Chapter 37 Thirty-Seven Agricultural Stars
In the evening after the competition, the sky had already darkened, but the dinner at the Baron's Mansion was still going on.
The candlelight, the aroma of wine, and the rich fragrance of spices, the fire in the fireplace and the lively music made the hall feel like summer.
Not until the Baron and the guests from afar were half drunk and were sent to rest by the servants did the knights and ladies dare to leave the Baron's mansion.
At the barracks door, George tied Lily, the horse he won in the tournament, to Olivia's carriage.
"It's so beautiful." Olivia reached out and touched the horse's head under Caesar's guidance.
Lily is a mare taller than Olivia. Her coat is all snow-white, her black eyes are topped with curled eyelashes, and her tail is as smooth as silk. She looks like a real princess. When Olivia reached out to touch her, she turned her head to look at her and stuck out her tongue to lick her hand.
"It seems that it is very docile and likes you very much."
Caesar stood beside them with his hands in his pockets, and only dared to let his wife touch the horses that were trained by the Baron's mansion. For example, those untrained horses could kick people far away when they got angry.
"Of course."
Olivia and Lily got acquainted with each other for a while, and only got into the car after her drunken father, mother, and sister came out. The two convoys left the Baron's Mansion together and prepared to leave the city.
Although the city gates of Lavossen are closed in the evening, there is no curfew in the city, and residents can still be seen having fun on the streets.
During the day, the city is the world of merchants. When night falls, residents come out to live. They can go to the public bath to take a bath, watch dog fighting, or go to the pub to drink beer.
If they were poor people with no money, they would carry a small basket and go to the tavern to sell snacks, such as pork pudding, blood sausage, dried fish, etc.
Olivia sat in the car, the wheels slowly moved forward, she took off the gold bracelet on her hand and stuffed it into a cloth bag along with the jewel ring, medals and other things.
Halfway through, she sent George to the grocery store to buy a whole sheet of parchment, wax, and ink.
After a team of carriages left the city, they traveled together, which was quite safe. After walking slowly along the river bank for more than an hour, Olivia returned to her manor.
As soon as we entered the backyard, the housekeeper and Lucy came out to greet us.
Since they didn't know anything about the Baron's mansion, the butler and Lucy were so shocked that they were speechless when they saw Lily, the beautiful animal.
George showed off to them what he had seen and heard in the Baron's mansion today. Only then did they realize that the horse was the first prize in the competition. It was the first prize, no wonder it was so beautiful.
Olivia specifically told Lucy that this pony would be her ride in the future and she must take good care of it.
"Feed it with fine bran and some cooked beans."
Lucy nodded and led the horse: "Don't worry, ma'am."
After settling her favorite things, she returned to her bedroom with a bag of gold and silver jewelry, as well as expensive parchment, at least much more expensive than the wax tablet.
The housekeeper was still helping to feed the horses downstairs. Olivia lit an oil lamp, carefully cut the parchment into A4-sized squares with scissors, and began to write down the production process of the twelve desserts.
This piece of trimmed sheepskin can only be cut into a few sheets of paper, but it costs more than a silver coin.
Even the richest people only use it to write official documents.
For example, a book made of parchment, covered with leather, with words written on it and illustrations drawn by an artist would cost several gold coins in total.
Even in the Baron's study, there was only a small bookshelf with dozens of books.
Olivia wrote the recipe with a quill pen, being very careful, fearing that there would be mistakes.
First write down the name of each dessert, then the ingredients and dosage to be used, and finally the preparation method, whether it is foaming, heating, stirring, or freezing.
In order for Mrs. Held to be able to replicate the original, Olivia even wrote down the principles of foaming the cream and egg whites, letting them use the clumsy method of beating them by hand.
She didn't reveal the secret of the bubbler, so as to avoid bringing up the matter and making people guess that there was a craftsman in her estate who was good at making tools.
