Chapter 39： Packing slaves

The Northumberland trade team consists of ten knights and thirty servants of the knights. The headed knight is called Raymond. It is because he called out the phrase to arrest the thieves and plant the lord. In other words, he was promoted. This time out, he will be the captain.

Captain Raymond Hi is very effective and urges everyone to rush to the first stop as soon as possible-Abruzburg.

There, they were going to visit the lord of Abruz. Of course, it was estimated that they could not enter the castle. No castle would let so many strangers in. It was a fortress.

According to Joseph's record, Abruze's manor planted a large amount of buckwheat, which was a plant from the Far East, and the Lord Lord valued it more. This crop is chilling and will die below minus temperature, but this is not a big problem, but winter planting is sufficient.

Buckwheat is a coarse grain like oats. Joseph described that the yield of buckwheat is not very high, but Cui Qichao knows that buckwheat likes moisture-Northumberland has water conservancy facilities; buckwheat is also sensitive to fertilizers, give it a little fertilizer, it Give you a lot of flowers-only Northumberland fertilization throughout the continent.

All in all, it is quite suitable for enriching Northumberland's crops. Alternate farming is required by Lord Lord and must be changed.

About five days after going out, the temperature reached minus and it started to snow. Fortunately, Raymond and others were wearing thick "Cui Jiaban" sweaters and capes, and wool socks on their feet, wrapped in leather boots, enough Protect them from the snow and cold.

It may be because of the snow that the trading team encountered the first thieves the next day, and here, the land under Northumberland had not even been released yet.

These thieves had little eyesight. They saw the trading team toasting and eating, and they didn't pay attention to the weapons and armors stacked beside the horses. The trading team easily subdued the 15-member thief group.

Further back, within ten days, three more thieves were collected!

They were all black people, and Raymond interrogated them. Most of them were in other territories. Farmers who couldn't survive this winter, took risks and robbed them.

"What kind of life is this year?" Raymond murmured. Under the lord's management, everyone just felt that this year seemed to be in good weather, with various harvests, and radishes grew bigger.

But out of Northumberland, farmers in outlying villages seemed to be suffering from pests. Many of these thieves were still free people, and still so. It can be seen how severe the reduction in yield caused by insect pests is. Moreover, the rainfall this year is abundant, but because there is no drainage facilities, the Jiaogan land has been flooded ...

The knights did not know how happy they were at this time. The Northumberland collar was just a baron collar, not particularly large, but the happiness index was so high. And because of their inconspicuousness, they have not suffered much harassment.

These days they feed these thieves with wild peas, but gradually they can't resist it. Finding dried beans from the snowdrifts is not a great waste of time.

"If you want to bring these guys back to the territory, you must feed them, but we haven't even arrived at Abruze!" Raymond whispered while toasting, "Moreover, there are already forty people here, There are more people than us, although they are full farmers ... do you notice their eyes? What if they go crazy? "

They lighted the fire to bake hot bread, the sausages on it were simmering in oil, and the thieves eating dried beans looked at them with green eyes.

Raymond felt that he couldn't continue this way. After reaching an agreement with the other knights, he stood up and said, "We don't kill you, because our territory still has a lot of cultivated land that needs manpower. So, if you want, I will Send a servant to take you to Northumberland. As long as you are willing to trust, Lord Lord will leave you and give you a meal. "

These peasant-born thieves all showed distrustful eyes. How could it be that there was famine everywhere and starved to death so many serfs, could there still be food to you? ?

——It has nothing to do with identities such as slaves or serfs. Being a free people can starve them like this. If the slaves can eat enough, who would not be a slave.

"Look at our bread!" Raymond had to show off his richness, and showed these yolks their food. "Which aristocratic bread have you seen that can still be baked with meat sausages? See clearly, this is not The sausage made from the water is pure pork! "

Fat and thin, you can see clearly!

The thieves were heartbroken. Anyway, now the mountains and rivers are exhausted. Where are they going to die? In case, their territory really has food?

Raymond tied the serfs to a rope and sent an attendant to lead them back.

From the next day, the soldiers split into two lanes, and the attendants took the direction that the thieves were in, and the others continued to Abruz.

