Chapter 40 Chapter 40 Copy Mission

At dawn the next day, the world outside the window was not much different from yesterday and the day before.

The snowy fields at dawn took on an eerie blue hue, making the gray shadows of the trees easily distinguishable.

A fire was burning brightly in the fireplace in the restaurant. Olivia and Caesar each had a breakfast of hot milk, two slices of fried bread with egg liquid, a plate of cold braised pork tongue, solidified amber-colored aspic, and a cheese pie baked by the cook.

In fact, Caesar's usual breakfast was just a few slices of bread with bacon. If the cook was in a good mood, she would fry two eggs for him.

Only when Olivia occasionally got up early to go out for something and had lunch with him could Caesar enjoy such an exquisite breakfast with her.

If he asked the cook to make him such a breakfast, the cook who had watched him grow up would definitely think he was crazy.

Caesar knew this well.

The time when the two masters were having breakfast was also the time when the entourage came to Caesar for routine reports before going out.

George reported the planned route for today, which was mainly along the riverbank. He then said:

"Sir, Knight Toxon sent word yesterday that he captured twenty refugees crossing the border by the river. He said they were all from outside Dongfeng City, and that the area seemed to be occupied by the Vero rebels."

Caesar responded and said that they would not hunt today, but patrol the river bank.

Olivia ate two slices of pig tongue and drank half a glass of milk. The housekeeper came in from the back door and told her that Ethan had harnessed the car.

"Well, after I finish this, we'll set off. Has Ethan hitched up the cart?"

The butler nodded and said everything was ready.

So, Olivia and Caesar each quickened their eating pace, and after a while, they each took a carriage or a horse, and left the manor with their servants or soldiers, leaving the housekeeper to guard the door.

Olivia's carriage and Caesar's carriage went the same way and only separated when they reached the river bank.

The horse pulling the cart today is Lily, and the one sitting on the edge of the cart directing it is Adam. Ethan is driving the donkey pulling the cart from behind, and two old soldiers are following behind the donkey cart on foot as guards.

It was Lily's first time to get out and familiarize herself with the environment. She didn't walk fast and occasionally nibbled on the snow by the roadside while looking around curiously.

So, Olivia slowly appreciated the scenery along the way, and by the way, counted the number of seeds she needed to buy in the town.

She went out today and told the housekeeper that the reason was to pick seeds to be planted in the manor next year.

Usually, the tenant farmers on their estate would leave one year's food rations and some seeds for planting next year after paying the grain.

Only when the famine reaches a certain level will the manor use the reserved grain as seeds.

But since Olivia planned to carry out land reform for the tenant farmers in the spring and try out a system of collective production, she planned to take all the seeds needed for sowing this year from the manor, screen them uniformly, and distribute the crops according to the conditions of the arable land.

After the land reform, the tenant farmers in the village were divided into groups and areas were divided according to the fertility and moisture of the land.

Various crops are planted according to regions, and each production team is responsible for an area. A team leader is appointed to supervise the planting work and the attendance of team members, maintain order and the laws of the estate.

After the map was expanded, Olivia studied her territory. To be precise, the total area was about 18 hectares. Compared with the 20 hectares of her neighbors, it was a relatively small place.

The cultivated land area accounts for less than 10% of the total fief area.

If you look at the statistical chart, ten percent of her territory is lakes.

Twenty percent of the area is rugged and rocky slopes, which are covered with moss and shrubs in the spring.

The remaining fifty percent was a winding and undulating forest, which was nine hundred acres. Last time, she had people cut down two hundred birch trees at the edge of the forest, but they only cleared two or three acres of land, without even damaging the surface of the forest.

The remaining twenty percent.

Half of it is the riverbank border.

Half of it is arable land with abundant water resources near manors and villages.

This 10% of arable land covers an area of ​​nearly two hectares.

To be more precise, it is about 180 acres of land.

Among them, 60 mu of land will be reduced for 15 self-cultivating farmers.

Most of their land is barren and outside the estate, so Olivia will not harvest it.

