The ingredients for the fried chicken were ready, but Lawrence counted the days carefully and found that there were still a few more days to wait.

Last year, it was not time to make a wish for the fried chicken festival, and it was after planting peas.

Now that the peas have just been harvested, it is necessary to tidy up the fields for a while before planting.

This year, there was no rotation in the wilderness, and next year we will plant something else in the pea field depending on the situation.

Lawrence chops wood outside the wood room, chopping pieces of wood into pieces of wood that are easy to burn.

Sariel and her men are tanning the skins, cleaning the blood-soaked skins.

Sophia led her two dogs and watched the farmers loosen the soil in the fields.

"Wang!"

As soon as a rat emerged from a potato field, it was spotted by two fat dogs and rushed up quickly.

The vole scrambled to hide back in the hole, but the people around him quickly beat him with sticks.

The rat that had been hit did not dare to continue running into the hole, but ran towards the open area in a panic.

Soon the two dogs chased after him and bit the fleeing vole, and the honest dog's face exerted serious strength, and he shook his mouth a few times and bit the vole in his mouth half to death.

At this time, another rat ran out of the ground, and Sophia quickly shouted: "Quick! Grab it! ”

The two dogs quickly spit out the mouse in their mouths, scurried through the damp dirt, and soon pounced on a vole that was about to escape.

Lawrence watched the movement and walked over to the half-bitten voles to look at the mice.

The rats on the ground are not very large, and they are only more than eight centimeters including their tails.

Rats in cold regions are smaller and less scary than those in the temperate tropics.

Both dogs are descendants of snow dogs, with fluffy hair, and now they are more than a meter tall before they are even a year old, and their strength is almost catching up with the average child of seven or eight years old.

In terms of personality, he is lively and active, and he has to run around every day to find something to do, and he will bite the rope when he is tied there.

Lawrence was watching the rat when a raven flew over.

The crow landed on the ground and curiously came over to check on the situation.

When Lawrence found out that it was his crow, he pinched the vole's tail and lifted the mouse up.

"Come here."

The crow quickly approached and stood more than a meter in front of Lawrence, as if looking at the vole, as if looking at somewhere else.

Lawrence put the vole down again.

The crow looked at Lawrence, then at the vole, and then at the other place.

After a few seconds, the crow came up and reached down to bite the vole that was still dead on the ground.

Crash~

The crow soon flew away again.

Lawrence looked at the crow that had been eating and running away lately, "Is this crow out there to feed his family?" Otherwise, I wouldn't have run out all day, and every time I would have walked out with food. ”

Sophia ran over and said, "I see, I saw this crow steal the haystack from which we built our house last time, several times!" ”

Lawrence was now certain that the crow did indeed have a home outside.

"That's fine, it's not good to live with us all the time, and when the number of crows increases, we will be lively here."

Lawrence didn't force the crow to stay, and since it was able to solve the continuation problem on its own, it meant that the outside was more suitable.

Sophia complained, "What are we raising crows like this? It won't do things for us. ”

Lawrence laughed, "I had very low requirements for that crow at the beginning, just come back here often." ”

"It's like a partner who meets occasionally, and it can't help much, but it looks cordial, and there is no too complicated relationship of interest."

"If we have more partners like this, it will be easier to be satisfied and more relaxed."

Sophia thought about it seriously, "I don't understand, it's good that I have the master and Sister Sariel now, I don't need too much." ”

Lawrence said proudly: "Sophia is just talking, we've been here for a year, and I remember when I first saw you, you were very thin, short, and your hair wasn't as smooth as it is now." ”

It's not been a year since the Fried Chicken Festival, but Lawrence and Sophia have known each other for a year.

Sophia looked at Lawrence, who was happy, and said with an equally happy smile: "Hmm! The host was so nice to me! ”

Lawrence said: "Although you call me master, you are certainly not a slave, and you will be the third in our family besides me and Sariel, and one of the mistresses of this manor." ”

"Hmm!" Sophia happily agreed.

EDI came over to report the situation.

"Master, now we have to harvest potatoes, and we have to water the ground loosely to prepare for planting peas, there are too many things in the field for the eight of us to be busy."

Lawrence said directly: "Let Mandekru and help you, he seems to have nothing to do." ”

EDI lowered her head and said, "These things are things that women do, and if he is allowed to do them, he will be angry." ”

Here in the North, some men have left farming to women and slaves, and are responsible for hunting and looting.

In winter, it is to drink and brag and sleep, especially in the past year, several robberies and harvests, so that many barbarians, including Mandekre, subconsciously reject farming and labor.

EDI was quick to say, "Let Seravon help?" ”

Lawrence said: "If Seravon is allowed to do it, Reglo and Mandelcrue will probably look down on him." ”

Lawrence thought for a moment and quickly said, "Well, let's harvest the potatoes first, and do the rest one after the other." ”

"Reglo is in charge of patrolling the surroundings, while Mandelcrwe and Salavin continue to build the warehouse."

"Let Colin and the three of them help you, you won't just teach them, if you don't do it well, you can use corporal punishment appropriately."