Because of what Raymond said, the novice rogues who held their hopes did not make trouble, and they followed.

Raymond has since been grateful for his decision, because on the way, they have encountered several waves of thieves running for their livelihood. Really let the thieves accumulate less, maybe they can join forces to counter them!

Just picking people all the way and going back three times all the way, Raymond felt that he was not heard by his own words, so he must satisfy his desire to catch serfs for the lord.

...

So, at the other end of the Northumberland collar, Cui Qichao, who was making barley cakes, received the "courier" from the knights.

It was snowing in Northumberland, and people had less activity. Cui Qichao shrank in the castle all day and became bored, so he found something for himself.

The food in winter is too monotonous. Cui Qichao thought of a way to make the craftsman use a stone to make a frying pan, and heat it to the piping hot, so as to spread the pancakes.

Everyone in the kitchen watched Cui Qichao foolishly toast the stone. They thought, could it be that the stone can become delicious with the magical skill of Lord Lord?

It turned out that their brains were broken. After the frying pan was hot, Cui Qichao took out the barley flour.

This is Cui Qichao's preparation for Lili in advance. She took a spoonful and poured it on the oiled stone frying pan, stabbed, smoked, and the wheat aroma was revealed, so she had to spread out the flour. It became a cake the size of a face plate, spread an egg in it, spread some shredded vegetables, and a bit of minced sausage.

Seeing this step, everyone began to drool, they have not tasted the taste of pancakes, but everyone knows that the eggs and sausage are delicious!

Even Xiaobai started to circle around Cui Qichao's feet. Cui Qichao must not forget it.

Thanks to Cui Qichao's ability to control the temperature and time under such simple conditions, the pancakes were turned in time. The pancakes that were lifted out were fragrant, the skin was a little crunchy, and the eggs were wrapped in vegetables and crushed sausages. The interior is still fragrant.

Cui Qichao spread a few cakes with this original frying pan, stacked them and put them on a wooden plate. It was steaming, and the aroma was not enough to spread the entire kitchen, and it was passed to the outside.

The servant who ordered the order came in with the smell and said, "Shin Bernard brought back more than forty people and was outside the castle and asked you what to do."

Cui Qichao remembered that Bernard was a member of the trading team. To this end he also confirmed, "Is it red-haired Bernard?"

"Yes, sir."

Because everyone in the Middle Ages did n’t have a surname, and there were so many names, it is inevitable that there is a duplicate name. At this time, they are distinguished by characteristics. The old one, the small one, the one with acne and the like.

After confirming that he was a red-haired Bernard, Cui Qichao walked out while holding pancakes and asked, "How long has the trade team been here, how did he come back, and who are more than forty people?"

As Cui Qichao moved around, the person headed by the cook behind him couldn't follow him step by step, still staring at the pancakes ...

"Those are the thieves who were captured on their roads. It is said that most of them are from other territories with poor harvests this year. They are starving to death before coming out to rob."

"A captive?" Cui Qichao's eyes lit up. "Raymond, I really didn't read him wrong, and it took me long to go out before sending me back more than forty people."

Cui Qichao thought that if he knew this was outside, he would send someone out to gather those people. They did not have a famine in Northumberland, how good it is to come to open up wasteland!

There are only a few thousand people in a territory, dozens of them can be a lot, and a few more can be counted as one-tenth, a lot.

"Bring people in, I'm hungry. What can happen?" Cui Qichao sent a few knights to pick up people, and he was sitting at the table eating pancakes.

Xiaobai madly scratched his legs, wanted to eat, wanted to eat.

Cui Qichao stepped on his foot lightly, signaled that it was waiting, and there were still things to be resolved. Those people were still staring at him with burning eyes. He would never go back, or deliberately drop a piece for Xiaobai as before Right.

So, when the newly captured captive thieves were brought in, they saw that a noble master was eating food sprayed with incense.

It's not a meal yet!

And what this person eats seems to be noodles on the outside, but not like pie, it is thin, with vegetables and sausage in it, and the smell of eggs. Every time he bites, everyone stares at him.

Looking at this relaxed state, this noodle must be finely sieved, there is no gluten, and the cake made is also sprayed with soft and soft crust, and the hotness is definitely new.

