Chapter 3. Model house, Open (2)
Rumors spread.
It spread quickly.
There is no such thing as a place where people live without rumors.
But despite that, rumors spread more powerfully and faster than usual.
Because the content was so unique.
“Mister Lloyd is finally crazy.”
“what?”
“I heard you were shoveling?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Literally. He’s shoveling in the backyard of the tavern. Dig and compact the soil.”
“why?”
“I don’t know. According to what I heard, he threatened the tavern owner?”
“A threat?”
“I think they robbed the backyard of the tavern.”
“Heh heh….”
Someone lamented across the table.
Another whispered in the ear in the field.
“Did you hear? I think Master Lloyd is about to commit suicide.”
“What finally?”
“That’s right. They scooped up the dirt yesterday, and today they’re digging it up again.”
“Dug it out?”
“I hear you keep muttering something to yourself while laying flat stones in the place where you dug up the dirt.”
“I hope that….”
“What is it other than a tomb in which to bury one’s coffin?”
In addition, various versions of speculation and speculation were rampant.
It is said that the baron, the drunkard, secretly brewed alcohol is stored in the ground. Or
even the opinion that he opened his eyes to a new taste (?),
such as digging a tunnel to avoid his father’s surveillance .
Many word of mouth attracted onlookers.
As such, while the eyes of the young people were focused.
Little by little, the ondol room took shape.
♣
‘People talk really well.’
Lloyd wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Mud was smeared on his face.
But I didn’t care.
he looked around.
A small ondol room measuring 3.6 meters in length and width.
Within days, the foundation and even the walls had been raised.
‘It was difficult.’
Make an ondol room.
I didn’t expect it to be easy.
Actually, it was more difficult than expected.
First of all, it was big that there were no tools used in the field in Korea.
‘Because I don’t have any power tools.’
Everything had to be done manually.
He took advantage of his work experience in Nogada part-time job and the military to lay the foundation.
The process took two full days.
The whole body muscle pain was a bonus.
The wood obtained by wiping the administrative officer was processed.
The middle structure was taken as the basis.
Raised up to the gable roof frame.
Reinforcing timber was woven between the pillars.
The sticky straw loess dough was applied gently.
It was just recently that the red clay wall had been completed over the course of three days.
“Whoa. Xaviel?”
“Did you call?”
“Aren’t you tired?”
“I’ve gotten used to it somehow.”
“okay?”
Even in this situation, Xaviel’s breath was not disturbed.
No matter how good your athletic ability is, nogada is another thing.
It must be a waste of strength to use muscles that you don’t normally use.
And yet, being so calm?
‘It must mean that the remaining power is on a different level in the first place.’
I was in awe of his steel king-class stamina.
He’s also a strong guy.
Especially when it’s free like this.
Lloyd let go of the rhyme in a coy tone.
“Then do what I tell you to do.”
“Are there any more left?”
“of course.”
“Why?”
“Because I haven’t finished building the ondol room yet.”
“But Lloyd-sama only asked for a little help from me.”
“Is it?”
“That’s right.”
Xaviel said with his characteristic cold tone, as if cutting it off.
“Lloyd asked me to help with the shovel at first. You said you could help with that. But even after that, the words kept changing. After he finished compacting the soil, he asked me to help trim the trees, and later he asked me for help, saying that even clearing the mud was difficult.”
“Hmm, so you didn’t like it?”
“of course.”
“Because you are a knight?”
“….”
Xaviel didn’t answer.
But Lloyd knew that the silence meant affirmation.
Probably.
Using a shovel and saw, not a sword, while getting dirt all over your body.
You would think that it was not befitting the honor of a knight.
But Lloyd dug into the gaps in that thought.
“By the way. Aren’t knights the ones who help the weak?”
“yes?”
“You would think so too.”
“That of course….”
“Right? Then this job is also a knight’s job. It’s a good practice of chivalry to help the weak. Are you talking? Even at this moment when we’re doing this, the tavern owner’s mother must be shaking all over from the chills, right?”
“….”
“Ah, if we complete this one day sooner, mother’s lips will be full of happy smiles…” ….”
“What else can I do?”
Xaviel let out a deep sigh.
Lloyd gave an evil smile.
“Let’s do some axing.”
He pointed outside the ondol room.
“Did you see the log in the corner of the tavern’s backyard?”
“I saw.”
“Yeah, good job. That’s a red pine tree. Chop that with an ax and make some panels to put on the roof.”
“What is a panel?”
“It looks like this.”
Snug.
Lloyd made a rough drawing on the dirt floor.
“A span of width and two spans in height is a word of one finger. Think of it as a longer version of the Iingpad tablet…Oh, you don’t know about the tablet? You can think of it as a sales pitch. Instead, cut to size. okay?”
“Then wouldn’t it be better to cut with a saw rather than an axe?”
“Yeah no An ax is better.”
Of course, it is easier to cut with a saw.
It is also easy to keep the size consistent.
