Lady of the Lord From the East

There are many secrets in Sardinson County that cannot be disclosed, and Felix is ​​also doing his best to protect them from being leaked, but these protection methods are external, internal, especially for the people in the castle, some Things cannot be hidden.

Like planting this one.

From Wei Wei getting the test field in the garden, everyone in the castle knows about it. Even if the test field is surrounded in the later stage, for soldiers standing on the high wall patrolling guards, those with better eyesight can still look down from a high place, not to mention coming from the castle. Often servants, although the window opening of the castle is small, it is not difficult to look out. It’s just that everyone didn’t care about the harvest in the lush experimental field. The noble ladies often take gardening as a hobby, and they think Wei Wei is the same. , No one thought that she was not planting exotic flowers and plants, but crops.

Later, I vaguely realized that they wanted to be wrong, and everyone tacitly did not discuss the secrets. The original life of these people could not be said to be too good. The geographical location of Sardinson and the barren land and minerals are destined to be here. People who live will not be too rich.

But since Felix succeeded the earl and brought back Wei Wei, there have been visible changes in Sardinson County, the land has become fertile, and the people have a new source of income. Although there is no fixed number of knights loyal to the earl. Salary, because their salary is their own fief, but now they often get rich rewards, and these rewards are nominally rewards, but they are very fixed, once a month, according to the performance of the previous month, very mobilizing everyone positivity.

Even the food is much better than before.

With such a generous master, no one is foolish enough not to seize the opportunity to express themselves. Maybe one day, they will have the opportunity to be promoted to nobles.

Therefore, the knights all know that silence is golden, and some secrets are seen in their eyes and never told.

But that is externally, in private, they will still secretly chat about the masters, especially the part related to themselves.

So now everyone is urging the knight who went to the villa to deliver food, wondering what he knows.

He didn't know much, just glanced at it when he entered the villa.

"The piece of land that surrounds the villa is the countess' land, you know that."

The knight took a sip of wine and sold off his words, not continuing until the others urged him again.

These knights have their own fiefs and are very sensitive to the area of ​​​​the land.

So when entering the land, the knight could see at a glance how big the harvested clearings were.

"Ten acres, I'm sure it won't exceed this number." The knight said, and became excited: "But do you know how much grain we brought back?"

Of course, not all of the corn and potatoes brought back this time, but the cellar in Wei Wei's villa itself is not very large, and it is the limit to hold 20,000 to 30,000 kilograms. Because the corn needs to be dried for a long time, the potatoes cannot be exposed to the sun. , so potatoes are placed in the cellar of the villa, leaving only a small space for corn, so this time, basically all corn kernels are sent from the villa to the castle.

The things were loaded into the carriage by the knights with the soldiers and slaves. Although the things were all in sacks, the approximate weights were clear after they passed them.

"Without the addition of potatoes, the corn alone is 30,000 to 40,000 catties."

When this number came out, everyone gasped.

Three or four thousand catties, divided into ten acres is the yield of three or four thousand catties per mu. If this output is vegetables and fruits, they are not unusual, but corn is obviously the same grain as wheat, and the taste is not bad and can fill the stomach. The output of wheat has soared this year, and the highest yield is only more than 2,000 catties, while the output of corn can reach 3,000 catties or even 4,000 catties.

And this number is obviously not accurate enough. There are so many things planted in the villa, and the vacated fields are not only the fields left after the corn is harvested, but also the fields of potatoes that were harvested in the same batch, so this number can be further increased. , just don't know how much.

But Rao is so, this inaccurate number can also make them wonder if they are auditory hallucinations.

The knight, who had been so surprised that his eyes almost fell out of the frame as early as the delivery, is now smugly admiring the expressions of others, and said, "So do you still need to worry about this production issue?"

No, they don't have to worry at all.

The knights who came back to their senses felt their heartbeats suddenly increasing, and their blood was boiling.

"I'm going to register with George tomorrow!"

"I am going too!"

No one hesitated again this time.

The knight also warned: "Don't tell me about it. There are so many things. If there are more people who know it, they will come to ask for it, but it will not be our turn."

They wouldn't have spoken out about it without his warning, it was about how many seeds they could receive!

The next day, the twelve knights went to find someone to register, and they soon found that there were a lot of people registered. Besides them, most of the servants and soldiers in the castle also came.

Although some people wonder if this should be an opportunity only for these knights, but when I think about it, everyone has a share in the strawberry seedlings, so it is no longer strange, their counts and ladies are very generous, Good things are always willing to share with others.

