Succubus' Manor

"I won't get up..." Chi Yan was buried under the quilt, the sky was already bright, and he was reluctant to get up.

Kleist had already dressed by the bed, and now the housekeeper had left them alone, and the servants in the castle were also used to the fact that they slept together day and night.

"Won't you get up and have something to eat?" Kleist wanted to hold him down.

But Chi Yan tightly grasped the bed sheet, closed his eyes tightly, and looked determined that Qingshan would not let go.

Kleist sighed: "You haven't gotten out of bed for two days."

Chi Yan said as a matter of course: "In such a cold day, if you can't get out of bed, you won't get out of bed!"

His eyes were still closed as he said this.

Just lift the quilt, leave the bed barrier, and the cold air will enter the body immediately, the bones and seams are cold, no matter how much you wear, it will not help. This year's weather is very strange. Once the drought is over, there will be heavy rain. Then came winter.

However, the territory is still the same as before. The slaves and civilians have few warm clothes. It is estimated that more people will freeze to death this year than in previous years.

Chi Yan reached into his clothes and touched his belly. He was a little hungry, but not hungry enough to want to get up, so he closed his eyes and said nonsense: "I'm not hungry."

Kleist was only wearing thin unlined clothing, and instead of urging Chi Yan to get up, he left the room directly.

Chi Yan heard Kleist's footsteps leaving, turned over and continued to sleep.

It's so warm inside the quilt, so he won't be tempted to go out.

After an unknown amount of time, Chi Yan woke up from hunger. He didn't eat much yesterday and got up late today.

Chi Yan struggled for a long time between the two options of getting dressed to eat and asking the servant to bring the meal to the bed.

Until Kleist left and returned, Chi Yan was about to speak when Kleist hugged him with the quilt.

Chi Yan: "..." Although I know Kleist is strong, this is too exciting!

Kleist said helplessly, "Is this the head office?"

Chi Yan just sat on a chair wrapped in a quilt like this, swabbed his mouth with warm water, then brushed his teeth with a cork strip, and then Anna served the food on the table. Now the eating habits in the territory are almost the same as Chi Yan's. Chopsticks, after such a long time of practice, even the tauren with the dumbest hands can learn it.

Although they often break their chopsticks when eating, they can still use them anyway.

Chi Yan was taken care of by Kleist like a baby.

Yilai stretched out his hand and Fanlai opened his mouth, which made him feel a little embarrassed.

"I'll do it myself." Chi Yan dodged the dishes that Kleist brought over, and picked up the chopsticks by himself.

Now there are fewer and fewer prey in the woods, and the merchants don't come here anymore. This winter is very difficult. Fortunately, Chi Yan's territory can barely guarantee self-sufficiency, and there is no need to worry about basic food and clothing.

Occasionally, prey will still be caught in the trap, but they are basically small prey, and they are skinny and skinny. There is not much meat left after the skin is peeled off. As a result, Chi Yan now sees the eyes of the "hunting pigs" raised in the territory. All red.

The pigs didn't know that Chi Yan was greedy for their bodies, and they still sneaked into the castle lively every day to play.

When Chi Yan finally couldn't take it anymore, he asked Anna to kill a chicken.

The chicken tasted a bit like wood, but Chi Yan wasn't picky - what bike would he need if he had meat?

Recently, the dwarves are busier than other races. They are forging copper pipes. Compared with before, the copper pipe making this time is very smooth. The merchants who came here are well-informed. Although they don’t know how to do it, they still know the theory. Some, and with them to guide them, the dwarves made great progress.

At least the copper pipe delivered to Chi Yan is already very good, and the thickness is uniform. After the brass is melted, it will be poured into the clay mold. The cut copper tubes can be spliced ​​together.

After dinner, Chi Yan asked the dwarf to splice the copper pipes together, and then began to let water flow through the copper pipes to check for water leakage at the joints.

The leaks at the seams are okay, although they will leak, but the leaks are water droplets, not water streams.

"Try again." Chi Yan said to the dwarf.

The dwarf in charge of the blacksmith room was a young male dwarf. Although his face was vicissitudes, his muscles were very strong. He wore a fur hat and had long eyebrows.

Chi Yan encouraged: "You have done a good job."

The naturally fierce face of the dwarf turned red immediately, and he lowered his head not daring to look at Chi Yan's face.

"The rewards before were all sugar and linen..." Chi Yan thought for a while: "This time I will reward you with some bars."

There are still some wines in the wine field, but they are all from last year. There are not many wild grapes picked this autumn, so there are not many left. Fortunately, Chi Yan is not addicted to alcohol.