However, severe wear occurs during the cutting process.
As a result, the grain of the wood is damaged.
The broken condensation permeates the water.
It will soon rot.
“If you don’t want to replace the roof in less than a year, use an axe.”
“…All right. but.”
“but?”
Come to think of it, Xaviel was looking at me with a slightly strange look.
“Where did Lloyd learn these things?”
“like this? Are you building?”
“That’s right.”
It was still a cold gaze.
However, hidden feelings were faintly visible in the coldness.
It was intense curiosity.
Lloyd replied honestly and openly.
“Korea University.”
“yes?”
“I learned it at Korea University.”
“….”
“It’s true. It’s not a lie.”
“But I’ve never heard of such an academy.”
“Oh, of course you’ve never heard that I went to school somewhere, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Then keep wondering. come out. We have a lot of work to do, so let’s move slowly.”
Lloyd shook his hand.
I sent Xaviel outside.
Cutting red pine with an ax to make panels for the roof.
That was something Xaviel could do much better than he did.
It was because of the difference in talent.
Whether the target is a person or a tree.
Xaviel has the best talent for splitting targets with bladed objects.
‘Because he’s already a high-level sword expert.’
It was something that appeared in the beginning of the novel ‘Iron-Blooded Knight’.
It was a fact that no one in Yeongji knew.
Even the baron, the lord, and Xaviel himself didn’t know.
However, at this point, Xaviel is already a phenomenal level of skill.
Sword Expert Advanced.
It was the stage where the sword master, called the tip of the sword, was on the verge.
In a small country, three or four people are all three or four people even if they are stripped.
Literally, it was the sound of a knight leader of a small and medium kingdom.
‘Even now, I’m only 20 years old.’
Xaviel realizes the tremendous skills he possesses only after leaving this territory.
It’s a future that hasn’t arrived yet.
‘Anyway, let’s move too.’
I rested enough to rest.
Lloyd started working on the next step.
It is the alpha and omega of the ondol room.
The light, the salt, and the sweet red beans of red bean bread.
It is like a graphics card in a high-end gaming computer.
It was a floor ondol construction.
‘From now on is really important.’
No matter how plausible the building is?
If the ondol doesn’t do its job, it’s a joke.
Knowing this well, Lloyd showed maximum concentration.
‘From here to here as designed.’
It happened while I was in the army.
There was a time when a regimental commander suddenly got stuck in a loess sauna.
He was hired as a company representative to make a loess room at the headquarters of the regiment.
the result?
The regiment commander’s wife’s happiness index increased dramatically.
Thanks to the regimental commander’s grace (?), he was satisfied and even received a reward vacation.
Lloyd made full use of his experiences and memories of the time.
dug the floor
It was a passage through which the heat and smoke from the fireplace flowed in and passed through.
‘So that the heat can go around the longest possible path and pass through the floor.’
I dug round and round the aisle.
In the meantime, I did not forget to carefully adjust the height of the aisle.
‘This way the heat doesn’t escape all at once and stays as long as possible.’
Bunenggi, the first heat from the fireplace.
The Gudeulgae place where the heat that came in is piling up.
Gudeul whale that effectively spreads the heat of the stagnant.
Cetaceans, who hold the heat before escaping, one last time.
And to the chimney cover that prevents rainwater and cold air from entering the sphere.
‘it’s tough.’
more carefully though.
reduce errors as much as possible.
I dug and checked again.
Checked and refined.
After that, the passage walls were finished with ocher.
The finished loess was sufficiently dried.
Flat, flat stones were meticulously laid over the passage.
‘Put a thick stone on the lower neck close to the furnace, and a thin stone on the upper neck on the other side.’
It was carefully separated and laid out.
It was because the upper neck was farther from the furnace, so it warmed up less slowly.
Therefore, the effect of evenly heating the entire floor of the room could be expected by varying the thickness of the stones laid with spheres.
‘Now it’s the turn of a quick bite.’
The gaps between the gutuljang were filled with chimdol.
It was covered with ocher dough on top.
Again, dry mud was laid as a primer and stepped on.
I applied again as a medium coat, leveled the floor, and thoroughly dried it.
After that, the surface was cleaned and finished by applying the thinnest possible finish and grinding the surface.
It took three full days to get there.
The core of the ondol construction was completed.
But the opportunity to test it had to be postponed until later.
“Hey, Master Lloyd?”
It was in the middle of seeing the freshly made ondol floor and being happy.
A servant came inside.
“The lord is looking for you.”
Lord Baron Arcos Frontera.
It was my father’s call.
‘no way.’
Suddenly, there was a place to pinpoint.
Lloyd left the unfinished ondol room.
The gossips of the onlookers who had been talking in groups of threes and fives until then stopped at once.
Lloyd passed through the awkward silence and headed for the baron’s mansion.
♣
“As I heard, strange rumors are spreading these days.”
Dalgrak.
the fork moves
What the iron fork picks up is a lump of crude homemade sausage.
