole, stuff gunpowder inside, and then detonate it.
When the explosive detonates, the entire hill will tremble violently.
These shattered stones are the main targets for the six hundred kobold slaves to mine the rocks. They will pry the loose rocks out of the stone walls, and the giant stones will be smashed into smaller ones, and some smaller stones.
The kobold slaves used chisels to remove the sharp corners and shape them into rectangular stone strips as much as possible.
Kobold slaves are very good at digging rocks.
In order to build the townhouses in Wall Village, the 600-meter kobold slaves almost dug a large hole in the mountains outside the village. From a distance, it looked like a giant hole was punched out of the mountain wall.
Big pit.
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Another busy month has passed.
In late August, veterans who joined the militia camps from each village came to the security station again to receive rations.
They lined up to carry away the whole wheat flour. The villagers in Wall imagined that they were training hard in the yard of the police station but they did not appear. They still received the rations and left the village.
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 find the old village chief to intercede in front of Suldak and join the militia camp. However, they were scolded and ran away by the old village chief Bright on the spot.
A group of villagers stood on the construction site of the small townhouse with tools, watching with envy as the veterans left carrying food on their backs.
"It's not a big deal!" A villager stretched his neck and looked at it for a long time, then looked away with a complicated mood, and said to his companions: "Those wheat flour may be infested with borers..."
"Yes, it must be like that!" said the villager next to him. "In more than a month, the wheat in our field will be mature soon. There will be no shortage of water during the drought period this year, and the wheat will grow very well. It is estimated that we will have a bumper harvest."
There is no need to store cassava and miscellaneous grains. This wheat alone is enough for us to survive the whole winter."
Speaking of this, several villagers from Wall Village suddenly became energetic and interjected one after another:
"With all the money we earn, how much wheat can't we buy?"
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The townhouses in Wall Village look the same every day, and they are being built at a speed visible to the naked eye.
One of the earliest townhouses built has already had its roof sealed.
The first batch of villagers began to move into small townhouses one after another. The villagers who lived in this small building were the same people whose houses were destroyed when the rebels invaded Wall Village. Now they have become Wall Village.
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 of the houses have not been painted with white plaster.
A group of carpenters are installing doors and windows. Everything is so brand 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 fields began to grow wildly, and many villagers in other villages were idle during this time.
These villagers from other villages went to Woer Village to find work, and some brought their children to Woer Village. They sent their younger children to children's homes, and they went to the construction site to move stones.
With the participation of these villagers from other villages, the speed of building townhouses in the village suddenly accelerated.
The villagers of Wall Village felt the pressure brought by the competition from the villagers from other villages. They began to huddle tightly and squeeze the villagers from other villages. As soon as this trend showed some signs, it was quickly suppressed by the old village chief Bright, and everything
Anyone who hinders the development of Wall Village will be killed by the old village chief.
According to the words of the old village chief, don't think that you are from Wall Village and everything you do should be taken for granted. If anyone dares to cause trouble, I will send him to the slave camp to dig rocks with such kobolds.
With the words of the old village chief Bright, the villagers have indeed become much more peaceful during this period.
Recently, there are always horse-drawn carriages delivering supplies to the village, so the entrance to the village has become very lively.
In addition to the supplies agreed upon by the cargo owner, these carriage drivers driving over from Helensa City will also bring with them some dried meat, chickens, ducks, and daily miscellaneous goods.
After many carriage drivers have delivered their goods, they are willing to set up a stall at the entrance of Wall Village to sell the private goods they brought over. These private goods range from various types of food to groceries and daily necessities, and the types are also diverse.
The villagers work on the construction site every day, and with some extra money in their pockets, they have more to think about.
Occasionally, I will buy a dried chicken or duck and take it home so that the whole family can have a good meal.
As the price of sulfur ore on the market continues to rise, there have been some adventure groups and mercenary groups coming from Hilanza City in search of sulfur ore in the village recently. These adventure groups have also brought some caravans, and they are
Search for sulfur deposits everywhere in the barren land.
In this way, Wall Village has become the best place for adventure groups, mercenary groups and caravans to settle.
The adventure group rushes from Hilanza City to the Paglos Pass, usually arriving at Wall Village in the evening. Most adventure groups will not go further. They will choose to set up camp at the entrance of the village. Many members of the adventure group still
They will go into the village and ask the villagers about the deserted land, and some adventure groups will even hire guides.
Usually at this time, the villagers in Wall Village are not too willing to talk to them. If it were in the past, the villagers would definitely not refuse, but now every family is eager to live in a small townhouse, and no one wants to live in this hot weather.
Running into the depths of a deserted land to eat sand in the summer and staying in the village to build buildings are far more profitable than working as a guide.
The old village chief 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 or a caravan, in addition to wheat cakes and broth, some vegetables are also essential for dinner.
Unknowingly, the village entrance slowly developed into a small market in just a few weeks.
Sometimes some villagers from neighboring villages will bring some goods to sell here. Some businessmen passing by also saw this opportunity. They rented a row house from the old village chief as a warehouse, and usually sold some goods that they couldn't sell.
The goods are stored in the townhouse.
A small market slowly appeared outside the village of Wall in the Paglos Pass.
It provides necessary supplies for all adventure groups that go deep into Paglos Mountain and the deserted lands.
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Ever since the ogre Gulitem decided to graze sheep in Beigou Pasture, the number of yellow sheep in the village began to shrink rapidly, so that Surdak had to purchase some yellow sheep every once in a while to fill the village's sheep flock.
