Lady of the Lord From the East

Chapter 75

Just as Wei Wei thought, the children in the church were very excited when they heard that the Countess had arranged for them to work.

This is a group of precocious children who have long known the hardships of life. Perhaps some of them have been infected with some bad habits that they should not have, but those who are lazy and lazy will not live as big as them.

Since the girls will be sold by their family members, and even after being sold, they are reluctant to let them stay at home for one more day, thinking that it will waste the food they have acquired, then they can't be much favored at home. Naturally, since childhood Do all kinds of housework.

The same is true for the rare boys. Those who have a family are not favored, and those who do not have a family can only rely on themselves. If they don't work hard, they won't survive now.

And now, although they stay in Sardinson as serfs, they are well fed and clothed and even taught and studied. This kind of life is not like what a serf should have, but more like those wealthy families. Children in the middle can enjoy.

So they cherish this opportunity very much. If they are not given jobs, maybe some of these people will gradually change their attitudes and take them for granted, but now they are only a few days away from their arrival, and everyone is still in a state of unease. Having a job will give them peace of mind.

Because it was Wei Wei's order, Qin, who took turns with Father Matthew to teach the children every day, organized the children after lunch and took them to the castle.

The things have already been prepared over there. Washing vegetables in winter is not a good job. The new water is piercingly cold. If you change to other adults who are used to doing this, Wei Wei may not care too much, at most Provide them with some hand ointment after work, to ensure that these people's hands will not hurt too much, and cooling their hands is unavoidable, but she is inevitably a little soft-hearted after changing children and specifically asked the kitchen to help burn them Hot water, mixed with well water to wash the beets for them, although the temperature of the mixed water will not be too high, it will not freeze your hands.

After finding that the water temperature is not low, the cleaning work is handed over to the younger children, and the older girls are responsible for cutting the vegetables, and they are not required to cut them well, as long as they are not too thick.

The children work very seriously. More than 200 children gather in the open space behind the kitchen. They can even cut several thousand kilograms of shredded beets with hard work in one afternoon, but there are not many slaves and stoves for making sugar. There was no way they could even handle that many beets, so they only worked for two hours and could rest after finishing the number of beets they ordered today.

The children who had finished their work originally thought they were going to go back to church, but they didn't want to get Qin, who was instructed to bring out a high pile of plates from the sugar cooking room.

"Everyone lines up, everyone comes over to get a piece."

On the plate were beet sugar cubes, but unlike the sugar cubes to be given to the local people, these sugar cubes were cut into small pieces, about the size of modern Wangcai toffee.

This group of children of all ages are very obedient, and they are used to queuing, so Qin shouted, and everyone consciously lined up.

Standing at the front was a little girl of about ten years old. She took a dark brown candy cube from the plate according to Qin's words, but she didn't know what it was. She only felt that it smelled sweet. When passing by the bakery, the smell is just as sweet.