Chapter 18 Character Attributes
Olivia took the small cloth bag from her little hands suspiciously, "What is this?"
Sansa shook her head.
"I don't know. The grocer gave it to me yesterday when I went to La Watson with my housekeeper to buy salt.
They said they brought back some flower seeds from a ship sailing south of the mainland. Since few people bought them and no one had ever planted them, they were afraid they would freeze, so they gave me some.”
Olivia listened, opened it and was stunned.
The flat, round seeds, as big as golden sesame seeds, gave off a spicy aroma. These were not flower seeds at all, but the chili seeds that she hadn't bought in town yet!
In other words, the new seeds released by the system into this world will really be sailed from other continents through normal channels, and anyone can buy it in the store.
Isn't it an exclusive resource that she can use at any time?
Olivia thought quickly in her mind and felt inexplicably relieved. Actually, this was a good thing.
In the eyes of outsiders, she would not be a unique person.
It would be bad if she was always finding new crops to increase food production and inventing new things to improve productivity, living like a saint sent by God.
What happened to the last person canonized as a saint in the Middle Ages?
Although the game introduction says that it involves infrastructure farming, business strategy, maiden romance, character card drawing, power struggles, and war...
The functions and gameplay are very complete and you can develop them as you like, but it does not mean that you are invincible.
Players can also be eliminated by NPCs, such as in war, losing territory, or being assassinated by enemies, and the game will be restarted.
So, if she were to die in this game, she would just die.
Olivia accepted the pepper seeds without changing her expression and took Sansa to the kitchen in the backyard.
Sansa was still a greedy child, so Olivia found a place to put the pepper seeds and planned to cook for her herself.
First go to the smokehouse, cut a piece of bacon with alternating fat and lean meat, chop it into pieces, add some garlic and pickles, put it all into the pan and stir-fry it with butter until it becomes crumbs, and finally wrap it in thinly rolled dough.
She made several kinds of dumplings, boiled some in a deep cast iron pot, fried some in a frying pan, and saw that bread was being baked in a bread oven, so she put a few dumplings in there to bake as well.
Sansa stood by and waited for a long time. At noon, she was able to eat this delicious dish that was as complicated to prepare as a pie.
The two sisters moved to the dining room for lunch. Although there were other dishes prepared by the cook, Sansa still loved dumplings the most, especially the fried and baked dumplings.
The outer skin of the baked dumplings was brushed with a little oil, so the wheat flour puffed up with small tiger-striped bubbles. When you bite it, it is juicy and the mouth can taste the burnt aroma of the flour.
The fried dumplings are soft on top and hard on the bottom, with a rich buttery aroma.
Olivia still likes dumplings. They are warm and thick, with a mild taste. When they are hot and with the soup, she feels particularly happy when she slurps them into her stomach.
Sansa ate one at a time, not afraid of the heat. She ate two large plates and drank a cup of hot goat's milk. She raised her hand and wiped her mouth with her sleeve, looking like a tomboy.
After lunch, Sansa rode her mule again and happily went home with the servants.
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On a warm sunny day after a heavy snowfall, the ground was covered with thick, soft ice crystals, the coniferous trees were covered with hoarfrost, and the temperature dropped to below zero.
It took only a week to build three wooden farmhouses, four or five meters wide and two or three meters deep, and they were located behind the long house.
Because it is a courtyard design, there are only two doorways. One is a small door opened from the back of the kitchen, which is only for people to pass through.
Secondly, a gate was opened on the side facing the hillside to allow animals to enter the grassland.
Olivia watched the progress bar in the system slowly reach ninety-five percent.
There was only a little bit left. She stood near the construction site, looking at the craftsmen who were lying on the roof and hammering wooden boards.
She didn't urge him, but just quietly trudged along the hillside outside the stone wall behind the manor, heading towards the higher ground.
When she reached a similar height, she looked back and saw that the sunlight was gradually shifting to the west, and the entire terrain of the manor was almost in sight.
