Chief Bright did not expect Surdak to have such an idea, and there was no doubt that this was something that would be beneficial to the whole village.

It's just that for Vol Village, this matter is not so easy to achieve, the old village chief has lived in Vol Village for most of his life, and is very familiar with the mountains and rivers, grass and trees here, the land around Vol Village is barren, and the people living here are poor and poor people struggling on the food and clothing line, and it is not easy to build a reservoir.

In fact, it is not uncommon for this area to have pools similar to reservoirs, and the seepage of limestone into the ground is particularly serious.

Every year when the rainy season comes, the bottom of the gully of the Beigou grassland will collect the rainwater flowing down from the mountains on all sides, as long as two heavy rains can fill the waterhole of the Beigou grassland, but this kind of waterhole only exists for one summer, when the autumn comes, there is no rainfall near the Beigou grassland, and the waterhole at the bottom of the Beigou will dry up quickly.

The main reason is that there are many gaps and holes in the limestone layer at the bottom of the ditch, and the rainwater will continue to seep into the ground.

In addition, it is necessary to solve the problem of labor, of course, the construction of the dam will not be just a simple earthen wall, it will require a lot of manpower and material resources, depending on the situation of the village itself, even if it takes 20 years to repair this simple reservoir.

Surdak said to the old village chief: "I want to ask the people of the village to build a cistern after the harvest festival, and those who are willing to work will be paid one silver coin a day, and they will be paid two meals a day, whole wheat bread with chestnut rice porridge in the morning, and scones with stew at noon." ”

Seeing that Surdak said this, the village chief of Bright had obviously made up his mind, and thought that when Surdak received the diploma of the Knight Academy, the day he officially became a knight, the village of Wall was destined to become his fiefdom, so he did not object.

The old village chief squinted his eyes and listened to Surdak say that the construction of the reservoir would cost the villagers a good salary, and he sighed continuously: "Just take care of the food, what kind of wages do you want, besides, this is a matter of the village, where can you make another salary......

Surdak stood beside the old village chief and said to the old village chief: "Since you are willing to work, there is no reason to do it in vain, seeing that the autumn harvest is coming, this matter will be decided like this, and we have to wait for the cement to really use, I also plan to build a smaller pool, try to see if this cement pool is seepage......

……

The carpenters of the village have come to the house of the village chief of Bright one after another, and the old village chief has long wanted to repair the dilapidated old houses in the village, and last winter the two old houses were crushed by a heavy snowfall overnight, and the people in the houses were already frozen hard when they were dug out of the rubble under the snow.

It was precisely for this reason that the old village chief learned that the salamander tail could create an extra surplus for the village, so he asked Surdak to go to the city of Highlandsa in person, sell the lizard tail and exchange it for a large number of iron nails, hinges and door bolts, etc., just to repair the houses in the village.

Surdak didn't want to get involved in repairing the houses in the village, and when the carpenters arrived, Surdak left the old chief's house with the five young men of the village, and he divided the money from the sale of salamander meat from the city of Highlandsa to fifty silver coins for each of them.

By the time the five young men received fifty silver coins, even Charlie was a little uneasy.

Everyone got together to discuss whether to try their luck in the area of Pubao Mountain again, and if they could meet a salamander again, it would be a good idea.

Val put fifty silver coins in his pocket, and he tried to bite almost every one of them with his teeth, and sat alone on a stone under a dead tree at the entrance of the village.

On the distant mountain road at the entrance of Vol Village, a caravan appeared. The crisp bell made a pleasant sound, but this time the caravan arrived in the village of Wall, and the children of the village did not rush out of the village entrance in a swarm as before.

The children are confined to their homes, and today they have to help the family look after the younger siblings, and the older children follow their families to cut the red thatch on the tidal flats of the river.

The whole village is busy repairing their houses, the herringbone wooden frame on the roof will be reinforced, and then a thick layer of red thatch will be re-laid, and the tidal flat is already crowded with villagers harvesting red thatch, everyone will spread bundles of red thatch on the sand by the river beach to dry, and occasionally startle a few wild ducks hiding in the red thatch.

The caravan came naturally to be greeted by the old village chief in person, more than 30 limestone iguanas are still kept in the villagers' homes, the caravan purchased these limestone iguanas according to the original agreed price, the acquisition process was very smooth, just holding two gold coins in his hand, the old village chief suddenly felt that something was missing, and after thinking about it, he did not have the joy of the past, although this was sold more last year, but any joy was diluted by the harvest brought back by Surdak last night.

After the caravan leader finished buying the salamanders, he did not rush to leave the village of Wall, according to the plan, they needed to rush to the next village tomorrow morning, but this time the villagers were much less enthusiastic about buying than before, and the stalls set up at the entrance of the village were almost not patronized. After inquiring with the old village chief, I learned that the houses in the village were being repaired today, and almost the whole village was busy. At such times, of course, no one would come to the caravan to hang out.

The old village chief, with a walnut pipe in his hand, sat down on the root of a dead tree at the entrance of the village, and chatted casually with the leader of the caravan.

The leader of the caravan put a handful of finely cut tobacco into the old chief's pipe, and then lit the old chief's pipe with a match, and everyone sat down together, and the leader of the caravan said:

"Yesterday there was a big incident here, a bandit group originally planned to enter the Paglos Mountains to rob, but I didn't expect that just arrived at the mountain pass, I don't know who wiped them all, all the robbers were nailed to the cross on the top of the mountain, speaking of which, our caravan this time was inexplicably escaped a catastrophe, and I also heard that the bandit group recently looted a lot of noble manors in the city of Highlandza."

Speaking of this, the caravan leader was a little overjoyed.

The old village chief rolled his cloudy eyes, pretended to be confused, and asked, "On the other side of the mountain pass?" ”

The leader of the caravan replied, "Yes, when you have a chance to go to the city of Highlandsa and pass by the mountain pass, don't forget to look at the top of the mountain." ”

The old village chief asked again: "Then have you heard who exterminated the bandit group?" ”

The caravan leader shook his head and only said, "I don't know this for the time being, everyone is guessing that it is the guard battalion of Hailansa City......"

While everyone was talking about this, Surdak sat and listened quietly......

……

Grenfell Manor in the city of Highlandza

A knight in dark red leather armor burst in from outside the door, and said in a low voice to Baron Grenfell, who was reading a black magic book:

"Taylor is dead......"

Baron Grenfell snapped a quill in his hand, and he furrowed his brows and said angrily:

"He's just sent back news that he's found the hiding place of the Holy Maiden, and now you're telling me that he died in the pass of Mount Paglos? Our trail is broken again! ”

The knight in the dark red leather armor also changed his face slightly, and asked, "Didn't he say before where the holy woman was hiding?" ”

Baron Grenfell casually smashed the teacup on the desk against the wall, unable to suppress the anger in his heart, and said angrily:

"It's really him. ? In the barren land of the mountains of Paglos, even the archons of the city of Helansa don't know how many natural villages are hidden......"

The knight in dark red leather armor standing opposite him didn't look too irritable, and smiled sadly: "But...... There's a direction to look for this time, isn't it? ”

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