Lord Highlander

   Chapter 569 558. Harvest Festival

Harvest Festival

  As the biggest festival of the Grimm Empire, almost all people in the empire will hold celebrations on this day.

In contrast, the two major festivals of the Grimm Empire, the Magic Awakening Ceremony and the Coming-of-Age Ceremony, cannot reach such a scale. The former is only given special attention in big cities with elementary magic academies, and the latter is not seen by the poor. We accept that there is no special ceremony for the coming-of-age ceremony of the poor, at most, boys and girls of the right age put on a new set of clothes and hold a meaningless outing.

  The day before the Harvest Festival, the scattered Woercun villagers have returned to Woer village one after another.

In particular, a group of craftsmen led by Charlie rushed back from Karl Manor. The carriage was full of gifts purchased from Hailansa City. The team stopped at the entrance of the village. The villagers immediately took out the candies they had prepared and distributed them to the children, and there was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

  The women followed behind and watched their men and sons jump out of the carriage. They first looked carefully to see if there was any change, and then happily surrounded them and returned home.

  After the small townhouses were built in Wall Village, many villagers who worked outside for a long time did not even know where their houses were divided.

Charlie said to Suldak: The main body of Karl's villa has been built, and the only thing left is the triangular wooden stent roof. The wood has been transported to Karl's manor, and now the carpenters are rushing to make it, just wait until after the festival. Mount it on the roof.

Not long after, Luke from the Lava River Sulfur Mine drove back to Wall Village with 400 kobold miners. At the same time, they also came back with sulfur ore transported by 20 four-wheeled carriages. The kobold slaves had a good life in the mine, and every kobold's fur was very shiny.

   This group of kobolds are very adapted to the living environment near the volcano. They are neither affected by the volcanic ash in the sky, nor afraid of the dark river of lava.

Luke stayed in the sulfur mine for nearly two months this time. When he came back, he had a beard on his face and his leather armor was in tatters. He hadn't taken care of it for a long time, making him look like a middle-aged man. uncle.

The conditions in the sulfur mines are still too difficult. Suldak is going to find a few trustworthy young villagers in Wall Village to train them, so that they can share the burden on Luke and Charlie. Before that, Charlie and Luke took turns. Guarding the sulfur mine, and now that Charlie was sent out to build a house, no one could exchange Luke for a while.

  Suldak strode up, not caring that Luke was dirty and covered in volcanic ash, and gave Luke a big hug.

   Among the young people in the village, apart from Charlie and Luke, not many of them could call out their names.

Ten four-wheeled carriages from Hailansa Carriage Co., Ltd. arrived at Wall Village. The coachman opened the box boards of the cargo box, and some fat pigs and yellow sheep jumped out of the box. This time, Suldak added some Gazelle also bought back two big fat pigs and ten black and white cows. These animals got off the cart and immediately made the entrance of the village chaotic.

The ten four-wheeled carriages of the carriage shop are dedicated to transporting sulfur mines to Constantinople. They will transport the sulfur mines to Hailansa City today, and they will drive the four-wheeled carriages after the harvest festival to deliver the first batch of The sulfur mines were sent to Constantinople.

  Now Baron Suldak has become a major customer in the carriage shop, and a fixed amount of steel is shipped to Wall Village every month, and of course there are other materials.

  The kobolds moved the sulfur mines to the ten carriages of the carriage shop. After the director of the carriage shop signed an agreement with Suldak, the ten carriages and carriages slowly drove out of Wall Village.

Next, everyone began to prepare for the Harvest Festival celebration. Guli Temu, who came back from the Beigou Grassland, felt that a pig of this size must be hung in the oven. It is enjoyable to eat, but this proposal was rejected by Suldak. It is too wasteful to make barbecue, especially this kind of fatty pork. Of course, it is the most delicious to make braised pork, braised pork and crystal elbow.

  As for the cooking methods of these dishes, he has already taught Rita and Natasha the general methods, and he also tried the dishes in the morning.

   As it turns out, Natasha is pretty good at cooking braised pork…

The head of Bright Village specially prepared two barrels of ale this time. During the Harvest Festival in previous years, the villagers of Wall Village could only drink a bowl of lamb soup with meat and a large piece of toasted wheat cake. Every other year, everyone can not only eat meat casually at the Harvest Festival, but also drink ale.

  Harvest Festival celebrations start in the morning.

The central square of the village in the early morning is simply a large slaughterhouse. In addition to slaughtering some pig samples, the hunters in the village also brought back a dozen gray rock iguanas from the depths of the barren land. Throwing it into a large pot of boiling water to cook broth, the villagers don’t need to eat at home in the morning, holding a bowl of fragrant offal soup, picking up a large piece of baked wheat cake, drinking a sip of broth, eating One bite of wheat cake will immediately make you feel warm all over your body.

The official banquet started in the afternoon. Every year, the village head of Brett would stand up and dedicate the fullest ear of wheat in the wheat field to the goddess of harvest, praying for good weather next year, and the dry season will not be as long as this year. The whole process of praying is full of With a sense of ritual, the villagers also followed the old village head meticulously and put their hands together in front of their chests, making prayers.

Suldak stood beside Selena and Signa, and the three of them were behind the crowd. Of course, Selena and Signa, who believed in the Goddess of Darkness, would not pray to the Goddess of Harvest, and Suldak did not pray either. They were all praying, and Suldak whispered to Selina: "Have you developed those kobolds as believers?"

   Selina nodded slightly as she looked at Suldak.

  Selena was tall and tall, and she was very conspicuous standing at the back. She asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

  Suldak shook his head and said: "It's nothing, just don't satisfy all their requirements at once, I still expect them to be able to dig stones in the quarry!"

"knew!"

  Selena pursed her lips and smiled, then stopped talking.

  The sacrifice of the old village head on the platform in the central square ended with cheers, and the villagers piled the prepared delicacies on the long table...

  …

A young sorcerer on a magic steed passed by the Paglos Pass. As he passed the wooden crosses on the top of the mountain, he saw a heap of bones, and some vultures settled on the bones, looking for some edible dried meat. Meat, the young magician felt a little sick to his stomach.

It is said that the folk customs in the barren land outside the mountain pass are tough. Although the young magician has made sufficient psychological preparations, he was shocked when he saw the white bones on the top of the mountain. He did not expect the villagers here to be so tough. to the point...

  He passed the arrow tower over the mountain pass, and a group of large-scale dam clusters immediately appeared in the upper reaches of the valley in front of his eyes.

  The young magician took a breath and ignored the scouting guards on the arrow tower at the mountain pass.

   Just as he flew over the top of the Arrow Tower, a red flag had already been raised on the flagpole of the Arrow Tower, and he didn't even look at it.

The news spread to Wall Village very quickly. The villagers were still participating in the Harvest Festival celebration. The only people who knew about it were the members of the security team and the village chief Brett. Stand up and exit the banquet quietly.

  She carried a bow on her back, and her body was as light as a cheetah. She turned over and climbed up a small townhouse in a few steps, aiming at the direction of the Pagros Pass from a distance, the longbow was already in her hand...

  The young magician rode the magic handle without realizing it, and galloped all the way to Wall Village.

   When passing by the entrance of the village, he even made an extreme dive, flying past the dead branches of the tree top...

  (end of this chapter)