Chapter 35: There is an old man in the family
After discussing the matter of the treaty, the Green Tree Prophet added another request.
"Our land is not suitable for farming, and we hope to buy grain from you and exchange three thousand baskets of wheat for resin and amber every year."
Lawrence has some knowledge of the Greenwood Kingdom, which comes from the rhetoric of various witches and dark elves.
What is the real Green Forest Kingdom, there is a window to understand intuitively right now.
"Yes, I have grown a lot of grain in the port of Flying Fish, and this year I will produce a lot of potatoes, and next year I will have more wheat grains, and then I can trade directly from the border."
The Green Tree Prophet didn't remember having this place, "Where is this?" ”
"It's the territory of the former blonde Mercia." Lawrence said of a landmark, "Now it is my territory, and it is a gift from God, and I have arranged for 4,000 people to plant there, and there will be a good harvest this year." ”
The Green Tree Prophet soon knew where it was, and realized that he could walk a lot less.
"Well, we're willing to exchange honey, gems, candles, and furs."
Lawrence nodded in agreement.
"I wonder how many of you there are, why don't you farm your own?"
The Green Tree Prophet was quick to say, "We have 100,000 people. ”
After a pause of a few seconds, the Green Tree Prophet continued, "Our doctrine is to protect forests and not to cut down trees at will. ”
Lawrence knew differently, the dark elves and Keharan and others all said that the elves did not love nature and did not destroy the forest, but because they were too tired to farm.
Coupled with the fact that the actual population is sparse and the forest cannot support too many people, the actual population should be about 50,000.
Elves prefer light work, and neither wizards nor witches like to do that kind of manual work.
The output of farming is too small, a handful of wheat can only be exchanged for three handfuls of wheat, and you have to process and preserve it yourself, it is better to eat the fruit directly, kill the prey that is easy to obtain, and rely on oak and pine nuts in autumn and winter, basically no problem.
Population is exaggerated for self-preservation, and in this time of barbarism, population numbers are extremely important.
Lawrence did not debunk the other party's lies and looked directly at the other party's words.
"There is no problem with the matter of food, and I agree to sell food to every country that needs it, so that everyone can have enough to eat, and it is something that God is happy to see."
"I have a request, too."
The people of the Io Kingdom and the Green Forest Kingdom all looked at Lawrence, waiting for Lawrence to make a request.
Lawrence said seriously: "There are many children in my territory, and you all have many children there, and I hope that each country will send a few people to me who take care of the birth of the child and treat the child." ”
"Gather the methods and knowledge of all of us to find the best way to care for pregnant women and children, and develop a perfect guiding procedure, which will be of great benefit to both the royal family and the nobles of each country, as well as to ordinary people."
"I am responsible for their food and drink here, including three meals a day and afternoon tea, all kinds of bed sheets, toiletries, clothes and other things, as long as people come, I will provide everything else."
"I can go back whenever I want, and I will send them home safely and pay them to keep their families alive."
This request is not excessive, and there are no opinions on either side.
Originally, there was very little communication between countries, and they were reluctant to interact with unfamiliar countries.
Even two neighboring countries can become strangers because of territorial disputes and feuds.
The combination of distance and communication difficulties caused everyone to be reluctant to go far away, and the nobles were also closed in their own territories.
Lawrence broke the semi-closed state of the West and forced them to unite.
Now that he has the right to speak, he can put forward constructive suggestions for cooperation and exchange, which has naturally been affirmed by the rest of the kingdoms.
If the fist is not hard enough, no one will listen to what is said.
At this time, suddenly a woman asked, "What is afternoon tea?" ”
Lawrence looked at the woman, a beautiful woman with long, wavy blond hair, who looked very young, probably less than twenty years old.
His face is clean and free of any dirt, he has blue eyes like glass beads, he has a girlish desire to learn, and he exudes an innocent aura that attracts others to sin.
Wearing a simple gray long skirt, a thick linen belt is simply tied around the waist, setting off the turbulent waves in front of him.
Lawrence asked, "Who is you?" ”
The woman didn't answer, and bowed her head uneasily.
Elder Greentree introduced the woman.
"She's Finn, the witch of the East, and she and her family have taken refuge in our tribe, and I can't protect them, so I hope this place will give them a place to stay."
The east of the Green Tree Kingdom is the south here, and the west and the south were originally opposites, but later the south shattered the west, and the north went south to shatter the south, and the south designed to assassinate the leader of the north.
Now that Lawrence is emerging as the overlord of the North, the Church in the South is also devouring the surrounding powers, and the West is also uniting.
"If you are willing to obey my arrangement and serve me, I can agree."
Finn said happily, "I am willing to obey your orders, and my family!" ”
Lawrence didn't mind protecting a few more people, and quickly said to Emma, "Prepare for afternoon tea." ”
"Yes, master." Emma quickly went down to prepare.
Within a few minutes, the maids brought cheese, honey bread, toffee, milk, turnips, cooked beef, etc. for everyone to enjoy.
