The old village chief squatted under the dead tree at the entrance of the village with a melancholy face, and the plaque reading 'Wall Village' was swaying in the wind above his head.

The village entrance market is in shambles, and the vendors go into the terraced houses to rest, and they have to get out before dawn tomorrow morning, and their precious goods will be stored in the rented terraced house warehouse, and the worthless ones will be piled up at the door of the rented terraced houses.

At this time, some strange sounds can occasionally be heard on the side of the terraced house.

There were far fewer tents for the parties, and many of them made their way through the barren land and into Mount Pagros, and no one said they were finding anything.

The old village chief was still nagging, and the wrinkles on his forehead had become deep, like those cracks in the stone on the top of the mountain that had been carved by the wind.

"What's going on with these young people now? It's not been a few days since the good days, why has even the original intention changed? ”

"Val this child was not like this before, when he was hungry, he was the eldest in the family, his father and mother ran to Oak Ridge to find something to eat, he took care of the little ones at home, and when he was so hungry that he ran to the Beigou grassland to dig up the thirsty and immortal roots, and brought home to boil water to drink, the little ones were so hungry that he was reluctant to take a sip, no matter how hard he lived, he never stole anything, how soft his heart was at that time! When grazing sheep for the village, every sheep slaughtered in the village during the festival had to hide behind the stone mill and cry for a long time. ”

"Now that I'm full, warmly dressed, and my heart has hardened, how can I live like the last thing I want to see?"

"What's the difference between him and the slave owner's foreman?"

"Why did you become unrecognizable?"

The old village chief sat under the tree, his pipe flickering in the dark night.

Surdak sat aside, thinking to himself that she might have to discuss it with Selena tomorrow, and she seemed to have taken a big step.

Since this matter is a little unclear, Surdak decided not to continue to dwell on this matter, he quickly changed the topic, and discussed with the old village chief the issue of selling the sulfur ore, this time because the acquisition location became Constantinople, how to transport the sulfur ore there became a problem, according to Surdak's plan, he wanted to sign a contract with the carriage and horse shop in the city of Hylandsa, and the transportation of sulfur ore was handed over to the Chelaza carriage and horse company.

It takes at least two weeks to transport a cart of sulphur ore to Constantinople, and the cost of a trip will not be less than thirty silver coins, which seems to be a huge amount, but the load of a four-wheeled carriage is almost 800 to 1,000 pounds, and according to the minimum load of 800 pounds, the freight cost per pound of sulfur ore is actually less than four copper coins.

In fact, that Iman. Owen's purchase price for Surdak was 5 silver and 40 copper per pound, so the premium on freight was about 40 copper coins, including cost management, etc., and there was still a lot left over after paying the freight.

Hearing that Surdak was ready to give up the transportation of this piece of fat to the Hailansa carriage and horse company, the old village chief suddenly felt a little painful, the village is not without four-wheeled carriages, not only that, but the current four-wheeled carriages in the village have been expanded to fifty-two, which is equivalent to half of the number of four-wheeled carriages in the Hylansa carriage company, but now the reservoir construction site, the townhouse and the Carl villa all need a large amount of volcanic ash, and almost all the carriages in the village are transporting volcanic ash.

As the project grew larger, some of the closest places to the village of Wall had been cleaned, and the convoy had to extend deeper into the wasteland, and the distance to transport the ash had increased imperceptibly.

Surdak had always wanted to pave a flat road out of pozzolana cement in the middle of nowhere, but the project was delayed again and again, and now the reservoir project is nearing completion, and there is not even a shadow of this concrete road.

"For the time being, the sulphur ore will be transported to Constantinople and handed over to the carriage shop. The four-wheeled carriage that transports the volcanic ash in the village is not yet moving, and I plan to take advantage of this autumn to build a straight road between Pubao Mountain and Wall Village, and shorten the time to get to the Sulphur Mine of the River of Lava in Pupu Mountain to less than two days, and the mountain road in Oak Ridge is too difficult to walk, and after the first heavy snowfall every year, it becomes very difficult to walk from Wall Village to Highlandsa City, and if we want to transport the Sulphur Mine out safely, we need to repair this road well. ”

The tidal flats lower down the bend were now fertile fields, and the kobold slave-dug canal sparkled in the moonlight.

