The snow on the mountain began to melt a little, revealing some of the grass.

Lawrence was able to work, too, so he volunteered to do something.

It was a good day, and Lawrence picked a good spot near the house to dig a pit.

It was one or two o'clock in the afternoon, and the midday sun had melted the snow, and the snow water had moistened the ground again.

Lawrence stuck a wooden shovel that looked like a large spatula into the ground, stepped on the edge above it with his foot, and used his own weight to stick the sharp end into the dirt.

Soon Lawrence lowered the handle and dug out a shovel of dirt.

Today we are going to make charcoal.

There is no need for a pit to make charcoal, and the soil is dug for this to extinguish the fire and press the wood.

The pit is also not wasted and is used as compost soil.

Manure needs to be deposited for a long time before it can be used as fertilizer, and fresher is not always better.

And a certain amount of neutralization is required, the thinner the better.

This was Lawrence's first attempt, and he had not tried this backward method of fertilizing the land when he was on the farm.

First, there are not many fields at home, and everyone deals with them very casually, and the most important thing is the management of livestock.

The second is that sometimes the fertilizer used is too high-end, and Lawrence always stays away from there.

Barbarians do not water human dung in the fields.

It's human blood!

Barbarians do not like to keep captives, and they do not have the extra manpower to take care of those who do not speak the language.

After killing someone, the blood and corpses will be used to fertilize the fields, especially the forage for wild boars and long-haired cattle, which are used in this high-end fertilizer.

This kind of high-end bureau is not something Lawrence can admonish at all.

From the first day he came into this world, Lawrence understood what a barbarian was.

There are also a lot of rustic wastes, such as green manure made from wheat stalks, grass roots, green plants, etc.

Lawrence didn't want to think about red manure and green manure, and he was cautious about the use of waste materials, planning to find a place to experiment first.

"Can you make a flush toilet?"

Lawrence pondered how to make his ass more comfortable, but quickly shook his head.

"It's not a show for the time being, let's talk about it next year."

Nowadays, the toilet is mainly solved by squatting pits, and traditional farmers will feed pigs with manure, but Andrew does not like this practice here and does not raise pigs.

Lawrence's three little pigs eat grain, and they are much happier than those pigs down the mountain.

"Burn a hundred catties of charcoal first, and then eat shabu mutton around the hanging pot when it snows in winter!!"

Lawrence set a very easy goal and quickly continued to dig the hole.

Charcoal burning is carried out outdoors, piling piles of wood on top of each other, leaving a gap in the air in the middle, and quickly extinguishing it with soil after burning for a while, and smoldering for a while to remove the charcoal inside.

This kind of thing is very simple, there is no difficulty, the only trouble is time control.

Only experienced charcoal burners can master the heat proficiently, know when the charcoal is the best, and there will be no defective products of half charcoal and half wood.

Lawrence was concentrating on his work when Sophia's shouts could be heard in the distance.

"The hosts! I've picked up something good! ”

Lawrence looked up in confusion, looked around, and it was only a few seconds before he saw Sophia in a plain linen dress at the bottom of the hillside in the distance.

Sophia stood fifty meters away waving her hands at Lawrence, and Saliel stood next to her.

Lawrence dropped his shovel and walked over there, looking closely, but still didn't see anything Sophia had gotten her hands on.

As the distance got closer, Lawrence finally saw the stone under Sophia's feet two meters away.

A greenish stone?

"What is this?" Lawrence struggled to understand Sophia's abilities.

Sariel next to her looked at Lawrence strangely, "Lawrence, don't you even know the copperstone?" This is the raw material for making copperware, which can be turned into copper blocks in the blacksmith's furnace. ”

"I used to find this kind of stone in the neighborhood," said Sariel, "and my father used to go to a blacksmith to exchange it for wine and meat, and such a large piece of copper should be worth a chicken." ”

Copper ore?

Lawrence then remembered the copper ore, and looked at the green stone in front of him, feeling that he could also burn bronze.

"Of course I know, and now we are not short of food, I will use this thing to process and try to make a copper pot!"

Lawrence wanted to eat hot pot, and after getting the bronze ore that was convenient for processing, he did not choose to make weapons, but wanted to make a copper pot for eating mutton shabu.

Sophia said happily: "I found this!" Today I changed to a meadow to graze sheep and found this! ”

Lawrence knew exactly what was going on.

Today the snow melted, and the sheep went to eat where there was grass on their own, and Sophia just followed and stood guard.

"Well, well done." Lawrence complimented him perfunctorily, crouched down and lifted the big rock with his hands.

After moving it, the weight was roughly determined, and there were thirty or forty pounds.

Sariel looked at Lawrence's struggling appearance and said directly: "I'm here to move in, your hands are not good yet, don't do this kind of thing that is easy to hurt." ”

Lawrence knew that Saliel had a lot of strength and wanted to be strong, but Saliel had already snatched the stone without saying anything.

Probably inheriting Andrew's strength, Salil put the stone on her shoulders with both hands, and then walked to the house on the hillside with a bucket while holding the stone with one hand.

Lawrence asked himself if he was capable of it, so he followed in a low-key manner.

Sophia quickly followed and said, "Master, there are still a lot of green stones in that place, can we all move here?" ”

"No, this one will do." Lawrence advised: "Don't tell people that there are a lot of copper stones here, and it will be troublesome if people know about it. ”

Sophia was puzzled for a moment, and quickly explained: "But Saliel already knew, didn't she just say that the blacksmith in the town knew?" ”

Lawrence thought for a moment and sighed, "Oh, I forgot about Andrew. ”

Worried that Sophia didn't understand, Lawrence explained: "I thought that when people knew that there was an abundance of copper ore here, they would come and rob it and kill them. ”

"But Andrew is clearly the kind of group that is qualified to snatch, and with him here, others will choose to buy instead of snatching."

Lawrence thinks that Andrew is the one who collects protection money, and he builds a house here, so the copper mine here is surnamed Andrew.

It's not that the village doesn't know that there is copper ore here, first, the demand is not high, and second, the copper ore collector is also Andrew's friend, so he doesn't dare to fight the idea here.

It's like a place where martial arts masters live in seclusion, and occasionally there will be a little output.

Sophia nodded, "Then I'll continue to herd the sheep." ”

"Go ahead." Lawrence felt that his life had not changed, so he continued to dig pits to make charcoal.

In the past, Lawrence thought that Andrew was a powerful hunter and a strong man who could speak in the town of Bometheus.

But today I thought about a lot of things, especially the iron axes, iron swords, iron daggers, shovels, and sickles hanging in Andrew's house.

Lawrence discovers that Andrew is more of a village tyrant-level being, and a wealthy man in this era.

Sariel is probably the village flower, right?

Lawrence continued to dig the pit with a wooden shovel.

If you marry the village flower, you will probably be able to avoid ten years of detours!!