Although Natasha also wanted to come out and watch the excitement, she didn't know how to face Surdak and hid in the kitchen and refused to come out.

"Natasha, let's go first!" Rita didn't care about Natasha's feelings, and stood in the courtyard and said loudly.

Natasha wore an apron and wanted to go over to see it, but she hesitated and gave up.

Watching Surdak and Rita and Xiao Pi walk out of the courtyard with the merchant, Natasha secretly touched her hot face, and her worried heart inevitably had some gains and losses, although the relationship with Surdak was the last layer, but Natasha cared more about what Surdak thought of herself.

Hearing that the courtyard was quiet, Natasha hurriedly came out of the kitchen, and saw Surdak and Rita walking away with little Peter talking and laughing, exhaling softly, old Sheila walked in front of Natasha with half a bucket of milk, and Natasha suddenly had the urge to hug old Sheila in pain.

"Only by experiencing suffering can we know the beauty of life, and cherishing the present life is the greatest comfort to the deceased......"

Old Sheila whispered as she gently soothed Natasha's shoulder, and she could feel Natasha's whole body trembling slightly.

Sheila Sr. knew best in her heart that what should have been a broken family was still maintained by this man who came down from the battlefield, and showed people its best side, from the strangers of each other...... When everyone began to accept each other slowly, everyone seemed to be tightly tied together by some kind of emotion, life slowly got better, the smiles on everyone's faces continued to increase, and old Sheila kept saying to herself in her heart: What is there to be dissatisfied with in this life now?

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Four ordinary four-wheeled wagons were parked at the entrance of the village, the axles were made of black iron, the four wheels were made of solid oak planks, the whole carriage was made of steel, the frame was covered with dense hardwood planks, and the high wooden planks surrounded the carriage, it seemed that one cart could carry a lot of supplies, the horses pulling the cart had been unloaded, and the four coachmen who transported the wagons had re-installed the saddles on the horses.

Waiting for the merchant to hand over the four wagons, he set out for the city of Hylandza, and if all went well, he could return to the city of Hylanza before the gates were closed in the afternoon.

When she heard that the carriage was parked at the entrance of the village, Rita rushed over with little Peter and Surdak to see the four carriages.

Charley's eyes lit up and looked at the four-wheeled carriage, this kind of four-wheeled carriage carrying goods is a rare thing in the barren land, usually you can only see such carriages in some caravans, I didn't expect the friends in Surdak City to be so generous, when they heard that Surdak wanted to buy a carriage, they sent four of them casually.

After the merchant introduced the specific parameters of the four-wheeled carriage to Surdak at the entrance of the village, he explained the precautions and daily maintenance, and then left the village with the four coachmen.

Hearing that there was a bandit band roaming the barren land of Paglos Mountain, the merchant thought it was safest to leave here as soon as possible, but to the merchant's surprise, the delivery of four carriages was only the beginning, and Surdak ordered twenty sets of ordinary carriage axles from the merchant.

With these four carriages, Surdak's trip to the city of Hylanza was not so urgent.

He thought that he could use these four wagons to transport sulfur ore, and he could also pull volcanic ash back from the Pupu Mountain, of course, to make cement, in addition to volcanic ash, it also needs to be mixed with a certain proportion of quicklime powder, and the mountains are full of these limestones, but how to calcine these sparse limestone and grind it into powder has always troubled Surdak, the village of Vol lacks the corresponding coke and kiln, and natural quicklime is not a small amount in Paglos Mountain......

Seeing the mill on the Grand Canyon in Diego Village, Surdak had some new ideas, and he thought that a larger mill could be built on the stone cliffs of the Grand Canyon to grind quicklime. As for the conditions for calcining quicklime at this stage, this is not a big problem, in the area near Pubao Mountain, some limestone is covered with thick volcanic ash, and many of them are some quicklime.

Thinking of this, Surdak felt that he still had to discuss it with the old village chief.

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However, the first group to enjoy the four-wheeled carriage was not Surdak, but the villagers who went into the mountains to collect mountain goods.

Charley, Luke, Val and a few other young men each drove a four-wheeled wagon to pull all the villagers who were about to go into the mountains to collect chestnuts, and the four wagons were on the road again in the morning sun, leaning on the chatter of some of the village women sitting in the carriage.

In the past, Rita and Natasha couldn't talk about it, but now a lot of the conversation revolves around Rita and Natasha.

The villagers got into these carriages and staggered all the way through the mountain pass.

On the top of the hill on the right side of the pass there were several more wooden crosses, which had not been there when I passed by last night, and from a distance, the robbers hanging from the four brand-new wooden crosses had not yet turned into white bones, and there were scavenging birds in the sky, ready to fall when no one was around.

Surdak knew that the bodies of the four robbers and the wooden cross should have been erected on the mountain by the villagers of Digo village, and the robbers were hung on the wooden cross in the mountain pass, which was said to be a kind of redemption for the robbers' souls......

On the eve of the harvest festival, the villages are basically busy with winter storage, in addition to harvesting wheat and cassava, going into the mountains to pick chestnuts and mountain goods is also a supplement for winter.

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The annual Harvest Festival is coming as scheduled, and it is almost the most important festival in the Grimm Empire.

This year's Wall Village is much more prosperous than in previous years, so close to the harvest festival these days, there are always caravans coming, the old village chief ordered some winter storage materials that Wall Village does not have, such as some ham and dried meat, air-dried chicken, in addition to some miscellaneous grains and beans, these grains can be used to cook gruel, in the winter when the door is closed by heavy snow, the family sits around the fireplace by the fire, and cooks a pot of broth or a pot of soft multigrain porridge in the hanging iron pot, which is a rare delicacy.

Before the harvest festival, the old village chief sent the winter storage materials replenished by the village, and the villagers no longer had the grievances of lack of food in previous years, and the smiles in their eyes increased.

Every year during the harvest festival, a grand dinner party is held in the village village, and each family has to prepare some different delicacies, all of which are moved to the village center square, where everyone will light a bonfire, eat and drink together, and then dance around the bonfire.

However, this year's harvest festival had something that was not available before, and Surdak bought two large oak barrels of ale from the caravan.

The traditional cuisine of the village is baked wheat cake with meat, stewed meat, and mutton soup.

In addition, there are occasional barbecues, but barbecues lose a lot of fat during the cooking process, and the villagers of Wall would rather throw these animal fats into the soup pot and drink a bowl of fatty broth, which is far more appetizing than eating a dry barbecue.

With the help of Rita and Natasha, Surdak prepared some steamed dumplings, but Vol Village didn't have this word, and Surdak didn't know if it was right to pronounce it like this, in short, it meant steamed dumplings.

The filling made by mixing the beef leg and shallots, the thin crust made of wheat flour, fortunately Rita was more skillful, and soon mastered the art of rolling the dough, she rolled the dough into thin large sheets, and then used a dagger to cut it into square pieces, although it looked a little nondescript, but this was the first dumpling Surdak ate in this world......