And some of the soldiers among the others came from the same small secrets in the villa as the knights, but more soldiers and servants believed in Felix and Wei Wei. Since it was the crops that the Count and his wife said they would plant in large quantities, then It must be a good thing. They have the opportunity to follow suit, and naturally no one is willing to give up this opportunity.

In about a day, the first batch of lists came out.

The reason why it is said to be the first batch is because Felix has a hundred and twenty knights, of which only twelve are in the castle, and the others are scattered throughout Sardinson County, as well as in the capital and other areas. For the event, these people have not received news for the time being, so naturally they cannot send someone to sign up.

However, Wei Wei has already counted the remaining knights for the time being. If anyone doesn't want to plant them, it's not too late to cross them out.

In addition, only the people in the castle signed up this time, and Wei Wei planned to select some serfs and freemen who performed well this year at the end of the year and send them some seeds in the coming year in the form of rewards.

Of course, the seeds here are not only corn, but potatoes and sweet potatoes are also on the list, but they have not been announced yet.

Of course, everyone's identity is different, and what they get will be different. Wei Wei doesn't plan to ask them all to plant the seeds that she gave them. In the first year, they just try to promote it. When they see the results, it's not too late to say anything else.

Wei Wei rushed to work for a few days, and after painting a few public buildings, she ran to find Pierre.

The buildings she painted are not like works of art like Pierre, and can even be said to be very simple, because she only painted the number of floors and internal structures of the buildings, and Wei Wei is still ready to hand over the external processing to professionals. .

It was not difficult for Pierre. He listened to Wei Wei's explanation while drawing the external drawings, and both parties were satisfied with the final result.

"Make a model first and see the effect." said Pierre, who has been a little obsessed with modeling recently.

Wei Wei readily agreed.

They found wood paper and other odds and ends and together they made a miniature version of the city.

It took a lot of time, and the two of them were not stupid enough to do it themselves, but hired a few carpenters to help. All the buildings were made of wood, and then the painted paper was pasted on the surface to assemble it to look like It's like it's really made of stone.

Wei Wei is mainly responsible for greening. She sets up a green belt for flower beds along the street of the model, selects suitable trees, and chooses the vegetation of the park. She can also ask the gardener if she has any questions. Others are somewhat different, with oriental colors, which makes the whole model finally show a special style of combining Chinese and Western.

For example, in designing parks, what she came up with is a kind of courtyard that is biased towards Chinese style, including rockery ponds, veranda cave doors and other designs, which are incompatible with other surrounding buildings at first glance, but I have never seen this kind The style is obviously able to attract other people's attention, and they all think it's not bad.

Felix said more directly: "If we want to see the ordinary scenery, we can watch it in our own garden, or climb a hillside and look at it. Obviously, this unique style is more worthy of expectation. Just to enjoy the scenery in this promenade, I am willing to make time to go to the park on a regular basis.”

After being appreciated, Wei Wei was more interested, and simply changed the entire park into a Chinese garden style, with pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, pavilions, corridors, small bridges, flowing water, willows and willows. It is a pre-ordered lotus flower. This flower is relatively rare in Europe, but it is very popular in Greece, India, Egypt and other places. If you want seeds, you only need to find those merchants from these countries to reserve it.

As a result, the city that is still being conceived has another special scenery, which will attract a large number of tourists curious about the East for the future Sardinson. Even after hundreds of thousands of years, it became a historical place.

But now, it is only a small corner of the model. It is located on the edge of the civilian residential area, opposite the horse farm park in the noble residential area next door, and there is only a road in the middle.

While they were busy doing handicrafts, another group of people arrived at Sardinson, and the leader was met by Felix. Then, Felix said that the port of Slot could start to be built.

"I invited them from the royal capital. The Royal Port was built by their fathers. If I leave this work to them, we will be satisfied with the results."

This is the best and most experienced team that Felix could find to build the docks and harbours. Although the Royal Harbour was repaired decades ago, the designers and participants at that time have all passed away, but their children Inheriting his father's business, he is still a leader in this industry.

Although Pierre is a great architect, he obviously has never built a dock and has no experience with it, so Felix has to find someone else, and it took him a long time to get the team together. less thoughtful.

"It's true that the pier should be built first." Wei Wei nodded. Only when the pier is repaired can it attract ships and foreigners to promote their city. Otherwise, those people will definitely not stop at Sloth if they only rely on the pier in Princia. There will be no one left there.

