Succubus' Manor

Andrew was sorting out the "teaching materials". When he was in the holy courtyard, he also led the believers to pray, but he always read one sentence, and the believers read one sentence. If they read too much, the believers will remember it. Finished, but here, he has to submit the pronunciation of each letter first, and then teach the children how to spell.

But the children couldn't sit still, they didn't understand what "knowledge changes destiny".

Reading has always been a matter of the upper class, and it is normal for people of the lower class to be illiterate all their lives.

Is it true that a slave is not a slave if he reads a book?

Class is determined at birth. Even if a slave becomes a commoner for some reason, he still cannot integrate into the common people, and is still at the bottom of the chain of contempt.

Andrew also felt that it was useless to teach these children to read, but he couldn't do what Chi Yan assigned him, so he could only do his best and endure the torture brought by the children every day.

After tormenting for a long time, Andrew also found a little trick, at least he is on the right track.

This day Andrew came out of the room and was about to go to class, when he saw all the people in the territory gathered in the open space, talking about something, everyone was very excited, people gathered together, it was hard to tell who was Civilians, who are slaves, seem to stand under the same blue sky, they are the same people.

"Taken over! Is there a leak?"

"I can't see it! Get down!"

"No leakage!"

The dwarves are installing copper pipes in the dug land. When the time comes, the water will be introduced into the reservoir through the copper pipes. After the waterwheel is installed, it will not take much manpower to irrigate the ground, and the power source of the waterwheel is the turbulent water flow. , without manpower.

The output of copper pipes is not enough now, otherwise copper pipes can be directly passed into every household.

But with newcomers, it is estimated that "tap water" is no longer a castle in the sky.

Andrew looked at the copper pipe reflecting the cold light in the sun, and for some reason, he suddenly shuddered.

This place will always bring him many surprises. All the things that cannot be seen in other places are as common as drinking water and eating here. No one finds it strange, as if it should be like this.

Chi Yan even asked him to teach those commoner children to read and write. What on earth did he want to do?

Is it selfless?

Or does he have greater ambitions?

Andrew was a little dazed and couldn't figure it out.

The children also ran out from the room to watch the fun.

"It's so beautiful!" The yellow copper pipes are like gems in the eyes of the children. They squeezed into the crowd and watched the dwarves splicing the copper pipes together piece by piece.

The dwarves wiped the sweat from their foreheads and were very proud. They said while assembling: "When the copper pipe is installed, there is no need to go to the river to fetch water."

The reservoir has just been dug, it looks like a small artificial lake, but it is not in the open air, and a shed has been specially built.

If it weren't for the lack of manpower now, Chi Yan is planning to add another filter device, so that the water in the reservoir can be boiled to drink, and there is no need to take it back and filter it again.

Just don't know when people will come back.

Chi Yan stood on the window sill, watching people assemble the waterwheel.

The waterwheel is made of pure wood, so it is not very durable, and it is estimated that it will need to be repaired every once in a while.

Chi Yan left the window sill and listened to the butler's chatter.

"It's time for the castle to be repaired." The butler rambled on and on.

There are many leaks in the castle, and the cracks in the stone are filled with clay, but the quality of the clay is obviously not very good.

Housekeeper: "It started to leak eight years ago."

The manpower needed to maintain such a huge castle is equally huge, and once the castle is repaired, it is impossible to repair only one place. Chi Yan has a headache, not because it costs too much money. On the contrary, money is still a small problem, but manpower.

You can't let the people who work in the territory not work and spend a lot of time repairing the castle, right?

And Chi Yan didn't plan to live in this castle for too long.

"No." Chi Yan didn't hesitate, "I'm going to rebuild the house."

But it's not a castle. Chi Yan has always had a soft spot for Chinese architecture. He originally wanted to study garden design in college, but even though he came here before going to college, Chi Yan has seen a lot of drawings.

The pavilions and pavilions in the front yard and the back yard were just a dream to Chi Yan in the past.

In modern times, he can't afford land, and he doesn't have a rural household registration, and he doesn't have land.

He always felt unsafe to rent land to build a house.

Moreover, the cheap land is in a deserted place. He built a house there, which is probably similar to a haunted house. If he wants to enter the city, he will have to drive for a long time.

Butler: "New?"

Chi Yan nodded: "Do you think this castle is not practical at all?"

The butler looked confused, practical?Isn't the castle inhabitable, the bigger the better?What is practical?

Chi Yan: "It's not easy to build a stone castle, and it's not easy to repair it."

