(5) Days like this
Thanks to the functional architecture, the crops here are ripe once a month, and although the yield is not high, the variety is much richer than in the Middle Ages, because of the rapid ripening, farmers can easily and quickly cultivate new crops and improve existing crop varieties.
However, in small villages like Kiriyu, the crops they grow are still mainly grains such as barley and millet, because the yield of these crops is just enough for everyone not to starve, and at the same time, they still have enough money to deal with the tax collectors, and the Goths are not good at farming in the first place.
The biggest use of grains is to grind flour and then bake into bread, bread is the staple food of people in this era, villagers generally bake bread by each family, and in large towns, there are special bakers to make bread, but bakeries are not functional buildings, so you can't expect bakers to make bread at a speed of three seconds, there are also special sausage chefs and cured meat chefs in large towns, which is also a trend - the more advanced the city, the lower the dependence on functional buildings.
Because the needs of a large city are diverse, and the types of bonuses provided by functional buildings are limited, although the existence of functional buildings makes every citizen become an omnipotent all-rounder, reducing the society's demand for the number of basic professionals, but there must still be someone to fill the blind spots of functional buildings, which do not rely on functional buildings for a relatively high professional status.
The docks in Fog Rain Village can turn villagers into rookie sailors, boatmen, boatwrights, and fishermen with basic training, and all the villagers have now stopped their work to repair the fleet, but it will take four or five days to repair them, and for each ship repaired, the village will receive about thirty units of gold, or equivalent daily necessities, and the trade manager has always been generous.
In order to improve their work efficiency, the villagers eat a large pot of rice during their work as a ship repairer, and the children of the village will set up a large pot and a makeshift oven by the dock so that their parents can eat while they are resting, and the sailors of the fleet will occasionally eat together.
However, this time the reason is that there are many more sailors than in the past, only Gothic sailors will go over to join in the fun, and sailors of other nationalities stay in the sailors' camp because they feel that they are foreigners and it is inconvenient to participate in it, but this time the constant smell of meat wafting from the temporary room makes this group of guys who have not eaten meat for a month unable to sit still.
Hearn Jr. was a member of the lord's family and a proper nobleman, but as a master of trade, he knew when to turn a blind eye to his sailors, and what better way to relax than a fragrant stew?
Because the Goths had little talent for sailing, many of the sailors on board were Vikings and Britons, and even Korean sailors who came from the far east to make a living, and these sailors had a good impression of Kiriyu Village, because they had all rested here more than once, and Kiriyu Village was their last stop before returning home, which made the sailors feel very affectionate.
At first, a few Viking sailors left the camp, the Vikings were once a famous pirate people, and their stature was stronger and taller than the Goths, and these big men sneakily mixed into the team, but they did not know that their stature had exposed them.
However, the Goth kid in charge of distributing the food pretended not to find out, and he gave each of them a bun and a bowl of broth as he did his kind, and when the Viking sailors triumphantly showed off their 'results' to their companions, the skeptical sailors immediately dispelled the last hesitation, and the line in front of the makeshift room suddenly doubled.
"We have a wise lord. It is difficult for a single people to survive in this world. What's more, we Goths are not good at farming, fishing and animal husbandry, and our brains are not very smart, and if we still follow the old system, we have no chance of developing and becoming strong...... The lord must have thought of this a long time ago. Little Hearn sighed with emotion.
"Actually, at first I was very opposed to opposing the orders of the lord, adopting children of other nationalities, taking in refugees from other nationalities, in those days on the battlefield, many of my brothers died under the lances of the Franks, as well as the Teutons and Vikings, how can you let me not hate these peoples, if it were not for my wife, I am afraid I will ......" The village chief was silent for a while.
"Because of this order of the lord, I fell out with him directly and resigned from my job as the commander of the guard, but when I returned to the village, I found that she had adopted so many foreign imps, even the Franks, whom I regarded as enemies!"
"I was so angry that I beat her hard, but my wife, who has always been docile and lovely, slapped me on the spot."
"She was a well-read and learned young lady, and I still can't forget what she said that day. She said, 'Even if there is a difference in appearance in the same language and in the same language, is there a person in the world who looks the same?' One of the most wrong things our ancestors did was to divide us into races based on our natural talents! I want to correct this mistake! ’。 ”
"Little Hearn. There is one thing I can't figure out, why is there still a distinction between nations in the world, when everyone speaks the same language and uses the same language? Goths, Franks, Britons, Teutons, Saracens, ...... Who's the guy who is messing people up? Is it really the so-called gods in the mouths of the clergy? Do you know the answer? ”
"The lord has also doubted this question, and he has consulted the most learned scholars in Constantinople, but he has not been able to solve his doubts."
Hearn Jr. was more than ten years younger than the village chief, so he was still in the prime of life when the former chief had become an old chatter.
"Before the storm approaches, do what is in front of you...... However, there is one thing that I am very curious about. ”
The trade manager turned sharply, pointing to the food on the table that was used to serve him, and asked in a very interested tone.
"The last time you came here to rest, you wanted me to help you ask the lord to send someone to clean up the growing number of wild boars around the village, and now it seems that you don't need this anymore, right? The mallet militia in the village did not have the ability to kill wild boars. ”
On the table was a roasted red and shiny pork hind leg, which the village chief had left for the purpose of entertaining this distinguished guest.
"Actually, I've always wanted to tell you. As a result, after chatting, I forgot about it. The village chief patted his head as if he had just woken up.
"Tell you. There is a terrible little guy in our village, I don't know what nationality, surprisingly able to fight, and with only militia equipment, he can kill adult wild boars unscathed, stronger than when I was younger. ”
"Easily kill an adult boar with the equipment of the militia? And even the captain can't you see his nationality? Interesting! Where is he? ”
"I'm working with the villagers to repair the boat. I'll take you over and have a look. The village chief then led little Hearn to the construction site.
