073 Blacksmith
Lawrence did not go to Emma's house, and after sending Sophia to Emma's house, he went to the blacksmith's shop.
The blacksmith's shop had been rebuilt, and the steaming stove was blazing with high flames.
The current blacksmith is the younger brother of the former blacksmith, who inherited his brother's blacksmith shop and woman after the blacksmith's death.
Lawrence walked to the side of a sloping hill and slowly approached the blacksmith's shop.
The blacksmith was an airy room made of wood and thatch, and the men at work could be seen through the large exposed windows.
Next to this house there is a wooden shack house twenty-five meters long and five or six meters wide, which is the blacksmith's house.
Lawrence approached the blacksmith window and said hello, "Hi Mode, are you okay?" ”
The blacksmith who was striking iron outside looked up and saw that it was Lawrence, and shouted enthusiastically, "It's Mr. Lawrence, what do you want to order?" ”
Lawrence said, "I need to make a carpenter's sharp edge, which is probably something like this. ”
Lawrence took out a piece of wood and handed it to the blacksmith as a mold.
The blacksmith took it and looked at it, and threw it into the charcoal fire next to him very casually, "No problem, I have quite a few here." ”
Lawrence looked out the window into the room and saw that there were many more irons in the blacksmith's shop, including axes, swords, and hoes.
"Business has been going well lately?" Lawrence couldn't figure out how there were so many things.
"Doug's arrangement." The blacksmith swung his hammer and struck the iron dullly, and said in a clanging bell, "When Andrew returns, we will also go out and make a profit." ”
Lawrence was speechless for a while, it seemed that Andrew's departure made Doug have ambitions and plans.
If this idea was not strong before, then the robbery and robbery between the Kurs and the Pumixiu last time made the Pumixiu pick up the wildness.
After killing people, there are few people who are as calm and rational as Lawrence and continue to live a quiet life.
Lawrence sighed, "Let's wait until Andrew comes back, I still need some jars for water, do you have them here?" ”
The blacksmith put the forged iron in the stove and continued to heat it, came around the stove and said, "I have it at home." ”
Lawrence followed the blacksmith into the house.
The blacksmith's house looks big, but it's actually not big.
The room is 25 meters long and 56 meters wide, and the area is 150 square meters.
The entrance is not on the wide side, but in the middle of the long side.
When you enter the house, you can see a fire pit, where several women and children are squatting, polishing iron tools on the stones in front of them.
To the left of the fire pit is a wooden bed, and on the wall are a number of curved wooden chests that look like treasure chests, and in the corners of the walls are placed weapons such as farming tools and axes.
On top of the fire pit was hung bacon, about thirty or forty pieces.
To the right of the fire pit is the area of sheep, dogs and pigs, with yellow hay stacks being the most visible, followed by black damp ground and hens roaming freely on the ground.
There are also inconspicuous places, such as the toilet near the pigsty, where there is no need to worry about the accumulation of feces, and the pigs and dogs in the house will clean up these things in time.
This kind of house structure is not normal in this era, and normal people will not be so big.
The blacksmith's house is already a large family, and this more than 100 square meters can perfectly solve the problem of eating, drinking and lazing for a family and more than a dozen animals.
Except for Andrew's heroism, the rest of the people will keep their livestock under their noses, and the temperature in the fire pit can ensure that a room full of people and livestock will not freeze to death.
It's still cold, but it's basically alive.
The blacksmith soon asked his wife and children to bring out the clay pots, and each household here prepared a lot of pottery for water and wine.
Because of the inconvenience of carrying, Lawrence chose a palm-high jar and a wine glass made of hollowed-out horns.
Lawrence proposed, "How about bartering meat?" Or two chickens for these? ”
The blacksmith shook his head and rejected the offer.
"It's been snowing a lot lately, and there's a lot less wood near the village, and the charcoal in the blacksmith shop is running out."
"I've heard you'll burn good charcoal, and I'd like to ask you to bring me more charcoal."
Lawrence was stunned for a moment, grass, who said that?
Who told me about burning charcoal?
Has Sariel been in the village lately? When was the last time charcoal was burned?
Lawrence suddenly remembered that Emma had come up to visit the mountain the last time he had burned charcoal.
How can this place be so well informed?
Lawrence said in a very bad mood: "Yes, is it okay to have a hundred catties of charcoal?" ”
The blacksmith looked at Lawrence suspiciously.
Lawrence changed his expression, "Two baskets." ”
The blacksmith knew how much it was, and smiled happily, "Yes, I heard you need a wooden shield, you can give you another wooden shield." ”
I don't need it? Lawrence had never thought of asking for this, and looked blankly at the blacksmith.
Soon Lawrence thought of something, "Yes, I need it, then that's it, I'll send the charcoal tomorrow tomorrow, if the weather is okay, if it's raining and snowing, then wait until the weather is good." ”
It was Sophia who needed a wooden shield, and Sariel had been consciously training Sophia's self-defense skills.
Sophia's needs are what Lawrence needs, so if you need it, you need it.
Lawrence soon exited the blacksmith's house, breathing in the cold but fresh air.
"It's not all bad to feel well-informed."
Saliel sent some grain and jerky to Emma's family, and when Lawrence returned, Sariel and Sophia were leading the sheep and preparing to leave.
Although Emma's family is still a free citizen of this village, because the family has not made meritorious contributions, there are not many supplies distributed.
"Sariel, I've said okay here, I'll come back in two days, how is your side?"
Saliel said directly: "No problem, Emma's family is fine, she also gave me a jar of salt, let's go back." ”
Lawrence put the clay pot and iron plates, wooden shields, and horn cups on the sleigh, and led the sheep out of town.
Saliel and Sophia didn't sit on it directly, the way down the mountain was much easier, and it would be very difficult for the domme sheep to pull things up the mountain, so only a small part of the way would go back to sit on it.
Lawrence walked forward with the sheep for less than a minute before he came to the outside of Friesen's house.
There was a man standing outside the door of the Friesen house, and the man saw Lawrence and quickly walked over.
"Mr. Lawrence, Frieson has slept, and his wife has prepared the expenses for this treatment."
Sariel leaned her head and body over with a curious expression, and asked angrily and excitedly: "Lawrence, you said that you are not allowed to disclose that you will see a doctor, but you said it yourself!" ”
Lawrence didn't reason with the woman, and said calmly: "Okay, I should go back." ”
It didn't take much time, and Friesen, who had just tried to lie down and sleep, soon fell asleep, and his wife, believing that Mr. Lawrence was wise, paid the fee she had said with pleasure.
A can of butter, a chicken, a bucket of frozen goat's milk, and two extra sea fish, each as long as an arm's length.
I went to the beach to fish before, and I obviously had a lot of gains, and the survival skills of these people have to be said to be very powerful.
However, the people here preferred to loot treasure, grain and livestock from weak southerners rather than fish from the dangerous sea.
In the evening, Lawrence returned to the silent mountain forest with two beautiful girls and a rich harvest of a cart.