Chapter 4: Parents were murdered one after another
After the arrangements were made, he and his knights locked the city gate tightly and hid in the castle and never came out again.
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Mother Juliet also fell ill. Her condition continued to worsen and her life was in danger at any time.
Li Feng didn't care anymore, and took advantage of the darkness to go up the mountain to pick herbs. Although the basic alchemy skills had not yet been unlocked, in the map "Li Ergou's Road to Survival", Li Feng still knew a lot about typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases.
After a few pairs of herbal medicines, boiling water every day, cleaning the house, fumigating mugwort, and keeping the room ventilated, my mother's condition was quickly relieved. As long as she persisted, she would definitely be cured...
A few days later, Li Feng came back from collecting medicine and his mother died.
He was hit to death with a hammer.
The leader of the lord, Lord Laudno, along with several servants and his plump son, were holding their noses and looking at their dead mother on the ground in disgust. His sister Elena threw herself on her mother's body and cried loudly.
Looking at the hammer in the servant's hand, everything is clear.
Li Feng's eyes burst into flames: "What did you do?"
Laudno waved his hand indifferently: "Your family stole the lord's herbs. According to Article 15 of the lord's decree, you should..."
"Fuck you..."
Li Feng was beaten severely by two servants and stepped on his feet. Laudno's fat son's decoding shoes also peed on his face and cursed: "One-handed trash, humble untouchable."
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Unexpectedly, Laudno came again the next day, and this time he brought a knight.
They were not polite and took away Li Feng's sister Elena.
"Scron, the lord appreciates you as a pariah and asks you to treat the second young master's disease. Just follow the method you used to treat your pariah mother. If it is cured, your sister will be safe and sound. If it is not cured, you know...
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Li Feng couldn't resist and had no choice but to go to the lord's castle.
This was his first time entering the interior of the castle. As he walked along, he felt that it was large and empty. The main materials were marble and granite, and the wall columns were carved with complex patterns, which was magnificent.
There are really two worlds inside the castle and outside the castle.
"My lovely child, you must help me cure Robert. The Lord will thank you." When the lord's wife saw Li Feng's arrival, she took him to her youngest son's bedroom as if she was grabbing the last straw.
The child on the bed was about the same age as Li Feng. He was pale, weak, sleepy, and sweating. It was scary, but in fact it was a severe influenza.
Naturally, the lord's family does not have a shortage of medicinal herbs and has to pay taxes when digging bones from the mountains.
With adequate supply and proper nursing care, the second young master named Robert recovered within a few days.
"Damn untouchable, take your sister and leave the castle quickly. Don't dirty this sacred and noble place." Driven by Laudno, Li Feng took his sister and left the castle.
Before leaving, the healing formula was also taken away and replaced with a small bag of black flour and a small bag of wheat flour.
"Mom, did this untouchable save me?" Robert asked his mother, looking in the direction Li Feng left.
"Yes, you should thank him properly."
"But, dad said not to have contact with untouchables, they will tarnish my noble bloodline."
The lord's wife thought for a while: "He should be a farmer blessed by the Lord. You can contact him, but don't go too deep, otherwise your father will kill him according to the lord's decree of the Chris Kingdom."
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A few days later, news came from the city lord's palace.
"The great Lord has given blessings and allowed the kind lord to develop a good medicine to treat the epidemic. You can go to the tax collector below the castle to buy the medicine."
"One bottle of potion costs one gold coin. If you don't have gold coins, you can do voluntary work for two more days a week."
"Haha, one gold coin can buy 5 small bags of black flour. These people are really good at it."
Li Feng shook his head with a wry smile and walked into the house with his sister. It is conceivable that many people will freeze to death and starve to death this winter.
Their parents have left, as have many friends and adults in the town. It is estimated that they will not have a good life with the Lord, because there are various signs that the Lord will not survive poverty.
In the dilapidated home, only Li Feng, who has just turned seven, and his younger sister Elena, who is in her early three years, are left. How to continue living this life has become the biggest problem at the moment.
Li Feng began to think about farming again. As a farmer's son, he had no better choice before awakening the golden finger.
The good thing about this map is that you can farm with confidence and boldly, without having to worry about situations like the Novice Village.
Because everything belongs to the lord, if you work well, the boss will be happy of course.
It just so happened that after the epidemic, the population of Dia territory was reduced by half, and a lot of land was freed up. The lord's wife was grateful for Li Feng's contribution to saving his son, and asked the housekeeper Lauderno to specially allocate ten acres of the most fertile land by the river to Li Feng.
Including the original land left by his father Mark, Li Feng already controls 140 acres of land.
He has his own plans for how to cultivate the land.
Different from the Eastern teachings on farming and mulberry farming and intensive farming, there are fewer people in the West and they pay attention to a model that combines agriculture and animal husbandry.
That is, half of the land is used to grow food crops, and half of the land is used to grow peas, pasture, and graze cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock.
In this way, it can not only produce staple food for human consumption, but also provide a large amount of meat, milk and fur, meeting most of people's needs for food and clothing.
Combined with the fallow system, the large amounts of manure left behind by livestock on pasture fields are also a good source of fertilizer for the land.
From these aspects, the Western method of combining agriculture and animal husbandry seems to have more advantages than the Eastern method of intensive farming. Not only does it save time and effort, it can also provide a large amount of meat during bad years to avoid large-scale starvation.
However, this model also has disadvantages.
Even though everyone is very Buddhist in farming and does not pursue the rate of return on seeds, the research in this area is not deep and there is a lack of conceptual understanding of some basic farming knowledge, resulting in very low yields.
With intensive farming in the East, the average yield per mu can be 3-4 times that of the West. In some places, there is even a second and third season, and the average seed return rate can reach 10-20 times.
This is also one of the main reasons why the population of the East was larger than that of the West in ancient times.
Li Feng calculated that in this era, the average barley yield per mu in Dialing was about 100 kilograms. If he could increase the yield per mu to 450 kilograms, after paying 60% of the land rent, he would be able to plant about 7 acres, which would be enough to feed him.
Myself and my sister are two people.
It was very difficult, but Li Feng didn't panic.
He has nearly two hundred years of experience in farming.
He has clear ideas on how to plow deeply, how to interplant, how to maintain gaps between crops, how to apply fertilizer if it suits the weather, how to weed, how to repel insects, etc.
Of course, he couldn't be careful about all the 140 acres of land, so he chose the most fertile 8 acres and left the rest at random.