This year's winter storage is very well prepared, and the granaries of every household are full, without the troubles of previous years, the smile on the old village chief's face is obviously much more.

The old village chief's wife made a pot of lemon tea for everyone, and there was a faint smell of fragrance wafting from the living room.

Surdak sat in the living room with a teacup in his hand and told the old village chief about the Sulphur Mine.

The old village chief sat down, knocked his pipe on the corner of the table, cleaned the ash, filled it with tobacco again, and was not in a hurry to light it, put it in his mouth and tasted it, silently listened to Surdak's words, suddenly became energetic, and said excitedly: "This is a great thing! ”

After saying that, he smiled embarrassedly again, and told Surdak about the doubts of the villagers: "Those sulfur are stored in the warehouse, everyone doesn't know what the use of these yellow stones is, it took so much effort to dig them back at the foot of Puss Mountain, if you want to say that they are not hard, it is all fake, they all say that they can be exchanged for silver coins, but they do not see the value they create, these people have been idle recently, there are always people to discuss these things, but I can't give any reasonable explanation." ”

He paused, then lit the tobacco from his pipe with a match, took a deep breath, and said, "Of course, it would be best to sell them." ”

Charley asked with a worried face, "It's just that it's snowing so hard outside that the road in the mountains is almost blocked, how are we going to get these sulfur mines out?" ”

The old village chief pondered for a moment and said, "It will definitely not work with a carriage at the moment. ”

"In addition to discussing this matter with you when I came back this time, I just want to bring a batch of sulfur mines out......" Surdak reached out and patted the magic belt bag on his waist, and said to the old village chief and Charley, "The first batch of sulfur mines will be in the magic waist bag, and I will take them out." ”

Surdak glanced at Charlie and said, "The subsequent transaction of sulphur ore will have to wait for this mountain road to be cleared, and you will drive it into the city of Hylandza." ”

When Charlie heard Surdak say this, he said with an excited face: "Okay, I will dig up the snow on this mountain road with my own hands, and I will also dig it out." ”

Then he looked at the magic belt bag on Surdak's waist with great envy, and said: "The magic belt bag is really a good thing, I heard that this thing is a must-have for adventurers, and the pattern on it is so exquisite......"

Charlie was carefully looking at the delicate magic patterns on the waist bag, when he saw Surdak constantly throwing things out of the magic waist bag, and hard frozen fish were piled up in the living room, with a salty smell of the sea, and asked Surdak with round eyes: "What is this?" ”

Seeing that Surdak threw out more and more frozen fish, even the wife of the old village chief and Charlie, who were busy in the kitchen, ran out and looked at the living room full of frozen fish and ham with a surprised expression.

Surdak felt that his body was covered with the smell of fish, and said to the old village chief, "The matter of the sulfur mine is settled. It's rare to go back to the village of Wall, which is short of supplies in winter, and these are all bought from the market, and these are sea fish, these are hams, and these are frozen hard...... Uncle Bright, you can help me divide it among you. ”

Charlie said excitedly, "Wow, we can fry fish at night." ”

Charlie's wife stood aside and looked at the frozen fish on the ground that were longer than her arm, and said in surprise: "There is such a big fish ......"

Seeing that the living room was full of all kinds of ingredients, and the women were doing the things such as sorting out the ingredients and cleaning the living room, the old village chief waved his hand at Surdak and said, "Let's go, follow me to see the cistern above, now the water in the pool has long been full......"

Surdak and the old village chief walked upstream along a winding slope in the village.

A group of women fetch water by the stream, and Rita is among them.

When the women of the village saw Surdak returning, they greeted each other very warmly, and a group of women chattered and chatted far away.

In front of you is a three-meter-high arc-shaped embankment, the embankment is made of volcanic cement pile, the length is nearly 400 meters, just connect the mountain walls on both sides of the ravine together, forming the first dam, the top of this dam is nearly more than one meter wide, the top of the embankment can be passed casually, but the steps leading to the embankment on both sides are surrounded by a simple wooden fence, which is to prevent the bear children in the village from sneaking up to the embankment, accidentally falling into the reservoir is the worst, there are two sluices on both sides of the embankment, the reservoir has been filled with water, The stream flows out slowly through the sluices, forming a narrow icefall.

