Chapter 020 Oatmeal Town
The night in the village is so quiet that only the chirping of insects can be heard.
Bai Su sat on the roof of a low house, holding a water pipe in his hand, and asked the centaur youth standing in front of him: "Are you ready?"
Keos nodded.
He first took off his sword and armor, and then took off the short shirt he was wearing - this made Bai Su look away uncomfortably.
Soon, Keos was left with only a piece of lining hanging around his waist, covering the key parts of his lower body, and stood naked in front of Bai Su.
The gray braids were spread out, with strands sticking to the cheeks and neck; the wheat-colored skin on the upper body was shimmering with the reflection of sweat attached to the muscle groups; the horse's fur on the lower body was darker in color and was still steaming.
After running long distances under the scorching sun all afternoon, Keos and the other centaurs were extremely hot.
In the evening, Bai Su had just stepped off the carriage when he saw Keos' chest heaving violently, his body drenched in sweat. After a brief handover with the post station staff, the other centaurs went to the river to cool down. Keos, who was a step behind, was stopped by Bai Su.
Bai Su couldn't explain what he was thinking. Perhaps he was simply possessed by a ghost. At that time, he subconsciously grabbed Keos's arm and asked him, "Do you want me to help you take a shower? Maybe taking a shower will make you feel better."
Keos stared at Bai Su with deep eyes for a long time, so long that Bai Su realized that his proposal was a bit beyond the limit. When he was embarrassed and didn't know what to do, unexpectedly, Keos agreed.
"good."
So the two of them silently found the person in charge of the post station, asked for a water pipe, and came to the yard where they would stay tonight.
Bai Su connected the water pipe, took out soap powder from the room, and asked Keos to carry him to the roof of the hut, ready to help Keos take a shower.
Throughout the whole process, they were as quiet as two mutes.
Keos took the soap powder handed to him by Bai Su, soaked it slightly, rubbed it on his hair and body to make foam, and then signaled Bai Su that it was time to rinse.
Bai Su sat on the roof, a little higher than Keos. He aimed the water pipe at Keos's head, then released the valve. In an instant, cool mountain spring gushed out.
This was the spring water brought down from the mountain by the local residents. It was clear and a little cool, and Keos immediately felt the fatigue all over his body being washed away.
After all the foam on his hair was washed off, Keos took the hose and began to rinse his upper body, while Bai Su just sat on the roof, shaking her legs and watching the handsome man bathe.
Bai Su thought, if I were a centaur or he were a man, I would definitely not sleep alone tonight.
Handsome men bathing is so pleasing to the eyes that it's hard not to be distracted.
For some places that Keos could not reach by himself, he would tacitly hand the water pipe to Bai Su again and ask him to help wash the foam off his back and buttocks.
After a while, Keos washed himself clean.
His whole body exuded a refreshing and slightly astringent scent of soapberries. When he carried Bai Su down from the roof, the distance was so close that Bai Su's face almost touched Keos' chest.
Bai Su turned his head uncomfortably and whispered, "Then I'll go take a shower too."
After saying that, without waiting for Keos's reaction, he quickly fled back to the room and took a quick cold shower in the bathroom.
Bai Su's hair was very short and it was half dry after being wiped with a towel. When he changed his clothes and returned to the yard, he found that Keos had also changed into casual clothes. He even put away his sword, armor and clothes he had taken off before, and was now using a broom to clean up the water stains on the ground.
After Keos finished cleaning the floor, Bai Su volunteered to help him braid his hair.
So when the Centaur guards came back from the river, what they saw was Bai Su sitting on a high place with his legs crossed, braiding their leader's hair.
The centaurs were horrified.
Holy shit, it turns out what Lieutenant Faria said was true! The captain is really dating this farmer!
When Bai Su finished braiding his hair, Keos once again carried him down from the roof. The human guards who had just returned to the post station from the office also felt like they had been struck by some pink love attack.
I'm afraid there are only two parties who think they are not in a relationship with each other.
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After a night of rest, the team set off again early the next morning.
During breakfast, Bai Su overheard several Centaur guards complaining that the river they waded in last night might not be very clean, so that they always felt itchy and uncomfortable at night.
They speculated that perhaps some small insects in the water had burrowed into the fur.
After hearing this, Bai Su felt that it was right to help Keos take a shower with clean household water last night.
But he still looked in his luggage and found a box of homemade prickly heat powder that he had used to care for the fur of the two little tigers.
Powder is made of pure corn flour. Sprinkle it on the hair and comb it with a fine comb to remove all the small insects, tangles and large dirt hidden in the hair.
Finally, they shook their fur, making the two little tigers look particularly fluffy and cute.
