Evil dragon has a warm heart-Chapter 122 - 121 Manor Serfs Love Planting Trees

Chapter 122: Chapter 121: Manor Serfs Love Planting Trees

Chapter 122 -121: Manor Serfs Love Planting Trees

The small market had not changed much, but it was cleaner and tidier than before.

No one urinated or defecated in public anymore, and even the excrement of chickens, ducks, cats, and dogs was picked up completely clean. Civilized behavior had taken root in people’s hearts—for no other reason than the Lord’s manor was offering unlimited and ongoing purchases of urine and feces, making everyone treasure excrement like gold.

If chickens, ducks, cats, and dogs dared to relieve themselves outside, they would inevitably be beaten severely. After being hit so many times, naturally, they no longer dared to defecate or urinate outdoors.

One evening, the heads of each Tun were summoned by Charles.

They had a meeting that lasted roughly half an hour.

Afterward, the heads quickly ran back to their respective Tuns and gathered the serf officers to call together the serfs who had been working in the fields all day.

Barton hadn’t even taken a bite of his meal when he was pulled away by a serf officer to an open space in Magic Medicine Tun.

Luckily, he had brought his tobacco pipe; he lit it and took small puffs.

“What’s going on? They won’t even let us eat dinner and just pull us over for some meeting,” Barton’s neighbor, another elderly serf, leaned over to complain while reaching out his hand, “Lend me a light, Barton.”

“Heard it’s good news,” Barton passed the pipe over.

The man used Barton’s pipe to light his own, fiddling around until he succeeded in igniting it, then took a satisfying puff.

He blew out a smoke ring before saying, “What good news can it be? Is the Lord going to collect manure again? I really can’t squeeze out any more. These days, my son and daughter-in-law watch me like hawks; they won’t let me eat unless I drink three large cups of water!”

As he spoke, another serf joined in, teasing, “With all that water, your piss must be diluted. Doesn’t the urine-collecting officer lash you with a whip?”

“How could he whip me? I swear on the Great Dragon, there isn’t a single drop of water in our urine bucket at home, all urine!”

“Enough about how much you piss; let’s hear what Barton has to say. What’s the good news about tonight’s meeting?”

Barton gave his pipe a tap and shook his head, “The serf officer only mentioned good news, how would I know what it is?”

“Isn’t your daughter serving the Lord in the manor’s annex? She didn’t tell you?”

“Barbara is living in the manor’s annex, indeed, and serving the Sir, she can’t be lazy for a moment!” Barton raised his voice; having his daughter work in the castle as a maid was a matter of great pride for him, “But just now, Barbara did indeed come back for a bit.”

“What did she say?”

“She brought me twenty copper coins!” Barton’s nostrils flared as if they were about to point skywards, his voice was as loud as if he were arguing, “This is a reward from the Lord Sir himself, praise be to the Lord, how generous he is!”

“Hiss, twenty copper coins?”

“Just handed them out, what’s up, Barton, did Barbara do something to receive so much reward money?”

“Hurry up and tell us, what’s the good news?”

“Don’t rush, listen to me.” Gazing at the envious looks from the crowd, Barton thought that sending Barbara to the castle to be a servant—at the lowest position of kitchen maid—was the most brilliant decision of his life.

Initially, when Barbara returned to Wuyao Snake Manor following the Lord, he was quite upset, thinking that Barbara had done something foolish leaving a job in the castle to become a maid back in the countryside.

Who would have thought that the Lord was so generous and kind that a casual reward added up to twenty copper coins!

Taking a puff from his pipe, forming a smoke ring, Barton was just about to continue bragging about his daughter and share his news.

Suddenly, in the center of the clearing, a serf officer struck a copper gong.

Dang, dang, dang!

The sound of the copper gong immediately drew everyone’s attention, and the chatter quickly died down. Then the Tun head, Rudi with the red nose, straightened his collar and walked to the center of the area, surrounded by several serf officers.

He cleared his throat pretentiously and then said in a grave voice, “Everyone, quiet down and listen to me.”

Just when he had the limelight all to himself, Barton silently cursed, but he didn’t dare complain and could only swallow his unfinished showing-off back into his stomach.

This Tun head Rudi, with a red nose, was not merely a Tun head. He was also an official in the manor.

A technical officer!

He was the technical officer responsible for cultivating Magic Potion, a subordinate highly valued by the Lord Sir, a man of noble status not to be offended lightly.