For a small landowner with little power, any good craftsmen or people with special skills cannot be kept and have to be given to his superiors as tribute.
It’s better to appear a little clumsy in front of outsiders.
She sat behind the desk and wrote slowly, her face very serious.
Caesar had just finished changing his clothes and taking off his armor. He was wearing a loose robe and dared to walk quietly to the side and sit down, looking down at Olivia's beautiful handwriting.
These desserts, it turns out, take so much effort! He watched it all from beginning to end, feeling quite impressed.
If I can't take down the lady in the Baron's mansion, what else can I take down?
When Olivia finished writing, she went out and called the housekeeper to roll up the recipes, tie them with hemp rope, and cover them with sealing wax.
"Jock, tomorrow morning, you will take this to the Baron's Mansion and give it to the maidservant beside the Baroness."
The butler responded and took it, but Olivia didn't let him go and took out the treasures she had harvested today from the cloth bag.
A medal, an emerald ring, and a gold bracelet in the shape of wheat ears.
She reached out and took out the metal medal. The medal was not valuable, but it had carvings and patterns on it. It was a kind of honor and could be kept as a souvenir.
"Take this ring and bracelet to town and sell them for gold coins tomorrow."
The emerald is transparent in color and the gold bracelet is exquisitely crafted. They are both very valuable and can be exchanged for at least twenty gold coins together.
Caesar, sitting nearby, saw his wife make such a quick decision and asked her in confusion, "Why don't you keep it for yourself?"
Aren’t these things women would like?
Olivia asked the butler to take the things away, shook her head and persuaded him:
"Gold, silver, and treasures are useless if kept in your hands. They take up space and attract attention, but they are of no use at all."
“It would be better to convert all of it into real gold coins and spend it on the manor’s defense and farming. Wealth that can flow is real wealth.
If you only seek temporary enjoyment, then this ring will always be just a ring."
Her words made a lot of sense. After hearing them, the butler and Caesar felt an inexplicable respect for her.
They had never seen anyone who could see gold, silver and treasures so clearly and had no attachment to them at all.
Caesar thought, the lady is indeed not an ordinary person.
The butler nodded and carefully put the valuables into his pocket.
Olivia sighed with satisfaction and continued to make arrangements:
"Tomorrow, send someone to invite my aunt and Letilan to the manor and ask them to have lunch with me."
"The Baroness wants to help build the monastery and has given me the job of recruiting cutters. I want them to help me find good craftsmen from all over the country."
The butler nodded: "Then I will let Ethan go to Renault Manor tomorrow, and let Adam go to the city to find Letilan."
Caesar looked at Olivia, who continued:
“Although this matter was ordered by the Baroness, I will inevitably have to come into contact with Catherine, Doris and others because of this.
Jock, don't come back empty-handed tomorrow. Bring me another batch of the same ingredients you used last time.
Catherine and Doris both like what I cook, so I'll make it again and send a few boxes for them."
After listening to this, the butler confirmed all the tasks one by one before leaving the main house.
Olivia thought about it and felt that there should be nothing left out, so she leaned back in her chair like a big boss and raised her foot to instruct Caesar to take off her shoes.
This short day today seemed to last longer than three days, and it was really exhausting.
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The next morning, the wind was stronger than the snow, blowing against the windows and sending snowflakes flying everywhere, but the snow was not too deep.
Before daybreak, the housekeeper woke up the two boys, Adam and Ethan, and sent Ethan to Reno Manor first. Then he asked Adam to harness the donkey cart and go to the city as soon as possible.
After a while, all the servants in the manor started to move.
The cook got the news that there would be a dinner party at noon, so she started cleaning the blackened smoked pork legs early in the morning.
Lucy took down the clothes that had been drying by the fireplace last night before going to feed the animals.
Olivia didn't get up until the smoke from the kitchen rose and the chickens and ducks in the farmhouse were clucking and scrambling for food.
She was so exhausted from socializing yesterday that she slept two hours longer than usual.
