The sun was shining brightly, and on a low gentle slope in the north of the valley, a large clay pot placed on a fire was steaming. The minced meat and wheat porridge in the clay pot was boiling and rolling. A peasant woman and an old woman were stirring it hard, and several children carried small bundles of firewood picked up from everywhere to the fire.
Looking from the low and gentle slope, you can see a busy scene in front of you - there are more than a dozen people bending down in the grass on both sides of the river to mow, hoe, chop and pull out. Several wide fire lines in the grass are almost completed.
Today is the third day of land reclamation. Everyone in the wooden castle has participated in the land reclamation activities. Emma also moved the kitchen to the valley. Art divided everyone into six groups and cut out fire separation strips along the marked boundaries. If there were not enough scythes for cutting grass, long knives and daggers were distributed. Farmers went to battle with sickles, iron hoes, long knives and daggers. They had to take advantage of the sunny weather and dry weeds to cut out the isolation strips and then set them on fire.
On a simple wooden bridge built with a few logs over the river, Kazak and Basz were carrying two large bundles of thatch to the gentle slope on the opposite bank.
"You said you can just burn it with fire. You have to cut some kind of fire separation line. Why bother with it~" Kazak didn't understand this time-consuming and laborious fire separation line.
"You just complain. What do you know? You even set a fire on fire. Do you know if the fire will burn the forests on both sides? If the fire burns the forest, will you put it out? If you anger the forest god, you will be sacrificed to the god." Bass yelled softly at the nagging Kazak.
"Bas, I'm not complaining, I just haven't done farm work for a long time and I can't adapt to it all of a sudden." Kazak replied sarcastically.
Bass stopped, turned around and said to Kazak: "You haven't done farm work for a long time? Look what the adults are doing! Being a laborer in Lucese was much more tiring than this in the past. How did you adapt? Shut your mouth and work."
Kazak closed his mouth angrily.
In the wasteland on the other side of the river, Art was cutting off a piece of thatch by the roots with a dagger, and Odo followed behind him to bundle the cut thatch into a large pile. Ron moved a large bundle of thatch to the open space in front of a low gentle slope, then scooped up a bowl of water from a wooden bucket and drank it, then took off the water bag from his waist, filled it with water and brought it to Art.
"Master, please have a rest and drink some water." Ron handed the water bag to Art.
Matt straightened up and wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeves. He took the water bag and sat on the haystack and drank it in big gulps. Whether it is the original owner of this body or the current self, Art has never engaged in heavy farm work. If it were not to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm and create a stable foundation for his future, Art would not take the initiative to do this. Rather than plowing the fields, he would rather go to the forest and fight with wolves and wild beasts.
While he was lost in thought, there was a burst of cheers from the other side of the river. They had already opened the fire line in the wasteland on the left bank of the river.
Matt stood up on his tiptoes and looked at the other bank. He turned to the farmer beside him and shouted loudly and encouraged: "Guys, the other side is finished, we have to work harder." After saying that, he returned the water bag to Ron and continued to bend down to chop grass...
Not long after, cheers came from the right side of the river bank.
... In the valley, on both sides of the river, along the fire line every dozens of steps stood a man holding a torch.
Att holds a knight's sword in his right hand, and holds the Holy Cross in front of his chest in his left hand. He kneels on one knee in front of the fire line under the gentle slope, lowering his head and chanting: "Lord, please bless this land with rich products. Please make this place according to your mercy." There will be a good harvest every year. You care for the earth and send down the rain to make it abundant. You irrigate the fields and plow the soil, so that the rain will soften the soil and bless the growth of plants. Lord, may your footsteps pass through every piece of farmland and make it rain. Flow fat; may your breath blow on every seedling, so that the buds of life can grow here even in the cold winter when all things are withered. Lord, we believe that your promise is the greatest kindness to all the children who believe in you; We believe that with your blessing, every inch of the land here is a blessed land flowing with milk and honey! "
Hence, everyone behind them painted the Holy Cross on their chests and chanted "Amen".
This is spiritual power. For a group of displaced strangers, nothing is more important than receiving God's blessing and protection, so Art inherited the original owner's faith in God.
Matt stood up and took the torch from Cooper, stepped forward and lit the first withered grass. The flame of hope spreads and rises in this fertile land that God has forgotten.
"Light the fire~Light the fire~Light the fire~" The sound of lighting the fire came from everywhere...
Old Cooper took the torch from Art's hand tremblingly, his voice trembling: "Master, I haven't been as excited as today for many years."
Art moved his eyes to Cooper and nodded, and then stared at the rising flames.
The fire burned for half an afternoon. Dozens of farmers gathered unburned straw and miscellaneous branches into a pile in the large black flat land and continued to light the fire.
Matt was discussing with Cooper and Bud about building a temporary shelter on a low gentle slope.
"Cooper, we are about to enter the most difficult land for reclamation and farming. This place is too far away from our wooden castle. It has been time-consuming and energy-consuming to lead everyone between the wooden castle and the valley land in the past few days, so next we have to build temporary shacks while plowing the land. I think this gently sloping highland is very good, close to the river, the terrain is slightly higher and flat."
Cooper looked around and replied, "Well, I think so too. This piece of flat land is a bit narrow, but it's no problem to build a few large shacks, and it's close to the woods and it's easy to get materials. Plus the thatch we collected in the past few days, if we have enough people, we can build a shack in two or three days." You stay here to collect wood and dig the foundation. Tomorrow I will ask Odo and the others to help you build a shack. In addition, this place has been deserted for many years, and there must be wild animals in the surrounding dense forests, so I plan to give Lawrence and Scott two of them. A short spear served as a guard. "
Just after they agreed to build a temporary shelter in the valley, a burst of laughter came from the wasteland in the distance, and Ron was seen running across the wasteland with something in his hand.
“Master, master, haha, what do you think this is?” Ron raised a hare that was burnt black by the fire.
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