Chapter 13: The Ionian Family (I)

Christoya was overjoyed to hear this, and put her head on Davers's strong chest, and said softly, "Listen to your ......."

"It's getting late, go to sleep, go to sleep...... Davers patted him, and the two of them relaxed and soon fell asleep......

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Early the next morning, Davers got up and went to the courtyard for morning exercises. By the time he returned to the main building in a sweat, it was already bustling with activity.

Molina, the head of the backyard, has already instructed the slave girls to wake up the children one by one, get them dressed, and wash them...... I heard a lot of grumbling and crying in the main building. Molina was unmoved, and when she met a child who was unwilling to get up and even played tricks, the slave girl had no choice, so she went directly into the house and forcibly pulled her up. In the face of these Ionian princes and princesses, she dared to do so because it was the power given to her by Christoia.

Eight years ago, Asuna married Aristilas with the help of Christoya of the Davers River, and of course had to leave Davers's mansion. Molina, a slave girl from Thessaly, was the child's nurse at the time, and Christoya found that she was decisive, even more daring than Assuna, so she let her take Asuna's place, and it turned out that Christoya was very discerning, and the backyard was indeed managed by Molina in order when the number of children increased over the years, which saved Christoya a lot of heart.

After Davers rinsed briefly, he walked into the dining room, and the family was basically sitting at the dining table.

"Where's Avia?" Davers asked, glancing around the hall. Avia is his third daughter, born to Egnes, who is only four years old this year.

"The crybaby refused to get up as usual, and Aunt Molina went in to get her up, and she yelled, and Mother Egnes went upstairs to call her." Briantes replied aloud. Briantes is the fourth son of Davers, born to Christoya, who is six years old this year.

"Briantes, Avia is your sister, she is in trouble, you don't help her, but instead of saying strange things on the side, it's not right, you know!" Cynthia immediately criticized him.

"My sister is right, Briantes is annoying on this point." Eunice also complained that she was ten years old when she was born during the Great Greek War.

Briantes was criticized by his two older sisters and felt a little aggrieved, and he turned his attention to his second brother Klotocáttaxques.

Crotocatacuses turned his head to look at Cynthia: "Little Bout didn't mean to speak ill of Avia, he has now realized that he was wrong. ”

"Okay, my sister has forgiven you, but it depends on the future actions!" Cynthia said in a child's tone.

Briantes nodded hurriedly.

The third brother, Apox, who was opposite him, made a grimace at him, which immediately made him smile. Apox was born to Agnes at the end of the Great Greek War, and is over nine years old this year.

Davers and Christoya sat quietly, not interfering with the little conflict that had arisen between the children. They always did, and with Cynthia and Crotocatax there, it would all be well resolved in the end. And Dafus also hopes that children will learn unity, fraternity, tolerance and compromise in the process of resolving conflicts on their own.

At this moment, Agnes led Avia into the living room.

Avia's big eyes were red and there were still tears on her face, and she was holding a small puppet in one hand and being pulled forward by Egnes in the other.

"Little Weiya, sit in your seat, it's time for breakfast." Christoya whispered.

Her words worked, and with a soft "um" Avia, let go of her mother's hand, and sat down in her place, placing the Muppet behind her, and Agnes sitting down beside her.

Ordinary Greeks usually eat, because the food is simple, there is not even a table, and the food can be solved by holding the food outdoors, sitting on a wooden chair, or squatting or standing. The Greek aristocracy and wealthy dined much more formally, with special dining rooms with tables for the number of people, and slaves waiting by them, washing their hands at all times, because they ate with their hands.

The situation in the kingdom of Dioonia was very different, because after Davers invented the knife, fork, and spoon, the people no longer needed to eat with their hands. And although it is still a separate meal system, many families have begun to eat at the same table, and very few families do not even separate men and women, which is said to have been influenced by Davers.

As the number of family members increased, Davers asked a skilled carpenter to make a large round table, which was placed in the center of the dining room, and the family sat around to eat, so that there was no difference between intimacy and distance, and it was very lively in the family, and it was also conducive to cultivating the children's friendship and importance to the family.

Davers sat facing the entrance of the restaurant, with Agnes on his right, Christoya on his left, Christoya next to his eldest daughter Cynthia, then his second son Clotocatacax, then his second daughter Eunice, his third son Apox, his fourth son Briantes, his third daughter Avia, and if you count the eldest son Adoris, who was away on the expedition, Davers's family was ten people.