Many slaves would have to die to build such a castle. These are all solid stones. Once something goes wrong with the clay, it is good luck to be stoned to death, but it is miserable to be buried alive. If the Great Wall is built, at least the Great Wall can resist it. Foreign enemies, and the castle - a place to live, so many people died?does it worth?

The butler pursed his lips: "My lord, a castle is a symbol of your identity, only a castle can..."

Chi Yan interrupted the butler. He opened his eyes and looked at the butler pitifully: "Just listen to me."

So the butler swallowed back the words that had come to his lips.

Hey, whatever the lord wants to do, let him do it.

After the waterwheel was assembled, Chi Yan gave the dwarves in charge a week-long vacation, and everyone was rewarded, except for sugar cubes and sackcloth, there was also a little maltose.

Now Chi Yan's territory does not have "money" in the traditional sense, and has always been bartering.

Not to mention Chi Yan's territory, other places are similar. The more chaotic the world, the less valuable money is. People would rather ask for food than gold coins and silver coins. Gold and silver are money in peacetime, and gold and silver are stones in times of war. full stomach.

Now the castle can still be lived in, and the servants live in leak-proof rooms, but after it rains, it takes time to clean up the leaky places, but it doesn't affect anything else, so there is no need to spend so much effort on repairs.

"I don't know when the people from the Holy Court will come." Chi Yan sat on the chair, still complaining, "Even collecting taxes is so inactive."

The wheat Chiyan that should be handed over is all ready, just wait for the Holy Court to send the tax collector. Once he pays the tax, he will open a second file to send the people away, and the territory will be clean for a long time.

Anyway, the other party was coming too, so Chi Yan hoped that he would come sooner.

As soon as Chi Yan finished speaking, Kadi stood at the door and said, "My lord, the tooth is back."

Chi Yan stood up: "Let him in."

Dott and the others don't know a single character, and the letters are also oral messages, all relying on Ya's natural memory.

"My lord." It's not the first time Ya sent a message, so he behaved much calmer in front of Chi Yan, unlike the first few times when he blushed and couldn't speak when he saw Chi Yan, now he has learned experience , Never raise your head, so your mind will not become a mess.

Chi Yan sat on the chair: "Any news? Tell me."

Ya let out a long breath: "The royal family has begun to garrison troops, and let each territory send people."

Chi Yan nodded. It had nothing to do with them. After all, they were under the jurisdiction of the Holy Court in name, and the royal family wanted people.

Chi Yan waited for the teeth to continue.

Ya: "A lot of people are wandering outside now, or running into the mountains."

Labor for free.

Chi Yan wrote it down.

"Is there any more?" Chi Yan saw that Ya didn't speak, so he asked, lest Ya forget other news.

Ya thought for a while, and finally remembered one more thing: "My lord, it's not easy in the city right now."

Dort and the others only ate a little katuo every day, but what they sent over was still just a drop in the bucket. Now the guards were almost out of food, so they spared no effort to search for the civilians. There was no harvest last year, and most people fled.

Those with relatives go to relatives, and those without relatives go to a smaller city. I hope that the city will be smaller, and the appetite of the lord and guards will be smaller. Ordinary people really don’t have so much property to give away one after another.

Dort and the others had Chi Yan as their backup, and it was a bit difficult, let alone real civilians.

It's just that the civilians have become poor people now, and those who can leave try their best to leave. When they arrive at their destination, they will find that all territories are similar.

The lords were plundered by the royal family and the Holy Court. Of course, they had to transfer the pressure to the common people.

Chi Yan felt that the common people were very pitiful, but he only had a pitiful concept. Those things were too far away from him, and it was really difficult to empathize with them. And even if he empathized, he couldn't do much.

"You rest for two days, this time send some more things back to Dort and the others. If it doesn't work, call them back." Chi Yan said.

Ya nodded, then hung his head and was led away by the servant.

After leaving the castle, Ya quickly returned to his residence. He had his own room and lived with his partner, but the two of them always get together less often and leave more. On the one hand, he is complacent because he is deeply trusted by Chi Yan, On the one hand, I feel that it is really tiring to run around like this all the time!

His companion is a very good-looking human race, with long hands and long legs, and he was from a good family before. The family is not rich, but it is not poor either.

Later, he became a slave, but even if he was a slave, he was a slave who was not very able to work. It was not because he didn't work hard, but because he was born with weak strength. Before he was with his teeth, he couldn't eat enough.

With Ya, Ya earns food alone, which is enough for the two of them to live and have a surplus.

As soon as Ya got home, he happened to see his partner coming out with a water basin. The two stood at the door, grinning at each other.