Lawrence talked a little more about cooperation, and then arranged for the men to rest.
While Lawrence was in the office dealing with the income and preparation of the accounts, as well as the goods sold to these people and the conversion of money, Sariel and Catherine walked in with several women.
Lawrence smelled the woman's scent and looked up at the few people who had just walked in.
In addition to Sariel and Catherine, there is Candace, all three of whom are armed.
Lawrence quickly looked at Finn, who was holding an infant baby and a poor little girl of three or four years old wearing only a burlap vest and shorts.
Not only that, but there were two women standing next to Finn.
A man who looked to be in his early thirties, with long straight blond hair and a mature figure, slightly gray skin, wearing some dirty gray peasant clothes, and a handsome face that revealed exhaustion.
One looked thirty-five or sixteen years old, with long silver hair like a waterfall, fair skin as delicate as jade, amber glow in his eyes, and a hooded robe.
Finn quickly knelt down with the child in his arms, and the two women next to him also knelt down, and the three or four-year-old girls also learned to kneel with the adults.
"Master!" Finn happily confessed the Lord.
Lawrence put down his pen and looked curiously at the woman beside Finn.
"Who are they?"
Finn knelt straight and said, "What I have in my arms is my daughter Lolita, and the child next to me is my daughter Clara, they are all my children, fifth-generation witches. ”
"I'm the fourth-generation witch, and this is my mother, Yulia, the third-generation witch."
"And my grandmother, Aisabel, a second-generation witch."
Lawrence looked at the group of people, frowned and asked, "What is your witchcraft ability?" ”
"......No," Enfen carefully explained, "My grandmother is a half-blood witch, but she doesn't have the ability to awaken......"
The ability of a wizard can only be transmitted alone, but if the child born does not have the ability to awaken, in fact, this ordinary offspring can reproduce normally.
Most wizards, especially witches, do not accept the fact that their children are mortal, and usually kill and regenerate one instead of allowing the ordinary person to reproduce.
These are not ordinary people, although they have no ability, but they have inherited the longevity of the elves in terms of lifespan, and they look very young.
Aisabel's face was calm, "When I was young, I was protected by my mother's enemies, and fled from the Green Forest Kingdom to the East, marrying the Grey Elves. ”
"I set up a family there and also ran a flower shop and a drugstore business, Yulia and Finn were both married to the knights of the manor, and last year the Church men broke into our manor and killed our men."
"I ran away with my children, and my mother sent us here."
Sophia smiled and said, "Isn't that the waste witch?" ”
Lawrence glanced at Sophia, this guy has been getting more and more beautiful recently, but his personality has become more and more crooked, and he has become more and more like a witch.
After being looked at unhappily by Lawrence, Sophia quickly became honest and pretended to be a good baby.
"Then you start with my maid, stand aside and wait, and I'll go home when I'm done with what I'm doing."
Lawrence's favorability of these witches is getting worse and worse, these witches are lazy, greedy for life and afraid of death, selfish, and have first-class escape skills.
"Yes, master!" Finn finally reassured, stood up and stepped aside.
Yulia and Isabel were also relieved, and the group ran around until they finally found a place to stay.
Soon Lawrence returned to Oak City with a few men.
Lawrence rode a unicorn in the middle of the group, with Sariel and the others in front of him, and Candace and the others leading the ox cart to pull a large amount of goods back.
Finn hugged her youngest daughter, Lolita, and her eldest daughter, Clara, followed her buttocks.
As she walked, Clara was curious about the place full of green wheat sprouts and vegetable patches.
Her little hand quickly grabbed the wheat seedlings on the side of the road, grabbed a few and stuffed them into her mouth.
After chewing a few times and eating it into her stomach, Clara reached out to the flowers, berries, and all kinds of unknown things that she could touch as she passed by, and stuffed them all into her mouth to eat.
Poppies, mandalas, chrysanthemums...... As long as you can touch it, grab it and stuff it in your mouth.
"Ah...... Woohoo......"
Lawrence heard the little girl's cry and turned his head to see the little girl of three or four years old crying.
"What's going on?"
Sophia had been paying attention to the movements around her, and said with a smile: "Master, this stupid kid has been stung in the mouth by a bee!" ”
Lawrence quickly walks over the unicorn and notices that Clara's lips are swollen.
Finn saw that Lawrence was coming, and quickly became anxious.
"Master, please don't be angry, she won't cry right away, I promise!"
Lawrence looked at Clara's mouth as the little girl wailed and cried, the petals in her mouth fell out, and her lower lip was swollen with a bubble the size of wheat.
Lawrence pulled out the orange candy he usually eats to decompress and placed the candy cube in Clara's mouth.
"Tell her not to eat indiscriminately, I'll give you food when I get back, and now you all go and sit in the car."
Lawrence arranged for the incapable witches to sit on the ox cart.
"Keep walking, and make a sheep cart for travel in the future, otherwise the speed will be too slow."
The crowd quickly continued to set off, and Clara had already closed her mouth, curiously eating the sugar cubes in her mouth.
