Chapter 286: Patrolling the Territory
Returning to Black-rumped Snake Manor from Fluorescent Castle, Russell arranged for two great scholars, Robert and Alex, to stay in the official dormitory.
The escort knight team is also arranged in the officials' dormitory.
Fortunately, the dormitory building is very large, and there are only a few officials in Black-waisted Snake Manor, so it can barely fit in.
"Catherine, your Excellencies Robert and Alex will be inspecting retting technology on the territory. You are responsible for receiving the two great scholars." Russell himself did not have time to waste time with the great scholars, so he asked the health officer Catherine to be in charge.
Knowing that the other party was a great scholar and his status was even higher than that of a lord or lord, Catherine was in awe.
"Yes, sir, I will receive the two great scholars well."
"Eric." Russell named the name of his knight commander again, "If your Excellency Buskuk's knight team is bored, you can take them to hunt snow ghosts in the snow fields... It just so happened that the snow ghost bandits were recently invaded. frequently."
Eric nodded and replied in a muffled voice: "No."
At this time, Charles asked with a smile: "Sir, upon your return this time, the Baron successfully rode a dragon, which is worthy of celebration. Moreover, Grove went out for a trip and was successfully promoted to the Phantom Beast Knight, and brought back a wind-blade brown bear, which is also worthy of celebration. "
"Forget it about celebrating, it's a banquet period, no one is allowed to drink alcohol." Russell rejected the proposal to hold a banquet.
But he quickly said: "But there is something I need you to take care of."
"My lord, please give me your instructions."
"Ms. Fannie, do you remember?"
"Of course I remember that Fanny's father was old to me back then." Charles revealed the truth and immediately said in surprise, "Sir, are you saying that Grove fell in love with Ms. Fanny? I remember that he had a crush on Ms. Fanny before. He clearly rejected Fanny, causing her to go back and cry."
"At this moment, Grove's heart has opened up, and he has fallen in love with Ms. Fannie again, so he needs your help to pull the strings."
"Haha, sir, I'm happy to oblige!" Charles took off his hat and made a hat-off ceremony gracefully, "I will go to Netherlight Town and find Ms. Fannie... By the way, I have to go see Gloria first. Husband, let Grove show some sincerity."
"Go ahead."
Russell waved his hand and suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, you went to town and asked old Hans to come back. Yesterday at Fluorescent Castle, I was just drinking...drinking tea, and I forgot to ask him about the cigar factory. matter."
When Charles heard this, he glanced at Russell sadly, and then said: "Yes, sir."
Finished giving orders.
Russell took three knight followers and began to inspect his territory. From the Dragon's Birthday in January to now almost April, he basically wandered outside and never inspected his territory carefully.
The coldest period of the ice age has passed. This year’s Great Scholars Roundtable Conference predicts that the ice age will end from the end of April to the beginning of May, just like last year.
At this time, the Black-rumped Snake Manor was covered in white snow.
The crops in the fields have been harvested, but there are still green wheat seedlings under the snow in the wheat and barley fields.
In the birch forest where the leaves have fallen off, large tracts of fluorescent mushrooms are still growing hard against the severe cold, producing a steady stream of magic potions.
"Chichi!" Rosie, the mushroom bird, landed on Russell's shoulder.
"Little guy, you have done a great job." Russell handed some bread crumbs to Rosie. "Plant more fields to let more fluorescent mushrooms grow and provide me with more magic potions."
On the other shoulder, Nico, the tobacco elf, was dissatisfied: "Eh Gu, Eh Gu!"
Russell quickly poured a bowl of water and handed it some bread crumbs: "You have also contributed a lot. The reputation of Yulong Cigar has spread throughout the Shadow Flame Grand Duchy, and orders will be flying in like snow flakes soon."
Nicole doesn't understand what an order is, nor does she know what a cigar is, but that doesn't stop her from holding her head high and proud.
Rosie glanced at it and chirped disdainfully.
Nicole immediately stared over.
Rosie was timid and didn't like conflicts, so she quickly turned her head away so that she wouldn't look at Nicole.
"Sir." Jack, the knight's retinue, introduced with a smile, "The size of the birch forest is expanding very quickly. Now it has become a large area along both sides of the Youguang River. It will soon have an area of 2,000 acres, but it will take a while to become useful. Year."
The white birch tree is an excellent symbiotic tree species for fluorescent mushrooms, but if the birch tree is too small, it will be difficult for the fluorescent mushrooms to survive.
The magic material birch tree affected by the birch fairy bug is okay. Even if it is just a thin pole, it can meet the growth conditions of fluorescent mushrooms. But ordinary birch trees can only grow fluorescent mushrooms if they are as thick as the wrist.
Therefore, it is this white birch forest that restricts the production of fluorescent mushrooms.
After a pause, Jack said with a smile: "But after the birch forest area became larger, many small animals came to look for food, and occasionally we can have a meal."
He is the captain of the cordyceps guard in the birch forest. He often leads people to patrol around the birch forest to protect the cordyceps.
While talking.
In the woods ahead, a yellow-furred fox sprang out, seemed to look at Russell and his group curiously, and then quickly disappeared into the woods.
The Youguang River Valley is vast and sparsely populated. Many areas are uncultivated wastelands, and there are many more animals than people.
certainly.
It is precisely because of so many wild animals that a steady stream of phantom beasts are born. It is difficult for livestock raised by humans to evolve into phantom beasts. There are almost no examples of pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese evolving into phantom beasts.
Probably wildness is a very important condition for the evolution of fantasy beasts.
After inspecting the potion fields of Potion Village, Russell went to several other villages, inspecting them one by one, and had a clear grasp of the situation in the territory.
Due to the season, the tobacco fields, dill fields, rainflower fields in Potion Village, and the dandelion fields in Lentil Village are all still empty, and it is not the time for planting. Only the fluorescent mushrooms and the Bloodfang mushroom fields in Catacombs are still growing.
also.
The size of the bumblebee farm in Potion Village has finally expanded, from two queen bees to ten queen bees now.
The beekeeper, Kenny the Bearded, and the couple are busy every day and have recruited ten and a half-year-old children to help as beekeeping apprentices. However, Russell still couldn't eat the honey from the bumblebees, so he had to continue cultivating new bee colonies.
After all, when the warm season arrives, I have to send a swarm of bear bees to my nephew Kusuo Tianzicao.
Of course, the Wujin pig farm in Biandoutun has also ushered in the harvest season. The Wujin pig, which had high hopes, and the dozen golden black sows sent from Jindingbao all successfully conceived, waiting for the birth of piglets. .
By then we will know whether the Wujin Pig, a new breed of Yuan Beast, can be stabilized.
In fact, Russell already knows the results, and the Wujin pig breed can definitely be stabilized. Because with the help of dark dreams, he had long seen piglets with dim magical light in the bellies of these golden and black sows.
All in all, everything is going well for the territory.
But there were also some areas that were not as expected, and that was the greenhouse vegetables that Russell put in charge of Mrs. Salby, the camp director of Lendou Village.
Without suitable materials to build greenhouses, wooden houses can only be used to build greenhouses. However, wooden houses need to be transparent and cannot provide enough warmth. Therefore, vegetable seeds sown during the Ice Age either did not germinate or froze to death.
"Master, I'm sorry, my old man and I really don't know how to grow vegetables during the Ice Age." Mrs. Salby admitted her mistake to Russell with fear.
Although Russell was a little regretful, he still comforted him with warmth: "It doesn't matter, it's just an attempt... It doesn't matter if you fail this time. Next time, you can sum up your experience and continue to explore. At least the bean sprouts I asked you to explore were successful, weren't they?"