The farm, for the aristocracy, had a completely different meaning.

A nobleman who doesn't have a farm may or may not have money, but a nobleman who owns a farm is definitely very rich.

This brings us to what the farm represents, the farm is actually equivalent to all kinds of factories on the earth, such as grain and the like, a small part of the source is grown by those commoners, these grains feed most of the townspeople, but more food sources are noble farms.

In addition, there are fruits, winemaking, etc., which are basically linked to the farm, and the nobles who own a farm are equivalent to having an assembly line that can produce money.

However, the ability of a farm to "make money" actually depends on the aristocracy of management, some nobles have outstanding means, they can make unique goods, enhance the value of the farm, and some nobles can only rely on the old capital of farm production to earn some "hard money".

But even if it's just hard-earned money, it's enough to make the vast majority of nobles blush, and the value of the farm can be seen.

Of course, the farm is not owned by everyone, and the main sources of the farm are "inheritance" and "reward", which make the farm almost a symbol of the nobility.

Suppose that a merchant who was particularly wealthy bought a plot of land for himself and built a "farm", is this "farm" the same as the farm above?

No, it's completely different, because the premise of the formation of every farm is inseparable from three parts.

The first is that it is enough to protect oneself in the tide of monsters, and the farm is not like a town, which can rely on those heavy walls to block, so it needs more powerful "elemental mages" to garrison and defend.

Needless to say, the "huge" salary paid every year is completely impossible to bring in these "elemental mages" to take on the work of defense without a certain status.

As for Luxi's Spiritual Farm, some people may subconsciously ignore one thing, that is, in the Spiritual Farm, there is a small Holy See, a "Pope" and a "Holy Maiden", which is already 99% safer than 99% of the farms in the other world.

Second, there is a high tax to be paid to the host country, if it is a farmer's own farm, the annual tax needs to be paid as high as 50%-80%, if the profit from the sale of goods is not enough, it is completely a loss of money to do business.

The farms inherited and rewarded have the preferential treatment of "exemption from taxes", so in fact, the number of farms in the other world is not too much, and the status of those who can have a farm among the nobles will not be too low.

Third, it is a human being, even if it is a farm in another world, there are absolutely slaves who work, and in addition to the nobles who can "legally" buy and sell slaves without restrictions, such as merchants and the like, there is a limit to the number of slaves under their hands.

In other words, if you keep more than a certain number of slaves, you have to pay a tax, or a very high poll tax - for people who are not of the aristocratic class, the laws of the other world will always strike hard.

Therefore, most businessmen will adopt the method of "hiring", although it is necessary to pay wages to those "employees", but this is more suitable than paying taxes, and only need to set the wages relatively low to ensure sufficient profits.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the aristocracy opened a farm to make pure money, and the businessman opened a farm, which is all a place to spend money, and the money has not been earned, but there is a lot of loss.

However, even with all the strict requirements for non-aristocratic people, there are always people who can find "loopholes" in these regulations.

For example, if you spend some money to buy off a nobleman and put the farm in the name of this nobleman, although it is not a serious reward and inherited farm, you still have to pay taxes, but you only need to pay 10%-30% tax, which is the preferential treatment of the nobles.

Similarly, although a merchant cannot own too many slaves, he can give money to the nobles, and then borrow slaves from the nobles, and hire them to worry about the negative effects of overwork and exhaustion, but the borrowed slaves do not have to worry about this problem, at most they give the nobles an extra sum of money.

After all, a slave in another world is just a property that belongs to the master, whether he lives or dies, it is in the hands of the master.

Civilians are better than slaves, probably because of the ethereal "freedom".

However, you have to be vigilant against the attacks of monsters all year round, and from time to time you have to wander with your family, and you may not be able to eat two mouthfuls of food you grow all year round, and most of them are civilians who starve to death on the road.

Is it really much better than those slaves whose life and death are not under their control, but they don't need to hide from monsters and have a stable source of food?

Cross was filled with uneasiness, waiting for judgment from the other side, and they really had no other choice.

It can be seen from the size of their group that the most labor-worthy males are young and strong, and they all have their own flaws, and the only ones who can deal with the past are Cross and the young Iron Fang.

