Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 109 The Hardest Thing to Find is a Cook
However, it was not until after the Montes incident that Lowry found a few underage servants with cooking talents whom he could trust and train.

There's no way, he always thinks too much. He wants the other party to be smart and agile, as well as hardworking and have good character.

But he forgot that although they entered Baron Gezar's mansion as servants, many of the children had some talent.

However, their talents were not high enough to receive free training, and their families could not afford to send them to the adventure group to study.

The children of nobles, wealthy businessmen, and gentlemen, no matter how poorly they may have talents, as long as they have them, they can still be fully nurtured.

Even if they cannot advance in their entire lives, at least they can reach the highest stage of apprenticeship. Compared with those real ordinary people who cannot even embark on the path of a professional, they are still strong.

And for the poor people who don't even know what gold coins look like, this is an unattainable dream.

Therefore, if children from poor families wanted to get a chance, the last resort was to become servants for nobles.

It is precisely because of the existence of these people that even servants in this world can be divided into different levels.

After all, as long as you have talent, no matter how poor it is, the territorial nobles will basically not let you go. As long as you are willing to sign an employment agreement, they will definitely accept you.

Therefore, if ordinary nobles, especially the knight class, wanted a talented person to serve them, they would at least have to give them the status of a follower.

The follower must be allowed to practice with him, and even be provided with the most basic treatment: a sword, a set of leather armor, and a poor horse.

If you fail to meet the other party's needs, or your attitude is too bad, the follower can leave at any time... The follower agreement and the employment agreement determine the degree of freedom from the beginning.

Whether or not they can afford to keep such followers, and how many they can keep, naturally divides the lowest class of these nobles into high and low.

The reason why the Tollers can live such a carefree life is that they belong to the Knights of Yagris. The equipment and daily necessities of their followers are provided by the Knights, and they only need to train them.

But if he was a knight of a territory who did not belong to a knightly order, he would have to live a tight life, even if his salary was high enough and he had a manor to support his family.

In short, this is a world where it is easy to get enough food and drink, but it is very difficult to climb up.

Lowry just didn't react at first, and was only focused on observing the personalities of those kids.

As a result, the few people he took a fancy to, both boys and girls, were quickly chosen by Chesca at first sight and directly promoted to the position of castle guards... They might not have the talent to become knights, but they would definitely have no problem being apprentice-level guards patrolling around the castle.

For a child who is willing to sell himself for his own future, few would be attached to the prosperity and comfort of the castle and be a good chef who only cooks three meals a day.

They just want to swing their swords in the light of dawn and fall asleep under the starry sky.

The day he learned the news, Lowry was really sad.

Although these kids were still working for him, he always felt something was wrong.

But he couldn't possibly ask a child who had the chance to become a professional to be his chef, right?
However, the current Baron's Castle has not yet reached the stage where it starts to employ ordinary people... According to tradition, no one with any talent can work in a noble castle because at least one of his parents works there.

In fact, many rules in the aristocratic castles had been broken long ago. The main reason was that those aristocrats whose family background had fallen on hard times or who had no intention of properly organizing their own territories could not possibly provide their servants with a normal channel for advancement.

Many nobles would hire adventurers except for the followers they brought out, but basically they would employ ordinary people in other areas.

Lori didn't know that the nobles would have this tradition, but after looking up the information, he quickly confirmed... This was also a rule that came out after the gods fought against the royal aristocratic system.

There is no need to say more.

Because the bond is so deep, if you want these professional servants to betray their masters, the price they pay must be high enough.

But ordinary people may just be tempted by sweet words... The believers of God are particularly good at mental induction, and people whose threshold is not high enough can hardly withstand it.

And enough monetary benefit to get them talking.

At first they were just reporting some news casually, but once it started, it would become forever until the day they were discovered.

The nobles must have paid a heavy price to form this tradition.

After all, it is not easy to make these guys who always think they are born superior to others understand that loyalty is a rare talent and that only sharing of interests is an eternal truth.

Unfortunately, humans are a race that will repeat their terrible history all the time. Today's nobles, even the big nobles, are beginning to care less about the number of ordinary people in their castles and where they come from.

