"Huh? How did the carriage come back? ”

"yes, why did Lily come back?"

When the carriage turned into the alley again, there were many more exclamations this time than when Thomas and the others had just arrived.

According to common sense, Lily will not be able to be sent back until tomorrow morning, and now in such a short time, I'm afraid I won't even have time to enter the castle, right?

The serfs in the houses on both sides of the alley craned their necks to peek hard, for fear of missing any details, and they were all curious about what had happened.

"Butler, Lily?"

The carriage stopped at the door of Jim's house, this time the door of Jim's house was not closed, and Abi's mother was now packing up all kinds of tables and chairs at the door with a sad face, and when she saw Thomas return with Lily, her expression was surprised and confused.

"Ahem!"

Thomas did not dismount, but sat directly on the horse, putting on a majestic look.

"Lord Lord said that you are the first serf family to hold a wedding after he became Lord of the Storm Wind, so in addition to the reward of one silver coin given to you in the afternoon, now I will also send Lily back, this is Lord Lord's amnesty for you!"

Of course, Thomas will not explain the matter of Gervais's cultivation of the exercises, but will make these serfs grateful and high-minded as the lord says, which will also save the face of his housekeeper.

"This ...... Thank you, Lord, for your kindness! ”

Abi's mother felt like a dream when she heard Thomas's words, but she still knelt on the ground with great amusement, and excitedly shouted thanks to Gervais's words.

Lily on the carriage over there had also been helped out of the carriage by the guards, and the whole person was no longer sluggish, and immediately after getting out of the carriage, she also knelt beside the middle-aged woman with tears in her eyes, and said words of thanks to the lord.

"Let's go!"

Thomas nodded at the two of them, didn't say anything more, and walked out of the alley with a group of guards.

"Lily, is that you? Lily! ”

When Thomas and the others walked away, an excited figure ran out of Jim's cabin, it was Lily's husband Abi, and when Abi saw Lily, he quickly stepped forward and hugged Lily, a little incredulous.

"Lily, how did you get back?"

"It was the lord who was gracious and pardoned Lily!"

Abiy's mother explained as she explained what Thomas had just said.

"Your Lord!"

After listening to her mother's words, holding Lily in her arms, Abi looked in the direction of the castle and muttered.

Although Abi still had a finger-wide bruise on his face, which was slapped by the guards with a long sword, but now Abi no longer held grudges at all, and all he had in his heart was incomparable gratitude to the lord.

……

Time passed, and in a blink of an eye, it was ten days after Gervais returned to the territory.

According to the scene of previous years, at this time in the Storm Collar, the serfs will be idle.

Because they have already harvested the wheat that is ripe for the summer, they can plant autumn seedlings elsewhere in the fall, but the storm collar can only plant one season.

However, this year's autumn of the Storm Territory has become different, and the serfs in the entire territory are surprisingly busy, even much busier than in previous springs.

Since nine days ago, the steward had issued a number of decrees, and all the serfs had taken action.

The first decree of the steward was to let all the serfs of the Storm Leader find and transplant vines, as many vines as they wanted, and after transplanting, the castle would register these vines, and more importantly, the steward promised to buy all the grapes next year, and the price was doubled.

This temptation led all the serfs to join the family, and even many of them did not return home at night, but wandered around the woods of the Storm Collar all day with dry food, trying to find more vines.

After more than a week of searching, the vines in the wild of Stormwind had gradually dwindled, and all of them had been transplanted to the front and back of the serfs' houses.

When the transplanting of the vines was almost complete, many young and strong men stopped searching, leaving only a few old and weak women and children to continue their search.

For these young serfs have something better to do, and that is that the lord is ready to build a house in Marina Town, and there are many, many houses!

On the outskirts of Marina Town, a large area of woods and weeds has been cleared, thousands of serfs and slaves have been working non-stop, large rocks have been transported here by horse-drawn carts from the sea, and then serfs and slaves have begun to build stone houses under the guidance of craftsmen.

The slaves' work was free, but the serfs' work was rewarded, and according to the steward, the merciful and generous lord gave them two choices.

The first option is that the serfs who participated in the construction of the stone house will receive a salary of 4 copper plates per day, which can be regarded as a real lucrative salary, you must know that in the past, even if the serfs wanted to do 2 copper plates a day, they might not find an opportunity in the storm collar.

However, the serfs did not choose to be paid for the four copper plates, because when they heard the second choice, they all chose the second without hesitation.

The second option is to participate in the construction of the stone houses for free, and when the stone houses on the outskirts of Marina Town are completed, the lord will help them renovate the houses for free, build new stone houses for them to live in, and provide the castle with a full meal of brown bread every day during the labor.

When they heard this, all the serfs in the entire Storm Territory were shocked, and this was tantamount to pie in the sky for them.

It was a stone house, and no one wanted to live in such a sturdy and magnificent stone house, so they all did not hesitate to go to the castle to register their names and addresses, and chose the second condition.

Of course, while those who worked were given the opportunity to build stone houses for free, the size of the new houses they would later receive was equal to the amount of labor they paid.

For example, a serf family with two laborers is larger than a family with only one laborer.

Another example, it is not allowed to be lazy in work, there are guards to supervise at any time, if anyone cheats and cheats, then the area of his house will slowly shrink, and laziness will be reduced at a time, as long as he is brave enough, there may be no new stone house in the end.

The reaction of the serfs to this regulation was mixed, with some rejoicing and some worried.

Because some serf families had more male members, but some families had more women, and women were not able to do such heavy physical work as carrying stones and timber, so they could not participate in the construction of stone houses as labor, and some families may not even have the opportunity to get free stone houses.

This matter was reported to the lord by the steward, and soon the lord had a new order, if some families were involved in the construction of less than two people, then adult women could participate in the construction of the stone house, and the woman could go to cut the thatch as the roof of the stone house, and also do logistics such as baking bread, and then they could also get a free stone house.

It was because of the lord's generosity that the entire serfs of the Stormwind Territory were in a state of busyness and excitement.