Chapter 9 Family, Town, State

Sariel followed down from upstairs, and while Lawrence was thinking about intelligence oversight, Sariel opened her mouth again and talked about various things.

"Emma often goes to the town these days to see um and um is a ......," Saliel thought for a moment and said, "a bit like a child like Seravon." ”

Timid, doesn't like to fight, is honest and quiet, doesn't look strong, and is pathetic not very smart, doesn't like to talk, can't speak.

Even Lawrence, who used to be in the past, is not weak in his mouth, and will praise Sariel and flatter Andrew and others.

um can't work, can't brain, can't fight, spends his days messing around, working in a church that doesn't require any skills.

Lawrence's mind also shifted from the intelligence agency and the mountain climb to the Um business.

"The goalkeeper job pays well, and actually a lot of people want it." Lawrence said: "Emma is right, I don't think everybody is fit to fight, and not everybody is suited to be a businessman. ”

"For most people who can only be farmers, the job of a church janitor is very decent."

Lawrence also admits that Um, like most, is not good.

The best ones are all ten deaths and lives, and they are screened from the extremely evil environment of the Ice Land.

um and Beoff belong to the same generation, and their generation can grow up healthily, either by strength or luck.

Two or three years after Tim, that is, two or three years after the integration of Bhumixiu Town and several nearby towns, the children have grown up in protection, and they do not need to go through such cruel screening and elimination.

Sarriel asked, "How about I get um and Seravin's daughter married in a few years?" I think it's good, Salavin will definitely like um this kid. ”

Lawrence felt that he wouldn't, and Seraven especially hated himself for being weak.

Now that he has a position of power, and has been serving as Viscount Sirdle since the spring, Seravon will definitely not like Um, and maybe someone will always point at Um and say, "Look, Lord Viscount used to be a soft egg like him."

"I think that since um and Frys's children know each other, and they both live in the town, they should get along better."

Lawrence had a rough plan, but it didn't have to be that way.

Sarriel thinks it's not good, "Fryce doesn't like um, um is not strong and doesn't fight. ”

Lawrence pondered the possibilities, analyzing the strengths and weaknesses one by one.

"That's right, but according to Frys's character, he won't deliberately embarrass um who he looks down on, and um is not the kind of child who makes trouble, even if Fryce doesn't like it, he won't bully, and even take the initiative to help him avoid some trouble."

Barbarians also have the arrogance of barbarians, and Fryce usually has nothing to do to fight and bully, mostly in taverns and barracks, not in towns.

Rabbits will eat the grass next to the nest, but most people will pay attention to their reputation and reputation, and it is impossible to have a face for everything, but it is not shameless for everything.

There is also a mentality that I can bully, you can't bully, and this mentality is especially obvious in the barbarian tribe.

As a descendant of the members of the starting family, um joined here earlier than Fleiss, and Frys and the others naturally had the instinct to maintain the reputation of the "meritorious group", and there were also village party members like Beoff, and elders like Emma Bur Aali.

It doesn't matter if Fryce looks down on him, but he won't be bullied, and he won't have nothing to do with this kid, and he will admit it when he marries his daughter, and there is more than one daughter anyway.

Sariel doesn't have that much knowledge of history and doesn't know the various interests that um can represent, she only thinks that um is not a popular teenager and does not fit the attention of traditional women.

"If you go and say it, Fryce will definitely agree!" Sariel looked at Lawrence with a smile, this matter could be easily settled as long as Lawrence arranged it.

Lawrence also knows this, and at this time he thinks about all kinds of things inside, and he will not easily decide this matter related to the happiness of others.

Arranged marriage...... In fact, in this feudal era, arranged marriages were a good thing for a boy like um who was not good at words and did not attract girls' talent and charm.

"um has at least a decent job and is usually paid." Lawrence thought for a moment and proposed, "Let Emma remind Um that when Gurney goes to church to pray in the future, let Um show her, they are about the same age, and they can play together if they have food and drink." ”

Sariel wondered, "Is that all it takes?" ”

"That's it." Lawrence nodded slightly, lowered his head and gently took a sip of sweetened milk tea.

