Mark's status as a farmer is only higher than that of a pure slave.

Of course, 80% of the people in this world are farmers, and there are also some merchants, craftsmen, and so on.

The rest are knights, lords, archdukes, kings, popes, and so on, with strict hierarchies, strict rules, and irreversible.

The lord is the absolute ruler of the area where Li Feng is located.

Mark leased a hundred acres of land from his lord, Baron Carwindy, one-third of which would be used for fallow, and the other two-thirds would be used to grow crops such as soybeans, oats, and rye, as well as a small amount of peas and pasture.

Although it will be fallow, the way people here grow is very backward, and it is basically free-range, resulting in a low return on seeds.

Li Feng has never seen a bad year, anyway, in a good year, a pound of seeds can receive 4 to 5 pounds of grain.

The harvest looks good, but half of it goes to the lord lord.

In addition, the church has to come to collect tithes, and if you don't pay it, the Lord won't bless you, and maybe one day you will die inexplicably.

You and I, after you are done, the rest will be able to ensure that the family will not starve to death.

However, the farmer's suffering was not limited to this, for three days a week, his father Mark had to do voluntary work for the lord, plowing, transporting, sowing, threshing until the barn, and going to the manor to do chores.

After finishing the work, he can drag his tired body and go to work in his field.

If volunteering can at least ensure the safety of life, then military service is different.

These lords in the Middle Ages had no concept of national unity, and they especially liked to fight, and they were still addicted to food.

For example, Baron Carwindy, who especially likes to fight with Baron Edward and Baron Bronk next to him, whenever this happens, his father Mark will be drafted into the army, standing at the forefront of the team, and being cannon fodder for the knights.

Died in battle, and all were eaten.

Oh no, I don't have to eat the seat, that's at least the treatment of the lord's mansion steward or above, and Mark's status is not worthy.

If you don't die, you have to pray to win.

Because there is nothing to lose, and if you win, you will be rewarded with a small bag of black flour (about one-twentieth of the total amount paid by the Mark family).

When black flour is made into brown bread, it is as hard as a brick, and the lord's family will not eat it, but it is a good winter food for the farmer.

If it's just that the land rent is high, the labor is heavy, and the military service is dangerous, the key is more than that.

People like them can be said to have no property at all in this world.

The law of the kingdom states that everything in this land belongs to the nobility.

And in Dia Territory, where Mark's family is located, everything belongs to Baron Carwindi.

The fish in the river, the beasts in the mountains, the rabbits in the fields..... A single piece of grass on the side of the road belongs to the lord.

If one day your crops are being spoiled, and you want to drive them away, you have to go to the lord's castle and ask them to give you this right, because the pigeons and the crops you grow are also the lord's.

Even, father Mark and mother Juliet, Li Feng himself, and his sister Elena can't leave this town, and they can't marry at will, because theoretically, they are also the property of the lord.

If you accidentally pick up a piece of firewood or a bird's egg on the road, or if you make a trap and hunt a few sparrows on your own mind, then sorry, you will either hand it in or collect taxes.

This tax is really strange, and sometimes it can be accurate to a bubble of pulled on the side of the road.

As a farmer's father, he was destined to be honest in farming, labor, and military service, and could not do anything else unless the lord was merciful.

"No wonder it's a cannibalistic world."

Li Feng complained silently, in comparison, the beginning of the Dragon Soul Continent can be described as heaven.

Suppressed to this extent, how can you maintain your reign for so long?

Didn't the peasants know that they had banded together and stormed into the castle on a dark and windy night to tear the lord's family to pieces, and came to open a warehouse to release grain, and to uncover the poles?

Maybe the answer is there......

Li Feng frowned, looking at the tall and sturdy castle, in addition to the lord's family, there were also knights with spears and heavy armor, armed to the teeth.

Look at my father Mark's malnourished and weak body.

I'm afraid that 10,000 people like my father together can't take down that tall castle with only twenty knights.

What's more, no one wants to take risks with someone like their father because of their long-standing resignation to hierarchy and fear of lords and other nobles.

"Take a step, look at a step."

Li Feng wants to grow up faster, and when those buffs are unlocked, it may be different.

........

It may be that the wind and rain have been smooth for a long time, and God doesn't think it's exciting enough.

At the age of seven, a rare famine struck.

There has been no rain for eight months in the whole town of Dia, the land has dried up, the grass has withered yellow, the river has dried up, and all the crops in the fields have died.

The picture seems familiar, but the disaster brought to Li Feng is unprecedented.

Every morning, the family drank rye porridge with a clear view of the bottom of the bowl, and lay on a straw mat all day, keeping their bodies motionless to minimize energy consumption.

Such days only lasted for a month, Li Feng had already walked tremblingly, panting weakly, and persisted for two months, his legs were weak and swollen.

The physical training has long been stopped, and the body is getting worse and worse.

If this continues, this game will have to end early.

He stood up and walked out, and the poor sister, with her little hand stretched out, shook it twice and hung down, perhaps she wanted to ask her brother where he was going, but she was so young that she did not even have the strength to speak.

There is a big river near the town, there are fish in the river, and there are some grasshoppers by the river, these things are rarely caught, and people don't know how to run when they see them, so Li Feng can catch them with his bare hands.

Living on the river, I finally had my fill.

As soon as he was about to bring two back to his family, he was caught by a colleague who secretly came out to catch a grasshopper and was ready to nibble on it.

........

By the river, there was a lot of people.

"My lord, without your merciful kindness, this damned pariah, who shamefully stole your fish and took your dead branches to make a fire by the way, I suggest that he be executed immediately."

Beside the lord, the short and fat butler Laudeno spat and pointed at Li Feng, who was kneeling on the ground, telling him about his crimes.

Li Feng wanted to struggle, but it was useless. A tall knight pressed against him, unable to move at all.

On the ground, the two fat fathead fish were not yet dead, jumping up and down to make the last struggle, and the crowd of onlookers was skinny, with vegetable faces, pale and dry lips squirming, swallowing saliva, and couldn't help but move forward.

"Rub~~" The cold light flickered, and several knights with tall stature, majestic physique, and heavy armor pulled out their long swords at their waists, and made these people take two steps back.