Chapter 182 Erudite Luo
There is a very obvious sign of mature fluorescent mushrooms, that is, the green fluorescent light disappears and becomes dim.
Many of the first batch of fluorescent mushrooms planted in the birch forest have turned dim.
The serfs of the Potion Village carry baskets in the woods to look for these mature fluorescent mushrooms. After harvesting, they can transport them to the Fluorescent Castle to make magic potions.
“It’s a pity that there are too few forests. The newly planted trees have not yet bloomed, and they are not suitable for parasitic fluorescent mushrooms.” Charles followed Russell and said with a slight regret, “We have to wait at least a year before we can use the fluorescent mushroom potion. Full of seeds.”
“It doesn’t matter, take your time.” Russell was not in a hurry now.
With two elves in hand, there was nothing to be anxious about. Besides, it was useless to worry as the population of the territory was simply not enough.
certainly.
The most important thing is that Russell found a way to swallow the Ice Grain Beads and Ice Soul Beads in Youmeng, so the urgency of territory construction began to decrease.
Seeing it, it was already noon.
Russell then ended his inspection of Potion Village and invited everyone to return to the manor and have lunch with him.
Even though Butler Morris specially ordered the kitchen to treat it as grandly as a holiday banquet, there were still not many dishes at the lunch, less than twenty dishes in total.
But Russell was very happy to eat because this was his own manor and he was naturally happy to eat at his own home. Secondly, the delicacies prepared by Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Brown have become more and more in line with his taste after his guidance.
“Reward!” Russell was satisfied with his meal and immediately ordered Butler Morris, “Everyone in the kitchen will be rewarded with ten copper coins!”
“Including the kitchen maid?” asked Butler Morris.
“certainly.”
“Sir, you are so generous.”
However, Butler Morris had just gone to hand out the rewards to the kitchen servants, and then hurried back and shouted in surprise: “Master, it’s a happy event, a great event, the Grand Duke’s envoy has come to give you a reward!”
“Huh?” Russell looked up from the food, surprised.
It seems that he has not made any meritorious service to the Grand Duchy of Shadow Flame, so why does Grand Duke Kunstein award him a reward for no reason?
Charles and others have already cheered: “Congratulations, sir! Congratulations, sir!”
“Calm down.” Russell waved.
“Sir, you’d better go and see what reward the Grand Duke has given you.” The subordinates urged.
Russell nodded, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, then got up and went downstairs.
When they arrived at the hall downstairs, they saw Knight Commander Kendall drinking tea with several knights with unfamiliar faces.
“Master Russell.” Knight Commander Kendall greeted with a smile, “The Baron ordered me to escort these Archduke’s envoys to the Black-loisted Snake Manor to announce the Archduke’s reward to you. Please allow me to introduce you, this is Lucas Your Excellency, the head of the mission…”
There are four people in the mission, including the leader Lucas, who is a fantasy beast knight, and the other three are all great knights.
“Your Excellency Lucas, you three, welcome to come from afar. I wonder what the Grand Duke wants to reward me?” Russell bowed and saluted, expressing his respect for the mission.
Captain Lucas nodded slightly to Russell, and then said: “Lord Russell, after the reading glasses you invented, after being reviewed by the Great Scholars Roundtable, you were officially approved as a learned scholar. After submitting it to the Grand Duke, he was approved by the Grand Duke. recognition.”
“That’s it!” Russell suddenly realized.
After working on it for a long time, it was not that he had made any military exploits, but that the reading glasses he had invented before had finally been recognized by the great scholars.
He was not surprised at all.
From the time his grandmother, Mrs. Ingrid, wrote to the Red Keep, he felt that it was certain that he would obtain the title of Erudite.
It’s just that it’s early or late.
“Lord Russell, please arrange a time, just in the afternoon, to call all the people in the territory to come forward to observe the reward given to you by the Grand Duke.”
“Okay, I’ll ask someone to notify the people.” Russell responded.
The title of Erudite can be compared to Lords and Lords in terms of status. Of course, in the extraordinary world, force is definitely more valuable, so Erudite is just a status symbol and does not have the benefits of Lords and Lords, and its importance is not the same.
But no matter what, this is an honor that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve, so it requires a certain sense of ceremony.
After confirming the awarding ceremony in the afternoon, Russell invited Captain Lucas, Knight Commander Kendall and others to sit down and started the banquet again.
With Charles’s warm reception, the atmosphere at the banquet was very good.
In the afternoon, the delegation arrived at the small market. At this moment, the small market was already filled with young and old people from the manor. Seeing the arrival of Russell and the delegation, they all bowed and cheered loudly and praised the lord.
Accompanying the mission into the temporary office, Russell also took a look at the small market.
I haven’t seen it for a month and a half. Compared to before, the small market has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The main thing was that a large number of dilapidated wooden houses were demolished. This was the first thing Russell ordered the officials to do after receiving a thousand gold coins invested by the family.
After demolishing the dilapidated wooden houses, the charcoal trail can be widened, not only leaving enough road width for four carriages to drive side by side, but also setting aside sidewalks on both sides, as well as green belts on the roadside and planting street trees.
At this time, the charcoal trail has just been paved into a charcoal avenue.
For future development, a north-south street was planned in the center of the small market, forming a crossroads with the east-west Cinder Avenue.
The northeast corner of the intersection is where the original farmer’s market was, which has been expanded.
A commercial district will be built here in the future. Currently, a stone house next to the farmer’s market has been bought by the town’s Huge Tooth Miller, who has simply renovated it and turned it into a grocery store. The grocery store is now open for business.
In addition, the public toilets on the roadside, a hundred meters away from the small market, have almost been built and are even open to the public.
However, it seems that no one goes in to poop or pee.
The serfs were reluctant to go into the toilet. What they pulled out was not shit, but copper coins that could buy bread.
The southeast corner of the intersection is where the original bakery and blacksmith shop were located, as well as the temporary office, which basically retains its original appearance.
In the future, the plan was to change it to a residential area for civilians, but for the time being, it was needed to accommodate people, so it was not moved.
At the southwest corner of the intersection, a large piece of wasteland after demolished houses has been reserved, which will be the future small market square.
In the future, public offices, courts, schools, and transportation stations will be built around the square, forming Wuyao Snake Manor’s own CBD.
The northwest corner of the intersection is the planned “rich area”.
There are also parks, guest houses and other buildings in the plan, but at this time only two rows of official dormitories have just been built.
The exterior walls haven’t even been painted yet, but officials and their families can’t wait to move in.
It is worth mentioning that these two rows of staff dormitories are made of muck bricks.
The Wuyao Snake Brick Kiln produced the first batch of muck bricks during this period, and more than half of the muck bricks were piled near the manor’s courtyard, waiting for Russell’s return to be used for the repair of the manor’s yard. The remaining mud bricks were used to build officials’ dormitories.
The temporary office was a bit crowded, so Captain Lucas did not stay long, waiting for the officials to maintain order in the small market.
Then he said to Russell: “Your Excellency Russell, you can start to read out the Grand Duke’s awards.”
Russell happily responded: “Okay!”
(End of chapter)