The maroon Fierydragon carrying the Earth Knight Liszt crossed the muddy land and arrived at the peanut settlement. The peanut settlement was a much smaller settlement than a village, with seven or eight thatched cottages scattered about.
"What are you staring at? Seeing that Sir Lord has arrived, why aren't you kneeling and saluting!" The town's clerks nimbly knocked on the doors of every peasant household.
The people living here were all serfs.
They came out of the leaky houses, their faces numb from the oppression of life. They stood woodenly at the doorway, not knowing what to do. Only after being berated by the clerks did they kneel on the ground and salute in Liszt's direction.
The actions of adults were all numb.
Only a few bare-bottomed children raised their heads from time to time, sizing up Liszt with their dirty but bright big eyes. Then, an adult would slap them on the head, making them kneel on the ground with their foreheads almost touching the ground.
"Who is the supervisor of the peanut settlement?" Liszt asked.
Gort sat on his horse as if this matter had nothing to do with him. He did not know who the person in charge of the peanut settlement was. A clerk answered: "In reply to Sir, it is the lame Elder George."
"Invite him over."
The clerk quickly dragged an old man who had a limp leg and could not walk properly over. The old man was wearing patched clothes, his withered body looking like a lamp that could go out at any time.
"Sir Lord, Elder George is here."
The clerk shoved the old man, seemingly wanting the old man to salute. However, the old man looked very nervous, standing woodenly, not knowing what to do.
Liszt waved his hand, having the clerk withdraw. He said mildly: "Elder George, don't be nervous. I am the Flower Town's Lord, Baron Liszt Tulip. I heard that there is a problem with the peanut settlement's peanuts. Take us to the fields and see if we can solve the problem. "
"Ah, oh, Baron … Sir Lord …" Elder George stammered nervously. "I'll lead the way … Thank God … the peanut settlement is saved … Sir Lord has come to save us!"
Elder George was so excited that he could even walk with the wind.
Liszt had inspected the farmland before, but he had only stood outside and glanced at it. Only now did he really look at the farmland carefully. Because they were all serfs' fields, there were no ridges. Each strip of farmland was divided by a ravine, and different serfs cultivated different fields.
Almost 90% of the output of the farmlands belonged to the nobles, in other words, Liszt.
The remaining 10% was their rations.
At this moment.
The peanut field, which was supposed to be green, was now covered in patches of green and yellow. All the peanuts were wilted and lying on the ground, half dead. The land was moist. Obviously, the serfs had watered the peanuts a lot. Unfortunately, watering the peanuts could not make them grow.
Elder George wiped his tears and said excitedly: "Sir Lord, we haven't been lazy. We have been watering the peanuts three times a day, but the peanuts are still dying. Only the peanuts in Archie's field have not wilted, but they are also about to be unable to endure. Some of the leaves are starting to turn yellow. "
Following the direction of Elder George's finger, Liszt saw the long field in the center of the peanut settlement's farmland.
The center of the long field was green. Compared to the yellow-green peanuts around it, it was a lot more spirited.
Liszt dismounted from his horse and walked into the farmland. He bent down to pull out a yellow peanut sprout and was about to carefully observe it when Gort suddenly said: "Liszt, you shouldn't touch this dirty work. If you need anything, just let the serfs do it." Although he was a down-and-out Lord Knight, he looked down on commoners even more than the average aristocrat.
Liszt didn't pay attention to him.
Instead, he repeatedly observed the peanut sprout in his hand to determine the cause.
He wasn't an agronomist, but he had farmed when he was a child and was no stranger to agriculture. The peanuts of the two worlds were similar in some aspects, but also unfamiliar in some aspects. However, he could basically determine that the peanut sprout in his hand was malnourished, resulting in its current state.
"Do you use ash or dung to water the fields?"
"What?" Elder George was puzzled, "Sir Lord, we have watered them three times a day!"
Liszt asked: "Don't you use fertilizer?"
Elder George stared blankly for a moment before asking in reply: "What is fertilizer?"
He doesn't even know what fertilizer is … Liszt was speechless: "How do you grow peanuts?"
Elder George rambled on for a long time. Basically, the weeds that grew in autumn and winter were burned down the following year, and then the peanuts were planted. After planting, they were watered and weeded. Generation after generation, they were planted in this way, but the harvest was especially low. Only the aristocrats could use sprites to influence the growth of plants and achieve the goal of high yields.
Liszt understood. Liszt could not help but shake his head.
Without fertilizer, even the best land would become barren after planting it a few times. The vast farmland before his eyes was about to become barren. It was no wonder the peanuts were dying, they were 'starving' to death.
But then, Liszt became doubtful: "Why are the peanuts not starving to death before?"
According to Elder George, they planted it every year, and apart from droughts and floods, there had never been any similar phenomenon. Therefore, there might be another reason for the peanut field's nutritional deficiency.
"What is the reason?"
Liszt's gaze fell on the green patch at the center of the field, and he pondered seriously.
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration as he recalled the mission's reward – the mission required him to treat the peanut field, and the reward was a sprite worm. According to the way he had obtained the reward for his first mission, Liszt felt that a sprite worm would not appear out of thin air. It was probably something he had picked up along the way.
"The reward is a sprite worm … the peanut field is malnourished …" Standing up, Liszt already had an answer in his mind: "I'm afraid that the peanut field is malnourished because of the sprite worm that the mission is supposed to reward me with. Sprite worms are born from plants, so my sprite worm should be a peanut sprite worm. "
Liszt waved his hand and called out to everyone: "Let's take a look at the center of the field."
Everyone tiptoed and arrived at the center of the peanut field, where the peanut sprouts were still flourishing. Liszt rummaged through his memories. When he was a child, he had seen the collection of sprite worms. Generally speaking, there was a jade-like silkworm-like sprite worm hidden in the flower or bud of a plant.
Different sprite worms had different decorative patterns.
At present, he had four sprite worms, one Tulip sprite worm, one Thorns sprite worm, one Corn sprite worm, and one Alfalfa sprite worm. The breeding of sprite worms needed to be coordinated with farming. At present, Gort was still looking for a suitable farmland for breeding sprite worms.
After rummaging for a while, Liszt did not find a peanut sprite that was pregnant with a sprite worm.
"Probably because the time is not up yet and the nutrition is not up to speed, the peanut sprite worm will probably abort." Liszt could not help but clench his fists. Sprite worms represented productivity; he could not fail this mission.
Thinking of this.
He said to everyone: "I roughly understand the reason. Elder George, now, follow my instructions and treat this peanut field."
"Praise be to Sir Lord!" Elder George wept tears of joy.
Gort asked in astonishment: "Liszt, you really found the problem? Can you still plant peanuts? What caused the peanuts to die? "
"I can't say for now, but it will be clear in a few days." For the sake of being conservative, Liszt did not say the reason. He was also worried that he had guessed wrong. If there was no sprite at all, wouldn't he have made a mistake?
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