Chapter 18 Zhou Gong
After returning home, Zhou Ming quickly adjusted his mood. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Indeed, for this world with a fairly high degree of class solidification, there are very few promotion channels left for the commoners, although in many stories dictated by some commoners, I have heard that many of the sons of farmers were lucky enough to become knights' squires by rescuing a knight, and finally counterattacked to become a nobleman, but in reality, how many such examples?
Perhaps it is because of the small number of stories that this kind of story can be widely circulated.
Shaking his head, it was obvious that he had been misled by these stories and had taken a bit of a detour.
"It seems that I have to change my thinking, it is useless to be a farmer all the time, and I will never get ahead in my life. ”
A lot of thoughts flashed through Zhou Ming's mind.
Be a businessman?
There are already a lot of wandering merchants in this world who are reselling goods between various territories, because the products and prices of each territory are different, coupled with the lack of information exchange, the probability of obtaining huge profits is very high.
Be a thief in the woods?
The area of this world is very large, many noble territories, the degree of development is less than 10%, everywhere is dense and opaque black forest (in the case of high plant density, the light inside is black) and forest wilderness, there are many wild animals, there is a lot of space for activities, if you put up your own flag, pull a pole in the wild, it is no problem to be a chic and free mountain king.
There are also freelance professions such as craftsmen, mercenaries, and sailors, which can be chosen by himself, as long as he leaves the Grand Collar.
But......
Alice.
As the only sister, it is impossible to go away with her, and it is easy to be caught by the lord.
Moreover, with Alice's appearance, even if she was taken out of the Grand Collar and met a strongman with bad intentions outside, she would not be able to stop those traffickers or mercenaries from taking her to some place to sell her for a good price.
Zhou Ming had a headache, Alice's sister was brought up by him, and it was impossible to say that it was impossible to have no feelings, and it was even more impossible to abandon her to go out alone, unless he had the kind of super force that was strong enough to defeat more than a dozen knights at once.
Looking at my body, which is only in his early 12s, I don't even have the ability to protect myself......
"Let's stay up for a few more years, make your body and bones a little better, and with the power of self-preservation, everything will be easy to do. ”
Thinking of this, from this day on, Zhou Ming increased the intensity of his daily exercise, and his morning exercise increased to 800 push-ups, 200 frog jumps, 200 horizontal bars, 3000 meters of running, and 2000 spear sprints every night.
However, Zhou Ming's new training syllabus had not been implemented for long, and after the butler Bunod knocked on the door of his house with a few unkind-faced servants, his training plan was completely disrupted.
"Ryan, starting next week, you will be assigned to work on Master Connor's farm for a week, don't forget to work!" said the butler Bunod's face was full of revenge~ feeling.
"Zhou Gong, Zhou Gong didn't start to be done by people over 16 years old, I'm only 12 years old, why should I go to do Zhou Gong? This is not in accordance with the territorial law!"
Zhou Ming retorted that although the lords of this world exploit the people seriously, they have not yet reached the level of killing chickens and taking eggs, and most of the territorial laws stipulate that only the lords over the age of 16 have the obligation to do weekly labor.
"Master Edward's words are a decree! For you who is a lowly farmer who has nothing to do when he is full of food, and always wants to live in a castle and become a knight's squire, Master Edward says that you must find something suitable for you to do in order to dispel these ridiculous thoughts! You must go to work as a weekly worker from next week, or I will take back the land you cultivated and cancel your qualification to rent ploughing oxen and heavy ploughs!"
Cultivating the land, ploughing oxen, and farming tools are the foundation of a farmer's survival, and without these things, the only way to wait for the farmer is to wait for death and flee.
"I'll be there next week, butler Bunod. ”
Zhou Ming lowered his head and said in a deep voice, a pair of fists had been secretly clenched together.
"Hahahahahaha~"
"A lowly farmer still wants to fly on the branch as a phoenix, die of this heart!"
"Even if you don't look in the mirror and see who he is?"
"He will also deal with wheat straw for the rest of his life, and when he is old, he will realize how funny he was when he was younger. ”
Bunod walked away with a group of servants laughing wildly, and Zhou Ming, who stayed in the house, had his nails almost clutched into the flesh.
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Three days later in the morning.
Zhou Ming, who carried a hoe, followed the farmers in the town to work in the lord's wheat field to the east of the castle.
"Ryan, don't work too hard, but don't be too slow, or Bunnold will make you work late, and don't be lazy for a long time in between, otherwise you won't finish your week's work that day, and you'll be asked to do it again tomorrow until Bunod admits that you've done three weeks' work. In the process of work, the kind-hearted Uncle O'Neill reminded Zhou Mingdao.
"I know, thank you, Uncle O'Neill. ”
Zhou Ming, who was immersed in weeding, nodded, and found that the housekeeper Bunod's eyes had been staring here, looking at the smile on his face, his heart sank, and he lowered his head again, silently removing the weeds in the field.
Towards evening, the stars in the sky twinkled, and the farmers in the fields could only vaguely see each other's general outlines.
After a busy day's work, looking back at the 5 acres of wheat land he had hoeed today, it was no less than what other adults had completed, Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, there should be no problem now.
"Little Ryan, if you don't meet the standard, today's weekly work doesn't count!"
A smug voice came, and the luck in Zhou Ming's heart completely hit the bottom.
"Butler Bunod, I finished hoeing 5 acres of land today, which is counted as a week's work. Zhou Ming argued in a low voice.
"No, no, no," Bunod shook his head and said, "These 5 acres of land were not completed by you, but by Mr. Wade in the town, and your task completion is 0." ”
The farmers on the side were talking.
"It's shameless, little Ryan has been working all day under the noses of all of us, and Bunnold actually said that little Ryan did a day for nothing. ”
"I said why didn't Wade come with me to do weekly work today, it turned out that because Bunod was his uncle, he asked Little Ryan to work for him. ”
"Poor little Ryan, I don't know how to offend the butler of Bunod, is treated like this......"
"Shhh
For fear of offending Bunod's housekeeper, no one dared to stand up and speak for Zhou Ming.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Ming didn't say anything, just silently carried his hoe and returned to his home.
For six days, when all the peasants had finished their three days of weekly work and returned to their fields, Zhou Ming was left alone, still working in the lord's wheat field, and the steward Bunod was still sitting on the edge of the field with a few servants and supervising him with great interest.
"Dad, I have good news for you, Master Edward, who has agreed to me as his knight squire!"
At this time, a round-faced fat boy from the field ran over, flicked the excess fat on his face, and excitedly reported a good news to Bunod.
"Really, great, my son! Great, great, I'm so proud of you!"
The stocky Bunnold jumped up and hugged his son excitedly, and the two fat lumps slammed together, and both of them burst into tears of excitement.
"Congratulations, Young Master Baum, you will definitely become a noble nobleman in the future!" several servants also stepped forward to compliment him, and praised the fat boy named Baum to the sky.
"Hey, Dad, who is this man who is working in the fields? Is it Zhou Gong's Day?" Seeing Zhou Ming, who was burying his head in weeding, Baum asked suspiciously.
"No, no, this kid is the farmer boy who went to the castle last time for the squire election, and I'm asking him to hoe more grass to wake him up. Bunnold explained to his son with a smile.
"Dad, it's useless to wake up like this, it's better to do it this way. Baum walked over with his fat ass twisted and kicked Zhou Ming's ass down.
"Hahaha~"
Looking at Zhou Ming, who was lying on the ground and wrining, Bunod laughed wildly with his son Baum, and several servants.