These people have land that belongs to their own family and can be inherited. No matter how poor it is, it is a foundation. Only then will they honestly serve in the military to protect their family's land in the manor.

Of the remaining 120 acres of arable land, 40 acres of the most fertile land originally belonged to the manor's private plot.

Only eighty acres of land that was not very fertile and could barely be used for farming belonged to the tenant farmers.

Originally there were twenty tenant farmers with sixty people, but now with the addition of refugees, there are seventy-two people in total.

After the private plots and tenant farmland were merged, these 72 tenant farmers needed to cultivate 120 acres of land, and each person was responsible for cultivating at least nearly two acres of land.

As for the village covering seven or eight acres of land and the manor with more than ten acres of pasture and orchard, they only occupied a very small part of the entire fiefdom.

She simply divided the crops that needed to be produced on the estate's arable land into four parts: staple foods, cash crops, vegetables, and systematic seed experimental fields.

For staple foods such as wheat, rye, and oats, at least 96 acres should be planted as a guarantee of economic production.

The remaining 24 acres of arable land was where she left it for herself to grow cash crops, vegetables, and seeds rewarded by the system.

Vegetables are mainly used to supply the manor's own needs. Planting one or two acres is enough.

As for cash crops, such as flax and beets, they only need to be planted on a few acres to meet the needs of the estate. Appropriate adjustments can be made based on what is available in the seed store.

As for the space reserved for the system reward seeds, Olivia didn't want to plant too many, making people think that something was wrong with her, nor did she want to plant too few, wasting resources.

So only ten acres were planned.

The bag of pepper seeds that Sansa gave me has been grown into seedlings, enough to plant an acre of land.

Plant ten acres of soybeans and see the yield and its adaptability to the area. If the yield is good, you can start intercropping or crop rotation with the staple food next year.

Olivia thought that she was being very cautious by only planting ten acres of soybeans, but it was absolutely impossible for her to take risks with her staple food. It was better to be safe than sorry.

She rode in the carriage along the river bank for about an hour. The sky was bright and light snow was falling. When she entered the market in the city, she saw many residents walking on the streets.

Olivia knocked on the wall of the car and asked the servant to take her directly to the store selling soybean seeds.

This place is located in the center of the Draco Seed and Grocery Street. Unlike the small flower seed shop, the seeds here are all staple foods and are very large in scale.

After getting off the car, Olivia lingered at the door of the store for a while, observing the flow of people inside, then got out of the car and went into the store.

The store is very large, with a counter inside. There are many wooden barrels against the wall, containing various grains. Soybeans lie quietly in one of the barrels, next to broad beans and peas.

There is also a back door inside the store.

A shop assistant took the customers in and out of the back door to check the grain seeds in the backyard warehouse.

Suddenly, the clerk who appeared out of nowhere began to recommend to her the high-quality wheat seeds selected this year.

Olivia plans to plant thirty acres of oats, thirty acres of rye, and thirty acres of wheat.

There was still plenty of oats and rye in the warehouses at the manor, and there would certainly be enough for planting in the spring.

She now only needs to prepare the seeds needed for row-sown wheat on more than 30 acres of land, which is about 600 pounds.

As for the soybean seeds in this store, she wants a whole cart no matter how many there are.

"Oh? Can you produce eighty pounds of wheat seeds?"

The clerk patted his chest and said, "Absolutely no problem. This is the finest wheat that we have selected grain by grain. The grains that are not good enough are hulled and ground into flour."

So Olivia asked him what the price was for six hundred pounds.

The screened seeds are sold at a higher price than grain, and the owner of the manor is considered a big customer of this store. Ordinary self-cultivating farmers only buy a few dozen pounds of seeds, so the price she gets is more affordable.

"Twenty-five silver coins, what do you think?"

Olivia turned around and asked Ethan, who was a miller, for his opinion.

"Ma'am, this is quite normal and not expensive."

So, Olivia nodded and casually asked about the price of broad bean seeds.

