Succubus' Manor

It's raining.

Drizzle can't moisten the land, can't raise the river bed, but it can soothe people's hearts.

Chi Yan stood in front of the window sill, reaching out to catch the falling rain, and the rain fell on his hands softly, as if it didn't exist.

It wasn't until the moment it rained that Chi Yan realized that he had been looking forward to this rain for a long time.

People who always stayed indoors during the day also came out at this time. It was a rare cloudy day and a rare rainy day, Chi Yan heard the cheers of the people.

"It's finally raining." Chi Yan breathed a sigh of relief, "I hope the rain will last longer and be heavier."

When the rain got heavier, Chi Yan regretted his crow's mouth again.

God seemed to want to clean up the rain that hadn't rained before. It was rainy for eight consecutive days, with light rain during the day and heavy rain at night.

They snatched up all the Katuo on the first rainstorm day.

Fortunately, the card tuo is very hard when it is not cooked, and it is not destroyed by wind and rain, and it is harvested in a timely manner without loss.

As for the wheat - it's dead and clean, even the stalks have been harvested, and there's nothing in the field.

This winter and next year, we will have to rely on Katuo to fill our stomachs.

I just hope that after the rainy season, the animals in the deep woods will come out and give their table a meat dish.

It is the rainy season here every autumn. Chi Yan doesn't know about other places, but if it rains like this in places without a rainy season, it is probably no different to them from the previous drought.

During a drought it is too hot outside to go outside.

During the rainy season, it rains outside, so I can't go out.

Most of the time this year was spent indoors. Chi Yan had nothing to do, so he let the goblins try to forge copper pipes. Although it is useless to make copper pipes now, and Chi Yan does not have the ability to make tap water, but it is better than being idle. good.

There is no shortage of food, and people will be useless if they are idle.

As for what happened to the plague outside, Chi Yan didn't know. With the arrival of the rainy season, there were no more homeless people around the territory, and the mountain road became more and more difficult to walk. It is estimated that there might be mudslides on the road leading to the territory.

Although this can be regarded as a natural barrier, it also cuts off the channel to get outside news.

"I don't know how Renee and the others are going to come back." Chi Yan went to close the window, feeling a little cold, and put on another robe. This robe was just taken out of the box, and it still had a smell, which was indescribable. What kind of smell, but it's not dirty, and Chi Yan didn't dislike it either.

Kleist looked at Chi Yan: "Cold?"

Chi Yan sneezed and rubbed his arms: "A little bit, it feels like there is no autumn this year, and it's winter."

This is the truth. Before it rained, the temperature was at least above 35 degrees, ranging from [-] degrees to [-] degrees. After a rain, the temperature dropped below [-] degrees.

The temperature difference made Chi Yan a little nervous.

But fortunately, there are enough quilts this year. Although they are relatively thin, although the family can only get one, the family is crowded together and covered with quilts, which is still very warm.

It’s just that the three prayer teachers were not allocated. They were locked in a single-family house, and someone would send them linen and cutting boards every day, so that they could get food and necessities after cutting their clothes.

After being frightened by the demons, they became less courageous. Apart from praying and cutting clothes every day, they refused to communicate with anyone.

Even when Andrew and another prayer teacher went to see them, they were unwilling to speak.

Andrew is now writing textbooks—actually, letters and some simple words, which were originally written by the housekeeper. After Andrew came, this became his task, and another prayer teacher who was willing not to mention Holy Spirit Holy House gave him Let's do it.

"What are you doing arranging these?" the prayer teacher asked while arranging the papers.

He adapted very well. Originally, he entered the Holy Court just to get a bite to eat. When their parents starved to death, the Holy Spirit didn't care about them, so he didn't have any pious heart.

Andrew wrote on the paper with a quill: "Tell me, what are these papers made of?"

Unlike parchment, these papers are obviously not made of animal skin. They are rougher than parchment, but they are thinner, lighter, and easier to store. Moreover, Chi Yan's ability to take out so much paper proves that he has the technology to make these papers.

The prayer teacher smiled and said, "How do I know? I don't think it's strange that there are so many things here that I haven't seen before."

Although they cannot leave here, they can move freely within a limited range.

Every day, they would see the houses where people worked in the rain, spinning and weaving. Everyone here can do something, and no one is idle. Hello."

The prayer teacher said: "I also like what I am doing now, staying with the pen and paper instead of praying with people."

Andrew stood up and walked to the window. He and the prayer master stayed in the castle and slept in a small room in the castle at night.

"What do you think will happen to Bernie and the others?" Andrew touched his nose, "They will not be let go."

The prayer teacher didn't care too much: "If they accept the status quo, they will feel better."