In a blink of an eye, half of December has passed.
Olivia went to the farmhouse in the backyard in a daze and checked the condition of the chickens, ducks, cows, sheep, pigs and horses as usual.
Meanwhile, Lucy was filling the stone trough in the stable with cooked broad beans and fine bran, the kind people usually use to make porridge.
However, in order to help the lily adapt to the environment faster, they were not stingy in giving it delicious food. Once it settled down, they could feed it hay.
Olivia continued to develop her relationship with Lily, and once the snowy weather was over, she could learn horseback riding in the courtyard.
The courtyard is now covered with frozen ice, which can easily cause the horse's hooves to slip and is not suitable for novices.
Olivia went to the next door to pick up a dozen chicken and duck eggs, returned to the kitchen, shoveled a basin of wood ash from the fireplace, took half a can of quicklime and coarse salt, added water and mixed with a spoon.
Stir it into mud, paste it on chicken and duck eggs, coat the outside with a layer of dry powder, seal it in a jar, pour wheat bran inside to seal it, and put it in the corner of the kitchen.
After about ten days, you can see if it is successful.
The cook was busy making lunch and didn't pay much attention to the lady's strange behavior.
Olivia went to the well to wash her hands before coming back to help the cook prepare the dishes and season them.
Today's lunch is smoked pig's trotters.
For this dish, the cook usually just peels the skin, cuts the bones into pieces to make soup, and slices the meat and serves it with bread.
But Olivia had eaten cured pig's trotter hotpot in her previous life, so she asked the cook to chop it into pieces and use it to make soup.
In order to remove the fishy smell and enhance the flavor, Olivia poured some apple cider vinegar, kumquat wine and salt into the soup pot.
The soup gurgled and slowly turned into a milky white color. The fishy smell disappeared and the aroma of meat filled the air. The slightly yellow skin was attached to the bones and the clear leg tendons were connected.
Since there were no soybeans, Olivia poured some soaked chickpeas into the pot, covered it with a lid and simmered it.
When she returned to the restaurant, she took out the tableware, wiped it clean and set it aside. It was lunchtime when, in the distance, a carriage entered the manor from the direction of Renault Manor and stopped at the gate.
My aunt got out of the car and entered the restaurant. She turned around and asked Ethan to get something out of the car.
Olivia put down the cutlery in her hand and came over to greet her.
"It was very windy outside today and I was delayed for a long time on the road. I brought you some delicious food."
Narcissa looked at her niece. She immediately became excited when she heard about the delicious food. Narcissa couldn't help but smile. It was easier to coax this lady than anyone else.
"This is the smoked venison shank I had brought from Caron, and the wine to go with it."
Olivia had the box opened and taken a look. She saw that the smoked deer leg was rubbed with juniper berries and then smoked, and sealed with a thin layer of salted butter. The longer it was stored, the more fragrant it became.
"I like it very much. Send it to the kitchen in the back. I have invited people. We will have dinner soon."
She smiled and took her aunt to sit in the restaurant. After a while, Letilan's mule cart arrived.
He got off the mule cart, not empty-handed, and walked into the house. He skillfully asked Adam to take a few ceramic bottles with two handles and thin necks from his cart and send them to the kitchen, saying that they were a few bottles of honey and olive oil. He also said that these bottles were very good for storing oil because they were sealed with wax.
Olive oil is not available in this bitter cold land, and is also found on the southern coast of the continent.
"Hey, why did you bring me food too?"
Olivia realized that these people seemed to have made an agreement beforehand.
She introduced Letilen and her aunt to each other, led them to sit at the dining table, and asked someone to invite Father Fanon, the otaku who was soaking in the bedroom and doing no one knew what he was doing, to come down.
She arranged for a few people to prepare it, and Lucy brought out the pig's trotter and chickpea soup, divided it up, and brought out fried dumplings and bread.