But wine is indeed a good thing for money, and it is a hard currency. As long as there is wine, there is nothing that cannot be exchanged.

Chi Yan is going to try making distiller's koji after the beginning of spring. Wheat can be used not only to make wine, but also to make koji. He originally planned to do it last year, but the sudden drought disrupted all of Chi Yan's plans.

The dwarf came to the castle nervously, and left happily.

The male dwarf does not have a name, but he has a nickname. Because his eyebrows are so long, his peers call him Long Eyebrow. He is an unsmiling and serious person. He doesn't like to talk, but he works very hard.

Because he has a daughter.

The female dwarf who gave birth to a child disappeared after giving birth. Changmei didn't know how much hardship she had to suffer to raise her daughter well.

When his daughter was young, he had no milk to drink, so he risked being discovered and lost his life to pick wild vegetables, and asked other female dwarves who still had milk to help feed his daughter with wild vegetables.

His daughter's health was not good, and his old father was worried. Now his daughter has grown up and turned into a dwarf as strong as his father.

With a straight face, Changmei came back with the small jug of wine in his arms, and then took out the most beautiful stone cup he made.

Unlike other dwarves, Changmei doesn't like wood products, but he loves stones deeply.

The current two cups were made from a black stone he found in the river.

This kind of stone is very brittle, so a pair of very delicate and dexterous hands are needed to make a cup, and the hands with long eyebrows are such hands.

"Father!" The daughter came back from work.

My daughter works in the spinning room, and the threads she spun are even and good, but because the people in the spinning room are all good at workmanship, they don't get as many rewards as before.

Changmei said mysteriously: "Come on, the lord has given me a reward."

The daughter put down her sackcloth bag, which contained the steamed katuo she received today.

"What reward? Dad, today I got four katuo, enough for us to eat for two days." The daughter walked over.

Changmei opened the jar and poured the wine inside into his favorite glass. A pure smell of wine and the sweet smell of grapes spread in the room. To them, this was an intoxicating taste.

Smell it and they're going to be drunk.

Distilled wine is different from ordinary wine in the market.

"Father!" The daughter trotted over, "It's wine!"

Changmei nodded proudly: "Father, I'm not old yet!"

The father and daughter cut the katuo into small pieces, then took out the stored black bread, opened the sackcloth that wrapped the black bread, served the katuo with the slices of bread, and had a glass of wine, Changmei let out a long breath of happiness.

The daughter also sips the wine with a look of enjoyment.

"If only your mother was still alive." Changmei suddenly said with emotion.

I couldn't hold back my emotions, and wept as I said, "She hasn't lived a good life yet! She hasn't eaten bread, katuo, or wine!"

Long eyebrows were crying with tears and snot all over his face.

The daughter sits aside.

She didn't dare to persuade her, the more her father persuaded her, the harder she cried.

In the evening the dwarves in the smithy were all given a glass of wine.

They don't drink very well, and after drinking a glass of wine, they start to remember bitterness and sweetness, and their cries can be heard from far away.

The businessman who gave the idea was also given a glass of wine.

The merchants still live in old untiled houses, but no one complains.

Their family property was lost in sevens and eighty eights when they fled, and there were not many things in their hands. If they didn’t work, they would exchange their property for food and quilts, and they would have even less property in their hands, so It is very economical, and there is no idea of ​​​​exchanging property for wine.

When the servants brought the wine, the merchants were confused and incredulous.

They just talked a few words, and they were able to drink the very expensive wine sold outside.

When Kadi delivered the wine, he said to them: "The lord said that wisdom and experience are wealth. You don't have money, but you have brains, and you can earn wine and food with your brains."

This has opened up a new way of thinking for businessmen.

They worried very early on that their property would dwindle, and that they could only turn back into farmers who barely had enough to eat.

Although there's nothing wrong with being a farmer in Chi Yan's territory.

But no matter how hard farmers work, they don't get much income. If they want to earn money and enjoy it, they have to think of other ways and take other paths.

"You mean you know how to loom?" Chi Yan sat on the lord's carved chair and looked down at the businessman Arnold standing under the steps.

Arnold swallowed, his original big belly became smaller, and he still looked a little slender.

"Yes, my lord." Arnold had never shown such humbleness in front of the great lord, but now, he bowed his head willingly. Most of the lords and nobles in this world are only willing to enjoy, not willing to pay.

They don't care what kind of life the people in the territory live, and they don't care whether their people can survive until the next year.

They lived extravagantly, living and dying.

Arnold has been thinking a lot, and he has been thinking since he came here. He learned from the commoners that when they first came, they had nothing, no money, no property and food. It was the lord who raised them until they found a job and planted food.