The prayer master hummed a little tune from his hometown, and put the sorted papers into the cabinet. The weather is so humid, and if they are left outside for a long time, the papers will not be usable.

Andrew didn't know why: "Why are you in such a good mood?"

Shouldn't you be tangled and sad?

Prayer teacher: "I don't believe in the Holy Spirit, I just want to have something to eat. If there is no plague, maybe I will stay in the Holy Court for the rest of my life. If they are as devout as they say, they will not leave with you at that time. Holy House."

The prayer teacher curled his lips when he said this.

Andrew: "..."

Prayer teacher: "I never believe that people can live a life without worrying about food and clothing as mentioned in the holy scriptures by doing nothing, and I also don't believe that people will suffer disasters if they don't believe in the Holy Spirit. , He let me know the dean and you, and let me live successfully to this day."

Andrew put his hands on the window sill: "Tell me, is the dean still alive?"

The expression on the prayer teacher's face disappeared.

The dean is a good man, pious and compassionate. He will help anyone who asks him for help. Sometimes he will even violate the teachings in order to help others. The dean is not in good health. He gets up naked every morning and is splashed with feces , Wash it with cold water, it is fine in the prime of life, but it becomes weaker and weaker as you get older, and you often get sick.

The priest sighed silently.

It is also thanks to the dean's kindness that Andrew can be today, otherwise he would not have grown up to this age, let alone read and read, and became a member of the Holy Academy.

When he proposed to leave the Holy Court, the dean did not let him stay, and even encouraged the young people to leave with him.

"After the lord is willing to let us go out for a walk, let's go back to the holy courtyard." The prayer teacher said softly.

This is the only way they can comfort themselves now.

At the same time, Renee had just slipped out of the room of a dean of the Holy Academy. Her hands and feet were extremely light. When she jumped through the window, she didn't even disturb the birds hiding from the rain under the eaves. After Renee jumped, He was picked up by the accompanying Bud in his arms.

"Thanks," Renee said after her feet hit the ground.

Bud said nothing, and neither did Renee.

The two bored gourds went to a temporary shelter to rest. They lived in a room in the hotel. Renee wore a veil and pretended that they were a young couple who had come to seek refuge with relatives. The hotel had not been in business for a long time. It was wheat again, so the hotel owner did not question them carefully.

It would be nice to have some food, but what if the guests get bored?There is more than one hotel in the city.

There was also food in the hotel, and Renee would trade wheat for rye bread, and Bud and Bud would eat a couple of casual bites in the room to fill their stomachs.

"The dean of this holy courtyard is not a good person." Renee said while gnawing on the black bread, "There are many things in his room, such as sheep intestines and fish bubbles."

Bud didn't understand: "He likes to eat sheep farm and fish bubbles?"

Renee chewed the bread: "Fool, this way I won't get pregnant."

Although Renee has never used it, she has seen it and heard of it. Compared with most people in the territory, Renee is already very knowledgeable. If it weren't for her, Bud might have been swayed by those sweet talkers. The merchants cheated to the bone.

"I really don't know why my lord asked you to come out with me." Renee looked at Barton critically.

Bud is not good-looking, so Renee is very comfortable in front of him. Although Renee always shows that she has no feeling for her appearance, it is actually not a good feeling to be feared and disgusted by others.

Bud doesn't know how to communicate with people. Since the noisy woman in front of him can't be killed, he can only endure in silence.

Renee: "When I came out, I heard the voice of the dean and a child outside."

Renee rolled her eyes: "These people are as disgusting as ever."

She heard all kinds of things when she was on the street, and this is not the most disgusting.

"The Holy Court is really a magical place." Renee sat on the edge of the bed, leaned against the head of the bed, closed her eyes and said, "The Holy Spirit is so powerful, why don't these people be punished? Such people can be dean."

There are quite a few holy houses, one town can have one holy house, but the holy houses in this kind of town are relatively small, and no one will supervise them. The holy houses in big cities will be stricter, after all, every year The Capital Holy Court will send people to the various Holy Courts to supervise, investigate, and promote the workers who are qualified to go to the capital.

The town where Renee and the others are located has not had a supervisor for more than ten years.

The Holy Court is the real authority in this town, and the local lord is a hands-off shopkeeper who doesn't care about anything.

Moreover, this holy courtyard does not care about the civilians who have the plague. No matter how the civilians ask for help, they just close the door and drive the civilians away. If someone in the holy courtyard is infected with the plague, they will let that person go. Tell him to leave the Holy Court by himself.

Renee and the others lived in this town for five days, and the number of people infected with the plague wandering on the streets gradually decreased.