Molina, the backyard director, stood aside, and there were no other slaves in the dining room, after all, even the youngest Molina was more than four years old and could take care of herself. Davers always wanted the children to be able to do things on their own as much as possible, to be self-reliant, not dependent on the service of slaves, and not to become a waste of industriousness and grain.

"Let's have dinner." After Davers finished speaking, Klotockataks, with the help of Molina, brought food and bowls and jars, first set up the utensils for each family member, and then distributed food to each family member, this is the task that Davers arranged for several older children in the family, mainly to exercise their sense of service to others, and today it is Clauto Kataz's turn.

After distributing food to the three parents, Crotto Katákáx turned to Cynthia.

Davers' eyes widened at this point, but he saw that his eldest son quickly divided the food for Cynthia.

"Thanks, Chloe!" Cynthia said with a smile.

Krotocatax walked calmly towards Eunice, nothing out of the ordinary.

Davers immediately cast a puzzled look at Christoya.

Of course, Christoya understood what her husband meant, she didn't expect that she had just told Davers about it yesterday, and today he would have to confirm it in such a public place, it was simply ......

Christoya immediately gave him a look and told him not to make it too obvious.

Davers pretended to be puzzled, opened his mouth, and assumed a puzzled pose.

Christoya had no choice but to clench her fist and knock it on his thigh.

Davers's exaggerated cracked teeth.

Christoya almost squirted the porridge from her mouth onto the table.

Agnes noticed the strangeness of the two of them, and also turned her head and cast an inquiring look.

Davers reached out his right hand to the base of her smooth, plump thighs.

Agnes's face was slightly red, and she immediately pinched it with her fingers.

Davers gave a pained expression again, and it was fleeting.

Several of the children apparently did not notice the farce going on between their parents, and their attention was all on the food.

"And a spoonful of honey as before?" Croto Katáctus asked his own sister with a smile.

Before Eunice could answer, Briantes shouted, "Do you need to ask, she doesn't like cow and goat's milk." ”

At this time, many citizens of the Greek city-states raised sheep, so goat's milk was a very common food, in addition to making cheese, which was processed and drunk directly. Cows, on the other hand, are mainly used for utility and transportation, rather than for milk production. Davers had asked Bagul to advocate for the use of cows to produce, sell and eat milk in Lucania, but now it is just beginning to be a bit of an eyebrow, and the consumption of milk is still very small, and the production is not large, of course there is a small supply in the palace.

But today's breakfast drink is goat's milk, goat's milk smells big, fortunately, in order to let the children grow taller and stronger, since the children were young, they have been prescribed to drink a glass of goat's milk every morning, and now the children have adapted to it, including the youngest Avia, except for Eunice.

"I don't like to drink, what's wrong!" Eunice immediately glared at Briantes.

In the face of his sister's threat, Briantes was unwilling to admit defeat, and he couldn't say anything, so he could only stubbornly say: "It's not right anyway!" ”

Eunice didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned her head to Croto Katazchus and smiled: "Brother, bring me two spoonfuls of honey, thank you!" ”

Klotocatax finished distributing it to Eunice and put food for Apox.

Apox cheered: "Great, there are meat buns today!" ”

The Greeks used fermented flour to bake bread, and Davers had the chef wrap the fermented and kneaded beef and mutton in a steamed pot and steam it.

Apox held the hot bun in both hands and took a big bite despite the hot mouth. Then he saw that Briantes next to him had also divided the food, and suddenly his eyes rolled and he said to his younger brother, "Bout, let's play a game, okay?" Whoever wins, gets a bite of the other's meat bun. ”

"Don't play!" Briantes warily tucked the wooden coil of meat to his chest with both hands. Playing games, he loses to Apox every time, and he has some psychological shadows.

Apox was thinking about how to convince Briantes when he heard Eunice say disdainfully, "Bout, look at your cowardly look! Apo, here you go! Eunice was satisfied that Apox had made a fool of Briantes, and immediately broke half of the meat bag and handed it to him.

"Thank you, second sister!" Apox immediately took it, Briantes glanced at it greedily, remembered something, turned his head to Avia and said, "Sister, you see this meat bun is too big, you can't eat it alone, my brother can help you eat a little, okay?" ”