Chapter 22 Procurement before Section 22
There are actually people with "medical" talents?
Olivia suddenly became serious. Food, clothing, housing and transportation were secondary. In fact, the most difficult thing in this world was the level of medicine.
In the Middle Ages, whether it was rumor or reality, the most criticized thing was medicine. Popular therapies such as bloodletting and leech therapy could take a person's life in minutes.
This made Olivia curious about this four-star medical talent. How could he possess a four-star talent in such an ignorant medical environment?
Olivia pretended to be casual and asked the bishop what the name of the monk sitting in the corner reading the scriptures was.
"He's called Fanon, and he's the oldest monk here. He's good at painting murals and doing some sculptures, and he's very meticulous in his work..."
The bishop was a little evasive in order to save face. He really couldn't praise Fanon enough. Although Fanon was a good painter, he was surprisingly slow. No matter what he was asked to paint, he would first study it rigorously for a month before starting.
The bishop said that the lifelike statue of the God of Creation placed at the door of the side hall was made by him.
"So that's how it is."
Olivia clicked on the character prequel.
"Fanon was born into a merchant family. His father owned a mineral pigment shop in town. He was considered talented in painting from a young age and was trained to be a painter. However, because of his slow painting speed, his father disliked him and sent him to become a monk."
For Olivia, painting was too flashy a skill, and she couldn't even afford a single ore.
However, she also roughly understood why this person had been mistakenly thought to be a painter since he was a child.
For example, the most popular portrait painting now requires a thorough understanding of the human skeleton and muscles to be able to draw well. Therefore, his ability to do these things well is purely a by-product of his talent and he has a natural sensitivity to these things.
It is very likely that even Fanon himself was not aware of his talent in medical research.
A talented person is pushed onto the wrong path, and no matter how hard he tries, he can only be an average person.
Olivia thought about it and then tactfully asked the bishop about the others.
The bishop saw that Olivia had been asking around and seemed confused about who to choose, so he said, "Have you made up your mind, Madam?"
The monks here come from only three backgrounds: the youngest son of a knight's family, the youngest son of a merchant, and an orphan taken in by the bishop in the town.
Being able to own a parish of your own means having a relatively stable future and not having to worry about food and clothing in the future, which is very good.
Olivia thought about it and turned to ask her mother and sister for their opinions.
They each have their own opinions. Theresa favors monks who are well-versed in the scriptures, while Lani and Sansa believe that character is very important.
Olivia pretended to be embarrassed and said without offending either side:
“I believe that any monk trained by the bishop can do both well.
However, next year I plan to build a church, and with the establishment of a new parish, there will be many things to do. In this case, I will choose the oldest one, who is more mature after all."
The oldest one is Fanon, who is nineteen years old.
The bishop nodded, as if he had not expected this, but the lady's reason was indeed the same. He said:
"Well, it's good to let Fanon get some exercise."
Theresa and her two younger sisters seemed to be convinced by the age argument. Indeed, it was difficult for a young man of fifteen or sixteen to deal with the affairs of the gang.
So, the group made a decision, and the bishop said he would inform Fanon to pack his bags and prepare to go to the parish to take up his post tomorrow.
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After a long period of listening, socializing, and choosing the monks, it was around twelve o'clock in the morning when we left the Lavossen Church.
In a small bell tower nearby, the bell ringer on the roof pulled a large bronze bell, making it rotate. The bell rang noisily and spread throughout the small town.
In this era, there were no mechanical clock towers and the bronze bells had to be rung manually. It was still early days.
The few of them did not plan to go home so soon, but instead took a carriage and headed towards the downtown area they passed by on the way here.
The weather suitable for traveling is rare in winter, so they all carry more or less money with them, ready to exchange it in town for some supplies to take home.
Especially Theresa, who had to prepare for Christmas a week later.
This is the most important festival of the year and falls on the first day of December.
She not only invited Olivia to take Caesar to Renault Manor, but also invited her sister Narcissa, who lived in the neighboring town of Caron where Baron Forrest was stationed.