And the slaves used to live a life that was worse than that of animals. They had no house to live in and could only sleep on the grass every day. Now, the slaves can move freely in the territory.

Artisanal slaves fared better than some commoners.

Arnold didn't think it was a matter of distinction.

He felt that this was the wisdom of the lord.

Only in this way, people will work harder, because the upward channel is visible.

That's why everything here can be so novel, and the territory has changed so much.

Unlike other places, the serfs always try to be lazy, because no matter whether they are lazy or not, they will always get only so much food, and they still can’t fill their stomachs. If this is the case, why not be lazy?

Arnold thinks that Chi Yan is a very wise person, a wise person, even if he is young, he will not be underestimated.

"I used to have a good relationship with the dean of the Holy Academy." Arnold swallowed, and said cautiously, "I will give him the slave girl, and he will help me."

This convenience refers to monopolizing the transaction of a thing in that town or city, and the shop owners can only get the goods from Arnold.

Arnold: "I... got the parchment with the loom on it from his desk."

It was the latest loom, and it was much more efficient than the old loom used by Chi Yan. The old loom could weave a half of it, but the new one could weave a whole bolt.

Chi Yan smiled, not caring about what the other party meant by "take".

He just said: "I hope you don't 'take' something here that you shouldn't have."

Arnold quickly said, "My lord, I'm afraid of death."

"I dared to take the drawing of the loom because the dean lost everything and often couldn't remember where he put his things."

"...Moreover, even if you offend him, as long as you give him a few beautiful female slaves, he won't mind me."

Most of the deans of the Holy Academy will do private transactions.

Due to dogma and supervision, they can't enjoy it casually, but they can get huge benefits if they sit in the position of dean and use a little trick.

Those who are not touched by interests are either truly pious and kind.

Or the benefits are not big enough.

But as long as you do what you like, there is no impenetrable fortress.

Some abbots like silver and gold, some abbots like beautiful robes, and some abbots like beautiful women or handsome men.

As long as they find what they like, there is nothing and beauty that the merchants can't get.

Arnold took out the parchment with the drawing of the loom that he carried with him from the interlayer of his clothes, and handed it to Cady who was standing aside.

Then Kadi delivered the parchment to Chi Yan.

Chi Yan looked down at the drawings.

When he was looking at the drawings, the room was very quiet, and even the sound of breathing was deliberately muted by Arnold and Cady.

The drawings are drawn in great detail.

It is not difficult to follow suit, except for the need to use iron at the joints, the general frame is made of wood.

The use of iron is only because it is not easy to wear and tear, and can prolong the life. It saves labor and time compared to building a new one after it is broken.

Chi Yan said to Kadi, "Give it to the dwarves."

Cardi nodded, and then asked the footman at the door to take it away.

"What reward do you want?" Chi Yan looked at Arnold with his chin lifted.

Arnold shivered, and now he couldn't speak a single word from the originally typed manuscript.

Chi Yan: "Food?"

Arnold looked down.

Chi Yan: "Wine?"

Arnold still lowered his head.

Chi Yan: "Abode?"

Arnold's shoulders moved.

Chi Yan thought for a while, and felt that this requirement could be met. After all, he had planned a lot when building a house before, and there were still many new houses with tiles, so he said, "Kady, arrange a house for him." .”

Arnold said cautiously: "My lord, including me, there are eight people in my family."

He brought his wife and three children and three attendants.

His entourage has followed him since he was a child. In his eyes, he is no different from his brothers. His wife married him early and gave birth to three healthy and lovely children. For fleeing, he would rather give up a lot of property than take they bring.

Chi Yan: "Arrange a bigger one for him."

Cardi: "Yes, my lord."

Arnold got a new house by relying on a piece of parchment that was worth a lot of money in his opinion, and he didn't feel that he was losing money at all, but felt that he was lucky and made a profit.

The new house is beautiful, with reddish walls and a yard.

There was also a tree in the yard. Arnold had never seen the structure of this house, and he didn't know that it belonged to a "three-in-one courtyard".

There are corner houses and woodsheds, as well as a barn.

The room is big, and there is a simple fireplace, as long as you put firewood in it and light it, the room can be warmed up quickly.

The children ran in excitedly: "Dad! This house is so big!"

"Dad, why is there nothing here?"

Together with his entourage, Arnold moved the things from the previous house, spread blankets on the bed, put quilts, and arranged the cabinets. He also asked the dwarves to exchange some handicrafts, wood-carved birds and flowers, and the price It's not expensive, just a few sticks will do.

Because dwarves love to make these things, the price is very cheap.

