Chapter 106: The Old Man's Confusion
In the evening of the same day, Liu Ci saw the woke up uncle in the cafeteria.
While she was looking at the uncle, the uncle was also looking at her. In the days he woke up for most of the day, from the mouth of the fat cook, from the mouth of the maid Nana, and from the mouths of the hired workers, he had already heard the praise of this "Miss Ci".
Everyone in the villa piled up all the beautiful words they knew on Liu Ci.
She is young, beautiful, powerful, mysterious, generous...... The most important thing is that she is really "kind" as her name suggests.
In this manor under construction, their trust in Liu Ci is almost above that of the God of Light that existed on the mainland for eternity. The dark corners where God's glory could not reach seemed to have been done by this young girl.
Everyone forgot where they were.
Although it is far from the city, it still belongs to the parish of Amster! This is the most chaotic, remote, and barren parish on the entire continent! In addition to the native-born herdsmen and the magic students who came to study at the Amster School of Magic, only the outcasts, the outlaws, the nobles who took refuge in despair, and the robbers, murderers and other people who need to stay away from the bustling city will come to Amster!
Which of them does this Miss Tzu belong to?
The old man thought he would figure it out. He just chose to stay, and at the first glance of Liu Ci, he made a new discovery, the kind young lady in the mouth of the manor employees, the green short jacket she was wearing was the fur of the fifth-order demonic beast "Bijing Raccoon", look at this dress, can the kind young lady in their mouth be easily dressed?
The old man's first impression of Liu Ci was not good.
In the same way, Liu Ci's first impression of the old man was also very poor.
Don't think that if you are so old that your eyelids are cowardly, she didn't notice the sharp eyes that flashed. Old but not cloudy eyes, where does this look like an old man with amnesia?
Whatever the reason, it's better to keep your mouth shut than to be full of lies. Liu Ci hates it very much when others deceive her, especially the lies that can be seen through at a glance, which is simply questioning her IQ.
Seeing that the white-haired old man with a small head suddenly returned to a vulnerable group, pretending to be pitiful and cheating the sympathy of the cook and maid. Liu Ci snorted coldly, out of sight and out of mind, and left.
Of course, she didn't turn her face, it wasn't that she endured it, it was really this white-haired old man, she couldn't see through it. Not being able to see through, rather than seeing that the other party is an ordinary person, are completely two different concepts. can't turn his face, and he can't beat others, all Liu Ci can do is ignore the old man.
As Liu Ci expected, the old man temporarily stayed in the valley.
He looked a round older than the old butler James, and Liu Ci didn't even think about expecting him to help or anything. Bancuntou was treated the same as a child a few years old in the hired family: he ate and slept, woke up and played.
This old man, in less than two days, coaxed the eight-year-old little Harvey children's shoes to follow his ass Grandpa long and grandfather short screaming, hearing Liu Ci's toothache, what does the broken child know, his own grandfather probably doesn't have this treatment.
Because his white hair is simply his personal signature feature, Liu Ci called him "Old Man Ban" in his heart, with this old man who doesn't know the depth and depth, Liu Ci has not meditated and practiced for three consecutive nights, she suspects that the night the cooing bird came, there was a sense of peeping that seemed to be nothing, and it was related to the old man.
Liu Ci was eager to drive the old man away as soon as possible, but the old man lingered in Liu Ci's villa.
There were many things in the mountain villa that he had never seen after many years of living and traveling to all corners of the continent. First of all, Liu Ci is the master, which is not as simple as being generous.
When the sky is bright, there will be a vigil hired worker ringing the bronze bell, except for Liu Ci, the owner, everyone in the villa will get up in the bell.
The women who cooked washed their faces and plunged into the kitchen. There are two large iron buckets in the kitchen, and the waste heat from the stove heats the water in the iron tong every day when cooking, and almost every household of 50 employees can bring a basin of hot water to wash their faces in the morning.
The winter in Emster is extremely cold, and every winter, many homeless people are frozen to death due to the low temperature, and the old man knows it. In Emster, wealthy merchants without aristocratic titles were able to buy land, and the workers they hired to work were treated like slaves under the name of the nobility, except in one way: the workers were free to leave after the contract expired.
Want to take a hot water wash in the winter? This kind of treatment is probably only available to the personal attendants of the great nobles, as well as the housekeepers with face, anyway, it is not something that these hired workers who do manual labor can enjoy.
