Succubus' Manor

When the livestock arrive, they have to be divided into a group of slaves to take care of them. Taking care of the livestock is actually not a tiring job. After all, the number is small. Every day, we need to feed them some pasture and clean up their excrement, so Chi Yan asked the housekeeper to divide them into a batch. The child passes.

The children of slaves are also slaves. Although they are young, the previous lord will not raise them in vain. These children must be able to work since they can walk.

The work of grazing grass was given to adult slaves.

The good news is that none of the animals in this batch were sick and all were very healthy.

It was also at this time that Chi Yan asked everyone, including slaves and servants, not to drink unboiled water, but to drink it after boiling it. The servants could say that, but the slaves did not have this condition. They did not have clay pots, nor could they light a fire.

So Chi Yan asked the servants to boil water and provide it to the slaves.

The slaves had no objection—it was a good thing not to have to go to the river to drink water, so as not to delay their work, and they were also used to obeying the lord's orders without questioning them.

Chi Yan also thinks that this territory is actually very wrong. There are mountains and water, and it can be self-sufficient. Except for the mudslides that may occur during the rainy season, there is basically no danger. The only problem is the plague of locusts.

Before Chi Yan came, he knew that the previous lords of this territory went to the territory because of the locust plague and became civilians.

But Chi Yan didn't know how to prevent locust disasters - he couldn't make pesticides, and even if he could make pesticides that could kill locusts, with the current level of technology, it is estimated that the food could poison himself.

Chi Yan couldn't think of a way, so he could only live one day at a time, and wait for the winter to pass.

In addition to letting the servants and slaves drink boiled water, he also asked the servants to bring their own families to his territory.

Although servants also belonged to him, servants were higher than slaves after all. Most of their relatives were also commoners, and they were sent to nobles because their families were poor or they couldn't afford to raise more children.

Chi Yan asked them to bring their parents over, so they wouldn't have to go back to visit them in the future.

For the sake of safety, Chi Yan had no choice but to let the servants go home to see their parents on the holiday.

But where to live after taking over has become a problem.

This time the servants were very excited. They could go home and see their parents only a few days a year.

Moreover, their family is very poor, and every year they worry about whether their parents will still be there or alive when they return home next year.

Most of them have brothers and sisters, but almost all the sisters are married. Only when they get married early can they no longer have to eat at home.

He is basically the only one of the brothers who can become a servant of the nobles. The other brothers are either working on the streets, or working as coolies on the docks or farms.

But it is not so easy to be a coolie. With half a piece of black bread a day, countless people go to the dock to wait before dawn.

Abel is a manservant who has been in the territory for five years. He is the youngest child in his family. His two older sisters are married and his parents live in a slum. Every time he goes back, he will hand over all the money he has saved to To the parents, his older brother worked on the docks and broke a leg in a mistake.

The holy courtyard gave him hydrotherapy.

Cover him with a blanket dampened with cold water until the blanket dries.

But the Holy Court failed to heal his elder brother, the broken leg did not heal, and he could no longer use force, his elder brother became a cripple. Since then, the family has become more difficult. He was beaten by his brother-in-law for eating food.

Parents and elder brother can't say anything about not letting them go home.

Because the sisters don't bring them food, they will starve to death.

No one puts two old people to work, let alone hires a cripple.

On this day, the servants don’t have to work. They can go to the city to pick up their parents. Of course, they can’t take a carriage, so they can only walk back with their legs, but none of the servants complains—they can pick up their parents and relatives. , what else is there to complain about?

Are there any adults in this world who are more tolerant and loving than their masters?

Abel walked among the crowd, and they walked all day and all night before finally returning to the city before dawn.

Almost all the servants’ families live in the slums. Abel’s home is here. There is a ditch in front of their door. There is stinky water flowing in this ditch, which contains the excrement of everyone in the slum. The people who live here People have to face the stench every day.

Abel carried his cloth bag and knocked on the door of the house.

Their family lives in a narrow wooden house. Unlike stone houses, wooden houses are more prone to damage, and wood is also prone to decay. There are also many insects and termites in the house.

Although he knocked on the door, the door was actually not locked, so he walked in directly after knocking.

After entering, he was stupid.

When he left home last year, the house was not so dilapidated. There were tables and chairs, but now there is nothing. The house is dirty and messy. In their wooden house, there used to be tables and chairs on the left, and haystacks on the right. bed.

Now there are no tables or chairs, only hay beds.

