Lord Highlander

   Chapter 655 644. Winter Mountain Village

   After the sulfur on the stone walls on both sides of the lower reaches of the Lava River was mined by kobold slaves, it became imperative to open up new mining areas.

Lava River Waterfall is located on the south **** of Pustou Mountain, about five kilometers away from the foot of the mountain. The area at the foot of Pubun Mountain has a gentle slope, and it flows upstream along the Lava River. Only near the Lava Falls, the **** of the mountain suddenly changes. It became steeper, and a cliff nearly 70 to 80 meters high was formed here at the lava waterfall. The tumbling magma flowed down from the top of the cliff along the river of lava, and the volcanic riverbed that came out of the cliff looked like a Like the Xiangba in front of the giant elephant, the magma flows down the top of the elephant, and as the magma gradually cools, the river channel piles up higher and higher.

There is an umbrella-shaped platform 50 meters away from the waterfall. Standing on the platform, you can still feel the heat wave coming from the lava river. The sulfur smell here is a bit pungent, dry and hot, but for kobold slaves , but it is an excellent camping place, and the environment here will not affect their lives.

  Especially in winter like this, the volcanic ash near Pustule Mountain is flying all over the sky.

For the kobold slaves here, it is a rare good season. The north wind from the ice and snow tundra crosses the Ziqing Mountains, crosses the Majaro Mountains along the blazing plains, and blows along the Pagros Mountains to Bena Province , The volcanic ash mixed with heavy snow falls down, which can completely cool down here.

It is very simple to build a shed in Pustule Mountain. You can carry some shale fragments to pile up the wall. If you are worried that it will not be strong, you can use pozzolanic cement to fill the stone gaps between the shale. There is no need for a roof, just build a shed with a wall Put a few logs on it, and then spread the dustproof cloth on the top of the shed, and you can build the simplest temporary shed.

These timbers and dust-proof cloths were all brought up from the sulfur mines at the foot of the mountain. In addition to piles of sulfur mines, there were also bags of miscellaneous grains and a few smoked pork legs. Kobold slaves can all eat a meal of stewed pumpkin with diced ham and multigrain cake, which is almost the best reward for kobold slaves.

Suldak discussed with several village supervisors, but they couldn't come up with any good ideas, but the kobold slave leader suggested to Suldak that he could lead the kobolds to dig a rocky step on the cliff. A rock wall step that turns back and forth seven times is completely embedded in the cliff.

The face of the kobold slave leader is full of wrinkles. From the front, it looks like a sharpie, with a half-burned candle on top of his head. He can speak a lot of simple imperial languages. Although the tone is a bit special, it is completely Communication is not affected.

  He used a burnt black stick to draw confusing sketches on the rocky ground.

Suldak and five village supervisors squatted aside, listening carefully to the introduction of the kobold slave leader. Several villagers in Wall Village lived in a barren land except for the few years of military service. , They had limited knowledge, and when they heard that the kobold slave leader had come up with such a feasible plan, they all felt that they could give it a try. After all, digging rocks was not a difficult task for kobold slaves.

   It’s just that Suldak thinks that such a project is a bit too big. A rock wall tunnel that turns back and forth seven times will probably take many days to dig, and it will inevitably require a lot of hard work. At present, if the kobold slaves want to dig the sulfur mines in the upper reaches of the lava river, they can only go around the side of the cliff and walk seven or eight kilometers longer to climb to the top of the lava waterfall and go to both sides of the river to collect sulfur mines.

  Surdak sat on the boulder outside the temporary camp, frowning and looking at the red lava river in the distance. Some volcanic ash mixed with snow grits fell into the magma, and immediately turned into wisps of black gas, which drifted away with the wind.

The kobold leader and five village supervisors stood aside, its dark nose opened and closed with breathing, it lowered its eyelids, took out a piece of eggplant stick from its bosom, and set it on fire against the steaming dark river , Put it in your mouth and smash it, the spicy smoke from the eggplant stem seems to be the best enjoyment for the kobold leader.

Suldak wants to build a steel cable on the cliff, so that sulfur mines and kobold slaves can quickly slide down the cableway, but if you want to find a qualified steel cable, you must go to the blacksmith workshop in Bena City to order , cannot solve the immediate problem at all.

   "Dak, Dak!"

  A man's shout came from afar...

