As soon as Lawrence returned to the outside of the manor, a black crow flew quickly.

"Gah!"

The crow soon landed on the sheep's back, and quickly flapped its wings and flew out.

Seeing this, Lawrence quickly said, "It seems to have found something, I'll go over and take a look." ”

"I'm with me, too!" Sariel followed.

Sophia followed without saying a word, and the two domes went into the manor by themselves.

The shepherdesss who was at the door heard the commotion, and quickly came and led the two sheep in, and went to inform Seravon.

Lawrence followed the crow for hundreds of meters and found a dead rock sheep near the stream upstream.

The rock sheep is a sheep that is good at climbing and can hide from large prey on cliff faces.

This kind of climbing and walking is relatively limited, and it is not really flat ground, nor is it easy to lean to the extent that gravity can be ignored.

There was not a stream under a cliff ahead, but at least a hundred meters away from the mountain in the distance.

Lawrence looked at the corpse of the rock sheep pecked by the crows in front of him, and felt that this should have been hit by the stream.

As for how it died, it is impossible to be sure, the corpse of the rock sheep has been disposed of for the most part, and there appear to be more crows than flies on it.

A flock of crows stood on the carcass of the rock sheep and screamed, and before Lawrence could get any closer, the big crow flew over and grabbed a small crow.

The crow flock quickly became chaotic, and Lawrence saw a large number of crows flying up to support the little crow that was being crushed to the ground by the big crow, so he quickly bent down to pick up the stone and threw it in front of him.

The stone quickly smashed into the crows, and the crows, who had wanted to fight back, quickly flew out in panic.

The front soon emptied, and Lawrence stepped forward to the big crow and picked up the two crows that had fallen into the stream to fight.

"Gah!"

The big crows behaved very fiercely, chasing and beating the little crows, vowing to kill the little crows.

Lawrence threw the little crow in the rocks on the shore, and put the big crow on the shore to bask in the sun.

"It's really troublesome, this crow didn't let me come here because he found food, he used me to fight these little crows."

Lawrence doesn't mind helping the big crow destroy the little one, the two crows don't seem to have any chance of coexistence, and they have to decide the winner.

Rather than the little crows, who are always wreaking havoc in flocks, Lawrence prefers to help the sparsely numbered but more intelligent crows.

If the small crows are not solved, the number of big crows will not increase, and the resources suitable for birds in the forest will always be limited.

Compared to what happened between the crows, Lawrence had more important things now.

Boom!

Ga!

Lawrence heard the sound and looked over and saw that it was Saliel who had provided accurate fire support, hitting a small crow with a stone the size of a date.

The crows did not dare to stay any longer, and soon flew into the mountains and forests in flocks to avoid the barbarians.

Lawrence used a wooden stick to push away the only broken body of the rock sheep, and said to the two who came by, "Look down at those things in the water. ”

Saliel and Sophia looked down at the stream.

In the clear water of the stream there are many active black bugs, which swim in the bloody water near the rock sheep, and also writhe their bodies near the rocks and the shore, densely packed in a large area.

Lawrence used a wooden stick to move the rock sheep out of the water to the shore.

"That's why you are allowed to drink hot water, and the river water that looks clean is sometimes not so clean."

"Let's go, there will be birds and bugs to decompose this carcass."

Sariel and Sophia looked at the bugs in the stream, and both showed disgusted and frightened expressions.

Even with a high force value, it is very powerless in the face of those tiny insects in the water.

"Lawrence, can we still drink our water?" Sariel is worried about the water problem.

Lawrence explained: "It's okay, don't scare yourself, just boiling the water will solve most of the problems. ”

Both Sariel and Sophia were relieved.

Sophia said, "Then we need to prepare more firewood, and the water must be boiled before drinking when it is cold." ”

Lawrence smiled: "There's no need, just boil it once, I'll explain this to you in the evening, let's go back first." ”

Lawrence glanced at the crow on the shore, which was shaking the standing water on its feathers.

In order to prevent the big crow from being retaliated against by those little crows, Lawrence walked over and put his right hand on the ground, "Come up." ”

The big crow looked at Lawrence suspiciously, and it took three or four seconds before he stepped on Lawrence's hand.

"That's right, don't worry, I'll help you deal with those little crows, and practice archery and throwing by the way."

Lawrence put the big crow on his shoulder and took everyone home.

The estate was also peaceful today, with Seravin harvesting a dying pheasant from a nearby trap.

In the summer, animals became more abundant, and the traps were often frequented by reckless animals, and the people of the manor ate meat almost every day.

When you can't eat meat, you're actually happier because you can eat bread and other things.

EDI had prepared the clean water for her hands, and Lawrence asked, "When did all this water come from?" ”

EDI said, "Just when you came back. ”

When Lawrence heard this, he said, "Take this water and water it on the ground, and then go and fetch it again to cook, and boil a pot of hot water for us." ”

"Yes." It's unclear why, but EDI agrees.

Sariel took the initiative and said, "I'm here to help, Sophia and Lawrence, you rest." ”

Lawrence returned to the cabin, and sat down to rest while thinking about the water.

Except for cooking, boiling hot water can be troublesome at other times, especially in summer, when most people like to drink cool mountain spring water.

"You can use a wooden pot kettle to store hot water, so that the hot water can be cooled down for easy drinking, and you don't have to worry about heat preservation in the summer."

"Now the food and farming problems can be put to rest, stop and solve the drinking water problem that is closely related to it."

Lawrence told Sophia to rest and walked into the cabin by herself.

The wooden house has two floors, but the roof can be considered a third floor.

In order to prevent possible trouble, the second floor was designed in the form of a cloister.

A wide large staircase is designed from the middle of the first floor to the second floor, and then the position of the staircase on the second floor extends from the left and right, and finally forms a square middle empty area.

This way, you can see not only the downstairs living room from all sides of the hallway, but also the outside from the hallway window above the door.

If a person or beast approaches, you can shoot from the window.

On the second floor, there is also a small kennel window leading to the roof, and Lawrence came up to the roof from the small window and stood on the roof and looked around.

There are certainly no wells on the northern slopes, and the only places where they can be drilled are near the streams in the south.

Originally, it was thought that it would be enough to divert water from a nearby stream, but the water was suitable for irrigation, not for feeding livestock and poultry.

"Tomorrow I'll go to the blacksmith to make some iron tools, and when I come back, I'll take some time to solve the well water problem."

Well drilling is a technical activity, and it is also an important project of this era.

The craftsmen who mastered this technique were mostly old men in this era, and Lawrence had never come into contact with such people while working on the estate.

Usually a well can be used for hundreds of years, so there are not many things to dig wells, mainly when the nobles built manors.

(End of chapter)