I washed my face and did the work assigned yesterday, and it was about eight o'clock, and it was time for breakfast.
The hired men went to the canteen, and the old man stayed in the cottage for three days, and the breakfast was clearly like this:
On the first day, bread is served with corn soup, and the soup is left in an iron pot and can be drunk as you go, as long as it is not wasted, there is no limit. The bread is a loaf of bread, and except for the sick, both adults and children must come to the cafeteria. The cook said, Miss Ci said, you can eat as much as you want into your stomach, but you can't just throw away food waste.
The next day, white flour "steamed buns" are served with sweet polenta and onions in sauce served in small pottery plates. The old man has eaten it, and the onion rings are sour and crunchy, so he can eat more than half a steamed bun. The steamed bun is also made of flour, and unlike bread, the former is baked, and the latter is steamed in water, which is very fluffy, unlike the greasy and hard bread he has eaten before.
On the third day, flour-fried "fritters", soybean milk made from ground soybeans, and shallot cakes. With the hot milky white soy milk, take a bite of the fritters, and the instant satisfaction aroused the appetite of the old man who had disappeared for many years. If he were a hired worker, he would be reluctant to leave every day for such a breakfast.
After breakfast, the women who were not working in the canteen began to wash their clothes, while the hired laborers, led by Harvey, went to work in the kiln. In winter, the ground was frozen to hard soil, and the manor under construction was temporarily denied cultivation work, and the hired workers were now burning bricks and pottery, in addition to laying the foundation for future construction, including orders for the next manor.
There is a gap of more than ten miles from the valley, and some people have bought a piece of land, and the owner and Liu Ci are very good.
Both men and women have work to do, and a small person like Little Harvey will be gathered by Liu Ci's maid Nana.
Sometimes they are taught to know, sometimes they are taught arithmetic.
The old man didn't know what Liu Ci was going to do, and he hadn't seen any slaves from big noble families who needed to read and write. The hired workers signed a work contract, and they were not slaves under Liu Ci's name, and she also asked someone to teach them to read, so she was not afraid that when the contract expired, these people would switch to other masters? You must know that when a person has knowledge, the job he can choose is not limited to heavy physical labor.
The old man then shook his head.
Under such good conditions that he couldn't find all over Amster, Liu Ci also paid the employees.
5 silver coins a month is the most basic, and like Harvey, if you have a skill, as long as you can help the estate, your salary will be doubled.
From the old man's point of view, as long as they worked in the manor for two months, they probably couldn't afford to leave.
Liu Ci used another method, a completely different method from the slave status to restrict personal freedom, to bind these people firmly in the manor and to her.
You can eat well, you can dress warmly, you have a shelter from the wind and rain, someone cares about your spirit, teaches you literacy, and broadens your horizons...... Under such conditions, the hired workers only need to work and be loyal. After staying in the villa for three days, the old man had to admit that no matter what other people thought of Liu Ci in the future, in the eyes of the people in the manor, this "Miss Ci" really deserved all the praise.
On the surface he saw, Liu Ci was simply more virtuous and kind than all the aristocratic ladies he had seen in his life.
As her name suggests, she is a kind young lady. Looking at her demeanor, no one will regard her as a commoner, it is the aristocratic world, which can only be cultivated after time precipitation.
Will it be a down-and-out aristocracy?
The old man shook his head, and the sharpness in Liu Ci's eyes often flashed when her eyes flowed.
The down-and-out aristocracy usually complains, there will be twilight, Liu Ci is like the morning sun at eight o'clock in Emst, climbing to the sky little by little, with his old eyes, one day it will rise to the sky, and the light on his body will shine on the wider and larger land of the continent.
The down-and-out aristocracy will not know how to farm. At least he had never seen anyone grow vegetables like this, and with these techniques, the advantages of the wood magician in some aspects were gone.
However, in three or four days, the vegetable seeds sprinkled in the glass greenhouse have begun to pull leaves after germination.
The warm interior and nutritious soil allow the spinach to grow tender green leaves. In another week, the spinach and bok choy should be harvested.
I heard that this batch of vegetables was used by "Miss Ci" to solve her own economic crisis, as well as the vines cultivated in the greenhouse. The more the old man knew, the more confused he became about Liu Ci's existence.
- Who is she?
- What is she doing in Emster?