The team who repaired the wharf was from Sardinson by boat. Most of them stayed at Slaughter. Only the leader went to Fort Sardinson to meet the employer. The contract was quickly finalized. The team, they returned to Sloot again and started the construction of the wharf. As for the workers, Sloot's serfs could work for them, or they could go to Princia next door to confess. This was agreed by Felix and Alan in advance. , Although the confession will make Allen lose part of the labor force, the money they make will still be taxed to Allen, and with a little compensation from Felix, the gain will only be more.

"Give him some seeds next year too, for the sake of your relationship."

"Of course, I won't forget my good friend."

Everything is going on in an orderly manner. The time quickly passed July and entered August. The oats in the field are growing well, and it is basically guaranteed to be harvested before the wheat is planted in autumn, and the sweet potatoes in the sweet potato field are also harvested. time.

This time, without outsiders in the manor, the sweet potato harvest no longer needs to be so careful, Felix followed Wei Wei to watch the slaves pick sweet potatoes.

With the experience of digging potatoes and peanuts last time, the slaves already knew how to harvest sweet potatoes.

Only this time, they were hit harder.

Ten acres of land, a full 360,000 catties of sweet potatoes were harvested, and the terrifying figure of 36,000 per acre made everyone intuitively understand what it means to pile up into mountains.

Those sweet potatoes that are thicker than an arm and longer than a palm were dug out and piled on the field, and then someone put them into baskets and sent them to the open space behind to pile them up. Finally, the harvest was like a mountain taller than a person. One was long. The ones that didn't break after they were obtained, the piles were ugly and accidentally dug up. The number of the latter was relatively small, but there were about 10,000 kilograms.

It took less than an hour for the sweet potato digging slave to go from shock to excitement, and then from excitement to numbness.

The harvested sweet potato vines and sweet potato leaves are not wasted. These are the best pig feed. They are cut into fine pieces and sun-dried, packed in sacks and sent to the pig farm in Wuke Town, where they are stored until winter use, enough for pigs to eat in the coming spring. .

"Sweet potatoes can't be stored with potatoes, all these have to be transported away." Wei Wei also had a headache looking at the two piles of hills. She probably guessed that the yield was one thing, and seeing the real thing was another.

She wondered if the recently dug cellars would be enough.

360,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes seem to be a lot, but if you plant them, you can plant 600 acres of land. Although many of these sweet potatoes are not growing well or have broken skins, they cannot be kept for seeding, but the number is similar. It is not much more than the whole, only more than 10,000 catties, and the rest will be put into the cellar.

"Don't worry, the newly dug cellar should be enough, but if it doesn't work, let's rent the cellar of the Lingmin."

Even serfs would dig a cellar to store food for the winter, so there are actually quite a few cellars in the manor.

The sweet potatoes that are collected need a lot of containers, and they are open and unsealed containers, otherwise the sweet potatoes may rot, so the sacks are not suitable, and the sacks in the castle have been used up as early as last time, so this It can only be shipped in batches in baskets.

But looking at the slaves who couldn't stand up because they were tired from harvesting, Wei Wei didn't make them continue to work hard.

The knights and soldiers who were called again to transport sweet potatoes were a little dizzy. What kind of paradise plant is this, with such a high yield, they almost thought they were dreaming.

Baskets of sweet potatoes were sent from the villa into the cellar. The newly dug cellar was behind the villa. The entrance was close to the wall. .

During the whole process, the soldiers in charge of the transportation were in a state of ignorance, while the slaves were a little surprised. Well, they were all numb and used to it.

After this time, nothing will scare them.

Most of the good sweet potatoes were stored in the cellar, leaving only the amount to be sent to the capital. In addition to the ones for the king, Felix also prepared some for several big noble families in the capital, and each person also came with a gift. A planting instruction and edible instruction, of course, whether people keep it or eat it directly after receiving it, it is none of his business.

Anyway, if you want to deliver it, if you still want it in the future, just pay for it.

Of course, he did not forget his former friends, and he would also give them some for them to try. If anyone wants to plant them, they can go to his territory next year to get the same seeds as the knights. receive money.

Except for the quantity Felix was ready to deliver, the sweet potatoes that couldn't be stored were sent back to the castle and piled up in the kitchen's backyard.

It is very time-consuming to clean tens of thousands of catties of sweet potatoes. The women in the slave village have new jobs. They are called to clean the sweet potatoes. Half of the cleaned sweet potatoes are sliced ​​and dried, and then taken to the mill to be ground into sweet potato powder, and some of them are kept. for cooking, the other part is made into vermicelli, and the remaining half of the sweet potato is

Steam in a pot over water, after steaming, cut into strips and put them in the sun to dry into dried sweet potatoes.