And, if power is left unattended, someone will naturally pick it up and use it. In Montes Castle, Lori and Lady Yagris's side probably had no ordinary people because of the long journey they had made.

But in the castle, most of the hard and dirty work, especially, is done by ordinary people.

Taking the least money, doing the dirtiest and most tiring work, looking at those same servants like himself who live a carefree life just because they have a little talent... It is normal for ordinary people who enter the castle no longer because of the welfare to have a mental collapse and be taken advantage of from time to time.

Of course, Lowry and Mrs. Yaglis kept silent about this because Pat was also among the exploiters.

She explained it very clearly in the letter. Although she took several maids with her, the ones who really delivered the left-wing information to her and added some "spice" to the other side were actually the ordinary people at the bottom of the castle.

In fact, those who live in the right wing and central areas will also look for these ordinary people to do their jobs. After all, laundry workers... wash the clothes of senior servants, and the dirtiest job of night soil collectors is basically the work of ordinary people.

However, even though the people brought up by Madam Yagris have an arrogant attitude and a high-handed work style, they will not beat or scold others at will or bully them at will.

At most, I look down on you.

However, contempt was the friendliest attitude these low-level servants encountered.

Lowry can actually understand why all this happened. It is common sense ingrained in him that what worries him most is not the scarcity of wealth but the inequality of distribution, and not poverty but instability.

But he didn't care whether he could afford to support them. It was just a barony, and how many talented people could there be who were at the servant stage?
You know, his Living Feather Knights are still recruiting openly, and the talent requirements are not high!
As it turned out, there were actually quite a lot of them, filling up the castle in no time.

Later, Lori realized that the reason why Baron Gezar had hoarded so many underage children with barely acceptable talents was entirely because his mother's existence gave these children hope.

In the past, for children like this, parents in Baron Gezar's territory would either give up completely or send them to a caravan to be apprentices with only three meals a day... With this kind of talent, no formal adventure group would accept them unless they paid for training.

Even if many children wasted their future and ended up becoming traveling merchants at the level of low-level apprentices... in fact, they were the people in charge of managing a carriage in the caravan, they would not send these children to the baron mentioned above as servants.

But the arrival of Lady Yagris still gave them some hope, especially after the rumor of Lori's outstanding talent spread back to the Barony, everyone naturally kept the children.

Who would really want to do such hard work as traveling as a merchant, where you can only get a little dividend from the carriage and it is extremely dangerous!
They are all people who are forced into this desperate situation and have nowhere else to go.

So, even though all the kids are not very talented, there are always a few who are okay... Two of them can be found every year among the underage servants of Montes Castle!

What's more, this is the fruit of more than ten years of accumulation.

Seeing that all the juicy fruits were taken away by Cheska, and only a group of Lowry who had to settle for second best were left for him, he was heartbroken and chose to wait another two years.

To be honest, it's not because he's picky or has any problems.

But... do you really think the recipes in the game are that detailed?

The ingredients are all there, and even the proportions are correct, but there’s no fucking order!
Even for Western food, those extremely precious dishes, there are many things to pay attention to.

And those dessert cakes.

With Lowry's cooking skills, there was no way he could tell a bunch of detailed information just by looking at those pieces of paper.

Therefore, he must find a few people who are talented and truly love this industry.

Fortunately, after going through all kinds of torture, he still found some children among his servants who had deft tongues, delicate minds, extremely steady and sensitive hands, and most importantly, were very greedy for food.

Although there are only two men and one woman, at least he can start his chef enlightenment course!

It was only in this life that Lowry understood what it meant to eat the same old food and that industrialized food was not tasty.

After all, although he used to eat takeout, the outer city area where he lived might not be prosperous, but the restaurants were all old shops that had been open for decades.

After all, they all have their own stores, and maybe they even have fields in the far suburbs…Occasionally when Lowry eats in the restaurant, he can hear the boss and the boss’ wife arguing with each other about things in the fields.

Therefore, he cannot empathize with those people who say online that there are more and more pre-prepared meals and that they taste like chewing wax.

But, after eating the food in the castle for more than ten years, Lowry can completely understand these people!
At least his food is made from the best ingredients!

That is, there is not even the slightest difference in saltiness.

(End of this chapter)