The sun slowly sank into the valley in the distance, and the sky was getting darker and darker, and the old village chief waved his hand, signaling that everyone could call it a day and leave.

Craftsmen from other villages built some improvised yurt houses on the edge of the construction site, and when they finished work, they ran to a small pool to wash.

However, in order to avoid affecting the water supply of the villagers downstream, the old village chief asked an additional canal to be drawn at the source of the river, which will be the main channel of the reservoir in the future. A group of men, shirtless, showing their strong muscles, crowded on the edge of the ditch, and the scene was also very lively.

Surdak and the old village chief are discussing where to set up the gate of the primary reservoir, the old village chief wants to place the gate in the center of the embankment, this layout is decent, but Surdak has a different idea, Surdak wants to set up a sluice gate on the east and west sides of the reservoir embankment, but this not only increases the construction cost, but also greatly increases the construction difficulty.

The two argued for a long time, but they never succeeded in convincing each other, and there was a strong smell of gunpowder between the words.

Rita brought over a stack of wheat cakes, and the young woman who followed Rita was Charlie's wife, she was holding a jar of vegetable soup in her hand, and the two women put the wheat cakes and vegetable soup on the stone platform, and the old village chief woke up from the dispute, picked up a piece of wheat cake and tore it in half, and took a bowl of hot vegetable soup, and said with some emotion: "The corn porridge and cassava that are usually eaten at home, even if it is not a festival, eating wheat cakes can only be held once a week, who would think...... Just to build this cistern, we have to take out two bags of wheat flour every day to cook scones, which is a little unbelievable, and we will be like this in the future. ”

Surdak also picked up a wheat cake, and took the opportunity to ask Rita in a whisper if she had eaten it, Rita nodded slightly quietly, and then left with Charlie's wife with a smile, and gestured to Surdak before leaving: control your emotions.

"Of course, life in Wall Village will only be better in the future than it is now, and we have only just taken the first step." Surdak is confident in this.

The last rays of the setting sun reflected on the wrinkled face of the old village chief, and a trace of worry flashed on his dark face, and he only said: "I've been tossing and turning these nights, how big can the mine be over there?" After hollowing out all that brimstone, what else can we get out? ”

Probably these problems in front of him are the reasons why the old village chief is extremely anxious.

"The real riches are, of course, in front of our eyes......" Surdak said, looking at the cistern that was just beginning to take shape.

"You mean this cistern?" The old village chief's eyes lit up slightly, as if he had found some answers.

"The cistern is just one of them...... Surdak actually wants to say: the cistern is just one of the experiments, once it is confirmed that the volcanic cement is really as rumored, then the village of Vol can send this new building material to the city of Hylanza to replace the original stone house or wooden house, and in the future, the village of Vol can also form a construction team to build gorgeous buildings in the Baroque style everywhere, what business can make more money than real estate?

Before Surdak could finish his words, he was directly interrupted by the old village chief.

The old village chief said excitedly: "That's right, when all these reservoirs are built, the village will not have to worry about not being able to cultivate during the dry season, at least in the spring you can plant some chickpeas and cassava on the ridges, as long as you can survive until the rainy season, everything will be better, if there is enough water in the reservoirs, these wheat fields will not be reduced, and everyone will no longer have to worry about rations, only grain is the most tangible thing." ”

“……”

Surdak knew that now was not the best time to talk about the construction team and real estate, and even if he did, the old village chief probably didn't understand, but some of the benefits that the reservoir could bring gradually emerged.

His gaze swept over the village of Wall, and saw a large tidal flat on the far side of the river below, and if it were not for the terrible waterlogging caused by the heavy rainfall of the rainy season, perhaps the most fertile soil of the mud, which was made incomparably fertile by rotting reeds and red thatch.

