Succubus' Manor

Now everyone in the territory has bald heads, and when the cool wind blows, they all feel cold on the top of their heads.

However, it feels good to be free of lice. You don't have to scratch your head to grab the small bugs in your hand and jump non-stop on your hands.

As long as they completed the task Chi Yan gave them, the slaves and civilians would have time to move around freely.

After dark, slaves and commoners can walk freely in the territory.

Of course there are rules in the territory, but Chi Yan also knows that sometimes rewards are more effective than punishments.

No matter who, no matter what age, no matter what status, people need to be affirmed.

So Chi Yan told everyone that if this person does not cause trouble, behaves well, and works hard, then every 30 days, these people will be rewarded.

The reward is that you can get two days off, and you don't have to do anything for these two days.

Such rewards cost nothing and give people time to rest after a busy month.

Even if everyone in the territory is rewarded, Chi Yan can afford it.

While Chi Yan was waiting for the housekeeper and the others to return from the city, the rainy season arrived.

He was sleeping soundly on the bed at the time, only to hear a loud bang, and then the sound of splashing, pouring rain, as if someone poured a basin of water from the clouds, and it poured down without any gap.

The rainwater hit the window sill, crackling.

Wrapped in a blanket, Chi Yan walked to the bed, opened the wooden window, and a strong wind mixed with heavy rain hit him.

So he could only close the windows to prevent the rain from wetting the furnishings in the house.

When it started to rain, Chi Yan couldn't sleep anymore. No matter how many layers of quilt he covered, he felt the cold.

It was damp and cold, so he was embarrassed to ask the servants to help him burn the charcoal basin at this time.

He couldn't imagine how the slaves who had no place to live in previous years would spend the rainy season. The slaves could only wait for the heavy rain to pass on the unsheltered land.

Thinking of this, Chi Yan suddenly sat up from the bed. Instead of going to sleep, he walked towards the corridor behind the kitchen.

——The servants rest here. When it’s not raining, this place is actually a very good place. It can get sunshine and the air circulation is better than the room. To the tide.

So Chi Yan didn't care about it before.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked over this time, the servants stood on both sides of the corridor with bald heads, and they still held blankets in their arms. Usually, two or three of them shared a blanket, and most of the blankets were wet. Can no longer sleep.

Moreover, they didn't know what to do when the housekeeper wasn't around, and they didn't dare to make up their own minds without anyone directing them.

As soon as Chi Yan appeared, Kadi threw the blanket he was holding to the people around him, and ran to Chi Yan's side, he said cautiously, in awe and humility: "My lord, go back and rest, I will take care of it. "

Chi Yan looked at him: "What are you going to do?"

Kadi was stunned for a few seconds. He looked behind the servants who were watching them timidly, and said boldly, "I will arrange them in a corner room. More than ten people can live in one room."

Cardi's heart kept beating in his chest, and he didn't know if it was because it was the first time he had decided on such a big matter, or because it was the first time he was so close to Chi Yan.

He thought he could even smell grown-ups.

It smells good and makes people intoxicated. If the demon who leads people into the abyss smells like this.

Perhaps he will also willingly follow the other party's footsteps into the abyss.

But he was still nervous.

Chi Yan: "Well, let's do this first, let's talk about it after the rainy season is over. It's a good job."

Then Chi Yan wrapped himself in a blanket and left. There was no quilt here, so he could only wrap himself in an animal skin blanket. Although the tanning process was very good, only one layer was not enough to keep warm. Chi Yan covered two layers of animal skin blankets. It was only then that the temperature in the quilt was barely locked, and he slept soundly.

He got up before dawn in the morning, and he was going to ask the servants to prepare some charcoal braziers for heating at night. This year's time is not enough. Next year, Chi Yan hopes to build a new house, preferably a courtyard, and build two A kang, preferably bigger, so that it can keep warm and do things in winter.

But probably only Chi Yan felt that this night was not a good one.

Everyone in the territory, whether civilians or slaves, felt that this was the best rainy season they had ever spent.

They are in the house, with family or other people, they are lying on the dry hay, they are warm, they can lean against each other, they don't feel cold at all, the house is strong, they are not blown by the wind, and they are not Drenched in the rain, when you feel stuffy, you only need to open a little wooden window.

There is water in the house, and they can quench their thirst with their hands, and there are also things to eat, such as stored black bread, or wild vegetables and roots that they dug themselves, and they can eat them raw.

For the first time, they discovered that the sound of rain is so nice, the patter of rain falling on the ground.

The younger children got up and stood by the window to listen to the rain.

In their memory, the sound of rain has never been so gentle.