The mother Olivia drew was the daughter of a wool merchant. Her maternal grandfather was no longer alive, and she only had a younger sister who was three years younger than her.
Aunt Narcissa also married a wool merchant and lived with her uncle in the ancestral house in the town of Caron.
Since my uncle, who is doing winter business, is now following a caravan around reselling wool, he cannot come back even during the holidays.
Seeing that her sister, an orphan and a widow, was too lonely in the town of Kalon, Theresa invited her sister and mother to stay in her manor for a while.
By the way, Theresa planned to ask Narcissa if there were any suitable young people in the town of Caron, so as to find an engagement partner for her second daughter, Lainie.
She is already fifteen years old. It is the custom here to get engaged first and then get married a year later.
Theresa knew all about the young men in the nearby knights' manors. They were all ugly and had no talent for either literature or martial arts.
For example, the son of Knight Toxon originally served as a squire beside the Baron. The Baron recommended him to the Earl's Knights to serve as a squire for training.
But he only stayed there for two months before being sent back by the Knights Templar on the grounds that he had avoided a duel, thus returning the jade intact to Zhao.
The unfortunate child continued to serve as a servant to the baron.
If after two years he returns to the Order as a squire and still fails to pass the duel successfully, he will not be promoted to a knight by the earl.
As soon as his father dies, his family's fiefdom will be taken back by the Baron.
Once you lose your fiefdom, your social status will slide down very quickly, and you might end up being worse than a hard-working businessman.
To be honest, the most promising and handsome man within a hundred miles has become her son-in-law.
Although I don't expect to find a second one like this, I can't be too disappointed.
Theresa thought about this and brought her three sisters to the Lavossen Market.
Olivia mainly planned to buy some daily necessities, such as things for making clothes.
Of the 300 permanent households in Lavosen, half make a living by running small commodity businesses.
This place is also a small hub in the north of the kingdom. When Lennia was still relatively peaceful, it was also a place where merchants from many countries conducted border trade.
It is now also the most prosperous town on the border, and the market occupies most of the area in the city.
There are more than a dozen small streets and alleys on both sides of the main road at the city gate, and all the streets and alleys in the city are named after constellations.
The first place Olivia and her mother and sisters came to was Orion, where meat was sold.
At the entrance to Orion, there is a mutton stall with a skinned sheep hanging on it and a butcher is butchering the meat.
Since the last two years were tax-free, Theresa was more generous than usual.
She picked and chose in front of the mutton stall and asked the boss to cut two fat lamb legs and a large lamb chop.
The price of two lamb legs is eight kelis, and lamb chops are even more popular, costing five kelis per cut.
However, if you cut the lamb chops into ribs, they are enough for a table of people to have at a dinner party.
Olivia felt that if she had gotten this much money in her previous life, the purchasing power would be about the same as more than 100 RMB. The same goes for silver and gold coins, multiplied by ten or one hundred.
She looked at it and was a little confused. After asking Theresa for a long time, she chose a piece of lamb belly weighing about six pounds, which cost two koli and five sori.
There is no doubt that only the landlord class could afford such expensive meat.
Common people who were not so wealthy came to buy mutton for Christmas and could only pick up a few sheep's feet, heads and offal with little meat.
But to make the offal delicious, it would require too many expensive spices, so she didn't plan to buy them.
The price of a sheep's foot was three silver coins. Olivia counted on her fingers and calculated that the meat of this sheep without the skin could be sold for at least four or five silver coins.
A live sheep with its skin and wool on was sold for ten silver coins, or about one gold coin.
Therefore, for sheep, fur can account for half of their economic value.
After buying the mutton, Sansa wanted to go to the "processed food" street in Lepus to find maltose and citron candy.
But Theresa planned to go on and pick out an ox tongue and a whole chicken to cook for the holiday.
So, Olivia volunteered to take Sansa and Lainie to the nearby constellation Lepus.
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