In early July

The village didn't need so many kobold slaves, so the old village chief arranged for Charley to send 200 kobold slaves to the river of lava in Pubao Mountain to mine sulfur mines.

At present, there are less than 600 kobold slaves left in the village, and most of these kobold slaves are mining limestone in the mountains not far from the village.

The villagers of Vol Village drove the four-wheeled carriages to carry the square stones from the mountain bags back to the village.

They first used black powder to blast large limestone bodies, and then used pickaxes and chisels to chisel the limestone into rectangular stones, and the row houses at the entrance of the village were built by these kobold men with stones carved out in more than half a month, and the cracks were poured with volcanic ash cement, which looked like a heavy city wall from the outside.

Surdak arrived at the village of Vol with fifteen four-wheeled wagons, and a group of villagers quickly arrived at the entrance of the village, where they unloaded the wheat flour and miscellaneous grains and stored them in the newly built warehouse.

Seeing that Surdak had brought back so much wheat flour and miscellaneous grains from the city of Hailanza, the old village chief came up with a frown and said, "Why did you buy so much wheat flour again?" The grain stored in everyone's house is enough to eat until the wheat is ripe in autumn, and once these wheat flours are not well preserved, they will become moldy and easy to have insects in the summer. Although you are now a noble lord, you can't waste food like this......"

Surdak touched his nose and explained to the old village chief: "Uncle Bright, this time I went to the city of Highlandsa to meet the Marquis Bernard, we lack a local defense chief here in the barrens, he wants me to form a defense team, so I am ready to recruit some retired veterans from each village to form a barren militia battalion, these wheat flour I used the military money I sent to exchange for the quartermaster's office." ”

The old village chief was overjoyed.

"You mean Marquis Bernard asked you to form a militia battalion?"

However, he immediately remembered that Surdak was currently the Knight Captain of the Haylanza Guard Battalion, and he asked:

"Don't you have a security squad for a guard battalion? Why do you still have to form a militia battalion? ”

Surdak is also a little confused about the authority of the city of Hylanza, only knowing that the security team of the guard battalion is responsible for daily security matters, but the militia battalion is considered a local garrison and is a local defense force.

He said: "The security team of the guard battalion is responsible for law and order in peacetime, and the militia battalion is a defense garrison. ”

Village Chief Bright frowned and said:

"Dark, everyone is a person who survived the battlefield, everyone has been on the battlefield, and we all know how cruel the battlefield is, I don't think anyone will want to join your militia battalion."

Surdak looked at the wheat flour on the carriage and said:

"That's why I'm bringing back this wheat flour, and all the veterans who join the militia battalion will be paid a certain amount every month, and a bag of wheat flour will be set for the time being."

The old village chief's eyes lit up slightly, and he couldn't help asking, "Can you get wheat flour regardless of whether there is a war or not?" ”

Surdak nodded and said: "Well, and there will be no training in summer and autumn, only in the winter when the farm is slack, organize some field training in barren places, and there will be additional living subsidies for participating in these trainings, in fact, even if I don't organize this militia battalion, when those bandit groups attack the village, the villagers don't want to rise up and resist, I will give some material subsidies here, isn't it better?" ”

"In this case, try to take care of our Wall Village when selecting people." The old village chief instructed Surdak.

"Of course, if they are willing to join, they will be the first choice, but they will not all find people from the village, and each village must have people from the militia camp to keep abreast of the situation in each village."

Listening to Surdak's words, the old village chief nodded with satisfaction.

Two horse-drawn carts loaded with limestone strips drove into the village, and the old village chief walked over with his cane, pointed to a clearing in his hand, and shouted to the two villagers who were driving the carts, "Pull the stones over there...... Yes, that's over there! ”

……

These coachmen, who were transporting whole wheat flour, had been to the village of Wall for a while now.

When they came to the village again, and saw that in only half a month, a wall of seven or eight hundred meters had been built at the entrance of the village, and the carriage was driven into the village, they were also amazed at these stone houses.