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Gulitem had a high talent for cooking, and he quickly mastered the skill of roasting lamb. The whole lamb rack was roasted on the charcoal fire until the skin was crispy and the meat was rotten, and he stuffed it into his stomach with wheat cakes.
Drinking a large pot of vegetable soup will make the ogre's belly bulge.
Occasionally, he would go to the lava river in Pussy Mountain to hunt salamanders. Usually, new salamanders were discovered in the sulfur mines, and then Luke would send people to Wall Village for help. Gulitem had recently been the most
What he likes to do is hunt salamanders so that he can eat the freshest salamander meat.
Charlie and Luke believed that this river of lava must be connected to the center of the mountain, and these salamanders swam out of the center of the mountain along the river of lava.
These salamanders are second-level monsters with tough skin and thick flesh, and are not afraid of fire. There is basically nothing ordinary warriors can do against them.
Only warriors like Gulitem and Andrew had the ability to kill salamanders. During this period, seven or eight salamanders were hunted and killed, which became an additional income for Surdak.
Salamander meat is delicious and rich in fire elements. Some magicians who are good at fire like to eat it. Therefore, this kind of monster meat is expensive in the city of Helensa.
After Surdak sold salamander meat several times in Halanza City, a magician flew to Wall Village on a magic torch to buy salamander meat.
Sometimes a magician who is lucky will happen to meet the ogre Gulitum returning from the depths of the barren land carrying a salamander, and can get some fresh salamander meat.
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The construction speed of Surdak's manor was very fast. After all, he was the major financier of all projects in Wall Village. Every day, more than forty bricklayers were building the main body of the mansion in Surdak's new manor, and trucks of volcanic ash and limestone were transported.
Arriving at the reservoir, high walls on all sides soon appeared in front of everyone.
By early September, a gorgeous three-story villa appeared at the upper reaches of Wall Village.
Old Sheila would take little Peter around this gorgeous villa every day. 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, Carl Casement from Hellanza City personally sent him a cashmere carpet that could be spread in the living room. The patterns and colors on it are said to come from the orc tribe of Pai Plateau. Female orcs are born with
Expert in knitting blankets.
Tax Collector Bird and Mrs. Hoyle sent a set of walnut furniture. The whole set includes the living room sofa/coffee table/desk/display table/wardrobe/cabinet/double bed/dressing table, etc. These walnut furniture
Wooden furniture can almost fill three rooms. The walnut furniture in Helensa City is second only to indigo wood furniture. Surdak is not prepared to buy such high-end furniture. In the carpenter workshop of Helensa City
, the most common is oak furniture, which is strong, sturdy, heavy, durable, and fire-resistant.
To fill such a large house with furniture, Surdak would have to spend at least nearly a hundred additional gold coins. In addition to furniture, he also had to prepare carpets for the corridors, cashmere carpets for the living room, and cashmere carpets for the bedrooms.
Velvet blankets, various murals and ornaments, more than fifty sets of curtains, sheets for 14 beds and some supplies for the kitchen and bathroom.
The exterior walls of the entire villa are made of limestone, and the even stone gaps are filled with pozzolanic cement. According to Suldak's requirements, the pozzolanic cement was applied very flatly, and it looks like a flat circular pattern from a distance.
, the entire house with stone walls feels extremely heavy.
Karl stood in the empty garden of Suldak's house, looking at the villa built on the mountains and rivers a few dozen meters away, looking a little jealous, and also clamoring to build a stronger one with volcanic ash cement and granite.
The house must be at least as strong as the walls of Lokhan Fortress in Durwa Province.
So the cement workshop that had not yet been established in Wall Village received its first order.
To build a villa for Baron Carl Casement in his territory that is stronger than the Fortress of Rohan, in addition to the three-story main building, it also needs to have an attic and a watchtower, as well as a dungeon and underground storage underground.
Property room.
In his garden, Suldak asked Rita to bring a piece of parchment and drew an architectural diagram for Karl on the spot. The connection between the spiral staircases and corridors on each floor was handled just right. Karl stared at Su
Erdak asked him curiously: "Dak, where did you learn this knowledge about architecture?"
Of course, Surdak couldn't say how many high-rise buildings he had seen in his previous life. He could only bite the bullet and pointed to the small townhouses on the slopes of the valley and said:
"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 were built based on that model."
Karl looked at Suldak with some suspicion. Although he felt that something was wrong, he did not go into details. He said cheerfully to the old village chief beside him: "Mr. Bright, I'd like to ask you to pay more attention to my villa."
Mayor Bright didn't expect to receive a commission to build a house in the village, not to mention building a house in the village. Moreover, if calculated carefully, this project should be able to make a fortune.
Thinking that he had no previous experience in undertaking construction projects, Village Chief Bright said with a guilty conscience: "Duck, none of us have ever left Wall Village... and there are volcanic ash and stones..."
"Uncle Bright, it doesn't matter. We will transport the volcanic ash cement directly from the deserted land. As for the stones, we can buy them from nearby quarries, or use dry firewood locally. Just follow the method of building my villa. It doesn't matter.
Big deal.”
Surdak said to the old village chief.
Hearing Suldak say this, the village chief of Bright nodded. He thought that after completing this project, the money he could earn might be higher than the annual harvest of Wall Village, and his heart was filled with excitement.