Chapter 43: Forty-three Crazy Liver Mission
After Mrs. Bordall left, Fansi quietly cleaned up the mess in the restaurant.
She breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at the empty plates. Her two sisters in the kitchen were eagerly waiting for her to bring good news.
Fan Xi collected all the dishes and carried them away on a tray. Before returning to the kitchen, she glanced into the prayer room.
She saw the lady walking back and forth in the prayer room, and now she stopped in front of the mural, thinking deeply about something, her back straight, majestic and elegant.
Fan Qian thought she was good at survival and could understand people's expressions. She wanted to show off in front of the lady, but she felt that the lady's mood was too difficult to guess, so she had to continue carrying the plate back to the kitchen.
Olivia didn't think about anything else, but just went over the news brought by Mrs. Baudelaire.
After thinking about it, she guessed something from these words.
Putting aside the issue of making money, the nun's behavior is worth pondering.
After a while, Olivia called out to the back door.
Fan Xi was sweeping the stairwell, and she quickly threw something away and ran over to ask her.
"Call the butler."
Olivia said.
After the steward had counted the accounts and collected the receipts, he went to the backyard to settle the bill with the merchant who had delivered the lamb.
After a while, Fan Xi went to invite the housekeeper over from the backyard.
Olivia stood in front of the exquisite life-size mural, her expression somewhat solemn.
"Mrs. Bordall just told me that the nun asked the Baroness to build a cellar under the monastery, so the budget for her task was reduced."
The housekeeper tried to guess the lady's expression. He was thinking something but didn't dare to say it. He just said:
"The cellar was built, perhaps to store food."
The monastery prohibits alcohol, so they built cellars but did not use them to make wine. However, how much grain would be needed to fill such a large cellar?
Olivia shook her head. "I think it might be for safety reasons."
The housekeeper's expression suddenly froze. "Madam, do you think the nuns are making preparations to prevent future unrest?"
Jock couldn't help but think deeply. Everyone knew the nun's background. If she thought there would be war on the border in the future, it meant that she also believed that the Earl would send troops to the North, and his expansion was inevitable.
People of their status definitely know more than unknown people.
Olivia nodded.
"Since they're making preparations, we have to make some too. Have them dig the ice cellar wider, double the size of the original plan, and send a message to Renault Manor to see what they think."
If she herself was threatened, she could just hide in her own cellar. By widening the ice cellar, the women and children in the fiefdom could at least have a temporary shelter.
"Yes, I'll do it right away." The butler frowned and retreated.
After watching the housekeeper leave, Olivia heard the bleating of lambs coming from the backyard, and then she remembered to collect the reward for the dungeon mission.
The reward for this task was only five experience points. After digging the ice cellar, she had 150 experience points.
Olivia thought that it would take too long to expect her own resources to become richer. It seemed that she had to work hard on this dungeon mission. She decided to see if she could get anything useful by brushing off items.
She refreshed a new copy mission.
"Loved by all:
Accumulated *10NPC favorability 100
Progress: (9/10)
Reward: +15 XP
+ The Art of War by Sun Tzu *1
Olivia fell silent as she looked at the new task.
Sun Tzu's Art of War is definitely a tool for improving military talent.
She opened the item notes and found that it was a five-star item. Only one copy was needed to provide an ordinary NPC with a one-star military talent.
It turns out that props also have levels, and the higher the level, the more useful they are.
Judging from the difficulty of the tasks that the system always sets for rewards, the system doesn't think that it is difficult to make people feel good about it, right?
There was no way. There were too many NPCs who liked her, and she had no place to display her personal charm. The first group of servants she came into contact with had already had their favorability ratings raised to 100 by her.
Well, let's start with the new servants now.
She flipped through the list and found that the only person whose favorability was close to 100 was Fan Qian.
This girl's favorability has increased from 0 to 60 since the first day she entered the manor.
The thing is, when they first entered the manor, Olivia had no intention of winning people's hearts.
But after having a simple lunch of sourdough bread and bean soup at the manor, the new servant's favorability increased rapidly.
The prices of several families who had enough food and drink increased by twenty or thirty. The more they were short of food and drink, the easier it was for their favorability to be bought with a meal.
Olivia thought about it, went back to cut a new piece of felt cloth, and gave it to Fansi.
"Madam, what are you doing?"
Olivia asked her to take the things and said, "This is for you. Use it to make some clothes. You work here, so you should dress nicely. It will look more respectable when guests come."