Oh my god, they might have come to a place that did n’t suffer from famine,

The aristocrat whispered a few words to the attendant, and while eating the cake comfortably, he asked them, "Did you ever do farm work before? Would you like to stay?"

——This man is holding a piece of cake and asking if they want to stay. Who can say nothing? Besides, Raymond has already been angry with them.

Cui Qichao looked at the thieves who nodded madly, and said, "Let's go to the barn and work with Joseph and them."

Just a word of effort, without asking much, he pulled the person down, and those who didn't know thought it was pulled to death.

The people who came to Northumberland on a long journey were taken to the barn, where a group of people were already resting, led by Joseph.

Thanks to his contribution to the map, although he has not yet been completely free, he has risen a lot and is able to squat and chat with the slaves who care for them. The other companions, lying on the ground in a horizontal and rest position, were quite relaxed. At first glance, they took it home.

Most of these thieves were free people before. They had never been slaves. They were relatively unfamiliar with the pictures in front of them.

Although Joseph didn't know where they all came from, he didn't prevent him from recognizing that they were all new slaves. He greeted him enthusiastically for a moment: "Are you new slaves? Come, find a place to rest, and after a while I ’m going to trim the fruit trees. I can eat them before it gets dark. All of them give me strength! "

The new slaves slowly opened their mouths: before dark, eating dimly?

...

Cui Qichao sent the slaves back to his room with the remaining pancakes.

As Cui Qichao's prestige in Northumberland became higher and higher, he became more and more unscrupulous. No, he could cook at non-meal. For the era when shame was regarded as shame, it can be said that Very ridiculous lord.

Cui Qichao chopped the pancakes into small pieces and fed them to the cat. Due to the limitation of the times, he couldn't cook every meal exclusively for the cat. At this moment, who is not making a living.

Da Bai stared at the pancake, anxious to stand up, and put it on Cui Qichao's leg.

Before waiting for Cui Qichao's reprimand, Xiao Bai had slapped him on Dabai's head, and Dabai went out three meters.

Xiaobai took a careful look at Cui Qichao, wasn't this too much? I'm afraid Cui Qichao pulled out something to scare him.

Cui Qichao fed a few pancakes one by one, Lili came up to clean the plate, and there were some left, and Cui Qichao let her eat.

When Lily was growing her body, during the period of the castle, because her diet was more abundant than before, she not only became taller, her cheeks were plumper, and she looked much healthier.

Lily was sitting on the carpet, eating pancakes with big mouths, and big white and big oranges turned around her. Although it was a little cold, this special, crispy and tender texture made Lili feel happy.

"Master, my mother asked someone to give me a message and tell me to go home and see them when I have time." Lili said quietly.

She knew that her father and mother must think that she was working in the castle kitchen, and might be able to take advantage of it. After all, the master was generous enough to let the undressed person rent his woolen sweater.

But Lily wasn't happy. When she was arrested and tried, her parents didn't say a word, so Lili complained to Cui Qichao, "But if you can, don't say now, I don't want to go home after the spring comes. Leave me? "

She was really looking forward to this, not to leave home.

Cui Qichao looked at her for a while and calmly said: "If it is not in this era, you may all have different choices. But I allow you to stay home for the time being and work in the kitchen. Your rent and taxes are your own. Labor offset. "

At this time Lili didn't quite understand the previous sentence. She only knew that she didn't have to go back. This was the lord's own promise.

"Thank you, Master!" Lili hugged Xiaobai in excitement and wanted to hug him.

However, Xiaobai opened his eyes, revealing disgusting eyes.

Lili glanced at it with pity, Xiaobai was always so unloved, but Dabai and Tangerine, and she would not turn her face after eating.

After Lili left, Cui Qichao hugged Xiaobai and placed her face up on her knees. "What's wrong with your little sister hugging you, don't you take more baths than others?"

noob:"……"

I'm sorry to say that if it weren't for Cui Qichao, he stopped it.

