Lady of the Lord From the East

When Butler Patton came to ask for recruitment, Felix was also thinking about this question.

Not only does the castle need to add more staff, but the essential oil business he and Wei Wei jointly run also needs to be expanded.

Time went back to more than a month ago, and the messenger Felix sent to the capital finally arrived in the capital after more than half a month, but he did not receive the first meeting from the king, but was arranged in the capital. Several days later.

The capital of the Prady Empire, the Royal Palace.

"That's what Felix sent you? What's in it?"

The middle-aged king looked at the messenger sent by Sardinson, who was kneeling on the steps, and remembered the blond young man who had left him not long ago.

That is a young knight he is very optimistic about. There are many knights that the king values. Felix is ​​really good among them, but he is not the only one, but Felix is ​​different.

After all, in terms of blood, Felix is ​​not only a young man he is optimistic about, but also his nephew and grandson.

The last Earl of Williams married the king's niece, so Felix was actually a member of the royal family, and it was this blood relationship that made the king always have something special for Felix.

Therefore, when he knew that the knight he valued was going home to inherit the title, the king was not only really happy for him, but also very sad. After all, the price for Felix to inherit the title was the death of his nephew, son-in-law and another nephew's grandson.

Of course, given that he and his sister are quite different in age and hardly get along with each other, this sadness is really limited.

He had already thought about it, and when Felix had a better performance, he would choose an heiress with a land and a title as his wife, so that he could smoothly become a nobleman, and at least an earl.

He was already optimistic about the candidates for marriage, but it turned out that Eric's matter, Felix did not need him to arrange, he had the title and territory, and the matter was over.

Let an heiress marry a knight without a title, and her title and territory will become the latter, but when their child is born, everything still belongs to the family heir.

But let an heiress marry an earl, I am afraid that the former's family is annexed by the latter, unless the heiress is driven crazy by love, and there is no elder to control, otherwise the success of this matter is not very big.

But Felix being an earl is not without merit, so that all Prady's ladies can be candidates for his wife.

Thinking of the face of his nephew, the king believed that when he returned to the social circle of the capital, he would definitely be more popular than before.

The king's thoughts drifted a little, and the envoy's answer pulled him back.

"This is the formula presented to you by the Count, and a gift to Her Royal Highness the Queen."

The queen sitting beside the king was a little surprised: "mine?"

"Yes, Your Highness."

The messenger lowered his head and held the gift box high in his hand.

The court attendant on one side took the gift box and sent it up the steps.

In the exquisite gift box, there is a roll of parchment paper and five glass bottles. The bottles are brown, and it can only be vaguely seen that there is some kind of liquid inside. In addition, there is a letter with the Williams family crest. The letter was quietly covered on it.

The king took the letter, opened it, and took out a letter and a card from it.

He glanced at the card and handed it to his wife, continuing to read the letter.

The queen took the card, which said the usage and effect of a method called "rose essential oil". After reading it, the queen's eyes on those small bottles became different.

The queen, who is only a dozen years younger than the king, loves beauty like all women. Even, as the second queen, she has no children so far, and she has tried to give birth to a child in order to keep the king's heart almost to the point of being a little crazy.

From the card, rose essential oil not only has the effect of beauty and beauty, but also has a certain effect on conditioning the body.

So Felix's gift to her really made the young queen happy and couldn't wait to try it.

If the effect is as good as said above, she will definitely reward the other party.

After the king read the letter, his affection for Felix also surged.

In his letter, he said that he dedicated the methods of making fire dung and deworming water that he had obtained not long ago to the king.

Fire dung has been used in Sardinson for a long time, and the effect can be detected when the wheat is sprouting.

In the era when pests did not have any resistance, the effect of deworming water was almost immediate. The letter sent by Felix clearly stated the effect of using this kind of deworming water in his territory, knowing that Felix was not A king who was eloquent did not suspect that he was exaggerating.

The recipes of the two things are very simple and easy to obtain, just need some raw materials and boiled hands, and how much fire dung and deworming water can be made.

After receiving the gift, the king praised the messenger of Sardinson County, but did not give him the reward directly. He needed to see the real effect before giving the reward.

So the messenger had to stay in the capital.

