Recently, kettles in Adelaide have been made of iron. The entire kettle is very beautiful, cast in one piece. This kettle is very valuable; there's only one in the entire territory because iron is now being used to make agricultural tools, especially iron plows and hoes.
The main reason why iron kettles for boiling water cannot be mass-produced is that the supply of iron ore is still insufficient, and ironware cannot be mass-produced.
Adelaide was watching the kettle puffing and popping in the fire, unaware that Ed had come up behind her.
"What are you thinking about, Adelaide? The water's boiled." Ed quickly reminded her.
"Ah!" Adelaide quickly took the pot out of the fire. In her panic, she almost burned herself.
"Adelaide, be careful," Ed could only remind her again.
"Master, it's nothing. I was just looking at this iron kettle and forgot about it." This kettle was just like the teacup she used to have, and she liked it at first sight. This iron kettle boiled water much faster than the old ceramic kettle.
"Adelaide, people are clearing land, let's go take a look."
"Yes, Master." The two then left the castle together.
The weather is getting hotter every day, and the two of them were already unbearably hot after only a short time outside. Ed had no choice but to find two large leaves and put one on each of their heads. And surprisingly, it actually helped a little. The sunlight wasn't so glaring anymore.
"Ah! Master looks so strange wearing this green leaf headdress!" Adelaide felt that this was not a very good headdress.
"Really?" Ed said nonchalantly, then touched his withered leaves.
"Yes, Master." Adelaide removed the leaf from her head, but her head started to ache from the sun as soon as she did, so she quickly put the leaf back on her head.
Ed looked at Adelaide and almost laughed, but he held it in. Well, he could knit a hat that would not only be pretty but also provide sun protection.
"Adelaide, that's settled! I'll teach you how to make something to shield you from the sun tomorrow; it'll be very nice to wear."
"Really? That's great! The sun has been so strong lately, it's practically baking us." Adelaide stopped worrying about the strange leaves.
As the two chatted and laughed, the journey from the castle to Peach Blossom Village, which wasn't very long to begin with, was completed in the blink of an eye.
On a piece of wasteland near the village, several oxen were working hard to pull a large iron plow, the plowshare deeply embedded in the soil, turning over the hardened clods of earth.
The people standing behind the plow quickly picked up iron hoes to break up the clods of earth that had been turned over, while the women at the back of the group dealt with any stones or other debris.
Although the land looked difficult to cultivate, with the help of heavy iron plows and the division of labor among everyone, the newly reclaimed land now looked quite substantial.
Shan Shu and the others were also working hard to till the land, because they could also get some of the territories' farmland from these plots.
Some of them, who knew they would receive land, worked even harder, like Eric.
He stood alone behind the iron plow, while others needed two or three people to hold it up, but he held it up by himself and turned the plow just as fast as the others.
"Martha, look at your Eric. He knows he has a share of land, and he can lift such a heavy plow all by himself." Ellie looked at Martha with some envy.
Martha didn't know how to answer Ellie. This was indeed something that others would envy, because the land awarded only required a 10% tax, and the rest was theirs.
Moreover, Eric had done a good job in exchanging salt last time, so now he was rewarded with twice the amount of land as others. However, no one knew this yet, but they would find out sooner or later, because the butler would post the land he had been awarded on the bulletin board.
Martha thought for a long time but still didn't know how to answer Ellie, so she could only stammer:
"He just looks strong."