The maroon fire dragon horse carried Liszt, the knight of the earth, across the muddy land to Huashengtun. Huashengtun is a settlement much smaller than a village, with seven or eight thatched huts scattered here and there.
"What are you waiting for? Seeing the lord coming, why don't you kneel down and salute!" The town's clerk knocked on the door of every farmer's door nimbly.
Those who live here are serfs.
Coming out of the leaky house, the expression on his face was numb from the oppression of life, and he stood at the door dumbly, at a loss. Under the loud reprimand of the clerk, they knelt on the ground one by one and saluted in Liszt's direction.
The actions of adults are numb.
Only a few bare-bottomed children raised their heads from time to time, and looked at Liszt with their dirty but bright eyes. Then the adult slapped his head down again, and knelt down on the ground like them, with his forehead almost touching the ground.
"Who is the steward of Huashengtun?" Liszt asked.
Gao Ertai was riding on his own horse, as if he had nothing to do with himself. He didn't know who the steward of Huashengtun was. A small clerk said: "If you speak to your lord, it is the lame old George."
"Ask him to come here."
The clerk quickly dragged an old man who was lame and couldn't walk well. The old man was covered with patched clothes, and his withered body seemed to be dying out at any moment.
"My lord, Old George is here."
The clerk pushed and shoved the old man, as if he wanted to make the old man salute quickly, but the old man seemed very nervous, standing stiffly, at a loss.
Liszt waved his hand, let the clerk back down, and said gently: "Old George, don't be nervous, I am Baron Liszt Tulip, the lord of Flower Town. I heard that there is a problem with the peanuts in Huashengtun, you take us there Let's see if we can solve this problem."
"Ah, oh, Baron... Your lord..." Old George stammered nervously, "I'll lead the way... Thank God... Peanut is saved... Your lord is here to save us!"
The excited old George can actually carry the wind when he walks.
Liszt inspected the farmland before, but he just stood outside and took a glance, and now he really looked at the farmland carefully. Because all the fields are owned by serfs, there are no ridges. Each piece of long strip of farmland has only a gully as the dividing line, and different serfs grow different fields.
Almost 90% of the output of the farmland belongs to the nobles, that is, Liszt.
The remaining 10% is their rations.
at this time.
The peanut field, which should have been emerald green, was green and yellow, and all the peanuts were fluffed up, lying half dead on the ground. The land was damp, obviously the serfs did not water less, but unfortunately watering did not bring the flowers back to life.
Old George wiped his tears and said excitedly: "My lord, we are not lazy. We fetch water three times a day, but the peanuts are still dying. Now there is only the field that Archie planted, and the peanuts haven't fallen yet, but It’s almost unbearable, and some leaves are starting to turn yellow.”
Following the direction of old George's finger, Liszt saw the long field in the middle of the farmland in Huashengtun.
The central part of the long field is green, which is much more energetic than the surrounding yellow and blue hairy peanuts.
Liszt got off his horse, walked to the farmland, bent down and pulled out a yellowed peanut seedling, and was about to observe carefully when Gao Ertai suddenly said: "Liszt, you shouldn't touch these dirty jobs. A group of serfs can do it." Although he is a down-and-out lord knight, but in mentality, he looks down on commoners even more than ordinary nobles.
Liszt ignored it.
Instead, observe the peanut seedlings in your hands repeatedly to determine the cause.
He is not an agronomist, but he has farmed fields as a child and is no stranger to agriculture. Peanuts in the two worlds are similar in some respects and unfamiliar in some respects. But basically it can be judged that the peanut seedlings in his hands are caused by malnutrition.
"Do you use plant ash or manure to water the fields?"
"What?" Old George didn't know why, "My lord, we have watered it three times a day!"
Liszt asked: "Don't you use fertilizer?"
Old George was taken aback for a moment, then asked back, "What is fertilizer?"
I don't even know what fertilizer is... Liszt felt speechless: "How do you grow peanuts?"
Old George babbled a lot about it, basically it was the weeds that grew in autumn and winter, and the next year, they would be burned down, and then they would start planting peanuts. After planting, they would be watered and weeded. It has been planted like this from generation to generation, and the harvest is particularly low. Only nobles can use elves to affect the growth of plants and achieve high yields.
Got it. Liszt couldn't help shaking his head.
No fertilizer, no matter how good the land is, it will become barren land after planting several times. The large farmland in front of me is almost turned into yellow land. No wonder the peanuts are dying, because they are "starving" to death.
But then Liszt became suspicious again: "Why didn't you starve to death before, but now Peanut is going to starve to death?"
According to old George, they planted in this way every year, except for droughts and floods, there was no similar phenomenon. Therefore, there may be another reason for the lack of nutrition in the peanut field.
"What is the reason?"
He turned his eyes to the green patch in the middle of the field, thinking seriously.
Suddenly, with a flash of inspiration, I remembered the reward of the mission - the mission required to save the peanut field, and rewarded an elf worm. According to the way he got the reward for the first mission, Liszt felt that the elf worm would not be transformed out of thin air, but probably picked up suddenly on the road.
"Reward me with an elf worm... Peanut field is malnourished..." Standing up, Liszt already had the answer in his heart, "I am afraid that the elf worm that the task is to reward me is the one that caused the malnutrition in Peanut field. The elf worm bred itself Plant, my elf worm should be the peanut elf worm."
Waving his hand, he greeted everyone: "Go and have a look at Tian Zhong."
A group of people walked on tiptoes and came to the center of the peanut field, where the peanut seedlings were still thriving. Liszt rummaged through his memories. When he was a child, he had seen the collection of elf worms. It was probably a silkworm-like elf worm that was as gentle as jade hidden in the flowers or sprouts of a plant.
Different elves have different patterns.
He is currently worth four elves, one tulip elf, one thorn elf, one corn elf and one alfalfa elf. The breeding of elf worms needs to be combined with farming. At present, Gao Ertai is still helping him find suitable farmland for breeding elf worms.
After searching for a while, Liszt did not find a peanut seedling that bred elf worms.
"It's probably because the time hasn't come yet, and the nutrition can't keep up. This peanut worm will probably have a miscarriage." Liszt couldn't help but tighten his palms. Elf worms represent productivity, and this task cannot fail.
Think here.
He said to everyone: "I probably already understand the reason, old George, now, according to my instructions, come and treat this peanut field."
"Praise the lord!" Old George cried with joy.
Gao Ertai asked in surprise: "Liszt, you really found the problem. Do you still grow peanuts? What caused the peanuts to die?"
"We can't say yet, we will see in a few days." Liszt was conservative and didn't say the reason. He was also worried that he had guessed wrong. If there were no elves at all, it would be an oolong.
Therefore, let’s treat the peanut seedlings first.