Chapter 18: Busy

So from that day on, Andy became Galen's helper.

This short, white-bearded old man has a very rough temper, and with all the heavy work and the very general environment around him, it's no wonder that no one in the Blackfoot Village wants to stay with him for long.

"Boy! Get those bags in order! ”

"Boy! Hurry up and get that one for me! ”

This kind of breathing and drinking is simply commonplace.

Galen's main job isn't too complicated to say, but it still requires skill. In short, the knives, spears, and bows used by the Blackfoot warriors would become obsolete over time, and Galen would need to re-polish or repair them.

In the process, Galen teaches Andy how to better maintain his weapons.

"You take a good look at the boy, the spear has to be sharpened like this to become sharp again."

Galen picked up a rusty spear, which seemed to have been soaked in some kind of liquid for some time, and then Galen vigorously removed the rust with a piece of sandpaper, and then sharpened it repeatedly with a whetstone.

Andy has gained a lot from watching Galen repair weapons and equipment in the past two days, and he feels that his repair skills have improved.

The cacophony of rathala kept coming.

Andy already had a dozen machetes and spears sharpened with whetstones.

[Your repair skills have increased]

Pip-boy came with such a prompt.

Andy wiped his face, doing this kind of work is really a physical job.

"Alright, don't Andy.... Take a break. ”

Galen shouted in his loud voice, and pulled out some pickled jerky and two bottles of wine.

The two of them sat casually on the rocks outside the hut and ate and drank together, and it could be seen that Galen was actually very precious to these drinks, and he enjoyed them very much and drank them carefully.

Taking the opportunity, Andy asks Galen what he thinks about the wine.

"Wine? That's the best thing in the world! ”

Galen's face flushed, and he was full of praise for the wine.

"The first time I drank it, I felt very regretful, I regretted why I didn't find out this good thing until then, it was so comfortable to eat in one bite.... It's a pity that there is no wine at all in Blackfoot Village, and I am reluctant to drink these wines of mine, and it will be a long time before some wine will be brought in..."

As he spoke, he lifted the bottle and poured it into his mouth, but unfortunately there was only a drop of wine left in it.

Unwillingly, Galen looked at Andy's bottle and found that Andy had already drunk all of his bottle in a few sips, and his face couldn't help but show an expression of unfinished business.

"Not enough to drink every time.... It's so little..."

Galen let out a long sigh and looked like he really wanted to have a drink.

"Why don't you try your hand at making your own wine, Galen? That's not that hard. ”

Galen's eyes widened, and he seemed very moved.

"I don't know how sake is made... Do you know how that thing works? Hurry up and teach me! ”

"It's actually quite simple...."

Andy then briefly recounts the practice of drinking, mainly from what he had heard in Crosstown and some of his knowledge of the incident from his broken memories.

"Cook the grains in the village and smash them, then make them into small balls and put them in a place with a high temperature to rest, and wait until you find that some hairs have grown.... Then it is cooked with a lot of grain..... This process requires a bucket..... At the end of the distillation... What is distillation? ... It is to collect the evaporated liquid again. ”

After a chaotic explanation of the conflict before and after, Galen seemed to understand.

"When you're done with all this, you can get the wine?"

"No... You also have to let the liquid sit for a while, this is called fermentation, and the environment has to..."

After half an hour, Andy felt like he had done his best to tell Galen what wine was and how it went from grain to a magical liquid in a bottle.

In order to support his explanation, Andy also used wooden sticks on the ground to repeatedly sketch out how the brewer and fermentation tank should be built.

In the end, Andy was already a Buddha, anyway, Galen looked like he had already understood, and he was ready to start making wine himself, but Andy knew that he would definitely not succeed at one time....

Speaking of which, if the power of the entire Blackfoot Village is mobilized, this matter is easy to achieve.

"Speaking of Galen, if one day someone proposes to let Blackfoot Village build a distillery to make wine in batches, will you support this idea?"

"Of course, if the village can make wine, it will be my paradise!"

A few days later, Andy and Galen had become very close, but Andy had always had an idea that Galen's efficiency in repairing weapons was very low, and it would be nice if he could find some more effective way to remove rust.

On this day, Andy sees Galen taking some liquid out of a bucket to drink.

"What's in that bucket?"

Galen looked back and shook a wooden cup in his hand.

"It's the juice of a fruit... We all call that thing a big sour fruit here, a green round fruit, about a little bigger than a fist, although it is not sour, but it feels very refreshing to drink when it is hot, do you want a cup? ”

After questioning Galen carefully, Andy felt that it seemed to be a bit like some of the lemons he remembered, but it sounded more sour than citric ones.....

After trying it, Andy felt like his teeth were sour, the fruit was so powerful than a lemon that he couldn't figure out how Galen could drink it.

"Actually, we can use this thing to speed up the repair of weapons...."

Galen was intrigued by Andy's words and immediately took the juice to soak the rusty weapons on the spot, and the subsequent effect was very pleasantly surprised.

"My God, I never thought this thing would have this effect, you are so powerful Andy, with this advice you provided, it won't be long before these weapons will be repaired."

Less than a week later, the batch of weapons that Craig had ordered to be sent in need of maintenance were repaired with Andy's help and innovative advice at an extraordinary speed. Galen didn't take the credit for it at all, and he often boasted to the others in Blackfoot about how diligent Andy was in helping him work, and how talented Andy was for what he did.

[Hint: Your reputation in Blackfoot Village has increased]

The expected reputation boost was in place, but Andy still hadn't found the guy he was looking for....

Andy looked at the most ornately decorated house in the village and wondered, could it be that the fugitive he had been looking for actually lived in the leader's house? Otherwise, I can't explain why I haven't met each other after being here for so long.

But at this time, a native suddenly found Andy.

"Hey, Galen beckoned you to do him a favor, everyone has heard that you are doing a good job as an outsider."