Chapter 28: Winter

The village's winter preparations culminated in an inspiring fish migration.

Fresh fish are gutted by women and the scales scraped off to make dried fish that can be stored for a long time. The freshly salted fish is packed up before the first heavy snow falls, and the neatly stacked dried fish are stacked in the warehouse to create a cheerful square shape.

At the same time, with the help of two druids, Lin Ze's mushroom greenhouse was also successfully built, and the solid wood structure of the mushroom shed was built on the gentle slope of the sunny side of the mound, where the terrain is higher and the drainage is convenient, and the old hunter Wood in the village patted his chest to assure Feng Lun that the mushrooms in the mountain forest are growing in such a location.

Although the outside temperature is no longer suitable for the growth of mycelium, the druid master and apprentice who built the mushroom shed for the first time still use their magic ability to control the temperature at about ten degrees Celsius, although this temperature cannot grow enough mushrooms in winter, but it can grow spring mushrooms some time earlier than the wild mushrooms in the mountains, and if they are lucky, they may be able to exchange them for some supplies from the first batch of caravans passing by in spring.

In the pioneer village in winter, Feng Lun used all kinds of strange plant seeds in his hands to take on the role of the construction team under the command of Hathaway and Lin Ze.

Fierce plants wield foliage vines to dig foundations and place roofs, chopped logs are transported by vine ziplines to where they are needed, and mutated worms that recruit actively loosen the land and then use their own special slime to reinforce the walls.

Since Feng Lun joined the village, the construction of the new village site has gone smoothly, and the basic resettlement has been completed before the winter - at least in this winter, the villagers will not be cold because of the housing problems, and the two new druids have become very popular in the village, and many village women want their daughters to marry the young druid Mr. Heydrick.

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Unlike the previous winters in Pantanal, or the years when Lin Ze grew alone in the underground dragon's nest, the black dragon's winter was quite enjoyable, and he was gathering a group of newly developed dependents in the dragon's nest directly below the mound. Lin Ze, who became a tutor during the winter vacation, was half-lying on a stone kang and instructed the druid apprentice Haydrick to restore the most primitive "papermaking technique".

Although paper is not a rare thing, but this kind of consumables have been controlled in the hands of the aristocracy and other ruling classes, although the output of paper is not low, but the price is not generally expensive, Lin Ze sees that this is also to use the way of mass production to try to carry out some side businesses for the development of the village, even if the paper sales are difficult, he can also use these unsellable papers to promote his own education and literacy program.

After a slight pause to ease the numbness of his arm, Hedrick continued to put the paste-like pulp and water into the paper tray on the side, and after the process was in place, he slowly and evenly lifted the bamboo curtain in the paper trough, and pushed it forward, and another well-proportioned and thin wet paper page was stacked on the pile of wet paper with a thousand sheets.

Repeating the dog several times, Hedrick estimated the height of the pile of wet paper, and the dedicated young druid manipulated the roots of the plants hanging from the top of the dragon's nest to lift a heavy object and slowly press down.

He also cast a spell to use the airflow speed and flame heat after many experiments to slowly dry the wet paper pile, and then simply removed the first white paper, and Hedrick showed a smug smile.

The color of the first white paper is not very good, and the weight of the wet paper pile of water has a clear mark on it, but this does not prevent the second, third, and hundredth sheets that are produced under it from being smooth, clean, and pleasing soft white paper.

"Sir, it worked!" Haydrick had grown much stronger after fusing into the parasitic seed, and the tall young family was bent over to salute as if it were a weak priest.

"Can it be copied and implemented?" Lin Ze looked at the neatly stacked white paper with interest, whether it can be exchanged for new seeds smoothly after the beginning of spring is a big part of the transaction project.

Hedrick couldn't hide his excitement, glanced at his teacher Feng Lun excitedly, and said: "It's very smooth, you can divide the manufacturing process into different steps according to Mr.'s instructions, and more importantly, my teacher and I finally completed the basic version of the movable type printing press a few days ago." ”

"Movable type printing?" the old village doctor, who was the principal of the elementary school, was shocked when he heard this, "Can the method mentioned by the gentleman be realized now?"

The success of papermaking made the old village doctor realize that once his husband started his own education and literacy program, the most indispensable thing must be textbooks. So the question is, the prototype of the textbook has been compiled under the planning of Mr., him and the druid von Lun, but how can everyone have a copy of these things?

Naturally hand-copied!

Yes, copying by hand! In Lin Ze's words, even copying must have at least one textbook for every household in the village. However, if what Hedrik said is true, doesn't it mean that he doesn't have to copy books and give typos to the half-baked teachers under him?

As soon as he thought of this, the old village doctor Bai En instantly came to his senses, this is a good thing to care about himself!

"Very well, let's start printing the textbooks of the literacy program and the novels we have written, and hopefully we will have a good harvest in the spring." Lin Ze knocked on the stone platform in front of him and reminded: "By the way, you must remember to distribute them by category, and some novels should not be distributed to the village." ”

At the mention of some words, everyone let out a laugh that all men understand, and Hathaway couldn't help but glare at the young family fiercely when she saw Alan laughing happily.

The old man with the most filthy thoughts in the village couldn't think of the scripts that her husband had personally "written", and she even suspected that if a believer of the god of normal knowledge had written these things, he would be punished and executed by the gods at the first time.

What aristocratic school grammar teacher Bai teacher, music and dance teacher Qian Ed, what Pi Phi Chen's struggle, what red face dyed vermilion blood, etc., are all the secret texts of those evil and adulterous churches.

"Okay, okay, you can get out, Master Benlong take a nap, don't come to me if it's okay. Lin Ze began to rush people outside, this winter has been busy with his dependents, if it were in previous years, he should still be in the sleeping and dormant period of Meizizi at this time.

"By the way, remember to wait until I'm asleep to watch a little fire, don't put it out for me. Lin Ze raised his head and said a word and then crossed his body and fell asleep, after the last time he killed those four long ears, his body also suffered a lot of damage, although the black dragon's body recovery ability is very strong, but the weaker internal organs also need a certain amount of time to cultivate before they can fully recover.

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Lin Ze thought that he would wake up after ten days and half a month of sleep, but he didn't expect to be just in time for a new dormant growth, and when he woke up, the snow had almost melted and the spring flowers were blooming, and the caravans walking in the wilderness had been here for several days to repair.

After moving his sore body, Lin Ze plunged into the underground waterway and swam towards the sea, he seemed to be about to start a new round of development, after the end of this hibernation, the size of the black dragon grew again, and the fast-growing skeletal muscles were even more sore, numb and painful from the bones.

"I'm going to die a dragon, I don't have cramps like this, do I?"

Smashing a wave that was slapped on the head, Lin Ze preyed on the sea fish unscrupulously, the aura of the rotten soul of the chaotic mind was fully opened, and the simple-minded sea fish launched a suicidal feeding to Lin Ze, and after a crazy ** work without hunting art, the black dragon finally embarked on the way back to the dragon's nest with satisfaction.

However, at the same time as Lin Ze flapped his wings and flew out of the sea, a panicked fishman suddenly appeared behind a narrow coral reef at the bottom of the shallow sea.