30. Fight for water
Merlin decided to return Lance's stone house to him, because Jerry not only brought back bamboo roots, but also brought back a boatload of bamboo, it turned out that Michel's Abbey decided to expand, and the place they chose was the bamboo forest behind it, even if Merlin didn't ask for bamboo roots, that bamboo forest would be destroyed.
It's really a tyrannical thing, why don't you know how to cherish good things? Many of the bamboos were brought to the village with their roots, and Merlin decided to plant them by enclosing a clearing at the top of the hillside, which had previously been an arid meadow.
After planting the bamboos, after the water of the sweet spring was flooded overnight, many yellow leaves fell on the bamboos, and new sprouts actually appeared. Merlin knew that this sweet spring water must not be ordinary water, otherwise this bamboo would not have come back to life so easily.
Merlin decided to build a bamboo house on the edge of the pine forest with bamboo, and Lance was glad that he could move back to his cottage, but he was happy a little sooner, because before he could come to his senses, Augustine had sealed the stone house, and pretended to protect it for posterity to see.
Building a bamboo hut in a pine forest is as simple as picking four pine trees at a suitable distance as the four pillars of the bamboo house, and then sawing off the other pine trees between the four pine trees, leaving only a stump more than two meters long. It took less than two days to use these stumps and four pine trees as branches, lay wooden planks on top of them, and make a wall of bamboo around them. A beautiful little bamboo house was built.
Wandering around Ash Furnace Mountain during the day, or copying books in a bamboo hut, and lying on a wooden bed listening to the sound of Lin Tao outside the house at night, Merlin felt that his current life was excellent, a life that he could never have dreamed of when he was in the Empire.
Merlin hadn't enjoyed a good life on the small bamboo house for two days before the peace was shattered. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, this is what Gu Long said, as a generation of heroes, he has his own experience of what happens in the rivers and lakes. Merlin didn't believe in those high-ranking martial arts people, but he was convinced of what was happening in the rivers and lakes.
There are two kinds of people in Ashfurnace Mountain, one is the one who has land, such as the village chief Lance, who owns a part of the land in Ashfurnace Mountain, or the old knights, whose fields are rewarded by meritorious deeds by the side of King Celis. There was also a part of the nomads, who did not own land, and they rented the land of the lords. Or farming, or grazing.
Before the spring appeared, everyone was waiting for God to rain. But with the spring water, it's different. For example, the bean field that belonged to the lord has grown luxuriantly after being watered by the spring, and the dried beans have become strong again, and the lord will definitely harvest a lot of beans this year.
The fields far from the springs are different, and the crops turn yellow under the scorching sun. There is a difference between what is close to the spring and what is far away from the spring. The water flows downward, and the spring water that flows down from the hillside can flow from here or there. There is a lot of land, but there is only a little spring water.
Merlin has seen people who fight in the water, people who fight to the death, and what he didn't expect was that he also saw it once in Ash Furnace Mountain, so no matter where it is, people's hearts are the same. For those who farm, water is life.
Originally, the spring water flowed into the Ashlu Village, but after one night, the spring was diverted, which was not surprising, but the spring water was diverted every night, which was not a thing.
Eventually, the knights fought with the lord's tenants, and unsurprisingly, the knights won. Although it is a retired regular army, the gap with the mud legs is not half a star. However, sometimes it is not a good thing to win the war, and this Bulance led the nine knight families of Ash Furnace Mountain to kneel straight in front of Merlin's small bamboo house.
"Lance, what's wrong with you?" Merlin stood on the steps of the bamboo hut, carefully kneading his sore wrists.
"Your Highness Merlin, Lance has violated the virtues of a knight. Before Lance had finished speaking, a crowd of people crept up from the bottom of the hill not far away, filling Merlin's hut all around. These are the tenants of the lords, the landless vagrants.
Father Yuri's expression was solemn and sad. The long black robe dragged to his feet, and he held a wooden scepter in his right hand. Behind him is a delicate and plump woman, even if she has seen a lot of calamity-level beauties like Sulla in the past few days, Merlin's eyes are still bright. How could I not have noticed that there was such a beautiful woman in Ash Furnace Mountain before.
I saw that she was bloated, and her linen robe could not hide the bulge in her lower abdomen, but she had been pregnant for several months. She frowned and dragged out a half-sized man with a face covered in blood from behind her, this person Merlin knew, one of the few people in Ash Furnace Mountain who had a favorability of Lord Lord more than three digits. His name was Rommel.
"My lord, I have sad news to announce to you!" said the priest, grief-stricken, "the knights of Ashfurnace Mountain have fallen for violating the most basic rules of knighthood, even for children. After the priest finished speaking, Rommel wailed a few times very cooperatively.
Merlin looked at the priest's gloating face and wanted to rush over and whip him hard. Such people exist at all times, and they are the most annoying.
Merlin thought that after the Ganquan was there, the big problem of lack of water in the Ash Furnace Mountain would be solved, and the rest of the time, copying books, wandering around, and the days would pass like this. It's a pity that some people don't think so. Some people just don't think there's enough. It's about looking for something.
The pit has been dug, and it is just waiting for the young and impulsive lord to jump into the pit.
Don't look at the population of Ash Furnace Mountain, which is only a little more than 200, but things are not simple at all. The people on the scene were obviously divided into two factions, one was the Nine Knight Families led by Lance, and the other was the nomads led by Father Yuri.
There is no right or wrong thing about grabbing water, so no matter which side Merlin is on, he will inevitably offend the other.
Merlin would not be naïve enough to unite the majority to fight the minority. These proved to be absolute truths at the time of the Empire's land reform, because this was an otherworld, where the power of knights was far greater than that of commoners. This is a memory that goes deep into Merlin's soul.
However, it is difficult to be a good person, but it is very simple to be an evil person. If everything is reasonable, then it is not a lord.
"Get out, get out of here. Merlin rushed down the steps of the bamboo building. One kick knocked Lance, who was kneeling at the bottom of the steps, to the ground. "The mountains here are mine, and the water here is mine. It's all mine. Get out of here, y'all. ”
After awakening the Mind Beast, Merlin is also a knight of the Black Iron level, and his feet are on Lance's armor, and he is really good to be a villain, especially when he tramples the powerful knight under his feet.