In fact, when Gervais saw seafood such as oysters, his first thought was that the villagers were violent and guarded such a large sea and did not find a way to survive, but instead died in the land.

If you can sell seafood outside the territory, it is definitely better than honest farming, and the money comes quickly.

Gervais has even begun to think about whether to get the entire village to devote himself to his great plan for the seafood trade.

However, before this plan was planned, it was ruthlessly shattered.

When he knew that the transportation of seafood was restricted, Gervais was like being poured a basin of cold water, like today's weather, even if it is a live fish when it is caught, but after two or three hours in the car, and then exposed to the sun, it will become a stinky fish and rotten shrimp.

Unless there is ice, but it is impossible, this season, the price of ice is dozens of times more expensive than that of live fish, and he has no pit in his head. It seems that we can only find a way to see if we can make salted fish, dried fish and other aquatic products.

"Ahem...... Cough...... So if that's the case, can you keep your family fed after you have paid your taxes all year round? At the moment, Gervais stopped paying attention to seafood and began to ask other questions.

The village chief was stunned for a while, and didn't know how to answer for a while, he must not be able to eat enough, otherwise those children would not be malnourished, and they would cook seafood every day to eat.

But if they don't have enough to eat, it means that the Earl is exploiting them, after all, before Gervais took office, their territory was also managed by the Jones family.

But if they lied and said that they were well fed, then if the lord had to raise taxes, then they would all starve to death, and not only the village chief looked embarrassed, but the other serfs also showed nervous expressions.

With the exception of Gervais, there really was no noble lord who would ask such a question to a serf.

"Lord Lord, I can't eat enough, I'm hungry every day!" Just when everyone fell silent, suddenly, a child in the crowd shouted, not tall, only four or five years old, but the shout was so loud that everyone present could hear it.

The mother next to the child was startled, quickly pulled the talking child, and then covered his mouth, with a frightened look on her face.

"There are a lot of lords, and children are not sensible, please forgive me!" The old village chief also looked frightened, and quickly knelt on the ground.

Gervais ignored the village chief and walked straight towards the boy.

"Please, adult, the child is not sensible, you forgive him for his offense!" The child's mother trembled with fright when she saw that Gervais had an unkind face and ignored the pleading village chief.

However, Gervais just walked up to her and carried the child over, and the mother did not dare to resist, so she easily let Gervais take the child away.

Because she knew that if she disobeyed Gervais and Gervais started a fire, not only the child, but also her family would suffer.

Everyone present thought that Gervais was going to punish the child, but they all remained silent, trembling and lowering their heads, including the village chief, who did not dare to say more at the moment, just peeked at Gervais's actions in fear.

To these serfs, the nobility was inviolable, including the slightest offense, and they all thought that Gervais had offended the Earl and offended Gervais because of what the child had said.

Gervais looked at the child in his arms, the child was wearing a tattered linen shorts, shirtless, and the ribs on his chest were bulging, and it was not too much to say that it was skinny.

"You are a brave child, a child who dares to speak the truth!"

Gervais opened his mouth and praised the child.

As soon as Gervais spoke, everyone was stunned, including Gervais's guards, who just thought that Gervais was angry.

After all, although he is a child, but what he said has the meaning of complaining about the nobles, in this world, the nobles are taboo for serfs, and if anyone dares to belittle the nobles in private, no matter which nobleman knows, that person will definitely be hanged by the nobles.

What's more, Mistress Gervais is still the husband of Lord Earl.

I said, this kid is very brave! Dare to tell the truth! Seeing that everyone was stunned, Gervais spoke loudly to the audience again, and the volume of his voice increased significantly.

"In praise of him, I will reward him with 20 copper coins!"

As he spoke, Gervais beckoned to Laurie behind him, who immediately stepped forward, took out a copper coin from his pocket, and handed it to Gervais.

