Chapter 194: Spring Goes
Lawrence was injured, suffering serious external and internal injuries.
Beaten by Delenn.
It took three days for the bruises on my face to go away, and it probably took half a month for the pain on my arms to go away.
Lawrence understood why many animals were scared away by people, and why the snow cave people were so timid and afraid of people.
If you get injured in a fight, you will die early!
After the injury, Lawrence became more open-minded.
"Having a child so early is also troublesome. In ancient times, the earlier the child was born, the more serious the contradiction."
If it doesn't work, just find a few beautiful women to have children. If you can't have children with witches, it's not like you can't have children with ordinary women.
Besides, there is no need to be so anxious about having a baby. I am just infertile, not infertile.
As long as it makes you happy, the child can be adopted. If you can't raise it well, you can replace it with someone else. But you can't replace your biological son.
Especially the physical problem of witches. If you have children and do not inherit the mother's wizarding talent, you will face a very cruel choice, so not having children is actually an option.
As for the problems a hundred years from now, there is no need to worry about them. Who will care about things that will happen seventy or eighty years from now?
Lawrence was more concerned about small things such as eating, bathing and going to the toilet than he was about children.
In the wooden house
, Salil looked at the numbers and reports on the wooden board seriously, with a wise look on her face.
Lawrence was also looking at the report, but after seeing that Salil cared about these things, he left the matter to her.
Salil doesn't like fighting, and she doesn't feel comfortable with murder, robbery and fighting. Instead, she likes to pay attention to trivial things.
For example, the amount of food and supplies, how many people are in the family, how many pots, how many clothes, how many pigs, sheep, chickens and dogs.
Bull said: "Today there is another family who wants to become your master's slaves. We told them what they have to do to become your master's slaves, and they all agreed." Salil was calculating what would be the most cost-effective way to plant the fields that were reclaimed today
. , can mature before autumn.
After hearing Bull's words, Sariel also said casually: "Lawrence asked everyone to pay taxes. A basket of potatoes and a sheepskin will suffice. These are not heavy, so why can't you afford to eat?" Bull smiled and said: "It's not eating
. If you can't afford food, now the Pumixiu people in the town can have enough to eat, and they can also make some cheese and butter."
Sophia licked her mouth, "I want to eat cheese too."
Salil continued to count things, " Just be patient and wait until next spring to eat whatever you want. If you want to eat now, let Lawrence go down the mountain to exchange fruits for a few pounds of cheese." Delen also wanted to eat cheese and asked Salil:
"Our current sheep Not enough? I think we have a lot of sheep."
Sariel knows this very well.
"We now have twenty-three Domestic sheep and fifty-eight ordinary goats and sheep, including three rams, sixteen wethers, eight lambs that need milk, and twelve dairy sheep that can produce milk. The rest are ewes between three and eight months old."
"If these twelve dairy goats are pregnant, they will have no milk."
Lawrence asked: "How much milk do twelve dairy goats give each day?"
Shepherd was on duty as a maid today. The woman replied: "You can have two buckets a day."
One bucket weighs about twelve kilograms, and two buckets equal twenty-four kilograms. This is equivalent to each sheep producing an average of two kilograms of milk after feeding the lamb every day.
The Lawrence family only uses three pounds of goat's milk every day, and the rest is basically used to take care of the children.
There are more and more babies in the manor. In this era, there are no contraceptive methods and there are not many entertainment facilities. Most women have one child every year.
As long as there is enough food, children will appear continuously like they are growing out of the ground.
Most women have just come up from the mountains. They are nutritionally deficient and don't have much milk. Therefore, it is difficult for their children to survive without the supplement of goat milk.
In addition, the puppies in the dog team also need goat's milk. It is a bit less to rely solely on the big dogs. The stronger the puppies grow when they are young, the higher their chances of survival.
Lawrence said: "It's almost done. After a while, when there are more dairy goats, we can make cheese."
Salil looked at Lawrence, "Lawrence, you haven't trained with Delen in three days."
Lawrence said without changing his expression. : "There are more important things waiting for me. You should understand that when there are many people, a prophet must keep a cool head and cannot let anger lose his mind and do reckless and stupid things." "
You That's right." Salil lowered her head and continued to calculate, muttering: "But it doesn't feel like that."
Lawrence turned a deaf ear to Salil's muttering, looked at Sophia and said, "Sofia, how are you doing with your bow and arrow practice? ?"
Sophia smiled sheepishly, "I'll be tired after a while. I need to eat more meat to gain strength!"
Delen comforted: "It doesn't matter, if your strength is not strong, it proves that your witchcraft can Awesome!"
Salil frowned, but did not refute.
Sophia is young, and Lawrence currently doesn’t know if she is a witch or not. Only Salil is not young yet, but she has never been able to use witchcraft.
Compared to the witchcraft of Bydelon and Khalan, Sariel is really a bit embarrassed as a witch.
