The Hero Who Troubles the Heroes

Mrs. Veri made Artoria as a model not by asking her to pose and then follow the picture, but she guided her through the topic in the chat with Artoria, and made Artoria do it inadvertently. Make some expressions and show some demeanor.

This process made Charles feel a little bored, so after breakfast, Mrs. Verrey gave him permission to go out hunting and playing.

In Mrs. Virey's manor, there is a village inhabited by free people, as well as several residential areas for slaves. Only half of the land here is farmland, and the remaining half is grass and woods.

There are many wild animals living in the grasslands and woods, and they are all hunted by Mrs. Verui's family when they come here for vacation. However, there are no more dangerous monsters, and they have long been beaten to death by the guards of the manor.

After declining the butler's suggestion to send someone to accompany him, Charles strolled around the manor alone. He wanted to take a closer look at what an ordinary manor in this world was like.

The free people here are all the tenant farmers of Mrs. Virui. The village they live in is located at the junction of the farmland and the woods. Outside the village is a grain drying field.

The farmers are drying the freshly threshed oats on the drying yard. If the humidity of the oats stored in the warehouse is too high, it will be prone to mildew.

In the fields where the oats have just been harvested, the farmers are working, and they want to plant broad beans before October. After the broad beans are harvested in May of the second year, another crop of soybeans will be planted, oats will be planted in the third year, and pasture will be planted in the fourth year.

The village chief, Bartley, answered all of Charles' questions. Although Charles was wearing ordinary linen clothes, he wore a ring on his hands and a mask on his face. At first glance, he knew that he was not a child of ordinary people. The village chief, who was directing and coordinating the drying of oatmeal in the grain drying field, immediately left his job and came to serve the young master.

Bartley found that this young master was very easy to serve. Like many aristocratic young masters who came to the fields for the first time, he was full of curiosity about everything here.

Charles continued to ask, "How much oats can you harvest from your fields this year?"

Bartley thought about it for a while, and said, "Reporting to the young master, this year, one acre of land can be harvested more than 70 kilograms. Because we have no shortage of water here, it is a little higher than other places."

"Don't you grow other crops besides oats?" Charles was a little curious.

Because among barley, wheat, rye, and oats, the yield of oats is the lowest, barley is the highest, and wheat and rye are in the middle. Also, oats are difficult to thresh and grind, and they don't taste good. Charles and his caravan sometimes used oatmeal as the staple food. The most important reason was that people didn't feel bad about the oatmeal they ate when feeding the horses in special circumstances. And because oats are cheap, Aubrey would never admit it.

Bartley pointed to the surrounding farmland and said, "Reporting to the young master, we mainly grow oats, beans and pasture, and also grow some vegetables. We will raise chickens on the pasture, and we also raise some sheep and pigs."

Then he pointed to the distance and said, "The adults will grow wheat and rye in the field. The rye is mainly cut and fed to cattle and sheep."

Then he said, "We grow oats because there are more merchants buying oats."

"Why?" Charles continued to be curious.

"Because in the military, oatmeal is baked, steamed, pressed into flakes, and then dried," Bartley explained. "This oatmeal is poured into boiling water and stirred twice before eating. I used to be in the military. , eat this oatmeal often when you go out, it can save a lot of time.”

Charles opened his mouth, but he couldn't.

Indeed, when marching and fighting, soldiers "biu" a small fireball into a bowl of water to boil the water, then pour some cereal into it, stir it twice with a spoon and eat it, which is more convenient than eating instant noodles.

It takes labor costs to make oatmeal into oatmeal, and soldiers in the standing army of this era are free labor for the military.

It seems that in this world, such oatmeal can be said to be the simplest and cheapest convenience food.

After figuring out the situation, Charles asked again, "How much do you rent?"

"Half," Bartley replied.

Charles calculated in his heart that their self-produced oats, broad beans, and soybeans were barely enough to eat, and if they added livestock and poultry, they would still be able to live on.

Charles declined Bartle's **** and continued to wander around the village alone.

On the other side of the grain drying field, several peasant women were carrying the bundled oat straw to the carriage.

Charles went up to inquire and learned that these straws were going to be pulled into the workshop to make straw paper. Because the workshop was far away, Charles gave up the idea of ​​visiting.

"BAA Baa baa…"

Charles was blocked by a flock of sheep. Several shepherdesses were driving the flock to the soybean field that had been harvested. Several other young girls were following behind pushing carts with grass.

In the soybean field, the dry bean vines have long been stepped on into the soil by the sheep, and the sheep dung and eggs are all over the ground.

It seems that the shepherdesses drove the sheep here to fertilize them. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

When the sheep were all in the field, the shepherds pushing the trolleys used pitchforks to throw the grass into the field and let the sheep eat by themselves.

There is an irrigation canal next to the field, and some sheep are drinking water by the canal.

Charles chatted with the most decent-looking shepherdess, and confirmed the speculation that they really drove the sheep here to fertilize.

"And what about pigs?" Charles asked.

The shepherdess replied respectfully, "Master, pigs can only be kept in the woods."

Then Charles learned that these sheep were all in Mrs. Verrey's sheepfold, and the shepherdesses belonged to farm laborers. The farmer who rents the land pays a small fee to have the sheep come to fertilize the field.

Seeing the submissive appearance of this teenage girl, Charles was afraid that he would scare her into a disease, so he went to the pasture.

Alfalfa is mainly planted in the pasture, and several kinds of pasture such as chicory are interplanted.

The grass is surrounded by fences, and chickens can be vaguely seen in the ground. The grass is mainly planted here, so there are not many chickens in the field. While increasing the income, it will not have much impact on the growth of the forage.

A group of girls about the same age as Charles are carrying baskets and picking up eggs laid by chickens in the grass. It seems that people here will not use artificial egg-laying areas to attract hens to lay eggs.

Suddenly, Charles noticed that there was something wrong with the behavior of a little purple-haired girl with her back to him not far away, and she looked a little flustered as she looked around. After seeing no one on the left and right, he quickly squatted into the grass.

Charles, who guessed what the other party was going to do, smiled and shook his head, then walked away.

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