Darcy Village was willing to keep Cross, but Cross was the leader of this group, and he couldn't leave these companions who relied on him, and he was selfish and left alone.

Iron Fang is young, it is the time to grow his body, eating too much, not necessarily able to do much work, although Darcy Village for their pity and said that it is acceptable, but Iron Fang did not stay, because his sister is also there, he can't abandon his sister.

Tieya's sister is a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl, who is at an embarrassing age, saying that it is a child, it is no longer counted, but it is too early, and it takes two years to have a child or something, although the child daughter-in-law is good, but no one can afford to provide a person who eats white rice, how dare you do this without family conditions.

Another girl who is the same age as Sister Tieya can marry directly, but there is no young man of the right age to marry in Daxi Village......

In the end, there was only a widower whose wife died in childbirth, leaving a widow with a two-year-old boy in Wamuda Village, which can be regarded as a successful blind date.

After all, Darcy Village is only a poor small village of one or two hundred people.

Later, an elderly village chief of Darcy told Cross that there was a nobleman's farm to the north, and that if they wanted to become slaves on the farm, they might be able to survive.

Cross hesitated, not that he didn't want to be a slave, but for people like them, becoming a slave was not a "happy" choice.

But the point is, will this group of people, who even Darcy Village is unwilling to take in, be favored by the nobles on the farm?

The old village chief of Darcy Village shook his head, "The nobleman on the farm over there is an extremely kind lady, she has never had a tired slave under her hands, and she will distribute thick clothes to the slaves in winter, and even when the harvest is bad, when someone goes to the farm to beg, she will also give enough food. ”

Saying that, the old village chief of Darcy Village couldn't help but sigh a long sigh, "In the early years, there was a great drought, and the grain collected in my family's field could not feed the family, and my younger brother was only so old at that time, I was reluctant to let him starve to death, so I went to the farm alone, even if I became a slave, if there was less food in the family, my younger brother would have more chances of survival." ”

"But I didn't expect that the lady didn't take me as a slave, but just gave me a shovel and let me work on the farm for a month, and finally gave me two bags of grain for me to take home, and then our family, relying on those two bags of grain, all survived."

Cross looked shocked as he listened, "That's a kind-hearted lady. ”

The old village chief of Darcy Village's eyes flashed with water, but his expression suddenly darkened a lot, "Some time ago, that noble lady has passed away, and I heard that it is one of her granddaughters who inherited her farm, and she should be a young lady as kind as that lady." ”

Cross couldn't be sure, but they didn't have a better choice, not to mention the food that could support their journey, but they slept in the open every day, and they couldn't find a place to live, and their bodies couldn't stand it.

There are also monsters that need to be vigilant at all times, although there are few monsters around here because of the farm, but they are not completely absent.

As long as they encounter a slightly larger monster, their group of people has almost no ability to resist.

Therefore, Cross did not hesitate for long, and immediately decided, "What is that farm?" ”

The old village chief's eyes suddenly froze for a moment, but soon returned to normal, and his voice couldn't hear anything strange, "Spirit Farm." ”

The time was, five days ago.

After listening to Cross's relay, it was difficult to describe her feelings.

No, that Darcy village is hundreds of kilometers away from the Spiritual Farm, and the village is poor and backward...... How the hell did he know that the owner of the farm had died and had been replaced with a new one?

The most important thing is that it seems that it has only been seven days since Lu Xi named the farm "Lingyu", and in these seven days, Lu Xi has not been out of the farm, and no one else has come to the farm, how did the news of this name change spread???

Lu Xi really wants to find the old village chief of Darcy Village and ask, are you also an NPC?

However, the main reason why Lu Xi has been ignoring Cross is not this, but because of the system notification that suddenly popped up in front of her.

