There are many mountains around the city of Highlandsa, and patches of oak forests produce gold and silver oak fruits, but the oak forests are also mixed with chestnut trees, cassava trees, wild autumn pear trees and some hard miscellaneous trees, chestnut trees are also called tree rice, in autumn is one of the most important winter grain storage for the villagers in the nearby mountainous areas, when many wheat fields are reduced, the mountain people near the barren land will go into the mountains in the autumn to collect a large number of wild chestnuts, so as to survive the long winter.

The main reason why cassava is not accepted by mountain people is that it has a certain toxicity, even if the cassava is cut into small pieces and soaked in water, it is difficult to completely pull out the paralyzing toxins in it, and after eating, not only the mouth is swollen, but also causes abdominal pain.

Surdak brought more than a thousand kobold slaves from Bena City, and these kobold slaves needed to eat at least 3,000 pounds of cassava a day, so when the coachmen brought the first batch of cassava, Surdak asked them to continue to buy cassava in the free market of the city of Highlandsa and transport it to the village of Daowo, and Surdak promised to buy cassava for no less than twenty silver per cart.

This is big business for the horse-drawn carriage dealers, who are sluggish in the spring transportation industry.

The day after returning to the city of Highlandza, the coachmen arrived in the village of Wall with twelve carts of cassava, and the old chief, Bright, had a sum of money in the village, which he had saved from several transactions with the White Elephant Trading House in the winter, which he used to pay for the settlement commission for the purchase of cassava.

By the time Surdak returned to the village of Wall, it had been two weeks since the kobold slaves had arrived in the village, and in just two weeks, twelve four-wheeled wagons had made five trips back and forth between the city of Highlandsa and the village of Wall, and the cassava brought by the twelve four-wheeled wagons alone had led the old village chief Bright to build three large warehouses at the entrance of the village.

But after the third batch of cassava was delivered to the village of Wall, the other coachmen in the city of Hylansa learned of the news, and they also bought cassava in the free market of the city and transported it to the village of Wall, until Surdak returned to the village of Wall, the old village chief had already set up five warehouses at the entrance of the village, although the old village chief had sent a message to the carriage shop to suspend the purchase of cassava, but there was still a steady stream of four-wheeled horse-drawn carts full of cassava arriving in the village of Wall.

Seeing these mountains of cassava, the old village chief Bright couldn't help but laugh and wanted to refuse to accept them, but the coachmen begged the old village chief bitterly, it was not easy to arrive in Vol Village with a whole cart of cassava, and they would rather discount the price than keep the cassava here.

The old village chief Bright was worried about whether to accept these cassavas, and felt that someone secretly tugged at the corner of his clothes, he turned his head and glanced at Selena behind him, Selena looked in the direction of the Beigou grassland, and her eyes showed a blazing light, the old village chief followed Selena's gaze, and saw a convoy slowly walking towards Vol Village, and the knight who walked in front was Surdak, who pulled the reins of the horse with one hand and waved his hand to the old village chief.

In the twilight, the old village chief stood up with his chair in his hand, and a relieved smile bloomed on his wrinkled old face.

"Dark, you're back!" The old village chief shouted at Surdak in a loud voice.

Surdak jumped off his horse, and the Gubolai horse let out a long neigh, leading the Gubolai horse, and Surdak walked quickly towards the old village chief.

The ogre Gullitm followed Surdak like a mountain of meat, attracting the attention of many villagers and coachmen, while Aphrodite and Samira, who were at the back of the group, were ignored.

Surdak looked at the many four-wheeled carriages stranded here, so he stepped forward and asked the old village chief, "Uncle Bright, why are there so many carriages here?" ”

The old village chief, Bright, told Surdak what had happened.