Charlie opened the gate of the fence, and the old village chief and Surdak walked up to the embankment, and when they stood on the embankment, they could see that this first-class cistern, which covers an area of about six acres, was already full of water, and the surface of the pond was frozen and covered with a thick layer of snow, and there were several lines of footprints on the ice, and the old village chief saw these footprints, and shouted angrily to Charley: "Go and find out to me which one is not afraid of death on the ice, and can you become a warrior by walking around it?" ”

Charlie was scolded so much that he could barely straighten up in front of the old village chief, and quickly nodded his head to find out about the matter immediately, and promised to severely punish the offenders.

"If there is a next time, he will be exempted from the benefits issued by his family in the village next time!" The old village chief said fiercely.

Charlie protested in a bitter face and whispered: "Otherwise, let's still be corporal punishment, don't be exempted from welfare, it's not easy for everyone to get some food!" ”

In order to reduce the difficulty of the project, Surdak did not let the dam be built too high, and the project was refined into five stages, forming a progressive stepped reservoir, the current primary reservoir is considered to be preliminarily completed, the secondary reservoir has also been outlined, before the land is frozen, the old village chief and people have leveled the bottom of the secondary reservoir, there is already a general outline of the embankment, and along the outline to dig the deep trench required for the foundation.

The side is covered with volcanic ash, which is covered in snow like a huge burial mound.

Surdak's design anticipates that after the construction of the secondary reservoir is completed, the normal irrigation water in the village will be guaranteed in the dry season during the dry season, and when the construction of the fifth-level reservoir is completed, after the rainy season, the reservoir will continue to store water to reduce the erosion of the tidal flats of the downstream river bay by abundant rainwater, forming a large area of wetland, and the tidal flat overgrown with reeds and red thatch can be turned into at least hundreds of acres of wheat fields if it can be used.

However, it is not enough to build a reservoir upstream of the village, but also to dig drainage ditches around the tidal flats of the river bend, and to find a large pond for drainage in low-lying areas, which is a big project that can only be started next spring.

The old village chief looked at the cistern under his feet with a satisfied look, pointed to the gates on the left and right sides and said: "After the thaw next spring, two large waterwheels will be erected here, and then two water mills for grinding lime powder can be established......

After looking at the cistern, the old village chief took Surdak to see the busy carpenter's workshop in the village, and at the strong invitation of the old village chief, Surdak had lunch at the old village chief's house, and then went to the village warehouse with Charlie and Luke to fill the sulfur ore, but even if the Surdak land magic waist was full, there was no shortage of sulfur ore in the full warehouse.

Surdak came home in the afternoon, accompanied little Peter in the yard for a long time, and made a small round oak shield for little Peter, and corrected little Peter's correct defensive posture in the yard, watching little Peter sweat profusely standing in the yard wielding a sword, old Sheila sat on the chair at the door of the room to bask in the sun, with a faint smile on her face, but her thoughts did not know where to fly.

While little Peter was practicing basic swordsmanship, Surdak walked up to old Sheila and sat next to him basking in the sun.

……

Surdak didn't eat dinner at home, he walked out of the house at dusk.

As he walked out the door, he heard Rita pouting and whispering beside Natasha, and Surdak could only pretend not to hear.

Walking outside Selena's yard, it was getting dark, and the glass windows of many houses in the village gradually lit up with a faint light, this light did not last long, and the village generally slept early, just to save lamp oil, most of these glass windows were also newly replaced in the autumn of a few years, and Selena's house also had a small glass window.

When night came, the house was lit up.

A small figure approached the window, her head was printed on the window, Surdak knew it must be Signa, she stretched out her little hand, and drew simple lines on the frost-covered window, and a big smiling face appeared on the frozen window.

