Sea Festival.
Not to mention Liszt has forgotten.
The two most important festivals in the Grand Duchy of Sapphire are the annual festival and the sailing festival.
New Year's Eve is a mainland custom, celebrating the end of a year and the beginning of a new year. Basically, nobles and commoners in any country will celebrate New Year's Eve.
The Sea Festival is a unique festival of the Grand Duchy of Sapphire. In order to celebrate the first time the Sapphire family went to sea—after the failure of the Dragon Slaying Battle, the Sapphire family had to migrate from the mainland to the islands to create their own country. In order to whitewash the background of failure, the day of going to sea was advertised as a great sailing day for chasing dreams.
Commoners may prefer New Year's Day, which is a festival passed down through countless generations. But the Sea Festival is an annual festival that the nobles of the archipelago must celebrate.
"Thank you, Sir Lydon, for your tireless efforts to deliver the news."
"This is what I should do, my lord baron."
"My grandmother and father, as well as my brother, sister, wife and Litton, are they all right?"
"Everything is fine."
"That's good."
Chatting with Leiden about the current situation of Tulip Castle, Liszt inquired about the news that the Tulip fleet had not yet returned, and he had already returned to the castle.
Layden and his party hadn't had lunch yet, so he immediately asked the kitchen to prepare lunch to entertain the group.
"Lord Baron, is Huahua Town planning to cut down all the trees in Thorn Ridge?" Lyden asked his doubts along the way. The logging team has already cut down a large open space in the past two days.
"There is a plan to cut them all down to cut off the habitat of monsters. However, there is not enough manpower for the time being. We can only cut down the trees on both sides of the road to clear the open area and reduce the risk of monsters' invasion."
"This is a very good way. The monsters in the forest are terrifying existences, and the monsters in the wilderness are just slightly stronger beasts."
For knights with horses, the open area will not be caught off guard by monsters, even magic can be avoided. Moreover, the running speed of the horse is super strong, and the monster may not be able to catch up. The knight can charge in the open area, and the horse and man can unite to display various fighting spirit cheats.
Maintain the etiquette and politeness among nobles.
Layden and the others took their leave after lunch.
Liszt needs to make arrangements: "Mr. Carter, three days later, the Tulip family will come to the castle to celebrate the Sea Festival with me. I'm not very keen on such noisy scenes. You can make arrangements."
"Master, don't worry, I have participated in many sea festivals in Tulip Castle when I was young. The scene of Butler Louis presiding over the festival banquet is deeply in my mind. Now there are endless seafood and monster meat in the castle, except The drinks are a bit poor, and a perfect banquet can be held."
"I remember that among the new serfs, there is a winemaker?"
"Yes, his name is Frank Lees, but he can only brew fruit wine, not liquor, red wine and beer, and we don't have hops."
Liszt frowned: "Aren't we out of any beer with hops?"
"There is still half a barrel hidden in the cellar. This is your only enjoyment, sir. I am a little reluctant to take it out." Carter said regretfully. In his mind, Liszt is already the most important position.
"Then don't take it." Liszt blinked.
Carter replied with a knowing smile: "I think so too."
"Unfortunately, when Layden left, he forgot to ask him to pass a few words to Levi's to help me purchase a batch of drinks and ingredients... So in the final analysis, it was caused by the poor road, otherwise the gold coins in the castle should be spent. Not to keep it and let it moldy."
"Perhaps you could send Mr. Marcus a message?"
"No, Mr. Marcus has more important things. The logging team needs him to look after him, and the knight team also needs him to train. It's not a bad thing to let Father see the barrenness of Flower Town. . ” A crying child gets milk.
The earl saw that Huahua Town didn't even have beer with hops, wouldn't his conscience ache
Carter said with a smile: "Master, you are getting more and more free and easy."
Liszt smiled slightly: "I recently read a knight novel, and there is a little poem on it-if life deceives you, don't be sad, don't be impatient! Calmness is needed in melancholy days; believe it, happy days will come! My heart is always looking forward to the future; but now it is always melancholy... "
Everything is fleeting, and everything will pass.
And that which is past will become a loving nostalgia.
The earl didn't pay much attention to the third son, Liszt, which was not a big deal, so even though life was sometimes shabby and embarrassing, Liszt was still optimistic. Compared with most commoners and minor nobles, the life in Flower Town was already It's perfect.
Eating white bread every day is an elusive ideal for many people.
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In the next few days, the town was still in full swing, building roads, logging, and oysters to build houses. The serfs took the copper coins paid by Liszt and were full of enthusiasm. Even the hot weather could not stop their enthusiasm.
The castle was also in full swing, butler Carter was busy directing the servants to clean the inside and outside, and decorate the castle. The cook, Abby Tangshao, drums her loud voice all day long, directing the two kitchen maids, Irene and Little Lily, busy with various ingredients.
Marcus led the knight squad, while guarding the logging team, while practicing the basic course of fighting spirit.
Galter, Isaiah, and Blair are also working hard.
Only Liszt was a little annoyed—he couldn't find the ultra-small saltpeter mine!
The mission has been completed, but the saltpeter mine rewarded by the mission has not been discovered for a long time. There was no one to report to him that unusual stones had been found somewhere, nor was there anything out of the ordinary to merit his attention. For three days in a row, he had no clue, which made Liszt very entangled.
Not to say, how valuable is the saltpeter mine.
Apart from using it to make ice, he didn't know what the saltpeter was used for at the moment.
It's that this situation is very pessimistic, which makes him worry about something wrong with the smog mission. The previous mission rewards basically didn't stay overnight, and they all arrived in his hands on the same day.
"Could it be that my golden finger is about to leave me?" At night, lying on the bed, looking at the mission of Xianggu Village, he was still hanging on, and he was very worried.
fine.
The worry only lasted until the fourth day.
On this day, after Gao Ertai led the logging team into Thorn Ridge to work, there was another team following them. They were the gravel transport team, responsible for breaking the stones in Thorn Ridge, and then moving them to the sides of the road for paving.
Just as they kept looking for stones to smash, they suddenly found a pile of chaotic rocks embedded in the ground, accompanied by a large amount of white crystalline substances. At first they thought it was salt, and salt was very important in daily life, so the serfs were very happy—the lord would reward them for good things.
But after a brief taste, it was found that the white substance did not have a little salty taste, on the contrary, it was a bit bitter.
Nevertheless, they scraped off a lot of white matter and handed it to Galtai for proof. Gao Ertai couldn't tell the difference, so he told Liszt the situation.
Liszt looked at the white crystalline powder in his hand. To be honest, he didn't know whether it was saltpeter, but he would know after an experiment.