She also asked for five silver coins of broad bean seeds, five silver coins of lentil seeds, five silver coins of flax seeds, five silver coins of beet seeds, and some imported cucumber seeds and gourd seeds.

These things can be grown normally in the spring and summer in the north, and many people usually come to buy them.

Finally, Olivia began to ask the clerk what the bucket of soybeans was.

The clerk cleared his throat and said, "Ma'am, you don't know this."

He began to tell Olivia in a concise and long-winded manner that these seeds were also imported goods and were shipped from the south just in the past few days.

"Madam, these seeds are called soybeans. They were an unexpected gift to my boss when he received imported goods.

It is said that a merchant sailing to another continent in search of rice was shipwrecked and drifted at sea for two months. He unexpectedly landed in a place that had never been visited by many people. It was then that he began to bring these beans back.

Although this thing looks very good, for some reason, not a single one was sold in the southern part of the mainland.

The clerk explained: "I think most people are used to growing beans and lentils, or buying chickpeas to eat, so this little bit of goods can be sold all the way to our north and be bought by our store.

To be honest, I've only sold half a bucket of soybeans from my warehouse these past few days."

"However, I took it home and cooked it, and it tasted pretty good. If you want to try growing it, or eat it yourself, I'll take the initiative and pack up the remaining four hundred pounds in the store for only eight silver coins. How about that?"

After listening to Huang Dou's story, Olivia inexplicably felt like she was the center of the world.

How could it be possible that a good thing like soybeans cannot be sold at all in the south? Is this reasonable?

She guessed that it must be a trick played by the system to make soybeans come to the north.

Even the unfortunate merchant who drifted on the sea for two months might have been helped by the system to deliver the soybeans to her.

The purpose is to let everything take its course.

After arriving in the north, she was able to sell half a bucket in a few days, which meant that the deception disappeared after she arrived at the designated collection location.

Olivia pretended to hesitate, and finally bargained down to the price of seven silver coins to buy the four hundred pounds of soybeans.

She added some cabbage seeds before paying.

Wheat seeds need to be loaded into two carts, soybean seeds need one cart, and the other miscellaneous seeds need to be loaded into one cart.

They can load these in their shop first, and then send them back with Olivia when she returns home.

The delivery fee within Lavoro is three kilograms per vehicle.

Olivia brought a cart of her own and asked Ethan and the cart to stay here to watch them load the goods. She paid the delivery fees for the other three carts separately.

These four full carts of seeds only cost six gold coins.

After buying the seeds, Olivia was not in a hurry to leave. It would take two hours to load the goods, so she could take advantage of these two hours to walk around the city.

First, she and Adam went to the grain auction house where the transaction was taking place.

The grain auction house was not located on a street named after a constellation, but in a huge wooden house behind the church that looked a bit like a warehouse.

Olivia and Adam each paid a sury entrance fee to enter and received their own number plates.

This place is really the same as the auction site in the previous life. A group of people are standing in a house surrounded by fences, watching the auctioneer inside the fence drop the hammer after receiving the bid.

Olivia stood in the corner for a while, watching these people trade tens of thousands of pounds of grain in such a short period of time, and she was inexplicably shocked.

After observing the market transaction price for a while, she left and headed to the leather goods auction house.

The price of leather has doubled compared to what she bought it for some time ago.

Finally, she went to the poultry wholesaler and asked about the current purchase price of poultry.

A bearded businessman said that the price of poultry in the north has increased this year due to the famine last year and the war next door. The current price of an adult hen is five kali, which is one or two kali higher than usual.

As for eggs, the current price has reached two sori per piece.

Olivia thought she was lucky enough to have hit upon the right idea of ​​raising poultry.

The bearded merchant added, "The eggs, chickens, ducks, and geese I purchase here can all be sold to the Baron. The Baroness bought dozens of geese from me for her birthday."

"So, I usually only buy the best quality goods."

Afterwards, she took a quick tour of the town, visiting the mill and shelling workshop.

There are more than a dozen of these two types of places in the town.

