Surdak was to build a large cistern upstream of the village of Wall, and in a matter of days it spread throughout the village.

He and the old village chief had been surveying the land for the past few days around the spring in the far reaches of the ravine.

The village of Wall is located in a ravine between the mountains of the barren land of the Paglos Mountains. Because there is a spring in the upper reaches of the ravine, the ravine is babbling all year round, so the sides of the ravine also show a lush green color.

It's like an oasis in the middle of the desert, as long as you climb out of the ravine, the slopes on both sides are still full of gravel limestone, which was originally a large piece of limestone, which is constantly weathered and cracked after the wind, rain and sun, like a dry riverbed.

Surdak stood beside a mountain wall, holding a piece of parchment paper with a charcoal clearly outlined diagram of the construction of the cistern, and he wanted to borrow the mountain wall here, and when building the cistern, he only needed to build a semi-circular dam to form a huge cistern, as long as the spring water was introduced into the cistern, and the pond was full of water, it would probably be able to survive the dry and rainy spring.

After several days of surveying upstream, the village chief finally approved Surdak's plan, and he has been helping Surdak determine the location of the reservoir for almost the past few days.

Originally, Surdak wanted to intercept a dam just upstream of the ravine, so that the top part of the ravine could be intercepted into a reservoir, but this idea was quite large, almost intercepting the upper reaches of the village of Wall into a Yansai Lake.

But in this way, the whole village is in the river downstream of this reservoir, and the upstream reservoir is like a sharp sword over the heads of the whole village, and the old village chief is worried that the rainy season will come next year, and the dam of the reservoir will not be able to withstand so much water, and the slightest carelessness will bury the village to the bottom. So he decisively rejected Surdak's first plan.

At present, this plan is the third set of plans that Surdak has come up with, and it has finally been approved by the old village chief.

Now it only takes a little leveling, and according to Surdak's idea, another five feet will be dug down five feet of the entire reservoir's five acres, and the limestone will be rolled into lime powder, so that the lime powder can be used locally, but the volcanic ash will have to be transported back from the area of Pupu Mountain in the distance.

Surdak thought in his heart, stood on a large rock and said to the old village chief, "It seems that we need a few carriages, well, at least ten ......."

The old village chief was worried that Surdak was used to being lavish, and he would not be able to do anything in the future.

He muttered, "You don't need so many at once...... There are carpenters in the village, and it is relatively easy to pull up the frame, that is, the axle part needs to be customized by Hylanza City, and it is completely possible to make a cheap two-wheeled truck, if there is no magic inscription on the axle, a set of axles should not be too expensive. ”

Surdak listened to the old village chief's introduction to the truck, it turned out that the axle was divided into two kinds of words: with magic inscriptions and without magic inscriptions, so the truck that transported steel bars to us was with magic inscriptions? ”

Seeing Surdak jumping down from a boulder, the old village chief followed, "Yes, that kind of truck has magic inscriptions on both axles at the front and rear, and a set of axles with magic runes is about ten gold. ”

Surdak thought about it for a moment, and felt that ten trucks were a bit short, after all, the place where the volcanic ash could be collected was at least a day's walk from the village of Wall. Since the axles with magic patterns are not as expensive as you think, you can consider buying a few sets.

Most of the men in the village went to the sulphur mines in Pubao Mountain to dig for sulphur, and only the elderly, women and children remained in the village.

At this time, the only people who could help the old village chief run errands were a few older children in the village who were preparing to participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, and each of them had a sheathed wolf-tooth dagger pinned to their belts, and they looked extremely vigorous.

The children did Surdak's instructions to fence the area with white lime powder and prepare to build a curved embankment here in the future.

At this moment, a boy ran out of the village below the ravine, ran along the dirt road to Surdak, he glanced at the old village chief with some fear, and then said in a loud voice to Surdak: "Knight Surdak, a messenger has brought you a letter. ”

"My letter? Where is it? ”

"The letter is still in the hands of the Courier, who is waiting for you in the village." The boy squinted his eyes at Surdak who was standing on a high place, and said loudly and breathlessly.

"Okay, I'll go back!"

Surdak walked briskly back to the village, and when he passed by the river next to the village, he also saw a group of women washing clothes by the lake, Rita and Natasha were among them, Natasha tied her long thick golden hair into a ponytail, and when she washed the clothes, the braid kept shaking at the back of her head, and the corner of the linen blouse was slightly raised, revealing a white and slender waist.

Rita's sharp eyes saw Surdak on the road at a glance, and she waved at Surdak again and again.

Surdak knew that the women of the village were washing clothes, and the men were not allowed to come over, and that was a very reckless act, so he just waved from afar, turned and walked into the village.

The messenger stood under a chestnut tree with his horse, wearing light leather armor, pointed leather boots, a large leather pocket around his waist, and a felt hat with a feather on his head, and he looked very young, and when he saw Surdak approaching, he could ask tentatively, "Are you a Surdak knight?" ”

Seeing Surdak take out a knight's badge from his bosom and pin it to his chest, the messenger exhaled softly, and hurriedly took out a letter with a mud seal from his leather pocket and handed it to Surdak himself.

"Carl. Captain Casement's letter to you, I must hand it over to you myself! The messenger said earnestly to Surdak.

Surdak didn't expect it to be Karl's letter, it seems that he must have seen the hammer of punishment that he gave him five days ago, and guessed that the death of the bandit leader must have something to do with him, so he wrote a letter and sent a special messenger to deliver it.

Surdak resisted the urge to open the letter on the spot, took out a silver coin and stuffed it to the messenger, and said, "I'm sorry that you have traveled so far and made a special trip......"

The messenger furrowed his brows and said to Surdak, "This is what I should do, what do you have to say to Karl. Captain Kesment conveyed? ”

"Please send a greeting to Carl on my behalf, and invite him to come to the village of Wall......"

"As you wish!"

Waiting for the messenger to leave, Surdak opened the letterhead with the red clay seal:

Dear Surdak,

I am writing this letter to tell you that I have received your gift, and it is difficult to describe in words the amazement and joy in my heart.

I didn't expect that I would receive such a big surprise when I returned from the southern suburbs, and in the last half a month, I have carried out a series of investigations in the Hoyle Manor in the southern suburbs, and found that this matter is not simply a robber group to loot the noble manor, the group of robbers is likely to be working for a hermit with a very good background, and the mysterious hermit may be looking for a woman.

When I returned to the city of Highlandza, I met Miss Hoyle, the survivor of Hoyle Manor, and learned from her that it was a great knight who saved her, and I learned that the great knight was you.

In addition to this news, I also learned from Miss Hoyle that the person the robber leader was looking for happened to be one of her former maids named Selena, and that lady-in-waiting named Selena had married into your village, please help me investigate first, and after dealing with the affairs in the city of Highlandsa, I will visit the village of Wall in person......

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