Chapter 41: The Oath
Those slaves are not stupid people, and almost all of them can cook, when they used to be in the hands of other slave masters, every time it was time to eat, the overseers under the slave owners would randomly select two people from their team to cook, so these slaves were no strangers to cooking.
It was very simple to make rice, so these slaves filled all seven pots with rice after a while, and Li Yan took out a few large copper basins and gave them them to use them as pot lids.
These marching stoves don't have special pot lids, and they don't need them, everyone knows that these marching stoves will not be used even by ordinary armies, only slaves are used, and for slaves, it's good to give them a bite to eat, so it doesn't matter if it's delicious or not.
And those slaves have not made soup, they don't know how to do it, they used to eat in other slave owners, what they ate was not as good as in the Carlin family, in other slave owners, sometimes, they can only eat something like rice bran, or some rice that has become moldy, it is precisely because of this, so every day there will be a lot of slaves on the continent die, but for slave owners, slave death is not a big deal at all, just buy.
So these slaves are now looking at those vegetables and fruit oil in a daze, Li Dou certainly understands the feelings of these slaves, how to say that she was also a civilian before, and she still knows some simple dishes.
Li Dou walked to an empty pot, picked up the fruit oil, poured into the pot, Li Yan for the first time paid serious attention to this fruit oil, the color of this fruit oil is slightly yellow, very clear, I heard that it seems to be squeezed out of a fruit with a very high oil content, this fruit is grown in many places on the mainland, so the fruit oil is also very cheap.
After Li Dou waited for the oil to be hot, he put the vegetables in the pot and stir-fried them briefly, then poured water into the pot, and then threw two pieces of salt inside, as long as the water was boiled, the soup was good.
This is the simplest soup, with almost no technical content, no condiments, only a little coarse salt, which is already the best treatment for slaves.
On the mainland, salt is not cheap, the general aristocracy uses refined clear salt, that kind of salt is very fine, similar to the refined salt on the earth, and the coarse salt used by slaves is very cheap, of course, there are many impurities.
But even so, except for the Carlin family, these slaves are not allowed to eat salt every day, and the other slaves are mainly let them eat salt once every three days, even if they are lenient, the average slave owner gives these slaves salt once a week, and the amount is not much.
Li Yan is busy with things in the space and the future development of the Loess Plateau these days, so he doesn't know much about the living conditions of these slaves, and he doesn't feel anything wrong with what Li Dou is doing now, he thinks that every slave on the mainland lives like this, maybe the slaves here in their family live a little worse, after all, they don't have so many materials to use for these.
Seeing Li Dou making that simple soup, Li Yan couldn't help but sigh, and Zhao Xuan, who was standing next to him, said puzzledly: "What's wrong with the young master?" Any questions? Is it because they use too much salt? Do you want to reduce it a little? ”
Li Yan glanced at Zhao Xuan puzzled and said, "Many?" How can it be more? With such a big pot, they only use such a little salt, how can it be more? I'm thinking that our Kalin family is still too weak to let them eat such simple food, and when we have money in the future, we will definitely let them eat meat. ”
As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, he felt that everyone was looking at him a little wrong, and those slaves all looked at him with a look of hell, so that Li Yan didn't know what was going on.
He looked at Zhao Xuan puzzled, and said in a low voice: "Zhao Xuan, what's wrong?" Did I say the wrong thing? ”
Zhao Xuan looked at Li Yan's appearance, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, he knew that although there were slaves in the Kalin family before, Li Yan had never left the imperial capital, nor had he been in contact with those slaves, so he naturally didn't know what kind of life those slaves lived, so she said this, she had to explain to Li Yan in a low voice the living conditions of those slaves.
Li Yan listened stunned, for a person who was born in a new society, grew up under the red flag, and was born to catch up with the reform and opening up, the kind of life that Zhao Xuan said is so far away from him, this is like those who have experienced the old society, will resonate with Peking Opera like the white-haired girl, but it is difficult for them to resonate with the post-80s, because they don't have that kind of experience, what is written in the book is auspicious, it is also something in the book, how can it be compared with personal experience.