Surdak stepped in and knocked softly on the door.

There was the sound of Signa running in the house, and then the door was pushed open from the inside, and Signa was seen inside, and she looked up at Surdak with her head up and grinned, and said to him, "We're still betting on whether you'll come or not, Surdak, it's me who won!" ”

Seeing Selena wearing an apron and standing in the room, pursing her lips slightly, her eyes were a little resentful, Surdak could only smile weakly.

Surdak walked into the house, there was a fire in the fireplace, but it was not very warm, there was an iron pot hanging from the stove, pumpkin porridge was boiling in it, Surdak closed the door, first touched Signa's head, and then stretched out his arms to Selena.

The woman still took the initiative to throw herself into Surdak's arms, and the two hugged at the door for a long time without parting or saying anything.

The room was still the same basic, with an extra shelf next to the fireplace, and in addition to an extra frying pan, there were also some wheat flour, chestnut rice and other foods on the shelf. The room was small, with Selena's wooden bed across from the fireplace, and Signa's bed on a wooden board on the second floor.

Surdak hung the blanket that could automatically dissipate heat on the frosty north wall, although it couldn't block too much cold wind, but the temperature in the room suddenly increased, seeing Surdak busy in the room, Selena was just quietly helping on the side, but Signa seemed very excited, and kept asking Surdak this and that, it seemed that the city of Highlandha had a deep attraction to her, the streets, restaurants, markets, shops, and colleges in the city...... But if Signa has the slightest clue, she will keep asking.

Signa also wanted Surdak to describe the walls of the city of Hiranza, Surdak was also asked dryly, and said to Signa: "What is there to describe this, when next spring, I will take you to the city for two days, so that you can understand the city with your own eyes, you only use your ears now, some of my words are very one-sided, the city of Hilanza in your mind is incomplete, and it is full of my subjective consciousness." ”

Sigena didn't even think about whether it would be dangerous, and hurriedly said, "Surdak, then you have to talk about it!" ”

"Of course." Surdak patted his chest and said it wasn't difficult.

"You're not going to take me to the city and sell me, are you?" Signa looked at Surdak with big eyes and asked suspiciously.

"Of course...... No! ”

In the face of the eccentric Signa, Surdak couldn't help but laugh.

"Alright, it's time to eat!"

Selena's voice came, and this was the end of the discussion between the two.

Dinner was a very simple pumpkin porridge, probably because of the arrival of Surdak, Selena cut two more slices of raw ham on everyone's plate, obviously Selena also got the food brought back by Surdak, which the old village chief did very fairly.

However, Surdak was not that kind of person, he stood next to the shelves, and rummaged in his magic waist bag for a long time, digging out the remaining frozen fish and frozen meat as thick as a cow leg from the magic waist bag full of sulfur ore.

After dinner, Surdak told Selena about what had happened in the city, and she did not hide the destruction of the Dark Magic Order, but since four Dark Mages had absconded, she needed to be careful in the future, at least Selena could not leave the village of Wall.

Hearing that Surdak was injured, and because of the curse of the dark arts, the leg injury has not completely healed, Selena insisted on taking a look at Surdak's leg injury, Surdak couldn't resist her, so he untied the shin armor, and pulled up the linen trouser leg inside, revealing the bandaged right leg, untied the hemostatic bandage on it, Selena finally saw the wound that had not healed.

Even Signa, who was sitting next to her, looked at her curiously, and when Selena's fingers passed over Surdak's leg wound, the wound that was suppressed by the recovery power of the Divine Blessed Body suddenly squirmed violently, as if there was an invisible force that wanted to quickly break away from the wound, but it was bound by something, and it almost tore the muscles of Surdak's calf completely.

Surdak almost cried out in the sudden pain in his back.

"Doesn't it hurt?" Selena's amber eyes narrowed, and she said to Surdak, "There is some dark aura hidden in this magic, maybe I can help, maybe it will make your leg injury worse, anyway, I'm not sure!" ”

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