Both vermicelli and dried sweet potatoes are delicious. After tasting them up and down the castle, I fell in love with these new foods, especially dried sweet potatoes with a sweet taste. For people who rarely can eat sugar, the sweetness in starch It made them addicted, and many people were reluctant to eat it by themselves, but carefully put it away and took it home to their family and children, and then without exception, they got the cute and sweet smiles of the children.

After Felix tasted it, he swiped his pen and added vermicelli and dried sweet potatoes to the things he was going to bring, some of which were used as dry food on the road, and some of them as gifts.

If you want to taste this kind of taste, even the king will actively plant a sweet potato field in his own territory.

After collecting the sweet potatoes, Felix was about to leave for the capital. He first wrote a letter to the king, expressing his desire to meet him, and then wrote to Allen, telling him that he would soon go to the capital. , then notify others to have a meeting together.

Wei Wei didn't follow this time, the autumn harvest was coming soon, and there was always someone left in Sardinson County. While she was busy packing Felix's luggage, she approached Dolores to ask her if she wanted to marry him. Felix went to the capital together.

"Saddinson's social circle is too small, you may need to communicate more, and I think Avella will also want to see you again."

Dolores was thirteen years old, her birthday was at the end of February, and they were still on their way back to Sardinson. Birthdays were not popular in Europe at this time, and only the king was eligible to hold birthday parties every year, other Even nobles don't hold birthday parties, so Dolores' birthday is naturally not celebrated, but Wei Wei still prepared gifts for her.

And a thirteen-year-old girl is about to enter the social circle. Dolores can also expand her horizons when she goes to the capital and get to know more people. She performed very well in the capital last year, and she is much more cheerful after returning. Wei Wei agreed with her to go again.

Dolores was a little hesitant. She didn't really like the social circle of the capital, but she did miss Avella, especially when Avella wrote to her not long ago that she was going to get married soon.

After marriage, Avella will follow her husband to his territory, and it will be difficult for them to meet again in the future.

"Okay, I'll go with my brother."

Seeing her nod, Wei Wei coughed lightly and said, "Then I'll ask you for something."

Dolores looked at her suspiciously.

This made Wei Wei a little uncomfortable. She lowered her head by packing her luggage: "When Phil needs a dance partner, you can do it for you. Remember to keep others away from him."

Dolores was stunned for a while, and then burst out laughing. It turned out that her sister-in-law was jealous.

If I tell my brother this news, he must be very happy.

Felix is ​​of course happy, Wei Wei would mind this kind of thing, which shows that she takes him more and more in her heart.

He couldn't be happier than this.

So on the nights before departure, Felix seemed to have used up all the intimate actions that he couldn't have when they parted in advance.

If it wasn't for the sake of his leaving!

Wei Wei gritted her teeth and finally endured it.

And the day of departure has finally arrived. The team and luggage have been prepared. This morning, Wei Wei had to take Felix out with a sore waist.

She put the black silk fan embroidered with golden lions into Felix's hand.

"As soon as you leave, your birthday can't be over, so I'll give you the gift in advance."

Felix's birthday is on the second day of September. At this time, he must have not returned from the capital. Wei Wei didn't care about other people's birthdays last year, and her own birthday was forgotten. This year, she firmly remembers it. Felix's birthday, and put a lot of thought into preparing gifts for this.

Compared with the last time when I took out the fan to be scary, it was only half-finished. This time, the fan has been completed. Originally, there was only a lion half hidden in the darkness, but now there is a clump of charming and charming on the side of the lion. The rose, even the mighty lion doesn't look so fierce anymore.

This is an embroidery picture of a wild beast sniffing roses. Wei Wei didn't plan to embroider roses, but she felt dissatisfied after finishing the fan, so she took off the fan and repaired the bunch of roses, including her name. in.

A gem tassel fan pendant hangs under the fan. The blue gem on the black tassel is the same as Felix's eyes. Wei Wei picked it out for a long time.

To be honest, this fan is not very practical. At least Felix would not have thought of using it as a gift when he received a gift. He just wanted to keep it well, which was made by Wei Wei himself.

He refrained from hugging his wife. The summer sun kept him from wearing armor when he traveled, so the hug was hot and tender.

In the end, he dropped a kiss and left Wei Wei the last word of exhortation: "Wait for me to come back."