In a valley in the Ash Furnace Mountain, the sun had just risen, and before the white sunlight had yet arrived, a cool wind blew from the northern ridge, and the flowers in full bloom exuded a burst of fragrance. The snoozing toddler yawned in his mother's arms, saliva running down the corners of his mouth. All the people in the Ash Furnace Village gathered in one place. A pile of wood was ignited, and the oil pot on the top of the wood began to tumble and bubble, and the white bubbles cracked with a bang, and there was a strong sour smell in the air.

"My Father, the lost lamb needs your guidance," Father Yuri said, turning over the crumpled book in his hand, "and we will hold a divine judgment to determine whether the frost giant before us is evil or has light in his heart. ”

"Why is it different from the last time?" whispered in the solemn crowd.

"Yes, last time I remember that the priest said that the pot of oil should be burned red, why didn't he say it this time?" someone said.

"Look, the frying pan is starting to bubble!" a child who had just woken up yawned and pointed to the fire excitedly.

"Father Yuri, the divine judgment should be on page 34, you are turning to page 25," Merlin said with a smile, "page 25 is about Samson's hair. ”

"Yes, yes. Father Yuri raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead that did not exist, in fact he did not know these twisting tadpole texts in the scriptures, but these did not matter at all, for the hillbillies of the remote ash-furnace village, there was an ancient scripture that was a qualified priest. Yuri is not a very good priest in the church, and if he hadn't been there, he wouldn't have come to Ashfurnace Village.

"Whoever is able to take out the stone without being harmed must be my servant. Yuri closed the scriptures, he had presided over so many divine judgments, and never had he felt so uncomfortable as he did today. The eyes on the young lord's gentle face were as sharp as an eagle.

The Frost Giant closed his eyes, reached into the oil pot, and smoothly took out a stone and threw it on the grass.

"No, it's impossible, how could she have fished the stone out of the pan without even a blister!" muttered Father Yuri as he closed the book.

Merlin was not surprised by the result of the gods, because this was what he wanted, mixing some dark vinegar into the olive oil, so that when heated, the vinegar would sink to the bottom of the pot because it was denser than the olive oil. When it starts to heat, the vinegar starts to bubble when heated, and the olive oil in the oil pan is still warm and not hot at all. Everything anyone can do when they take the stones out of the pan unscathed.

Merlin took out fifty gold coins from the system's package and stuffed them into Lance's hand, "The gods have decided that she is a good person, and the frost giant is an enemy of the Goths, but she is still only a child. All those grown-up things have nothing to do with children, right?"

"My lord, I always feel that something is wrong?" Lance did not put away the gold coins in his hand, "The Frost Giant is not friendly even if it is a child, I don't think you should take her chains off." ”

Merlin nodded, he just wanted to save the frost giant, and he hadn't thought about the next thing yet. After this incident, Lance's opinion suddenly turned red to 85, and Father Yuri was even lower than before, reaching a record 25 points.

After leaving the Frost Giant in Kate's care, Merlin returned to his hut, which was the best stone house in the entire Ashfurnace Village, which used to belong to Lance, but after Merlin's arrival, Lance moved out of the stone hut. The cottage was much smaller than Adrianople's dormitory, but Merlin found it much more comfortable. The hut was covered with straw mats of fresh corduroy, with green straw mats on one wall and a yellow curtain on the other.

In the evening, Merlin's slaves returned to him, and the twenty of them, divided into four groups, divided into four directions, measured the whole mountain of ashfurnace with their feet.

"Good news, Your Highness Merlin, there is a large meadow to the east of Ashfurnace Village that can be used for grazing, and that meadow is so big that you can only run to the end on a horse. Said the man who went to the east.

"Good news, Your Highness Merlin, that the flat land to the south can be used to grow wheat and barley. It takes a week to walk back and forth on that large field. Said the man who was going south.

"Your Highness Merlin, the western hills can be used to grow grapes, apples, figs. It takes a week to walk back and forth on that large field. Said the man who went to the west.

"Good news, Your Highness Merlin, to the north is a large forest, which is overgrown with tall camphor wood, sandalwood, pine, and white oak, which can be used to build houses of wood. Said the man who went north.

"Your Highness Merlin, this is bad news, the beans in Ash Furnace Village are about to dry up, if you don't water them again. Our beans are dying. "Lance didn't know when it came out.

"Take me to see!" Merlin said, as a grassroots cadre of the Empire, Merlin knew very well that the problem could only be figured out what was wrong when he was on the scene. The empire is still doing a good job in this regard, and as the women's director, Merlin doesn't know how many pairs of shoes he has to run every year.

Lance picked up a crockpot, went to the side of the mountain stream, filled it with water, then got up on his back, climbed up a hillside, came to the bean field, put the crockpot down, and another woman with a round waist poured out the water from the crockpot and poured it on the roots of the beans one by one.

Merlin walked around the bean field and found that the matter was worse than Lance had said, a small half of the beans had withered, the leaves of the remaining roots had begun to turn yellow, and the apple trees on the edge of the bean field were also affected, as well as in the vineyard in the distance.

Originally, there were still a few water sources in the village, but since the beginning of summer this year, the continuous hot weather has lasted for almost four Sundays, and all the water sources in the Ashlu Mountain have dried up, except for the small stream that flows from the old forest in the north.

Merlin is looking forward to the Ganquan rewarded by the system more and more, but at this time he has no way to increase the population of the territory, so he can only find a way to solve the problem of water shortage of beans first.

The drop from the creek to the bean field is too great to be solved by a wooden waterwheel. However, the ash furnace village now uses clay pots to transport water, which is too inefficient, and if it is switched to water buckets, the ash furnace village should be able to solve the problem of beans.