Gervais took the copper plate and placed it in the palm of the child's hand. When the child saw Gervais put the copper plate in the palm of his hand, he stopped crying and struggling.

Curiously grasping the copper plate, looking left and right, I like it very much.

The copper plate was not large, and it was also printed with strange patterns, and it was quite interesting for the child to hold the silver coin, but the serfs present understood the value of 20 copper plates. Two or three copper plates are a day's wages for an adult, and now because of a child's truth, he got 20

All the serfs looked at the child with envy, especially the child's mother, and after reacting, they were already crying with joy.

"Thank you, Lord for the reward!" At this time, it was the village chief who kept his senses and knelt down to thank Gervais.

"Get up, both of you!" Gervais placed the child on the ground, and the child took the copper plate coin that Gervais had awarded, and quickly returned to his mother's side, and held the copper plate in front of his mother as if he were offering a treasure.

After hearing Gervais tell them to stand up, the village chief stood up first, but the mother kowtowed to Gervais first, and said to Gervais in a choked voice: "Thank you, Lord Lord, for the reward!" ”

After speaking, he stood up with the child tied to his back with one hand and the other hand.

Gervais smiled and nodded to the child's mother, then looked away and said to everyone: "As long as you work hard, I believe that under my leadership, your life will get better and better!" ”

"Yes, my lord, we will work hard to farm."

After listening to Gervais's words, although everyone thought in their hearts that we had never been lazy in our work, we still couldn't eat enough, but they still answered Gervais in unison.

"Very well, then I'll leave today! Work hard, trust me, I will make your life better and better! Of course, Gervais knew that these serfs would not be lazy when they worked, because if they dared to be lazy, they would starve to death.

They will also dismiss their own words, but time will tell, and if life really gets better in the future, they will think that it is the credit of Lord Gervais.

"Lord, go slowly!" Seeing that Gervais had already mounted his horse, the village chief immediately greeted.

"Well, by the way, what's your name, village chief?" Sitting on the horse, it suddenly occurred to Gervais that he did not know the name of the village chief.

"My lord, my name is Afri Hoe."

Gervais wanted to laugh a little, but he was afraid of ruining his majestic image, so he tilted his head slightly and looked at the sky. The literacy rate in this world is very low, and only the aristocracy will make their surnames look good and sound.

And the serfs, because they have no culture, and because they are worried that some surnames will conflict with the surnames of the nobles, they all use things that can be seen in daily life as surnames, such as the village chief's hoe, the surname is very serf, in addition to this hoe, there are hammers, iron rods, stones and even cow dung, this surname is completely arbitrary, as long as there is no overlap in the range of activities.

"Oh, that Avery, you can send some oysters to the beach later, and send them to my castle." Gervais suddenly remembered the oysters and said to Avery.

"Yes, my lord!" The village chief hurried to be.

"Lord Lord, walk slowly......"

After asking Laurie to leave ten more copper plates, Gervais rode on horseback and turned away with his guards, and the serfs gathered at the entrance of the village hurried to say goodbye.

When Gervais walked away, everyone looked at the boy who had just been hugged by Gervais, and the most important thing was the copper plate in his hand.

When the boy's mother saw the gaze of everyone, she quickly snatched the copper plate from the child's hand, held it in her hand tightly, and glared at those eyes with fierce eyes, as if she was afraid that the copper plate would slip away.

The others withdrew their eyes when they saw the copper plate being taken away by the boy's mother, and her fierce gaze.

The adults with the children, looking at the boy and their own children around them, suddenly became angry, and they all grabbed their children's ears and twisted them.

"Wow...... Wow...... Wow......" From a long distance, Gervais suddenly heard a cry from behind, and the cry of many children, and couldn't help but turn his head back to look at it curiously, but it was too far away, and he could only see a few figures disperse, and he couldn't see anything else.

“？？？” Gervais is a little weird, I don't know why. However, he gradually got farther and farther away from the mountain village, so he turned his head and concentrated on riding.

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