But the baron’s hand stopped there.
I didn’t bring the fork I picked up to my mouth.
I cast my gaze toward this side of the table.
“You’re doing something in the tavern’s backyard?”
That gaze is not warm.
To put it bluntly, it’s cold.
His eyes looked more like a troublesome problem than a son.
At that glance, Lloyd’s appetite became bitter again.
‘This is the weak point of this body.’
The owner of this body he occupies.
Lloyd Frontera was the quintessential madman.
Gambling and vandalism to binge drinking and drunkenness.
In addition, to the unfathomable truth quality.
There was a lot of colorful (?) history and karma.
Maybe that’s why I always had to face the prejudices of the people around me.
In other words, no matter what he did, people always gave him a crooked look.
What is that idiot up to this time?
What kind of accident are you trying to do again?
Are you crazy
Or is it time to die
Please don’t be a nuisance to those around you.
…It was such a gaze.
It was the same even now.
“Let’s see if I can hear it. What are you doing this time?”
The baron’s voice was as cold as his eyes.
As soon as I heard it, I realized.
That’s not a question.
It is a rebuke.
Lloyd shrugged.
“If you’ve heard the rumors, you would know. We are making an ondol room ordered by the owner of the bar.”
“An ondol room?”
“yes.”
“Are you trying to fool even this father with such trivial words that tricked the tavern owner?”
“If you think so, it can’t be helped.”
Lloyd looked around.
What can I believe at this point?
Rather, it seemed like a good thing to buy a useless misunderstanding.
That said, it was a bit like convincing the baron in front of him.
because it was awkward.
‘If I talk too long, they might get caught.’
Parents somehow recognize their children.
He is not Lloyd Frontera.
It is Kim Soo-ho who occupies this body.
I was worried that I would be suspicious.
He chose to avoid deep conversation.
“If you have said everything, I will finish eating.”
Just like crazy Lloyd did.
After saying cut it off, I focused on eating.
Before saying anything else, I thought to just fill my stomach with the food in front of me and get up quickly.
The baron’s question flew into my ear.
“Is it because of family circumstances?”
“….”
“If you had eyes and ears, you would know what happened recently. Could it be that you are heartbroken over it and you are doing this on purpose?”
“….”
Are you referring to the case of confiscation due to a fraudster?
Again, the prediction was correct.
“But it’s okay. It’s just a passing storm. it’s not a big deal Who am I? It is the Arcos Frontera of the family that has guarded this territory for the fifth generation. This kind of predicament this father can overcome in no time. So please don’t go too far.”
“….”
“This father will be strong, so you must not be shaken either.”
“….”
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Suddenly, Lloyd raised his head.
I looked at the baron.
A handsome middle-aged man.
However, the expression on his face is somewhat tired.
His father’s expression, which he had seen the other day, was superimposed on his face.
‘It’s the same as back then.’
It was the last time I came out of the army.
My father, who suffered from investment fraud at the time, made that face.
He suddenly squeezed his hand.
don’t worry
It’s okay.
It’s not a big deal.
You only need to focus on your studies.
He smiled so hard and begged for trust.
So I didn’t really know myself.
I just thought it was really good.
A year later from that.
I didn’t know that my parents, who couldn’t get out of the mire of debt, would make an extreme choice.
However, the baron in front of him now had the same expression as his father at the time.
‘lie.’
I’m not okay.
You try to pretend to be okay in front of your children.
widely.
Lloyd put down his fork.
The thought of focusing solely on eating had long since passed away.
He put aside his promise to distance himself from the baron for a while.
And without realizing it, he opened his mouth.
“Don’t give up. I will do my best too.”
If you go back to that time a few years ago.
It was something I really wanted to say to my father.
So I quietly got up from my seat.
The baron looked this way with strange eyes.
A look of determination that was a little different from the coldness from before.
His gaze was burdensome, so he hurriedly left the place.
Fortunately, the baron didn’t catch this one.
♣
Construction continued.
The ondol room in the backyard of the bar quickly took shape.
The eyes of the onlookers gathered in twos and threes poured out.
I baked with you in the eyes of misunderstandings and whispering rumors.
It was a carbonization treatment to prevent deterioration of the wood.
At first, I was not used to it, so I ruined a few chapters.
Some were so burnt that they splintered, while others were brittle.
But after a few tries, I got a hang of it.
The key was to burn only to a depth of 3 millimeters from the surface of the red pine panels.
‘Just right.’
The panel is light and strong.
Water did not seep through easily.
I thought this would be enough for 10 years.
The roof was made of panels.
The chobae was well dried and attached to cover the floor ocher.
A little thicker linoleum was applied with stiff glue and attached to the chobaeji.
On top of that, bean soldering was done with soybean oil and rosin was applied to finish the waterproof treatment.
It was the completion of the ondol room.
I lit a fire as a test.
I touched the floor.
“it’s okay.”
A smile came out of nowhere.
Now it was time to check the customer’s reaction.
