Chapter 19: Talent shortage
After receiving the task, Olivia clicked on the experience value and took a look. The current experience value was close to sixty.
After completing the "Select a Priest" mission, you can probably accumulate 75 experience points. It feels like you're almost there, close to unlocking the mysterious seed with 100 experience points.
Olivia thought that this mysterious seed must be cold-resistant and high-yielding, and it would be best if it could be eaten as a staple food.
Suddenly, she was inexplicably amused by her own thoughts.
Damn it, the only seeds that meet these two conditions are sweet potatoes and potatoes. No matter which one she unlocks, it means she will hardly starve to death in her lifetime.
However, even so, one cannot rest easy. One cannot starve to death. One may be hacked to death or poisoned. If things go wrong, one may even be hanged.
Ha, this is really frustrating.
Back to this character's attributes, surprisingly, Butler Jock has a two-star talent in "Business" and a "Cautious" personality with a favorability rating of "90."
However, Ethan, the miller's kid who he had met before, turned out to have a talent of three stars in "Construction"!
He is about the same age as Adam, but has a "steady" personality. His favorability towards her as a lord is "60"
Olivia thought about it for a moment, and suddenly she was no longer surprised that Ethan had a talent for construction.
After all, his whole family makes a living from the mill, and the child has been with the water mill since he was a child, so it is natural for him to develop an interest in construction.
If this child stayed in the mill all his life, he might only become a miller who could process fine flour.
But if she were to intervene, she might become an excellent engineer.
Olivia thought for a while, and suddenly heard Lucy calling her outside the door.
"Madam? Madam, are you in the room?"
Olivia turned off the system, got up, walked to the door, pushed it open, and Lucy was standing outside.
She had specially put on an old linen skirt, an apron, and a headscarf to block the wind, looking like she was going to work hard.
"Madam, the roof of the farmhouse is complete and we're going to drive the cattle in soon. Please pray for us, Madam."
This was a simple custom, and Olivia didn't mind paying homage to the game logo, so she said nothing more.
As usual, Adam carried a red earthenware jar filled with water, relaxing gum and sage. In fact, wealthy nobles used frankincense and myrrh, and these were just substitutes.
She stood in front of the statue, dipped her finger in water and drew a circle on her chest, then lifted her skirt and knelt on the mat.
The setting of this ceremony is also a fictional creation in the game, which always gives Olivia a weird feeling of worshipping the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.
However, this kind of ceremony is the simplest. If it is a little more solemn, there must be a priest to chant the words and preside over it.
She closed her eyes and folded her hands in front of her.
I hope the system will bless her cattle, sheep, chickens and pigs to thrive and be healthy.
After the worship, Adam handed her a handkerchief. She wiped it casually and left the house. She came to the small door from the kitchen and entered the courtyard-style livestock area.
Although it was already evening, the craftsmen had not left yet and were still helping to clean up the mess. Some were helping to drive the cattle and sheep out of the old livestock pen next door.
The herd of animals seemed to know they were about to move, and they neighed one after another.
Seeing that they were working in full swing, Olivia didn't add to the trouble, but went to the chicken coop to help move the eggs.
Each of the farmhouses on the east, west and north sides was divided into two fences.
The room on the north side is home to the docile cows and sheep, and the room on the east side is home to the well-behaved piglets. The piglets' neighbors are the stables where Caesar and his entourage's two horses live.
In fact, the stable is big enough for four horses, and Olivia specially reserved space for it.
With the money she earned this year, she plans to buy herself a mount and learn how to ride a horse, so that she can expand her range of activities when the weather is bad.
There are also two farmhouses on the west side. One has a shelf for hens and roosters to live in, and the next door is used to house chicks, so it is still empty now, but there are some haystacks piled up in it.
These animals were originally all crowded together, but now they are separated. They are all calling out as if they are not used to it, and everywhere seems empty.
After cleaning up the chicken coop and helping Lucy move the chicken coop and feed, Olivia was panting tiredly and stood against the wall, while Lucy was still spreading lime vigorously, as if she had endless energy.
