Chapter 163 Manor Fasai
Laven waited for a while and couldn't help but ask: "Master, what should I do today?" There was
basically nothing to do in the manor these days, and he got off work early every day to rest.
Others couldn't find anything to do, but Lawrence had endless things to do.
Lawrence said: "Let's dig a river channel and dig a pool five meters long, three meters wide and two and a half meters deep beside the fish breeding river." "Let's do
this together, so we can do it quickly."
Salil asked: "What are you digging a pool for? Don't we have a well?"
Sofia said with a serious face: "The master must have a reason for doing this. We should follow the prophet's arrangements!"
Salil muttered: "I'm just asking. Ah..."
Lawrence explained the reason for this.
"The water in the well has nothing to do with this."
"The water here in the river mainly depends on the upstream streams. In winter, the upstream streams freeze and freeze, so the river water here will gradually flow clean." "We now trap the
fish in They cannot go to deep water to spend the winter, and they have no way to go elsewhere." "
I don't know exactly what they need, so I need to build a pond to store water. In winter, I can dig holes for fishing and feed them."
"The pool can be deeper. The main thing is to look at the time and dig it out as soon as possible before it freezes!"
Lawrence explained the reason in detail.
Reguero didn't understand.
Mandekru didn't understand either.
Seravan was confused.
Kharan directly folded his hands and said: "Just do as the prophet said, just dig a hole."
Salil nodded, with a solemn look on his face.
Sophia smiled and said: "I said you should listen to the master!"
Lawrence understood!
There is no need to explain anything next time, just let them work. In fact, these people don't want to know the reason at all.
I am not the team leader, nor the project leader, but the master of these people, the owner of the manor in this fantasy world.
"It takes twelve people to dig a pit!"
"I am in charge of directing, and five women are responsible for carrying the soil. Three people dig the hole at the same time, and the rest are responsible for sprinkling water, lifting soil, and assisting in digging the hole." "Just pile up the
excess soil next to it. , it will be useful for building houses and farming in the future."
Lawrence looked at Reglo and Kharan.
"You go to the tailor after dinner."
"The rest of you have a rest for half an hour after dinner, and then go to the river with me to dig soil."
Lawrence went to the river and used a hoe to draw a rough edge on the ground, and at the same time arranged each Personal work area.
Dig a hole first, and then push away the soil close to the river after it is dug to draw the river water and the fish in it there.
There should also be fewer fish in the river, otherwise more fish will die in winter.
After two busy days, winter has arrived!
The first snow came quickly, and it was sleet.
Lawrence was sitting on the sofa in the living room doing carpentry work, and the bayonets promised to Mandekru were all made during his breaks.
The tailor and the shepherdess were busy at the big table in the living room, and Edie and two skilled women were working around the table.
Some of the three maids were watching, while others were sitting down to play cards with Salil and Kharan.
Sofia prefers to sleep at times like this.
The firewood in the fireplace was burning very hot, and the kettle on it was heated again and again.
"Does anyone have water?"
Brielle asked once. When no one paid attention, she poured half a bottle of hot water into the jar, then added some cold water to the kettle and put it on the stove to continue boiling.
Lawrence occasionally raised his head and looked outside.
There is a fire pit in each house, and enough wood is stored.
There is no need to worry about heating, and the food reserves are sufficient, especially since the sow was recently brought up, and the pig can be killed at the critical moment to celebrate the New Year.
Maybe it was because it was too warm, but Khalan had just been able to wear long pants because of the weather, and he was used to wearing shorts in the house in the past two days.
"I don't know what's going on down the mountain. There's still a lot of wild boar meat in the warehouse. We've caught rabbits and grouse recently. If Emma comes over, I'll give her some." Lawrence walked to the window and looked at the world outside the hole
. Snow will make the roads in the mountains more difficult.
It's a bad thing, but it's also a good thing.
If bad guys come here, it will be much safer.
Lawrence felt that this was actually good.
This kind of quiet, warm and lively life is exactly the life I want.
The heavy snow fell in the evening and stopped before dawn the next day.
After the first snow, the temperature plummeted.
By the time the pit was dug, the stream had long since stopped flowing.
Fortunately, the fish only went to the deep-water river three to four hundred meters away and did not disappear.
The puddle is not in use this year, but it can be used next year. The work that was not completed last year can be continued this year.
Lawrence continued to use the ice blast method to do what he didn't finish last year, modifying the road up the mountain.
Ice blasting can be used to blast rocks on cliffs or rocks with cracks on their edges.
The method of burning and blasting is to light a fire to keep warm during the lunch break. After the work is done, use a basin of water to blast the stones below that are in the way.
After the weather cleared up a bit, Kenny came up from the mountain.
There are three to four centimeters of snow everywhere near the mountain. Although it is not deep, it will slip when you step on it, and you will fall to the ground if you are not careful.
Kenny was tightly wrapped in his sheepskin robe, with brewed barley wine in his arms.
As he approached the manor with difficulty, Kenny saw the coachman and farmer who were busy picking up stones at the foot of the cliff.
