Chapter 47: The Work of Inheritance
It's different from the funerals of other people in town in the past.
For Finn's funeral, Red Moon was not in charge of presiding over it as usual.
She gave the job to Lindsay, who would take care of the funeral.
So that afternoon.
Lindsay personally went to the woods and found a tall and sturdy black spruce. Then he enlisted Joel's help and built a sturdy black coffin for Finn himself.
Follow the normal process.
Those who die early in the morning can be buried in the evening.
But in order to show her respect for her teacher, Lindsay chose the highest level of funeral ceremony.
He left Finn's coffin in the antechamber for three days.
He will also stay here for three days, keeping watch for him like a bloodline child.
According to the School of Death, death does not mean the end of eternity, but the beginning of a new journey.
And the period before the body is buried.
It is the soul of the deceased who retains the world and prepares to travel in the last moments of death.
With this in mind, Lindsay gathered the townspeople the next day.
He plans to distribute the daily necessities in the house to the other townspeople according to the teacher's wishes, witnessed by Finn's still departed soul.
Someone came early in the morning.
When Lindsay greets the townspeople, she discovers that most of them are carrying money bags.
If you're going to take home what you've been distributed, it's understandable to take a bag, but it's ...... with money
Lindsey had no intention of closing the ceremony.
Just as we waited for the other townsfolk to arrive.
Torch discovered Lindsay's idea, and quickly pulled him into the corner, whispering only in the voices that they could hear:
"Brother Lin, you generally only preside over funerals, and you may not know what is going on."
"It is true that there is a custom in the town to hand out the relics of the dead, but this is generally not free."
Hearing this, Lindsay didn't react for a while:
"This ...... You don't have to collect money, do you? ”
Ju nodded very seriously:
"That's right, and it's usually done in the form of an auction."
Lindsay still couldn't believe it:
"Really collect money?"
Torch's attitude is still firm:
"Brother Lin, what am I lying to you about this!"
"I don't understand the reasoning either, but that's what the town does."
“……”
Torch's attitude made Lindsay think seriously.
It didn't take long for him to react.
A single old man like Finn, who lives alone, if his relics are given away unconditionally after his death. So assuming that there are other old people with such conditions, it is easy to provoke people with bad minds.
On the contrary, the auction method can not only maintain the value of the item.
At the same time, it can also protect the safety of other people who live alone to a certain extent.
Thinking of this, Lindsay hurriedly thanked the torch:
"Torch, thank you for reminding me."
Ju Ze scratched his head shyly:
"It's nothing, I'm just giving you a heads-up, it's not a help."
“……”
It didn't take long.
The surrounding townsfolk had almost arrived.
Lindsey auctioned off the pots and pans, tables, chairs, and benches that Finn had left behind, as the torch said.
These items are cheaper than regular second-hand trades.
People are used to this kind of rule, the scene is maintained in order, and the motivation to buy is high.
In fact, Finn lived in poverty and left not many relics behind.
But because there are a lot of townspeople who come here, and it takes a while for each item to be auctioned.
The end result was that Lindsay was busy from morning to afternoon, with little time to rest except for lunch.
It wasn't until the sun was about to set that the auction of Finn's relics was over.
At this time, the torch came out of nowhere and handed Lindsay a roasted rabbit leg.
"Brother Lin, it's been a great job."
Lin Track thanked him, took the rabbit leg and immediately took a bite.
Seeing this scene, Anna next to her also walked up and intimately handed Lindsay a pot of water.
"You've been here for a day, drink some water."
Lindsay also took it and thanked him:
"I'm really bothering you today."
"If it's just me, I'm afraid a lot of things will be difficult to do."
Torch offered to help, and Anna, as the lord's spokesman, came here to supervise the smooth running of the entire auction.
After this simple dinner, Lindsay began to tidy up the somewhat cluttered house.
Anna and Torch also have their own things to do, and they probably helped Lindsay clean up and took their leave.
Seeing off the two friends, Lindsay returns to the cabin alone.
He looked around.
All that was left of the empty antechamber was the fireplace and Lindsay's own chair, which Finn had bought for him three years earlier.
“……”
Lindsay moved a chair and sat with the teacher's body for a while.
It was getting late that he came to the glass greenhouse at the back of the hut, which was no different from before.
"Teacher Finn's work, I'll help him do it."
Lindsay whispered a sigh of emotion and began to count the contents of the greenhouse.
Because Lindsay comes every three days to help keep notes, he's no stranger to plant allotments here.
Follow the experiment log left by Finn.
He starts by applying water to a few specific plants in the greenhouse.
The classification was followed to identify the three most important plants at the moment: winter wheat, cabbage, and potatoes.
In the past, most of the crops grown in the remote frontiers were brought from other worlds, and temperate crops were mostly found among them. Finn only helped them develop certain cold-resistant characteristics on the basis of the original, so that these crops would not be seriously reduced.
And these three new crops are completely different from the previous ones.
They are highly tolerant of cold weather, only because they are found directly from the wild and have not yet been domesticated. Therefore, even if it can tolerate low temperatures, it still lacks in terms of yield, insect resistance, and disaster resistance.
Finn's efforts are to make up for this.
But when the job was in Lindsay's hands, the situation became quite troublesome.
He was not a member of the School of Life.
There is no corresponding skill, and now there are only a dozen of each plant, which is too difficult to cultivate.
The first step is to breed first.
At the same time, continue to search for other plants in the hidden frontiers, replenish the number as much as possible, and then slowly cultivate more detailed types.
With that in mind, Lindsay walked to the corner of the greenhouse.
He rummaged through his memories and soon found where Finn had stored his seeds.
"This can is...... That's right, winter wheat. ”
"And then this, what about the cabbage?"
Lindsay began to get busy in the greenhouse.
He roughly counted the propagation time, the number of cultivations, and the harvest rate of seeds for each plant, and calculated the approximate time it took to plan the cultivation process.
As a result, the night grew deeper.
Lindsay was so immersed in her work that she barely noticed the passage of time outside.
That's just at this time.
In the vestibule where Finn's body was placed, there was a sudden sound of objects falling to the ground.