Salyl looked at Lawrence drinking tea, raised her head and shouted to Finn next to her, "Bring me a cup too." ”

"Yes, Lord Sariel." Finn, who thinks she is Lawrence's exclusive maid, is a little upset, but reluctantly pours the tea.

Sarry, unaware that she had done something that made Clara's mother uncomfortable, happily took it after Finn came over with a teacup and drank the milk tea that only the hostess and the man could drink.

Lawrence continued to think about things.

In this era, materials are still very poor, and the standard of living at home does not represent the rest of the people.

From beginning to end, the standard of living of one's own family is to be seen, and to people outside, it only represents the extent of one's own family.

In the castle, Sophia eats more than ten times better than the little maids, and little girls such as Heidi Clara and Lolita rarely eat snacks, and the meals they eat every day are bread and rice porridge, which they can eat when they want to eat after work.

The people of Phumixiu Town have just reached the point where they can eat enough, and even the children of nobles like Fleiss do not have the exaggerated level of snacks and refrigerators in modern society, and now the children of the Fleiss family still have to work, and they can't eat meat every day.

Sugar can only be eaten at a few times, such as during the Chinese New Year.

Candy has always been a military necessity, and after the creation of sugar beet, sugar in the Cold Lands is still a luxury consumable in high demand, except for the use of the hostesses of the castle, the rest is stored in preparation for war, or sold at a high price to merchants from various countries.

Sugar is a very precious luxury, and it makes sense that it can be liked by the elderly, children and women alike.

In addition to providing energy, it can also be used to detoxify, relying on sugar to break down harmful substances and then replenish the missing energy.

In the era of 1:3 sowing and harvesting, people were so busy with various things every day that they did not have the time and energy to find sugar, which required a lot of fuel and utensils to make it.

There is also the lack of corresponding crops, which is the most critical factor, in the era when sugar cane and sugar beet are not popular, sugar is the spice of profiteering.

There are shops in the town and in the port that sell fructose, which are luxury goods, and being able to afford it does not mean that you are willing to buy it, and only a few times you will buy some for your family.

The main ones who had money to spare were soldiers and craftsmen, as well as a very small number of businessmen.

Soldiers have pensions and rewards, and they will be rewarded for two or three months after they are born and die, which is why they are willing to protect the assets of the nobility and hand them over to Lawrence when they are fighting and plundering, and Lawrence will never treat them badly when he is just and benevolent.

The craftsmen are mainly technical experts of all kinds, and these people have already established families, and they have many in their lifetimes, and their salaries are less than those of soldiers, and the rewards are less, but they are enough to feed a family of a dozen people.

Artisans generally have one or two more wives than warriors, and the size of their families is generally three or four times larger than that of warriors.

These people rarely spend money to buy candy for their children, and more often can't stand the nagging of women, or buy candy for pregnant women who want to eat.

Life is significantly better than in the past.

Compared to this era, this is already very good, and in this era, a young man with a working salary is actually very rare, and the employment in the town of Bhumixiu is scarce, and most of them are still soldiers and farmers.

Money is plentiful and things are close to home, and Lawrence doesn't think um is in poor condition like Sariel and Emma.

Even for the children of Bifrys and Salavin, um is doing well.

Fryce had eight children, Seravon had ten over the years, and now nine have survived, all of them children of EDI and Torrevi (the shepherdess).

um is not as stressed as the rest of the children, and is often taken care of by Emma, and can go to the tavern's hostess Al Ali for a good meal, or have some preserved wine and fruit after a feast with the nuns of the convent.

If it's with the fat girl Gurney, Lawrence thinks that as long as Fryce doesn't force it, Gurney and um will get along well and will be willing to play with Um.

um also had no savings, and the land and houses were all provided by Lawrence, and there was not so much elaboration in this era.

If you can't get along in the future, then divorce, anyway, divorce is not uncommon.

Lawrence walked to the floor-to-ceiling window leading to the side door with his teacup in hand, looking out at the courtyard through the precious glass.

Almost ten years have passed, and now I have begun to think about the marriage of the children.

