Mountain and Forest Kingdom

Lawrence's transaction aroused the blacksmith's curiosity.

The blacksmith asked: "Lawrence, do you have a lot of bread at home?"

"No, no." Lawrence explained: "Doug gave me a bag of wheat before, and this is bread made from that."

"Now I only have two days' worth of bread left. I hope Doug and the others will come back soon."

Lawrence put the remaining bread on the ground of the blacksmith's house, "This is your share, the reward for helping me make iron tools. I won't give you the basket, I have to take it back."

The blacksmith looked at the bread Lawrence took out, accepted it naturally and said, "Okay, I've been trying to continue working recently, but I'm short of ore and carbon."

Lawrence said: "No problem, I will send charcoal and ore."

The blacksmith asked, "What do you want? An axe?"

Lawrence had already made a plan, "a hammer, a big piece of iron for sharpening, a chisel for working the stone, an iron guy for mining the stone, and preferably a shovel for digging the earth."

The blacksmith showed a reluctant look, "Too many."

Lawrence quickly bargained with the blacksmith and eventually exchanged Andrew's wine collection and some meat for some of the ironware.

Andrew had some great wine, the exact location of which only Salil knew, not even Andrew himself.

Lawrence himself didn't like drinking, and Salil also didn't want to get drunk alone, so these things naturally became Lawrence's trading funds.

Wine was a good currency in this area, followed by iron, bread, clothing, and livestock.

A number of slaves in Pumixiu Town were killed, and they were all used by the dead old man Vipuna to pray to the sky for divination. In the end, Lawrence hired twelve slaves.

Nine women, three men.

Men are also weak men between the ages of twenty and thirty. No matter how old they are, they are not suitable for work, and no matter how young they are, they are disobedient.

Obedient women, especially girls, are more likely to stay, while the rest are killed first to avoid escaping or harming children.

Not every family has slaves. Some Pumixiu people got rid of their slaves early in order to save food.

At present, slavery in this area has not yet become popular. Most people are not even qualified to be slaves and can easily be sacrificed to heaven.

Lawrence took the slaves to work in the mountains, and this time they used food and some daily necessities in exchange for twenty days of labor.

It can be regarded as a temporary employment. Lawrence had already calculated that his own food and fuel could not support too many people, at least not this year.

Through employment, at least the Pumixiu people realize that slaves are assets, productive forces, and cattle and sheep that can bring benefits.

This way these savages would not easily kill slaves.

Among these slaves were also Lawrence's former slaves.

Lawrence walked up to Hagrid on the mountain.

Twenty-seven-year-old Hagrid, a country woman from the Southern Kingdom, was bought by Andrew from Telandaho City last year.

The one who ran away was Yi Cuisi, a young village girl who was less than twenty years old. She was probably dead.

Lawrence asked: "How are you two doing?"

Now there are only two left, one is Hagrid, and the other is Daisy whose child has died.

Daisy sold herself into slavery. She had a child before, but she died recently.

Hagrid said quickly: "Mr. Lawrence, we are not doing well."

Daisy also lived in torture and pain every day, and said to Lawrence: "Master Lawrence, can you exchange us back?"

Lawrence said casually: "No, it's too troublesome. Vip was there when I exchanged with you, and the slave exchanged was a coward slave like Seravan."

"Friesen likes you, and I hate you."

Salil next to her remained silent. She also disliked these two women, but she would not torture or insult them.

Hagrid and Daisy's future fate has been determined. In fact, they did nothing wrong. There is something wrong with this dark age.

Lawrence had no intention of humiliating them and quickly arranged work for everyone.

Iti is obviously not suitable to command these slaves. Everyone knows that Iti is the coward Seravan's woman.

The shepherdess was not suitable either and had no courage to frighten these slaves.

Lawrence asked Reglo to supervise the women's gathering of firewood and berries, and processing of fibrous materials such as sisal to make rope.

These women can do things like carrying water, feeding pigs, herding sheep, and processing wool.

The older ones do the heavy work, while the younger girls, aged eight or nine, go to light the fire and herd the sheep.

The men dug the wells under Seravan's supervision.

Lawrence did not forget the threat of the baron and the beast, and continued to practice archery in the forest opposite, using his bow and arrow to shoot crows, squirrels and pheasants in the forest.

Occasionally, he would come back to inspect whether the slaves were working, and make corrections and reminders on many things.

The new slaves were given two meals a day.

Breakfast at ten o'clock is crow meat stew, wild vegetables collected by the slave girls outside the manor, and a wild apple.

Dinner at five o'clock in the afternoon is small crow barbecue, pumixiu fish soup (chopped fish and boiled randomly), and blackberry wild vegetable cake.

What’s for breakfast and lunch depends on Lauren’s hunting results.

If you can't catch prey, you'll eat wild fish farmed in the river.

A few days later, the well was dug to a depth of thirteen meters.

At this time, water has begun to seep, but the depth is not enough. Well water that is too shallow is easy to freeze.

Well water is different from a house. It takes many years. In addition, the population will continue to grow, so naturally the deeper the better.

Many shallow wells dry up after being used, and it will be a lot of trouble to dig them again.

Seravan took people down the mountain to collect sand and gravel to make the walls of the well, while Lawrence took people to burn charcoal and polish the stones.

"Mr. Lawrence!"

Emma took the child up the mountain and shouted happily: "I'm here to help!"

The slave of Emma's family was brave enough to be killed by her husband. In order to save food for her own family, she came to help and had two meals by the way.

The slaves had two meals, and the management of Lawrence, Seravan, and Regloro had three meals.

Emma walked into the manor with the child and said happily: "Mr. Lawrence, the blacksmith asked me to give you this shovel."

Lawrence took the shovel, "Okay, I was planning to go to the blacksmith to ask about the ironware, but nothing has been sent to him for several days. I suspect that he drank too much and refused to work."

Emma said with a smile: "Absolutely. I saw a rabbit when I came up today, but I didn't catch it. What a pity."

Lawrence said: "There are indeed more animals in summer. I shot a lone wild boar yesterday and left some pork in the morning. You can go over and eat it."

Emma nodded happily, "Then I'm going to eat!"

"By the way!" Emma thought of something and reminded: "Mr. Lawrence, I passed by the house when I came over. The peas there are ready to be picked."

Lawrence thought about it carefully and realized that more than half a year had passed since last autumn, maybe seven months.

"That's great, there are peas to eat."

Lawrence smiled and said, "Garlic can be eaten this month, and radishes and lettuce can be harvested next month, followed by pumpkins and potatoes."

Sofia followed Lawrence and reminded: "Master, the chicken is coming out soon."

Lawrence smiled and said, "Yes, the chicks in the eggs are coming out soon. We will have more chicken eggs next year."

Lawrence's life is getting better and better.