Moistened by the sugar cubes, the pain in the mouth is not so unbearable.
Lawrence realizes that his vision is too good, and it is indeed feasible to build a witch shelter, but his own ability is limited!
There are too many witches, and there are too many who don't work.
Not every witch is as industrious as Sariel, nor is she as hardworking as Catherine.
Most of the witches who escaped were a group of people who were not very willing to share the suffering, and they went wherever they could, even if it was to be slaves.
Sophia did the right thing, and she had to be ruthless!
Only those who have the ability will be treated ceremoniously, and those who are not capable must be given the lowest treatment, squeeze them fiercely, and let them know the fate of being slaves of the country!
Everyone soon entered the circular building, and after passing through the dark tunnel, their vision suddenly opened up, and they saw a five-story villa under a big tree.
Lawrence condescendingly looked at the three, two, and five waste witches.
"From today onwards, you are all my slave girls!"
"The five of you can only live in one room, and you can only eat the leftovers we eat for three meals a day in the future!!"
……
Three hours later, the three women living in a clean, bedded and squatting toilet still felt incredible.
The young lady Yulia wondered, "Are the maids here living a noble life?!" ”
Isabel was also puzzled, and had heard the legend of this place when she was in the Southern Kingdom, only that it was a bitter cold place, poor and barbaric.
But when I was eating just now, I had to eat slowly and in small bites every day in the Southern Kingdom, and Esabelle, who had to prevent eating impurities in the bread, actually ate whole wheat bread.
Even in addition to bread, there are all kinds of meat and delicious foods that I don't know, although they have been eaten a lot by the owners, but what is left is still so that the four generations of ancestors and grandchildren who have never seen the world seem to have gone to heaven.
Finn lifted his shirt to breastfeed the child, "Lolita, we can eat a full meal in the future~"
Clara walked over to the toilet and looked inside curiously, "What is this for?" ”
"That's the toilet." Tim walked in with his clothes and introduced to the little girl: "I'll give you clothes, you will be the new maid in the future, I'm Tim, I've been a maid here since I was a child, and my mother is also a maid here!" ”
Tim puts his clothes on the bed and is happy to see Clara.
"I'll introduce you to this place, and we'll go to the shower after the master and the head maid of Candace have taken a bath, and we can't run around at night, and we can't go to the master's room when the master doesn't call us."
"We have no men here except the master, so we are not allowed to close the door when we sleep, and the master must obediently do whatever he says, and say: Yes, master."
Tim quickly introduced the witches to the unseen witches how to use the toilet, as well as the time to take a bath and eat, and the time to get up in the morning to work.
"This is paper, wipe your butt after going to the toilet, and then cover the squatting toilet with a wooden board."
"Oh, by the way, you have children here, you can close the door when you go to bed at night, otherwise it will be bad to make noise to others."
"I'll go to Mom and get you some diapers."
Asabel, Yulia, Finn, and Clara all realize that they have come to a happy country.
Emma and Bull soon come in.
Emma looked at these beautiful women, and her sense of crisis became stronger and stronger.
The addition of Candace and others has alienated Emma and others from Lawrence, and now it feels like a lot of new beautiful women are added every once in a while, and Emma, who is in her twenties, feels in crisis.
"I'm Emma, the master's first maid, the master asked me to come over to verify what you all know, the Star Church doesn't raise idlers, if you want to live here, you have to work!"
"How many languages do you speak?"
As the eldest beautiful witch, Isabel quickly realizes that surviving here is worth it.
"I speak five languages, as well as Grey Elf and Io."
"In addition to language, I can keep bees and take care of flowers, and I can also prepare slow potions to heal wounds, and Yulia and Finn have also learned from me."
"I know four languages, Greenwood, Norrison, the language here and the Grey Elves, as well as tailoring and writing, and some of the Grey Elves' bloodline, so I can serve my master," Yulia said. ”
Emma looked displeased, as did Bull.
There are real gray elves here, that is, dark elves, so Yulia's gray elf bloodline is useless here.
Finn thought of something and looked happy.
"My grandmother, Aisabel, also takes care of the children, and she and I deliver my daughters herself, and the master has said that she needs such a pharmacist, and she is."
Emma looked at Asabel, there was indeed a lack of pharmacists here.
"Is she telling the truth?"
Isabel thought that her granddaughter Finn would be taken seriously, but she didn't expect that she would be the first to be taken seriously.
"Yes, I can do this, I will have a medicine to cool down the body of the little one."
As a nobleman, Aisabel will not go to see ordinary people, nor will she take care of other people's children, let alone be a pharmacist, so few people know that she can do this.
Finn would have fewer people and could only work as an assistant to his mother and grandmother.
Clara and Lolita don't need to be counted, and Emma quickly tells Lawrence what she has gotten.
Lawrence, who was preparing to go to bed, instantly fell asleep when he heard that Ishabel would know!
"Give Isabel a separate room and give her whatever she needs!"
"As long as she can come up with those two healing pills that work as well as she said, I will raise her for the rest of my life!!"
(End of chapter)