Chapter 69: Westward Journey IV
The women hurried into action and placed three cauldrons in the middle of the village, adding water and wild vegetables and, most importantly, meat. The women cut off a quarter of the meat from the little boar and boiled it in a pot, and the remaining three-quarters moved into Henry's castle. The other big wild boar is divided by the whole village, and each family can get at least 20 catties of lotus meat with bones.
The pheasants and hares were also divided among the villagers, and the two nests of wild eggs belonged to Count Henry, and every morning his butler would fry two eggs for the Earl to eat, and replenish the nutrition - the Earl had lost a lot of weight!
This day was the happiest day in Harran Village, and on this day all the people finally had a full meal.
The house had not yet been built, and Angelia naturally lived in the castle for the time being.
The next day, Angelia had a breakfast of fried wild eggs and brown bread, a European medieval specialty. This kind of brown bread is harder than bricks, and it hurts people's teeth to eat, and the only advantage is that it is stored for a long time.
Angelia really didn't want to wronged herself, so she only ate a bite of brown bread and stopped eating it. Count Henry's gaze fell on the black bread in front of Angelia, and the words "want to eat" were written in his eyes. If it weren't for aristocratic etiquette restricting his movements, he might have asked Angelia for it. Poor see, this child should be the most pitiful of the nobles. The food of the nobles was white bread, and only this honest boy would eat black bread.
Angelia spoke: "Count Henry, if you don't mind that I will take a bite of this black bread, this bread will be eaten for you." ”
"Don't mind, don't mind." Count Henry was busy.
Angelia smiled and handed the plate of brown bread to Count Henry, who hastened to take it. His butler James frowned on the side, with an unbearable expression, and he must have lamented in his heart that his master had no aristocratic demeanor.
Angelia waited until Count Henry finished eating the brown bread and said, "Count Henry, you will gather all your people in a moment, and I will assign them to do things." ”
Count Henry nodded again and again and asked, "Did you ask them to help you build a house?" ”
Angelia shook her head: "There is no hurry to build a house, the most important thing at the moment is to solve the problem of food." ”
"Food? The wild boars and pheasants and rabbits we hunted yesterday are enough for us to eat for several days, and if we save them, we can eat them for half a month. Earl Henry said, "Why don't you rest for a few days before you go hunting?" ”
"No, not hunting." Angelia raised her right index finger and shook it, "If you hunt without restraint, even if there is more prey nearby, it will be gone." Then there will be no prey to eat. ”
Earl Henry asked, "What is to be done then?" ”
Angelia said: "Cultivate, while the weather is not yet cold, plant another crop of barley." It's relatively hardy. ”
Earl Henry sighed: "We originally planned to plant, but we were all so hungry that we ate half of the barley and wheat that we had left for seed, but we were afraid that there would not be enough to plant." ”
Angelia said: "Your planting methods are too backward, and the crops you grow are too low. I'm going to teach you a new way to grow seeds that use less seeds and produce more than double the yield of the previous ones. ”
Angelia did not say any more, lest Earl Henry and Steward James think she was bragging.
Earl Henry's eyes lit up at the hearing, and their breathing became thicker.
"You, what you say is true?" Earl Henry asked.
Angelia smiled slightly: "As long as your people do exactly what I say, after three months, they will be able to harvest enough barley." ”
"I, I'm going to gather all the people at once to listen to your orders." Steward James ran out of the castle without waiting for Earl Henry's orders.
Count Henry took a few deep breaths in a row before he said excitedly, "The luckiest thing I've done in my life is to rob you." Belch...... I'm not...... I'm ......."
Angelia smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, sir, I understand what you mean." ”
"If only you could understand." Count Henry breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "You don't have to worry that my lords will not obey your orders, what you did yesterday has completely subdued them, and they worship you. ”
Angelia: "I think you can describe it as fear. ”
"No, not fear, worship and respect. Although you have defeated us before and made us afraid, you have helped us afterwards so that we can get prey and eat to our heart's content, and our fear has long since turned into worship and respect. “
Angelia: "......"
She thought that if she was a legendary god who cultivated with faith, she would definitely be able to reap great rewards in this medieval Europe. It's a pity that there are no gods in this world, and the gods are all made up by earthlings.
Steward James returned, and told Angelia that all the lords had arrived outside the castle, and that they were also stimulated by the news that they could double their production, and no matter what they were doing, they put down what they were doing and ran over.
Angelia walked out of the castle gates with Count Henry and Butler James. At the gate, all the lords stopped talking and looked at Angelia expectantly, they did not doubt Angelia's words, Angelia had given them hope yesterday, and it would not disappoint them today.
Angelia didn't talk much nonsense to the people, and as soon as she opened her mouth, she began to give an agricultural lecture. These are the lessons she learned during her life in the Ming Dynasty, combining theory and practice, and speaking in an easy-to-understand manner, except for children, men and women alike, including Earl Henry and Steward James. They are very concerned about the output of the field and have a certain understanding of farming.
"Let's start with the ...... breeding"
"Which of you still has soybeans?"
Some people have answered in the affirmative, but there are not many soybeans.
"It's good to have soybeans, and I'll teach you another planting method, which is called intercropping......"
A lecture on agriculture lasted from morning to sunset in the afternoon, during which time there was not even lunch for anyone to eat, and all of them hoped that Angelia would talk more and more. Thankfully, there was still a remnant of the broth stewed last night, and the older children warmed the broth and distributed it to the younger children, so that the children did not go hungry. The portion of broth is not much, and each child can only divide half a bowl, but these children still feel that they are so happy, before today, they could only eat one meal a day.
"Okay, that's all for today. Let's get to work tomorrow. Angelia finished the lecture and let the people leave. The people all went away in high spirits, and it was to be expected that most of the people in the village would not be able to sleep that night.