At this time, Felix did not intend to cooperate with Wei Wei to sell essential oils, but he saw the attractiveness of essential oils to the women in the castle, so he brought a few bottles of roses when he delivered the insect repellant. Essential oils.

And when Wei Wei knew who he was going to give, she was already thinking about her future plans, so the essential oil she gave to the queen was specially purified several times, and the concentration was higher than that of the essential oil that had been boiled once, and only selected The reason for rose essential oil, besides its effect and not easy to be allergic, is also because she heard that the queen likes roses very much.

And she did choose the right gift.

After receiving the gift, one of the king's noblest couple asked them to test the effect of the insect repellant, and the other couldn't wait to go back to the room to try the effect of the essential oil.

Let’s start with bathing and skin care.

The maid serving the queen carefully opened the bottle of essential oil and put a drop on the queen's wrist according to the instructions on the card to test for allergies. There was a stronger and purer fragrance than the fragrance left on the body after bathing with a lot of rose petals. The liquid came out, and the queen lowered her head and smelled it, deeply intoxicated by the fragrance.

"This fragrance is only worthy of a noble person like you." The noble ladies who served the queen were flattering, and there was something to be said when they looked at the small bottles.

Regardless of the effect, the scent has already made them drool.

As we all know, Europeans have heavier body odors, even nobles. Women will try to use incense to make themselves smell better, but in the era when bathing is not respected, if you want to cover your body odor with incense, the effect Can only say in general.

Especially after the queen came to a complete set of essential oil SPA according to the record on the card, she became radiant and at the same time exudes a charming fragrance from the inside out, matched with her already extraordinary beauty, really Straightened the eyes of many people.

Including her husband who has not been very close to her for the past two years.

In the following period of time, the queen relived the sweet life of the newlyweds very much, and the effect of the essential oil gradually came into play. Her skin improved, and the spots on her face did not change significantly, but it was indeed the beginning. Diluted, and even the body feels much better than before.

So when the king compared the growth of the crops in the land with fire dung compared to the crops without fire dung, and after seeing the effect of the deworming water, he expressed his satisfaction that he wanted to reward Felix, and the queen also smiled. gave his own reward, and asked for more essential oils by the way.

Compared with the small changes in the king's territory, the queen's increasingly improved skin and the fragrance left behind when she walked gracefully are the focus of the ladies.

They inquired about the reasons that made the queen beautiful, and finally the magical effect of essential oils began to spread in the aristocratic circles of the capital. People know where to get this god's liquid.

ask the queen?

Knowing from Felix's letter that rose essential oil is difficult to make, the very precious queen is naturally reluctant to share this secret with others.

But she didn't say that the noble ladies who often came and went to the court finally got a secret from the mouth of the court attendant.

So soon, the whole social circle knew that there is a beauty holy product called essential oil in Sardinson, which is amazing and can make people fragrant.

And this time period is almost the time when Wei Wei and Felixti have cooperated and have prepared a batch of essential oils to be sent to Wangdu for trial sale.

Essential oils must be packed in glass bottles. In addition to shock-proof measures, they must be transported with extreme care along the way. In addition, a group of soldiers must be escorted to avoid encountering thieves, so there is a lot of preparation in the early stage.

The delivery team has not yet set off, and the rewards of the king and queen are finally long overdue, and along with the rewards, there are also a batch of orders for essential oils.

This is a bit unexpected, although they did intend to use the royal family to promote essential oils, they did not expect it to work so well.

Then looking at the order and the essential oils ready to be shipped, Felix was a little worried.

Because everyone ordered rose essential oil, but they didn't have that much rose essential oil, and even the total amount of essential oil that was sent to the capital in the first batch could not be less than the amount that the nobles were looking for.

After all, this is the first trial sale. The first batch of essential oils was made by boiling, but the quantity was not large. In order to save costs, the remaining essential oils were all soaked in a sufficient quantity. The production time is longer, at least ten days before opening and filtering.

Wei Wei said decisively: "Reject them directly, tell them that the essential oils have been delivered to the capital in advance, and they can't accept their orders, and then let them go to the store to buy them, because they are unlucky if they can't buy them. It's not our fault."

It makes sense, nothing bad.

So the group of noble ladies were treated coldly, and he could reply to them later.