My companion is named Bernie. This name originally meant blessings—a brave man like a bear. I don’t know if he is brave or not, but his physique is not like that of a bear at all. He is thin and weak. The root of the disease has also fallen.

His health was good and bad, and he couldn't do any heavy work. Fortunately, he was sold here by a merchant as soon as he became a slave.

Because of his dexterity and carefulness, he found a job in the spinning room and became one of the few men in the spinning room.

There are too few women in the territory. There are seven or eight suitors behind a woman. This is still to say the least.

So hopeless men either stay single or form partners on their own.

Bernie: "Why are you back so early?"

In front of Bernie, the tooth is contrary to the ferocity and impatience in front of other people. It seems that there is a bit of a simple and honest temperament that does not belong to him: "Something happened, I have to come back and report to the adults."

Bernie was holding a water basin: "There is food on the table, you fill your belly first, I'll pour the water out."

The sewage is poured into the ditch in the afternoon. The water used for washing face and washing vegetables can be used to irrigate the land directly through the ditch. There is no chemical residue, and some dust and sediment are not considered dirty.

Ya took the water basin from Bernie's hand, and said in a nasty voice, "Go back and sit, and I'll go back after pouring the water."

Bernie couldn't compete with the brute tooth, so he had to let the tooth take the water basin away.

After Ya came back, Bernie asked, "Is there no danger in going out this time?"

While eating the steamed katuo and steamed buns, Ya said, "There is no danger. Besides, even if there is danger, it will not threaten me."

Bernie coughed twice: "That's good."

As soon as Ya heard him coughing, he stopped eating Katuo and steamed buns. He went over to pat Bernie on the back and comforted Bernie: "Why did you start coughing again?"

Bernie waved his hand: "It's okay, I've been like this since I was a child, and I'm used to it."

There is no way if you are not used to it.

Ya looked anxious, and made up his mind to do things well this time. When the matter was over, he would ask the Lord to see if he could cure Bernie's problems.

Unlike the others, Fang knew that Mrs. Campbell in the territory was a demon, and she also knew that she was a witch doctor, but the lord didn't let them speak out, so they kept silent, pretending that they didn't know anything.

Ya has no certainty that the lord will agree to him, so he can only hope unilaterally.

The human race is too weak, Ya used to think so with a contemptuous attitude, but now, he only feels sad.

There is only one Bernie. If he loses Bernie, where will he find him?

Bernie held Teeth's hand and smiled grinningly: "I'm fine."

Looking at Bernie with a blank face, he felt very uncomfortable.

He is a powerful demon, but no matter how powerful he is, he can't solve his lover's illness, and he can't even make him feel better, so his own strength seems meaningless.

Bernie: "Go to bed early, you must have not had a good rest after driving for a few days."

Teeth didn't want to sleep, so he asked Bernie to sit down, squatted down and rubbed Bernie's legs.

Bernie's legs always hurt, his teeth are strong, and it hurts when he rubs them, but he feels very comfortable after rubbing them.

"Did anyone gossip about you while I was away?" he asked while rubbing his teeth.

He knew that many people looked down on Bernie, because Bernie was a weak man, not as strong as other men, and no one dared to speak out when he was around, but when he was not here, he couldn't stop people's mouths.

Bernie shook his head, announcing the good but not the bad: "No, I'm working in the spinning room now, even if they say it, I can't hear it."

These words are still credible, Ya believed: "When I'm not around, you have to take good care of yourself."

Bernie smiled and said, "Okay."

The corners of Bernie's eyes were crooked when he smiled. They were not the most beautiful eyes I had ever seen, but they were the most moving eyes I thought.

"In the future, when the territory becomes better, we will build a house of our own." Fang held Bernie's hand.

Bernie: "I think this room is nice too."

In the house where they live now, besides them, there are six demons, each with a room.

Ya is very worried. He is a demon himself, and he knows the virtues of his fellow clan.

Bernie reassured: "It's okay, when you are gone, the lord will still be here."

"With the lord here, no one will cause trouble."

Hearing these words, Fang finally felt relieved.

Bernie said with some regret: "I haven't seen the lord up close."

Bernie looked at Ya, and asked enviously, "What kind of person is your lord?"

After thinking about it, he actually didn't pay much attention to the lord. Even if he stood in front of the lord, he didn't dare to look at him. , a suffocating sense of oppression.

But since Bernie asked, he had to speak his teeth, so he held back for a long time before he could say: "The lord is a terrible person."

Bernie's eyes widened, and he whispered in disbelief: "How is that possible?"

Ya: "The aura on his body is terrible!"

