Chapter Twenty-Eight: Grapes
"Lord Lord, the little one picked some wild fruits for you, do you want to eat them?" At this moment, the guard in charge of shouting along the way came to Gervais with a few strings of purple fruits, and asked Gervais flatteringly.
"Huh? What kind of fruit is this? Gervais looked at the fruit in the guard's hand and was a little stunned, he just saw the guard walk into the grass next to him, and thought it was convenient to go, but he didn't care, but he didn't think that he was going to pick fruit.
"Lord Hui, this is a wild fruit on the side of the road, we used to pick it and eat it when we came out on patrol in the past, and it was very sweet and sour."
Isn't this a grape? Gervais is indeed a little confused, what's wrong today, first oysters, then garlic, and now grapes, haven't I traveled to another world, but to the ancient times of the West?
But it's impossible to think about it, this world has a fighting spirit, there are Warcraft, and most importantly, there are strange elf worms.
Gervais took a bunch of grapes from the guards, plucked one and tasted it in his mouth, and found that it tasted exactly the same as the grapes, only slightly more sour than the improved varieties on earth.
"Take me to see what the branches of this fruit look like?" Gervais didn't care to taste the grapes anymore, so he quickly stood up and said to the guards.
"Yes, my lord." This time it was the guard's turn to be a little blind, he was just picking a wild fruit on the side of the road, and wanted to pat the lord's ass, but he didn't expect the lord to have such a big reaction.
When Laurie and Audri saw Gervais standing up, they immediately got up and followed Gervais to check.
"My lord, this is it." The guards led Gervais behind the grass, a clearing on which five or six wild grapes grew. When he was on Earth, Gervais had only seen vines in farmhouses, and they all grew neatly along the shelves that the farmers had made.
But now these vines are crawling everywhere, some trees climb trees, and there are no trees growing on the ground, Gervais approached and carefully identified, it is indeed similar to the vines he has seen in the farmhouse, whether it is the leaves, fruits, or rhizomes are exactly the same, except that these wild vines have grown for I don't know how many years, and one of the rhizomes is almost the thickness of an adult's wrist.
"Good stuff!" Gervais was even happier to see these vines than he was to see oysters and garlic, because oysters were not preserved and could not be sold far away, so they had no value and could only fill his appetite, and garlic leaves were about the same, although he might earn some gold coins according to his ideas, but they were all bought and sold with a hammer, and there were only a few nobles along the coast, and there was always a time to finish teaching.
But the grapes in front of us are different, in the previous life, because grapes formed a global industry, and that is wine. As long as Gervais makes wine, I believe that gold coins will roll in, and this thing is a consumable like food, as long as it is promoted, it will not be sold at all.
There was no wine in this world, whether it was Gandalf's castle or the rose castle, Gervais only saw beer made from wheat, no other alcohol, the others were at most juices, and after Gervais tasted it, he found that there was no taste of alcohol at all.
Looking at these vines, Gervais wanted to dig these treasures back immediately, but saw that many grapes on the vines were not ripe, so he pressed his thoughts back, if he dug up these vines now, the grapes on those vines that were not ripe would rot, and he wanted to wait for the next ripening estimate to wait until next year, and now these grapes will all ripen in ten days and half a month at most
Besides, these vines don't know how many years they have been, and no one pays attention to them, and they won't run away if they wait for more than ten days, and since there is a grape variety in this world, there will definitely not be only a few of them.
The vines will not be dug for the time being, but when we go back later, we will definitely pick some ripe grapes and take them back to test them first.
Ye Feng saw his grandmother make wine when he was a child, and it looked quite simple to make wine, wash it and dry it, crush it and put it in a sealed container after drying, and then wait for fermentation, and then filter out the grape pomace, and then continue to ferment the grape juice, and then turn it into wine. Gervais even remembered his grandmother saying that adding some egg white liquid during the second fermentation would improve the clarity of the wine.
However, this is also why Ye Feng was curious about everything when he was a child, and he always explained it to him only after his grandmother, and he himself had not tried it himself.