The boss of these industries who seems to like wearing gold and silver the most is the miller. Unlike the manor which processes one or two thousand kilograms of grain per year, here they process thousands of kilograms of grain every day.

This time, Olivia gained a deeper understanding of the details and processes of agricultural product trading in the town.

She remembered that in her previous life she had watched a reality show about a rich old man who opened a farm and worked hard all year round to earn only a few dollars.

The old man obviously lacked understanding of the market and couldn't survive even a day without his consultant.

She is also a landowner now, and she should understand the market conditions better than her own weight in order to maintain her business.

So, after wandering around and absorbing information, Olivia and Adam came to a street where live animals were traded.

Today is not the time for the cattle and sheep market, so there are no large-scale auctions to see. There are only shops along the road, each displaying beautiful horses or a few breeding sheep and cattle.

The prices of cattle and sheep have also increased. A cow that used to cost more than ten silver coins now costs twenty silver coins.

The bull that used to cost a few silver coins has now risen to more than ten silver coins.

However, this is normal. The price of leather has doubled. The price of cowhide has increased from more than one silver coin to three silver coins per piece.

I don’t know how many people will become richer as a result of these changes.

Since the system task was to ensure that the livestock in the manor had a safe winter, and the task would be completed in a few days, she did not want to fail the task at the last minute because the new livestock fell ill. She resisted the urge to shop and did not buy any live livestock.

Just one word.

After two hours of shopping, Olivia bought some sausages and bread for the accompanying soldiers and two servants in the town's tavern street to fill their stomachs.

She herself had no appetite at all. She went back to the seed store to take samples to check the seeds loaded on the truck, and then hurried out of the city to go home.

About noon, she returned to the estate with several carts of seeds.

The housekeeper estimated the time and was waiting at the door eagerly.

After Olivia arrived, the housekeeper had someone come to dismantle the seeds.

He is still so reliable and checks the quality one by one.

However, when I checked the soybeans, I suddenly had a question.

"Madam, how come I have never seen this kind of thing before?"

Olivia was just about to retell what the clerk had told her when Lucy, who had nothing to do and came to help carry the seeds, came over.

She pointed at the soybeans and said, "Oh! This is soybeans. I know. Yesterday, the new tenant farmer, the Wimosen family in the village, bought some of these when they went to buy seeds.

His family said that they saw the steward of the Stewart Manor buying seeds in the store and took a few pounds with him, so they bought a handful as well. They had never seen it before.

"It turned out to be brought back by a seafaring merchant." The butler nodded and asked Lucy to move it into the house.

It seems that she doesn't need to explain these settings.

Olivia said to Lucy:

"Don't take the soybeans to the cellar yet. Move them to the kitchen for now. I'll try them out and then take them to the cellar. Move all the other seeds into the cellar."

Lucy responded and left with the soybeans on her back. Olivia turned around and looked for Ethan.

"Ethan, I see these soybeans are not uniform in size, and there may be bad ones inside. Please help me find a wooden board and a piece of linen, and I will go to the kitchen to sift them."

Half an hour later, the soybeans were carried to the kitchen by the servants of the manor and piled against the wall.

Olivia sat at the edge of the table, put a long board to create a slight height difference, grabbed a handful and put it down. The round beans slid onto the linen and were collected by Adam.

The beans that were not so round stopped halfway, but the bad beans were not seen yet.

She spent an afternoon sifting through a total of one hundred pounds of soybeans, collecting about four pounds of small soybeans that were not as round or large, and then handed the job over to Adam and Ethan.

Olivia took the four pounds of soybeans and poured them into a jar to soak.

Making tofu, the most easily available delicacy in the previous life, is not an easy task.

The beans need to be soaked overnight, and then ground into soy milk using a small stone mill in the kitchen the next morning. They can then be made into tofu pudding with gypsum and then pressed into tofu.

Olivia originally thought that if she started soaking the soybeans this afternoon, she would be able to eat them by tomorrow noon, right?

She recalled the process of making tofu that she had seen from a pastoral blogger in her previous life, and planned to replicate it bit by bit.