Bernie didn't believe it: "You must be thinking too much, your lord must be a gentle and kind person."

tooth:"……"

Bernie got angry: "Forget it, I'll go for a walk, you put away the plate after you finish eating."

After finishing speaking, Bernie really didn't care about his teeth, walked out of the room, and went to chat with the friends he met in the spinning room.

It’s off-duty time now, and it’s not completely dark yet. People either go to the woods to pick wild vegetables to improve their meals, or chat and laugh in small groups, or work overtime to do some work. If you can finish tomorrow’s work today, then tomorrow After the finished product is handed in, you don't have to work all day.

Therefore, some people who want to rest tomorrow will continue to work while the sun has not yet set.

Bernie is not in good health, so he doesn't rush to work with them.

Bernie came to his colleague's house. Besides him, there were two other colleagues who were already sitting on chairs, drinking the soaked grass roots, and chatting together. Bernie was also assigned a chair and a glass of soaked grass roots. Several people Let's talk hotly.

"Have you seen adults up close?" Bernie asked.

Several colleagues glanced at each other.

"I haven't seen it."

"I do not have either."

"I heard that Triss has seen it before, it's that female dwarf!"

"She's in the weaving room! Not with us."

"The name Triss was given to her by adults. She is very lucky."

"That's right, I also want the adults to give me a name."

"I heard from Triss that your lord is a very kind person!"

"She also said that adults are very good-looking!"

Bernie listened to them talking non-stop, and waited until they were dry and closed their mouths to drink water before saying: "I heard that the servants in the castle brought their family over."

He was a slave sent over by Josh later, and he didn't know much about what happened before.

Just heard about it, but don't know if it's true or not.

There was a female slave among the colleagues, she knew about this, and she heard the words and said: "I know, there was a shortage of people in the territory at that time! The number of slaves and civilians was very small! When they first brought the family over, there was no one. A few days is the rainy season, and I have to rely on adults to raise them."

Bernie's eyes sparkled.

The female slave suddenly understood what he was thinking, and persuaded: "Don't think about it, now that the outside is so chaotic, your family may have disappeared long ago, and you can't find them."

Many people want to take their relatives over. It doesn't make sense for them to live a good life here, but their relatives are struggling to survive, but there is really no way to find someone.

Bernie struggled to pull out a smile: "I'm just thinking about it."

He had no choice but to become a slave. His family originally lived in a small town, and life was not too difficult. The local lord didn't care too much. As long as they tightened their belts, they could still survive.

As a result, life became more and more difficult every year. Their family had no choice but to sell his younger brother first, then his other younger brother, and finally he was also sold.

As for his parents, he didn't think much about them.

They bore him and sold him, and he owed them nothing.

He just couldn't let go of his two younger brothers.

The younger brothers are still so young, I don't know where they will be sold, he is lucky to come here, but what about the younger brothers?

Might survive if sold to a brothel, but sold elsewhere for hard work...

Bernie wiped his face.

He knew he shouldn't think about it, but he couldn't help it.

The slave girl advised him again: "Work hard, don't think so much, I don't even know who my mother is!"

She was born a slave, her mother died early, she died before she could remember anything, and she was raised by other female slaves.

Bernie said dryly, "I know."

But knowing that you shouldn't think about it, you still think about it and dream about impossible dreams.

For example, adults are willing to let people find their relatives.

But even if you use your brain a little bit, you know it's impossible.

Wishful thinking, sometimes a little hope.

But Chi Yan was indeed moved after hearing that many people were wandering.

Labor that costs nothing will not be noticed.

Chi Yan: "Let's see after Kleist brings him back."

Chi Yan said to the housekeeper, "I don't know how many demons Kleist will bring back this time."

Knowing that the housekeeper also knew that Kleist was a demon, Chi Yan no longer hid it, and felt much more comfortable.

The housekeeper poured Chi Yan a glass of warm water, and said without looking sideways: "Yes."

But I thought in my heart-the demons, it is best to have as few as possible.

Chi Yan looked at the butler and asked a question that hadn't been answered until now: "Why do you hate the demons so much?"

The butler said righteously: "My lord, the demons are the cruelest, most cunning, and most inhuman race. They only know evil, not good."

Chi Yan blinked: "They are quite obedient, and they haven't caused any trouble since they came here."

The butler continued to keep a straight face.

I thought to myself, that demon clan of Kleist has already fascinated the lord lord!

It can be seen that the demons are all insidious and cunning, and there is no good thing.

If the butler also came here, he would probably give Kleist a label.

There are four big characters in the letter - "blue face, disaster water".