Olivia sniffed the fragrant broth, raised her head and said:
"I don't have any good dishes here, so just have a couple of bites. I mainly want to ask you to do me a favor."
"If you have any questions, just tell me. I will definitely help you as long as I can."
After Letilen finished speaking, he took a big sip of the pig's trotter soup and poked the pig skin with a fork. The skin had been stewed into pieces, but the meat tendons were still elastic and smooth, emitting a fresh fragrance, and there was no fishy smell at all.
Olivia looked at him and said:
"The Baroness asked me to find a craftsman. Did I tell you what I sent to you?"
She looked at her aunt again: "Aunt must have known about it too."
"But where else would I know so many craftsmen? After careful consideration, I realized that only you and my aunt are knowledgeable, so I invited you here."
Olivia put on an embarrassed look and said:
“Even so, the budget for this job is small and the construction period has not yet been determined.
We also need 30 or 40 carpenters and stonemasons, and we have to provide them with food and drink, pay their salaries, and provide them with housing. I feel a little embarrassed to ask you for help."
Narcissa smiled. If this good thing happened to someone else, they would beg for it, but she could earn it back later even if she had to pay first.
The place in Caron is becoming increasingly sluggish, and she plans to open up her business in Lavossen. If she wants to take root, she must pay the price first.
However, Letilen also thought so. He heard from the men who delivered the things last time that they had inquired about the monastery and even found out the nun's residence in the city, but they did not find out when and where.
His father-in-law, who had a stake in a brick kiln workshop in the city, urged him to come to the lady again to give her gifts and ask questions. If the information was accurate, he would go back and prepare the goods in advance to compete.
Letilen said, "As for the carpenter, I can go to a few nearby towns for you. I'll do the math and find thirty or forty of them. Just let them know in advance and give them time to come out."
My aunt also nodded.
"I can find a stonemason for you. No matter how much the budget is, we can always find the right people."
Olivia probably knew that these businessmen would all have their own unique skills.
She told them the deadline for starting work and the time to gather the craftsmen.
He then deducted one tenth from the allocated amount to make the budget margin, and stated the figure after the deduction.
That is to say, each person can get a budget of 90 gold coins to do things.
Hearing this, Letilen and his aunt began to quickly calculate in their minds again, and finally nodded reluctantly, thinking that there was no profit to be made, but it was just enough and they didn't need to pay for it. Only then did they breathe a sigh of relief.
They all agreed and said that it could be done.
As soon as Olivia saw the expressions on their faces, she knew what they were thinking. Most likely, it was the same as what she thought when she heard Catherine finish talking about the budget.
She smiled, took a bite of the trembling pork trotter tendon between the toasted bread.
The host and guests all enjoyed the meal very much. Everyone had their own thoughts, so no one stayed long. After the meal, everyone went back to prepare things.
After arranging the tasks, Olivia felt relaxed in the afternoon and couldn't help but stay in the stable for a while.
She combed Lily's hair herself, and as if not bothered by the trouble, she went to the attic to get a piece of cowhide, intending to make herself a limited edition saddle bag.
Her poor craftsmanship improved a lot after many days of practice.
The saddle, stirrups, and reins have already been provided by the Baron's Mansion, so you don't have to assemble them separately.
Saddle bags are rarely used nowadays. Most people just hang a saddle bag on the horse's back to carry things. Commoners use linen ones, while nobles use felt ones, which are also embroidered.
Although saddlebags have a large capacity, Olivia thinks they are not sturdy enough or good-looking, and prefers saddle bags.
However, a piece of cowhide was big enough to be used as a quilt. She spent an entire afternoon spreading the cowhide on the bedroom carpet, drawing lines with a pen, cutting out pieces of leather with scissors, and then cleaning up the mess of leather and returning to the attic.
The cowhide on hand is very thick, so you need to use a push knife to thin the leather at the joints.
He started to use an awl to punch holes in the leather, and then sewed them up along the holes little by little with thread, as the needle could not pierce through them directly.
