Chapter 12: The Lord's Strife
After helping the woman, Zhou Ming was successfully fired from the construction site and returned to the rental house happily. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Of course, the wage contractor still gave it to him, not because he was pitiful for him, but because Zhou Ming worked alone these days, he could almost top a brick mover, and he could carry it for more than ten days in a row, his physical endurance was so amazing, the contractor had never seen a few for so many years, where did he dare to deduct his salary.
In fact, it's not that Zhou Ming's physical strength is strong, he is indeed a little unbearable in the next few days, but fortunately, he found a little trick by playing "Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life" in injection mode, relying on undisciplined methods such as playing stuffy sticks, opening harems, and forcibly grabbing, he got a 3S-level rating in three consecutive games, and earned more than 8,000 achievement points.
These achievement points were all exchanged by him for [Strength Plus Point Card], which added 8 strength attributes to the body, and it was naturally much easier to move bricks on the construction site.
When he returned to the rental house, he spent a day cleaning the inside and outside of the room, and then went to a nearby supermarket to buy a large number of instant noodles, biscuits, bread, ham sausages and other convenient foods to go home, which was enough for him to eat for a month or two.
After taking a comfortable hot bath, Zhou Ming, who was relaxed, lay comfortably on the bed, closed his eyes, and opened the game panel in his brain.
"System, let's get into the game. ”
"Drop~"
"Players start to enter the ...... game"
Game Background:
It was an absurd, ignorant and conservative age, in which the lords were selfish, the knights were obsessed with force, the peasants were hungry, the clergy were spreading hypocrisy, and the slaves were struggling...... In a world of wars, plagues, and thieves, how can you, the son of an ordinary farmer in Rose Town, the Gran Leader, intervene in this lord's strife......
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"Wow~Wow~"
A crisp and loud cry spread from a dilapidated and crooked earthen house throughout Rose Town.
“@#¥#…… ¥%" said a woman with dark yellow hair and white skin, weakly.
"@#¥#@!¥@#!" The white man swept in waves, excitedly holding the baby in his hands, and his mouth was croaking, obviously very excited.
"What the hell are these two talking about?"
Zhou Ming, who was in a baby state, was stunned~ forced, but when he saw these two men and women with typical white characteristics, he knew that these two must be his parents.
"If you don't understand, learn slowly, I'm just a baby anyway. ”
After eating the breast milk that the white woman fed him, Zhou Ming, who felt a little drowsy, fell into a sweet sleep.
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In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.
Sitting on the log stake in front of the fence, Zhou Ming swung his calves and looked at the environment of this world.
Fields of wheat sprouts, quiet and peaceful towns, clear streams, castles high on the hills......
"It's a paradise world. ”
Yes.
If there were no lords and knights stationed in that castle, no hateful tax collectors and lords, no thieves who roamed the town from time to time in the mountains...... Then this is the paradise.
Zhou Ming's name in this world is "Ryan", his father's name is Derek, his mother's name is Julina, and he has a one-year-old little sister who has a nice name "Alice".
A fairly happy family of four.
But this happiness is also based on the fact that the wind and rain have been smooth in the past few years, the year has been good, and the family has barely maintained food and clothing.
Derek, the farmer's father, leased a hundred acres of land from the lord Baron Connor.
One-third of these 100 acres of land will be used for fallow, and the other two-thirds will be used for crops such as barley, oats, wheat and rye, as well as a small amount of peas and pasture.
Crop yields in this world are generally very low, and in a slightly better year, the rate of return on seeds is about four times, that is, one pound of seeds planted can harvest four to five pounds of grain.
This harvest looks pretty good, but half of it is the rent to be paid to the lord.
In addition to the lord's rent, the church also had to collect tithes, although it was not much, and in the end all that could be left was to ensure that the peasants did not starve to death.
In addition, his father Derek was also obliged to do weekly work for the lord, three days a week, he had to do chores for the lord, plow, transport, sow seeds, threshing until he was in the warehouse, and then he could drag his tired body back to work in his field.
After serving his labor, his father Derek also had to serve in the military for the lord, and whenever Baron Connor wanted to fight with Baron Howard or Baron Garcia around the Gran Territory, his father Derek had the obligation to be drafted into the army, standing at the front of the queue and serving as cannon fodder for the knights in the rear.
In the past two years, his father Derek has been drafted into the army twice, once to fight Baron Garcia in the west, and after winning by luck, he was rewarded with a small bag of black flour (flour made from rye, when made into black bread, the hardness is comparable to that of bricks)
The second time he hit a gang of wandering thieves, he was not so lucky, and he was shot with an arrow in his right hand, although it did not penetrate deeply, but it also affected his normal work for three months, and he has not been able to make a good deal until now.
If it is only the high land rent, heavy labor, and the danger of military service, there are all kinds of strange and varied names imposed on farmers like his father Derek, and even accurate to the tax of a chicken, an egg, and a firewood.
You can't catch fish in the river, you can't hunt wild beasts in the mountains, you can't catch rabbits in the fields, you can't touch the pigeons of your lord's house that are ravaging the crops in your field...... Because all of them are lord's.
Even his father, Derek himself, can't leave the town at will and marry his daughter at will......
In short, for his father, Derek, except for honestly farming, paying taxes, and serving in the military service, everything else is not allowed or not, unless the benevolent lord is merciful.
Zhou Ming was extremely surprised that this kind of feudal serfdom, which had been exploited to the extreme by the peasants, and was even more miserable than the slaves who were regarded as private property, could exist in this world.
Aren't those lords afraid that these peasants will join hands and swarm them to tears them to pieces on a desperate and angry day?
But......
Look at the tall, sturdy castle, the knight in bright armor, and the malnourished body of his father, Derek......
I'm afraid that a farmer in this physical condition can't make up a thousand, and he can't take down that tall castle with only ten knights guarded, right?
Zhou Ming frowned.
It's hard to do, it's really hard to do, this picture is simply not giving the people at the bottom a way to live, compared with these lords, Li Shouzheng in "Zhang Ergou" is simply benevolent like a bodhisattva, Zhang Ergou's living situation is really much better than himself.
"Let's take a step at a time. ”