Either because of terminal illness, he died in some street or alley, or he didn't want to go out, and he never came out after returning home.

They left the town on the sixth day.

They have sent letters and pills to the eight holy houses, but until now, there has been no news of the plague being cured.

As she walked, Renee asked under the cover of the sound of rain: "Did they not see it? Impossible, I put it on their table, and they can see it as soon as they enter the door."

Bud still didn't speak.

The temperature was getting lower and lower, and when winter was about to enter, Renee and Barton delivered the last letter, and then walked back to the territory.

The plague was not cured by medicine in the end.

But after winter, all the people suffering from the plague died, and the cold killed most of the viruses before they were suppressed.

With quilts, most people use linen covers to cover the quilts. Although it is not comfortable to cover them like this, it is better than nothing at all. Only Chi Yan and the housekeeper in the entire territory are covered with pure cotton quilt covers.

Before it snowed, people had to cut firewood every day, and the tauren burned charcoal like in previous years.

During the drought, many small trees died, and these small trees would break if they were broken hard, which saved a lot of time for chopping firewood.

Barton cut a lot of firewood this year, and these slaves only need to hand in the prescribed amount, and the rest is their own, and they have also moved into the new house, although each person can only be allocated one room, But it's better than a group of people squeezed together before.

For the first time, they have their own "private space".

Barton no longer had to smell the smell of his companion's feet and various odors to fall asleep, and he would not hear any strange sounds in the middle of the night.

Gunner also has his own room. Although Gunner is clumsy, he always gives him some gifts made by himself.

Such as rattan baskets, or straw sandals.

After the rain that lasted for a long time stopped, Barton would watch Garner burn charcoal every day after finishing his work.

Gnar is always the smartest of the tauren, he knows when to close the kiln and when to open the kiln.

Barton was very proud every time this happened.

This smart and capable tauren is his best friend.

After seeing Barton, Gener said something to the tauren beside him, and then walked towards Barton.

"Don't worry about me, I know you're busy." Barton shouted to Gener.

After Gener walked in front of him, he said: "After the kiln is closed, you only need to wait."

So he and the other tauren can rest during this time period.

Their workload is huge, because there are only so many kilns built, so the tauren work during the day and night, and work with torches in the middle of the night. The efficiency is not as good as during the day, but it is better than nothing.

Half the tauren sleep at night and half during the day.

Gener and Patton sat on the ridge of the field, and the sprouts of Katuo emerged from the ground again. Patton sighed: "Katuo is so good."

Katuo filled their bellies and saved them from famine.

"Katuo only appeared after the adults came." Barton didn't know exactly when Katuo appeared, nor how did Katuo appear.

So he thinks that the card tuo is a gift from Tianmu to Chi Yan after Chi Yan came here.

Yes... After the sacrifice, most slaves began to believe in Tianmu. Most of them didn't know who their mother was, so their belief in Tianmu was also mixed with yearning and attachment to their mother.

Barton knows who his mother is, but he doesn't know whether to love her or hate her, so he would rather find another mother for himself.

"My lord must be Tianmother's favorite child." Barton thought so sincerely.

Gener nodded: "My lord is also a benevolent person like Heavenly Mother."

Barton lowered his head and looked at Gener's hand on the side. He wanted to put his hand on it, but he didn't dare, his eyes were erratic, and it took a while before he clenched his hand into a fist.

"The quilt is very warm." Barton said suddenly, "but three people need to cover it together."

There is not much cotton, and the number of quilts is not enough. It is good enough for three people, but the person in the middle will feel very hot.

Barton licked his somewhat dry lips: "I want Triss to change a quilt."

Triss got a lot of rewards, she has three quilts.

But no one asked her to change it, because apart from the slaves, the common people covered a quilt with the whole family and didn't feel uncomfortable.

And the slaves would hoard things like hamsters if they had something. It seemed to them that there was nothing wrong with three people building a quilt, and they would never take out the things they hoarded so hard to exchange for a separate quilt.

Barton: "I've got some kato and brown bread, and two jars of sugar."

He saved the most sugar, and the other slaves couldn't bear it.

Then Gunner said, "I have two cans of sugar, too, but I don't have cattoe and brown bread."

Tauren do all physical work and eat more than others.

"Here you go, you can use it to change the quilt." Gener's expression was very natural, as if he was not talking about two cans of sugar, but two leaves.

Barton didn't refuse, he just hesitated for a long time before asking in a low voice: "Then, would you like to build a quilt with me? My room is big and has windows. I can also go to the dwarves to change a table and Two chairs."

"If I can, I can continue to store sugar and bread, go to the merchant to change the blanket, and go to the dwarf to change the wardrobe."