Finally, she sewed all two pieces together, the base and the bails, and added a strap to secure it to the saddle.
Because there was no metal lock, she used a horn buckle to fasten the lid.
She had memorized this thing in her previous life, and when she made it, it looked really good, but the cowhide she used was real material and not fake, so the thing was thick and solid.
It feels a bit like a small box, not that soft, but after being brushed with grease and maintained, it can also hold a lot of small items.
In the afternoon, Olivia took the saddle bag to the stable, put it on Lily, tried it on, and found that it was just right, with the straps neither too long nor too short.
Olivia thought that as soon as the wild fruits came out in the spring, she would ride out to pick them, fill the bag with them and return to the manor.
It’s such an idyllic life!
However, before she could be happy for long, Lucy ran in from outside and told her that her father had returned from running errands.
Hearing this, Olivia remembered what had happened.
She left the farmhouse and came to the backyard. The housekeeper was shaking off the snow on his body. His face was red from the cold. He asked Adam to come out and take the ingredients into the kitchen.
He quickly called his wife and walked into the warm restaurant, while reporting his itinerary for the day.
"As you instructed, I took the recipe to the Baron's mansion, where I met the Baroness's maid and personally handed the recipe to her."
Olivia asked, "Did you give it to Katherine?"
The butler nodded in agreement.
She sat down in front of the fireplace with satisfaction.
The butler rummaged through his coat for a long time before he pulled out the bag of coins he had carefully stored away and handed it over.
Olivia took the rustling, heavy velvet bag and felt it in her hand. It must have weighed at least a few ounces.
She opened the drawstring and poured the coins onto the dining table and counted them. There were gold and silver coins.
At the same time, the housekeeper felt relieved and said:
“Madam, I went to town and visited four or five pawnshops and gold and silver jewelry stores.
After comparison, the jewel ring was exchanged for twelve gold coins and seven silver coins.
The gold bracelet was exchanged for thirteen gold coins and five silver coins, a total of twenty-five gold coins and twelve silver coins.
Sugar, jam, vanilla, and other things cost five silver coins, and this is all that's left."
After saying that, he took out the receipts written by the two stores from his pocket.
Olivia took the two small pieces of parchment, which had the signatures and fingerprints of the shopkeeper and the housekeeper, as well as the amount.
She always trusted the housekeeper, but she couldn't help but check it carefully, so she looked at it carefully before nodding.
"To be honest, this is more than I thought. It's all thanks to you running errands."
Olivia picked up a gold coin and handed it to the butler.
"This is your reward."
The butler was a little frightened, as he had never received so much reward before. But since the lady didn't seem to be joking, he reached out to take it.
In fact, the owner of a gold and silver shop saw that he was also running errands for others, and really wanted to lower the price by bribing him.
But the housekeeper thought that his wife had a keen eye, and if the matter were to be discovered, the lives of the entire family would be in danger, so he resolutely refused and changed to another store.
He felt somewhat relieved at this moment.
Olivia took the remaining gold and silver coins upstairs and locked the money away.
Seeing that it was almost dinner time, she went to the kitchen and asked Lucy to help sift the flour.
He opened all the ingredients bought by the housekeeper and put all the dried fruits, jams, and sugar that were not used up last time into this batch of new bottles before starting to use them.
While breakfasting at the Baroness's, she had noted which desserts both Catherine and Doris liked.
Catherine is young and lively and likes desserts with cream fillings.
Doris is older and more stable. She doesn't like soft things and prefers fried crispy candy ears and pastries.
She planned to cater to their tastes and make a batch for each of them and send them to the two of them privately. They would not refuse to accept it.
So the kitchen soon became busy again. The cook was cleaning up and preparing to continue stewing the remaining pig's trotters according to the method that the lady had used at noon.
Lucy was helping Olivia make dessert, sifting flour, kneading dough, adding yeast and sugar, and preparing to let it rise in the cupboard overnight.
