Shepp walked to the chapel, which was the place where he had made an appointment with Luo Yi, and he could use religious teachings to hide his eyes.

Along the way, he felt as if something was different about the castle today.

It's a bit of a refreshed feeling.

He couldn't figure out what was new.

It was Luo Yi who solved his doubt, "I asked Old Martin to sweep away all the feces and garbage that could be swept away, and today he insisted on sweeping and I will give him a day off tomorrow." ”

Cleanliness can make people depraved, the priest originally did not believe in this principle, thinking that small rivers and streams are everywhere, that is, hermits who are highly respected and do not defile the world, and it does not cost anything to take a bath, so why not take a bath? But the devil in front of me loves cleanliness so much, not only on the body, but also on the house, compared to those saints who have never bathed all their lives...... Well, still a little

Reasonable.

Then the conversation quickly turned to how to make money.

Shepp thinks the tax could be raised.

Luo Yi resolutely opposed this proposal, in fact, according to her standards, those serfs and freedmen would be good if they could pay taxes, and they would be too harsh to rebel.

There are still devils who don't love money, Shepp is very depressed, besides, how can the serfs rebel? If they are told to pay taxes, they should pay taxes, and the saints said that slaves should obey their masters, otherwise they would sell all the serfs and change them to work.

Then, Luo Yi proposed a plan to increase the yield of the field by fertilizing, and she had asked old Martin to pile up the cleaned manure and horse manure and so on, ready to ferment and use.

Shepp was adamantly opposed to the proposal, telling Luo Yi that those ignorant farmers have their stubbornness, and if you just watch them, they will also think that the manure pollutes the land and is secretly thrown away, and one overseer can't stop the behavior of hundreds of people - besides, where to find so much manure? Even the pigs were free-range, human dung and a few horses kept in the castle

Excrement is simply not possible for six villages.

Luo Yi also considered this, but she also counted on the priest to convince the farmers for her, and she felt that Shepp refused to go because a simple tax increase seemed convenient and quick.

While the two were scratching their heads, someone came to report that it was the merchant Jacob who had visited.

When old Jacob was brought into the castle, he thought that this castle was a little different from the others, but he didn't have the heart to think about it.

He was holding a package full of valuable gifts, but his attention was more on the roll of parchment in his arms.

It was a habeas corpus issued to him by the Duke of Ulrich, which stated that Jacob was a merchant in the service of the Duke.

This parchment cost him a full ten gold coins, such a large sum of money, and in exchange for a parchment that could be declared invalid by the Duke at any time, old Jacob, who usually loved money, thought it was worth the money.

After all, this is an era when even a believer, who may be robbed or even killed by robbers and knights at any time when he is a chariot walking on the road, he is a heretic, he has to walk all over the world to buy and sell low and sell high to earn silver instead of being chopped up by everyone like to hear, what else can he rely on, except for the protection given by the nobles for the sake of money?

Of course, in this day and age, it is quite possible for a nobleman not to buy the account of another nobleman, and his other hope is that the lord will release him if he can pay a large ransom (more than he can get from him at this time).

The day before yesterday, Baroness Brad returned to him what he had dropped on the ground, and seemed to be a good and merciful man, and old Jacob hoped that it would not go that far, but it was also difficult to tell, and he waited nervously in the hall.

After a while, the maid called him up.

This was a good sign, Jacob thought, and it was half the battle without ordering the knights and his retinue to drive him out of the city.

The next sign was even better, the baroness actually called him old gentleman instead of old dog.

However, there was a priest standing next to him, which made Jacob very nervous and stammered.

"A decree granting habeas corpus and exempting goods from returning to the lord upon landing?" Luo Yi said as she looked at the gift Jacob took out of the package.

Then, her eyes were immediately drawn to two small handkerchiefs.

It was two very delicately made linen handkerchiefs, embroidered with delicate roses on the four corners, even with the eyes of modern people, they were embroidered beautifully, which made Luo Yi, who had always been accustomed to machine embroidery and cross-stitch, couldn't help but praise this handiwork.