"Ma'am, I didn't expect so many eggs to hatch this year. This farmhouse might be full by next summer. The chicks are growing so fast."
Lucy was very much looking forward to it, as she would have her own chicken once it hatched.
Olivia was happy to hear that. She nodded and said, "Of course. When we have more eggs than we can eat, I'll teach you how to make cake."
Lucy asked curiously, "What is a cake?"
"It's the kind of pastry the Baroness eats. It's made by beating eggs and sugar until they're foamy, adding butter and flour, and baking in the oven."
Lucy looked up and fantasized, her mouth already watering. As a maid in the manor, she could usually eat her fill, but her access to sweetness was also very limited.
However, as long as the chicken farming was developed on a large scale, Lucy knew that the eggs were valuable. Even if they were boiled and sold at the market in Lavossen, each one could be exchanged for a surie.
One hundred eggs could be sold for one silver coin, which the grocery store could then exchange for half a pound of sugar shipped from southern countries.
If you just imagine the cake, it will seem out of reach, but if you convert it into eggs, Lucy immediately feels that she can do it!
Olivia looked at Lucy, who was already excited, and nodded with satisfaction.
"Lucy, do you think the cow-sheep breeding will be successful this time?"
Lucy nodded. "It should work. I can feel it when I'm milking."
"That's good." Olivia breathed a sigh of relief.
She left and returned to the kitchen to instruct the cook to prepare a separate meat meal for the hardest-working craftsman.
The cook wiped her skirt, as if she had known that the lady would make this arrangement, so she calmly took out a pig's heart and lungs from the vat against the wall, washed away the salt water, rinsed them several times, and put them in the stove to roast.
When the meat is roasted until golden brown and the fat and offal start to ooze oil, they are cut into small pieces and placed in a ceramic plate. The staple food is a large plate of sourdough bread.
There is also lentil soup with boiled beets.
Place the wooden trays by the fire pit and fill them up one by one.
After packing up, the craftsman who came to pick up dinner was overjoyed at the dishes.
Each of them had a wooden plate, and without even washing their hands, they stuffed the roasted offal into their mouths, took a bite of the sour rye bread, and dipped it in the soup.
Olivia, who was walking past the door to look for the housekeeper in the old cowshed, saw this and frowned.
If they can eat such crude food with relish, how bad must their normal meals be?
This is so obvious that there is no need to think about it in detail.
She lowered her head and went silently to the outside of the old cowshed to find the housekeeper Jock who was shoveling something.
If the butler before unlocking the character attributes was just an ordinary skinny old man, then the butler now with the two-star talent of "Business" is a promising skinny old man.
Olivia believed that it was necessary to free housekeepers from the mundane labor they were currently doing.
"Jock, put down your work for a minute."
The butler was shoveling cow dung when he was startled by the lady who suddenly appeared behind him. He quickly wiped his hands.
"Madam, do you have anything to tell me?"
Olivia nodded and said, "Now that the farmhouse is finished, it's time to start sorting out the population register. I know you have a lot to do, so I'd like to recruit another male servant from the village to help you."
When the butler heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and looked happy.
"helper?"
"Yes, I plan to let you just take care of the business of buying and selling in the manor, as well as the miscellaneous chores in the manor, such as these..." Olivia said, pointing to the cow dung on the ground.
"Let the new guy do it. You don't have to worry about the choice. I've already picked one: the miller's youngest son, Ethan."
The butler nodded thoughtfully. "Ethan is a very good boy. Although he is young, he is very capable. We all know that he is smart and is a perfect fit to be a butler."
"Well, in that case, let him pack up and come live in the manor. Also, I have to go back to Renault Manor tomorrow."
The butler inquired, "Are you going to La Voisin Church with Mrs. Renaud?"
Olivia nodded. After all, her cheap mother was a senior charlatan. She donated some money to the church every year after selling wool. She was an old acquaintance of the bishop there, so it would be best for her to be the middleman.
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