Olivia made several plates of cheese jam using the same method as last time.
The raw materials will be prepared tonight, and they will be baked during the day tomorrow. Then they will be wrapped into bundles with cloth, put in boxes and sent to the Baron's residence.
When she was almost done, she took off her apron and walked out of the kitchen. It was already dark outside.
Caesar's horse was led in from the front yard by George and walked into the stable. The soldiers behind him also hurriedly carried the prey they had shot from archery practice and shivered in the cold as they returned to the kitchen to warm themselves.
Olivia saw that they were all wearing new shoes and clothes made by themselves, so she stayed to ask them if they had adapted to their new equipment and weapons.
These soldiers were all sweet-mouthed and spoke the truth. They put on their new shoes and new clothes, put on their chain mail and helmets, and took their new weapons in their hands. When they went out, they could hold on and stand tall even in the cold.
It's completely different from the self-destructive savage he was before.
Tani also said that the soldier who had no girls paying attention to him before, has had some girls asking about his well-being in the past two days.
This shows that this person's energy and spirit are indeed partly supported by equipment.
After listening to the public opinion, she returned to the main house and saw Caesar and Fanon chanting in the prayer room as they performed the mid-month ceremony.
I didn't say anything and waited until they finished praying before calling them into the restaurant.
The severe weather has now transitioned from heavy snow to strong winds, but compared to the tired, hungry and cold soldiers, Caesar looks as if nothing happened.
He had changed his clothes and was now wearing a casual brown robe with simple patterns on it. The length of the robe reached the ground. He was extremely tall, with a leather belt around his waist, and his shoulders were very broad and his waist was very thin.
Olivia admired it unconcealedly for a while, then raised her hand and patted the empty seat beside her, asking him to come over and asking him where he had taken the soldiers today.
Caesar sat down next to Olivia, subconsciously pulled her over and began to play with her hair, saying:
"I took them to the river, and I found that many refugees had gathered on the other side of the river, fleeing westward along the border.
Perhaps several major cities in Lennia have been conquered by the rebels, which is why so many refugees are fleeing."
"Wouldn't these refugees sneak over here when they were fleeing?"
Olivia asked doubtfully.
Caesar laughed when he heard this: "Guess what I do?"
"They've come here, and they can't hide in this forest. If we catch them, they'll be slaves on the manor for the rest of their lives."
"……All right."
Olivia knew that the Lenians were pagans to the Alta people, and if they did not convert to their religion when they came here, they would have to become slaves.
This is lower than being a tenant farmer. Tenant farmers are accessories of the land and are tools of production. Although it is equivalent to selling themselves to the land and they are deeply tied to the land, generally the lords will not watch their tenant farmers starve to death.
Even if they were buying and selling, tenants would not be bought and sold individually. If a tenant was killed who had not violated the law or doctrine, the lord would be convicted of cruelty for violating the terms of the doctrine.
However, most lords would first accuse disobedient tenants and self-cultivating farmers of violating national laws and doctrines before dealing with them.
But it was different for these pagan slaves.
Olivia thought that perhaps the landowners of this era would treat slaves as free consumables. Not to mention giving them land to farm, they would kill them for fun without any responsibility, and they also had a bad reputation.
Otherwise, those refugees would not risk freezing to death and walk westward along the border line, not daring to cross the border.
In fact, she was really looking forward to having refugees come to her fiefdom to fill the population, reclaim wasteland, educate them to become ordinary tenant farmers, and then use them to develop the territory.
However, this is somewhat difficult, after all, their beliefs are different. The Alta believe in the Creator God and consider themselves the people of the Creator God, while the Lenians believe in the Sun God and consider themselves the descendants of the Sun God.
There is some gap between the two, and each considers the other to be a sinful pagan.
Unless they can no longer go west, they will try to escape across the border and see if they can meet some kind-hearted people to help them.