Before Suldak could stand up, the village overseers standing aside excitedly ran towards the bank of the lava river, and the kobold slave leader also looked there, and saw Luke standing on a piece of volcanic rock in the distance Up, waving towards this side.

   Then strode across the rocks that were smoking black smoke, and quickly ran towards the platform.

   "Oh, Luke, why are you here?"

  Suldak walked up to Luke, stretched out his fist and bumped into him, and asked with a smile.

Before that, Luke and Charlie took turns managing the sulfur mine. Charlie led the craftsmen to build villas for Karl’s manor. Luke was always in charge of the mine. Luke was given a long vacation, and many young people in the village took advantage of the autumn to marry brides. There was no reason for Luke to eat volcanic ash in the sulfur mine.

Luke tugged at the mask on his face, and said with a smile: "I went back to the village for a few days, and followed the road repair team in the village to repair the cement road along the direction of the pustule mountain. Today, the cement road has been repaired to the foot of the mountain here." , of course I want to come and see you, look over there..."

  Luke points to a thin black line on the distant horizon...

   Obviously, here is at least a dozen kilometers away from the cement road built by Luke.

  Suldak is halfway up the mountain. Although the view here is wide, if you want to see the kobold slaves who are building roads in the distance, you have to carefully distinguish them.

   "How many kobold slaves did you bring to repair this road?" Suldak recited a rune language, and his eyes became clearer before he could barely see clearly.

  Luke laughed, and said: "Almost all the kobold slaves in the village have been dispatched! With this smooth concrete road, it doesn't take two days to get to Bump Mountain from Wall Village by four-wheeled truck."

   "Good job, it will be much more convenient to transport sulfur ore in the future." Surdak looked back from a distance, and jumped off the huge volcanic rock. "We will not only build the road from Wall Village to the volcano, but also build concrete roads between natural villages in the barren land."

It is very easy to build such a concrete road in the northern part of the barren land full of volcanic ash. You only need to gather the volcanic ash scattered in the wilderness to build a roadbed, spread a layer of volcanic ash and sprinkle a layer of water, and then use stone rollers to compact the road surface. , No other treatment is even needed, there is volcanic ash everywhere here, and road repairs are as simple as repairing pond stalks in rice fields.

It is close to the pustule volcano, and the volcanic ash has covered a large area of ​​land. If you want to build such a cement road in the southern part of the barren land, you will inevitably need to use a large number of four-wheeled carriages to transport the volcanic ash, and mix some lime into the volcanic ash. Powder, to ensure that rainwater can quickly condense into strong concrete.

After Luke came, Suldak finally had someone he could negotiate with. For the rocky cliff of the Lava River Falls, Luke suggested to build a solid rope ladder with ropes, and tie a layer of hard oak on it. board, so that the road leading to the top of the cliff can be quickly repaired.

However, such a rope ladder can only be regarded as a temporary solution at best, and a permanent passage will be built in the future. Since Pustule Mountain has now become the territory of Suldak, Suldak feels that it is necessary to build a bridge on the bank of the lava river. While building a road, as for the rock cliff of the waterfall, Suldak finally decided to rely on the rock wall and build a plank road with wooden brackets with oak, leading to the cliff top of the waterfall.

"I'll take some kobolds to cut down oak trees on Pagros Mountain. We can also repair the concrete road there. As long as we connect the pustule mountain and the southern foot of Pagros Mountain with a concrete road, we can do it in the future. There is a steady stream of free wood, so you won’t have to go to Oak Ridge to cut the miscellaneous wood there every time you use wood.” Luke offered to share some tasks and said to Suldak.

   "Alright." Suldak said.

   Nearly a thousand kobold slaves gathered at the sulfur mine, putting considerable pressure on the entire supply line of Wall Village.

At least fifteen bags of miscellaneous grains are consumed every day to fill the stomachs of these kobold slaves. The sulfur mine currently cannot accommodate so many kobold slaves. Luke takes this team of kobold slaves to continue to build the concrete road to Mount Pagolos South Foot. Otherwise, there would be no smooth concrete road, and it would be very difficult to transport the timber from the southern foot of Pagros Mountain to Pustule Mountain, given the current road conditions.

  However, the river of lava still needs to build a rope ladder and ropeway with ropes for the time being.

Suldak had been busy at the sulfur mine for two full days before he built a simple linen rope ladder. Kobold slaves lined up neatly to climb to the top of the cliff. There are several times more downstream rivers, and the temporary cableway that was originally built has become the most convenient way to transport the sulfur ore down the mountain from the middle of the mountain. This is what Suldak did not expect.

