The Troublesome Hero Among the Heroes

Madam Veri did not ask Altria to be a model for her to pose and then follow the picture, but to talk through the topic in her chat with Altria. Guide, let Altria make some expressions and show some demeanor inadvertently.

This process made Charles feel a little boring, so after breakfast, Mrs. Very approved him to go hunting and playing outside.

In Mrs. Veri’s manor, there is a village where free people live, and there are several slave residential areas. Only half of the land here is farmland, and the remaining half is grassland and woods.

There are many wild animals living in the grassland and woods. They are all prey hunted by Mrs. Veri's family when they come here on holiday. But the dangerous devil beast is gone, and they have been beaten to death by the guards of the manor.

After refusing Steward’s suggestion to send someone to accompany him, Charles walked alone in the manor. He wanted to take a closer look at how ordinary manors in this world look like.

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

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

In the field where the oats have just been harvested, the farmers are working. They will plant the broad beans by October. After the broad beans are harvested in May of the second year, another crop of soybeans will be planted. Oats will continue to be planted in the third year, and a year of pasture will be planted in the fourth year.

The mayor of the village Bartley answered Charles’ questions. Although Charles is wearing ordinary linen clothes, he wears a ring on his hand and a mask on his face. At first glance, he knows that he is not a child of an ordinary person. The village chief who was directing and coordinating the oat drying work in the drying valley immediately dropped his job and came to wait for the young Master.

Bartlett found that this young Master was very good at attending. Like many noble Young Masters who came to the field for the first time, he was full of curiosity about everything here.

Charles continued to ask: "How much oats can you harvest in your field this year?"

Bartlett thought for a moment and said: "Reporting back to Young Master, this year one acre of land I can collect more than 70 kg, because we do not lack water here, so it is a little higher than other places."

"Will you not grow other crops except oats?" Charles was a little curious.

Because of barley, wheat, rye and oats, the yield of oats is the lowest, barley is the highest, and wheat and rye are in the middle. Moreover, oatmeal is difficult to thresh and grind, and the taste is not good. Charles and his caravan sometimes use oats as their staple food. The most important reason is that people don't feel distressed when they feed the oats to horses under special circumstances. At that time, people think of other ways. And because oats are cheap, Aubrey will never admit it.

Bartlett pointed to the surrounding farmland and said, "Reporting back to Young Master. We mainly grow oats, beans and pasture. We also grow some vegetables. We will raise chickens in the pasture and some Sheep and pigs."

Then he pointed to the distance and said, "Wheat and rye are grown in the adult’s field. Rye is mainly cut to feed cattle and sheep."

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

"Why?" Charles continued to be curious.

Bartlett explained: “Because in the army, the oatmeal will be baked, steamed, pressed into flakes, and then dried, so that the oatmeal can be eaten by pouring it into boiling water and stirring twice. I used to eat this kind of oatmeal when I was out in the army, which can save a lot of time."

Charles opened his mouth and wanted to complain but couldn't vomit it.

In fact, during the march, the soldiers "biu" a small Fireball into a bowl of water to boil the water, then pour some oatmeal into it, and stir it with a spoon twice to eat. The noodles are also convenient.

To make oatmeal into oatmeal requires labor costs, and the standing army of this era is free labor for the military.

In this world, such oatmeal can be said to be the simplest and cheapest convenience food.

After clarifying the situation, Charles asked again: "How many rent do you have?"

"Half it." Bartley replied.

Charles estimated in his mind that their self-produced oatmeal, broad beans, and soybeans were barely enough to eat together. With the addition of livestock and poultry, they would still be able to live on.

Charles declined Batley's escort and continued to wander around the village alone.

On the other side of the drying farm, several peasant women are moving the bundled oat stalks to the carriage.

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

"Bah...bah...bah..."

Charles was blocked by a flock of sheep, and several shepherdess were driving the flock into the harvested soybean field Hurry up, several other young girls are pushing a trolley with grass to follow behind.

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

It seems that the shepherdess drove these sheep here to fertilize them.

When the sheep have rushed to the ground, the shepherdess pushing the trolleys used pitchforks to throw the grass into the ground and let the sheep eat by themselves.

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

Charles talked to one of the most decent shepherdesses, and confirmed their speculation that they really drove the sheep here to fertilize them.

"What about the pig?" Charles asked.

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

Then Charles again learned that these sheep are all of Mrs. Vry’s sheep. In the circle, the shepherdess belong to farm labourers. The farmer who rents this land only needs to pay a little money to let the sheep come to fertilize the land.

Seeing this teenage little girl's unrelenting appearance, Charles feared that he might scare her out of illness, so he went to the meadow.

The pasture is mainly planted with alfalfa, interplanted with chicory and other pastures.

The all around the grass is enclosed by a fence, and the silhouette of the chicken can be vaguely seen in the ground. The main purpose of this area is to plant pasture, so there are not many chickens in the field. While increasing income, it will not have much impact on the growth of pasture.

A group of girls about Charles’s age are carrying baskets and picking up eggs laid by chickens in the grass. It seems that people here still don’t use artificial egg laying areas to attract hens to lay eggs.

Suddenly, Charles noticed that a little girl with purple hair who was not far away from her was doing something wrong, 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 hooked the head, and then walked away.