It wasn't until Lucy brought their dinner to the table that Olivia remembered what she wanted to tell Caesar.
Recruit those self-employed farmers who meet her service requirements as soldiers.
Anyway, after upgrading the equipment for the other guys, the old weapons, spears, and other things were piled up in the attic gathering dust.
"Okay." Caesar thought for a moment and then said, "I can take these people on patrol for two days to try it out."
If these people can meet his requirements and are equipped with weapons, they will be allowed to work in two shifts with the first batch of soldiers.
One group of people patrolled the manor and served as sentry, while another group went out on patrol.
Leave professional matters to professionals. This is the truth that Olivia learned after working for a few years in her previous life.
"very good."
Olivia nodded in relief, ate the meat and drank the soup in big mouthfuls, and then ate a bowl of dumplings with eggs and pickled cabbage.
She had to worry about her lunch, so she didn't eat very much. She was just looking forward to having a comfortable meal by the fire in the evening, taking a hot bath after sweating all over, and letting Caesar rub her back.
This day is really like a fairy tale.
Once she had money, she could naturally equip the soldiers with chain mail and bows, and still have a lot left over.
She planned to expand the main house of the manor when she had saved up dozens or hundreds of gold coins by next year.
The walls, kitchen, orchard, main house, and the old cowshed and chicken coop were all demolished and rebuilt.
She had already planned to build a house in one go, which would at least be sufficient for her as a manor owner and would not require any further upgrades.
While bathing, Caesar listened to her fantasizing about the future and planning her future, and he just knelt beside the tub, diligently helping her scrub her back and apply soap. No matter what she asked, he just nodded and said yes, and then asked her to turn over.
I don’t know why, but if someone else said these words, it would seem like a pipe dream. How could anything go so smoothly in the world?
Especially in such troubled times, with disasters and famines every year.
But Caesar felt that these words coming from his wife's mouth were very realistic and reliable.
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The next morning, Olivia felt like she was back to life. Perhaps because she was looking forward to the future coming soon, she was full of strength and her bed was no worse for wear.
This time, when she went to the kitchen to bake the dough that had been fermented yesterday, Lucy had just finished feeding the animals.
She took all the chickens that were warming by the fireplace in the dining room and carried them back to the chicken coop in three trips in boxes, and also collected a basket of eggs.
After working for about an hour, Olivia made five or six flavors of desserts.
Once the ingredients are prepared, baking becomes very easy.
Giving it to Catherine and Doris doesn't require exquisite work from the inside out, unlike giving it to the Baroness.
When sending food to Catherine and the others, just use authentic ingredients and large quantities. They are with the Baroness and are fed according to the rules. Although they have some exquisite food, they have never eaten anything special.
Give them a little more so they can share it with each other, or let them have some left over so they can take some home for their families.
The housekeeper waited for Lucy to load the two small boxes neatly packed in linen bags onto the cart, then took the donkey cart to run errands in town.
After preparing gifts for the maids, Olivia also left two plates of jam and cheese scones for herself for breakfast.
It's a pity that the system hasn't sent her tea yet. Otherwise, she would make a pot of tea, pair it with desserts and preserved fruits, take a bite of something sweet and fragrant, and then take a sip of slightly hot tea to clear her mouth and suppress the greasy taste. That would be so comfortable.
It can also make black tea and milk tea.
However, she also liked to drink the linden flower tea and mint tea made by the housekeeper, which could be used to go with desserts as a substitute.
After she leisurely finished her breakfast in the restaurant, she was about to call the servants to arrange things as she had done in the past two days.
But suddenly I found that after being busy for two days, there seemed to be nothing left to do, and I suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
At the moment, all the things that needed to be explained were done. She opened the task bar and found that most of the progress had been made. She would be able to unlock new tasks after waiting for another twelve days.
So, Olivia, who was rarely so full, started to wander around the orchard area of the estate.
