So Surdak said, "It’s not a friend, or rather a friend. They are nobles and will not treat a reserve knight as a friend."
"Oh!" Rita listened to Surdak and stopped asking.
……
Hailansa City casement Earl’s House
Surdak handed the name card in his hand to the guard at the door. It wasn’t long before a housekeeper in the Earl’s house came out and said to Surdak that Master Carl had gone to the southern suburbs of Hailansa and hadn’t come back yet. Please ask him to leave his address and send him a letter as soon as Master Carl returns.
Surdak was busy saying that he was also pumping to Hailansa City and wouldn’t stay in the city for a long time. Since Carl casement didn’t ask the housekeeper to hand over the gifts he prepared to Carl, he took out a sealed thumb from his magic pocket. The box was a little narrow and very heavy, and the housekeeper called two footmen to carry it into the house.
Then Surdak left the Earl’s Office in casement …
Chapter 273 Night village
Five wagons pulled by two horses drove slowly along the mountain road outside Hailanza suburb. A team of knight guards came along the mountain road to stop the carriage. After carefully checking the identity of the coachman Surdak, they said to Surdak
"There are always robbers on this road these days. You must be more vigilant when you travel."
Surdak didn’t expect the carriage to meet the patrol of the guard battalion in Hailansa just after leaving the city. It seems that robbers have been rampant recently, which has made it impossible for knights to sit in office chairs safely, but to ride around the city on horseback.
"Good everyone!" Surdak waved to the knights who were leaving the guard camp.
"I will, my Lord knight!" Coachman aside a face of respectfully said
"See you later!"
This team of knights waved goodbye to Surdak and the coachman at the fork of the mountain road.
……
The carriage has just left Hailansa, and the mountain road is lined with trees.
The sun shone through the leaves and left mottled marks on the mountain road. Natasha and Rita sat with their backs to the coachman in a big wooden box full of apples, like this one, full of red apples. There were three in the car.
In addition, the carriage was full of twenty bags of wheat flour bought by Surdak from the free market. Natasha held a pale yellow silk scarf tightly in her hand, one for each of her and Rita, and each of them had a comb. Although these were not worth a few dollars, they were still excited for a long time.
Natasha thought that Surdak took out the horn comb and silk scarf last night, and she actually learned to kiss him on the cheek like Rita. Her face became a little hot. She secretly glanced at Surdak in the carriage and saw that he was drawing with a charcoal pen and a piece of parchment.
Two horses trotted behind the van. She hugged her knees and tried to hide her feet in a linen dress.
Rita sat beside Natasha and ate an apple without any image.
The most valuable thing about this carriage is not those apples or twenty bags of wheat flour, but more than 200 steel bars at the bottom of the carriage with a length of twenty feet.
These steel bars were bought by Suldak with fifteen gold coins from a trading firm in Hailansa city. More than half a month ago, this trading firm accepted the order of a batch of steel bars entrusted by Suldak to Bena city, and these steel bars have just arrived in Hailansa city in recent days.
Surdak hired five trucks to pull all the steel bars away, and the trucks kept a few deep ruts on the mountain road. The trucks behind them also contained some other vegetables and fruits and some daily necessities that were in short supply in the village.
By the time the motorcade arrived at the mountain pass, it was completely dark. Recently, there were always robbers in the mountains. The coachmen were afraid to camp in the mountains for the night, but they could light lanterns at the four corners of the carriage and go to Wall Village slowly in the night.
By the time the van arrived at Wall Village, it was nearly midnight.
Five wagons stopped at the threshing ground, and the old village chief rushed to arrange accommodation and dinner for these coachmen, and arranged for people to feed the horses. The goods of the wagons were planned to be unloaded after dawn.
Natasha and Rita took the horse home, and the old village chief grabbed Surdak and frowned and asked Surdak, "What did you buy that you need five wagons to pull back?"
Surdak motioned for Rita and Natasha to go first, and he took the old village head to the side of the carriage to fetch a trunk board of the truck. When Surdak jumped into the carriage in the bright moonlight at night, a wooden box just cracked and immediately a pile of round onions rolled out.
"This is … onion?" The old village chief didn’t expect Surdak to buy this.
Surdak, looking embarrassed, quickly put these onions aside to reveal bundles of steel bars inside and smiled at the old village head. "These onions were brought back by the way. I thought about building a reservoir in the village before and building a wall in your yard with volcanic ash."
The old village head suddenly remembered those women who came to the present home and didn’t forget to water the wall every day. If I had known it was so troublesome, I shouldn’t have built the lime wall in my yard. The old village head crustily skin of head and said, "The lime wall looks good now, and it is getting stronger and stronger after watering."