"Is Mr. Lawrence back?"
the coachman said, "He's been back for a few days and he's on the mountain."
"Okay." Kenny continued walking up.
The farmer looked at Kenny, and after Kenny walked away, he said to the driver: "It's too cold here. It would be nice if we could go back early." The driver
quickly returned to the fire, stretched out his hand to warm himself and said, "Yes, it's better than us." The village is much colder. Although I have food to eat every day and warm sheepskin clothes to wear, I still want to go back."
After there was less work in the winter, people in the manor became quiet.
Even if some work is arranged every day, because the work intensity has been reduced a lot, there is more rest time.
Lawrence was not aware of this change. There were endless things to do every day, but they were not so stressful.
"Mandekru, how about this arm knife?"
Lawrence finished one more thing and tied an arm tube holding a sharp knife to Mandekru's arm.
A sharp knife is fixed on one end of the arm tube, a smaller pigskin glove is added inside the wooden tube, and a belt is used to fix the glove and arm tube.
Mandekru waved his hand happily and tried the arm knife against the wooden board again.
"Very good! Thank you, Mr. Lawrence, I want to catch a rabbit and try it! It would be even better if I could have a slave to try it!"
Mandekru was so happy that he said what was in his heart.
Lawrence warned: "All the slaves in the manor are my private property. You are prohibited from destroying my things. If I know that you have done something stupid, then I will definitely make you regret it!" Mandekru calmed down and felt refreshed
. He agreed: "Yes, Mr. Lawrence."
Lawrence said: "You take it home and keep it. Don't keep it with you. Use it in battle. If you keep holding it, it will get damaged easily. I don't have time to make it for you again." One."
Mandekru knew how precious this thing was, and after playing with it for a while, he followed Lawrence's advice and put the arm knife into the box.
Kenny's ale was brewed. Because only a small amount of grain was given, Kenny's ale only had a small barrel, about five liters, which was equivalent to two large bottles of Coke.
Lawrence put the ale in the warehouse to drink during the eternal night, and then thought about food-related issues.
"The food in the Luofen Kingdom is not much. In the past, we ate potatoes and brewed the saved barley and wheat to make bread. Now that there are not enough potatoes, we must eat food." "In the past, jewelry and leather were exchanged for food, but
now They had a falling out with the Suman Islands, and the Confederacy itself had a famine. There should be enough food for making bread, but not enough for drinking." The
barbarians have no wine to drink, but they are going to cause trouble.
The natives of the Luofen Kingdom are chaotic and unruly.
Without a lot of wine, there's bound to be trouble in the winter.
It is unrealistic to drive them to die. These people are a little reckless, not brainless.
Once the profit from robbery is not worth the risk, many people will not risk their lives to go to sea.
Lawrence believes that this problem will take at least one or two hundred years to digest. It is a historical process of eliminating barbarism and learning to abide by the rules.
In the future, the northern border will still be the northern border. The ruler of Pig Trotter City may be the border count, while the royal family headed by Luofen III will be the southern nobles.
Or the northern part of the Luofen Kingdom, the middle part of the Luofen Kingdom, and the southern part of the Luofen Kingdom.
Wheat is grown in the south, potatoes are grown in the central part, and fishing and hunting are done in the north.
The food crisis will definitely be solved. After all those who cannot afford food starve to death, there will be enough food for next year.
The outside world is changing every day, over and over again.
Lawrence and the people in the manor lived a quiet and idle life, digging ditches every day, collecting some firewood, laying hay in fish ponds and wheat fields, sitting in the cabin or on the bed playing cards and chess, learning basic foreign languages and arithmetic, and chattering away. Day after day passed.
Of course, there are also some subtle episodes, such as the missionary and the widow of the same village having sex in the sleeping place.
Or the fat aunt from the village who went to help in the house down the mountain, tempting the thin boys of thirteen or fourteen down the mountain with bread and sausages.
Doug hasn't come back yet, and the women and children in Pumixiu Town are almost out of food. Women and children also have to go into the mountains to find some food in winter.
Soon, the two fat aunts who were often hugged by the thin children also became pregnant, and finally only the seamstress was left pregnant.
Lawrence was helpless and asked the seamstress for her wishes.
Between the thirty-year-old farmer and the forty-year-old coachman, the seamstress decisively chose the former.
After getting married, the couple lived together and moved into a new wooden house.
Not long after, the coachman and two pregnant village girls moved into the wooden house. One was a fat aunt who could work, and the other was a woman from the same village whom he had been chatting with before.
The relationship between the people below became more and more confusing. Lawrence did not want the relationship to become more and more confusing in the future, so he formulated strict manor laws.
Article 1 of the Manor Law: Without the permission of the manor owner, slaves and serfs are prohibited from being driven by the flesh and evil thoughts to do unchaste things.
A few days later, Emma and several women from the same village walked up the mountain through the snow and spent half a day arriving at the manor.
"Lawrence, Doug and the others haven't come back yet, what's left of us can't survive the eternal night!"
Emma and the women from the village looked at Lawrence with pleading faces, and briefly explained the predicament they encountered.
(End of chapter)