Pointing to the tidal flats downstream of the village, Surdak said with emotion: "When the rainy season comes, the rainwater that washes down from the mountains will first collect in the cisterns, and the excess rainwater will flow into the tidal flats downstream until all the fifth-level cisterns are full." I plan to dig an aqueduct in the tidal flats downstream of the village during the dry season next spring, and all the excess rainwater will flow into the drains, so that the tidal flats will no longer be dry and waterless in winter and spring, but will instantly become a swamp full of stagnant water in the rainy season, and that land will be a large fertile soil for us. ”

Probably there is nothing in this world that impresses the old village chief more than the land, after he heard Surdak's imagination, his eyes became bright, with his years of farming experience, of course he knew what land was more suitable for farming, his lips trembled a little, the delicious vegetable soup even became dull and tasteless, and his slightly cloudy eyes looked into the distance, as if a beautiful picture had appeared in his eyes.

The old village chief nodded again and again and said: "The tidal flats are all fertile and cooked soil, no matter what you plant, you can have a good harvest, as long as you can solve the flood, it is a large piece of fertile land." As long as the reservoir can be built, I will take people to the tidal flat tomorrow spring to open up the wasteland, the barren land outside the Paglos Pass does not pursue the four-three-three, the Grimm Empire does not look down on the land here, then you can get sixty percent of the land, whoever reclaims the tidal flat, whoever takes the remaining forty percent. ”

"Why did you give me so much land?" Surdak asked, somewhat surprised.

At this time, the old village chief looked at the geography of course, and said to Surdak: "This will be your fiefdom, and after you become the lord here, whoever cultivates new farmland here will naturally have your share." ”

“…… That's the rule, and if you put so much effort into building a reservoir, you should harvest that tidal flat. ”

The old village chief seemed to have found the ultimate goal of Surdak's insistence on spending a lot of money to build the reservoir, and it was indeed very far-sighted.

"......" Surdak did not know the laws of the Grimm Empire.

The coolies carried the volcanic ash for a day, and at night, they rubbed each other's cramped pairs outside the yurt. Leg.

Surdak thought that the complete sets of axles that Karl had ordered for him would arrive in the village of Vol tomorrow along with the supplies he had purchased, and he said: "Forty sets of axles will probably arrive tomorrow, and as long as we can install all these axles, we will have twenty-three wagons, and we will not need to carry the volcanic ash by manpower." ”

The old village chief smiled wryly, sighed, and said, "Those women in the village still hope to make a good amount of money by carrying volcanic ash, so they don't want to put the carriage together. ”

Surdak shook his head, carrying volcanic ash is such a heavy work, even if the strong men in the village work for several days in a row, if they don't know how to adjust, their bodies will inevitably be exhausted, not to mention the women whose physical strength is far inferior to that of men, so he said: "When the transportation capacity of the volcanic ash is enough, then we will need more lime powder, and then we can set up a mill dedicated to grinding lime powder, and the women in the village can arrange to go to the mill if they want to work." ”

"A mill for grinding lime powder?" The old village chief asked suspiciously.

"Hmm!" Surdak said to the old village chief: "I have noticed that many people in the village have stone troughs for pounding wheat in their homes. ”

The old village chief nodded and said, "In the past, the village organized strong laborers to go to the quarry to find work after the harvest festival, and these stone troughs were carried back from the quarry at that time. But...... Ever since Diego Village built a windmill mill on the edge of the Grand Canyon, few people in the village have been pounding wheat at home, and it is easier to carry the wheat to the mill, and these stone troughs have been left unused. ”

Surdak took out a charcoal pen, and found that the parchment in front of him was already full of various figures, so he drew the sluice of the cistern directly on the large stone in front of the two of them, and drew a waterwheel under the sluice...... Obviously, if the sluice is in the middle of the primary reservoir, it will flow directly into the secondary cistern, so it will not be possible to place the water wheels, and only by placing the sluice gates on both sides of the cistern can two water wheels be placed at the edge.

Then he explained to the old village chief: "I want to build a waterwheel next to the sluice gate of the cistern, and then we will have our own mill, and we can build a simple mill in the early stage, even if we can't grind the wheat, it doesn't matter, then first coarsely grind the lime powder, and when the cistern is built, it is not ......easy to grind wheat."

"Watermill?" The old village chief didn't expect that a water wheel could be installed in a reservoir with such a ladder situation, which is not difficult to say, but no one has ever thought about it.