However, she didn't expect that she and the cook would get up early the next morning and spend the whole morning just cleaning the millstone and grinding the beans.

When grinding, you can't be impatient. You have to put the beans in one handful at a time and add water slowly. The first time she ground it, she felt that the stone mill was old and the gaps were too large, so the soy milk was not fine enough, so she ground it again.

It's easy to watch others do it, but difficult to do it yourself.

It was almost noon before we filtered out the bean dregs and started to cook the slurry in an iron pot. After it boiled, we turned off the heat and let it sit for a while until the bean skins came out. Then we started to add gypsum water.

She didn't dare add too much plaster, so she only used one-third of an ounce, ground it into powder and mixed it with water.

Add it slowly, little by little, and the soy milk will slowly begin to solidify. Now it looks like tofu pudding.

Four pounds of soybeans make soy milk, which makes a big pot of tofu pudding, which is also very spectacular.

However, Olivia was not in a hurry. She only took out a pot of tofu pudding and poured most of the rest into the wicker basket for making cheese to control the water, separated by linen cloth.

Press gently with a wooden board from time to time to make the tofu tender.

The cook was watching from the side, amazed. "How did that clerk remember such a complicated recipe? This tofu is a bit like making cheese!"

By the evening before dinner, she had squeezed out six pounds of soft tofu from about four pounds of soybeans.

At dinner, Olivia added sugar to a few bowls of tofu pudding, cut six pounds of tofu into cubes, and put four pounds of it into the smokehouse to make cured tofu.

I fried the rest and made a big pot of tofu and smoked salmon soup, adding the tofu skin into it.

Olivia has already thought about it. She estimates that from the remaining 300 pounds of soybeans, she can still filter out a dozen pounds of beans that are not so good.

I will have to wait until the chili peppers are ready next year to make fermented tofu. This time I will make soybean paste and soy sauce first.

Compared to the food itself, seasoning is her most scarce resource at the moment.

When dinner time arrived, Caesar and Fanon initially thought the white stuff on the table was yogurt.

Olivia kindly explained, "This is bean pudding, it's vegetarian. You can also eat this tofu fish soup."

Fanon was flattered and stammered his thanks several times before he began to taste the food.

And Olivia was also quite satisfied.

She can actually make tofu in such a weird game world!

If she can make tofu, then what can’t she make?

Olivia sipped the smooth sweet tofu pudding and felt that she was really amazing.

She looked at Fanon and then at Caesar, and they both praised the delicious fried tofu and fish soup.

The fried tofu is rich in bean flavor, crispy on the outside and smooth on the inside, and the crispy part absorbs the rich aroma of the smoked fish soup.

Caesar drank half a bowl of sweet tofu pudding, then suddenly looked up at Olivia and said tentatively, "Next time we make this, can we use the same marinade as yesterday?"

Hearing this, Olivia immediately frowned.

I didn’t realize that Caesar is actually a fan of salty tofu pudding!

Heresy! Cult! Get out!

Olivia laughed dryly: "You are quite good at eating."

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The next morning, Olivia opened the system to sign in, and then randomly opened the character card and looked around.

Fanon's favorability instantly rose to one hundred because of a pot of tofu soup and a bowl of sweet tofu pudding.

Sadly, he doesn't have any special skills.

However, Olivia is still very happy because December is only two days away!

At this last moment, she was even more worried about the livestock in the backyard. She had to run back three times a day, especially to check on the condition of the chicks.

It was not until the last day of December that Letilen, who had gone to three or four nearby towns, and her aunt, who had sent her men everywhere to recruit craftsmen, came to her house to report the progress of the matter.

They each gathered the necessary craftsmen, set aside time for them to come to Watson, and signed a written agreement with the craftsmen's foreman to ensure that neither party would breach the contract.

This matter was beginning to make progress, so she packed up and prepared herself, and went to the Baron's residence the next day to report on the progress of the matter.

