176. Salmon

The Valley of the Ashfurnace now resembles a huge construction site, with the temple building site in the distance, where five thousand people gathered, and the two newly built workshops on the side of the Ashfurnace Castle. The chamber is surrounded by a white wall more than three meters high, and four tall minarets rise around the wall. This architectural structure, which had never been seen before in the Roman Empire, was greatly popularized.

Inside the room, a white stone path divides the room into small boxes. The ronins who join Ashfurnace can build their own houses on these small boxes, which Merlin promises are their land, and their property is protected by the Grey-robed Veneers.

The appearance of the Inheritance Knights surprised the Ronin, no one thought that Ashfurnace Castle could have so many Inheritance Knights, although this strength is not as good as Hippo City, but it is far more than Bigwood Town, Xia Suo Town and other towns.

The hesitant ronins immediately realized what they had missed, and after the population of Ashhearth exceeded two thousand, the ronins who joined Merlin's territory could only get a piece of land of their own in the workshop in the Ashfurnace Valley, and the house had to be built by themselves, and of course they also had their own small piece of land in the valley. But only half the people of Ashforgeria.

The weather is getting cooler, and the harvest season is getting closer and closer in August. The crops in Ash Furnace Village were quickly harvested, and the crops planted by 200 people were now harvested by 2,000 people, and they were all dried up at once.

The air is filled with the aroma of fruits, ripe fruits are dried and some are made into sweet wine. The warriors formed hunting squads and went up the mountain. The yellow sheep and wild deer in the wilderness are fat, and the grizzly bears are preparing to store their fat for the winter.

Merlin had never been easier, Ashhearth was slowly becoming prosperous, the housekeeping was given to Sula and Raj, the guards were given to Lance, and now Old Bill was idle. The turnover of the Bohemian Chamber of Commerce is more than a hundred gold coins per day. The Fisherman's Bar fills up all night, and Wendy prepares to double the size of the bar again.

The fork has had a very good harvest lately, and as soon as the sun is overhead, he's going to go back. Because he already has enough catch, he can't sell it if he has more. Such weather can only be broken. If the weather is good, the fish can be dried in the sea, but this requires enough manpower.

"What's that?" cries out in surprise as a fisherman points ahead from a boat at the entrance to the valley.

"Oh my God, open the net, hurry up!" exclaimed the fork excitedly, "the god of harvest is above, and today is going to be a great harvest." ”

"Idamaha, Idamaha......"

"This is the salmon's hometown?" muttered someone kneeling on the fishing boat.

"Hurry up and get to work!" the fork kicked the kneeling man down, "If you don't want to be thrown into the sea, hurry up and spread the net." I'm the boss here. ”

Countless salmon emerge from the water, huddled together, their red bellies and colored backs intertwined, radiating a mesmerizing brilliance in the sunlight. These salmon huddled together, blocking the way of the boat. Fishing nets thrown by forks can't even fall below the surface.

"Holy Father, what is the matter?" a very absurd thought rose in the fork's heart, so many fish, not a single net could be caught. This thought vanished in an instant, because someone had caught a fat salmon and brought it to the fishing boat.

"Look, you don't need a fishing net, you can catch a salmon with just your hands. The fisherman, who had just been kicked by a fork on the fishing boat, picked up a salmon longer than his arm from the sea and laughed excitedly.

"Stand back, step back," the fork suddenly became anxious, "get out of the way, beware of the fishing boat being overturned." The fork's concern was justified, as the salmon were gathering more and more near the boats, and the small boats were already tilting to one side.

The fishing boats with forks are small boats with oars and five fishermen on board. Such boats can operate inshore, but now they don't even need to go inshore because the area near the pier is full of salmon.

The five of them worked together to dock the fishing boat on the pier, and the fork rolled its eyes, "You catch the fish first, and I'll go there." ”

When Merlin came to the dock, the dock was already crowded with people, and everyone was happy to catch fish, and the salmon had already crowded to the shore, and it was only a fork to catch the fat salmon.

"What's going on?" Merlin asked.

"I didn't know, but when I came back from fishing today, I found that it was crowded with salmon, and now there are more and more of them. "Now you don't have to go out to sea to fish, just stand on the shore and catch fatty salmon." ”

"These fish seem to be looking for something!" Merlin walked along the dock in the direction of Ashhearth, where there was a stream left over from the hill, and at this time, the stream was full of salmon.

"Yes, I've heard that in the fall in Alaska, grizzly bears gather from the valley near the stream, where there are a lot of salmon and they feed there. Lance followed Merlin.

"Has anything like this ever happened in the Ashfurnace Valley before?" Merlin looked up and looked at the hillside not far away, where a white fortress stood.

"No, never," Lance shook his head, as he remembered that autumn in the Valley of the Ashfurnace was all the fragrance of wild fruits, but a sight like this had never happened.

"It's a good thing, go and gather the inhabitants of Ashburgh, and all come to the creek to catch fish, which will be our ration for the winter. Merlin laughed.

Salmon meat is delicate and fatty, and roe is also a rare delicacy. On this day, the Ashhearth Fort seemed to enter the harvest festival in advance, and all the people came out of the hole, some fished, some killed the fish, and some dried, and everyone worked together to move the fat salmon into the Ashburg one by one.

All the places where the salmon could be dried were hung with fatty meat, and the salmon seemed to be unfinished, and the next day there were still so many salmon, one by one, squeezing and swimming to the creek.

Merlin had no choice but to carve out another huge space in the basement of the Ashfurnace Castle, which served as a storage room for salmon. Barbara sets up a magic device inside the storage room to keep the temperature in the storage room below freezing.

The harvest lasted for seven days, and after seven days, the salmon seemed to disappear overnight, and the pier and stream returned to calm.