Lord of Rot

The person who came to lead the way was a highly respected old man among the civilians in the porcupine territory. The lord would be responsible for solving all problems in the territory, such as whose house had black bread stolen, whose house was bitten by a dog, etc., all trivial matters, but also Some people are needed to organize the arrangements, and a respected old man is a good helper.

"Good day, sir, I am Wheel, your faithful...servant." The old man bent down. He was not young, but his body was very strong. However, bending down and working all day long made him have a serious hunchback.

These words were probably taught to him by "Rabbit" Simon, and they sounded a little awkward.

The baron was riding on his horse, looking down at the old farmer who was half kneeling on the ground. He nodded slightly: "Good day, Mr. Wheel, can you please take me to the homes of the four warriors who died? I want to visit their families."

"Your kindness will be blessed by women."

Woman, one of the four gods, is a female in appearance. She is the god of love, because the maternal figure is also considered to be the god of kindness and kindness.

"The Four Gods will bless every believer," Li Qi replied.

If believing in God is useful, he doesn't mind believing in it, but if it doesn't work...then let's be okay, but it's still okay to talk verbally.

Leaving the castle, the stone road suddenly turned into a muddy dirt road.

The sea breeze quietly drifts to the shore every night, leaving behind fog after dawn, making the ground wet.

People in the Porcupine Territory believe that it is a siren causing trouble. If you get caught in the mist, you may die, and you will indeed die if you catch a cold.

Next to the castle, there is the wheat field of the Porcupine Collar. The thin ears of wheat are followed by a few withered fruits. They are more like weeds than wheat.

Half of the field was planted with sparse wheat, and the other half was covered with unmanaged weeds. The castle's horses, sheep, and chickens all ate the weeds here.

Li Qi is not very good at agricultural farming. He only knows that this should be a fallow system. Farmers use half of the land for planting, and the other half of the land is used to nourish the soil. Now it is almost the harvest season, but this year’s harvest At first glance... there are only a few of them. I am afraid that many people will starve to death in my territory when winter comes.

The excrement was piled up on the roadside, but it was strictly separated from the fields. It smelled bad.

Flies, which are indispensable in any world, are swarming on it. Even in autumn, they are still struggling, and their buzzing is annoying and nauseating.

In my memory, the former Baron Reacher was not involved in things outside the castle. As nobles, they did not need to care about agriculture at all. They only needed to know how to collect taxes, and the former Baron Reacher was very afraid of strangers.

"Have you ever considered fertilizing before?" Li Qi turned to ask the old farmer who was following him.

The open-air feces pond looked like it had accumulated feces for several years. It was right on the main road, but everyone was used to it.

Even if Leopold's golden mule takes a trip, its golden hooves must be sticky.

"Fertilizing?" Luo Lian wondered: "What do you mean?"

"The manure is made into agricultural fertilizer and irrigated into the farmland to nourish the soil."

For example, the simplest way to ferment manure is to add water. He roughly knows the crops in his territory. After the autumn harvest, oats should be planted. When harvesting next year, fertilizer will make the harvest more pleasant.

"This! Gods above! You must be kidding!" Wheel's reaction was greater than Li Qi expected. His old wrinkled face turned red and he opened his mouth to defend himself: "We will never You can do this kind of thing, please don’t worry!”

"What? You didn't know that feces can moisturize wheat and make it grow faster?" Li Qi asked.

Anyone who pees in the soil will soon discover that urine makes plants grow faster.

"My lord, wheat is the crystallization of the earth and a gift from God! We cannot use excrement to pollute the gift. That is blasphemy against God!" Wheel said excitedly: "You must know nothing about agriculture. We will come out early." We returned home late at night and collected pests in the farmland, pulled out weeds, and caught mice. We tried every means, but the fields just... didn't grow much."

That's because there was no fertilization, Baron Li Qi thought to himself.

Not only was there no fertilization, he found that some people had already started weeding and preparing to use the idle land to plant oats. They used hoes to dig the ground and loosen the soil, over and over again, but there was not much iron on the hoes. Some people also used wood to dig the soil. Or plan it by hand.

The dug hole is very shallow.

Li Qi thought to himself: "Working repeatedly will result in low production efficiency."

"Sir, maybe I know the fertilizer you are talking about," the footman Pitchfork said: "I once heard Mr. Barrel say that the church has a magical thing. As long as it is sprinkled on the farmland, the land will be moistened, and the plants will grow wildly and bear fruit. There will be endless fruits to eat..."

"Magic, miracles" Li Qi nodded, not surprised.

Perhaps it is because of the existence of magic that farmers will not try to use fertilizer because there is a more "correct" guide in front of them. They will only reflect that they are not pious enough and God has not sent blessings.

Magic and miracles are the native products of this world. Perhaps they are more suitable for planting than fertilizer, but for the barren porcupine collar, the manure everywhere is more cost-effective.

The farmers along the way saw the young lord riding a tall horse and put down their work one after another. The children running barefoot in the fields also wiped their faces with mud and stood obediently on the roadside under the severe scolding of their parents. The child looked up at the gorgeously dressed man riding on horseback, fascinated by the tall horse. But soon his parents pressed his head down. The child was trying hard to look up while his head was pressed down. He could only see the highest point. Deer-skin boots.

That is the noble lord, their lord. When they grow up, they will pick up swords to serve their lord in wartime, and return to the fields to harvest and cultivate with sickles during busy farming times.

Under people's watchful eyes, Li Qi followed the wheel on horseback to the home of the first farmer who died.

He has a young wife. Although her eyelids are covered with freckles and her skin is rough from hard work all day long, she is considered a beautiful woman.

Knowing that the lord was coming, the woman stood early at the door of her small house where piles of dried feces were piled.

The horse stopped.

"Good day, sir~" The woman immediately bent down to say hello.

Li Qi lowered his head and glanced at the roadside, and gave up his plan to dismount. Public health was worse than he thought. No wonder Li Qi rarely left the castle.

He was a lord, so it was natural for him not to dismount. No one present felt dissatisfied, and they were even envious that the woman could get a personal visit from the lord.

"Bird Shit is a warrior. He sacrificed his life for me." Li Qi asked, "Do you have any difficulties? As his family member, I may be able to help you."

If it weren't for the corpses of the four farmers, he wouldn't have been able to kill James, and he wouldn't have been able to patrol the territory on horseback. When he saw the helpless woman, he was willing to help, just as repaying the broken corpses of the bird excrement, and for the sake of the lord. kindness.

"Yes, sir." The woman pinched her long linen skirt and wrinkled it nervously with her hands: "This winter is very difficult, there is not enough food, and I don't have a husband yet."

Li Qi nodded slightly and waited for the woman to tell her her request. He could give her food, seeds, and silver moon.

But the woman said: "I want to marry an old man with one ear."