The village chief of Bright and a dozen villagers stood on the bank of the tidal flat in the lower reaches of the river, in front of him was a large reed pond flooded, and a large amount of red thatch also grew on the periphery of the reed pond.

In autumn, it will be completely dried up, in addition to the red thatch used to repair the roof, the reeds can be woven into straw mats, after these forages are dried and crushed, it is still the winter ration for the yellow sheep in the village during the winter storage, such a large tidal flat, is the biggest guarantee for the yellow sheep to survive the winter.

The harsh sunlight shone on the wild lake, and a few wild ducks burrowed through the reeds.

A dozen young villagers rolled up their trouser legs and scythes in their hands and stepped into the red thatched tidal flats, harvesting the clusters and transporting them back to the shore.

The silt under this wild lake is very soft, and it almost reaches the thigh when you step on it, and it is very difficult to walk back and forth in the river beach, so these red thatches are almost all relayed to the shore, Surdak originally wanted to go down to the river to cut the red thatch together, but was pulled by Uncle Bright, saying that you are an imperial knight, how can you run to the wild lake to cut thatch......

Just as Surdak was asking the village chief of Brett how to hunt limestone iguanas, a villager ran in the distance and shouted to the old village chief, "Uncle Bret, there are people in Guta Village again......"

The villagers, who were cutting red thatch in the wild lake, heard someone shouting loudly, and they all stopped what they were doing and turned their heads to the shore to look.

The old village chief standing on the shore hurriedly pointed at these villagers and shouted: "Hurry up and mow the grass, this grass will have to be dried for half a day before it can go to the house, and it will not dry after waiting...... You go and bring the people of Guta Village here. ”

When the villager heard the old village chief's order, he quickly turned around and went to find someone from Guta Village.

When the two villagers of Guta Village drove a dozen yellow sheep and led a yellow and white cow to this side, the village chief of Bright was a little dumbfounded, blew his beard and glared at the villager angrily: "You can't find a way to settle the cattle and sheep they brought, you have to rush here?" ”

"Uncle Bright, they say these sheep and cows are for Duck! I didn't dare to settle ...... casually," the young villager ran directly to the old village chief and said in a low voice.

Surdak was a little surprised when he heard the villagers say this, and asked, "For me?" ”

Before your young villager could answer, one of the Guta villagers who was holding a cow preemptively said: "Lord Knight Surdak, the people in the village offended you before, and this time they brought you some gifts, please Lord Knight smile, this time I will return the Beigou Grassland to Vol Village, I also want you not to hold a grudge against Guta Village, please forgive me for your previous offenses!" ”

"Well, I forgive you!" Surdak said, then he looked at a dozen yellow sheep gnawing grass on the side of the river beach and said, "However, I can't take your cattle and sheep, you better drive them back!" ”

"Knight, we ......" The two villagers of Guta Village, whose faces were tanned by the sun, and their faces were covered with dry surroundings, and at a glance they knew that they were the kind of honest farmers, and the two of them stood in front of Surdak with embarrassed faces, and put on a posture that they would not leave until they gave this gift.

Surdak felt that this matter was dragging on, and it was obvious that the process of repairing his house would be delayed.

If it were the two of them villains or treacherous people, Surdak would have a way to deal with them, but the two of them looked so wooden, so honest, Surdak rubbed his forehead with some distress, turned his head and asked the old village chief in a low voice, how much are these cattle and sheep worth if they are valued.

The village chief of Bright frowned and muttered, "If you have a yellow sheep, you will have about seven silver dollars, and if you have a cow, you can sell it for at least one gold coin in Hailanza City......

"That's two gold coins!"

After Surdak finished speaking, he took out two golden gold coins from his pocket, grabbed the Guta villager, stuffed the gold coins into his palm, and said to the Guta villager without doubt: "I have accepted these cattle and sheep, please give these two gold coins to your village chief, and the grievances between our two villages will be settled in the future." ”

The villagers of Guta looked at the gold coins in their hands in dismay, and looked at Surdak with a bewildered expression.

