Before dawn the next day, there were serfs busy salvaging manure in the manure cellars in each village. The serfs picked up the manure and headed towards the dairy farm.
The disbanded logging team also regrouped, and was escorted by the knight team early to the bush where the thorny Cordyceps was located. Marcus scouted the bushes with a falcon feather arrow on his back to make sure there were no monsters lurking around, then turned around and nodded to Gortai.
"Sir, it's safe all around."
"That's good." Gao Ertai turned around and yelled at the serfs, "Pick up your spirits and start working. If you take the lord's copper coin, whoever dares to work lazy, I will definitely do it!" Whip him alive! Remember, the thorns are not allowed to touch, and all other trees are cut down, leaving no one behind."
The serfs responded one after another.
Then start cutting trees.
They didn't know why they came here to cut trees, but the town officials ordered them to do so, and they could get paid two copper coins a day.
After a while, the dung picking team arrived, and Gao Ertai hurriedly commanded the serfs to fertilize the thorns.
Isaiah, the treasurer, followed. He wanted to calculate the remuneration of each serf, and after counting the number of workers, he would record the data on thick parchment. He stretched himself, and chatted with Gao Ertai: "What do you think of the baron, why do you take care of the thorns?"
"I don't know, but adults always have a purpose for doing this."
"Galtai, you are getting more and more devoted to Huahua Town now."
"Why not? The development here is full of vitality. I will probably spend the rest of my life here. Then, it is a good thing to develop it. I am not used to living in the barren countryside, but the rich In the countryside, there are still many interesting things to find.”
"Of course, no one likes poverty."
"For the sake of adults and for ourselves, Isaiah, we have to forge ahead." Galtai glanced at his old friend, who had also been a little moved recently and wanted to follow Liszt.
"I think . . . yes."
Several officials in the town, Galtai, Blair, Karl, and Marcus, all became followers of Liszt. As the only official who has not yet followed, Isaiah naturally feels the pressure.
Galtai didn't say much, and the final decision still depends on Isaiah himself: "Isaiah, let's check the thorn bushes to see if there are any special thorns. The adults have explained that the thorns have recently Some restlessness, perhaps a change in the thorn bushes."
"Then what are you waiting for? I have to search carefully. If I find a potion thorn, tsk tsk... By the way, haven't you researched the ingredients for the flame mushroom in Xianggutun?"
Gao Ertai spread his hands: "It's not so easy. Planting flame mushrooms with various ingredients has failed. If there were no flame mushrooms growing in the mushroom shed of Crooked Bob's house, maybe we would mess up the flame mushrooms." Yes. My lord attaches great importance to flame mushrooms, and I don’t even know how to report them.”
The cultivation of the flame was in trouble.
Gao Ertai has mobilized all the mushroom growers and assigned them flame mushroom seeds for them to cultivate.
It's a pity that all of them ended in failure. It is said that Bob with Crooked Neck is suffering from a demonic disease. He stays in the shed without sleep, watching the flame mushrooms grow, but he just can't figure out why the flame mushrooms can grow in his shed. After re-mixing , it will not work, the flame mushroom seed will always die.
"Maybe you should tell the baron, the baron will have good suggestions."
"Why do you say that?"
"Galtai, don't you think the baron is very knowledgeable? He knows a lot. His vision is wider than all of us. He can see the vast world that we can't see."
"Well, is that how you see adults?"
"In fact, it was Marcus who said that this knight who wanted to be a nobleman admired the baron very much."
Gao Ertai pondered for a moment: "Perhaps I should really report to the adults. The matter of the flame mushroom is not something I can show my strength."
He wanted to express himself in order to win a consultant position.
But more clearly, if he messed up the flame mushroom, Liszt would probably kill him-anyone can calculate the importance of potion to a lord.
…
At noon, Liszt came to the bushes of thorns and cordyceps to inspect the progress, and asked if there were any unusual types of thorns.
The officials didn't gain anything, and Liszt himself cast his magic eye, but he didn't see any abnormal thorns.
Now he has confirmed that the smog mission cannot create rewards out of thin air, the rewards are all real in this world, as long as he is willing to dig, even if he does not pass the mission, he can still get the rewards.
That gives him a lot of options.
He can choose to complete the task and let the smoke task send the reward items, relaxed and comfortable.
You can also choose to avoid the task and get reward items directly to "refresh" the new task.
He even thought about it—maybe the mission will fail, but he doesn't know what kind of "punishment" will be after the mission fails, whether it is to punish the reward items to stay away from him, or there are other additional punishments. Or, after the task fails, will there be a new task
"Maybe I can try it someday, the consequences of mission failure, but if it can be completed, it is better to complete it as much as possible, and don't artificially create bad consequences."
shook his head.
Liszt is no longer entangled. Since there is no abnormality in the thorns, the only way to get the new variety of thorns is to complete the task.
Gao Ertai came over: "My lord, there may be something wrong with the cultivation of flame mushrooms."
"What's the problem?" Liszt suddenly became nervous.
"We arranged for all the serfs who planted shiitake mushrooms to share the flame mushroom seeds, but no one succeeded in making the flame mushroom seeds alive. It seems that the flame mushrooms can only grow in the shiitake mushroom shed at Crooked Neck Bob's house. But we can't find out What's the difference between his mushroom shed and other mushroom sheds."
It's been almost a month.
The flame mushroom has not yet been cultivated.
Liszt felt that there must be a big problem here. In fact, he had been paying attention to it all the time, but he was willing to give the serfs time to solve it—the lord would not have to worry about himself every day.
I didn't expect to wait for a month.
The flame mushroom seeds distributed showed no signs of survival.
It stands to reason that the cultivation of mushrooms is very fast. After the spores germinate, they can basically grow from mycelium to fruiting bodies in a few days, and they can be picked in less than two months. But the flame mushroom species (mycelium) can't survive at all. The serfs have changed various ingredients and environments, but they just can't.
Without professional scientific research talents, Liszt could only ask Gao Ertai to lead the way, and then went to Xianggutun for on-site investigation.
See if you can deduce some reasons based on your own knowledge.
Came to Mushroom Village.
Seeing Bob with bloodshot eyes and a haggard crooked neck, the other party knelt on the ground, trembling all over: "My lord, Bob is a waste, and he can't let the flame mushroom grow alive for a month."
Lister didn't blame Bob.
Just asking Bob about the process of cultivating flame mushrooms in detail.
After listening, he glanced at the flame mushroom and cast his magic eye, trying to find out the root of the problem. He looked at the sporadic flame mushrooms growing on the shiitake mushroom ingredients, and then at the flame mushroom seeds in the prepared new ingredients. Found a place of some doubts.
For normal flame mushrooms, magic power is a process of condensation.
Including the flame mushroom species it produces, it is also constantly condensing magic power.
But after inoculation, the flame mushroom species in the new ingredients can't condense the magic power, and will slowly lose the magic power.
"What is the reason?"