Surdak stood up, took two steps forward, and said to the old village chief:

"I'm going to fix the waterhole in the Beigou Grassland this fall, at least so that it can hold some water, so that the sea buckthorn grass and the drinking undead grass on the slope can start to grow in the spring, and we need to build a pasture, which is low-lying and has abundant water and grass in the summer, and it is by no means a good place, as long as the drought during the dry season can be solved, the grassland over there can grow."

The old village chief still has reservations about the construction of a pasture for sheep grazing.

In the past, Vol Village did not transform the Beigou grassland, and it was not the same as raising a large group of yellow sheep, but now the Beigou grassland is to be transformed, which means investing a lot of manpower, material resources and money, and the old village chief does not think that eating more mutton can change anything.

"Dark, even if we don't build a pasture, that pasture is enough for us to raise yellow sheep." ”

Surdak remembered the ogre, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "The number of our sheep needs to be increased a little more, otherwise these yellow sheep are not enough for Gulitham to eat alone, in addition to these yellow sheep, I also plan to raise some horses, in the future there may be a squadron of knights of the guard battalion here, there must always be a place to put horses." ”

"I still have to raise horses!" The village chief of Bright was a little stunned, now the village of Wall has raised more than fifty horses, all of which are used to pull four-wheeled carriages, and a squadron of guard battalions needs at least sixty or seventy war horses, and the Beigou grassland is not large, not enough for hundreds of horses to gnaw.

"Of course, it must be raised, and if Wall Village wants to continue to develop, Beigou Grassland must be operated." Surdak said.

Unlike Yellow Sheep, horses can also be counted as wealth in the Grimm Empire, if it weren't for the robber group and the northern rebels sending horses twice, it would be impossible for Wall Village to have so many horses now, more than fifty horses are worth at least two hundred gold, and the value of war horses must be higher.

Surdak continued:

"After the harvest festival, the militia battalion needs to enter the barren land for field training, and it also needs to organize a small logistics supply team, which also needs horses."

The old village chief looked at Surdak in amazement and asked, "Your militia battalion that has been receiving rations and has never gathered?" ”

"Hmmm......"

Surdak agreed.

……

Pushing open the gate of the courtyard, Surdak led the horse in.

He led the Guborai horse to the side stable, and unsaddled it without a sound, and the trough of the stable was covered with alfalfa grass, and the Guborai horse slowly flicked his tail and bowed his head to eat the hay in the trough.

Surdak was just about to get a bucket of water out of the tank by the wall.

The wooden door of the villa was pushed open, and Rita, dressed in pajamas and pajamas, yawned and said to Surdak, "Why did you come back?" Natasha and I saw you and the old village chief passing by the square, you haven't eaten yet, have you? ”

Without waiting for Surdak to answer, Rita had already taken Surdak's bucket and said to him, "Go in, leave it to me here!" ”

As soon as the lights came on in the hall on the first floor, Surdak walked in and saw Natasha tiptoeing back on the shade of the wall lamp.

Seeing Surdak walking in with a tired face, he silently stepped forward, regardless of his dusty body, directly gave him a big hug, and then handed him a wet towel, while he wiped his face, Natasha began to help him untie the leather armor on his body, this set of salamander leather armor I don't know how long I have been wearing it, the shirt inside the leather armor has been white salt, I don't know how many times it has been soaked with sweat.

The buckle on the leather armor left several deep indentations on Surdak's shoulders, and Surdak's whole body was sour.

Natasha stood behind Surdak, pressed her face against his sweaty back, wrapped her hands around his waist and hugged him tightly.

"Why ......?"

Surdak asked, turning his head slightly.

In his memory, Natasha has always been the kind of woman who stands silently behind her, she will not take the initiative or refuse, she is cautious and gentle. sense, but not so active.

"It's nothing, I just want to hug you."

Natasha hid behind Surdak and whispered.

"Ahem, I thought you two would ...... in the cafeteria" Rita stood in the doorway in her pajamas, coughed lightly, and then passed the two of them casually and walked up to the second floor.

"Ah, I forgot you haven't had dinner yet, I left a pancake in the kitchen, I guess it's still hot!"

Natasha woke up and hurriedly ran into the kitchen at the back of the restaurant.

Surdak hung his leather armor on the wooden shelf at the door, wiped his face, and walked into the dining room......