Mountain and Forest Kingdom

All the ingredients for the fried chicken were ready, but Lawrence counted the days carefully and realized that he still had to wait a few more days.

The time to make a Fried Chicken Day wish last year hadn’t come yet, it was after planting the peas.

The peas have just been harvested and the fields need to be tidied up for a while before sowing.

There will be no rotation this year as soon as the fields are cleared. Next year we will plant something else in the pea fields depending on the situation.

Lawrence was outside the woodshed chopping wood, chopping the pieces into burnable pieces.

Salil and others were tanning pig skins and cleaning the bloody pig skins.

Sofia led two dogs and watched farmers loosening soil in the fields.

"Woof!"

As soon as a mouse emerged from the potato field, it was spotted by two fat dogs, who quickly rushed up to it.

The field mouse hurriedly tried to hide in its hole, but the people around it quickly beat it down with wooden sticks.

The mouse that was hit did not dare to continue running into the hole, but ran towards the open space in a panic.

Soon the two dogs caught up and bit the escaping vole. The honest dog used serious strength on its face and flicked its mouth several times, biting the vole half to death.

At this time, another mouse ran out of the ground, and Sophia quickly shouted: "Quick! Catch it!"

The two dogs quickly spit out the mice in their mouths, ran quickly in the wet soil, and quickly pounced on a field mouse that was about to escape.

Lawrence watched the movement over there, walked to the half-bitten field mouse and looked at the mice.

The mouse on the ground is not big, only about eight centimeters including its tail.

Rats in colder areas are smaller and less intimidating than those in the temperate tropics.

Both dogs are descendants of snow dogs. They have fluffy hair all over their bodies. They are already over one meter tall when they are less than one year old, and their strength is almost as strong as that of an average seven or eight-year-old child.

In terms of personality, he is lively and active. He has to run around every day to find something to do. If he is tied there, he will bite the rope.

While Lawrence was looking at the mouse, a crow flew over.

The crow landed on the ground and curiously came over to check the situation.

When Laurence realized it was his crow, he pinched the vole's tail and lifted the mouse up.

"come over."

The crow quickly approached and stood more than one meter in front of Lawrence, seeming to be looking at the vole or somewhere else.

Lawrence put the field mouse down again.

The crow looked at Lawrence, then at the field mouse, then looked away.

After waiting for a few seconds, the crow came over, stretched out its head and bit the field mouse that was still alive on the ground.

Wow~

The crow soon flew away again.

Lawrence looked at this crow that always ran away after eating recently, "Is this crow out raising its family? Otherwise, it wouldn't be running out all day long. It always takes food and goes out."

Sophia ran over and said, "I know, I saw this crow stealing the haystacks we built our house on several times last time!"

Lawrence was now sure that the crow did have a home outside.

"It's good like this, but it's not good to stay here all the time. In the future, when the number of crows increases, our place will also be lively."

Lawrence didn't force the crow to stay. Since it could solve the continuation problem on its own, it meant that it was more suitable outside.

Sophia complained: "What do we do with a crow like this? It won't even do anything for us."

Lawrence smiled and said: "I had very low requirements for that crow from the beginning. I just need to come back here often to visit."

"Just treat him as a friend who we meet occasionally. He can't be of much help, but he looks friendly and doesn't have any complicated interests."

"If we had a few more partners like this, it would actually be easier to be satisfied and more relaxed and happy."

Sophia thought about it seriously, "I don't understand. It's good now that I have a master and sister Salil. I don't need too much."

Lawrence said proudly: "Sofia is good at talking. We have been here for a year. I remember when I first saw you, you were still very thin and short, and your hair was not as smooth as it is now."

It's not even a year since Fried Chicken Day, but Lawrence and Sophia have known each other for a year.

Sofia looked at the happy Lawrence and smiled happily and said, "Well! The master is so kind to me!"

Lawrence said: "Although you call me master, you are definitely not a slave. From now on, you will be the third number in our family besides me and Sariel, and one of the mistresses of this manor."

"Yeah!" Sophia agreed happily.

At this time, Etty came over to report the situation.

"Master, now we have to harvest potatoes and water the fields to prepare for planting peas. There are too many things in the fields, and the eight of us are too busy."

Lawrence said directly: "Ask Mandekruhe to help you, he seems to have nothing to do."

Etty lowered her head and said, "These are things women do. If you let him do them, he will be angry."

Here in the North, some men have left farming to women and slaves, and they are only responsible for hunting and making money through robbery.

In winter, they just drink and brag and sleep. Especially during the past year, there have been several harvest robberies, which made many barbarians, including Mandekru, subconsciously reject farming work.

Etty quickly said: "Would you like Seravan to help?"

Lawrence said: "If Seravan is allowed to do it, Reglo and Mandekru will probably look down on him."

Lawrence thought for a moment and said quickly: "Let's collect the potatoes first, and do other things one after another."

"Reglo is responsible for patrolling the surrounding situation, while Mandekru and Seravan continue to build warehouses."

"Let Colin and the other three help you. If you don't know how, just teach them. If you don't do well, you can use appropriate corporal punishment."

Etty said: "Yes."

