After lunch, Werther was still thinking about the black shadow.
What does this mysterious knight look like, and why does he always help me when I am in need? What is the reason for helping me? Unfortunately, that night, I didn't even see the face of the mysterious knight, I just noticed this person
He is very agile.
Werther was only thinking about these things, but he never realized that he was sitting at the door, his body already shivering from the cold.
It was already noon, but it was still so cold. Werther thought to himself, it was indeed late autumn, so I might as well close the door.
Werther walked to the door and saw Colin, who could not hold himself up, fell asleep on the servant next to him, and his posture changed from kneeling to sitting.
"Isn't it eight hours yet?" Werther asked curiously.
Colin's servant said: "Your Highness, my master will be up in half a minute. I will wake him up and take him home."
"I understand, take good care of your master."
After Werther closed the door, he thought to himself, I know nothing about the shadow now, and I can't get any clues just by thinking this way. If the shadow intends to let me know its identity, it will definitely appear in front of me. Now, instead of thinking about this
First thing, let's think about how to grow garlic and onions.
He took out the garlic cloves and onion seeds from the pasture from the basket, observed them in the sun, and said to himself: "It looks so healthy. I didn't expect that the garlic produced in the pasture would be so white and translucent.
The onion seeds are also plump and well-proportioned.”
"Your Highness, what are you talking to yourself about?" Wile was helping the maids clear the table. He caught a glimpse of Werther, who was thinking seriously in the sun, and felt a little curious.
"Well, now that we have the gold coins, we will start the plan to plant garlic and onions this afternoon."
"It turns out that Your Highness is thinking about this. But I don't understand something. Wouldn't it be better if the people can grow these things themselves? Why do they need to open up additional fields to grow them?"
Witte explained: "Last time I showed the benefits of garlic and onions to the people, some of them must have started growing them at home, but the number is far from enough. We in Daybreak Town should plant as many of them as possible.
Nowadays, due to the lack of targeted cooking skills, garlic and onions have not yet become popular in Notland. People in other fiefdoms and Frank City do not know their benefits, and many people even do not know the existence of these two plants.
In this case, if Daybreak Town is the first to produce a large amount of garlic and onions, it will sell a lot of money and make Daybreak Town famous.
Therefore, I must quickly send people to open up new farmland and plant a large amount of garlic and onions."
"I understand what His Highness means. It turns out that Your Highness wants to expand the planting area of these two foods."
"That's what I mean."
After Werther and Wile explained, they fell into thinking again.
First of all, we need to find suitable farmland. I remember that there is a large area of uncultivated land on the way from the castle to the farm. Maybe it is suitable and can be reclaimed into fields. I will go to see the situation soon. Who should I take with me today? The sky is cloudless.
, Lina is definitely not willing to accompany me out, so she can only choose from Wile and Ivanli, why not bring them both.
"Wyle, please accompany me later to see where I can cultivate fields." Werther turned around and looked at Wiler and said, "Go and help me see what Ivan is doing. If he has nothing to do, just go and see what Ivan is doing."
Let him go with us."
"Yes, Your Highness, Ivan should be there
The stable, I'll go take a look."
After a while, Wile brought Ivan over.
Ivan said with excitement on his face: "Your Highness, is there any task you want me to do? No one is sick in the castle during this time. I am really bored."
"You two, follow me to find a place where you can grow crops. We'll walk there today."
"Yes, Your Highness."
"Do you know much about farmland?" Witte suddenly asked.
Wile and Ivan shook their heads at the same time.
"In this case, just in case, I have to bring Zhizhi with me."
Werther thought to himself that he didn't know much about farmland, and Zhizhi was an elf who could grow plants. If he had any doubts, maybe Zhizhi could help.
After the three masters and servants left the castle, they walked a certain distance and then stopped.
Werther stopped and looked into the distance, and found that the road from the castle to the farm was quite wide. However, the path that really needs to be walked does not need such a large area. It would be a pity that the remaining area should not be used as farmland.
But the strange thing is that although there is a large area of land here and it is connected to a farm not far away, why has it been in a state of neglect?
In addition, the farm had suffered damage from wild wolves before. At that time, the fields farther away from the farm border were definitely safer, so this area far away from the farm border was the most suitable to be developed into farmland.
Werther frowned slightly and looked at the ground in the distance, quietly thinking about these questions.
"Your Highness, what are you thinking about?" Wile curiously moved his face to Werther's side and asked.
"I'm wondering, since this area is so large and so close to the farm, why don't the people develop their farms here?" Witte said, "Is it because the land here is not suitable for growing crops?"
