Five four-wheeled wagons drawn by two horses drove slowly on the mountain road outside the city of Hylanza, and a group of knights of the guard battalion rode along the mountain road to stop the carriage, and two knights of the guard battalion rode on their horses, and after carefully checking the identity of the coachman and Surdak, they said to Surdak:

"Recently, there have always been robbers on this road, so you must be more vigilant and pay attention to safety when traveling."

Surdak didn't expect that as soon as the carriage left the city of Highlandsa, he met the patrol of the guard camp of the city of Highlandsa, it seems that banditry has been very rampant recently, and the knights can no longer sit in the chairs of the office, but have to ride horses to patrol around the city.

"Okay, guys!" Surdak waved his hand at the departing knights of the guard battalion.

"I will, Knight!" The coachman stood aside and said with a respectful face.

"There will be a date later!"

At the fork in the road, the knights waved goodbye to Surdak and the coachman.

……

The carriage had just left the city of Highlandsa, and the mountain road was lined with greenery.

The sun shone in through the leaves, leaving mottled trails on the mountain road, and Natasha and Rita sat on a large wooden box full of apples, like this one, which was full of red apples, and there were three of them in the carriage.

In addition, the carriage was filled with twenty sacks of wheat flour that Surdak had bought from the free market, and Natasha was holding a light yellow silk scarf tightly in her hand, one for each of her and Rita, and a comb for each of them, although these were not worth a few dollars, but the two of them were still excited for a long time.

Natasha remembered that Surdak had taken out the horn comb and silk scarf last night, and she had kissed him on the cheek like Rita had done, and her face became a little hot, and she stole a glance at Surdak sitting in the carriage, and saw that he was drawing on a piece of parchment with a charcoal.

The two horses trotted behind the wagon, her knees clenched, and she tried to hide her feet in her long linen skirt.

Rita sat next to Natasha, nibbling on the apple very figuratively.

The most valuable thing in this four-wheeled carriage was not the apples or twenty sacks of wheat flour, but the two hundred or so steel bars at the bottom of the carriage, which were twenty feet long.

The reinforcing bars were bought by Surdak for fifteen gold coins from a trading house in the city of Highlandsa, which had been commissioned by Surdak to order a batch of reinforcing steel in the city of Bena, which had just arrived in the city of Highlandsa in the last few days.

Surdak hired five wagons to pull all the rebar away, leaving a few deep ruts in the mountain road. The trucks in the back were also loaded with some other vegetables and fruits, as well as some daily necessities that were in short supply in the village.

When the convoy arrived at the mountain pass, it was already completely dark, because there had been robbers in the mountains lately, and the coachmen did not dare to camp in the mountains for the night, so they could only light the lanterns at the four corners of the carriage and hurry to the village of Wo while it was dark.

By the time the truck arrived at the village of Wall, it was nearly midnight.

The five wagons were parked in the grain field, and the old village chief rushed to the news, and arranged for the coachmen to be lodging and dinner, and for the men to feed the horses, and as for the goods in the wagons, he planned to unload them after daybreak.

Natasha and Rita led the horses home, and the old village chief dragged Surdak by him, and asked Surdak with a frown, "What have you bought, you need five four-wheeled carriages to pull it back." ”

Surdak motioned for Rita and Natasha to go first, and he took the old village chief to the side of the carriage, and took off a rear box board from the wagon, and by the bright moonlight of the night sky, the carriage was dark, and when Surdak jumped on the carriage, a wooden box happened to crack, and immediately a pile of round onions rolled out.

"It's ...... Onions? "The old village chief didn't expect that Surdak bought back this one.

Surdak looked embarrassed, and quickly pushed the onions aside, revealing bundles of steel bars inside, and said with a smile to the old village chief: "These onions were only brought back by the way, I mentioned to you before that I wanted to build a cistern in the upper reaches of the village, and I also used volcanic ash to build a section of wall in your yard." ”

The old village chief suddenly remembered that the women in the family still did not forget to water the wall every day, and they knew that it was so troublesome, and they should not have built the lime wall in their yard in the first place. ”

Surdak pulled out a steel bar about the thickness of a little finger and said to the old village chief, "It is not enough to have a concrete wall, but it is necessary to add some iron keels to the cement wall to make the cistern stronger, which I bought from the city of Highlandza." ”

"These are all iron bars?" The old village chief rubbed his eyes vigorously, he was no stranger to this kind of iron bar, many blacksmith workshops made arrowheads, it was this kind of iron bar burned red, put it in the forging tire and rolled it, and now Surdak actually used this iron bar to weave the keel and build it into the wall, the old village chief asked with a distressed face: "You bought these iron bars to clamp them inside the lime wall?" ”

"That's right." Surdak nodded disappreciatively.

The old village chief looked at the black bundle of steel bars in the carriage, and could only sigh lightly: "It's really a luxury to buy so many iron bars at once!" ”

Why do you have to build a cistern, there is no shortage of water in the village all year round, but it will be difficult to irrigate in the early spring during the dry season.

The old village chief secretly thought in his heart, he didn't understand this matter a little.

Then he shook his head with his hands behind his back, thinking that Surdak had become a knight, and this wall village would be his property sooner or later, and now Surdak wanted to do something in the village, especially since people paid out of their own pockets, and the old village chief really couldn't say anything else.

It was midnight at this time, and the old village chief looked to the right, and could see the whole village, and a dirt road stretched out far away, and could be seen far away in the moonlight.

Everything sank into a deep and silent sleep, there was no movement in the village, one could not believe that nature could be so quiet, looking at the village under the moonlight, the dirt roads, the huts, the haystacks and the chestnut trees hung with chestnuts, the old chief's heart suddenly became very quiet, the night was so gentle, sad and beautiful, the village was in a ravine and valley, and on both sides of the green fields.

In the moonlit wheat field, the ears of wheat bend the yellowing stalks, and life here slowly changes, and everything becomes prosperous.

The old village chief looked at the young man who had jumped out of the truck, his shoulders were broad, his waist had inverted triangular abs, his eyes were shining in the night, and many plans were realized step by step in his hands.

And now, the compartments of these trucks are loaded with supplies that they didn't dare to think about before, and what is there to dislike about them.

"Come home, it's been a busy day, and now it's so late, you should get some sleep!" He looked up at the bright moonlight and said, "Tomorrow is another good day......

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