It looks like a fairy tale world, a vast expanse of white, but the cold wind is freezing.
Olivia thought to herself as she sniffed the snot that was about to come out.
Livestock husbandry is proceeding as planned, so all that remains is the planning of the arable land.
When talking about the barrenness or fertility of cultivated land, we have to mention the distribution of water sources.
There are many water sources in the village.
Standing on the hillside now, she could see a wide stream in the distance running through the mountains and forests, flowing down to the flat area in front of the manor and connecting with the lake.
Within the fiefdom, the fields of self-cultivating farmers were mostly located outside the village, in the barren areas close to the mountains.
The tenant farmers' land is located in the middle of the village. It is neither fertile nor barren, but very close to the tenant farmers' residential area.
The best farmland is the hundreds of acres along the streams and lakes.
Because of the nourishment of water sources and the convenience of irrigation, the two-field farming method currently used can barely maintain fertility.
However, when Olivia looked at it at this moment, it was just a vast expanse of thick white snow, which made people feel very disappointed.
It was just because I was unlucky at that time that I drew Roslingay County, a place with a bad climate and a northern location.
Heavy snow begins to cover the mountain from the end of October every year and ends in March of the following year.
Hardy root vegetables such as beets, radishes and turnips can still be left in the ground.
But essential staple foods such as oats, barley, and wheat can only be grown for a very short period of time.
The temperature will reach a certain level at least in April or May, and the harvest will be in September, which is the only crop. From October to November, it will be too cold to plant winter wheat.
Olivia felt lost as she looked at the vast expanse of land now deserted under ice and snow.
She was a corporate slave who had never touched a hoe in her previous life, so she knew nothing about farming.
It seems that we can only pin our hopes on the system.
After a while, she saw the craftsman coming down from the nailed wooden house from afar, and she raised her hand to touch the cold ring.
When I opened the interface, I saw that the progress of the "Expand Livestock" task had been completed.
She subconsciously held her breath and clicked to receive the task reward.
+20 experience points.
Congratulations on unlocking: "Character Attributes"
Suddenly, a button appeared on the main interface.
Olivia turned on the button as she walked carefully through the snow into the manor.
Suddenly, an interface similar to a character card pool appeared in front of her.
The only character card with a light on it is Lord Caesar, the NPC in the novice gift pack.
She clicked on it and saw that the card detailed his name, age, gender, height, and character biography.
and several other values.
"Favorability: 100"
"Health: 100 (Health)"
Character: Loyal
"Talent Point: Military (Five Stars)"
The five-star talent point that lights up is particularly eye-catching.
His card is gold, perhaps because he is a character with five-star talent.
Olivia was curious about the talent points of other NPCs.
She hurried back to the manor, locked herself in the bedroom, opened the system map, and found Lucy on the map.
Character: Lucy
She saw Lucy's character sheet.
"Favorability: 100"
HP: 90 (Health)
"Character: Diligent"
Talent Point: Animal Husbandry (Three Stars)
It’s true!
Olivia had long suspected that Lucy was gifted in animal husbandry, and sure enough, it turned out to be exactly as she thought.
So, are there other people in the manor who have talent skill points?
Olivia couldn't tell who was gifted and who wasn't on the map, so she could only look for them one by one.
But after checking most of it and searching through all the traces in the fiefdom, she only found two characters with talent points on their character cards.
These two people, one is the housekeeper and the other is Ethan from the miller's family.
Click on any tenant farmer's character card and you'll see:
"Favorability: 40"
HP: 50 (Weak)
Personality: Indifferent
Talent Points: None
This truth is really complicated.
It seems that this damn place not only has poor land, but also poor talent resources.
Olivia sighed and began to accept new tasks.
Unlock quest: "Choose a Priest"
Mission Description: The colorful world is fascinating, and the selection of talents determines the development direction of the territory.
Mission reward: +15 experience points.
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