His brother was lying on the bed.

Abel walked over. He half-kneeled on the ground and looked at his elder brother. In just a year, his elder brother was skinny and skinny. He was like a skeleton lying on the hay. His legs were lame, but not Stinky, the people of the Holy Court once told him that if his legs stink, his brother will die.

But he didn't expect that his brother didn't die, but became like this.

"Brother Bert." Abel wiped away his tears, and he pushed Bert on the "bed", "I'm back."

After being pushed a few times, Burt opened his eyes. He asked in a daze, "Abel? Is today a holiday?"

Abel shook his head again and again. He took out a piece of black bread from the cloth bag he brought back. Burt's eyes lit up when he saw the black bread. He swallowed involuntarily, but he was not willing to eat it. Take a piece of it and send it to your mouth to chew slowly.

It's a pity that such a little bread can't be chewed for too long.

Bert sat on the "bed" after eating and asked him, "Why are you back?"

His face changed, and he became terrified: "Could it be that he was driven back?"

Bert was terrified, he would go out occasionally, and now there were not many goods at the pier, even if he worked as a coolie, he would not be able to fill his stomach. How could he be a servant for the nobles?Come decent?

How honorable it is to be a servant of a nobleman?

It was because Abel was working as a servant for the nobles that their family was not bullied. Although he was crippled, he has survived to this day. This is all the benefits brought by Abel.

Burt's face was pale, and his lips were trembling. Abel quickly comforted him: "No! I was not kicked out! My lord told us to take our family members to your lord's territory!"

Burt stopped shaking now, and he firmly held his brother's hand: "You can't lie to me!"

Abel: "I won't lie to you, brother Bert, my lord is a tolerant and kind man, he is the best person I have ever met, if you see him, you must know how I feel, my lord, he..."

Abel couldn't speak, he was sobbing choked up.

"After you pass, I will feed you." Abel wiped away his tears, "I can get one piece of black bread and two bowls of mush a day, so we can save some food."

The servant's mash was bigger than the slave's bowl, and Abel felt that he could only drink half a bowl of mash and eat a little bread a day.

And in the territory, you can dig edible plant roots and some wild vegetables, which can also fill your stomach with mush and bread. It should be no problem to feed the four people plus himself.

This wooden house is full of gaps. When it rains, it will leak. When the wind blows, there will be strong winds outside and light winds inside.

But they have no money for repairs. If they want to repair the house, they need at least two hundred copper coins, and what Abel can bring home every year is exactly 200 or more than three hundred copper coins. If they use this money to repair the house, they will spend a year There is no money for meals.

In particular, the three hundred copper coins could not support Abel's return the next year, and could only rely on his married daughter.

It took a long time for Abel's parents to come back, and the two old people had gray hair—in fact, they were just 40 years old, but here, 40 years old is already an old man, and it is considered a relatively long life among the poor.

They all bowed their waists, and when they walked in, they couldn't believe that their youngest son would appear here.

Like Bert, their first reaction was that Abel had been kicked out of the land by the nobles.

Old Barton couldn't believe it when he learned that Abel was going to take them to the noble territory.

"Did your lord really tell you that you can take us to your lord's territory?"

He turned his head and let his wife pinch himself: "Tell me this is not a dream."

The wife was also stunned, and pinched her husband foolishly.

After confirming again and again, Old Barton changed his old and weak appearance just now, and said with a flushed face, "Quick, let's pack up and leave now. I still have a few copper coins in my hand. I'll go to the market to buy a wooden cart."

A wooden cart is required to take Bert there.

Abel's mother, Barbara, said she was going to tell her two daughters.

The husband and wife moved as they said, the old Barton went to the market, and Barbara went to the area where the two daughters were.

Abel, on the other hand, packed the things at home under Bert's guidance.

They don't have any cloth in their house, and even if they do, they are tattered, so they can't bring much. The point is that there is nothing in this house. They can only bring the most valuable clay pots and a few clay cups at home. The hide of the quilt.

The animal skin is also tattered and has many holes, but as long as it can be used, the family is reluctant to throw it away.

If it hadn't been for Abel's repeated refusal, Burt also hoped that Abel could take some of the wood from the house.

After all, wood can be burned, and there are people who chop and sell wood in the city. Although no one buys it, they can earn a copper coin when they are lucky.

Early the next morning, Abel's family set off. They faced the rising sun and let the sun shine on their faces.

As if they were not walking on a rough path.

Instead, walk on the road facing hope.