"According to the territory's laws, how should he be dealt with?" A tall, middle-aged man wearing armor with colorful patterns asked Laudno.
"Um." Laudno was a little surprised, but he still answered honestly: "Lord, according to the territorial law, if he steals your private property, one of his hands should be chopped off."
"Then cut off one hand." The lord said expressionlessly, then rode his war horse back to the castle under the escort of two knights.
"Lord, you are so kind. Someone stole your property, but you let him live. The great Lord will bless you."
The farmer who was secretly eating grasshoppers said loudly to the lord's back, and the people around him also echoed.
Even his father, Mark, was among them, but he did not dare to stand up and help his son.
The remaining knight stepped forward, drew his sword, and cut it down.
Fast, accurate and ruthless.
After screaming, Li Feng quickly picked up the bloody little hand that fell to the ground and returned home with a pale face.
After lying at home for several more days, Li Feng woke up in severe pain.
"Ah, what are you doing? Let go, let go."
His sister Juliet was biting his wounds, so he struggled to break free and rushed out of the house again.
Hungry, hungry as never before.
"Where is there food, where?" Li Feng roared with all his strength, but he couldn't get much energy out of his throat.
You can't eat the fish in the river, you can't eat the rabbits on the mountains, you can't eat even the grasshoppers on the grass. They all belong to the lord, and if you catch them, you will have your hands chopped off.
"Yeah, shit, how could you forget this?"
The grass on the ground is fishy, hard, and chewy, but the roots are slightly sweet and contain a small amount of starch, which can somewhat alleviate the rate of starvation.
Isn't this what happened in ancient China when there was famine?
Li Feng grabbed a handful of grass and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing it hard. Then he saw the tax official coming with an entourage.
This time he became smarter. After a brief period of sobriety, he ran up to the tax collector and told him that he had to pay taxes.
The tax official looked at the handful of grass in Li Feng's hand with contempt, and took away two-thirds of it with thanks.
"Untouchable, he can actually eat this kind of grass that even rabbits won't eat."
"You don't know, this untouchable is so hungry that he might even eat cow dung."
"Hahaha." The tax officer held the attendant's shoulders and laughed for a while, handed the grass to the attendant, and said seriously: "Humph, you eat grass, but the tax that the lord should collect must not be less at all, even if
Every stone and grass must be taxed."
"Go and give this handful of grass to Steward Lauderno."
Entourage: “…………..”
After returning home, Li Feng felt that his hunger had been relieved, so he shared the story of the grass with his parents. The family slept during the day and went to pull the grass as soon as it got dark.
His family's situation was relieved.
After autumn, in winter, even the grass was gone.
A large number of people began to die in the town, but there was no way to eat the corpses, not even to exchange them for food. The corpses also belonged to the lord, so they were caught and chopped off their hands and feet.
Under this situation, the Li Feng family had no choice but to kneel in front of the castle together with the farmers who had not yet starved to death, and asked the lord who had saved the people to show mercy and give them some food and clothing.
Li Feng's family received a small bag of black flour, about twenty kilograms, and finally got through it.
Spring has begun, the snow has melted, and there are signs of a good harvest.
The bad years have finally passed, leaving behind a group of emaciated farmers.
By the way, in some idol dramas, Cinderella falls in love with a prince, which is still believable, but Li Feng thinks it's nonsense when a rich lady falls in love with a farmer.
There is a wealthy eldest lady in the lord's palace, who is about the same age as his sister Elena. Can he fall in love with a low-level working people like me who want money but have no money, and are not very skinny?
Unless, it is possible that I am tall and handsome.
On the ridge of the field, Li Feng was imagining things. When he came back to his senses, he suddenly saw several strange figures rushing toward him. He was so frightened that he quickly found a place to hide.
The thief is coming.
This is also a major feature of this world. There are several groups of thieves around each territory.
At first, Li Feng thought they were all poor people who didn't have enough to eat and had no choice but to become bandits.
Only after seeing more of them did I realize that thieves in this world are actually a profession or hobby, and are essentially no different from painters, craftsmen, and businessmen.
The group of thieves who came this time was the most ferocious and the most numerous group near Dia territory, with a total of 8 people.
They broke into the territory and kidnapped people, burned down houses, raped women, killed livestock, and committed all kinds of evil, seriously affecting the spring plowing plan, and Baron Cavendi was so angry that he stopped.
He was really angry. These thieves were invading his private property.
"Today, I must kill all those thieves who are doing whatever they want."
Baron Cavendi was so angry that he summoned all the knights and servants in the territory, as well as the farmers who could handle weapons, as well as the merchants and craftsmen in the town, and distributed some simple weapons to form a 500-man regiment with great momentum.
He followed the retreating footsteps of the thieves and chased them out, showing a determined attitude that he would not give up until he reached his goal.
After a fierce siege, the team returned triumphantly, but there was no trace of their father Mark among them.
"Where's Mark, Senior, where's my husband Mark, why hasn't he come back?" Mother Juliet asked anxiously, holding the hand of a neighbor man.
The neighbor man shook his head and said, "Oh, poor Mark, he fell into a thief's trap, and three sharp thorns penetrated his body. He went to see the merciful Lord."
"Mark, my Mark, my husband."
My mother fell to the ground and cried heartbrokenly.
This day was extremely cold and dark for Li Feng's family.
Of course, Li Feng himself was fine, his father was already used to it.
The problem now is that without a man in the family, life will be even more difficult.
After wiping out the thieves, Dia led a peaceful life for several months.
A few months later, when the weather warmed up, the disease came again.
People with colds and coughs appeared one after another in the town, and the number was increasing. For severe cases, even drinking the holy water sold by the church would not help, and lives were passing away one after another.
Baron Cavendi panicked. He remembered that the family nameplate recorded that there was a disease similar to the current situation a hundred years ago. At that time, one-third of the people in the entire kingdom died.
He didn't care about the farmer's life, but he still cared about the farmer's strength and the attitude of the count, and he had to do something no matter what.
Therefore, he arranged for the butler Laudno to quickly find people from the church to make more holy water to save people, and to burn the bodies of the deceased together.
He had no idea how many people the holy water could save.
Anyway, if you are saved, it is the work of the holy water. If you are not saved, it is because your prayers to the Lord are not pious enough and your donations to the church are not large enough. It is none of my business.