Her orchard was located thirty steps in front of the main house.
Starting from the man-high walls on both sides, there are thirty pear trees on the right and thirty apple trees on the left.
Since these trees are older than Caesar, they were planted by his father when he was young to make cider.
Therefore, even though there was such heavy snow, the roots were not frozen, but the branches were broken by the accumulated snow.
Moreover, as usual, the housekeeper had tied these trees with hemp ropes to keep them warm in late autumn.
So, Olivia walked forward in the snow, taking one deep step and one shallow step.
She walked under the big trees, playing with the tamed wolf cubs who would turn over their bellies to ask for meat, and she didn't see a single frozen dead tree.
When the main house is expanded next year, she wants to expand the surrounding area of the main house into a two or three-story stone and brick circular building like a livestock farmhouse.
At that time, some of these decades-old trees will have to be moved to make room for buildings.
In the Baron's mansion, she also carefully learned the design of fortifications.
The higher the watchtower, the better, as it allows you to see farther. The watchtower of the Baron's Mansion is six stories high and is located at the four corners of the wall, allowing you to clearly see the streets in all directions of the entire town of Lavosen.
The soldiers knew exactly where people were fighting or where fires had broken out.
Although the square U-shaped building looks a bit ugly, it is very safe.
If you dig a deep well in the courtyard, block several gates, and have a warehouse full of food, you can survive for several months without any problem. Small-scale burning, killing and looting will not be able to do anything to you.
Four watchtowers were built on the four corners of the building. In their open forest, they didn't need to be too high, four stories were enough. If thieves tried to break in, archers would be deployed.
As Olivia was thinking, she walked to the stone wall of the courtyard.
Now, the walls of the courtyard were piled with snow cleared by the servants, and the small hill could still be walked up.
She pulled the little wolf cub up to the parapet, stood high up and looked into the village.
Suddenly, Caesar and George came towards them, riding their horses back over the mountain from the river bank, one in front and one behind, followed by a dozen soldiers.
Some of them are well-dressed veterans.
Some of them were new recruits equipped only with a pair of leather shoes, old robes, old leather hats and spears.
After she gave the order yesterday, George moved the old equipment out of the warehouse early in the morning, called the guys who met her requirements, and asked them to serve starting today and go out on patrol with the veterans.
As Olivia watched, she noticed that there were eleven or twelve more strangers staggering behind them.
Then she remembered to open the map and found the footprints of these people.
They were Lenyas, white footprints, and they had no hostility towards them, so they were civilians.
Could it be that after Lenya's eastern front fell into the hands of the rebels, there was no way out to the west?
Olivia flipped through the character cards of these Lenian civilians and suddenly made a new discovery among a dozen of them.
Jacob Wisenmo
"Favorability: 00"
HP: 30 (sprained)
Personality: Lively
"Talent Point: Farming (three stars)"
Huh? What is this! Three Stars in Farming! She had never come into close contact with someone gifted in farming.
She clicked on Wisenmo's character card and read his story.
It turned out that this Lenya was just the son of a wealthy beet farmer, and the people behind him were all his family members, including his mother, brothers and sisters, aunts, uncles, and cousins.
His family originally lived a comfortable life by growing sugar beets and bought a small piece of land in Lenya, but not long ago, the place where they lived was attacked by the rebels, and their home was occupied by the rebels because of its fertile land.
Their family was destroyed and they had to escape, so they could only head west. They were hungry for several days, and they all felt dizzy and slept in snow caves every day.
However, this Vimosen sprained his leg last night because he was chased by a wolf.
His family members are now taking turns carrying him. If he doesn't get treatment, he will die. He will definitely not be able to go west, so he can only force himself to cross the river at night and try his luck.
They rested for a night in the woods by the river, preparing to continue south at daybreak, disguised as Alta farmers, but they were soon discovered.
Olivia ran down from the snow pile in an instant.
This farming three-star seems to be a little dead!
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