When Zhao Xuan simply finished talking about the living conditions of these slaves, Li Yan's eyes were full of sympathy when he turned his head to look at these slaves, and he sighed and said: "Don't worry, everyone can do what I say, sooner or later, one day, I will let you eat meat, and eat it every day, eat it every day, eat it until you get bored, I swear in the name of the Kalin family." ”
Li Yan is a kind person, although he was very homely when he was on earth, but otaku are a little timid, and in addition to others, they are also very kind people, maybe their communication skills are not good, but that does not mean that they are perverts, in fact, more otaku are not used to seeing the darkness of this world, so they choose to lock themselves in their own world, Li Yan is such a person.
After arriving here in the Tianyuan Continent, Li Yan's identity changed, he is a nobleman, he has a territory, he has more than 100 slaves to support him to live, his words can decide the life and death of more than 100 people, which makes Li Yan have another sense of responsibility, he thinks that it is his responsibility to make these people's lives better, so he will be bent on developing his own territory, and he will say such things.
The slaves all knelt on the ground excitedly, kowtowed to Li Yan and said, "Thank you for the reward!" ”
Although they haven't gotten anything yet, it's enough to have Li Yan's words, the nobles on the mainland have a very strange tradition, they don't swear easily, even if they swear, they won't swear in the name of their own family under normal circumstances, because even if they swear in the name of God, sometimes they will break the oath, but they will not break the oath made in the name of the family.
It was precisely because of that those slaves would believe Li Yan's words, and they believed that the oath that Li Yan made in the name of the family would definitely come true one day.
Zhao Xuan opened her mouth, but she didn't say anything, she has been managing these slaves these days, to be honest, she is also very sympathetic to these slaves, so Li Yan said this, she did not object.
At this moment, Li Na's voice came: "Young Master, it's time to eat." ”
Li Yan nodded, turned his head and glanced at everyone, and then said to Zhao Xuan, Li Dou and An: "Zhao Xuan, Li Dou, An, let's go in and eat." ”
Li Dou and An originally wanted to stay here to eat, but when they saw Li Yan's appearance, they didn't say yes, and followed the two into the house, and the wood and stones also followed into the house.
As soon as they entered the house, those slaves were even more relaxed, although Li Yan has always been very kind to them, but for these slaves, Li Yan has always been their master, and with Li Yan here, they will feel uncomfortable.
Li Yan and the others went to the house to take a look, and sure enough, Li Na had already made cakes and made a soup, Li Yan actually wanted to eat rice, but looking at Li Na's appearance, I am afraid that there is no hope today.
There were only four chairs at the square table in the room, but Li Yan casually took out three more from the warehouse, so that seven people could sit down, although the table was not as big as the table in the castle restaurant, but it was enough for seven people to eat.
After Li Yan asked a few people to sit down, he took a knife and fork and began to eat the cake made by Li Na, in fact, he didn't want to use a knife and fork, but unfortunately, Li Na would not agree.
Not to mention, the cake made in this way really has a different flavor, and the taste is okay, Li Yan and the others slowly ate dinner, Li Na packed up everything, and when a few people went outside, those slaves had already finished eating.
The marching stove was still there, but it was evident that it had been cleaned, and the slaves seemed to be well fed, and were sitting there one by one, as if they were very unmotivated.
Li Yan knew that after eating, people would be sleepy, and it was the same for these slaves, Li Yan didn't let them get up, but just glanced at the garbage on the ground, but frowned a little.
This is his space, although Li Yan has no habit of cleanliness, but he doesn't want the space to be dirty, but these things can only stay in the space now.
As soon as he saw this garbage, Li Yan couldn't help but glance at the sky above the space again, the surroundings of this space were still foggy, and he couldn't see things clearly, but fortunately, he didn't see black smoke floating in the sky, it seemed that burning a fire in the space had little impact on the space.
Li Yan turned to Li Na and said, "Grandma Li Na, I think you should rest in the house, now that they have just eaten, they are also sleepy, let them rest for a while." ”
Li Na glanced at the slaves and found that they seemed to be very unenergetic, so she had to nod and say, "Okay, then let's rest first, but we don't need to go into the house to rest, just rest outside." ”
Li Yan hurriedly said: "Grandma Li Na, Zhao Xuan, Tiedan, Dogdan, you come into the house with me, I have something to show you." Then he opened the door of the hut and entered the house.
Li Na Although they didn't know what Li Yan wanted to show them, they still obediently followed in, Li Na They knew that they were far less familiar with this space than Li Yan, and in this space, it was better to listen to Li Yan for everything.