Then Felix asked the servant behind him to bring the things in front of Wei Wei.

"The rewards that the queen sent, I think they should belong to you."

The queen's reward was to reward the effect of the essential oil, and the essential oil was made by Wei Wei. Felix felt that the reward was reasonable for her.

Wei Wei looked at the rewards, fur, cloth, and a whole box of gems.

There are quite a few types of fur and fabrics, and the colors are suitable for both men and women. The patterns on the fine linen and cotton are very delicate, which should be the popular styles in the capital now.

She motioned to the maid beside her to accept those things: "I'll make them into winter clothes later, do you have any requirements?"

Felix was a little happy: "Want to do it for me?"

Wei Wei nodded: "This batch of materials is very good, and the quantity is large. It can make many sets of clothes. In addition to the ones for you, Dolores and Caroline also need suitable winter clothes."

In fact, Wei Wei has recently started to prepare for the winter. This is when she asked Karma, who worked hard, what reward she needed. The latter blurted out that she wanted some thick old blankets to make winter clothes for her daughter and reminded her.

Although it is still hot in August, the winter in Sardinson comes very early, and the temperature will begin to drop almost in October. If you don’t prepare early, both adults and children are prone to get sick when the seasons change.

And think of the clothes to wear in winter, in addition to down jackets, cotton coats, thermal underwear and the like, what else?

Of course it's a sweater.

At this time, sweaters already existed in Europe, but they were different from the long-knitted sweaters in later generations. Today’s sweaters are knitted like linen and cotton, which is also time-consuming to make. Many civilians cannot afford coarse wool. Knitted sweaters, fine wool are worn by the rich, and the softest sweaters made of cashmere are only worn by nobles, and the commoners can only wrap their bodies with animal furs, better ones can be wrapped in sheepskin, almost If you want to wear hare skins, but more people at the bottom can only stuff things like straw into their clothes to keep warm, and many people freeze to death every winter.

Half of the sheep raised in Sardinson are goats and half are sheep. The former is mainly used for meat, and the latter is mainly responsible for wool production. Therefore, there is no shortage of wool. There is no need to go to the town to buy it. There is a lot of wool in the castle. , Some of the castle maids are responsible for spinning wool threads and knitting sweaters.

In fact, spinning wool is a skill that almost all peasant women know. Women who can't spin will even be criticized by others, so Wei Wei doesn't have to worry about her running out of wool.

So Wei Wei plans to teach more people how to make woolen yarn. She even wants to organize the free serf women in the territory to knit sweaters. After all, after mastering this skill, knitting sweaters becomes a simple matter, while knitting A good sweater can be sold externally and can also increase everyone's income.

Recently, Wei Wei has made some changes to her future plans, not only because she and Felix really get along well, but also because Wei Wei finally can't stand the monotonous life in Sardinson County.

As a border county, no businessmen would pass by in Sardinson County. The entire county is almost self-sufficient. It has a small population, and the villages and towns in the county are even more barren and pitiful. Let Wei and Wei go shopping. There is no place, let alone other forms of entertainment.

Therefore, for the sake of her future life, Wei Wei felt that she needed to develop Sardinson County thoroughly, and it was best to turn it into a prosperous area that was not inferior to other big cities.

In order to develop a place, in addition to various hardware facilities, it is also a key to increase the population and per capita income, and to have special products that can attract foreign businessmen to travel thousands of miles.

The products they can currently attract businessmen are essential oils, but Sardinson is not a place suitable for large-scale planting of flowers. Essential oils can become a specialty product, but they cannot support large-scale export, so the number of businessmen they can attract must be limited.

The sweater is a more suitable project that Wei Wei has thought of at present. Of course, whether it can be successful or not remains to be discussed. After all, for those who deal with wool all the year round, the method of knitting sweaters is just something that most people have not thought of yet. If someone comes up with it, this business will not be unique.

So before no one comes up with it, naturally the more you weave, the more you earn.

So when the essential oils were still on the way, Wei Wei came up with another idea to make money. She told Felix about the idea. The latter felt that it was okay to organize the women in the territory to weave wool, but the hair of knitting sweaters, It is better to first pick a group of skilled women who are good at weaving and organize their work, rather than directly promoting them.