Then the old village chief said: "The rest is nothing, that is, now that we have purchased so many cassava at once, and there are so many wagons full of cassava and so on here, I am worried that those kobold slaves will not be able to eat them at all, this thing is all over the mountain, I don't think we need to waste so much acquisition, Duck, otherwise we will collect less, and let them all pull the rest back?" ”

Surdak looked at the four-wheeled carriages lined up at the entrance of the village, and immediately said to the old village chief Bright: "Accept, Uncle Bright, we will take all these cassavas!" ”

The village chief of Bright wiped his forehead with a handkerchief and shouted to the young villagers standing next to the big warehouse: "Val, you guys come here, continue to weigh these cassavas, these cassava are weighed, Selena, you are responsible for counting the weight of these cassavas, and how many silver coins we will spend!" ”

"Yes, Uncle Bright!" Several young villagers shouted.

The coachmen at the entrance of the village originally thought that they were going to pull the cassava back to the city of Highlandsa untouched, but everyone got together to discuss countermeasures, and when they saw that the old village chief was finally willing to let go and agreed to continue the purchase, they hurriedly ran back to their magic caravans and lined up to wait for the weighing.

Surdak took advantage of the old village chief's turn, winked at Selena, who was standing behind the old village chief, and quietly said hello.

Selena stood in place with the sheepskin ledger in her arms, with a delicate pretty face, and when she turned around, she avoided the old village chief and flew Surdak with a white eye, and her expression was extremely charming.

The old village chief Bright came to Surdak's side, lowered his voice, and asked mysteriously: "Dak, I know you have some ideas, tell me what you need me to do for you?" ”

Surdak pressed his forehead with his hand, he actually thought of a way to remove the toxicity of cassava, but he didn't know if this method would work, so he said to the old village chief Bright: "I just have some ideas, but I still don't know if it can work......

"I really need Uncle Bright to come forward in this matter, I need some water tanks and wooden barrels, and I can move them to the village by the sink where I usually wash clothes."

"Oh! By the way, ask some women from the village to help. ”

The village chief of Bright is also a resolute character, and when he heard Surdak say this, he immediately agreed: "I'll do it now." ”

With that, he turned around and walked towards the village.

"Good! Uncle Bright. Surdak followed, and together they walked into the village.

Taking advantage of the old village chief's inattention, Selena leaned over and whispered to Surdak, "What are you doing?" ”

"You'll find out just by waiting." Surdak said with a slight smile at Selena.

At this time, the young villager in charge of the load-bearing cassava shouted to Selena very blindly: "Selena, one thousand and fifty-seven pounds, hurry up and make a record!" ”

Selena glanced at Surdak, picked up the hem of her furry skirt, and walked back in a daze.

Aphrodite looked curiously at Selena's back as she turned away, with a faint smile on her face.

Surdak turned to the ogre behind him and ordered, "Gulitham, help me get some cassava from here......"

There were several large boxes next to the cassava pile, and the ogre carried one of the wooden boxes of cassava on his shoulder, followed Surdak as he walked towards the village, and asked him humbly, "Captain, what shall we eat at night?" ”

He simply didn't want to eat the cassava in the box.

When Surdak saw that the flock of yellow sheep had been driven back from the Beigou Pasture by two and a half children, he smiled at the ogre and said, "Let you taste the sheep soup from our village of Vol tonight......"

"Wow...... Sheep soup, Gulit likes to drink sheep soup. When the ogre heard that it was not the mouth-numbing cassava that he had eaten, he immediately grinned happily.

On the bank of the creek, not far from the carpentry workshop, there is a natural pool where the women of the village wash their clothes, and in the summer the village children also bathe in this pool.

Surdak asked the ogre Gulitum to place the large wooden box of cassava by the pool first.

Several women in the village were chatting and squatting by the sink to wash their clothes, when suddenly they saw an ogre carrying a large wooden box coming from the village, so they were so frightened that they picked up the wooden basin and hurried away, and secretly looked back as they ran......

Samira and Aphrodite looked curiously at the impoverished village.

Surdak pointed to the top of the village and said, "Let's go, take you up there!" ”

The construction of the village's cistern has resumed, the river has now been completely cut off, and horse-drawn carriages are carrying volcanic ash along the main road of the village towards the upper reaches of the village.

With the completion of the first reservoir, the sluice gate was also completed, the village carriage successively pulled the volcanic ash and lime powder to the construction site, the shape of the secondary reservoir is completely around the first reservoir to expand outward ten meters, this terrain is obviously nearly two meters lower than the first reservoir, more than 50 bricklayers are using cement to smooth the ground, the second reservoir of the embankment foundation part has been completed, just wait for the ground to be done after the start of construction.

