Hearthstone Farm Lord

Chapter 76 Making Spirits (Thanks to book friend 20174947 for the 500 rewards!)

"Paul, how is the water purification tool doing? Let me see your work progress." Sean asked directly after entering the door.

The carpenter Paul said complacently: "My lord, my old Paul never tells lies. In fact, I finished the water purification tool yesterday evening."

"Then why didn't you go to the castle to inform me last night?" Sean's tone suddenly became a little harsh.

The carpenter Paul realized that he had said something wrong, and hurriedly apologized with a smile: "I went to your castle last night, but the servants in the castle said that you have rested, so."

"Forget it, let's look at the water purification tools." Sean didn't want to waste his time on such a trivial matter, so he directly interrupted Paul's words.

"Okay, my lord, please come here."

The carpenter Paul took Sean to the place where he worked yesterday, and what he saw was a stove with a large pot on it, and a steam bucket just enough to cover the pot was placed on the large pot.

Paul walked to the stove, pointed to the steam barrel and introduced to Sean:

"My lord, this is the water purification tool you want.

It would take a long time to make a brand new steam bucket in the water purification tool, so I went to the town to find a few discarded water buckets and disassembled them, cleaned the walls of the buckets and assembled this steam bucket.

I used a combination of bamboo tube and wine barrel for the conduit at the back, which should meet your requirements. "

Sean went up to touch the water purification device, and it was quite solid.

The main body of the water purification device is rebuilt from oak buckets. The inner wall is smooth and water-resistant. Carpenters in the Jorn area like to use oak whether they make buckets, wine barrels or even window baffles.

As for the condensation part, it is also very simple to make. A wine barrel is filled with water, and a bamboo tube runs through it, which is very simple to complete.

"Well, you did a good job. Although it was rough, it took a short time after all...Henry, give him two gold coins as a reward."

"Thank you, my lord!" Paul the carpenter bowed happily to Sean.

Jamie, the shoemaker next to him, felt a little sour when he saw the gold coins obtained by old Paul:
"Hey, if I knew I would also be a carpenter, this job is too simple!"

When Paul the carpenter heard what Jamie the shoemaker said, he gave him a hard look.

"Okay, okay, Jamie, go to work too, and you will be rewarded more than Paul when you finish the finished product." Sean said with a smile: "Paul, you too, improve this set of water purification tools, I will give you more rewards in the future."

"We will definitely do better!" The two craftsmen were very happy to hear Xiao En's words.

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Now that the steaming barrel is ready, the rest is of course to start making spirits.

Sean didn't want everyone present to know how to make spirits, after all, there were too many people.

The mill occupies a large area with many small compartments, so Sean decided to distill spirits in the next room.

So Sean said to Tom, the leader of the children: "Tom, take a few children and carry this thing to the next room. Be careful, don't break it."

"Obey, my lord." Hearing Sean's order, Tom greeted the four best kids, and carefully carried the steam bucket and cauldron towards the next room.

On the way to the next room, Sean asked Tom, "Why did the shoemaker scold you just now?"

Tom was one of the two boys scolded by the shoemaker just now.

Hearing Sean's question, Tom trembled with fright, and almost dropped the cauldron he was carrying on the ground.

After calming down, Tom replied in a low voice: "My lord, I will be scolded if the leather I make doesn't meet the requirements of Lord Jamie. He said that we are far behind his apprentices."

Tom's voice was full of remorse.

After all, now Sean still pays them two gold coins a month, and now he can't even learn the most basic leatherworking. Tom feels very sorry for Sean.

Sean looked at Tom, who was blaming himself, and suddenly had a good idea:

"Maybe you are not suitable to be a shoemaker. Otherwise, I will guide you to another path. If you do well, your future salary will even be higher than that of shoemaker Jamie. Are you willing to do it?"

"Of course!" The five children replied excitedly.

"None of the 22 of you can read?" Sean asked.

The children shook their heads one after another. They were all born in slums, so how could they be literate.

"Then I will give each of you a piece of paper tonight, and when you are free at night, you can use branches to practice copying on the ground.

I will arrange for the best writers among you to enter the school in the territory, and even become the affairs officer of the territory when they grow up, it depends on whether you work hard. "

The characters in this world are very easy to write, a bit like the characters of the Banya Kingdom. There are only 29 letters in total. It is very easy to simply copy the letters.

The main reason for letting these children learn to write is that Xiao En wants to find children with strong imitation skills from this group of children, so that they can copy Luo Dian's books and sell them in the future.

After all, few people in the territory were literate, and the territory needed a large number of scribes before printing was invented.

"Officer?" Hearing Xiao En's words, these children opened their eyes wide, with longing in their eyes.

The biggest dream of the children born in the slums is to become craftsmen and live a life without worrying about food and clothing. They really dare not even think about being an official.

"Of course, if you want to practice calligraphy, practice at night, and listen to the two craftsmen when you work during the day. You can't be lazy when you work hard, understand?"

"Of course, we will work hard!" Thinking of the bright future, the children became more motivated to work.

After a while, the children moved the distillation device and the cauldron to the next door. Under Sean's command, they first arranged the distillation device and the cauldron, and then lit a fire under the cauldron.

The housekeeper Henry also followed Sean to the next door, and stood aside and asked worriedly: "My lord, you plan to use water purification tools to make dwarven spirits, will this really work?"

"You'll find out later."

Sean directed the children to heat up the stove and pour all the ale in the barrel into the pot.

For a time, the aroma of wine overflowed.

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ps: Originally there were three updates, but Fireball encountered corporate culture training, and the training lasted until around 3pm every day, so we could only update once a day.

However, I have tried to make up for all the updates I owed before, after the training is over, and I have done what I said, and the current progress is 0/6.

(End of this chapter)