Fortunately, Lawrence is not a wizard, which makes Saryl feel a lot better.
Lawrence said to Delenn: "Dren, reinforce the bathroom today. I hope you can use the bathroom tomorrow." Delenn responded: "Just wait until the people outside build up the wall." Lawrence went out to check the progress of the work
.
Behind the wooden house, Emma is leading the female workers to build a wall, filling the final gaps with mud and carefully selected stones.
Emma came over and said: "Master, we don't need too many people here. There are still many people who have nothing to do."
Lawrence looked at the forest in the distance. There were more and more open spaces outside the logging camp, and there were still a lot of leftovers in many places. The wooden piles had not had time to be cleaned.
"Let the female workers build a new kitchen on the newly opened land in the lumberyard. It will be more convenient for eating, going to the toilet and working in the future. The new kitchen will be made like a tavern, longer and can accommodate a hundred people for dinner." "Get closer.
" Let’s renovate the kitchen shed in our manor and use it as a dog house for Doug.”
Lawrence found that Doug always liked to yell and bark, and the public kitchen was close to the river beach and faced the camp across the river, so a watchdog was needed. Early warning.
Doug is the gatekeeper of the manor. The camp will also have a guard dog for a while to prevent wild animals from approaching, but there is no rush for now.
Lawrence stood in the sun and looked at his big house.
"It will be changed next year. In the first year, we will live in a stone house, in the second year, we will live in a wooden house, and in the third year... it will still be a wooden house."
Lawrence didn't have time to build a new castle this year, otherwise he wouldn't have built a bathroom.
It won't start until at least next year, and it will certainly take several years to complete a castle.
If it goes slower, it may take more than ten years.
"We can start building a spare house this fall, and after the spring plowing is over next year, we can start to use the excess labor to build the castle." "
However, it will also take several years to clear the forest, and there will be several children who will grow up next year. , Now let’s find a way to feed these children.”
Although there are many plans in his mind, such as brewing wine, paper making, making soy sauce and vinegar, processing fine salt, building castles, making musical instruments, water-powered mills, blacksmith shops and other plans.
But now we must make a choice and go all out to open up wasteland and cultivate farmland to plant crops. Solving this year's food problem is the fundamental thing.
The crops grown now can be harvested in summer and autumn, beans and vegetables planted in summer can be harvested in autumn, and half of the crops planted in autumn and produced in winter can also be used as fodder to solve the feed problem for cattle and sheep.
In this era, both humans, dogs and sheep will die from various diseases.
Lawrence walked to the outskirts of the manor, where there was a cold corpse buried in the ground that only lived a few days before leaving this world.
In an era when there are not enough medical conditions, keeping everyone fed is the greatest care.
Now the men and women in the manor can eat potatoes and peas every day, and they can also eat a meal of fish every three days, or drink a bowl of pork-flavored bone soup.
Most people live on two meals a day, and the food crisis will not improve until the first crops mature.
"Take out a basket of wheat every week and make some bread, even gray bread. By the fall, everyone can eat bread every day!" The
main goal of the first two years was to improve his quality of life. This year Lawrence While improving his own quality of life, he also began to improve the quality of life of his subordinates.
The temperature in the mountains has warmed up and will get hotter in the future. It is a good time for shearing sheep.
The sheared wool will be made into new clothes for winter.
At this time, the men at the lumberyard basically only wore a piece of cloth around their waists, because chopping wood is a physical job and it is easy to sweat.
There are also people working without shoes, regardless of gender or age.
Even some women are accustomed to working in just a linen vest and don't care about their bodies being seen by others.
Lawrence returned to the house quickly, because he had long accepted his barbarian blood, and Lawrence had long been open to these things.
Returning to the house, Salyl and Sophia Delon were found eating oranges.
Lawrence glanced at the three witches and then walked up to the bedroom on the second floor alone. Sure enough, Khalan was taking a nap.
The three people downstairs always take advantage of Kehalan's absence to eat some fruits made by Kehalan. After all, there are limited delicious food in this area and there is no other choice.
Lawrence quietly went downstairs and went out to find Emma who was chatting with Bull outside the door.
"Emma, I remember there are some edible sweet apples in Dumu Village. You can take someone to collect some and bring them back. I'll give you about ten kilograms. You can keep the rest for yourselves." Emma was a little confused
. There are obviously more and better sweet fruits in Mount Talim.
But it was Lawrence's arrangement after all. Emma agreed: "Yes, Master."
Lawrence reminded: "Ride the sheep over there. I'm not in a hurry. You should be careful and let Brick bring the two dogs over. She is familiar with crossing." The environment in Mu Village."
"Yes!" Emma quickly went down to prepare.
In the room by the window on the second floor, Khalan was lying sideways, obviously hearing what Lawrence said.
Not only does her nose work well, but her eyes and ears also work well. Her eyes can see farther than normal people, and her ears can also hear nearby sounds when she listens quietly.
(End of chapter)