Elven settlers

Chapter 114 The Vegetable Garden

The successful evolution of the Big Needle, declared that the bee farms in the territory are also on the right track.

Rock now devoted himself to the project of opening up the vegetable garden.

It took another five days before he finally built the four stone walls of the entire vegetable garden.

Each side of the stone wall is 200 meters long and 35 centimeters wide.The base of the wall buried underground is [-] centimeters deep, and the wall above the ground is one meter high.

Four stone walls enclose a square vegetable garden, and a 1.2-meter-wide gap is reserved on the south and north walls as the gate of the vegetable garden.

Looking at the four beautiful and solid low stone walls, although there is nothing inside for the time being, Rock still feels a sense of accomplishment.

There is only a piece of scorched black land in the vegetable garden, and Rock will start paving the road in it next.

His plan is to build a longitudinal road through the south gate and north gate first, and then build a horizontal road starting from the center of the longitudinal road.

The vertical road and horizontal road divide the vegetable garden into a "field" character, which is divided into four areas.

The road that Rock is going to build is a stone road, so the stones in the quarry are not suitable.

He took the bay leaf to the upper reaches of the Mirror Sky River, where there should be the stone he wanted.

"Yeah!"

Bay leaves run happily by the river.

The upper reaches of the river are relatively turbulent, making a "squeaky" sound.The water splashed and hit the river bank, causing fine mist.

In the hot summer, the temperature in the mountains is still cool.

Rock sat comfortably on the boulder by the river bank, enjoying the rare coolness.

The water mist hits the skin, eliminating the heat and fatigue on the body.

"Whoa!"

A red figure suddenly jumped out of the water. The golden dorsal fin and yellow beard indicated the type of this water-type Pokémon, a carp king.

As soon as the king carp jumped out of the water, a bibi bird standing on a tree swooped down and grabbed it with its sharp claws.

But just as Bibi Bird was about to fly away, a vigorous cat boss suddenly jumped out of the bushes by the river bank.

The cat boss's sharp cat claws protruded from the cat's palm, shining with a cold light.

There is greed in its cat's eyes, and it is obvious that it intends to eat the birds and fishes.

Just as he was about to be buried in the cat's belly, Bibi bird flapped its wings quickly and blew a strong wind that pushed the cat boss away, and he also took advantage of the momentum to fly away.

"Meow!"

The prey in its mouth flew away, and the cat boss let out an angry roar, and then turned his head to look at Rock and Bayleaf with ill intentions.

Rock, who was watching the fun, saw that the other party had his mind on him, picked up a round stone from the river, twisted his elbow and turned his wrist, and threw the stone out.

"roll!"

The round stones were polished in the river water, flew at high speed in the air, and hit the cat boss with huge kinetic energy.

"Ow!"

The cat boss who had no time to dodge let out a scream, and there was a piercing pain in his front leg hit by the stone.

It didn't dare to stay any longer, and limped away with its tail between its legs.

After the episode, Rock, who had had enough rest, also started working.

He took off his clothes and waded into the swift water with the bay leaves.

The river water was very clear, and Rock was looking for stones with flat surfaces on the river bed as paving materials.

Because the stones he will use to pave the road this time are not small in size, but the quantity required is not large.

So this time I didn't bring the Mali sheep, only he and Bay Yeh were responsible for carrying it.

The river was about up to Rock's waist, just enough for the bay leaves to stick out of his neck.

Rock grabbed a whip of bay leaves and dived in the river.Once you find a suitable stone, pack the stone into the bay leaf's saddlebag and keep looking.

He chose some flat bluestones. These stones have been polished in the river for many years, and at least one side is very flat, which is very suitable for building stone roads.

After collecting the stones, Rock began to pave the road.

The method of laying stone slabs is similar to that of laying stone walls, in which irregular stones are arranged in a regular shape.

The difference is that Rock did not use clay to cement it when paving the stone road.

He fashioned a wooden hammer out of birch, and he traced the boundaries of road sections in the vegetable garden.

Then put the flat side of the stone on the ground, and finally use a wooden hammer to knock the stone directly into the soil.

After the stones were laid, Rock sprinkled soil between the stones to fill the gaps.

Because the excavated soil is still loose, after filling the gaps between the stones with soil, water must be poured over them to compact the soil.

This step is repeated several times until the surface of the stone is level with the land, and the stone road is officially repaired.

It took Rock three days to repair two stone roads with a combined length of 400 meters.

He also paved an extra semicircular pavement with a diameter of one meter at the north and south gates of the garden, as the entrance to the vegetable garden.

After the road was repaired, Rock took the three elves back and forth on it many times, verifying that the road was very solid.

Rock took the construction of this vegetable garden very seriously.

In his plan, after the vegetable garden is divided into grids, the grid in the upper left corner is the area for planting shade-loving vegetables, and a few suitable fruit trees will be planted in it for shade.

The lattice rock in the upper right corner is going to build a greenhouse, so that fresh vegetables can be eaten in winter, and it can also be used as an area for seedlings.

The two grids in the lower half are the normal planting area. Rock is going to use planting boxes inside to plant various vegetables in different categories.

As the first permanent building on his territory, he wanted to make it as perfect as possible.

From planning, to material selection, to construction, Rock has done his best to do his best.

After his vegetable garden is completed, it will produce all the vegetables that he and the elves eat. At the same time, it also has the characteristics of some decorative buildings, which can add a touch of idyllic scenery to his territory.

Now the vegetable garden has stone walls and roads. Although there is still some time before it is fully completed, vegetables can be planted first.

Rock's plan is to temporarily fill the grid in the lower right corner of the vegetable garden, so that he can also practice his hands.

As soon as he thought about it, he acted. Before it was dark, Rock walked towards the bee farm.

Eight days have passed since the evolution of the Great Needle, and they are now able to obtain food by hunting.

And with the bee farm as the center, it has successfully explored and expanded the range of activities of the bee colony.

It's a pity that even if these big needles are carefully selected by Rock, some losses in the bee colony are inevitable.

There were three big needles that never returned to the bee farm.

Fortunately, the remaining 42 big needles have grown up smoothly, and there have been no casualties since then.

When Rock rushed to the bee farm, it happened to be the time when the large group of needles that had gone out to hunt returned to their nests.

Wearing all kinds of elves on their huge double needles, they return to their lairs and prepare to enjoy their prey with their remaining companions.

　good night!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)