Lord of Rot

Chapter 464 Ice skates and snowball fights (page 12)

When Li Qi opened his eyes in the morning, he was keenly aware of the change in the temperature outside.

This is a heavy snowfall that lasted until December.

He stood up, put on his clothes, opened the window and looked outside.

The entire porcupine collar has been covered with a thick white quilt.

The heavy snow continued to fall, and he saw with his eyes the figures of several children rolling in the snow outside the castle, but soon there were women chasing after them with sticks, and no one could escape. After being beaten on the buttocks, Follow me home obediently.

"It makes me want to go out and play."

He picked up the bell on the table and shook it gently, and soon the footman Pitchfork arrived at a trot: "My lord"

"Help me find a suit of clothes," Li Qi said, "By the way, let the fireplace burn."

It's not just that there is no heating in the castle, the room is empty, and the burning heat will quickly float to the top of the head, making it very difficult to raise the temperature.

Fortunately, he is a lord, so he does not need to consider the waste of resources. Everything is about comfort.

If Duo was not a black dragon, but a fire dragon, maybe he would have an extra hand warmer now.

"Yes"

Under the service of the male servant, Li Qi changed his clothes and put on a thicker fur coat.

After eating a hot breakfast, Li Qi took a book and sat in front of the fireplace, sipped hot milk tea, flipped through the book at random, and spent a leisurely snow day.

It seems that he is reading a book, but in fact he is distractedly observing the exploration of the underground world.

Ka Qi was the ghoul that made him feel at ease. The palace-level ghouls all had outstanding abilities. The team had grown stronger and stronger, and problems had also emerged.

"However, the more people there are, the more food pressure will inevitably increase. It is very unrealistic to use the portal to send food to the underground world."

With his current income, it is not a problem to support the food and drink of a hundred or so chaotic creatures, but the number is too large and the portal will take too long to open, which is not worth the gain.

There is also a discipline issue. Chaotic creatures cannot be allowed to live together. Otherwise, ogres with low intelligence and trolls with lower intelligence will easily treat centaurs, cave gnomes, etc. as snacks.

Then he looked at the desert.

The corpses acting as fixed guards were patrolling in Leiweng City. One of them suddenly stood still and looked at the lord hall of Leiweng City.

On the seat, Desert Pearl had put on luxurious gold clothing and was staring blankly at a lamp, wondering who she was thinking about.

"Don't let Gaoxue City go next year. Get the desert in your hands as soon as possible. By then, it will be much easier to establish contact with Lintawan."

Li Qi pulled away from consciousness and came to the Longboat Castle in the water stream.

The corpse bird landed on the window.

Looking in through an open window, in front of the burning fireplace, Irene was holding little Lild's fleshy arm, waving it back and forth to amuse him.

Erin teased: "Dududu, ta-ta-ta"

"Cluck, cluck," little Liard beamed.

"Tattoo!"

"cluck"

As an aunt, Irene was very conscientious.

When Li Qi found Mrs. Jie Lin again, she was sitting in front of the bed holding a wine glass, her eyes dull. The difference from Desert Pearl was that there was no expectation in her eyes.

People have to endure different endings if they make different choices. Li Qi's remaining feelings for her are getting weaker and weaker, and now only little Lear is left to maintain the superficial friendship between the two parties.

Maybe he will pretend to be affectionate in front of his children, but it will be difficult to recover.

Another page turned.

"It's so boring to be lazy and have no energy."

He picked up a bookmark and stuck it in the book, then lifted the blanket covering his legs.

The heavy snow outside had stopped, and he pushed open the door of the hall. The footman Pitchfork immediately ran over and put another coat on his shoulders.

"Sir, are you going out? The pub?"

"Has the blacksmith shop stopped?" Li Qi asked first.

In this weather, the tavern must be packed with people. Although the tavern has begun to expand, the space is still not enough.

Fortunately, there are people who like to drop by, so we don’t necessarily have to go to the pub.

"The river is frozen, so the factory must be shut down." The person who spoke was the subordinate Carrot. The young man was no longer short and had a beard on his face.

"Just find two blacksmiths...forget it, I'll do it myself, this thing has to be done by myself to be interesting."

He mounted his horse and went straight to the blacksmith's factory, and Carrot quickly followed.

As expected, the factory shut down. As the main source of power, the river water was frozen and the hydraulic forging hammer stopped running. It would be impossible to operate normally for at least more than a month.

When the guard at the door saw that the person coming was the lord, he immediately unlocked the door and welcomed him in.

"We must speed up the research on steam engines so that water-powered forging hammers can be eliminated next year."

In fact, Li Qi himself was not sure whether the steam engine would be more helpful or whether magic would be better. Judging from the results of his recent research on magic, magic can do too many things and can save a large number of people from nothing. Freed from the labor of meaning.

Carrot was very discerning and helped Li Qi light the fire.

Calcined, beaten.

Li Qi wheeled the sledgehammer with one hand, and his blacksmithing efficiency was no worse than that of a hydraulic forging hammer, or even much better. With his arm strength, he could smash even a living person into mud with one swing of the hammer.

After all, he had forged weapons with Master Jin Kai, and Li Qi had also watched the blacksmiths forging iron before, and there were no major problems in the whole process.

He cut two irregular pieces of iron into the shape of arc blades, drilled holes, and clamped them with wooden boards.

"The skate is done!"

Li Qi was very happy: "Let's go out for a walk."

The river next to the blacksmith factory had been completely frozen. Li Qi took a stone and threw it down to try. A dent was made on the ice, but it did not crack and was very strong.

He tied the skates under his boots and jumped onto the ice under the astonished gaze of Carrot. With his extremely high body control, Li Qi went from staggering and not adapting to suddenly stopping and slipping backwards with ease.

He can even do two figures skating with his cheating physical fitness, but it's a pity that he lacks a partner.

Li Qi looked at the dumbfounded Carrot: "Skating with men is not interesting."

So Akeke, Pitts and other maids ran over happily after hearing that there was a new game to play with the lord.

In order not to show favoritism to others, the footman was also called.

Li Qi even directly brought the dragon-born boy Lukala over to artificially heat the fire and help him forge iron.

A beautiful scenery soon appeared on the ice. The little maids staggered on the ice, looking scared but wanting to play. Li Qi laughed.

Even Lacey Sith came over to join in the fun.

Everyone has been tired for a year, and this heavy snow is an opportunity for everyone to stop and take a rest.

Whatever the lord plays, it becomes popular.

After the blacksmiths got the news, they immediately started working.

If the hydraulic forging hammer cannot be used, then use a hand hammer. Anyway, it is just to smash some iron pieces. There is a lot of inventory. With a few modifications, it can be used as an ice skate. Even the carpenter workshop was forced to start operating and jointly produced ice skates and shoes. .