EDI said, "Yes." ”

Lawrence had already learned about the maids of the convent from Kenny, and none of the three maids were of noble descent of noble origin, and they had to work when they entered the convent.

I'm still the son of a baron! Don't you still work tirelessly?

Lawrence soon arranged for three maids to farm with the rest of the group.

At first, I was a little worried, thinking that the three maids would ruin the crops and seeds, and could not distinguish between weeds and crops.

But after standing at the window on the second floor and observing for a while, I found that I was thinking too much, and the three maids were obviously not so noble.

Although he often talks about aristocratic demeanor and elegance, looking at the skillful work of those three women, they must also be the little nuns who are often called in the convent.

If the monastery did not accept women from ordinary peasant families as nuns, then someone must have to do the work.

It's not that the descendants of the nobility don't have to work, and Sariel, the daughter of a berserker and a witch, works quietly every day.

If you want to be easy, you have to have someone to do the work for you.

The busy people in the field are all working for Lawrence.

Lawrence has not been idle, and has been working hard to ensure that everyone can be fed and clothed.

After another five or six busy days, the grass was still everywhere outside, and insects could often be seen, and ripe wild fruits could be collected from nearby.

However, the temperature has dropped a lot, and with an autumn rain that lasted for two days, everyone now has to sleep with an extra blanket.

Lawrence's Fried Chicken Festival has finally arrived!

On this day, before dawn, Lawrence got up early to exercise.

In the morning, I had a similar pork and mushroom stew and a piece of wheat bread.

Lawrence had three meals a day, and the serfs on the manor had two meals a day, and three meals a day when he was busy.

These days I was busy sorting out the pieces of meat on the wild boar, harvesting crops and planting crops, and I was busy with many things, so it was three meals a day.

At half past seven in the morning, when everyone was about to finish eating, they heard the barking of dogs.

The two dogs, who were gnawing on bones near the communal kitchen, quickly got up and ran to the door, barking incessantly outside.

Lawrence was killing chickens outside the house, and when he heard this, he handed them over to Saliel to wash his hands and go back to check on the situation.

The barking of the dogs soon stopped, and Lawrence found Emma standing outside the manor talking to Mandelkru.

EDI came over and said, "Master, it's Emma, she asked us if we wanted help here, she has nothing to do today." ”

"Let her in." Lawrence soon went back to killing chickens.

Sariel had pulled the neck of the chicken apart and dripped the blood into the bowl.

After a while, Emma approached this side.

"Mr. Lawrence, Sariel, have you finished eating?"

Emma smelled the meat, and she got up early this morning to hurry, but still missed breakfast.

Lawrence said, "Yes, we just finished eating, but there should be some left, do you want to eat?" ”

Emma nodded happily, "I just forgot to eat!" ”

Lawrence asked the maid to help with a pot of pork stew and wild vegetables.

Potatoes, peas, and pumpkins are all saved for the winter, so now the main thing is to eat wild vegetables that can still be gathered, and too much pork.

In addition to pork offal, Emma was given a piece of grey bread.

Emma said happily, "I'll help you kill the chickens, and I'll eat when I'm done." ”

Lawrence smiled: "You sit down and eat slowly, there are still many things to do when we finish killing the chicken, this bread is made of special ingredients, although it is not easy to swallow, but it tastes good, you can taste it." ”

"Good!" Emma quickly took a spoonful of the greasy broth with her spoon and took a bite of the bread in her hand with a smile on her face.

The salty taste and warm smell in her mouth made Emma chew all the bread in her mouth and swallow it into her stomach before she knew it.

"This bread is so good, what is it made of?" Emma was very fond of the bread and was sure it was not made of wheat.

Lawrence explains: "It's made from crushed pork bones, and there's a lot of marrow from the bones in it, and then some rye mixed in. ”

Rye is better to feed than wheat, but it tastes bad, is only suitable for fodder, and is usually eaten by the poor.

There was not much wheat on the estate, and some of it had been given to Delenn, and Lawrence himself had to eat bread, and the rest had to be used for the winter.

Even the Lawrence trio sometimes had to eat some rye.

For Emma, rye is a common food, but pork bone meal is different.

"Flour made from pork bones?" Emma felt the bread in her mouth smell even more fragrant, "No wonder it's so delicious!" ”

Lawrence saw that Emma liked it, so he said, "Don't worry, you haven't been here for a long time, how is the town lately?" ”

Emma quickly showed a depressed look, "The baron came, we paid taxes for another year, two chickens were taken from the family, and Doug also took eggs and a sheep to cook for the baron. ”

"They forcibly took five baskets of wheat from our family, and now we only have potatoes, pumpkins and fish at home."

Lawrence was not surprised that Doug was now short of warriors, and that there was a serious shortage of male warriors among the Bhumitheus to rebel against the Vakiri.

Doug himself has amassed a lot of wealth, so he is the one who is the least willing to clash with the Wakiri.

Give the wealth of the Bhumithes to Baron Avari so that the remaining Bhumithes will be more willing to go out and rob with Doug.

It's not a good thing for an ordinary Bhumishu like Emma to have two vampire bosses oppressed on it, and life is getting harder and harder now.

(End of chapter)