At that time, Valin and Issac were touring the village and the fields.
The villagers that working at the field, stole a glance here and there at those two people. They ploughing the field with hoes, and manually uprooted the weeds that grew around the budding vegetables.
No one carried the new farming tools that Kazura had granted to them.
「Fumu, the sprout are growing well. Because he reservoir is full and thanks to the water channel's irrigation, the drought isn't influencing the crops too much.」
「Yes. It’s all thanks to everyone's hard works.」
Hearing village chief, Isaac traced the aqueduct with his eyes. To make this intricate water channel throgh the village, he can’t imagine how much hardship that the villagers endured while building it. A deep respect burst out from his heart.
The resident of this village was less than 100 people, so the number of people who can be assigned to dig the water channel was an even smaller. When he saw the situation of food, practically nonexistent, in the village chief house, he couldn't imagine how this level of public engineering works was possible.
Well, the truth is, it was all possible because of the large amount of food and tools that Kazura brought. That made the work progress smoothly. But Isaac had no way of knowing this fact.
「Everyone, really do their best....... Then, on the matter of the crops tribute at the next 2 months, after seeing that the prospect for harvests is grim, I think that the tribute will have to be timber, like the previous time.」
Isaac, that observing the aqueduct, changed his topic to the taxation issue.
Even though his worries about water shortage had gone after charmed by the aqueduct, the crops would not grow instantly.
Isaac judged that the entire village had severe food shortage from what he saw at the village chief's house, so he decided that the tax this time was to be changed from crops into timber.
「Because it’s seems impossible to provide the timber amount like before, how about we change the amount of timber to 8 tenths of the previous tribute?」
「I understand. This time, the tribute amount will be only 8 tenths from the previous tribute amount. I will definitely accept it.」
Isaac heard the village chief’s answer and smiled.
「Then, I will come back in 1 month later to confirm the situation. Though, it might be difficult in the future, I hope for the best cooperation from everyone in this village.」
Isaac said it while firmly shake his hand with village chief.