Surdak pulled out a thick steel bar about the little finger and said to the old village head, "It’s not enough to have a cement wall alone. Some iron bars should be added to the cement wall to make the reservoir stronger. I bought these from Hailanza."
"Are these all iron bars?" The old village head rubbed his eyes. He is no stranger to this kind of iron bars. Many blacksmiths’ workshops make arrows by burning this kind of iron bars and rolling them out in forging tires. Now Suldak actually weaves this iron bar into the keel and builds it into the wall. The old village head asked with a distressed face, "Did you buy these iron bars in a lime wall?"
"Yes," Surdak nodded with surprise.
The old village head can sigh when he looks at a big bundle of steel bars in the dark compartment. "It’s a luxury to buy so many iron bars!"
Why do you have to build a reservoir? There is no shortage of water all year round in the village. It will be difficult to irrigate in the early spring of the dry season. Isn’t this how it has been for so many years?
The old village head secretly thought that he didn’t understand it a little.
Then he shook his head and thought that Surdak had become a knight. This village of Wall would be his property sooner or later. Now Surdak wants to do something in the village, especially if people pay for it themselves. It’s really hard to say anything about him.
At this time, it was midnight. The old village head looked to the right and could see the whole village. A dirt road stretched out far away, and the moonlight could see it was far away.
Everything sank into a deep and silent sleep. There was no movement in the village. It was unbelievable that nature could be so quiet. Looking at the moonlight village, dirt roads, huts, haystacks and old village heads covered with chestnut trees, the heart became very quiet. This night was so gentle, sad and beautiful. There were green fields on both sides of the valley.
The ears of wheat in the moonlight-filled wheat field are bent and the straw is about to wither. Life here is slowly changing, and everything is thriving.
The old village head looked at the young man who jumped from the truck. He had wide shoulders and inverted deltoid abdominal muscles at his waist. In the night, his eyes were bright and many plans were realized step by step.
Now, before these trucks were loaded, I didn’t dare to think about the materials, and I was not satisfied with them.
"Go home quickly. It’s so late after a busy day. You should have a good sleep!" He looked up at the bright moonlight and said, "It’s another fine day …"
Chapter 274 Carl letter
Surdak visited the village in a few days when he asked the village to build a large reservoir.
He and the old village head have been surveying the land around the spring where the ravine swims the most these days.
Woer village is located in a ravine on the barren mountain of Pagelos Mountain. Because there is a spring in the ravine, the ravine is gurgling all year round, so both sides of the ravine are also lush and green.
It’s like an oasis in the desert climbing out of a ravine. The slopes on both sides of the ravine are still full of gravel limestone, which used to be a large piece of limestone, weathered and cracked constantly after the wind, rain and sun, just like a dry river bed.
There is a parchment paper in his hand next to a mountain wall in Surdak, and a charcoal pen clearly outlines the construction map of the reservoir. He wants to build a semi-circular dam on this mountain wall to form a huge reservoir. If the spring water is introduced into the reservoir and filled with water, it will probably be able to spend the dry and rainy spring.
After a few days’ tour and investigation, the village chief finally approved Surdak’s plan. He almost helped Surdak determine the location of the reservoir these days.
The original Surdak wanted to intercept a dam for the ravine tour, so that the outermost area of the ravine could be intercepted into a reservoir. This idea was so huge that it almost intercepted the Walvillage tour into a Yansai Lake.
But in this way, the whole village of Woer swims in the river just like a sword on the head of the village selector. The old village chief is worried that the dam will bear so much water when the rainy season comes, so he will bury Woer village in the water if he is not careful, so he decisively vetoed the first plan of Surdak.
At present, this scheme is the third scheme that Surdak has taken out, and it has finally been recognized by the old village head.
Now, it is necessary to flatten this place a little. According to Surdak’s idea, the whole reservoir is within five acres, and the limestone will be dug five feet further, and it will be rolled into lime powder, so that the lime powder can be obtained locally. However, if you want to obtain volcanic ash, you must transport it back from the Pustuca Mountain in the distance.
Surdak said to the old village head, "It seems that we need a few carriages, well, ten less …"
The old village chief is worried that Surdak will not stop doing anything after he gets used to it.
He hesitated, "I don’t need so many cars … it’s easier for a carpenter in the village to pull up the frame, but the axle part needs to be customized in Hailansa City to make a cheap two-wheeled truck. If the axle doesn’t need magic inscriptions, a set of axles should not be too expensive."
Surdak listened to the old village chief’s introduction that the original axle of the truck had a magic inscription and no magic inscription. So the truck that delivered steel bars to us had a magic inscription? "