Witte bent down and dug out a piece of soil with his hands. He looked carefully and found nothing unusual with the naked eye, and the color was no different from what he saw on the farm. Moreover, there were some fallen leaves in the soil, which made the soil more nutrient-rich.
, making the soil more fertile.
At this time, Zhizhi should come out and verify it.
Werther put Zhizhi, who was being held by Wiler, on the ground and asked, "Zhizhi, can you help me see if there is anything wrong with the soil?"
Zhizhi spun around on the ground a few times, sniffed again, then jumped and shouted happily, and by the way, he used magic to grow a tomato plant on the ground. This tomato grew exquisitely, translucently, and was red and plump.
Then Zhizhi turned around a few more times and planted a wheat plant. The wheat was golden in color and evenly distributed.
But soon the elf couldn't support his strength and fainted at Werther's feet.
"Zhizhi looked very tired today. He fainted immediately after conjuring two plants." Witte picked up Zhizhi and handed it to Wile, "Take good care of Zhizhi."
"It seems that the soil is pretty good." Witte said while thinking, "If that's the case, why have people been hungry rather than farming here for so many years when wild wolves have destroyed the farm?"
After thinking for a while, he said: "It's not because it's close to the lord's castle, so they don't dare to plant it here."
"That's not the reason. This place is still quite far away from the castle, and it's not under the castle wall." Wile said.
"Then what do you think the reason would be?" Werther turned his head and stared directly at Wile.
"Ah? I can't think of this either." Wile scratched his hair.
At this time, a young man carrying a hoe walked towards the farm.
"Please stay, young man." Werther stepped forward and said, "I have a question to ask you."
The boy was very young, he looked to be only eleven or twelve years old. After his eyes stayed on Werther for a second, he began to exclaim: "You are the lord, right? I have seen you!"
Witte smiled and said politely: "I am the lord of Daybreak Town. Don't panic. My child, I just want to ask you a question. Why is no one planting crops around here?"
The young man was a little nervous when facing Werther. He made a swallowing motion, then raised his slightly trembling hand and pointed in the direction of the farmland in the distance: "Ever since I was sensible, the farmland has been like this. I have never seen anyone doing it.
The place you mentioned grows crops. However, I have heard people mention that the land here cannot grow crops, and it is said that there is no harvest."
"No harvest?" Werther was surprised, "But look, the tomatoes and wheat my elf planted here just now are very good."
The young man looked at the tomatoes and wheat, scratched his hair in confusion, and said, "Your Highness, I don't know why this is happening. Maybe it's because Your Highness's elf can do magic."
"Yes, could it be that it was just because Zhizhi had magic that he could grow tomatoes and wheat?" Wile also thought so.
Witte shook his head and said: "That's not the reason. I tried letting Zhizhi grow strawberries in extremely dry soil, but Zhizhi couldn't grow them at all. Therefore, Zhizhi's ability to grow plants requires good soil.
."
After a while, the young man suddenly thought of something and said: "Lord, I remembered something. It seems that many years ago, this was also a farm, but later because it could not produce crops, so slowly, everyone
They are no longer grown here.”
It started to look like this many years ago.
"How many years ago was it exactly?"
"I really don't know about this, Lord. Maybe when this happened, I was still a baby, or I wasn't born yet. How about I help you think about it." The young man thought anxiously, but
It was obvious that he really couldn't figure it out.
"Okay, don't think about it. Thank you young man. You have given me a lot of information."
"Lord, I'm leaving first." The young man said.
"Go and do your work." Werther smiled again.
Unexpectedly, after a while, a shocking scene happened in front of Werther's eyes.
The tomatoes and wheat that Zhizhi had just worked so hard to grow were instantly sucked into the soil and disappeared without a trace.
This scene was keenly captured by Werther, who looked at the scene in front of him in surprise: "What just happened..."
Others looked in the direction of Werther's eyes and also discovered that the tomatoes and wheat were missing.
"It turns out that this is the reason for the lack of harvest! There must be something wrong under the soil. I don't know what secrets are hidden in it." Witte said, "I just don't know if there are monsters in the soil. I'm not sure whether I should dig three feet into the ground."
check it out."
Just when Witte was at a loss, the parchment finally gave him a hint: dig down into the soil ten meters east of the tomato plant just now, and you can find the problem. Be careful not to use hard tools.
Now that the parchment roll has given me a hint, you can dig with confidence. However, you cannot use hard tools. Do you mean you have to use your hands?
"Wyle, Ivan, go back to the castle and get some gloves. Let's dig up this place together to see what's under the ground."