"Isn't a cat supposed to like a gentler woman?" Cui Qichao held Xiaobai's face and looked at it, and his eyes moved down to a small place under Xiaobai's belly. It's different ... "

noob:"………………"

Cui Qichao only glanced at it, and calmly retracted his eyes. He did not mean anything else. He just thought, what kind of creature is Xiaobai? He didn't send out a threat in his last life. Is there no such need?

It's different in Xiaobai's eyes!

What does it mean to look away after looking at it? Little guy, who the little guy? !!

"Meow!" The fierce Xiaobai struggled.

Alas, why suddenly go crazy.

Cui Qichao held Xiaobai with one hand inexplicably. He is not Lily. Adult (full) males are willing to restrain a cat.

Xiaobai kicked his feet for a while, but he still couldn't break away. He leaned upwards, showing humiliating eyes.

Of course, Cui Qichao couldn't understand Xiao Bai's complicated mood. As soon as he turned his head, he poked his head out of the window hole and observed the place behind the castle.

This highland where Northumberland is located, outside the trench, there are some flat areas, and Cui Qichao is looking at those places.

Northumberland was just a baron leader. There were not so many rooms in the castle. The servants were all sleeping, the slaves still slept in the barn.

However, most of the animals are not in the castle, and the barns are so large. Now that there are so many slaves, how can they still live? According to the people in the castle, just find a floor and sleep for a while, but Cui Qichao didn't think so.

According to the news from Raymond, the harvest was not good this year, and the number of new thieves increased, and the floor could not sleep after that. Letting so many thieves change their careers, he was assured that the officers were not afraid.

Therefore, Cui Qichao decided to set up some houses on the flat ground outside to house the slaves.

In winter, just when everyone was doing housework, Cui Qichao and the stewards mentioned it. The stewards who thought they had been mentally prepared for the Lord's various words and deeds were shocked.

"How can a slave have his own house!"

"That's my house, it's just for the slaves." Cui Qichao patted the table. "In the future, I will have more and more slaves. The floor in the castle can't live anymore. Where can they live? Living by the farmland? Is that also necessary to build thatched huts, so that people have to keep it down? You are saying that the slaves learned the craft, let alone give them a chance to escape. "

Stewards: "..."

He was dead, the truth of the master is always so strange and difficult to refute.

Northumberland's case was not one or two. Rao is so. It is still amazing to live in a slave house.

They made the final struggle: "It would have to be surrounded by a high fence and guarded by police officers, otherwise what if fugitives appeared ..."

"Yes. Although I think it's stupid to run away, does anyone besides me give them so much food?" Cui Qichao thoughtfully said, "I don't think so."

Stewards: "..."

...

At first, the slaves didn't know they were going to have a house. They were ordered to level the ground behind the castle. The hillside behind the castle is particularly steep, less than a cliff, but it is basically difficult to get up and down.

The ground is tidy, the mud is solid, and there is logging. Of course, the slave's house was not very good. The wood was only used for pillars. The middle was woven with rattan, and the gap was covered with mud, not even the lime. The gaps in the roof wood were paved with dried thatch.

As for the bed, it is naturally made of linen and straw piles.

Such a house is so crude that it will be mistaken for a barn when there is no wall covering. The whole process takes only a few days to complete, and it is almost the same as that of the hut peasants in the manor house.

After the house was set up, the housekeeper came to check it, and fumbled with the wall, muttering in his heart, the master allowed them to cut the hazel in the forest and the straw so much ...

"Huh, that's okay," the steward said yin and yang strangely. "You animals, you will live here later, tell you, the police will always stare at you, don't try to blame."

No one spoke for a while.

Because they can't understand the meaning of steward, what makes them live here?

Who would build a (relatively) serious house for their own tools? No one can respond.

The housekeeper repeated unhappyly: "I'm persuading the master. It's not the case to be so used to it. Look at you. It's still indifferent to get such a great gift. It's such a waste to live in such a hut of lispsos! "

Only then did someone wake up and asked with a trembling voice, "You mean, this is our house?"

"What's yours?" The steward was furious. "This is the master!"

Yes, this is the master, that is to say, the master wants to live in a separate house for them?

Those who became slaves from free people or serfs were slightly better. Those who were slaves from their parents and parents' parents were completely stupid, and tears poured out.

Can they actually house?

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