Chapter 97 (1/2)

97 – Continuous Failure in Cultivating the Flaht, there were already serfs busy drawingit in the direction of the fairy far, under the protection of the knight squad, the once disbanded logging tearouped and went to the shrubs where the thorns sprite worm's worm stalk was located With falcon feather arrows at the ready, Marcus went to scout the underbrush tobefore turning around and nodding at Gort: “Chevalier, the surroundings are safe”

“That's good” Gort turned and shouted at the serfs “Liven up and get to work! Sir Lord treats you well and pays you copper coins! Who ever dares to laze about will have some sense whipped into them! Remember to leave the thorns alone Cut down all the trees; not a single one is to be left behind”

Thus, the serfs started to cut down the trees

They didn't knohy they had to cut down the trees here, but since they were ordered to do so by the fief's official, they had to do it Besides, they would still get rewarded two copper coins a day

A short while later, thethe serfs to fertilize the thorns

The treasurer Isaiah followed He had to calculate the remuneration of each serf as well as check the nu the data on a sheet of thick bast paper He stretched himself and chatted with Gort: “What do you think Sir Baron wants to acco such care of the thorns sprite worm?”

“I don't know, but Sir has always a reason for anything he does”

“Gort, you are getting more and more invested in the Flower Town”

“Why wouldn't I? I will probably spend the the later part of , then that would be good, wouldn't it? A barren country side, I cannot get used to that, but a prosperous countryside, that still has s to look forward to”

“That's only natural as no one likes poverty”

“For Sir's sake as well as for our own sake, we have to work hard, Isaiah” Gort looked at his old friend The other had recently gone through so to follow Liszt

“I think… so too”

Several of the fief's officials – Gort, Blair, Carl, and Marcus – had become Liszt's followers As the only official who had yet to become a follower, Isaiah of course felt the pressure

Gort didn't continue on this matter as the final decision could only be o check on the thorns shrubs to see whether there are any unusual thorns a them As Sir had explained, the thorns sprite worht be soes in the thorns shrubs”

“Then what are aiting for? I have to look carefully If I were to find a ht, haven't the bed ingredients of the shi+take settleured out yet?”

Gort spread his hands: “Hoould it be that easy All kinds of beds have failed to grow the Flarowing in Crookedneck Bob household's shi+take shed, then the Flahly of the Flame Mushrooms, which is why I don't kno to report this to hi the cultivation of the Flame Mushrooms was at an impasse

Gort had already mobilized all of the shi+take settlement's cultivation households and distributed the Flas to let the ca over this issue, always staying in the shack and watching the Fla for rest or sleep He just couldn't understand why his household's shack could grow the Flame Mushrooms, yet when his cultivation bed was replicated, it would not work and the Flas would dry out and die

“Perhaps you should just tell Sir Baron, he ood advice for you”

“Why do you say that?”

“Gort, don't you think that Sir Baron is extreeable? He knows a lot and his field view is broader than ours”

“Oh, you have such a high opinion of Sir?”

“In fact, Marcus, the retainer knight that wants to becoreatly admires Sir Baron”