Fanxi opened her mouth, but was convinced by this reason and had to hesitantly accept the cloth, looking at Olivia with sparkling eyes.
"Thank you, ma'am."
Olivia hummed, and had planned to give her another pair of shoes next time, thinking that she could always raise her favorability to the highest level.
As a result, as soon as Fan Xi walked away, she opened the ring and found that the favorability level was full.
“…”
This girl is really easy to bribe.
Olivia opened the dungeon mission and clicked to receive the reward.
She thought about it and used the item on Caesar first. Sure enough, the item bounced back, indicating that the use failed and the NPC had reached the maximum level.
However, even if the use fails, the props will not disappear.
So, what the rules mean is that props cannot be undone until they are used correctly.
Olivia used the props on her follower George again.
George's favorability is also 100. After using the item, the talent column in the character card shows "Military" (1 star)
This person still has no special skills.
Olivia refreshed the dungeon mission again.
"trade:
One hundred dried fish
Reward: +15 XP
+《The Wealth of Nations》＊1
Olivia first paid attention to the reward. This theory of enriching a nation was obviously a prop to increase the "business" talent.
Trade one hundred dried fish?
This system really loves dried fish.
But this is easy to do, as the tenant farmers in the village are allowed to fish in the river.
Most tenant farmers have dried fish in stock at home. Although the quality may vary, the quest only mentions dried fish and doesn't mention the size. Can't we just buy it directly from the people in charge?
Just give me the money.
As for the dried fish collected, those of poor quality are used as employee meals to supplement people's protein, while those of good quality can be resold.
She went to the backyard to find Ethan, took out a few silver coins from her pocket, and asked Ethan to go to the village to buy dried fish in large quantities.
Ethan looked blankly at the handful of silver coins in his hand: "Madam, these silver coins can buy hundreds of dried fish..."
Their place is close to the river, and dried fish are not valuable. A small one can be bought for two or three sori, and if it is a large dried salmon, it can be bought for seven or eight sori.
"Well, go ahead and buy a hundred dried fish, big or small, take them all."
Ethan responded without thinking, pocketing the money and heading to the tenant farmers' homes in the village, knocking on every door and asking if they had any dried fish...
He spent all the silver coins he received in the afternoon, and then carried more than a dozen bags of dried fish back to the manor and asked Olivia to check them.
Olivia pointed at the dried fish and asked him to pick out the good ones and sell them in town tomorrow, and take the bad ones to the kitchen to make a big pot of rice.
Ethan quickly began to sort.
The tenant farmers in the village can collect wild vegetables, fish, and hunt rabbits and birds on their own land.
However, they could not go to the town to do business at will, nor could they leave the manor at will. Even if they went fishing, they could only sell some or barter with self-cultivating farmers.
However, it is not easy for self-cultivating farmers to go out and do business. Their goods have to pay taxes when leaving the manor and when going to the city, so even if they have the opportunity, they cannot do big business.
So, when these tenant farmers heard Ethan say that his wife wanted to buy dried fish, they took out all the stocks in their homes, thinking that any money they could make was good, so that they could use it to buy salt when the traveling merchants came.
However, Ethan worked very carefully. He took the money and went to all the tenant farmers' homes, collecting all the good quality dried salmon before he started to ask for ordinary dried fish that were not so good.
I picked up a few bags of dried salmon, about sixty of them, and took the remaining bags of small and miscellaneous dried fish to the kitchen.
After Ethan finished cleaning up, he came back to ask what to do with the dried fish.
Olivia seemed to be thinking about something, and then she said, "Tomorrow morning, ask George to take you to town to sell these dried fish."
So, early the next morning, Ethan and George went into the city with a horse-drawn cart of dried fish.
The soldiers guarding the city gate recognized George, so they did not charge a toll, saving another step.
This time, Ethan delivered the goods to the city without any hesitation. Instead, he first went to find Letilen, who ran a trading company.
Although Letilan himself was not there, when the eggs arrived at his place, they were still treated like distinguished guests. Several bags of dried fish were quickly taken away by Letilan's men.
The one who collected the dried fish was Letilen's brother-in-law.
He flipped through them and saw that the dried fish were very clean and complete, of good quality, and the price was also good, one liter each.
Ethan thought that if it were another merchant, he would definitely lower the price to seven or eight suris.
The price offered by Letilen's men did not exceed the market price and was not suppressed at all.
