Chapter 153 Two Extremes
Gervis didn't know much about farming. Neither his previous life nor the original owner had any experience in this area, so Gervis needed these guards to judge the space opened up by the green elf insects.
Several guards were over 18 years old, which was considered young adulthood on Earth, but in this world, as serfs, they had been crawling in the mud for four or five years, or even longer.
After giving instructions to a few people, Gervis walked into the space entrance by himself. When Gervis stepped into the space opened up by Kara, he instantly felt a coolness all over his body.
Feeling the comfortable temperature in the space, Gervis looked around and saw large tracts of uncultivated black land all around him. There was also a stream more than three meters wide flowing at the edge of the space.
The length of this stream is only more than five meters, but there is enough water and the sound of water can be heard. The source of the stream is unknown, and where it flows to is even more unknown. The stream is only seen flowing from the edge of space, and only the distance of more than five meters is flowing within the space, and then it turns a corner and flows into the outside of the vague boundary.
"Take a look at this space and see what crops it is suitable for growing!"
In fact, when Gervis stepped into this space, felt the cool weather, saw the stream and the black soil, he already had some guesses in his mind. However, since several guards had already come in and they were more adept at farming, he might as well listen to their opinions.
The guards did not dare to neglect and looked around quickly. After taking in all the scenery in the space, they exchanged glances, and one of the guards respectfully replied to Gervis: "Congratulations, sir. Wheat likes cool weather and needs water to be stored for compost. The soil in this space is black, fertile and has sufficient water resources. It is very suitable for growing wheat!"
"Congratulations, sir!"
After several guards reached a consensus, they all congratulated Gervis!
"very good!"
Knowing that this space was tailor-made for wheat cultivation, Gervis was in a good mood. Although he was not going to rely on farming to get rich, owning such a space meant that his castle would have a high-quality wheat harvest every year.
Moreover, the symbolic significance of this space is greater than its practical significance. After all, one space is only about one acre of land. Even if the crops are harvested three times with guaranteed quality, it cannot feed many people. However, the serfs are very concerned about whether the lord can have such a space. If the lord has the most suitable space for growing wheat, then they can buy high-quality wheat seeds from the lord next year.
Legend has it that wheat produced in space as seeds can allow the wheat to survive better, reduce pests and increase yields!
Of course, there is no way to know whether this legend has any basis in fact.
After coming out of Kara's space, Gervis couldn't wait to take Cassie out of the jade box.
"Cassie, it's your turn now!"
Gervis thought it was a good omen and that he was destined to harvest two high-quality farming spaces today. In the future, he would use one space to supply wheat for his own consumption and the other space to be used as seeds to be sold to serfs at a low price.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”
Cassie felt the joy in Gervis's mental fluctuations and immediately squeaked excitedly. After squeaking at Gervis a few times, he turned around, closed his big round eyes and began to gather the energy in his body.
Bang!
There was another crisp sound, and the fourth space belonging to Gervis appeared. Gervis put the exhausted Cassi back into the jade box. After feeding him, he led everyone into the new space opened up by Cassi.
However, when Gervis stepped into the space opened up by Cassi, he did not feel as cool as before, but instead felt as hot as outside the space.
"Oh my god, is God kidding me? He gave me two extreme spaces in the same morning!"
When Gervis entered the space, what he saw was no longer black soil, but dry, soft muddy land that seemed to be about to become desertified. Although there was a stream in this space, the stream was only one meter wide. The soil and temperature showed that this was not suitable for growing wheat.
Gervis was muttering to himself while scrambling for a room. After seeing the appearance of this space, several guards at the back lowered their heads and dared not speak. With such land, it was impossible to grow wheat, let alone ordinary grass. They were all afraid that Gervis would implicate them in his rage, so they all acted like ostriches.
"Tell me, what is suitable for growing in this environment?"
As the saying goes, what you fear will come to you. Several guards who followed in hoped that Gervis could treat them as invisible men, but unfortunately, the opposite happened. Gervis did not turn back, but his words reached their ears.
The few of them timidly looked at the entrance of the room again, sweat pouring down their foreheads, and they were thinking hard about how to answer the lord's question.
Several people looked at each other, but no one said anything for a long time.
“Is this environment not suitable for growing crops?”
From what Gervis knew from the books, there was a one in ten thousand chance that a green elf worm could create such an extreme environment that was only slightly better than the one next door. Even if most spaces opened up by green elf worms were not tailor-made for wheat like the one opened by Kara, they were at least suitable for seed wheat. The only difficulty was that they required more manpower to take care of them normally, and the yield was slightly less. Spaces like the one in front of Gervis were extremely rare.
"Sir, you can plant garlic..."
Under pressure from Gervis, one of the guards thought quickly and timidly gave an answer. He learned about garlic from his father. The lord suggested that everyone could grow it, and the castle would pay to buy it back after it grew, so he thought of it.
"Oh? Yes, you can grow garlic!"
Gervais nodded.
After hearing the tone of Gervis' answer, several guards breathed a sigh of relief. The lord was not angry as they had imagined. Instead, there was a hint of joy in his tone, which made the guards a little confused. However, confusion was not important. What mattered was that the lord was not angry. Several guards thought so in their hearts.
“Anna!”
"My lord, what do you want?"
Anna had been following Gervis today, but she didn't know anything about farming, and Gervis didn't ask her, so she followed Gervis silently without saying a word.
"Send someone to announce throughout the territory that the castle needs grape vines! But tell them to be careful when digging, and not to damage the vines and rhizomes. The bigger the branches of the grape vine, the better, and the price is calculated according to the size of the grape vine! Each household can only dig up five grape vines. If there are really large grape vines, one or two more can be appropriately dug up. But if anyone digs up a small grape vine, he will be fined ten lashes!"
Although Gervis was slightly disappointed when he first entered the space and saw that it was not black soil, he was only disappointed for a moment, and then he thought of a better idea, which was to use this space to grow grapes. Grape trees like sunlight and do not like moisture, and the climate must be warm. Loose soil is most suitable, as it has strong air permeability and is not easy to accumulate moisture. This space is simply specially prepared for growing grapes.
Wine is Gervis's flagship product. If higher quality grapes can be grown in the space, then Gervis' high-end wine will have a real destination.
Even if the final wine tastes similar, it comes from the elf worm space. When buyers hear this, they instantly feel that the quality has been raised.
"Yes, sir!"
Anna had already taken out a small notebook and wrote down Gervis' instructions word for word, and then quickly responded.
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