In the last two days, the old village chief has built a simple thatched pergola on the north side of the village central square, and all the wagons of the caravan have arrived at the village square.

The old village chief stood in the middle of the square, standing with Surdak, pointing to the pergola on the north side and said: "I thought about it last night, and I am going to set up a carpenter's workshop in the village, and all villagers with carpenter's skills can enter the carpenter's workshop to work. ”

These axles are made of bearings that are coated with dense lubricating oil and rotate easily with a gentle hand.

The axles were forged from black iron, but the wheels were made of wood, and a round board was nailed with some strips of wood for added strength, and this kind of ordinary wheel was easily damaged in rough places on the road and required a carpenter's workshop to repair it.

The old village chief held the wheels of the carriage with his hand, and said to Surdak with confidence: "We will build these twenty wagons first, and then we can build a large waterwheel here. ”

There are indeed a few good carpenters in Vol Village, but they are still digging sulfur mines in Pubao Mountain, and the old village chief has already sent someone to bring them a message, and it is estimated that they will be able to return to Vol Village in a day or two.

Surdak looked at the small amount of timber piled up in the pergola, and asked the old village chief: "When the main embankment of the reservoir is built, we will need to make some planks for pouring pozzolana cement, and since we want to set up a carpenter's workshop, we need to buy more timber back, do you know where there is a lumber mill near here?" ”

The old village chief was stunned for a moment, probably according to his idea, the wood in the pergola was enough to make a truck car, and he didn't understand why more planks were needed when building the main embankment of Xu everywhere.

At this time, a caravan leader standing next to him hurriedly took the opportunity to interject: "Knight Surdak, it is said that Baron Lloyd is the most famous forest farmer in the city of Highlandza, he has at least five lumber mills in his hands, you can buy some wood from Baron Lloyd, if you don't want to come forward in person, our caravan is willing to help you buy it, we will only charge a little bit of freight." ”

After hearing this, Surdak was a little moved, and just wanted to discuss with the caravan leader, but when he saw that the old village chief was quietly squeezing his eyes, it was obviously inconvenient to say something, so he immediately understood, and after a deep sigh, he said, "I will think about this matter......"

The leader of the caravan saw that Surdak did not take up the subject, so he said no more.

When the caravan leader had gone away, the old village chief whispered to Surdak: "You don't need to buy wood, there are many public forest areas on the side of the mountain pass, and it doesn't cost you anything to find two pine trees in them." ”

"Didn't you say that the mountains and forests over there are not allowed to cut down trees?" Surdak asked curiously.

"There is more than one thing that is not allowed to be done, as long as it doesn't really touch the interests of those lords, who cares, it's not a golden oak." The old village chief said with a smile.

At this time, the village woman who was carrying the axles of the carriage to the pergola came to the old village chief and said distressedly: "Uncle Bright, the warehouse is almost out of place, what should I do with so many bags of wheat......

"These wheat flour will be hoarded on the construction site first......" The old village chief looked at the sky halfway through speaking, he hesitated, and then he could only grit his teeth and say, "Forget it, maybe it will rain in the next few days, so keep this wheat at my house." ”

More than 200 bags of wheat flour can almost completely fill the old village chief's house.

Just when everyone went to the old village chief's house to unload wheat flour, they saw a horse team coming on the mountain road from a distance, and they didn't need to look at the faces of the young people leading the horses, and the sharp-eyed villagers shouted at the top of their voices: "Our horse team is back......

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This time, the village's horse team returned from the sulfur mines of Pubaoshan Mountain, and in addition to bringing back a full twenty pockets of sulfur mines, they also brought back bad news.

Two new neighbors have emerged from the sulfur mines in the rocky area, there are actually two young salamanders, I don't know where they came from, they occupy a corner of the rocky area, although there is no hostility to the miners in the rocky area, but it has seriously hindered the daily mining work, everyone does not dare to approach the two salamanders at all, only dare to hide from afar.

However, there are only so many stalagmites in the rocky area, and after being occupied by the salamanders, there is very little area left for the stonemasons, and this time Luke personally rushed over, that is, he ran back to ask Surdak, even if he couldn't hunt the two salamanders, at least he had to drive them away.

Moreover, they have to swallow a large amount of sulfur ore every day in the sulfur mines in the rocky area, which is the most fatal.

Seeing that the materials on the reservoir site here in the village are sufficient, the next step is to build the foundation of the reservoir as planned, and the old village chief can handle it here.

With no more urgent matters to solve, Surdak decided to leave for the sulphur mines of Pubao Mountain, and in addition to expelling the two salamanders, he also sent some long thick-soled leather boots, dust masks, cross pickaxes, and water scrolls to the stonemasons of Pupu Mountain.

Once all the sulphur mines had been moved into the warehouse, Surdak was ready to set off.

Luke sat in the shade of a tree and took a sip of the cool water, then remounted his horse and set off with Surdak back to the sulphur mines of Pupu Mountain.

Along the way, you can also see the laborers lining up in a long line, walking briskly to the depths of the Paglos Mountains, they have to walk to the places where there is volcanic ash, which is far from the village of Wall, and it takes at least a day to walk back and forth, and even then, the volcanic ash in that area is very thin, only a thin layer is spread on the ground, and when you get there, you need to sweep the volcanic ash on the ground into a pile with a silicon, so that it can be put into a linen bag.

If this horse team can help transport some volcanic ash, it can also solve some of the problems of insufficient capacity, but this horse team still needs to travel back and forth between the sulfur mine and the village of Wall, so it can't help for the time being.

When passing through the Beigou grassland, the thirst that grows here has completely withered yellow, only the barren grass near the edge of the waterhole still has some greenery, but the huge waterhole has bottomed out, once the rainy season is over, there is no new rain to replenish it, the water level here drops at a rate visible to the naked eye, and by next spring, it will probably dry up completely.

Surdak only stopped for a moment in the Beigou pasture before riding the group of young men to the sulphur mines.

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