[System Notice: Congratulations to the player for completing the "Side Quest: Unknown Crowd" and obtaining the task reward "100 XP", and the next quest has been opened for the player.] 】

[Side Quest: Displaced People: The player met this group of people and learned the identity of this group of people, it turned out that they were a group of displaced people who had lost their homes, and players were asked to decide for themselves who this group of people belonged to. 】

[Quest reward: 200 experience points, depending on the player's choice to open the next quest.] 】

Choose...... What else to choose, Lu Xi sighed and touched her conscience, if she was starving to death at this time and couldn't even eat herself, then she would definitely not pay attention to this group of people.

However, her system backpack was full of food, and it took her ten minutes to plant and harvest enough food to feed hundreds of people.

And at this time, a group of hungry people who couldn't survive appeared in front of her, what else could she choose.

Cross waited anxiously for a long time before he let out a sigh that seemed to be delusional, "Okay, go and bring your companions." ”

The meaning in the words was self-evident, Cross looked up in surprise, and then came to his senses, and hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Lu Xi.

Lu Xi looked at Cross's naked upper body, and felt that it didn't seem good to let him go back like this, without the protection of clothes, it was easy to be cut by blades of grass.

So I searched around the system backpack and the contract package, and finally took a bathrobe out...... There were almost no clothes she could give Cross to wear.

However, the bathrobes produced by this system, there are several pieces in Lu Xi's backpack, which are from the clothing design drawings that he bought from the tailor Dai Wu before.

I can't believe that the bathrobe is also a type of exterior clothing.

But considering that many large online games still have "white inner library" appearance parties, the appearance of bathrobes does not seem very strange.

"Put this on and go back." Lu Xi chose a gray bathrobe and threw it to Cross, the bathrobe had a tie in the middle, and it was wrapped tightly, but it was a good coat, fluffy and very warm.

Cross subconsciously took it, touching the soft touch of the bathrobe in his hand, and he didn't know how to react for a while.

"By the way, how did you guess it was me...... Forget it, I got it. Lu Xi was about to ask, but as soon as he spoke, his mind turned a corner.

Don't look at the strength of the Lingyan Farm, which covers a small area, in fact, the area of hundreds of kilometers around it should be included.

Lu Xi thought she was out of the farm, but in fact, from other people's perspectives, she was having a picnic in the "yard" of her own house.

When I met a noble lady who was richly dressed and had an aura that was not an ordinary person at first glance, except for the owner of the Spirit Farm, there was no second choice at all.

Could it be that there will be aristocratic ladies from other families who run hundreds of kilometers to have a picnic on other people's farms?

Cross didn't hear what Lu Xi said, and was shocked by the dress in his hand, the material was soft he had never seen, just such a dress, and the money from selling it was even enough for their group to eat for a year.

But Cross definitely didn't dare to sell it, he looked up and peeked at Lu Xi, who didn't care about the clothes, and knew in his heart that this was a reward from a nobleman, and he didn't know what to do if he refused, so he gritted his teeth and put it on his body.

The soft, warm touch made Cross rub it a few more times, as if he wanted to keep the feeling in mind.

Lu Xi looked down at the red dandelion stalks in a place, where a patch of red dandelions originally grew, but the locations were scattered, and there were only a few dozen of them.

More than a dozen mature trees have been picked up and blown by her, only one stalk remains, and most of the rest have not yet grown, and the threat is not very big.

But also be careful of the red dandelion seeds that she blows out, who knows where they all land, in case they accidentally get on people......

You can still be a toy when you don't know, and after you know it, the goosebumps on Lu Xi's body can't go away for half a day, that's bloodsucking! It's scary!

Fortunately, she wore the elemental robe on her body, which had the effect of a protective circle, and those red dandelion seeds could not have close contact with her.

"Haven't you come back yet?" Lu Xi looked up at the sky.

Just now flying in the sky, when I was monitoring this group of people, I saw a monster.

There are only a few kinds of meat on the farm, and she misses the taste of the monster meat she met along the way.

So after saying hello to Lu Xi, Mao Miao ran to catch the prey, calculating the time, this should be back.

Mao Mao is a dragon with the attribute of the fire element, and when it comes back and lets it roast the surrounding area, when the group of ordinary people in the province came over, it accidentally got the seeds of red dandelions and was sucked blood.

The setting of the farm, I wanted to write it for a long time, but I never found the opportunity to write it completely.