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.

The village of Wall lies 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 river bed.

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 surveys, 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 dyke 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.

At present, this plan 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 mind, 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 chief was worried that Suerdak was used to being extravagant, and he would not be able to hold back anything 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 a cheap two-wheeled truck can be made , if there is no need for magic 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 axles have two types of inscriptions with magic inscriptions and those 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 run errands were a few older children who were preparing to attend the coming-of-age ceremony. Each of them had a sheathed mace dagger in their belts, and they looked very proud.

According to Suldak's instructions, the children surrounded this area with white lime powder, and planned to build an arc-shaped dam here in the future.

At this time, a boy ran out from the village below the ravine and ran along the dirt road to the front of Suldak. He glanced at the old village chief with some fear, and then said loudly to Suldak: "Su Knight Erdak, a messenger has brought you a letter."

"My letter? Where is it?"

"The letter is still in the hands of the courier. He is waiting for you in the village." The boy squinted his eyes and looked up at Suldak who was standing on a high place, and said loudly out of breath.

"Okay, I'll go back now!"

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 doing the laundry, the braid kept flicking behind her head, and the corner of the linen jacket was slightly raised, revealing a white and slender waist.

With sharp eyes, Rita 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 that Suldak took out a knight badge from his pocket and pinned it to 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 that it would be written by Karl. It seems that he must have seen the punishment hammer he gave him five days ago, and also guessed that the death of the bandit leader must have something to do with him, so he wrote the letter. A letter was written and sent by special courier.

Resisting the urge to open the letter on the spot, Suldak 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 messenger 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 Wall Village as a guest..."

"As you wish!"

After the messenger left, Suldak opened the letterhead with the red mud seal on it:

'Dear Suldak:

I am writing this letter to tell you that I have received your gift. It is difficult to describe in words the surprise and joy in my heart.

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 have 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 it after seeing the Hammer of Punishment That great knight turns out to be you.

In addition to this news, I also learned one crucial thing from Miss Hoyle. The person the bandit leader was looking for happened to be her former maid named Selena, and the person named Selina's maid is married to your village, please help me investigate first, after dealing with the affairs in Hailansa City, I will personally visit Wall Village...'