Walking into the village of Wall, the changes in the village are even greater, in addition to the village square piled up a large number of building materials, the village has built a series of horizontal and vertical cement roads, these cement roads are very wide, the middle of the flat road is enough for two carriages to go side by side, on both sides are cement stone steps with jogging platforms, and there are drainage ditches plastered with cement next to them.

It rained for two days, and most of the rainwater from the upper reaches of the village went into the cistern, and the rainwater from the village flowed down the drainage ditch into the stream.

In the past, the roads in the village would get muddy, but now that seems to be completely gone.

These concrete roads were built from the entrance of the village to the reservoir in the upper reaches of the village, and the village was neatly cut into countless regular strip-shaped areas, some of which still have dilapidated thatched houses, some of which have been torn down and rebuilt on top of the original homestead.

Surdak's model of a townhouse made of clay timber sits on a wooden frame in a shed in the village square.

This is a kind of two-story western-style building that was very common in later generations, and the roof also has an attic and terrace, which looks chic and atmospheric.

Nowadays, it has become a gathering place for children, and many half-grown children in the village also like to use mud and wood to build a model of a house like Surdak, and then show off their own townhouse models, because most of the houses in the village have to be demolished and rebuilt, so there is a kind of discussion in the village, and everyone has some ideas of their own.

The logs on the threshing floor are piled up like hills, and the village carpenter's workshop has been breaking the planks with saws day and night lately.

There are many forest farms outside the city of Highlandza, which are not only in the business of acorn fruits, but also sell wood, and most of the oak trees grow in this mountain, so the price of oak is relatively cheap.

Not long after the rebel knights attacked the village, the village began to be rebuilt, for the simple reason that the thatched huts in the village could not afford the rebel knights' spears, and they were completely shattered.

If you want to re-lay the red thatch on the earthen house, it is not only laborious and time-consuming, but in the end, it is still a thatched hut that cannot withstand a shot from the knight, so it is better to tear it down and rebuild it.

As for the cost of building these new townhouses, it is still borne by the village of Wall and Surdak.

Villagers don't have to pay anything.

In addition, the villagers who are willing to work on the construction site are paid a salary of 100 copper coins every day, which makes the villagers highly motivated, so the renovation project of the village is carried out very quickly, and almost every day there are some new changes in the village.

By the time Surdak returned from the city of Highlandza, the foundations of several of the houses had already been laid.

The main reason why Surdak wants to persuade the old Wall village to fund the reconstruction of the village is to convince the stubborn old Sheila......

When the rainy season began, the construction of the reservoir was temporarily halted, and Surdak wanted to build a house in the village of Wall.

A month ago, Surdak told Sheila Sr. that she was going to tear down the family's existing house and expand it into a house, but Sheila Sr. did not agree at first, she did not want to give up the old house she had lived in for so many years.

She felt that as long as she still lived in the old house, she could still lie on the wicker chair next to the fireplace, occasionally close her eyes and remember the difficult days in the past, and those who were hidden in her heart could occasionally appear in her dreams.

She was afraid that if the house was gone, those memories would be slowly forgotten by her, and there were some things she didn't want to forget.

So she told Surdak that everyone in the village lived in thatched huts and that she didn't want to live in a new house.

Surdak consulted with the old village chief to tear down the thatched huts in the village and rebuild them into new wood-roofed stone houses, so that there would be no fear that the roof would collapse due to a snowstorm in winter.

A while ago, the rebel cavalry swept the village of Vol to pieces, the roofs of some thatched houses were opened, and some courtyard walls and house walls were trampled down by the iron hooves of war horses.

Surdak's new estate was not built on the site of the old house, and after careful consideration, Surdak decided to keep the old house and leave the old Sheila a place to remember the past.

Surdak's new house is located on the highest point of the village of Wall, and when the cistern is completed, it will be far away from the police station, and there will be a vast pool of water at a distance of seven or eight hundred meters.

Seeing that the old mansion had not been demolished, the old Sheila's face, which had been stiff these days, could be considered to return to normal.