  …

  Aphrodite was still on the mountain road between Constantinople and Hailansa city, admiring the snow scene among the mountains along the way.

Suldak was going to leave the pustule mountain temporarily and return to Woer Village to take a look. In order to prevent the red dragon Iser from starving, Suldak transported nearly ten boxes of red crystals to the treasure chamber, and told the red dragon Iser Hall himself intends to go away for a while.

Looking at the red dragon's reluctant eyes, he put his huge head on the platform, looked at Suldak pitifully, and was about to close the door of the treasure chamber, Suldak suddenly had some inexplicable emotions in his heart, but He immediately realized that the other party was a young red dragon, not a cat or a dog that he raised casually, but a dragon.

  Suldak rode back to Wall Village on the seventh day after he left Constantinople. On this day, Aphrodite also entered the boundary of Hailansa City with the carriage team.

Riding a horse into Wall Village, the market at the entrance of the village seemed a bit sluggish, but there were still villagers running to the stall. Apart from a few villagers from Wall Village, there were also a few merchants in the market at the entrance of the village, who sold groceries. The owner of the grocery store, the tavern owner who built a simple open-air tavern, and an adventure group also temporarily stayed here in Wall Village.

  Several villagers of Wall Village saw Suerdak coming in from the outside on horseback, and they all stood up and greeted Suerdak.

  Suldak just waved his hand casually, then crossed the sluggish market at the entrance of the village and entered Wall Village.

Looking at the well-organized row of small buildings in the village, on the flat steps in front of the small buildings, there are always some elderly people in the village sitting on deck chairs, basking in the warm sun in this winter, and their bodies are covered with thick felt. Blanket, eyes squinting, looking comfortably at the blue sky and white clouds in the distance, this is the first time that I don’t need to worry about the food stored in the winter is not enough, and I no longer need to go to the snow to find those sea-buckthorn fruits buried under the snow, There is no need to worry about the heavy snowstorm that will collapse the roof. There is no need to worry about these, not at all.

  The reservoir in the upper reaches is still storing water. I don’t know how long the stream in the village has been dry. Is it a month, two months... or three months? In short, after the Harvest Festival, there was no water in that stream, and all the spring water was accumulated in the cistern.

Nowadays, whether the villagers wash their clothes or get drinking water, they will go to the square in the village. There are five faucets here, all of which are the cleanest spring water on the mountain. Women are still accustomed to squatting under the faucets. Row, while washing clothes in the cold weather, while chatting loudly, the children also gathered in the village square to play hide-and-seek games, and the village square was very lively.

  The house next to the carpentry workshop was originally a children's home, but now there are a few brand new four-wheeled carriages outside.

But what I am more concerned about is the yellow sheep pen near the stream in the lower reaches of the village. In addition to a large piece of land surrounded by the sheep pen, there are nearly 70 or 80 horses in it, and there are more than 50 horses in another pen. Head of a dromedary.

  Suldak captured a lot of camels when he intercepted the desert bandits last time, but not so many.

The group of women finally saw Suldak, and their laughing and laughing voices became louder. Natasha, who was mixed in the crowd, stood up from the crowd under the squeeze of the village women, her face flushed with shame. , but still walked up to Suldak very bravely, looking at Suldak with big watery eyes, with watery tenderness in his eyes.

Suldak didn't speak, and looked at Natasha intently. When she approached, he bent down and stretched out his strong arms to catch Natasha in his arms, let her sit in front of the saddle, and held her softly with both hands. waist, rode the horse and ran towards the home upstream.

   There was laughter and loud whistles from the square behind. A group of children chased after the horses, and they didn't stop until they saw the gate of Suldak's house in the distance.

Suldak held Natasha's slender waist with one hand, jumped off the horse, let Natasha lean on the wall at the door, held her delicate and beautiful face, and gently licked her Soft lips.

  Natasha also responded enthusiastically at this moment...

  Until Little Peter's voice sounded under the two of them: "Mom, what are you doing?"

   Natasha was like a panicked rabbit struggling to leave Suldak's arms.

  Suldak wiped his mouth, bent down and hugged little Peter in his arms, and led Gu Bolaima into the yard with the other hand.

   The keyboard is broken, waiting for me to buy a keyboard online to pay off the debt

  (end of this chapter)