After um came Tim, and after Tim came Kane, the children who were born in the second year of his arrival in the land.

Although I have been waiting for the children in the territory to grow up quickly, I have always thought that when the first batch of Bhumixiu children grow up, this place will be really strong, with a steady stream of warriors, and then enter a period of rapid development.

But now that this time was approaching, Lawrence, who had walked to the cold window, suddenly calmed down and found that he had overlooked a lot of things.

By that time, I was not small......

Lawrence looked at the dark sky outside, at the not-so-bright stars, as if he had returned to the snowy night he had spent in the cottage with Sariel and Sophia.

Lawrence pursed his lips and rubbed his hand lightly near his lips, but there were no obvious signs of beard, and his blurred face on the glass was still young.

Twenty-five, no, just twenty-four, and next year will be twenty-five.

Lawrence looked in the direction of the snow-capped mountains again, and gradually felt a sense of urgency, even if he could live to be ninety years old, twenty-five years old was only one year.

Between now and the age of thirty-five, it may be the most youthful and energetic time in my life!

Lawrence suddenly thought about inconsequential things again, "I feel that I have been stronger and more energetic in these years than when I was eighteen, and the peak period of my life is definitely not seventeen or eighteen, but thirty?" ”

In any case, many things have to be done while you are young.

Lawrence said to Finn, "Finn, go and call the tailor, I need a thick and warm coat, it should be warmer than the previous one, it is better to extend it, you call her over, I will explain it to her." ”

"Yes, master." Finn quickly went to deliver the order, told Lawrence the maid not far away, and then returned to Lawrence again to wait for the order.

In addition, the maid went to inform the seamstress who lived outside the Circle Building.

The seamstress's shop is in a circular building, and there is a shop in the building, and the entrance to the shop is a counter and lounge with clothes, a room for sleeping and cooking, and a studio for working with the helpers.

There are many tailors and apprentice tailors gathered in the tailor's shop, and when the years are good and the problem of eating is solved, the idle people begin to have various outlets and developments.

In the past, everyone had to spend a lot of time getting food, whether it was looting or farming.

The output of the land is very limited, and the output of the land is also limited, which leads to the need to work constantly to feed and survive.

The food problem still exists, and most people still eat bread instead of whole wheat bread.

Don't pay attention to eating well, but eat enough first and then say, especially high-yield crops such as potatoes solve the basic problem of food and clothing.

Because of the small population, many things are easy to solve.

If there are more people, more land will be needed to solve the problem.

Land is a country's blood, combat effectiveness, and economic base.

Dynasties that can expand their territory have lasted for a long time.

The Land of Stars has not had to worry about land for at least a century, and now it has enough land and technology to solve the food problem of millions of people.

Lawrence thinks about the external situation, several kingdoms can cooperate, and these kingdoms have some high-energy talents.

It is not scientific to let a sorcerer serve the work of mortals, and to think that mortals are dominant.

If talented people are rigidly bound to the position of serving others, and do not get substantial benefits, then it is easy to jump back.

If he is an ordinary person, he has crossed the class, and it is difficult to be an ordinary person after he has strong strength.

In some engineering terms, in this era of lack of large mechanical equipment, the energy of one wizard is at least equal to a hundred ordinary people.

If the bloodline is used to suppress the descendants of wizards, and the technology is used to threaten these superpowers that they must be dogs for mortals, then this is an extreme idea in itself.

Lawrence feels that several allies have great existential value, these countries are not his own countries after all, and the two sides have a lot of time to slowly contact and accept each other.

The Wizard Descendants are destined to fade away, and in the process, Lawrence is willing to provide a time of peace that both sides are willing to accept.

Descendants of wizards can rely on knowledge and technology to regain their voice, and ordinary people can also stand out with their talents and talents.

Just because a wizard learns quickly and can quickly reach the door of some realms does not mean that he can open the door of these realms and create a path of his own.

Now that this is possible, the fairness that most people need is already there, and there is no need to deliberately solve the contradiction between wizards and mortals.

Not allowing a wizard to ride on the head of a mortal is the greatest fairness to mortals. (End of chapter)