The goblin's mother woke up too. She slept in the same room as Dahe and the clansmen. When she heard thunder, it rang. She still remembered when she was a child, her mother told her that the thunder always came before the rain. Like people, always make a sound first, and then cry.

But there are times when people cry silently, and there are also days, so sometimes there is no thunder.

The goblin Dahe also got up, and the others also woke up. They all heard the sound of rain, and the slaves were sensitive to the sound of rain. As long as it rained, they would definitely get wet, and there was no place to hide from the rain.

There used to be slaves who hid under the tree and were struck by lightning. Since then, they have not dared to hide under the tree.

No matter how heavy the rain is, they can only resist it. Unlike now, they sit in the house, it is very warm, and they can listen to the sound of rain together.

All because they have a new lord.

The new lords were generous and kind, especially for their slaves.

The previous lords didn't regard them as human beings at all. They worked a lot, but they couldn't eat enough and had no place to sleep.

This land is like purgatory to them.

Living hard, they don't know what their future will be like.

"I wish my lord could stay here forever," the goblin's mother whispered to her son. "We must be the happiest slaves."

But Dahe said firmly, "Mom, we won't be slaves forever!"

The adults said that as long as he makes better steel, he will no longer be a slave.

Waking up in the morning, Chi Yan found that the rain hadn't stopped.

As soon as the rainy season came, it was announced that no outdoor work could be done for the following days.

Kadi knocked on the door, and Chi Yan let him in, and then let Kadi serve him to dress—it wasn't that Chi Yan didn't want to dress himself, but because of Kadi's attitude, Chi Yan felt that if he refused Kadi, Kadi would Dee could cry right now.

The rain never stopped, sometimes it rained cats and dogs, and sometimes it rained profusely.

When the butler and the others came back, they were all drenched in water. The coachman was driving the cart. The butler and Carl were riding on the same horse. Besides the carriage, there were people pulling and pushing wooden carts behind them. None of these people had clothes. Just know it's a slave.

No matter how poor the common people are, they can always get clothes to wear, even if the clothes are worn out.

It is estimated that they were sent by the merchants, and there were people behind them riding donkeys to drive the slaves to push carts.

There are a lot of animal skins on the wooden cart, and there should be grain underneath. In order to prevent the grain from being wet by the rain, this is the only way to come up with.

After arriving at the territory, the donkey rider led the slaves away, and the wooden cart, the grain and animal skins on it were left behind.

It is estimated that these are all included in the silverware, and the merchant will not be so generous.

Especially big merchants who can trade with so much grain.

The knights were not responsible for moving the goods, they rode back to the castle in the rain, and the steward let the slaves out and moved the grain to the warehouse of the castle. The grain filled the already empty warehouse and strengthened the slaves sense of security.

The butler watched the last bit of grain being moved in before closing the door himself.

He looked very embarrassed, his white hair, which was always well-groomed, was sticking to his cheeks in strands, and the clothes on his body were also wet and stained with a lot of mud.

Chi Yan soon met the butler, and when he saw the butler and the others coming back, he asked the servants to boil hot water.

"Go wash up and drink some hot soup." Chi Yan was worried that the butler had a cold.

It's time for the housekeeper to get sick.

If you catch a cold when you are young, you may be able to recover after a while. Young people have stronger resistance and stronger self-recovery ability.

But in old age, a little ailment may bring him down.

The butler was about to say no - but he was forced to take a bath by Chi Yan.

He also asked Cardi to inform the slaves who were drenched in the rain to stay in the castle first and wait for the rain to subside before leaving after taking a hot bath.

The slaves didn't know why, they thought they had done something wrong, and they wanted to stay in the castle and wait for a lesson.

But it turned out that the servants led them to a room with several wooden barrels filled with hot water.

The servant didn't think much of the slave, and just said: "My lord told you to wash up, and you can leave when the rain subsides."

The slaves didn't want to take a bath, they didn't have the habit of taking a bath, and over time, they didn't like to take a bath.

But recently there is a new rule here, every five days, everyone has to take a bath, and they must wash with hot water.

So they didn't resist too much, they went into the wooden barrel to wash at will, and after getting up, they dried their bodies with animal skins, and they could wait for the rain to subside in the next room.

There was still charcoal burning in that house.

Very warm.

The slaves sat on the ground around the charcoal fire, listening to the sound of rain outside, some of them fell to the ground and fell asleep.

"How much food did you buy?" Chi Yan asked the butler who was still soaking in the barrel.

The butler said seriously: "Enough for everyone to eat until this time next year, even if there are 100 more people."

Chi Yan breathed a sigh of relief and finally smiled.

Looking at Chi Yan's smile, the butler also felt that he hadn't been busy in vain for so many days.

The lord's smile is the best reward for him.