Lord Highlander

   Chapter 292 291. Dumplings

  Although Natasha wanted to come out to watch the fun, she didn't know how to face Suldak, and hid in the kitchen and refused to come out.

   "Natasha, let's go first!" Rita stood in the yard and said loudly, regardless of Natasha's feelings.

  Natasha was wearing an apron, and she really wanted to follow her to have a look, but she hesitated and gave up.

Seeing Suldak, Rita, and Xiaobi walk out of the yard together with the businessman, Natasha touched her hot face secretly, and she felt a little worried about gains and losses in her uneasy heart. Although she and Sulda The relationship with Suldak has broken through the last layer, but Natasha cares more about what Suldak thinks of her.

Hearing that the yard had become quiet, Natasha hurried out of the kitchen and saw Suldak and Rita walking away with little Peter talking and laughing. Half a bucket of milk walked in front of Natasha, and Natasha suddenly had the urge to hug old Sheila in pain.

  “Only after experiencing suffering can we know the beauty of life, and cherishing the present life is the greatest comfort to the dead…”

  Old Sheila was nagging in a low voice while gently comforting Natasha's shoulder. She could feel Natasha's whole body trembling slightly.

Old Sheila knew best in her heart that what should have been a fragmented family was still maintained because of the man who walked off the battlefield, and showed the best side of it to others, from being strangers to each other...to everyone slowly starting to get along with each other. Accept it, everyone seems to be tightly tied together by some kind of emotion, life is gradually getting better, and the smiles on everyone's faces are constantly increasing. Old Sheila kept saying to herself in her heart: There is still a life like this now. What's not to like?

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Four ordinary four-wheeled wagons were parked at the entrance of the village. The axles were made of black iron, and the four wheels were made of solid oak boards. Swimming tall wooden boards surrounded the carriage, and it seemed that one cart could hold a lot of supplies. The horses pulling the cart had been unloaded, and the four drivers who transported the cart reinstalled the saddles on the horses.

  Just waiting for the businessman to hand over the four carriages, he set off to head back to Hailansa City. If all goes well, he can rush back to Hailansa City before closing the city gate in the afternoon.

  Hearing that the four-wheeled carriages were parked at the entrance of the village, Rita rushed there with Little Peter and Suldak, wanting to see the four carriages.

Charlie looked at the four-wheeled carriage with bright eyes. This kind of four-wheeled carriage carrying goods is considered a rare thing in the barren land. Usually, such a carriage can only be seen in some caravans. The friend in Kecheng was so rich, when he heard that Suerdak wanted to buy a carriage, he sent four of them at random.

   After the businessman introduced the specific parameters of the four-wheeled carriage to Surdak at the entrance of the village, he also talked about the precautions and daily maintenance, and then left Wall Village with four coachmen.

Hearing that there was a gang of bandits wandering around the barren land of Mount Pagros, the businessman felt that it would be safest to leave here as soon as possible, but what the businessman didn't expect was that the delivery of four carriages was just the beginning. Immediately afterwards, Suldak ordered 20 sets of axles for ordinary carriages from the businessman.

  With these four carriages, Suldak's trip to Hailansa city was not so urgent.

He thought that these four carriages could be used to transport sulfur ore, and he could also bring back volcanic ash from the pustule mountain. Of course, in addition to volcanic ash, cement needs to be mixed with a certain proportion of quicklime powder. These limestones are everywhere in the mountain. , but how to calcine these sparse limestones and grind them into powder has always troubled Suldak. Wall Village lacks corresponding coke and kilns, and natural quicklime is not rare in Pagros Mountain...

  Seeing the mill above the Grand Canyon in Digo Village, Suldak had some new ideas. He thought that a larger mill could be built on the rocky cliff of the Grand Canyon, which could be used to grind quicklime. As for the lack of conditions for calcination of quicklime at this stage, this is not a big problem. In the area near Pustule Mountain, some limestone is covered by thick volcanic ash, and many of them are some quicklime.

  Thinking of this, Suerdak felt that he had to discuss it with the old village chief.

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  However, the first group to enjoy the four-wheeled carriage was not Surdak, but the villagers in the village who went into the mountains to collect mountain goods.

Charlie, Luke, Val and several other young people each drove a four-wheeled truck, and pulled up all the villagers who were going to go into the mountains to collect chestnuts. Some village women sitting in the carriage chattered endlessly.

  In times like this in the past, neither Rita nor Natasha could talk, but now many topics revolve around Rita and Natasha.

  The villagers sat in these carriages and staggered all the way through the mountain pass.

There were a few more wooden crosses on the top of the mountain on the right side of the mountain pass. There were none when I passed here last night, and from a distance, the robbers hanging from the four brand new wooden crosses still hadn’t turned into bones. There are scavenging birds that are constantly wandering, ready to fall when no one is around.

  Suldak knew that the four robber corpses and the wooden cross should have been erected on the mountain by the villagers of Digo Village. They hung the robber on the wooden cross at the mountain pass. It is said that this is a kind of salvation for the robber’s soul...

  On the eve of the Harvest Festival, all villages are basically busy with winter storage. In addition to harvesting wheat and cassava, going to the mountains to pick chestnuts and mountain products is also a supplement for the winter.

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  The annual Harvest Festival is coming as scheduled, which is almost the most important festival in the Grimm Empire.

This year's Wall Village is much more affluent than in previous years, so in the days before the Harvest Festival, there are always caravans coming. The old village head ordered some winter supplies that Wall Village did not have, such as some ham and dried meat. , air-dried chicken, in addition to some miscellaneous grains and beans, these grains can be used to cook porridge, in the winter when the door is closed by heavy snow, the family sits around the fireplace by the fire, cooking in a hanging iron pot Serving a pot of broth or a pot of soft and rotten multigrain porridge is a rare delicacy.

  The old village chief distributed the supplementary winter storage materials in the village before the harvest festival. The villagers no longer had the grudges of lack of food in previous years, and the smiles in their eyes increased.

Every year during the Harvest Festival, Wall Village will hold a grand dinner party. Each household will prepare some different delicacies and move them to the central square of the village. Everyone will light a bunch of bonfires in the square, eat and drink together, and gather around Dancing around the campfire.

  However, this year's Harvest Festival added something that was not there before. Suldak bought two large oak barrels of ale from the caravan.

  The traditional delicacies in Wall Village are roasted wheat cakes with meat, stewed meat, and lamb soup.

In addition, there are occasional barbecues, but the barbecue will lose a lot of fat during cooking, and the villagers of Wall would rather throw these animal fats into the soup pot and drink a bowl of fat broth than eat. A dry roast is more appetizing.

  With the help of Rita and Natasha, Suldak prepared some steamed dumplings, which is not a word in Wall Village, and Suldak didn’t know if the pronunciation was right or not. In short, it meant that—steamed dumplings.

The stuffing is made of beef shank and onion, and the thin skin is rolled out of wheat flour. Fortunately, Rita is more dexterous and quickly mastered the skill of rolling the skin. She rolled the dough into a large sheet, and then Cut into small square pieces with a dagger, although it looks a bit nondescript, but this is the first dumpling that Suldak ate when he came to this world...

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