Chapter 275 274. Carl's letter
Suldak wanted to build a large reservoir upstream of Wall Village, and word spread throughout the village within a few days.
He and the old village chief have been measuring the land around the spring in the uppermost valley these days.
Wall Village is located in a ravine among the mountains of the Badlands of Pagloss Mountains. Because there is a spring in the upper reaches of the ravine, the ravine is gurgling all the year round, so both sides of the ravine also present a piece of lush greenery.
It is like an oasis in the desert. As long as you climb out of the ravine, the hillsides on both sides are still limestones full of gravel. Those limestones were originally a large piece. Like a dry riverbed.
Surdak was standing next to a mountain wall, holding a piece of parchment in his hand. On the paper was a drawing of the reservoir clearly outlined in charcoal. He wanted to use the mountain wall here to build the reservoir. , As long as a semicircular dam is built, a huge reservoir can be formed. As long as the spring water is introduced into the reservoir and the reservoir is filled with water, it will probably be able to survive the dry and rainless spring.
After several days of upstream surveying, the village chief finally approved of Suldak's plan. He has been helping Suldak determine the location of the reservoir for the past few days.
Originally, Suldak wanted to intercept a dam in the upper reaches of the ravine, so that the uppermost area of the ravine could be intercepted as a reservoir. This idea is relatively large, and the upper reaches of Wall Village will almost be intercepted into a Yansai Lake.
But in this way, the entire Woer village is in the river downstream of this reservoir, and the upstream reservoir is like a sharp sword chosen over the heads of the whole village. The old village head is worried that the rainy season will come next year, and the reservoir The **** can't bear so much water, and a little carelessness will ruin Wall Village to the bottom of the water. So he decisively rejected Suldak's first plan.
Currently, this set of plans is already the third set proposed by Suldak, and it has finally been approved by the old village chief.
But now it is only necessary to level the place a little bit. According to Suldak's idea, within the five-acre range of the entire reservoir, another five feet will be dug down, and the excavated limestone will be rolled into lime powder, so that the limestone Powder can be obtained locally, but if you want to get volcanic ash, you have to bring it back from the distant pustule mountain area.
Suldak made some calculations in his heart, stood on a big rock and said to the old village chief: "It seems that we need a few carriages, um, at least ten..."
The old village head was worried that Suerdak was used to being extravagant, and he would not be able to hold back what he did in the future.
He pondered for a while: "I don't need so many cars at once... There are carpenters in the village, so it's relatively easy to pull up the frame, but the axle part needs to be customized by Hailansa City, and it is completely possible to make cheap two-wheeled trucks. If there is no need for magical inscriptions on the axles, a set of axles should not be too expensive."
Suldak heard the old village chief introduce the truck. It turns out that the wheel and axle are divided into two types: with magic inscriptions and without magic inscriptions. So the truck that transported the steel bars for us has magic inscriptions? "
Seeing Suldak jumping off a big rock, the old village head followed, "Yes, the trucks have magic inscriptions on the front and rear axles, and a set of axles with magic runes costs about ten gold. At the beginning, Wall Village also thought about making a cart, just for the convenience of travel, and I even inquired about it at the car dealership in Wall Village, but unfortunately it was a bit out of budget at that time, and I had to raise a horse .”
Suldak thought about it, and felt that ten trucks were a bit small. After all, the place where the volcanic ash could be collected was at least a day's walk from Wall Village. Since the axles with magic patterns are not as expensive as imagined, you can consider buying a few sets.
Most of the men in the village went to the sulfur mine in Pubiao Mountain to dig sulfur, and only the elderly, women and children remained in the village.
At this time, the only ones who could help the old village chief with running errands were a few older children in the village who were preparing to attend the coming-of-age ceremony. Each of them had a sheathed mace dagger in their belts, looking very proud.
The children circled this area with white lime powder according to Suldak's instructions, and planned to build an arc-shaped dam here in the future.
"My letter? Where is it?"
"The letter is still in the hands of the messenger. He is waiting for you in the village." The boy squinted his eyes and looked up at Suldak standing on a high place, and said loudly out of breath.
"Okay, I'll go back!"
Suldak walked quickly back to the village. When passing by the river beside the village, he saw a group of women washing clothes by the lake. Rita and Natasha were among them. Natasha tied her thick long golden hair She wore her hair in a ponytail, and when she was washing clothes, the braid kept flicking behind her head, and the corner of the linen jacket was slightly raised, revealing a white and slender waist.
Rita's eyes were sharp, and she saw Suldak on the road at a glance, and hurriedly waved at Suldak.
Suldak knew that the women in the village were washing clothes, and the men couldn't get close to them. It was a very reckless behavior, so he just waved from a distance, turned and walked into the village.
The messenger was standing under a chestnut tree leading his horse. He was wearing light leather armor, pointed boots, a large leather bag on his waist, and a crown with a feather on his head. He looked very young, and when he saw Suldak approaching, he could tentatively ask, "Are you the Knight of Suldak?"
Seeing Suerdak take out a knight badge from his pocket and pin it on his chest, the messenger let out a soft breath, quickly took out a letter sealed in mud from his leather pocket, and handed it to Su Erdak hands.
"Captain Karl Casement wrote you a letter, I must hand it to you!" The messenger said seriously to Suldak.
Suldak didn't expect it to be written by Karl. It seems that he must have seen the hammer of punishment that he gave him five days ago, and also guessed that the death of the bandit leader must have something to do with him. A letter was written and sent by special courier.
Suldak resisted the urge to open the letter on the spot, took out a silver coin and handed it to the courier, and said to the courier, "I'm sorry to trouble you for making this special trip..."
The courier stretched his brows and said to Suldak, "This is what I should do. Do you have anything to convey to Captain Karl Casement?"
"Please pass on my greetings to Karl and invite him to come to Woer Village as a guest..."
"As you wish!"
Waiting for the messenger to leave, Suldak opened the letterhead with the red mud seal:
‘Dear Suldak:
I write this letter to tell you that I have received your gift. It is difficult to describe the surprise and joy in my heart with words.
I didn't expect that I would receive such a big surprise when I returned from the southern suburbs. In the past half a month, I conducted a series of investigations in the Hoyle Manor in the southern suburbs. During the investigation, I found that this incident was not simply a robbery. The aristocratic manor, the bandits are probably working for a well-established monastery, and that mysterious monastery may be looking for a woman.
After returning to High Lansa City, I met Miss Hoyle, a survivor of Hoyle Manor, and learned from her that it was a great knight who rescued her. I only knew after seeing the Hammer of Punishment That great knight turns out to be you.
In addition to this news, I also learned something very important from Miss Hoyle. The person the robber leader was looking for happened to be her former maid named Selena, and the person named Selena's maid is married to your village, please help me investigate first, after dealing with the matters in Hailansa City, I will personally visit Wall Village...'
(end of this chapter)