"If there's nothing else to do, please go back!" Surdak said to the two villagers of Guta Village.

The two Guta villagers held two gold coins in their hands, and after a moment of astonishment, they walked away quickly with a happy face.

Surdak looked at the cows and yellow sheep grazing beside him with some distress, and wondered whether he wanted them to rush to the Beigou pasture, or whether the village chief of Brett instructed the villager who reported the news: "You go and take this cow to Darker's house and give it to Old Sheila, and these fifteen sheep will go to the Beigou pasture." ”

“…… Got it, village chief. After the villager received specific instructions, he also hurriedly followed Bright's instructions.

The red thatch on this side of the river bay has basically been cut, as long as it is exposed to the sun for half a day on the edge of the river beach, it can be completely dried under the scorching sun.

As for how these red thatches will be laid on the roof, it is also very particular.

Red thatch needs to be bundled into bundles and tied to the roof hardwood rafters, if the bundle is too tight, there will be gaps between the red thatch bundles, and it will inevitably leak when it rains, but if the red thatch bundles are not tied tightly, they can't resist strong winds when laid on the roof, and once there is a windy weather, the thatch on the roof will be blown to the sky.

Surdak returned home with the villagers who were harvesting red thatch, only to find that the family was also in full swing.

The roof of the stone house has long been lifted, several carpenters will wrap the walls of the old house with wooden boards, so that it looks like a stone house from the outside, but from the inside it is a very elegant wooden house, the main beam of the roof is quite strong, but the rafters are a little sparse, some villagers climb to the roof, will add some new wood, so that the rafters are arranged more densely, so that the roof is covered with thatch will not be lifted by the wind.

The firewood house belonging to Surdak next to it has been completely dismantled, and several masons have built the stone more than a person high, and together with the bathroom, they have built a new stone house next to the old house, and they are ready to open a small window in the roof.

This kind of limestone strips can be found everywhere in the Paglos Mountains, this kind of stone is not very hard, it is very easy to excavate, people here are used to building stone houses with this limestone, there is a sense of ease of building blocks, between the cracks of the stone strips are made of clay and lime mixed mud, this mixture will become stronger and stronger under the rain.

The kitchen of the old house has been demolished, and the old Sheila asked the mason to build a simple stove in the yard, and the old Sheila gritted her teeth and took Rita to kill the few egg-laying hens in the house, preparing to mix these chickens with the salted pork legs brought by the old village chief, and then fill them with some peeled chestnuts and stew them into a pot of stewed meat, and entertain the villagers who came to help.

Many of the women in the village also ran over to help, causing a lot of chaos in the yard.

When it was almost dark, the dried red thatch was laid on the roof, and a new stone house was built on one side of the old house, although the main frame of the stone house was erected, and the main beams and the thatch of the roof had been paved, but the carpenter work in the house was not completed, and several carpenters would be busy for at least another day tomorrow.

For dinner, the villagers not only ate the only six hens that old Sheila had, but also half a sack of wheat flour.

Sheila also asked Rita to make the last half bag of wheat flour into baked wheat cakes to entertain the village helpers, who had very limited land to grow wheat in Wall, and the villagers rarely had a meal of baked wheat cakes, and there was almost nothing left of more than 60 baked wheat cakes.

When the well-fed and well-fed villagers dragged their tired bodies away one after another, and the yard was a mess, and it would take a lot of time to clean it up, old Sheila looked at the empty flour bags and was a little worried, and before the new wheat was harvested, the family could probably only eat chestnut rice and cassava.

Old Sheila didn't expect Surdak to make such a big battle, not only renovated the old stone house, but also invited the villagers to build a new stone house, one high and one low, the two stone houses are only next to each other, and the closets of the two houses are connected to a chimney, and the old Sheila knows that this winter will not be too difficult......