Ethan sold the fish and earned six silver coins, which just made back all the money he spent on the dried fish, and he had a few more coins left over.
When he returned to the manor, it was already lunchtime.
Olivia smiled slightly as she listened to his account.
Sure enough, the result was exactly the same as her calculation. She bought it at the origin price, saved the tax, and sold it at the market price. There was no markup by the middleman, so she didn't lose a penny and got a bunch of dried fish for free.
Although you cannot keep buying and selling to avoid the bug, the system only counts the transaction quantity of a dried fish once. It is counted when it is bought, but not when it is sold.
Olivia tries unsuccessfully to find a loophole in the game.
"You and George can split the extra few koris between you and George as errand fees."
After Olivia finished speaking, Ethan went away happily.
After receiving the item "The Rich Nation", Olivia continued to give it to the NPC with a favorability of 100 to see if she could get more skills.
This is a three-star item. It cannot directly upgrade the character's star level, but it can unlock the character's talents.
She flipped through the character cards for a while. Caesar, the butler, George Ethan, Adam, Lucy, and Fanon all had their own talents, so this prop would be given to dear Graya!
She dropped the props.
Suddenly, Graya's character card had an extra talent and a new skill.
Passive Loyalty
Olivia began to read the description of this skill carefully.
It says above that everyone under Graya's management will automatically increase their favorability towards the player by +5 every month.
No matter who they are, it will work even for those who already hate the player.
This skill is quite interesting. In other words, as long as you work under Graya over time, she will gradually develop a 100% favorable impression of you.
What if she turns the assassin who wants to assassinate her into a labor camp prisoner and lets Graya manage him? Wouldn't this person's consciousness be modified by the system, and he develop a sweet liking for her similar to Stockholm?
Olivia thought about it and felt that if she could become successful in the future, she would let Graya manage the prison.
She accepted the next dungeon mission, and her crazy liver plan suddenly stopped. This dungeon mission was not a transaction.
Character Exploration:
Baroness Berggru
Mission description: Please conquer until your favorability reaches 100.
Mission progress: 5
Mission Reward: +50 Experience Points
+*10"Das Kapital"
Why is it that even after traveling through time and becoming a lord, I still can't escape the need to flatter my superiors?
Olivia burned incense for herself in her heart.
We can't be impatient about this matter. We have to take a long-term view and take it slow.
Someone like the Baroness would not be able to gain her favor unless he provided her with benefits.
Olivia recalled that she had been frantically completing tasks over the past two days, obtaining props and accumulating thirty or forty experience points, so it wasn't completely fruitless.
Now, the ice cellar has begun to be excavated. As long as the task of excavating the ice cellar is completed, her experience points will soon accumulate to 200.
Olivia was thinking about these things and eating her lunch absentmindedly. Suddenly, she heard footsteps outside the door and looked up.
It was Adam who came running back. He walked in with a panicked look on his face and told Olivia:
"Madam, there are many refugees gathered on the other side of the river. It looks like there are hundreds or even thousands of them. The knights have already gone to defend the river bank."
Olivia then opened the map and saw that it was indeed the case.
Her map showed that all the knights had taken their soldiers to the border coast, and they had sent a message to the Baron's mansion, asking him to send reinforcements.
These thousands of refugees were not on Olivia's map, so she couldn't see them.
However, if these starving refugees rioted, it would be no joke. Although the knights and soldiers had weapons, these refugees were starving and unarmed, and were no match for them for the time being.
Olivia wasn't worried that these refugees would pose too much of a threat.
"I see. Go out and ask around to see if the Baron has arrived."
Olivia sent Adam out.
When this news spread, the servants in the manor became panicked and had to be suppressed by Graya and the butler.
An hour later, Adam came back with new news.
Olivia handed him a glass of water and asked him to drink it and then talk slowly.
"Madam, the Baron and Baron Forrest have both come in person. They've discussed and decided to take in these refugees. They've allocated several hundred people each. Our manor and Baskin Manor have each received more than twenty people."
It is still too dangerous for a barony to accept more than a thousand refugees. It will be less difficult to manage them if they are dispersed.
However, the baron himself took away one or two hundred laborers to perform labor service in his direct territory, leaving only a group of women, children, the elderly, the weak and the disabled for his subordinates.
She only regretted that she was not dressed as a duke or earl, and she could not say no to her boss's arrangement.
Olivia had no choice but to accept it, hoping that there would be someone talented among this group of people.
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