Howard dismissed his manor steward, sat in silence for a moment, and then immediately returned to the castle.

"Coming back so soon?" Silas looked at Howard, who was in a hurry and ran back without even changing his clothes, a little surprised.

"Ivy hasn't been in a good temper lately, and I have to rush back to dinner. Howard said a little shyly.

Silas gave a look of surprise and asked, "How's it going?"

"It worked surprisingly well. Howard's expression was slightly tangled.

"Oh?" Silas was obviously surprised, and asked after a moment's pause, "Have you ever asked?"

After all, this is a matter related to the transmission of the decree, and Silas still attaches great importance to it, although a better way is to further popularize the written word, so that more people can read and write.

But in fact, paper is definitely a luxury in a certain sense in today's Snow Wolf Country.

A loaf of bread has two copper coins, a piece of straw paper that cannot be used for writing at all, and it is also two copper coins, which is not counting more expensive things such as ink, which one will ordinary people spend money on?

In addition, the expensive paper and ink are removed, and the books have to be copied by hand.

This made the circulation of books very limited, and in order to enrich the collection of books and the issuance of government decrees, the royal court even spent a lot of money to raise a group of such people.

But even so, whether it was Silas or his three children, when they came across a book that they were particularly eager to collect, they still had to copy it by hand.

"After asking, the steward of my estate said that he couldn't even read all the announcements posted in the past. Howard said with some helplessness.

In fact, this incident touched him quite a lot.

There are actually a lot of things to do as a steward of a manor.

Settle accounts every year, collect rent, repair and maintain the estate, and often write letters to the owner's family to do some reporting work such as tenant changes, which is no longer something that ordinary people can do.

But he actually said that he couldn't recognize all the words on the announcement, which can be imagined, and there are really very few people who can read and understand the announcements issued from the royal court every year.

"I see. Silas nodded, and fell silent.

At this moment, although he was different from Luna's thoughts, he also had a little understanding, and he couldn't help but knock on his forehead and sigh secretly, what a good life he had!

This is not to blame him, after all, since the beginning of the Snow Wolf Country, the royal family has been inherited for hundreds of years.

With the development, after bidding farewell to slash-and-burn farming and running around for food, whether it is a nobleman or a royal family, in fact, these years have been running hard to make their lives more refined, and can even be called tedious enjoyment.

This is not absolutely bad, after all, only when the overall standard of living goes up, can people have more energy, pay attention to things other than sustaining life, and focus on the deeper level of pleasure.

But the problem is that as life becomes more and more comfortable, it also makes the nobles and royal families who have lost the basic proposition of living forget a lot of things, and most of them don't even know how the people living at the bottom live their lives.

Take the simplest official documents, looking through the records of the royal court, you can see that the earliest decrees were concise and to the point.

I don't know when it began, but the decree gradually mixed with a lot of fancy things, pay attention to rhetoric, pay attention to the use of some less common words, and so on.

With mixed feelings, seeing off Howard, who was also in a somewhat complicated mood, Silas walked into the restaurant.

Looking at the son who was squatting in front of the fireplace, because he was bored with throwing small sawdust into the fireplace because he was not accompanied by his sister Luna, looking at his wife who greeted Yan Yan with a smile, and the complicated knives, forks and dishes that had been stacked on the dining table early, Silas sighed again.

"What's going on? busy?" Olivia asked.

"No, do you remember when you were a kid when you ate?" Silas asked suddenly.

"When I was a child?" Olivia looked at the table with her husband's gaze in some surprise, and then smiled and said, "When I was a child, I was different from you, my parents were not so particular, just a main dish when they were in the family, they could eat from beginning to end, a pair of knives, forks and spoons were all solved." ”

"yes......" Silas raised his hand and stroked the ornate sterling silver cutlery set on the table.

In fact, it's not that he can't eat just by giving him a pair of knives and forks, but he won't get used to it.

After dinner, Silas followed Jack all the way to the other side of the castle.

This move made Jack's whole body a little nervous, and Silas saw it, but didn't say anything.

Reflecting on Jack along the way, he didn't understand what he had done recently that was worth following his dad all the way.

It wasn't until Jack entered his room, and saw Silas go straight through the crack in the door, and then there was a knock on Luna's door not far away, that he breathed a sigh of relief, sat back at his little desk, and fought against the books that had worn him down for many days but were still thick.

"Father?" Luna was sitting on the carpet, holding a small note with crooked handwriting in her hand, ready to tuck it into her book.

"How's it written?" Silas asked.

"At the beginning, I found that I couldn't write a lot of words. The corners of Luna's mouth twitched slightly, and the announcement she wrote to the common people, she could write it in one go, and it could be written to the nobles......

Well, all she had was a headache!

"Don't you think there's a problem with the current Kumon?"

Silas sat next to her daughter on the floor, and asked Susie, who was standing by the side, to bring a pen and paper, and asked while looking at the text written by Luna, helping her daughter fill in the empty space without words she couldn't write, and fill in according to her own understanding.

"What are you talking about?" asked Luna, closing the book in her hand and looking at Silas with some confusion.

"It's just too complicated. Silas said, hanging his head.

When Luna heard this, she suddenly came to her senses and sighed, "It's not just complicated, it's just nonsense!"

Yes, in her opinion, it is nonsense, just like some time ago, the lord who reported a snow disaster and wanted to reduce taxes, a blizzard is a blizzard!

He also added a description, and the description is just that, but you can describe something useful, such as selling miserably or something.

But people don't, they write about the snow scene, obviously it is a disaster, and they are stunned to let that person write a kind of "thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow drifting" to return to the heart!

You're all free and angry, what kind of tax can you cut?

So at that time, Luna's reply was also quite heroic.

First lift the lord high, and then tell the lord, I'm optimistic about you!

Just for your feelings, I believe that you can solve the immediate difficulties and solve problems for the country, it depends on you, big brother!

And then, the other day, the lord replied.

said that the spring ploughing over there had already been started, and finally echoed Luna's praise, and he felt very satisfied that he was appreciated by the king, and really did it against all odds.

At the end, there is also a narrative poem that describes the spring labor in great detail.

The rhetoric is so gorgeous that it makes people feel immersive, which also makes Luna and Silas, the father and daughter, who saw the reply, relatively speechless for a long time.