"It was embroidered by my granddaughter." Old Jacob said proudly, speaking fluently.

"yes, that's great."

When old Jacob heard this, he could not help but feel a sudden feeling in his heart, although the Baroness was a woman, she might ask her to convert because she liked the children's craft...... This is unacceptable!

When he was about to subtly reject the baroness, Luo Yi spoke again, "Then you must know where this one is." ”

Luo Yi's hand refers to the purple flower grass pattern that connects the roses at the four corners of the handkerchief.

"Ahh Old Jacob was at once stupid at this question, and he looked at it carefully, and he recognized the pattern of the hand-painted grass, "Madame, this is a kind of weed, which grows in a valley, and where my wife was hired to herd sheep, and to do some manual work to support the family, and the child was made according to her grandmother's old man." ”

"Weeds? Sheep? Luo Yi's next question made Jacob even more stupid, "Isn't the sheep dead?" ”

"No, ah, there is always one or two sheep that have something wrong every year, madam, you know the way, running down the mountain, getting sick, but it is not much more dead than when the believers are herding sheep, madam, we will compensate for the death." Old Jacob was confused, and he looked at the priest out of the corner of his eye, and to his surprise, the priest was also at a loss, and seemed to know no more about it than he did

Many, but the experience over the years made him try his best to defend himself, "The people in my family earn all the hard money, madam, I haven't done anything illegal." ”

"Oh," Luo Yi nodded, "Is there a lot of small balls growing on the roots of this grass, and if you break it, red water will flow out?" ”

"This, I don't know what to do, ma'am." Jacob didn't know what to say, but he hadn't seen the roots of the grass, and who would pay attention to the roots of the weeds except witches?

Could it be that you will unconsciously fall into a conspiracy?

"Oh, then," Luo Yi asked the priest for a pen and paper, and drew a picture for him, "does the fruit of this grass look like this?" ”

Worried first, Jacob did not dare to say to death: "Like, maybe ......"

"You go back and show me, if it's really a fruit like this, and there are small balls at the roots, you can get me a cart of seeds, well, the more the better," Luo Yi suddenly remembered something, and drew a picture for Jacob to see: "If there is such a similar, you can also get it for me, a lot of it, if you do a good job, I will sign for personal protection for you,

Oh yes, it has to be ripe, it can grow if you plant it, and if you dare to pass it off as raw or something, you don't have the luxury of setting foot on Brad's territory in this life. ”

Luo Yi didn't ask Jacob for a gift, and cut out a piece of parchment paper for Jacob's reference, and only kept a handkerchief for himself as a reference and voucher.

Jacob was politely sent out of the castle, the contents of the package were not missing, and the baroness promised to consider his offer, possibly for free, which Jacob could not believe.

What made him feel most incredulous was that the Baroness didn't want the silver money cloth he brought, nor the fancy little jewelry, but only the seed of a weed, and she wanted to plant it...... What are you planting for?

It can't be done for witches, such a large amount...... This is basically equivalent to using a loudspeaker to go to the church on Sunday to announce that he is suspected of being harmful to people.

"What's the benefit?" He rode on the donkey on which he was walking, and all the way to the house he was looking at the pattern on his handkerchief, and he looked and looked, but he didn't see anything extraordinary from the pattern, wasn't it a weed! Sheep eat too much!

"What's the benefit?" Shepp had been so shocked that he had forgotten to speak, "Is it worth not receiving a gift from him for the sake of this weed seed?" ”

"Ha Luha, how is it not worth it," Luo Yi said with a happy smile, she smiled, swept away her past sorrowful brows, and became radiant: "What if...... If it's really the thing I want, it's to exchange the gold of the whole world with me, and I won't do it! ”

"What?" Baroness Brad, don't be really crazy!

"Shep, you don't know what to say, that's the king of the grass. Compared with it, it is the gold of the whole world, and what is it worth! ”