Madame Verry asked Artoria to be a model not to ask her to pose and follow the drawing, but to make Artoria make some expressions and show some demeanor unintentionally through the guidance of the topic in the chat with Artoria.

This process bored Charles, and after breakfast, Mrs. Verry gave him permission to go out hunting and playing.

In Lady Verry's estate, there is a village inhabited by freemen, as well as several slave quarters. Only half of the land here is farmland, and the remaining half is meadows and woods.

The meadows and woods are teeming with wild animals, all of which are hunted by Lady Verry's family when they come here for a vacation. But the dangerous monsters are gone, and they have long been killed by the guards of the manor.

After declining the butler's suggestion to send someone to accompany him, Charles wandered around the manor alone, wanting to see what an ordinary manor in this world was like.

The freedmen here were Lady Verry's sharecroppers, and their village was located on the border between farmland and woods, with a threshing floor outside the village.

Farmers dry freshly threshed oats in the barnyard, and if the oats stored in the warehouse are too humid, they are prone to mildew.

In the fields where the oats have just been harvested, farmers are toiling to plant broad beans by October. After the harvest of broad beans around May of the following year, another crop of soybeans is planted, oats are planted in the third year, and pasture is planted for a year in the fourth year.

The village's chief, Bartlet, answered Charles's questions every question. Although Charles was wearing ordinary linen clothes, he wore a ring on his hand and a mask on his face, and at a glance he knew that he was not an ordinary child. The village chief, who was directing and coordinating the work of drying oats in the barnyard, immediately threw down his work and came over to wait for the young master.

Bartlet found the young master to be very well served, and like many noble young masters who came to the fields for the first time, he was full of curiosity about everything here.

Charles went on to ask, "How many oats can you harvest in your field this year?"

Bartlet thought for a moment and said, "Back to the young master, this year, we can harvest more than seventy kilograms per acre of land, because we are not short of water here, so it is a little higher than other places." ”

"Don't you grow any other crops besides oats?" said Charles, curious.

Because among barley, wheat, rye, and oats, oats are the least yielded, barley is the highest, and wheat and rye are in the middle. And oats are difficult to threh and grind, and the taste is not good. Charles's caravan sometimes uses oats as a staple food, and the most important reason is that under special circumstances, people don't feel distressed when they feed the oats they eat, and then people have to find another way. And because oats are cheap, Aubrey will never admit it.

Bartlet pointed to the surrounding farmland and said, "Young Master, we mainly grow oats, beans and pasture, and we also grow a little vegetables, and we will raise chickens in the pasture, and we will also raise some sheep and pigs. ”

Then he pointed to the distance and said, "The fields of the adults will grow wheat and rye, and the rye is mainly cut and fed to cattle and sheep. ”

Then he said, "We grow oats because there are more merchants who buy oats. ”

"Why?" said Charles, curious.

"Because in the army, oats were roasted, steamed, pressed into flakes, and dried, so they could be eaten by pouring them into boiling water and stirring them twice," Bartlet explains. When I was in the army, I used to eat this oatmeal when I went out, which saved me a lot of time. ”

Charles opened his mouth, wanting to complain but couldn't.

Indeed, when marching into battle, soldiers boil the water by "biu" a small fireball into a bowl of water, then pour some cereal into it, stir it twice with a spoon and eat it, which is more convenient than eating instant noodles.

To make oats into oatmeal requires labor costs, and the soldiers of the standing army of this era are free labor for the army.

It seems that in this world, such oatmeal can be said to be the simplest and cheapest convenience food.

After figuring out the situation, Charles asked, "How much do you rent?"

"Half. Bartlet replied.

Charles estimated in his heart that their home-grown oats, broad beans, and soybeans were barely enough to eat, and with the addition of livestock and poultry, life could still go on.

Charles declined Bartlet's accompaniment, and continued to wander around the village alone.

On the other side of the barre, peasant women were carrying bundles of oat straw to a wagon.

Charles went up and inquired, and learned that the straw was going to be pulled into the workshop to make straw paper. Since the workshop was a bit far away, Charles gave up on visiting.

"Bah...... Baa...... Baa ......"

Charles was blocked by a flock of sheep, several shepherdess were driving the sheep into the soybean fields that had already been harvested, and several young girls were pushing carts with pasture grass following behind.

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

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

When the sheep had driven into the field, the shepherdess pushing the carts tossed the grass into the ground with their pitchforks for the sheep to eat.

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

Charles talked to one of the best-looking shepherdesses, and confirmed his suspicion that they had indeed driven the sheep over here to fertilize them.

"And what about pigs?" asked Charles.

The shepherdesss replied respectfully, "Sir, pigs can only be kept in the woods." ”

Charles then learns that the sheep are in Mrs. Verry's sheepfold, and that the shepherdess belong to hired farmers. The farmer who rented the land only had to pay a small fee to get the sheep to fertilize the field.

Seeing the resigned appearance of this teenage girl, Charles was afraid that he would scare her out of a sickness, so he walked to the pasture.

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

The meadow is surrounded by a fence, and chickens can be seen faintly in the field. The grass is mainly planted here, so the number of chickens in the field is not large, and it will not have much impact on the growth of the grass while increasing the income.

A group of girls about Charles's age are picking up eggs from chickens in the grass with baskets, and it seems that people here don't use artificial egg-laying areas to attract hens to lay eggs.

Suddenly, Charles noticed that something was wrong with a little purple-haired girl who was not far away with her back to her, and she looked around a little panicked. After seeing that there was 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 shook his head, and then walked away.