The Defeated Dragon

The banquet is over.

Lester spoke of business: “I am ready to build a new tunnel on the east coast to house some of the serfs as catch-up fishermen. ”

Growers are busy during the planting season, but when they've planted their crops, they become more relaxed.

Lester thinks this is an unreasonable allocation of human resources, so why don't we free up some of the growers and devote ourselves to offshore fisheries, no, seaside fisheries.

There are no boats now, and you can't go fishing offshore.

“So delicious, indeed, more fishing should be done, but Lester, the town is so sparsely populated that we don't even have 2,000 people. Agricultural production in the tunnels cannot be separated from the labour force of serfs. ”

“Population I'll find a way.” Lester didn't say much.

In fact, he had already negotiated with Levi's share of black tulips in return for purchasing serfs from Levi's fleet to trade abroad, and could return with a lot of serfs. These serfs, perhaps from war-torn islands, perhaps from the continent.

Gorte seems to understand: "Since you say so, I will immediately begin planning for the new tunnel. ”

“Lord Baron, what's the name of Xintun?” Isaiah asked.

“Let's call it oyster tunnel. ”

Lester had great expectations for oyster tunnels, and he hoped that when they were built, they would transform a group of serfs into fishermen, constantly seeking seafood, feeding flower towns, and providing the material basis for future construction - flower towns every winter, where the inhabitants would hide in their homes and sleep, reducing food consumption.

With food, winter cold is nothing.

A lot of construction can start in the winter.

In the evening, Gaultai came to the castle again: "Lester, the corn grass has been found! The patrol finally did a job and found a herd like corn grass on the edge of Thorn Ridge in the south-western corner of the town. ”

“Show me. ”

Before dark, Lister witnessed large amounts of corn grass mixed with other weeds, which were much smaller and probably malnourished than three strands of wild corn from Wheatwood.

Lester turned around and was somewhat disappointed.

This may indeed be the origin of corn grass, but there is no sign of spriteworm fertility - without spriteworms, the development of corn grass is difficult to grow.

Nor can we gradually improve the variety and bring it closer to the popcorn stick with the help of elf worms.

“Take care of it, and make sure that the seeds are collected properly. Return to the fields cultivated in small towns, choose the right place, plant a batch, and provide new varieties of pasture for horse farms and dairy cow farms. ”

……

At night, Lester, who took a bath, read in the study.

Smoky Snake Concentration in front of you: "Complete the task and reward the Invisible Dragon with new information. ”

"Mission: Fisheries are on the Lord's agenda and a group of serfs are about to be thrown out of the sea by you. Driving the inhabitants is an essential skill for the lord, but sustainable development is even more important. Please update your gear for fishermen. Reward: A large pile of smoke. ”

“A lot of smoke. What is that, tobacco? ”

The task of updating the equipment for fishermen is simple, even if the smoke task is not released, and there are no tools for catching up and the fishermen must not be allowed to use their hands.

The rock after the recession was sharp and accidentally broke his finger.

Mission reward, no longer the message of the Invisible Dragon, reassures Lester somewhat and begins to look forward to what smoke herbs are.

Cigarettes are popular among the nobles, and the Tulip family grows many tobacco, as well as a tobacco elf.

“So tobacco shouldn't be tobacco, there are tobacco seeds in the seeds traded from Tulip Chateau, and I can grow them anytime I want. ”

Lester stopped arguing, and sooner or later he would know what kind of grass the smoked herb was.

He waved away the smoky serpent and continued reading. The Count honored his words and sent him a carriage of books when Lester returned.

Now he's reading an autobiographical form novel called The Land Ranger Griff.

From the perspective of the first person, the book describes the experience of a land knight named Griff who travelled in the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf. The story is interesting, although many things, in Lester's view, are pure masturbation - for example, cheating on the Countess, eloping with the Marquis, and talking with the Grand Duke of Maple Leaf.

This is not at all the treatment that a knight of lord is entitled to as a descendant of a desolate nobleman.

However, the author of the book, must be an experienced person, introduced a lot of terroir very different from Coral Island, some noble celestial life, and many hearsay stories.

Interesting.

Lister loves novels that read stories and grow knowledge.

“Hmm?”

As he watched, the story suddenly jumped off to the Battle of Dragon Slaughter, saying that Griff had traveled to a small town that was being invaded by intangible creatures. The town's lords had fled and its inhabitants were unable to resist, at a time when Griff had decided to save the suffering.

After his observations, he came to the conclusion that this was an invisible dragon —— not much to observe and conclude in the book.

“The Invisible Dragon is a magical dragon hidden in another world and can only be seen by the most courageous and upright knight. I don't have the courage, if I want to see it, I have to muster my courage! I have to find it, then face it, find its weaknesses! ”

Griff succeeded in dying and came to the Invisible Dragon and was beaten to death by the Invisible Dragon, but that's why he saw the Invisible Dragon.

“Ah, what a beautiful dragon it is, like a flowing crystal, colourless, transparent all over. I threw up a breath of blood, and the blood actually went through its body, and yes, I couldn't touch it. I was very depressed because I might never get on it again. ”

Lister admired Griff's nerves and was about to be beaten to death by an invisible dragon. She still regretted not being able to ride a dragon.

Fortunately, Griff is still self-aware.

“I know it's going to kill me, I can't see its eyes, I can only see the blurry water mass, but I know it's going to kill me, and I feel it. I've forgotten about life and death, and I just want to smoke two more cigarettes at the last minute. Oh, I'm sorry, I don't have any more leaves, so I grabbed a handful of grass around me, chewed it, and resisted my addiction. ”

Seeing here, Lester's eyebrows jumped.

Keep looking down.

“Later I learned that the grass I grabbed was smoked, a grass very similar to tobacco, but with a unique taste, like my socks, which had not been washed for 16 or 26 days. I'm going to throw up, yes, at that moment I succeeded in quitting smoking, I swear I'll never smoke again! ”

“I have been a tobacco addict for 17 years. When I was a kid, my father liked to smoke his own rolled leaves. He would ask me," Hi Griff, do you smoke... ”

A large section of the rest is a memory of the story my father taught him about smoking.

Lister sees the scalp burst: “Bullshit, I want to see how you slaughter dragons! ”