I'm not a lord

Chapter 69 Come back soon, the village has given me a wife

Macko never thought that there would be a day when he would return to White Bear Territory.

White Bear Territory is the hometown where he was born and raised.

But at the age of fourteen, he abandoned his homeland, secretly hid in a merchant's grain ship, and arrived at the "free city" he had always dreamed of - Sanhe City.

He was unwilling to accept the life of a serf with a foreseeable end, unwilling to endure the joint exploitation by the steward and the village heads, and even more unwilling to work endlessly for the lord year after year.

He disliked the village that was always filled with foul odors, and he also disliked his parents who were always covered in dust and dirt.

He wanted to break free from his constraints, he wanted to get rich, he wanted to wear expensive mink fur.

He wanted to be a superior person like a lord.

But these dreams were destined to be unrealizable for him if he stayed in White Bear Territory.

So he did it decisively.

He abandoned his parents and his younger siblings.

By smuggling, he successfully set foot on the land of Sanhe City.

See the city scenery you have never seen in your life.

Breathe the free air that you have never tasted in your life.

No more village head would whip him before dawn and say, "Get up and work!"

He danced with joy on the dock.

Farewell, cage!

But soon, the cruel side of the city gave him a wake-up call.

Everything in the city costs money, and the prices are several times higher than in White Bear Territory.

For the price of a bowl of rye porridge, you can even buy half a sack of rye in White Bear Territory.

All his property was a few silver coins stolen from his home, which was enough to afford a week's stay in a hotel.

Soon, he was kicked out of the inn by the innkeeper because he was penniless. He was forced to sleep in a dark street corner that was even more smelly than the village.

But he still couldn't find a 'decent' job that met his requirements.

He has nothing except a strong body given by his parents.

He wanted to be a blacksmith's apprentice, but the blacksmith who swung the hammer only gave him a mouthful of thick phlegm.

"You stinking outsider, you came to our Sanhe City to beg for food? Get lost!"

Eventually, he found a job as a laborer at the docks.

Every day, there are endless heavy boxes to move, but the money I earn is just enough to barely survive.

That’s it. Many people want to sell but don’t have the means to do so.

The dock manager reluctantly accepted him because he was young and strong.

As he drank the bland porridge and squeezed into a smelly wooden house with twenty people in one room.

He burst into tears.

He missed home, he missed his parents and siblings, and he missed the curling smoke from the White Bear's collar.

But he was destined not to go back.

He remembered clearly that the lord would hang up any serf who dared to escape and whip him with a horsewhip until he was reduced to a ball of rotten flesh and could not move.

He survived a year on the dock and became a glorious city resident.

The lord has no right to pursue him anymore.

He then spent another five years on the docks.

He repeated the same work and life for five years.

marry?

That is of course unthinkable.

He is just a dock laborer and can't even afford the cheapest house. Who would marry him?
Those women who also fled from the villages to the city would rather sell themselves in brothels than marry a poor, low-level laborer like him.

His only means of "entertainment" was to go to the city church and listen to the priest chant.

Get a free small scone every Sunday.

But in the end, he couldn't stay any longer.

It is said that a war is about to break out, and the price of food in the city changes every day.

A bowl of porridge with pickles would cost him a whole day's wages. Just when he was about to reach his wits' end, a piece of news reached his ears.

White Bear Territory recently had a new lord. Any fugitive slave willing to go to White Bear Territory would be forgiven of all sins and would also be given a share of land and a house.

He boarded the ship back home.

Returned to my hometown after five years away.

My hometown seems to be the same hometown as before, but upon closer inspection, it is a little different.

The wheat in the field was much more lush than he remembered.

The village roads were much cleaner than he remembered.

He discovered that his parents had already passed away and his brothers and sisters had all started their own families.

It is said that my younger brother has been summoned by the lord and is building a road in the forest north of the territory.

The same is true for my brother-in-law

He also heard that the road would connect to a salt mine and provide free salt to the serfs.

Before he had time to think about it, a young steward took him to the public pasture in the northwest of White Bear Territory.

"This will be your home from now on. You should build houses here and cultivate the land.

Before the autumn harvest, the lord will provide you with seeds, food, farming tools, and wood for building houses, and you will be responsible for the rest."

Under the steward's scolding, Macko and more than 200 escaped slaves from Sanhe City began to build Manor No. 6.

The seeds given to them were soybeans, and the neighboring Manor No. 5 lent them farm tools and draft horses, and taught them how to use a farm tool called a "heavy plow."

It is said that this thing is a new technology brought by the lord.

Macko drove a heavy plow and completed the reclamation of thirty acres of land in less than a week.

After all, it is grassland, the land is soft and easy to cultivate.

He marveled at the magic of the heavy plow and was just about to sow soybeans when the head of the village brought new news.

The lord captured hundreds of women and children from the barbarians in the north and wanted to give wives and children to these fugitives.

Savage people?

In Macko's impression, the savages were demons who almost destroyed the White Bear Territory.

His parents had repeatedly warned him to stay away from the northern forest.

But none of this matters anymore, because he is about to get a barbarian wife.

He has never touched a woman and just wants to have a complete family.

What, this wife has a child?
That's even better!

This shows that my wife has the ability and experience to have children!
And children are also valuable labor force! They eat less!
He saw the blue-haired women and children of the barbarians, and also saw the new lord surrounded by the barbarians.

The lord indeed pardoned his sins and publicly allocated the thirty acres of land he had cultivated to him as a share of the land.

He even encouraged him to work hard and strive to reclaim another 30 acres of land this year.

Macko bent down excitedly and couldn't help kissing the muddy toes of the master's shoes.

In his eyes, the master was greater and nobler than the gods promoted in the city churches.

The gods would not save him, but the master really saved him.

He no longer thought about the stinking city.

He swore in front of his master that he would work for him forever.

That night, he couldn't wait to move into the newly built thatched hut with his wife, a barbarian.

Blue hair is weird?

He didn't care at all and seemed to be more handsome than the locals.

Can't speak the language? Can't do farm work?
That’s okay, he has plenty of time to teach.

Your wife and children are both very thin?
It doesn't matter, he will support them with his hard-working hands.

What's more, the lord would provide food before the autumn harvest, and every day his family could eat free hot porridge in the greenhouse in the center of the village.

Similar scenes to those of the Macko family occurred in every corner of Manor No. 6.

Two hundred escaped slaves and four hundred women and children of the barbarians formed new families and settled down in the White Bear Territory.

(End of this chapter)