Slaves didn't have many clothes and didn't need a wardrobe, but if two people lived together, it was more convenient to have a wardrobe.

Moreover, the production of linen continued. As long as they worked quickly and diligently, they would always be rewarded with new clothes.

Gunner didn't answer.

Button panicked: "It doesn't matter if you don't come..."

Gener turned his head and smiled at Barton. From the perspective of others, Gener's smile was honest and honest, but to Barton, Gener's smile was still somewhat seductive.

Gener held Barton's hand: "Okay, let's live together and build a quilt."

Barton couldn't believe it. He stared at Gener for a long time, and after confirming that Gener had just said this, and that he was not joking or playing tricks on him, he immediately stood up excitedly: "I, I will go find Triss!"

Triss is making "tea" at home, which is actually a root of a plant. After it is dried and brewed in hot water, it will have a fragrant taste. The dwarves like this drink very much, and they go to the woods when they are free. Drill and collect this rhizome.

She lives very comfortably now, and her room can be called luxurious - there are blankets, quilts, tables and chairs, and even complete tableware and cabinets, and various small decorations are placed on the cabinets, There are many male dwarves who pursue her.

The way for male dwarves to pursue people is very simple, that is, to give gifts, and they are all made by themselves.

And the female dwarves will accept all the gifts and choose the most beautiful and delicate works they think.

If a human woman accepts many gifts from the opposite sex at the same time, her reputation will not be very good.

But dwarf women are different, this is their custom.

If you don't accept it, it's not only a rejection, but also a great insult to the male dwarf.

So even if the object is decided, the things made by the previous suitors will still be placed in their room.

"Triss! Someone is looking for you!" Her clan yelled outside.

Triss put down the wooden teacup: "Let them in."

People often ask her to exchange things, but the most exchanged is sugar. Most of the rewards she receives are linen and sugar. Linen is wear-resistant and durable. Few people will wear out clothes in such a short period of time, and no one Both have two sets.

After hearing clearly what Barton had come for, Triss generously let him take a quilt away.

She didn't ask for Katuo and black bread, but four cans of sugar.

"She's such a nice person!" On the way back, Barton kept saying these words to Gener, "I thought I wouldn't be able to keep anything if I changed the quilt!"

He managed to save those lumps and black bread.

From then on, Barton and Gener lived in a room and got into a bed.

When the first snow came, Chi Yan was looking at the katuo and wheat, as well as sugar and linen in the warehouse where the servants counted.

These are the most important things in his territory other than people.

Guarantee their survival and bring them capital that can trade with the outside world.

"It's snowing," Kleist said, sitting on the window sill.

Chi Yan put down his notebook, wrapped his clothes tightly and walked over.

A slit was opened in the window for ventilation, and the scenery outside could be seen through the slit.

Kleist put Chi Yan in his arms, and the two sat by the window sill together, Chi Yan let out a long breath.

"This year is finally over." Chi Yan raised his head and kissed Kleist's chin.

Then he looked down and started playing with Kleist's fingers.

Kleist's fingers are beautiful, with well-defined and strong joints, combining beauty and strength.

Chi Yan: "Next year, I want them to dig canals, bring in the river water, and build waterwheels, so that the work in the field will be easier."

He talked about his plans and plans for next year in detail: "The staff dormitory needs to be repaired."

"I plan to buy some people back this winter. Next year's work will be more and heavier, and we will need more people." Chi Yan touched Kleist's chin, and suddenly said strangely, "Don't you have a beard?" !"

Kleist is already used to Chi Yan's jumping thinking: "It's not long, my original shape doesn't have a beard."

Chi Yan touched his chin again: "I don't grow a beard either."

His tone was rather regretful.

Kleist smiled: "Do you want to grow a beard?"

Chi Yan nodded: "Long beards are more masculine! Especially a short layer of stubble."

super sexy!

He used to watch American dramas, and he liked the bearded characters in American dramas the most. He usually looked sloppy, and he was more reliable than anyone else at critical moments.

And whether the stubble looks good or not depends on the face.

Good-looking people look good in any shape.

Chi Yan: "By the way, I want to buy people anyway, otherwise you can bring some demons over, I think they are still very obedient."

Moreover, he has never caused any trouble, has strong force value, is loyal to Kleist, and is very qualified as a member of the territory.

Kleist held Chi Yan's hand instead, pulled it to his lips and kissed him: "Okay."

Chi Yan has become accustomed to kissing and hugging.

There is nothing wrong with being numb, after all, it is the period of passionate love.

When he is an adult, he will keep Kleist from getting out of bed!