After everything was done, their new home looked brand new and very presentable.

The news that Arnold had changed to a new house spread like wildfire, and businessmen ran to his house as guests, trying to get out of his mouth what he exchanged for this house.

"Honesty." Arnold said righteously, "My lord likes honest people."

The merchants all gave a "bah" in their hearts, but they still continued to talk with a smile on their faces.

Arnold couldn't stand their stalking in the end. After all, these businessmen could come to his house every day, sit there and do nothing, say nothing, and just stare at him.

"I told my lord a secret." Arnold said half hidden, "I told my lord how to make his current loom better."

After the businessmen got the information they wanted, they said with a smile: "Oh, Arnold is still smart, like me, you don't know anything."

"Me too. I only know how to sell things. If I had known that there would be such a day, I would have learned more."

"It seems that I can't change the house."

They said so, but their legs were not idle, lest they would be stopped by other businessmen, asking what they knew, and being clichéd, they quickly left Arnold's new home, ran back to their own home, and called on the family to think about what their family knew. There are good things about this territory.

Merchants travel far and wide, and their knowledge is wider than that of the nobles, and their families don't stay in one place for long.

After discussing like this all night, Chi Yan learned that all the businessmen except Arnold wanted to see him the next day.

"Aren't they too powerful?" Chi Yan was a little incredulous, "Is there anything in this world that businessmen don't know?"

He just met a businessman, who told him that there is a kind of flower that can be made into ecstasy, as long as it is dried and ground into powder, this powder can be ignited.

Because this news is not as important as the loom, and there is no place to find this kind of flowers, so the businessman only got two sets of linen clothes. Judging from the other party's appearance, he probably will have to rack his brains to think of new news when he goes back.

"My lord, I know a kind of flower..." Another merchant mentioned the flower.

Chi Yan yawned, thinking that the other party was going to talk about ecstasy again.

But the other party obviously didn't follow the routine: "Its root is edible, and its root has many holes, so it tastes very crisp!"

Chi Yan sat up straight, this description is very similar to a lotus root.

He hasn't seen lotus root since he came here, and he hasn't seen anyone selling it in the city. It stands to reason that it shouldn't be. In such a time of food shortage, people who can fly in the sky and run on the ground will not let go.

When I read novels before, Chi Yan found it incredible that the protagonist went to the ancient times, and no one wanted the pig's blood, and then the protagonist got the blood without spending money, and concocted the plot to make a fortune.

There is nothing that people don't eat, as long as there is something to eat.

It's not modern, and it's still picky.

So either the amount of lotus root is scarce, or no one knows that lotus root is edible.

Chi Yan finally came to his senses: "Continue talking."

The businessman knew that the previous businessmen had failed, and when he heard that Chi Yan was interested, he quickly said: "The holy courtyard said that this kind of food is white when cut, so it is the food given to the saints by the Holy Spirit. Only pious Christians can eat it!"

Businessman: "I bought it secretly before and ate it."

The businessman lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "I also bought seeds, my lord, I can give you all the seeds."

Chi Yan: "How do you grow it, do you know?"

The businessman nodded quickly: "I wanted to buy it and grow it myself, and then sell it to the Holy Court, so I asked specifically. The seeds should be soaked in warm water first, and then wrapped in a damp cloth. When they can grow teeth, they should be buried in the soil. Harvest in autumn!"

Chi Yan: "Not planted in the mud?"

The businessman looked at him confusedly: "Don't plant it in the mud, just plant it in the land, but if the land is not fertile enough, it will not grow well."

Chi Yan had never planted lotus roots before, and it was the first time that he knew that lotus roots didn't all grow in the mud—as long as the rhizomes the other party said were indeed lotus roots.

The businessman handed over all the seeds, and when spring came, Chi Yan would have the seeds germinated and planted, and there would be an extra dish of food in autumn.

And Chi Yan also knows how to make lotus root noodles, so he can have one more dish for breakfast in the future.

There are also lotus seeds. After removing the core, Chi Yan also likes to eat them.

"You are very good." Chi Yan looked at the other party, "What reward do you want?"

The other party was taken aback, and then said happily: "My lord! There are twelve people in my family!"

Another one wants a new house.

Chi Yan nodded, thankful that a lot of houses were built when he was planning.

There's a lot going on in these businessmen's minds, and he's going to dig them out.

But it's not about wanting the horse to run, but also not giving the horse grass.

Chi Yan felt that it would take two years for all the people in the territory to become well-off.

It broke his heart.

He had to ask Kleist to make up for him when he returned to his room.

The author has something to say: Chi Yan (roaring): Everyone in the territory can't eat rice! !