"If you really do that, before you can make any money, someone has already started this business."

Don't underestimate the desire of the lower classes for money. When the serfs were burning fire dung before, they could all think of selling the fire dung. Now that there is a better way to make money, they will choose to work with the lord after they have learned the craft?

No, they will only secretly weave them at home and sell them.

After all, in Sardinson County, which cannot rely on the output of the fields, every household has sheep, and wool is one of their sources of income. Taxes, if you let them know that there is an easy way to turn wool into sweaters, I'm afraid these people will go into business on their own.

"You're right, then teach a group of maids to come out first, but are there enough maids in the castle?"

Wei Wei has been listening to Butler Barton complaining about the lack of manpower recently, and she has been guilty of this for a long time.

Felix, who was also one of the culprits of the lack of manpower in the castle, coughed: "I've been buying people recently."

Yes, not recruiting but buying people, and from other territories.

This is what Felix ordered. After all, servants are recruited from the territory. They have the opportunity to contact their relatives every month, and it is easy to tell some secrets in the castle.

Buying people, especially from the territories of other nobles, has fewer such concerns.

Of course, those who were bought did not become slaves, they just became lifelong slaves without freedom.

Well, it's actually just a good name, and the treatment is better than the real effort.

Since there will be enough manpower soon, she will continue to steal people from the housekeeper.

She chose ten maids who were good at weaving from among the maids who had not arranged other jobs, plus Dolores and her, a total of twelve people gathered in the lounge where the little girl usually took the embroidery class. Holding the bamboo sweater needle Wei Wei asked someone to cut, she watched her weave a wool thread into a piece of "cloth" attentively.

Wei Wei's fingers fluttered, she didn't even stare, she just watched everyone knitting and explained the simplest true method to them.

...just like magic.

Everyone's eyes were reluctant to blink.

"...It's roughly like this. After you have learned it, try other needle methods. Now pick up your wool and needles and follow my example."

After Wei Wei finished speaking, she tore down the lines she had just knitted, and started teaching them at a slower pace from the beginning.

Knitting sweaters is actually not difficult. Wei Wei first tried knitting sweaters when she was in elementary school. She had a handicraft class to teach them how to knit wool. For a long time after that, the girls in their class liked to play with it. .

And her grandmother is also an expert at knitting sweaters. Although Wei Wei never knitted wool again after that period of time, she watched her grandmother knitting since she was a child, and she knew a little bit of basics, so when she grew up, this ability She didn't forget that she picked up the sweater needle now, and with the increased effect of her sewing skills, her sweater was knitted quickly and well.

While the beginners were still struggling with the problem of tightness when knitting wool, Wei Wei knitted several rows very quickly, and started to add some simple patterns on it.

The thread she used was different from the thick wool that other people used to practice hands. It was the softest cashmere. The sweater knitted from cashmere was very soft and did not tie any flesh at all.

These cashmere threads were dyed black. When Wei Wei first started weaving, others could see that the color and the size that was too large for a woman were not for her, but conforming to this size allowed Wei Wei to do it herself. Who else?

Of course it was the count.

The maids winked and secretly exchanged gossip, but Dolores asked innocently and cutely.

"Sister Weiwei, are you knitting a sweater for your brother?"

"Well, yes." Wei Wei didn't deny it, and complained about Felix's stinginess by the way. In order to grab the ten maids in front of her from the housekeeper, she had to promise that the first sweater would be given to him, and she had to give him the first sweater. She did it herself.

The little girl looked at Wei Wei's sweater, which was so exquisite even in a small circle, and then looked at her appalling craftsmanship, and couldn't help but envy: "Can Sister Weiwei help me knit one too? I don't think there will be a way to knit a sweater before this winter."

Of course, if it's winter next year, she'll be able to knit a nice sweater too!

The little girl thought confidently.

Wei Wei thought about Felix, who had recently turned into a lemon tree, and said to Dolores, "I'll knit you a hat, and I'll make you winter clothes later. Time is a little short."

Dolores tilted her head: "Hat? Does it look good?"

"Of course it looks good, I'll draw it later and you can choose the style yourself."

"Thank you, Sister Weiwei!"

The little girl smiled sweetly.

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