forest kingdom

Chapter 267 Let you look good!
Garp followed Lawrence back to Pumexiu Town, and soon saw the legendary stone giant like the others.

"God!"

Garp looked at the giant in the sky with straight eyes, and soon looked excitedly at Lawrence, who was not very great next to him.

"Prophet, I have seen your greatness, and I have also realized my own insignificance."

Lawrence smiled and said: "I am also insignificant in front of God."

Lawrence not only speaks beautiful words, but also cooks beautiful meals.

While entertaining the merchants and nobles, Lawrence had sumptuous meals prepared.

Potato chips, sweet jam, peeled oranges, fried chicken pieces with potatoes, garlic, radish and soy sauce, fruit wine and bread.

After more than ten days of hard life at sea, the men completely let down their guard and feasted on this rare and rich delicacy.

After getting drunk, these people were quickly sent to the house to rest.

The savages have a tradition of punishing thieves, and Lawrence has also strengthened education in this area, so although some women who have been lonely for several years are interested in these men, they do not act recklessly.

The transaction between the two parties was swift and swift, and the transaction was completed in just over two days.

The main reason is that the summer here is almost over, and the crops are harvesting in the west. The barbarians are more active at this time of year.

These people need to return to their respective countries as soon as possible and park the ship in a safe port to prevent collision with barbarians.

In the living room of the main house of the manor
Salil held the wooden board she recorded on, stood in front of the table and read out the contents.

"We harvested five shiploads this time."

"Ten cows, two thousand kilograms of wool, four hundred barrels of wine, thirty kilograms each, probably more than 1 kilograms, because I drank some."

As Salil said, she picked up the wine on the table and took a sip to moisten her throat. She quickly picked up the second board and continued her report.

"11 slaves, one ton of wheat, and four hundred sheets of linen, each sheet is enough to make a long-sleeved linen coat."

"What was exchanged were two baskets of orange peels, twenty pieces of ironware, including swords and axes, most of which were farm tools, as well as crow dung, ten pieces of oak wood, and playing cards."

"Ten oak logs total more than 3000 kilograms. It seems to be more, but we have a lot. It's really great to be able to exchange this for food and things!"

Oak is of high quality and heavy.

During this transaction, one thousand kilograms of wood could be exchanged for six hundred kilograms of grain, or three hundred kilograms of wool.

For the Lawrence family, which owns a large oak forest, either one is a big profit.

Other nobles think the price is too low because they have been doing this business all the time and have the concept of converting the output of the land into commodities and money.

The Lawrence family was very poor here, and they didn't regard the resources all over the mountains and plains as money. Now that they suddenly discovered that the wood all over the mountains and plains could be exchanged for grain and wool, they immediately felt that it was a very good deal.

As the head of the family, Lawrence understood Sariel's mood at this time.

The village girl's thinking makes her content with the status quo.

Lawrence smiled and said: "So Salil, what do you think we need to do next?"

Salil thought seriously for a few seconds, and then looked at Lawrence seriously.

"Lawrence, I think we need more barley, the barley that makes barley wine!"

Lawrence got an unusual answer and asked curiously: "Why?"

Salil said quickly: "Of course I drank it! Wine is not in line with the taste of men here at all. My father and the others all drink ale wine. Only women drink fruit wine and wine, and men all drink grain wine."

Lawrence looked at the others, "Is that so?"

Delen said calmly: "She is right, men here prefer ale."

Lawrence nodded, "Indeed, what we are increasing now is the wheat planting area. This year we will harvest a lot of wheat. Plus the purchased batch, there will be enough for this year and next year."

Salil asked: "Then we will plant barley next year?"

Lawrence said firmly: "No, we will continue to grow wheat next year, and we will continue to expand the wheat planting area. We will buy barley from outside. Starting next year, we will no longer import wheat, but export our wheat!"

Salil looked at Lawrence in shock, "Are we going to sell wheat?"

There has always been insufficient food here, so Salil doesn't understand this kind of thing.Lawrence explained: "We can't finish the wheat now. If we can't finish the wheat we've stored for half a year, we have to sell it. After harvesting new grain, we have to sell some old grain, otherwise it will get moldy if we keep it."

Salil struggled: "But we..."

Sariel quickly thought of what Lawrence could think of, and discovered that in just two or three years, she had harvested more wheat than her family could harvest in a lifetime.

