After all, let alone wanting to eat meat in previous years, even if you work hard at farming, you may not be able to have enough to eat every day.
Therefore, everyone now treats the lord with great respect, fearing that they will violate the laws of the territory or collide with the lord, and then lose everything.
Of course, there is another important reason for this, that is, when Narant distributes the food to them, it is distributed on a week-by-week basis.
This is mainly to prevent some of them from being dishonest and causing trouble or running away after getting the food.
While Nalant was riding on the back of the white dragon and nodding to everyone, his eyes were constantly scanning the serfs.
Although hoarfrost and ice can already be seen in the morning in the territory, these serfs are still wearing the linen gowns they wore some time ago, and it seems that the clothes have no signs of thickening.
Seeing this, Narant couldn't help but asked the big stone on the side: "Big stone, what kind of clothes do you barbarians wear during the winter?"
"Back to your lord, we used to wear animal skins, and we would wear a few more layers during the winter. However, after following your advice this year, we can add linen clothes to the animal skins. This should definitely be more comfortable.
Warmth!" Dashiru thought for a moment and replied with a silly smile.
Nalant nodded and continued to move forward. Then he saw clothing made of animal skins to keep out the cold on the barbarians who happened to pass by.
On the contrary, a group of thin ordinary serfs only had linen gowns.
Upon seeing this, Nalant couldn't help but become a little worried, and understood the reason why the system issued this task.
Looking at the situation, I don't know whether the serfs can survive the winter safely.
However, now he is ready to complete the task first.
So, he and his bodyguards moved from Maiye Village to Lucky Village, and finally to three small villages in the new territory.
This round of inspection took half a day.
And he also found that the situation did not seem optimistic, because he found that the situation in other villages was the same as that of Maiye Village.
Both the new serfs and the aboriginals of the storm collar wear relatively thin linen gowns. As for woolen sweaters and cotton coats, they are probably exclusive to nobles.
Of course, the aborigines of the Storm Territory are better off, because Nalant's arrival has given them some extra money, so the aborigines have money for linen robes, which at least allows them to wear one or two more pieces than the new serfs.
At least it's warmer.
Since the new serfs had only been here a few days, they had no wages for their work these days. Narant was only responsible for food, so naturally he did not have the spare money to buy new clothes.
Finally, Nalant arrived at Maiye Village again and found Mario.
"Sir, are you looking for a younger one?" Mario heard the notification and hurriedly came to Nalant.
"Mario, the weather is getting colder, but during today's inspection, you discovered a problem!"
"Sir, what's the problem? I'll take care of it immediately!" Mario was stunned when he heard this, and then responded nervously.
Judging from the face of my elder, it seems that he is a little dissatisfied with his job.
"It seems to me that the clothes on those serfs are relatively thin. Mario, why didn't you report this matter to me some time ago?"
If the system hadn't issued a mission, Nalant really wouldn't have paid attention to this. After all, this was also his first winter after time travel, and he still had a blind corner in his thinking, thinking that by feeding the serfs, they would be safe and sound.
winter.
But the way it looks now, it is estimated that it will really start to snow in the second half of the month, and some of them will freeze to death.
If Mario, the civil affairs officer, could inform him in advance, he could prepare some countermeasures earlier.
"This..." Mario was stunned for a moment. After a moment, he guessed what his master meant, and then he immediately explained respectfully: "Sir, the serfs spent the winter like this in previous years, so... so the younger one didn't report, yes.
Please punish me for your minor dereliction of duty!"
"Is this how they spend the winter? Mario, are you sure they can survive the winter?" Nalant frowned slightly.
"Sir, this is true. We in the Storm Territory are doing pretty well now, especially the aborigines. Because of your kindness, Sir, they have the ability to buy more clothes. The serfs in other noble territories are basically the same as in our territory.
Just like those new serfs, they dress like this in winter..."
"Of course, although they seem to be wearing thin clothes now, when it gets colder in a few days, they will fill their clothes with some hay or leaves, so that they can withstand the colder weather."
"It's actually like this!" Nalant realized that he was ignorant and wrongly blamed Mario.
No wonder Mario didn't report this incident to himself. It turns out that this is the normal state of the world. Since it is the normal state, it is not abnormal and there is no need to report it.
However, adding hay or leaves to clothes, although not as good as cotton batting, can indeed add some warmth.
"By the way, Mario, can this really guarantee that all the serfs will survive the winter safely?" However, after thinking for a while, Nalant still felt a little uneasy.
"My lord, in fact, serfs usually don't feel cold when they work during the day."
"I'm afraid that during continuous heavy snow days, staying in a thatched hut and being unable to move around may freeze to death some weak people."
"In previous years, during winter in other noble territories, dozens or hundreds of people might freeze to death..."
"But in my opinion, because of your kindness, sir, they have enough to eat every day. Even if it snows heavily, the number of people who freeze to death shouldn't be too many..."
From the perspective of Mario or people in this world, it is actually normal for dozens or hundreds of people to freeze to death every winter.
After all, cold and hunger are the main themes of life for serfs in this world, and these two unknown things always visit a few poor serfs every year.
As long as there is no major natural disaster, causing widespread famine or other disasters, it will be an ordinary year.
But Nalant didn't think so. Although the butt determines the head, it can't be said that the serfs can live as generous a life as in the previous life, but the bottom line is not to starve to death and freeze to death.
"Not too much?" Nalant frowned.
"Ding, the system side mission: inspecting the territory to understand the winter conditions of the serfs has been completed, and the mission's news about the Holy Continent has been released!"
"Ding, there is a new mission in the system. As a time traveler, as a mighty and benevolent lord, other nobles can ignore the casualties of dozens and hundreds of people in the territory, but can you?"
"New system side mission: Find a way to help the serfs survive the winter and solve the cold problem!"
"Task reward: the emergence of a new plant!"
"Solve the cold problem? A series of tasks?" Listening to the prompts in his mind, Nalant was not too surprised.
Even if the system does not issue follow-up tasks, now that he knows about this matter, he will try his best to prevent people from freezing to death.
However, now that the system has issued a task, he has to take it seriously.