The first ceremony lasted until noon, and Roland, who was accompanied by honorees, interpreters and presenters, was exhausted at the end, so that the ceremony was finally concluded in the noon bell and salute.Returning to the castle sweatily, as soon as he set foot on the third floor, he saw Anna leaning on the door of the office with a smile.

“What happened?”

“You’ll know when you go in,” she blinked at the beautiful blue eyes of the lake.

Roland pushed open the door full of mistyes, and then stood in the same place—and saw twelve witches standing neatly in two rows, at the front of the book and Wendy.Seeing the prince appear, everyone raised the skirt, bent down, and saluted.

“Cough, you are...”

The book begins, “Your Highness, your actions attest to everything you say, and the sisters are deeply grateful for that.No words can describe our gratitude, and we should continue to work for you in the future.”

"So," said Roland, relieved, "I thought you were going to resign en masse."

"ShhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhAs long as you don't drive us away, we hope to live here all the time."

"And this is what I want to see... in fact, you don't have to do this, I am not only helping you, but also helping myself." 」Don't be too serious, I'd rather you look at ease."

"Well, I said it's not so formal," Lily grunted. "Look, he thinks we're too serious."

"Anyone who said that you just agreed to come down," murmured the mysterious moon, "traitor!"

"Well, go to the restaurant first, your Highness, and change your clothes," said the scroll, holding his forehead helplessly, "yes, listen to Miss Anna, that you have been sleeping late lately?"Take care of your body, and you must not fall until that goal is achieved.”

"Don't worry," said Roland, "I'm fine."

When the witches came out, he and Anna were all left in the office.

“Do you want to thank me too?”Roland teased her.

“Well... I want to say the same thing as them,” Anna snapped, “no words can describe my thanks.”

“And then... I wish I’d been living in the border town?”

“That’s not necessarily.”

Roland froze, jumping in his heart, “Why?”

"Because you won't stay here all the time," said Anna, crookedly, "and I will follow you wherever you go."

There was a sudden warm current in his heart, and her thoughts had never changed since the day he met her.Whether it is in the face of the invitation of the co-op or the critical moment of fighting the evil beast, she chooses to stand with herself.

At this moment, Anna suddenly took the first two steps and gently hugged him.

“There’s sweat.”Roland reminded me.

The girl did not answer, but put her head on his chest, as if trying to write down the taste in general, and took a deep breath.He eventually gave up on her intention to push her away, putting his hands around each other's white neck, and had not let go for a long time.

...

After lunch, Roland took a cold shower and quickly put herself to work.

He called Karl van Burt, who spread out a detailed map of the town of the border and pointed to the location of the Redwater River, "I want to build a bridge here."

“Not the bridge?”Calss said for a moment, "Please forgive me, Your Highness, the Red Water River is nearly 100 meters wide here, it is almost impossible to build a stone bridge, even if it is an arch bridge, at most can only cross a third of the distance, and the water flow of the Red Water River is very large, the bridge pier can not be laid down at all, even if a person's rough stone pile will be washed down... Apart from the raft crossing and the pontoon bridge, there is no bridge on the whole river."

“It’s not a stone bridge, it’s a bridge of steel,” Roland explained, “a total of three spans, and the pier in the middle will be solved by a witch.”You just need to put part of the bridge in advance.But I asked that the whole bridge be raised up at the end of the bridge so that the inland sailboat could pass and the mast would not touch the bottom of the bridge.”

“Didn’t you set the bridge up to heaven?”Carl was surprised.

"It's just about six or seven meters from the ground," he drew a diagram of the three-swidth iron bridge on the sketch, "in order to better develop the south bank and the construction of the dockyard in the future, there must be a bridge on the river that does not affect the ship."The pontoon bridge, although simple, is itself equivalent to clogging the river and is not conducive to subsequent development.”

The royal trip to the first expedition gave Roland a lot of inspiration - he found that the rivers in the gray castle were well connected, and the major cities were basically built next to several major rivers.If there are several shallow water heavy gunboats in the future, it is definitely a weapon to provide fire support and attack the city - after all, the power of the ship gun, which is known for its caliber, is far from comparable to that of a field gun.In order to build a ship, he first had to have a dock, so the plan for the steel bridge came into being.

“But I don’t have a similar experience in building bridges...” Karl seemed hesitant.

"I don't," Roland shrugged, "just when it's the first time you've been slowly groping, you can build a bridge on the shore and test it, and then move to the Redwater River," he said, adding to the other side the overall prefabricated, one-time hoisting construction concept, "like installing a water tower, there are hummingbirds to reduce its weight, and your student Anna help assemble and weld, it will not be difficult."

“Follow me, Your Highness.”He nodded.

“Besides, there is another very important project to be given to you,” the prince moved his finger to the castle area. “I intend to expand the size of the backyard, to circle all the open spaces on the highlands, and to build a three-story building here.”

If all goes well, the five witches of Tiley will arrive next month in the border town, where there are no longer spare rooms.Although it can be changed to three people for a while, there are always more and more witches in the future, and it is impossible to fit them all the time.The superior living environment and all kinds of novel and comfortable experience are also one of his strategies to retain witches, whether it is the ancients from extravagant to hardship, or modern sugar-coated shell theory, a good and comfortable life can always make people addicted to it.

“Three floors, brick house?”

“Not exactly a brick house,” Roland smiled, “its name should be a brick-concrete structure, and the columns and the top beams are all made of reinforced concrete, like the bones of a human being.”This structure allows the house to be built higher, and it is no problem to build it to four or five floors later.”

“Steel... concrete?”Carl repeated with a confused face.

“It’s a mixture of cement, sand and stone, with steel bars embedded in the middle to strengthen its bending properties,” he said. “Of course, how much each ingredient is specifically mixed requires rigorous testing, and if the configuration is successful, it is even stronger than natural bluestones.”

In theory, this kind of thing has a very large elastic space in quality, the same is concrete, the rural cement bought by itself, and the mixing station metering configuration is completely different.The same is true of steel bars... Some people even do not put pebbles when they build their own houses on homesteads, or those who replace steel bars with wire and bamboo, and Roland has witnessed the process of several "country houses" when they stay in the countryside.

And he also intends to follow suit, after all, is just a three-story house, no matter how to cut corners are difficult to collapse.

In addition, he hopes that through the construction of the witch's residential building, Karl can master the building materials that can arbitrarily change the shape and be like artificial stone.As one of the development directions of the construction industry, concrete occupies almost half of the country.He was not proficient in architecture, and would have been the little fur he had learned from the countryside, so it was the right thing to do to broaden the stonemason's horizon and lead it to the right path.

“Does this make me feel this slowly?”He asked.

"No," said Roland, with a slight smile, "I can teach you this."(Unfinished.)