Bai Su handed the prickly heat powder to a human guard and told him how to use it. Then several centaurs lined up and used the prickly heat powder to dry clean.
Keos, who happened to see this scene, was also grateful that Bai Su helped him take a bath last night - he didn't want to be covered in cornmeal and have it fall all over the floor after running a few steps.
It's cloudy today.
Bai Su set up a small table in his luxurious carriage, put cookies and black tea on it, and was in a good mood all the way, like a real landlord. While enjoying snacks, he chatted with Keos who was walking by his window.
The cook prepared lunch, which was still Bai Suanli's pea and mixed noodles, but this time the noodles were bought in the village this morning.
Bai Su drank too much tea in the morning and didn't feel sleepy at all in the afternoon. Therefore, he felt more intuitively how good the Centaurs' physical strength was.
Except for a break of more than an hour at noon, Keos kept running with the car. There was no direct sunlight today, and during the whole process, not only did Keos breathe steadily, he didn't even sweat a drop!
The pleasant smell coming from Keos made Bai Su happy all day long.
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"Herod--"
As they walked along, the natural landscape became less and less, and was replaced by low houses. Bai Su knew that they had arrived.
At the checkpoint of Oat Town, the driver stopped the horses and all the people got off the vehicles for inspection.
After checking the customs documents and seeing the style of Keos's sword, the guards of Oat Town became much more friendly. They did not check the accompanying personnel one by one, but politely invited them to the city hall to welcome them.
Keos looked at Bai Su.
Bai Su shook his head and signaled to Keos that he was not interested in the so-called welcoming ceremony, but just wanted to see the land that would soon belong to him.
So, the accompanying representative replaced Bai Su and went to the city hall of Oat Town to handle the farmland transfer procedures. Bai Su then changed to a horse-drawn carriage and went to see the land with everyone else.
According to Bai Su's plan, if possible, he wants to start planting hybrid rice immediately.
It was only after getting on the big carriage that Bai Su once again deeply realized how luxurious his own small carriage was.
Fortunately, most of the fertile land is in the suburbs. It only takes more than ten minutes to get from the checkpoint to the 150 acres of prime farmland promised to Bai Su by the Speaker of Parliament.
As early as the day Bai Su first traveled to this world, he was shocked when he saw his fifty-acre farm for the first time.
This time, the one hundred and fifty acres of high-quality farmland, which had also been blessed by the Archangel and was no different from his own farm, shocked Bai Su exponentially.
He stood beside the ridge of the field, his hands shaking with excitement.
Bai Su felt that the farming spirit in his body was burning more and more fiercely and was about to burst out. He had to plow the land himself before he would stop.
At this time, the farmers who were queuing up and greeting Bai Su with a smug look on their faces deepened his excitement.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Bai Su didn't have time to introduce himself to these farmers. He felt that they should know that he was the big farmer who would be contracting these 150 acres of land. So he focused all his attention on the seeds and the land, and excitedly directed everyone, "Hurry and move my seeds down!"
"Go plow the fields first," he said to the farmers, "and dig out the planting holes with a row spacing of thirty and a plant spacing of ten."
Then he instructed the guards: "Please help me find the nearby irrigation water truck - this place is too big, I need to know if there is enough irrigation water."
Finally, he told Koos, "Please help me supervise the work." He gestured to Koos, who was waiting nearby and was obviously the leader of the farmers. "I need to discuss my farm renovation plan with this gentleman."
In this way, everyone was assigned a job.
The farmers in Oat Town were relieved to see that the new farmer had no intention of firing them, but instead arranged their work in an orderly manner. Now, under the supervision of Keos, they were working diligently according to the requirements given by Bai Su.
Bai Su's entourage were very surprised - Bai Su changed his usual gentle demeanor, and when he saw the land, he became as strict as if he had taken stimulants.
Just like when Captain Keos trained them on ordinary days.
At this time, in the house next to him, Bai Su was negotiating with the foreman.
Although he is called a foreman, he is actually just the manager of this land - this 150 acres of fertile land belongs to several farmers. After the hurricane last year, these farmers sold the land at a low price, and it happened to be taken over by the city hall of Oat Town. The foreman was originally the housekeeper of one of the farmers. After being dismissed by the farmer, he was appointed as the manager by the city hall to lead these farmers to do some dredging work.
It was not until a few days ago that the high priest personally went to the holy mountain, and the lands truly regained their original fertility.
Seeing that Bai Su was young, the foreman wanted to raise the wages to make some money, but Bai Su was short of money right now, so how could he be willing to be a sucker?
So regarding the employment salary, Bai Su and the foreman each had their own opinions and the situation became tense.
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