It doesn't matter if you want to come, as long as you know the steps, take some back later, brew some according to the steps in your memory, if there are any deficiencies, you can slowly improve, as for the taste of wine, Gervais believes that it will always taste better than the beer of this world, at the banquet in Rose Castle, Gervais has also tasted the beer of this world, and the taste is like the effect of beer on the earth after opening the bottle for a day or two, not to mention the bitterness, the foam is basically gone.
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Laurie and the others stood behind Gervais, not understanding what was wrong with Gervais today, when he was on the road two days ago, Gervais was normal, but as long as he saw these plants today, it became strange.
In their opinion, these plants are very ordinary, not to mention this wild fruit, at least they can still be eaten, maybe the baron likes to eat this wild fruit, it is better to understand. However, the 'weeds' on the carriage were scratching their heads, and they couldn't figure out what they could do with a strange smell that could make their own baron so happy.
Of course, Gervais didn't know about Laurie's troubles, and even if he did, he wouldn't explain it to them now, could he tell them that garlic could be minced? So what is minced garlic? It's scary to think about.
As a lord, Gervais did not need to explain anything to others, so when he saw the vines, he did not say anything, but returned to the resting place, and continued to sit and eat the grapes.
After resting, Gervais and his party began to hurry again, heading towards the buffer zone.
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The town of the Marina was very lively at the moment, and unlike the scene yesterday when Gervais arrived, there were about four or five hundred people gathered in the town square, at least half of the town's population.
These people all gathered in the square, although they were dressed in tatters, but at the moment they were talking happily one by one. There are three main topics they chat about.
The first one, of course, is that they have a lord again, and this news has actually spread on a small scale last night, all of which were spread by 18 serfs who went to clean the castle, but because when they came back yesterday, it was getting late, and only their neighbors knew about it, knowing that this morning, people were shocked to find that there was something more in the square of the town, and the news spread widely while onlookers.
The second thing is the extra stuff in the town square. The square of the town is located on the main road in the center of the town, although it is only a mud floor without a floor, but the area is very wide, at least more than 600 square meters, at this moment in the center of the square, a wooden stake is erected, there is a person being hung on the stake, as the summer wind blows, the junction of the rope and the stake makes a rattling sound, and the person who is hanging is Benny's subordinate who was killed by Ike.
As for the third thing, and the one that people talked about the most, just now, Thomas stood at the front of the square, on a high platform made of huge stones, and announced something that moved the hearts of the serfs. That is, the lord is going to recruit male and female servants, and there will be an open recruitment tomorrow, and anyone who meets the conditions can participate.
The recruitment requirements are not high, and the age range of male and female servants should be between 14 and 25 years old, be in good health, have good facial features, and have no odor on their bodies. The only condition for a maid is that she must be unmarried. As for the manservant, if he meets the previous rules, he can come to the selection tomorrow.
"I heard that our lords are very generous, yesterday they only went to clean for an afternoon, and they received 3 copper plates."
"Really? Who did you listen to? How could a noble lord be so generous? ”
"Shhh
"It's true, my friend of his second uncle's son next door went to clean the castle yesterday, and I heard that he really got 3 copper plates"
"Yes, I've heard too, it seems that there are two more people who stayed in the castle as valets!"
"I'm so lucky, why did I go to work in the fields yesterday, if I stayed in the town, maybe I would have gone to work as a valet in the castle"
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"Why was this guard the only one killed by the lord? The captain of the guard should be killed! ”
"That's right, how pitiful that girl is, so ruined by them! The captain of the guard should be killed! ”
"Shhhh
"Wow, no, now that the lord can be the master for us, what are we afraid of him for?"
"Bah, these noble lords don't know that they like the captain of the guard the most like the wicked people, only in this way can they squeeze us hard, if the lord is really the master for us, why don't you kill the captain of the guard together?"
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"Thea, I want to be a maid in the castle, do you think they will choose me tomorrow?"
"I shouldn't be able to choose, you have so many freckles on your face."
"Hmph, ignore you, what if the lord likes freckled girls!"
"I have to go to the mountain village today and tell Dean the news, if he can be chosen to be the valet in the castle, the situation of the aunt's family will be better"
The whole town, everyone was talking, whether it was good or bad, but the arrival of Gervais did make huge waves in this territory.