Surdak went on to explain to the old chief: "Actually, this thing is not much different from the windmill......

Of course, it won't be that difficult, when Diego Village was building the windmill mill, as one of the designers, the old village chief once visited the major mills around the city of Highlandza, and he was naturally very familiar with the windmill mill, otherwise how could the villagers of Wall Village be eligible to use the windmill mill in Diego Village for free......

……

Surdak stepped on the bright moonlight and walked into the door, Guboraima stood by the material trough and leisurely chewed the hay, the saddle on its body had been removed, Guboraima saw Surdak enter the door, and casually flicked his horse's tail twice, not knowing whether to welcome him or to repel mosquitoes and flies.

At this time of autumn, mosquitoes and flies always pounce on their bodies.

There was still an oil lamp on in the main house, and Surdak paused at the door, and saw that old Sheila was still sitting in the room, as if she was teaching Rita to sew linen shoes with wooden soles, so she went into the house and said hello to old Sheila, and Rita saw Surdak coming back from outside, and the big eyes that looked at him were full of anticipation.

Surdak smiled and said, "I was in a bit of a hurry to go to the city of Hylanza this time, and I didn't ask you what you wanted me to bring, I passed by the grocery store and bought it, but don't think this gift is too shabby!" ”

As he spoke, he took out a beautiful comb from his bosom and handed it to Rita, who was so red from the sun that her face was very attractive, and she took the comb with a happy face, and when she was in a good mood, she would squint her eyes. Rita tucked the comb into her long thick blonde hair and whispered to Surdak with some embarrassment, "Actually, you don't always have to buy us gifts...... I mean, I love this gift! ”

"You've been working hard for a few days, so take a good rest!" Sheila Sr. said to Surdak.

Surdak nodded and said, "Then I'll go and rest." ”

Walking out of the main house, Surdak saw Natasha carrying a bucket of steaming hot water into the wooden barrel in the bathroom, it was hard to believe how her slender waist could carry such a large wooden barrel, and saw that old Sheila and Rita did not come out in the main house, so she hurriedly leaned over and hugged Natasha's slender waist from behind.

Natasha was startled at first, looked behind her, and found that it was Surdak, so she put down the large wooden barrel in her hand, but then she found that the two were close together, and her cheeks immediately turned crimson.

At this time, old Sheila and Rita were not sleeping in the main house, Natasha naturally refused to let Surdak take advantage of her at this time, and she didn't dare to push hard, so she could only try her best to hold down Surdak's hand that wanted to enter her clothes, while looking at the side of the main house, worried that someone would come out from there, she bit her lip and whispered: "Hurry up and let go of me, I will be hit by Rita in a while, I will be laughed to death by her." ”

Surdak hugged Natasha's soft body, of course, and was unwilling to let go, chasing Natasha's soft lips, how could Natasha break free from Surdak's embrace, just when she was about to lose herself, she whispered to Surdak to wait for everyone to sleep and then secretly come to him, which was considered to be an escape.

Surdak didn't care who Natasha was preparing for the hot water, he got into the wooden barrel and took a comfortable hot bath, and sure enough, it didn't take long for Rita to hold a stack of cleanly washed linen clothes and pants, put these clothes on the wooden shelf next to the barrel, and complained to Surdak: "You will be in a hurry, Natasha is obviously boiling water for me, why is it occupied by you......"

Surdak curled up in the large barrel and pretended to be asleep, ignoring Rita at all.

There is no way to deal with this kind of scoundrel Rita, but to turn around and walk out.

After taking a bath, all the fatigue was gone, Surdak returned to his room, lay on the wooden bed, and fell asleep in a daze under the relaxation of his spirit, and did not wake up in his dream, he felt a soft body attached to his arms, Surdak opened his eyes, and found that Natasha had wet hair at some point, as if she had just taken a bath, and quietly slipped into the house.

When she saw that Surdak was asleep, she wanted to sneak away, but she happened to be seen by someone who had just woken up and hugged her in her arms......