"See? It was the red-haired one, and he looked to be less than fourteen years old. The village chief pointed to Ice Hunt and said.
"He came with a man who was only about ten years old...... I am afraid that my sister, who is not yet ten years old, should not be brothers and sisters, because his sister seems to have come from the East, a people who live in the East farther away than Byzantium and Saracen. ”
"Red-haired? I know that Vikings often have this hair color, but this boy's face doesn't look like a Viking, and so does his physique. "Weird, right? Actually, I want to recommend him to the Lord's Guard, the Old Goth Guard was disbanded after I left, and now the Lord is forming a new Guard, right? He must be in need of this kind of athletic warrior, right? ”
The village chief felt that with Ice Hunt's ability, it was too condescending to fight wild boars in this small village, so he was very enthusiastic to find him an errand that matched his ability, joining the lord's guard was a promising choice, and Ice Hunt was definitely qualified.
While Ice Hunt was being discussed, he was busy repairing the ship with a small hammer, and the way to repair the ship was even simpler than he imagined, according to his head, he just found the damaged areas and hidden dangers inside the ship, and then hit the place repeatedly with the small hammer.
You don't need to move a piece of wood to it, and the broken spots will grow on their own as if by magic, but each time you swing the hammer, it takes a lot of stamina, and the speed at which a person repairs it is almost invisible to the naked eye, and very boring.
Dozens of people walked around the boat with small hammers, smashing them in some places from time to time, and those who didn't know thought they were forcibly demolishing.
"That person said that the person who could save me was a very old woman named 'Yakumo Murasaki', and then she said she didn't know about the important characteristics or anything, so how could I find her? But Yakumo Murasaki, as soon as you hear it, you know it's not a European name, so you should go to the east to find it, right? It should be a mother-in-law with excellent medical skills, the kind with eight wrinkles on the head of the respected person. ”
"Find time to ask the village elder if he has a ship to go to the East, after being bothered here for so long, it's time to leave, right?"
Ice Hunter wandered around the ship to himself, and he found something interesting in the boring repair process, these ships all had traces of battle, especially on the deck, knife marks and bullet marks were almost everywhere, and it seemed that the sea was not very safe.
"If you can, it's better to go to the East on a large fleet of ships, I don't want to be compared to pirates, it's better to be safe."
Ice Hunter doesn't know the force in this world very well, and it would be too dangerous if there was a martial artist as powerful as his previous one.
The probability of having a powerful warrior here is very high, because they even have something as magical as a 'functional building', and there may not be no magic or anything like that, although the rabbits here can't breathe fire, and the wild boars can't stomp their feet to release earthquakes, but the red-haired vigilance has not relaxed in the slightest, and Bing Hunt doesn't want to burn a large fireball of gas to the wild master in a daze.
Dong Dong skillfully cut the peppers, pickled radishes and sauerkraut into pieces of about one centimeter, and then threw them into the pot and boiled them together with the cereal, and there were three or four children of the same age around her who were doing the same work, in order to prevent the little ones from cutting their hands, only the most calm children would be allowed to use kitchen knives like the older children, which was a symbol of 'status' in the children's circle, and the children who cut vegetables all had solemn expressions, as if they were not holding kitchen knives but the king's scepter.
If it's in the MC world, Dongdong himself can take on the job of providing food for hundreds of people, but here, if you want to feed dozens of adults, they can only take a cooperative approach, and the children here know it early, even if it is only six or seven years old, the baby head can carry ingredients and jugs under the organization of older children, and of course those dangerous places, such as the oven and around the hot soup pot, will not be approached.
However, due to their young age, it is indispensable for the children to talk to each other, especially when the food is almost ready, except for a few posts, everyone else has gone out in groups to rest or find parents.
"Hmmm! It's done. After Xiao Maoyu finished cutting the last green pepper, she washed her hands, and then asked the child who was in charge of the ingredients to ask for two finger-long small fish, and then walked straight out of the temporary room.
The small fish is used to treat Kazan, because it has come to the door of the house almost every day to wait for Dong Dong to come out during the past few days of ship repair, Xiao Mao Yujue is very happy, so every time he comes out, he will bring it some food, so Kazan came more often......
The children in the village were also very interested in this budgie meow, because this budigie was not as smart as a meow, and the adults said that this meow could find the location of the boar's nest as accurately as the hound, and then take them all the way, and as if it could understand human language, it would respond to Ice Hunt's commands - but it ignored the others.
When Knock Dong came out, he found that it was not only Kazan waiting for him at the door today, but also a girl with blond hair waiting at the door.
After seeing Dongdong come out, she ran over with Kazan, and Tiger Meow ran to Dongdong's feet and rubbed around in a circle very affectionately, but a pair of cat's eyes were staring directly at the fish in Xiao Maoyu's hand, and its purpose was obvious.
And the blonde-haired girl ran to Dongdong, but she didn't know what to say.
Dong Dong quickly recognized this girl, and she had asked Xiao Maoyu about sugar a few days ago.
"Is there anything wrong with you?" Xiao Maoyu asked curiously, and put the small fish in the palm of her hand and brought it to Kazan's mouth.
Ice Hunter and Knock don't treat Kazan as a pet, they have been treating Kazan with the same attitude as a friend, and although the villagers are amazed by Kazan's intelligence, no one sees him as an equal.
Among them, there is even a fool who throws a fish in front of Kazan to seduce him, and for such stupid humans, Kazan is especially gracious for not rewarding them with a paw on the spot.
The blonde girl was asked, and suddenly went from being unable to organize her language to forgetting her words.
She was silent for a while under Xiao Maoyu's puzzled gaze before asking.
"That's... Well... What exactly does sugar look like? ”