The few hundred serfs of Magic Medicine Tun formed a large circle, with neither old nor young daring to raise their voices any longer, listening earnestly to Rudi’s speech.

“First of all, I have to tell you some good news. The Mushroom Bugs in the Lord’s family have evolved into Mushroom Birds! This is a supreme honor, the best testament to the Great Dragon watching over Wuyao Snake Manor, so every one of us should share in the Lord’s joy and loudly praise the Great Dragon!”

As Rudi finished speaking,

clever serf stewards immediately began to join in shouting, “Praise the lord, praise the Great Dragon!”

Thus, the serfs, either shocked or bewildered, all followed suit, “Praise the lord, praise the Great Dragon!”

Similar cries of praise were being echoed in every Tun.

After waiting for the chorus of praise to subside, Rudi continued, “To share the joy and glory with everyone, Lord Sir has decided to reward each and every one of you serfs, you, you, you… and of course, that includes me!”

At that moment, the eyes of the serfs quickly lit up, as if although the sky was growing dark, it seemed unable to completely darken.

Everyone seemed to see the gleaming copper coins and to hear the crisp, melodic sound of them clinking together.

“Village chief, how many copper coins are we getting this time?” asked a serf who was bold enough to express his excitement directly.

This led to murmurs of agreement from the crowd, “Yeah, how many copper coins?”

Rudi shook his finger, “This time, Lord Sir will not be dispatching copper coins, but don’t rush, this time, Lord Sir will be distributing saplings… with Birch Forest at the center, the entire Magic Medicine Tun is divided into many areas… we are the villagers of Magic Medicine Tun, obviously we will plant trees in the most central area!”

“Ah, planting trees?”

“Is it service again? We thought there would be a reward!”

“The lord got a mushroom rooster, such great news, and not even one copper coin is being distributed?”

“I have endless farm work at home, where do I find the time to plant trees!”

The serfs began to complain one after another, bewildered by the idea that planting trees could be a reward. Some serfs were even ready to stand up and go back home for dinner.

Seeing this, Rudi could not keep tantalizing them any longer and immediately said, “However… everyone, please sit down, listen to me… However, Lord Sir said, for each tree a household plants, they will get a copper coin!”

No sooner had he spoken than the serfs, who had been complaining just a second ago, had their eyes light up again the next second.

“The saplings will be supplied by Lord Sir, the planting technique will be personally taught by me to everyone, plant one tree, get rewarded one copper coin…”

Rudi quickly finished the rest, “If you can plant ten trees, you are rewarded ten copper coins; plant a hundred trees, you are rewarded a hundred copper coins, that is, one silver coin! The rewards continue until all 1,500 acres are fully planted with trees!”

“Ah!”

“Where are the saplings!”

“I’ll start planting trees tonight!”

“Village chief, village chief, where are the saplings? I want to plant trees for Lord Sir!”

“I claim a thousand saplings, no, two thousand saplings, give me the saplings now, I will have my wife go home and fetch a shovel!”

“I love the lord!”

“Truly, I swear on the Great Dragon, my favorite thing in life is to plant trees, to plant trees for the lord!”

Ding ding ding.

Rudi signaled to the Tun chiefs nearby to keep beating the gongs and attract the serfs’ attention back, “Everyone, don’t rush, the saplings have not yet arrived, they will start being transported tomorrow. I must remind everyone, you can only plant trees in your spare time!”

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To fully plant 1,500 acres with varieties of trees such as birch, which are suitable for Glowing Mushrooms to live on, would require approximately one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand saplings.

One copper coin reward per sapling, means a total of one hundred and fifty thousand copper coins need to be distributed at the most.

In reality,

it’s only fifteen Gold Coins.

For Russell, that amount of reward is merely a trifle, but it could harvest a free labor force for 1,500 acres of saplings.

It truly is getting a lot done with little money.

“The serfs were enthusiastic, eager to start planting trees tonight. Sir, I admire your wisdom and tactics deeply,” Charles said, delivering flattery to Russell before dinner upon receiving reports from clerks about the response to the tree-planting rewards.

Russell waved his hand dismissively, “Had I not been in a rush to get the 1,500 acres of Magical Medicine Field ready, I would not have resorted to such a measure, as scattering coins directly is more realistic.”

“But if this continues, the serfs will become spoiled by your habit of scattering coins!” Charles suggested meekly, “Alternating between copper coins and the whip is the only way to ensure that the serfs, like wound-up springs, are always full of vigor.”