At this time, Rita, Natasha and several women in the village were cooking dinner for the bricklayers on the construction site.

Standing on the embankment of the first-class cistern, Surdak pointed to a large area of land downstream of the cistern, and introduced Andrew and Samira, Aphrodite, and Gulitem: "Three more stepped cisterns will be built here to increase the amount of water stored upstream, and the city of Highlandsa is affected by the climate and monsoon, and there is little rain in spring, but in midsummer, the abundant rainfall is easy to cause waterlogging, so we built a cistern here, and the water in the cistern can irrigate some wheat fields downstream of the village. to cope with this dry season. ”

The half-elven archer Samira asked Surdak a little strangely, "If there is abundant rainfall here in the summer, why is this place so barren?" ”

Surdak pondered for a moment before saying: "The geological characteristics of this barren land are that it is full of limestone rock formations that are very permeable, and rainwater can easily seep into the ground, and there is a lack of fertile soil for plants to grow here, and the dry season happens to be in the late spring and early summer when everything grows, and many plants cannot survive in this land, only some thorny grasses and thirsty undead weeds can survive." Only a few valleys with water sources can show a hint of vitality, and in addition to the village of Wall, there are more than a dozen villages in the vicinity. ”

"Except for the main plane located in the Roland Continent, there is no place like Volymara." Andrew muttered from the side.

"But that's the most important thing." Aphrodite stood beside Andrew and retorted.

The native warrior's lips moved, but in the end he still didn't think of any suitable words to fight back.

At this time, a young man ran up the embankment out of breath and shouted at Surdak: "Dark, Uncle Bright's side is ready......"

"I'll go over ......," Surdak waved at the young man.

He did not take the members of the security team directly back to the village pool, but took a detour to the stone mill in the village threshing floor, and asked the ogre Gulitham to directly lift the base of the stone mill, and Andrew carried the ground mill on it, and then returned to the pool.

Under the astonished gaze of the villagers, the ogre placed the nearly thousand-pound stone mill base on the edge of the pool, and helped Andrew rearrange the stone mill.

The old village chief Bright had already brought eight large water tanks, and there were dozens of wooden barrels collected, which almost filled the stone platform by the pool. His legs were weak, and after being scolded by the old village chief Bright, his mood stabilized.

"Dark, what are we going to do?" The old village chief, Bright, walked up and asked Surdak.

"Uncle Bright, it's not a difficult process, you just have to watch what we do......" Surdak said to the old village chief.

With that, Surdak asked Andrew to lay the cassava in the box on the stone mill, and the ogre Gullite pushed the stone mill with a sigh, crushing the crispy tapioca to a pulp, and the milky cassava juice like mud flowed down the stone trough into the barrel, and soon filled a wooden barrel, and then Surdak spread a piece of coarse linen on a water tank, and then poured the white pulp into the water tank, and added two buckets of water to the water tank.

In this way, Gulit and Andrew grinded a wooden box of cassava into white pulp, which was filtered and mixed with a large amount of water, and put it in a water tank to rest.

The old village chief and a group of women in the village watched silently, and everyone couldn't understand what Surdak was doing when he pressed the cassava juice.

Soon the water in the first tank became clear and transparent, and Surdak asked Samira to scoop out the water from the tank until only a thick layer of white pulp remained at the bottom of the tank, and then refilled two buckets of water to stir the white pulp together, and then waited for the slurry in the tank to become clear, and after repeating it three times, Surdak collected the white pulp in a wooden barrel.

The old village chief walked up with a frown, looked at the two barrels of white pulp that had only settled after consuming a large wooden box of cassava, and asked Surdak, "Dark, is this potions or alchemy?" What is this thing called? ”

Surdak rubbed his temples vigorously and introduced to the old village chief Bright, "Now...... We can call them 'water starch', and when they are dry, they are starch, and not only does this thing remove the toxicity from cassava, but it also tastes quite delicious, and I also cook this food, and people there call it 'stew'......"

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