My Wife Is Great Fief Lord

Chapter 298 Free stone house

“Huh? How come carriage is back?”

“Yeah, why is Lily back?”

When the carriage turned into the alley again, this time there were more exclamations than when Thomas and the others came.

According to common sense, Lily won’t be sent back until tomorrow morning. In such a short time, I’m afraid I won’t even have time to enter the castle, right?

The serfs in the houses on both sides of the alley stretched their necks to peek hard, for fear of missing any details, and all were curious about what happened.

“Sir Steward, Lily?”

The carriage stopped at the door of Jim’s house. This time the door of Jim’s house was not closed, and Abby’s mother was cleaning up with a sad face. Looking at the various tables and chairs at the door, seeing Thomas returning with Lily, his expression was surprised and puzzled.

“Cough!”

Thomas did not dismount, but sat directly on the horse with a majestic look.

“The fief lord said that you are the first serf family to hold a wedding after he became the lord of the Storm Lord, so in addition to a Silver Coin reward for you in the afternoon, now Lily will be sent back. It’s the amnesty given to you by the fief lord!”

Thomas certainly wouldn’t explain the Gervais cultivation technique, but instead made the fief lord’s words so high that these serfs would be grateful, which was also saved at the same time The face of my own steward.

“This…Thank you fief lord, thank you fief lord for the gift!”

After listening to Thomas’ words, Abby’s mother felt like a dream, but she still knelt down very knowingly. On the ground, excitedly shouting thanks to Gervais.

Lily on the carriage over there has also been helped off by the guards, and she is no longer sluggish. Immediately after getting off the carriage, she knelt down beside the middle-aged woman with tears in her eyes and said Thanks for the words of fief lord.

“Let’s go!”

Thomas nodded to the two of them, without saying anything, and walked out of the alley with a group of guards.

“Lily, is that you? Lily!”

When Thomas and the others walked away, an excited silhouette ran out of Jim’s wood house. Lily’s husband Abby, after seeing Lily, Abby quickly stepped forward and hugged Lily, a little unbelievable.

“Lily, how did you come back?”

“It’s the fief lord who is kind, pardoned Lily!”

Abby’s mother was explaining to the side , and tell Abbie what Thomas just said.

“fief lord!”

After listening to mother’s words, holding Lily in her arms, Abby looked towards the direction of the castle and murmured.

Although Abi still has a finger-wide bruise on his face, which was shot by the guard with a long sword, but now Abi doesn’t hold any grudges anymore, all he has in his heart is fief lord is very grateful.

……

Time passed, and it was ten days after Gervais returned to the territory.

According to the situation in previous years, the serfs will be free at this time of the storm.

Because they have already harvested the mature wheat in summer, they can plant autumn seedlings in other autumns, but Storm Collar can only be planted for one season.

However, the autumn of this year’s Storm Leader is different. The serfs in the entire territory are surprisingly busy, even busier than the spring of previous years.

Since nine days ago, Lord Steward issued a lot of decrees, all the serfs took action.

Lord Steward’s first decree is to let all the serfs of the Storm Lord find and transplant vines, and transplant as many vines as there are. After transplanting, the castle will register these vines, and more importantly It was Mr. Steward who promised to buy all the grapes next year, and the price was doubled.

This kind of temptation made all the serfs go into battle together, and even many serfs didn’t go home at night, and they ran around in the woods of the storm all day long with dry food, trying to find more vines .

After more than a week of searching, the vines in the wild area of the storm have gradually decreased, and all of them have been transplanted to the front and back of the houses of the serfs.

When the transplanting of the vines was almost completed, many young and strong men stopped searching, and only some old and weak women and children continued to search.

Because these young serfs have better things to do, that is, the fief lord is ready to build houses in Binhai Town, and there are many, many houses!

In the outskirts of Binhai Town, large tracts of woods and weeds have been cleared out, thousands of serfs and slaves have been working non-stop, and large pieces of rock have been transported here from the sea by the carriage, and then Serfs and slaves began to build stone houses under the leadership of craftsmen.

The labor of the slaves is free, but the labor of the serfs is rewarded. According to Lord Steward, the kind and generous fief lord gave them two choices.

The first option is to take part in the construction of stone houses and receive wages at 4 coppers a day. This kind of wages can be considered real rich. You must know that in the past, even if the serfs wanted to work for 2 coppers a day, in the Storm collar may not necessarily find an opportunity.

However, the serfs did not choose to take the 4 copper coins as a reward, because when they heard the second choice, they all chose the second one without the slightest hesitation.

The second option is to participate in the labor of building the stone house for free. When the stone house outside Binhai Town is completed, the fief lord will help them remodel the house for free and build a brand new stone house for them to live in. And during the working period, the castle will provide a full meal of brown bread every day.

When they heard this, all the serfs in the entire storm region were shocked. For them, it was like falling pie in the sky.

That’s a stone house. No one wants to live in such a sturdy and imposing stone house, so they all went to the castle to register their names and addresses without the slightest hesitation, and chose the second condition.

Of course, although those who work can get the opportunity to build a stone house for free, the size of the new house they can get in the future is also commensurate with the labor they paid.

For example, a family of serfs with two laborers to work is bigger than a family stone house with only one laborer.

Another example is that you are not allowed to be lazy at work, and there are guards to monitor at any time. If someone steals and plays tricks, then the area of his house will gradually shrink, and the amount of lazy will be reduced at a time. As long as you are brave enough, you may directly No new stone house.

The serfs had mixed reactions to this regulation, some were happy and some were worried.

Because some serf families have more male members, but some families have more women, women cannot do heavy physical work such as carrying stones and wood, so they cannot be used as labor to participate in the construction of stone houses Some families may not even have the chance to get a free stone house.

This matter was reflected to the fief lord by the steward, and soon the fief lord had a new order. If the labor force involved in the construction of some families is less than two people, then adult women can participate in the construction of the stone house. To work, women can go to cut thatch to use as the roof of the stone house, and they can also do logistical work such as baking bread. When the time comes, they can also get a free stone house.

Because of the generosity of the fief lord, the serfs in the entire Storm Territory were busy and excited.

(End of this chapter)