Early in the morning, go to the river.
The cold north wind blew through the sharp blade Canyon, making the river lead the original comfortable temperature, which dropped more than ten degrees overnight.
A few days ago, all the wheat in the territory had been harvested and put into storage. In the past, the next days should be a leisurely and difficult winter time.
People bake bread, brew wine, repair houses and pray for a safe winter. In order to keep out the cold, many serfs will wrap all their clothes and even drive their livestock to bed, which will only get more heat. In this world, the number of people who die of wind cold diseases is far greater than that of war.
Now, the farm leading by the river is more quiet than ever. Except for the elderly and children, almost no adults can be seen, even those half-aged children can not be seen.
They all rushed to Shanghe town.
Under the early morning mist, Shanghe town is already a busy, lively and noisy scene.
Farmers dressed in black coarse linen lined up, shouting and crowded to stalls with signs saying pay and recruitment.
"What''s your name?" the person in charge of recruitment raised his eyes with a quill pen.
"Anta."
The recruiting man shook his quill pen and said directly, "jump in place and move your hands and feet."
Hearing the speech, the middle-aged farmer named Anta immediately jumped in place, waved his arm and kicked his legs.
"Don''t worry, I''m in good health!"
The man nodded, took out a two finger number plate from one side of the wooden box, and registered the other party''s name and the number on the number plate on the booklet in front of him.
"Twenty copper coins a day and the reward is paid once every five days. Is there a problem?" the man looked up and asked.
"No problem, no problem! I heard it just now. Please arrange me to work, or there will be only ten copper coins today!" said the middle-aged farmer named Anta eagerly.
"What''s the hurry!" the man said as he handed the number plate to him. "Stand aside first. When you have enough people, you will naturally let you work! Take good care of the number plate. There''s no copper coin missing!"
"I know, I know!"
The farmer Anta nodded and stood aside, carefully putting the number plate into his arms.
While waiting anxiously, he began to calculate his income this winter.
Twenty copper coins a day, two silver coins in ten days and six silver coins in a month! When winter is over, there will be eighteen silver coins!
Eighteen silver coins! The middle-aged farmer named Anta was very excited when he thought that he would be able to earn 18 silver coins in one winter. In the past, when the Lord didn''t abolish the farm, his family didn''t have 18 silver coins - not even eight!
Who would have thought that one winter now, he Anta could earn 18 silver coins!
He calculated carefully - he could earn 18 silver coins, women could earn 12 silver coins, and at least 30 silver coins in a winter!
In addition, after paying half of the land rent for grain and leaving seed grain and rations, they also sold 17 silver coins, which is the income of nearly 50 silver coins this year.
Apart from some expenses such as renting cattle and buying warm clothes, you can save at least 40 silver coins this year!
In addition, his son is a soldier of the first army. He can eat and live. He can save at least two gold coins a year - Lord, this fucking two hundred silver coins!
He had already inquired about it. It would cost at least ten gold coins to build a strong and spacious house on the homestead.
According to this calculation, as long as there are no accidents, their family can have their own house in four or five years at most.
Own house!
Anta just thought about it and felt that she was full of strength. She wanted to finish the work in the next five years immediately and let the time flash by.
In the past, filling his stomach was his biggest extravagance. Now, he has long stopped thinking about filling his stomach!
He calculated that when he had a house in the future, he must try to buy a calf again. When the calf is raised, it can not only be used for farming, but also get more feces for fertilizing the field. It would be better if we could buy two more piglets or lambs!
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"All those with number plates one to fifty in their hands come with me! Your job is to mine stones! Keep up!"
The shouting interrupted Anta and many farmers'' imagination. Looking at the man with the booklet in front of him, he immediately followed closely.
As long as there is no physical problem, men will be arranged to do heavy physical work such as mining stones, transporting bricks, carrying heavy objects, building roads and so on.
These jobs that require great strength are collectively referred to as big work. Although they are tired, they are paid high.
Most women will be assigned to shovel, carry or handyman, which requires less effort.
These jobs, collectively referred to as small workers, require little effort and pay little.
Recruitment is still in full swing. After walking a long way, Anta can still hear the noise behind him, mixed with women''s cries.
Needless to think, this must be some self righteous woman who lost her temper after being arranged as a small worker.
well! These women, Anta thought, still want to be like men. I dare to take off my clothes and work in sweat. Dare you! Do your little work.
When Shanghe town was noisy, Arthur was still lying in the warm quilt in Lingfeng castle and didn''t want to get up.
"Leah, please, just a moment, I''ll sleep a little longer, that''s all." squinting, Arthur tightened his soft velvet quilt and muttered to Leah by the bed.
"My lord..."
Leah squatted down by the bed and opened her mouth. When she was about to wake Arthur up again, she looked at his close face and couldn''t help but stop calling.
She looked carefully at Arthur''s lips, nose, eyelashes and face, thinking about the way he had just vaguely asked for himself, and a slight smile could not help but appear on her face. Looking at Arthur with only one head exposed and his neck tucked into the quilt, Leah couldn''t help smiling.
When adults sleep, they look better than usual. They are a little cute, like a child! Leah blushed and completely ignored the eye excrement in the corner of Arthur''s eye.
"Why? Haven''t adults got up yet!"
Thorne''s voice sounded behind him. Leah, who had squatted by the bed and stared at Arthur, immediately stood up.
"Yes... Yes, the adult said he wanted to sleep a little longer."
Leah looked nervous as if she had been caught peeping. She kept scolding herself for being so fascinated that she didn''t even hear the sound of Sir Thorne''s armor as she walked.
Thorne glanced at Leah with her eyes bowed in surprise, walked to the bed, looked at Arthur with only one head exposed and a sweet sleeping face, frowned and said, "it''s at least an hour later than before. The adult didn''t ask you to wake him up after dawn. Why haven''t you got up yet? Did you sleep late?"
Looking at Leah, Thorne frowned.
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