The camp in the forest has grown from a few square meters at the beginning to one or two acres, and now to more than ten acres.

In addition to the 150 acres of fields in Pumixiu Town, 200 acres of wheat were planted this year, which can harvest [-] people's annual rations.

In places with poor land, crops such as peas, rye, and pumpkins are grown, as well as cattle, sheep, and chickens on the mountains, as well as potatoes that yield thousands of pounds per acre.

This year, the forest people have been allowed to grow potatoes. If you include some food in the sea, such as catching fish and salvage kelp from the sea far away from the ice, or going directly outside to catch ready-made sea fish and sea vegetables.

The poisonous mountain on the sea is between Dumu Port and the Wakili people, so it does not affect the sea conditions outside Dumu Port. This time, the Western caravans did not encounter those patches of seaweed.

And it’s just that Kharan doesn’t want to eat it, so it won’t affect the rest of the family except the main family.

The more she thought about it, the more Salil realized that Lawrence was right. There was no shortage of food or wheat here at all.

Salil sat on the chair and sighed: "Yes, we can eat enough now, and a thousand baskets of wheat can't be eaten at all."

Delen didn't understand Sariel's performance, "This is a good thing, why are you unhappy?"

Salil glanced at Delen and said melancholy: "You don't understand."

Lawrence saw that Delen was about to get angry, so he smiled and comforted: "I understand Sariel, and Sophie must also understand."

Sofia nodded happily, "Yes! The master is right! When we were very early, three people could only sleep in one room, and we still have it now!"

Lawrence smiled and said: "At that time, we had to save money when eating. Three people slept together with a sheep, four pigs and a few chickens. The toilet and stove were also in the same room. The room was much smaller than the living room now, and half of it was No."

Sofia added: "At that time, eggs were not allowed to be eaten every day. I often secretly gave the eggs that Sister Salil gave me to the owner to eat!"

Lawrence joked: "Salil was not so obedient back then. She looked down on me all day long and didn't want to marry me!"

Sally immediately couldn't sit still and defended: "There is no such thing. It was obviously Lawrence who looked down on me at that time! You avoided me every day!"

Lawrence put a hand on Sophia's shoulder next to him, "I won't quarrel with you. It's better for Sophia. She has always been close to me from the beginning to now."

"Yes, Master!" Sofia, who was praised, happily accepted the compliment and added: "Sofia has grown up! She is 14 years old now!"

Lawrence smiled, remembering that he ran away from home when he was fourteen or fifteen, and now he seemed to be nineteen or twenty, but he felt that time passed too fast.

"Well, you will be an adult by the time Yong Ye comes~"

Sophia said anxiously: "Is it done now?"

Everyone laughed.

With the lively atmosphere and the abundant income, everyone in the room soon became happy again. Before it was time to eat the annual meal of remembering the bitter and remembering the sweet, everyone in the room started to remember the bitter and think of the sweet.

Lawrence calmed down first and said gently to everyone: "Recently, our agricultural products are still a bit limited. In addition to wine, we also lack cooking oil and clothes that can be used at any time."

Sariel said doubtfully: "I think these are enough. Our oil can last until autumn, and our clothes can be used for ten years."

Faced with Sariel's wrong idea, Lawrence seriously corrected him: "The oil is only enough for us, but not for the farmers and blacksmiths. Without enough oil and water, we can only barely eat enough to eat food, and it is difficult to gain weight quickly. "

"In addition to fattening up the soldiers and workers, we also need to have enough clothes."

"Sariel, your idea is to wear one piece of clothing for five or six years, and a few changes of clothes will be enough."

Sariel looked at Lawrence, "Isn't this wrong?"

"Yes, but we can have higher pursuits!" Lawrence said seriously: "Don't you want to have ten new dresses hanging in the room for you to choose from?"

Salil thought for a moment, "But I can only wear two at most. Any more will make me uncomfortable."

The other witches also looked at Lawrence curiously, obviously unable to understand what Lawrence was thinking.

Delenn and Kharlan are both simple people, Sophia and Sariel also have two old clothes that can be changed, and Lathander has worn the same clothes for many years. These witches are the same as those outside, and they live a normal life. What day is it! !
Lawrence shook his head regretfully, "You can't imagine the joy of owning ten dresses at the same time. Just wait, I will make you look good!"

(End of this chapter)