Lord Highlander

  Chapter 274 273. Village under the night

Five four-wheeled trucks pulled by two horses were slowly driving on the mountain road on the outskirts of Hailansa City. A team of guard battalion knights rode along the mountain road to stop the carriage. Two guard battalion knights rode on horseback, seriously After thoroughly checking the identities of the coachman and Suldak, he said to Suldak:

   "Recently, there are always robbers on this road. You must be more vigilant and pay attention to safety when you travel."

Suldak didn't expect that the carriage had just left Hailansa City, and he met the patrol team of the Hailansa City Guard Battalion. It seems that robbers have been rampant recently, and the knights have no way to sit comfortably in the chairs in the office. , but to inspect everywhere outside the city on horseback.

   "Okay, everyone!" Suldak waved to the knights of the guard battalion who were about to leave.

   "I will, Lord Knight!" The coachman stood aside and said respectfully.

   "There will be a period later!"

  The team of knights waved goodbye to Suldak and the coachman at the fork of the mountain road.

  …

  The carriage had just left Hailansa City, and the mountain road was lined with trees on both sides.

The sunlight came in through the leaves, leaving mottled marks on the mountain road. Natasha and Rita sat on a large wooden box full of apples with their backs to the coachman, like this one full of bright red apples. There are three large wooden boxes in the carriage.

In addition, the carriage was also filled with twenty bags of wheat flour that Suldak bought from the free market. Natasha was holding a light yellow silk scarf tightly in her hand. She and Rita One person, and each has a comb, although these are not worth a few dollars, but the two are still excited for a long time.

Natasha thought that last night when Suldak took out the horn comb and silk scarf, she actually imitated Rita and kissed him on the cheek, her face became a little embarrassing, she secretly looked Taking a look at Suldak sitting in the carriage, he saw that he was drawing back and forth on a piece of parchment with a charcoal pencil.

  Two horses trotted behind the wagon, and she hugged her knees, trying to keep her feet hidden in her long linen skirt.

  Rita sat next to Natasha, gnawing on an apple in a very disfigured manner.

  The most valuable thing on this four-wheeled carriage is not the apples, nor the twenty bags of wheat flour, but the more than two hundred steel bars at the bottom of the carriage, which are 20 feet long.

These steel bars were bought by Suldak with fifteen gold coins from a trading firm in Hailansa City. Half a month ago, this trading firm accepted Suldak's commission and ordered a steel bar in Bena City. A batch of steel bars, this batch of steel bars has just arrived in Hailansa City in recent days.

  Suldak hired five trucks to pull away all the steel bars. The trucks passing in file left several deep ruts on the mountain road. There are also some other vegetables and fruits in the truck behind, as well as some living supplies that are in short supply in the village.

When the convoy arrived at the mountain pass, it was completely dark, because there were always robbers in the mountain recently, the coachmen did not dare to camp overnight in the mountain, so they could only light up the lanterns at the four corners of the carriage, and hurried to Wo Seoul Village.

   By the time the truck arrived at Wall Village, it was almost midnight.

  Five carriages were parked on the grain field. The old village head came after hearing the news, arranged accommodation and dinner for the carriage drivers, and arranged for manpower to feed the horses. As for the goods on the carriages, it was planned to unload them after dawn.

Natasha and Rita led the horses back home. The old village chief grabbed Suldak, frowned and asked Suldak, "What did you buy? It takes five carriages to pull it." return."

Suldak motioned for Rita and Natasha to go first, and he took the old village chief to the side of the carriage, and took off a rear box panel from the truck. Under the bright moonlight in the night sky, the interior of the carriage was dark. When Suldak jumped onto the carriage, a wooden box happened to crack open, and immediately a bunch of round onions rolled out.

   "This is... an onion?" The old village chief didn't expect that what Suldak bought back was actually this.

Embarrassed, Suldak quickly pushed the onions aside, exposing the bundles of steel bars inside, and said to the old village chief with a smile: "These onions are just brought back by the way, I told you before, I want to build a reservoir upstream of the village, and I even built a section of wall in your yard with volcanic ash."

The old village head suddenly remembered that the women in the family still don’t forget to water the walls every day. If they knew it was such a trouble, they shouldn’t have built the lime wall in their yard. The wall looks fine now, and it's getting stronger with water."

Suerdak pulled out a steel bar about the thickness of a little finger, and said to the old village chief: "It is not enough to have a concrete wall alone. Some keels made of iron bars must be added to the concrete wall to make the reservoir stronger. I bought them all from Hailansa City."

"These are all iron bars?" The old village chief rubbed his eyes vigorously. He is no stranger to this kind of iron bars. Many blacksmith workshops make arrows by burning these iron bars red and rolling them in forged tires. Now Suerdak actually uses this kind of iron bars to weave keels and build them into the wall. The old village chief asked with a distressed face: "You bought these iron bars to be clamped in the lime wall?"

   "That's right." Suldak nodded disapprovingly.

  The old village chief looked at the huge black bundle of steel bars in the carriage, and could only sigh softly: "It's really a luxury to buy so many iron bars all at once!"

  Why do we have to build a reservoir? There is no shortage of water in the village all year round, but it is difficult to irrigate in the early spring of the dry season. Isn’t that how it has been for so many years?

  The old village chief secretly thought in his heart that he didn't understand this matter.

Then he shook his head with his hands behind his back, thinking that Suldak became a knight, and this Wall village will be his property sooner or later. Now Suldak wants to do something in the village, especially if he pays for it himself. It's really hard to say anything else.

  It was already midnight, and the old village head looked to the right, and he could see the whole village. A dirt road stretched out far away, and it could be seen far away under the moonlight.

Everything fell 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 village under the moonlight, dirt roads, thatched huts, haystacks and chestnut trees full of chestnuts, the old man The heart of the village chief suddenly became very peaceful. The night was so gentle, sad and beautiful. The village was in a valley, surrounded by green fields on both sides.

  In the moonlight-filled wheat field, the ears of wheat bend the stalks that are about to wither. The life here is slowly changing, and everything is thriving.

The old village head looked at the young man who jumped out of the truck. His shoulders were broad and his waist had inverted triangle abdominal muscles. His eyes were piercing in the night, and many plans were realized step by step in his hands. up.

  And now, the compartments of these trucks are filled with supplies that I didn't even dare to think about before, so I am not satisfied.

   "Hurry up and go home, you've been busy all day, and it's so late now, you should get a good night's sleep!" He looked up at the bright moonlight, and said, "Tomorrow will be a good day again..."

  (end of this chapter)