Moreover, January 1st of every year is a prayer festival of some importance, and one has to go to church, and Caesar also has to report on his work to the baron.

On that night, a few hours before January 1st, after finishing her work with Caesar, Olivia was groggy but couldn't fall asleep. She tossed and turned, waiting for the month-long "Severe Cold Weather" task to show completion.

My eyes were sore from straining as I waited for the reward sign to light up.

+20% Experience Points

Congratulations on unlocking the dungeon mission.

Nothing else mattered, she first opened the copy task to check the content of the first copy task.

Trading items:

Ten dried fish

Mission Reward: +3 Experience Points

+《The Exploitation of the Works of Nature》＊1

oh?

So, all the tasks in the dungeon are related to trading?

Does trading mean that you can get these rewards regardless of whether you buy or sell ten dried fish?

There is a book called "The Exploitation of the Works of Nature" with title marks. Could it be that she is being given a real book?

She clicked on the question mark next to Tiangong Kaiwu to check the reward notes.

!

Players can randomly place "Heavenly Creations" on any NPC with a "Favorability: 100" to help the NPC upgrade its star.

Note: For Tiangong Kaiwu (three stars)*10, players can light up a "Construction" talent point.

Warning: This item cannot be stored and cannot be undone once used.

Does this mean that if an ordinary NPC with a maximum favorability, who is as clean as a blank sheet of paper, can have his or her own talents after she continuously provides him or her with props?

What effect will the NPC have after it has talents?

What does the (three stars) in this book mean?

What will happen if only one book is put up?

Olivia thought about it and decided to try it first with Adam, the ordinary NPC in the manor who had the highest level of favorability towards her.

Ethan's talent is construction. If she can also light up Adam's "construction" talent, wouldn't one plus one be greater than two?

Anyway, the first task is easy to complete. It’s just ten dried fish. I can just go to the city and buy them tomorrow. The dried fish at home are almost gone.

She closed the dungeon quest and checked the main quest.

Unlock mission: "Store Ice"

Task Description: It is winter. Dig a hole in the ground, build a cellar suitable for storing 20 cubic meters, and store 20 cubic meters of ice.

Mission Reward: +10 Experience Points

+20% wheat production

oh!

Wheat production in the territory increased by 20%, which can solve big problems.

Olivia sighed, finally getting a good night's sleep.

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The next morning, Olivia washed herself carefully with hot water and hummed a little tune in a good mood as she chose clothes to wear to church.

Caesar looked a little confused. He walked around the room silently with his hands on his hips, waiting for Olivia to finish dressing.

After daybreak, they took an escort and two servants and slowly moved towards Lavosen.

All along the way, Olivia was thinking about her dried fish. She didn't eat a single bite of the hot milk, biscuits, and bread with bacon that the cook had given her.

Once they entered the city, Olivia opened the car window and stared out to see if there were any vendors selling dried fish.

Soon, she found a child selling dried fish.

Olivia pretended to be kind and asked her entourage to stop the car.

She walked down, greeted the child, and without bargaining, bought the ten dried salmon from his hand for five kelees.

When Caesar and his entourage saw this, they all made up their minds that Olivia was usually so frugal, but now she was so generous. She was really a kind person!

Only Olivia knew that she was simply eager for quick success and didn't want to waste any more words and just wanted to complete the task quickly.

After getting the wrapped dried fish, she turned around and got into the car, squeezed into the corner, and pressed the ring.

"Trading Item: Ten Dried Fish" has been completed.

+3 Experience Points

*1 The Exploitation of the Works of Nature

She clicked on the book, and immediately a button appeared.

「Select Delivery」

Suddenly, a map popped up, and she zoomed in to her estate, then found Adam helping Lucy shovel cow manure.

Only NPCs with full favorability towards her will be shown on this map. There are not many of them at present, just the servants around her who are fed delicious food by her and whose favorability is gradually filled up.

She clicked on Adam.

From a very rational but ruthless point of view, Adam was just a child and a servant in her manor. If anything changed after he had the gift, she would be able to control the situation.