Surdak breathed a sigh of relief, he didn't have much to do about old Sheila's stubbornness, but now he has completely integrated into the life here, and there are many things here that he is unwilling to give up.

He took the family to a piece of land that had been leveled out of the new house, he took little Peter, pointed to the large land in front of him, and asked him: "Son, there will be a big house here, there will be a swimming pool, an attic, an observation deck, your own bedroom, a study room, and a training room, and whatever changes will occur in the future, everything here will become a gift to me......

Hearing Surdak say this, old Sheila glanced at him with a somewhat complicated expression.

Natasha's eyes as she looked at him were filled with infinite tenderness.

Walking around the area, as everyone was about to leave the mansion, Surdak saw that old Sheila was muttering to herself as if she were alone, but she couldn't hear what was muttering to her......

……

The Western-style building of the police station is the first new-style building in Vol Village, and the entire main body of the building is completely made of volcanic cement.

In view of Gulitham's size, Surdak built a large bedroom for him in this police station.

The building has been completed and a fenced terrace has been built on the roof.

The exterior decoration of the whole building is a bit in the style of Vožmara.

Samira even asked the bricklayers to make some stone pillars on the exterior walls with pozzolana cement, and there were also criss-cross arches like pavilions on the second-floor terrace, which was very malleable, and Samira also carved some vine ornaments on the exterior walls.

Surdak came to the sheriff's office.

Samira, the half-elven archer, was carrying a bucket of paint, squatting on the second-floor windowsill to varnish the window frames, and her long legs were spread out on the windowsill, revealing a patch of white flowers.

Seeing Surdak enter the police station, Samira carried a paint bucket and deftly jumped off the windowsill.

"Isn't there a stucco in the village?" Surdak asked Samira when he saw Samira putting the paint bucket aside.

"I just let them go back as soon as I was fine, and I think I can paint better than they do......" Samira replied, bending over and pouring paint from the larger barrel.

Seeing that her enthusiasm for work is undiminished, there seems to be nothing wrong with the security station, Surdak walked into this house, as soon as he entered the door, there was a front desk, and he walked around the front desk and walked into the hall on the first floor, this room was facing some stools that had not had time to move, and the four walls of the room had been painted with a layer of white lime powder, but it seemed that the wall had not yet dried, and the whole room was a little damp, which would be the office area of the security office in the future, and there would be a pantry and lounge next to it.

Surdak walked through the office and up the stairs to the second floor, where there were only six rooms and a common area that would serve as temporary quarters for the members of the vigilantes, to which Samira, Aphrodite, and Andrew would all have to move in.

Walking up to the terrace with a wide view, Surdak saw the succubus Aphrodi lying on a wicker chair in a cool silk skirt basking in the sun.

She saw Surdak come up, waved her hand casually, and then turned lazily over and turned her back to him.

In the hot summer, Aphrodite was cooler than anyone else, the sundress exposed a large area of dark skin on her back, and the root of her severed wings and two obvious scars, although it had completely healed, but the two bulges that made her body obviously different from others.

Her long hair was also loosely draped over her shoulders, her long dark purple hair was very soft, and two demon horns peeked out from between her hair, and Surdak could even feel the magical aura condensed at the tips of the long horns.

Surdak reminded her, "Aphrodite, be careful to cover your wings, don't always expose them to the outside, and challenge the villagers' vigilance and eyesight......"

Aphrodite just turned her face slightly and waved her hand at him in understanding.

Without seeing the ogre Gulitum or Andrew, Surdak stepped down from the sheriff's terrace.

Samira had exhausted all the novelty of the barren land, and was no longer willing to roam around the barren land on horseback, and the weather was hot, and she had to cover her face with a hood, and her whole body was wrapped in leather armor, and the sweat on her body was dry and wet, and the leather armor was soaked with salt, and the taste was not pleasant at all.

So Samira would rather hide in the police station and paint than patrol under the vicious sun.

Only Andrew is still diligent, still wandering around the barren land every day......