Lawrence had already learned about the maids in the monastery from Kenny. None of the three maids were descendants of noble families. They had to work when they entered the monastery.

He is still the son of a baron! Aren't you going to work as hard as ever?

Lawrence quickly arranged for the three maids to join the rest of the family in farming.

At first, I was a little worried, thinking that the three maids would damage the crops and seeds and not be able to distinguish between weeds and crops.

But after standing at the window on the second floor and observing for a while, I realized that I was overthinking it. These three maids were obviously not that precious.

Although they often talk about aristocratic style and elegance, looking at the skillful way those three women work, they must be little nuns who are often called upon in the monastery.

If the convent does not accept women from ordinary farmers to become nuns, then someone must have to work.

It's not that the descendants of nobles don't have to work. As the daughter of a berserker and a witch, Sariel still works peacefully every day.

If you want to be relaxed, you must have someone to help you do the work.

Those busy people in the fields were working for Lawrence.

Lawrence has not been idle either. He has been working hard so that everyone can have enough food and clothing.

After another five or six days of busy work, the grass outside is still everywhere, insects can often be seen, and ripe wild fruits can be collected from nearby.

However, the temperature has dropped a lot, and with the autumn rain that lasted for two days, everyone now needs to cover themselves with an extra blanket when sleeping.

Lawrence’s Fried Chicken Festival is finally here!

On this day, Lawrence got up early to exercise before dawn.

In the morning I had the same pork and mushroom stew as usual, and a piece of wheat bread.

Lawrence had three meals a day, while the serfs in the manor had two meals a day. If they were busy, they would have three meals a day.

These days I have been busy sorting out the meat from the wild boar, busy harvesting and planting crops, and busy with many other things, so I have three meals every day.

At 7:30 in the morning, when everyone was about to finish eating, they heard a dog barking.

The two dogs that were gnawing bones near the public kitchen quickly got up and ran to the door, barking outside.

Lawrence was killing a chicken outside the house. When he heard this, he handed the chicken to Salil, washed his hands and went back to check the situation.

The barking soon stopped, and Lawrence found Emma standing outside the manor talking to Manderkru.

Edith came over and said, "Master, it's Emma. She asked us if we need help here. She has nothing to do today."

"Let her in." Lawrence quickly went back to killing the chicken.

Salil had already pulled the chicken's neck apart and dripped the chicken's blood into the bowl.

After a while, Emma came closer.

"Mr. Lawrence, Sariel, have you finished your meal?"

Emma smelled the smell of meat. She got up early this morning and was on her way, but she still missed breakfast time.

Lawrence said: "Yes, we have just finished eating, but there should be some food left. Do you want to eat?"

Emma nodded happily, "I happened to forget to eat!"

Lawrence asked the maid to help fill a pot of pork stew with wild vegetables.

Potatoes, peas and pumpkins have to be saved for winter, so now they mainly eat the wild vegetables that can still be collected, and too much pork.

Along with the pork offal, Emma also got a piece of gray bread.

Emma said happily: "I'll kill the chicken for you, and then we'll eat after we're done."

Lawrence smiled and said: "Sit down and eat slowly. There are still many things to do after we finish killing the chicken. We made this bread with special materials. Although it is not easy to swallow, it tastes pretty good. Try it. "

"Okay!" Emma quickly drank a spoonful of greasy broth with a spoon, and then bit into a piece of bread in her hand with a smile.

The salty and warm smell in her mouth made Emma chew up all the bread in her mouth and swallow it into her stomach without realizing it.

"This bread is so good, what is it made of?" Emma liked this bread very much and was sure that it was definitely not made of wheat.

Lawrence explained: "It's made from ground pork bones, and there's a lot of bone marrow in the pork bones, and then mixed with some rye."

Rye is easier to feed than wheat, but it tastes bad and is only suitable for feed. It is usually eaten by the poor.

There is not much wheat in the manor, and some of it was given to Delen before. Lawrence also needs bread for himself, and the rest needs to be used for winter.

Even the three Lawrences sometimes have to eat some rye.

For Emma, ​​rye is a very common food, but pork bone meal is different.

"Four made from pig bones?" Emma felt the bread in her mouth taste even more fragrant, "No wonder it's so delicious!"

Seeing that Emma liked it, Lawrence said, "Don't worry, you haven't been here for a long time, how is the town going lately?"

Emma quickly showed a depressed look, "The Baron is here, we have to pay taxes for another year, two of the family's chickens were taken away, and Doug also took away eggs and a sheep to cook for the Baron. "

"They forcibly took away five baskets of wheat from our house. Now we only have potatoes, pumpkins and fish."

Lawrence was not surprised. Doug now lacked warriors, and there was a serious shortage of male warriors among the Pumixiu people to resist the Wakili.

Doug himself has accumulated a lot of wealth, so he is the person least willing to conflict with the Vakiri.

Give the Pumixiu wealth to Baron Avari so that the remaining Pumixiu will be more willing to go out and rob with Doug.

For ordinary Pumixiu people like Emma, ​​having two vampire leaders oppressing them is not a good thing, and life is getting harder and harder now.