Chapter 9 Chapter 9 Human Relations
Even though there was no malice in the lady's look, Caesar still paused and subconsciously thought about what he had done.
However, he still walked over to her, holding Olivia's hand and sitting down at the dining table, while telling her about the shift change time.
The eldest daughter of the Stewart family is getting married to a knight without a fief who is close to the baron. She will move into the baron's manor and become a maid to the baroness.
Knight Stuart was busy arranging his daughter's wedding these days and had no time, so he had to ask his nephew to do it for him.
But his nephew didn't have the courage to stand guard at night, so he had to ask Caesar to switch shifts with his nephew.
So starting from the day after tomorrow, Caesar would have to patrol two or three surrounding villages with his soldiers at night, and then return to hand over his shift at dawn.
"So they wanted us to help. I said, 'I asked someone to take some cloth to Mrs. Stewart to exchange for wool yarn today. How could she be so generous?'"
Caesar said that it was no big deal, the shorter the night patrol, the longer he could stay at home during the day.
When talking about home, Olivia told him that the carpenters and stonemasons had come today, repaired the windows in the bedroom, and replaced some tiles and floors.
She told him about what had happened on the farm that day and the arrangements for expanding the livestock breeding area.
She planned to raise the piglets, buy two calves, and two horses next spring. She also told him to be careful when he went out at night.
After saying that, Olivia looked at his face as if observing.
Caesar still behaved like an NPC controlled by the system. He had no objections and nodded in agreement.
Olivia became suspicious of his behavior. She didn't know whether he trusted her unconditionally or it was because of the system's transformation.
However, she didn't care about that. Lucy helped the cook clean the wild boar and then brought today's dinner.
Olivia looked and saw that the cook had improved the noodles herself. It was dry noodles, covered with a paste topping of beets and smoked sausage. It tasted sweet and sticky, and the red soup wrapped the noodles.
There was also a yogurt-like dish fermented with milk, sprinkled with some preserved fruits soaked in honey, including pear slices and apple slices. In short, they were all produced on the manor. It tasted okay. Olivia ate half a bowl of it with bread and a few slices of greasy and slightly flavorful pork.
As for this improved and creative version of noodles, only Caesar, who was not picky about food, finished it. He seemed to like it. Olivia pushed the bowl of noodles she had tasted to him, and he ate it without changing his expression.
The next day, another early morning, before daybreak, the stonemason and the carpenter came together. Although the lord was resting and could not start hammering, they could still do the preparatory work and bring the materials into the house to be repaired.
However, the busiest person this morning was the housekeeper. He received the grant from his wife last night, and before dawn today he hitched up the ox cart and took Adam to the town to select calves.
The calves sold by merchants in this town in winter are usually born in summer or autumn. They are already quite big and do not need to be fed with milk. They can just eat grass.
But after all, they were expensive animals, and he couldn't just hand them over to the tenant farmers. He had to choose them himself.
In the manor, the carpenter and the stonemason went to the kitchen to drink water. They saw Lucy, who was serving the lady, busy coming and going. She first delivered some hot water, and then came back to say that the lady had gotten up and asked the cook to make oatmeal porridge for breakfast with goat's milk and honey.
After giving the instructions, Lucy took the pottery pot to the pen to squeeze the sheep's milk while the cook was cooking porridge. The milk that was not used up in the porridge would be kept in the kitchen to ferment and made into cheese.
There are only two ways to prepare dairy products: either churn the fat in a wooden barrel to separate the butter, or ferment it directly into cheese or something like that.
Olivia didn't like to eat these, so she just let them make them and sell them in exchange for wheat and other staple foods.
In the kitchen, the stonemason and carpenter learned from Lucy that the lady had woken up, so they dared to start the work and continued to replace the tiles and floor on the roof and attic.
After breakfast, Olivia leaned in the room, knitting a sweater with the wood that Lucy had helped her repair. She had just signed in on the system and took a look. The task progress was already 50%, and it was expected to be completed today.
She reasonably guessed that the next task would be to construct buildings in the livestock area, as expected.
This task is not a small one like repairing a manor, but a task with a very long cycle that requires a lot of manpower and material resources.
I don’t know how much experience points and what rewards the system will give her.
However, since the housekeeper and tenant farmers were busy with these matters, she herself still had nothing to do. She just had to sit in the room, hook clothes, wait for reports, and issue orders.
Olivia felt that she had become accustomed to this pace of life. Although she didn't have a mobile phone, no matter what she did, half a day would pass quickly.
Today, she not only planned to crochet an end for the sweater, but also cut up the remaining blended fabric in the box to make some menstrual underwear.
These days, they don’t have their own menstrual products, and many women who don’t have enough to eat don’t have their periods very often.
Even noble women were very secretive about this matter, and Olivia had no idea how they dealt with this physiological reaction.
The weather was good today. It didn't snow and there was a little sunshine, but the air was too cold. Olivia opened the window a little bit to let in some light to hook clothes, drew the curtains, and leaned against the blazing fire in the fireplace, barely feeling not too cold.
It is unknown when she will be able to afford glass for windows. According to Caesar, the Count's castle has large-scale use of glass windows, even stained glass windows and huge arched windows.
This Baron Bergru's house doesn't have it either.
However, this does not necessarily mean that the baron's family is not rich enough. It is very likely that he does not want to show off his wealth and does not want to give people the impression that he has money. Fortunately, he cries poor to the earl to reduce some taxes.
Olivia had always believed that the relationship between these vassals was simply about managing the army together and being loyal to the lord, and that they didn't need to take sides or form factions when it came to social etiquette.
But what I didn't expect was that the relationship between vassals today is actually no different from the officialdom in later generations.
It is not true that my vassal's vassal is not my vassal, nor is it true that a knight only needs to listen to the baron and not the earl, and does not need to care about his relationship with his colleagues of the same rank.
This is the biggest misunderstanding.
Take Caesar for example. In fact, the title of knight was not inherited, but was awarded by the lord.
However, only the sons of knights are qualified to serve as squires in the Knights Templar. Only by serving as squires to the earl and passing a duel can they be knighted.
Barons do not have the power to knight. Originally, this right was only held by the king, but this is the border, and the Earl has military power, so the Earl also has the power to knight.
All the knights under Baron Bergru would send their sons or younger relatives to study in the knight order around the earl.
These students from all over the country do not interfere with each other and are quite united.
If the father is a knight and the son is also knighted, then the son should naturally inherit the father's land. So although it is not inheritance on the surface, it is actually still a father-son inheritance system.
Unless it is like Olivia's father, who only has three daughters, so after his death in the future, Renault Manor will become the baron's property again. Until there are other knights in this territory who are knighted by the earl, they will be sent by the baron to manage this manor.
No great lord would grant land and titles to a commoner or merchant who had no background and had never studied in a knightly order.
The small lords in this place survive by helping and relying on each other, and by supporting each other's relatives and children. The more desolate and in need of manpower the place is, the more important good relationships are.
So, after Olivia finished cutting the menstrual belt, she kept some of the remaining good fabric in the box to make a women's belt. When she had time, she would embroider some flowers on it and give it to the Stewart girl as a gift after her wedding.
After a busy morning, she finally finished the handicraft work she was going to do by noon.
When I opened the system again, I saw that the progress of the task of repairing the main house had reached a gratifying 80%.
In another afternoon, she would be able to collect her rewards and check out new tasks.
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