I saw that an empty star appeared in the talent column of little Adam, which was originally blank.

「Talent Point: Construction」(0)

She cultivated a sporadic NPC with a talent for construction.

Um?

Since the favorability is 100, Adam's character card actually shows a personal skill!

Skill: Blade Buster

The skill description states that any leather product made by Adam can withstand the blade attacks of ordinary NPCs.

However, it is limited to sword attacks. Arrows, fire, maces and the like can still penetrate it.

Well, although the scope of this skill is a bit narrow, it is also practical. I will let Adam use the leather in the manor to make some leather armor, knee pads, and helmets, and then make her a leather vest for self-defense.

As long as she can make the best use of it, she will never think that any weird skills are too many.

Then, she refreshed the second copy mission.

This time the deal was for five lambs.

The quest reward is only +5 experience points.

It seems that she doesn't encounter item drops in every dungeon mission.

The carriage moved slowly forward, and Olivia and Caesar arrived outside the Lavossen Church.

As soon as the sky brightened in the morning, many monks in black robes were clearing snow outside the church. Several people had already gotten off the carriage and entered the church's prayer hall.

Olivia got out of the car holding up her skirt and entered the church with Caesar, then they separated and went to their respective groups.

Soon, Olivia saw Mrs. Baudelaire, Mrs. Baskin, and Mrs. Real talking together.

It seems that Mrs. Baudelaire has regained some confidence in the social circle.

She had a smile on her face at the moment. She turned around and saw Olivia. She took the initiative to come over and stretched out her hand to pull her to sit in the front row.

Mrs. Baudel whispered in her ear, "These past few days, I sent desserts to the Baroness twice according to your recipe, and only then did she agree to see me."

"The day she met me, I personally cooked for her the dish I learned from you at the Baron's Mansion to apologize. She finally gave me a way out."

Mrs. Baudelaire suddenly looked sad and shook her head.

“The matter is finally over, and the Baroness asked Catherine to send me an errand.

They asked me to buy dozens of medium-sized juniper, linden, spruce, and rowan trees, and to plant them along the roadsides and in the courtyards once the monastery was built."

The Baroness's arrangement was also delicate. It happened that there were not many forests in Mrs. Baudelaire's fiefdom. Most of it was farmland and grassland. It would be impossible for her to enrich herself and use her own trees to buy the land.

Mrs. Bordeaux is also a grateful person and plans to purchase these trees from Olivia's estate.

Anyway, there are many forests in the manor and these trees are distributed, so Olivia agreed.

"To be honest, I didn't expect to make any money from this job. The Baroness only gave me a small amount."

Madame de Bordeaux said that the Baroness had allocated a very small budget for the last few assignments.

The grant was only a quarter of what Olivia was doing.

But we have to buy the trees, transport them to the destination, and take care of the planting, which also takes a lot of manpower. It would be great if we don’t lose money.

"It seems that the Duke of Valois's granddaughter has other things for the Baroness to do, so Madam has suppressed the budget."

Olivia asked what it was, but Mrs. Baudelaire didn't know either. The nun was always mysterious and never left the house.

So Olivia didn't ask any more questions, but only asked her approximately how many trees she needed so that she could go back and send someone to find them.

"Let me think about it. I need to have 100 spruce trees. I want to plant them along the main road in front of the monastery all the way to the city gate.

Several linden trees should be planted in the courtyards of the monastery's main temple, the Temple of the Servant, and the Hall of Valor.

Dozens of juniper trees will be planted in the cemetery behind the monastery.

There should be more than a dozen other trees of various kinds outside the long hall, small rooms, and corridors."

Olivia listened for a long time and calculated on her fingers that she had to sell at least a few hundred trees.

It’s not a small business, so you can naturally make some money.

Then the Baroness and the Baron arrived. They entered the church and sat on either side of the front row before the bishop began the long ceremony.

Olivia silently looked at the huge statue of the God of Creation on the wall, which was also the game logo, and all she could think about was the task she had to complete next.

Let her be more European in the future!

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