Being a Life Player in the Middle Ages

After preparing to give the carpenter more orders, he returned to the herbal medicine store and decided to wait until the decoration of the weaving shop was almost done before contacting the remaining employees. He had just been besieged by his neighbors in the morning and wanted to experience this feeling again.

I will also consider the details of the employment contract and the store's rules and regulations for a while, and then write to Komnenos to ask him to help draft the contract. It would be best if we could invite the store to discuss the details.

When we arrived, we wanted to go directly to the Komnen Studio. Since we were young, Martha John would sometimes agree to let us go out alone, but now everyone was very busy and obviously could not make time to accompany us.

Back at the herbalist's shop, Martha had already come home to clean up the kitchen. The area around the stove was cleared, fragile items were carefully put away, and other things were moved to the corners as much as possible to make enough space so as not to hinder the workers from renovating the stove.

Passing by the kitchen and preparing to go to the backyard to pick some vegetable leaves for the next meal, he asked in confusion: "Did the workers start work early? Why are we cleaning up now?"

Martha wiped the sweat from her forehead and said, "Of course, they said they would come back tomorrow morning, so we need to pack our things in advance to avoid being in a hurry and wasting time."

He nodded, then asked, "Do you need my help?"

Martha waved her hand: "Of course, you can go if you are busy."

He had never been there before, so he took out some fruit from the cupboard, peeled and cut it into pieces, and inserted sharpened wooden sticks into the fruit plates. He prepared two fruit plates. His smaller portion could be left for Martha, and his larger portion could be taken next door to John and the others.

After finishing the small part, he went to the backyard to pick some more vegetable leaves, and took an egg out of the chicken coop, took the egg peel and packed it upstairs to feed the next one.

He naturally saw that the chicks had become more furry and adorable, and their eyes had not yet opened. When the mother queen crawled out of the farrowing box to eat, he checked all the chicks to make sure they were in good health. The gender ratio of the thirteen chicks was very balanced, with seven female chicks and six male chicks.

Finally, check the queen's physical condition. If the recovery is very good, you can wait for about a week, and then it can be bred again. In fact, it can be bred again three days after giving birth. However, doing so will only lead to a decline in the queen's physical condition and affect the birth of offspring. Therefore, under normal circumstances, we still consider breeding at a young age.

And if the mother can recover well, then the ideal time period is about 12 to 18 days after delivery. If the mother can successfully conceive during this period, it can ensure the mother's health, but it will not affect the mother's body, and it cannot stabilize the number of births per year and the number of piglets she can give birth to in other pregnancy.

Seeing that the queen mother was in good condition, they began to think about finding a suitable male queen as soon as possible so that they could cultivate their relationship.

He came over, rubbed his chin, wrote down the little thing, and then went back to his room to write a letter to Komnenos.

After finishing the letter, he went to find someone to deliver it, and then turned around and went back to the carpenter's house.

Carpenter Richard was surprised to see the visit.

Without raising his head, he moved his hands to the signboard and said lazily, "Xiaoci, what are you thinking of now? Have you found a carver?"

He didn't envy the apprentices working together, and he had seen them make their own custom-made small hammers. Several people divided the work among them, two people were responsible for carving out the general shape, two people did the fine carving, and finally others were responsible for grinding and polishing. These were prototypes of assembly line production.

When he was a carpenter's apprentice, he had a nephew, and his second and third sons and three nephews also learned carpentry from him. As for the eldest son, he has never seen him. It is said that after they got married, they moved to another neighborhood. This is probably not the norm for Westerners. When children grow up and get married, they usually live with their parents. It is very rare for them to have several generations living together like Orientals.

The carpenter replied, "I've been there, but no order has been placed."

Then he answered the previous question: "Yes, I'm here to place an order. Are you available to take orders recently?"

The carpenter looked up at him again and said, "Then let's see what you can do next."

Carpenter Richard lives on Oppets Street, which shows that his family is poor. The best carpenter in his area is not very good at making all kinds of furniture. It takes a long time for a single worker to finish the work. If they come to him to make something particularly troublesome, he probably won't be able to accept the order.

Although it is not really a hassle to do something good, Richard still thinks that it is a little troublesome and can be a troublesome thing.

Richard believes that it is troublesome and requires careful carving and inscription on the works, which is the most time-consuming and troublesome, but not so popular with those wealthy customers. Even if they make a chair, they still hope to have some beautiful patterns to highlight their identity and status.

But when it comes to patterns, practicality and practicality are the key factors to consider. To make practical enough furniture, it should have a plain and unpretentious appearance and be polished smooth without burrs.

It may be troublesome, but because custom-made furniture is relatively new, some people have not done it in this era.

There are bunk beds with ladders, a foldable table, a chair with armrests and curved backrest, and a single cabinet with some hangers.

"Then you need to make sure they are strong enough."

It has been emphasized that the popular retro style of furniture may seem gorgeous to most people, and of course it is within the aesthetic range of most people, so it can be removed at a young age.

Removing the smaller ones can not only save construction time, but also save costs.

The carpenter seemed to have brought many drawings and was very interested in the bunk beds: "Small beds are very suitable for families with limited space, especially those with too many children."

It is not only those residents of slums who face the awkward situation of having a large enough house but too many people. This is a problem for the vast majority of ordinary people. Many times, children move out when they get married, not because they want to be with their parents, but because their families cannot really stay.

After all, you think you can have as many children as possible, so we may have three or four children, but in reality, we may have as many children as possible, like five, six, seven or eight children.

After all, there are several religions that are gaining momentum now. They allow abortion. As the state religion of the Eastern Orthodox Church, there are no effective contraceptive measures at present. Women can get pregnant and give birth to the baby. However, if they commit a crime, they will be imprisoned. It was not until the current Queen came to the throne that they successfully persuaded the emperor to change the law and allow women to have abortions.

However, many people still choose to get pregnant and have more children because of their own beliefs and ideas, even if their family already has so many children.

However, no one underestimates human vitality. Although the probability of childhood death is high in childhood, many children can still successfully raise their own children and support their families. Therefore, the number of children in each household is small, so housing problems naturally become a difficult problem.

Not to mention other people coming, there were some small problems at the carpenter's house. He had three older sons and two daughters, and now he had three nephews as apprentices. Naturally, the nephews did not live with his family. The carpenter's house was not as large as Martha's, and because of work needs, he expanded the yard a little, resulting in a smaller house. Naturally, there were enough rooms, and now he even had several children living in the same room. There were no beds, and they slept on the floor.

Although bunk beds can only solve a small problem, they can improve the accommodation problem of family members. The carpenter saw the potential for development in it and believed that if it was well made, it would surely become popular all over the country in a short time, even in some countries that have the same problem.

Because of its simple structure, the price is not too high. No matter what style or pattern you pursue, basically people who can afford it can use it when they are old. A bunk bed can solve the sleeping problem of two or four people. Even if the family does not have so many people, the family cannot afford a bunk bed. It can be used to store things when it is usually used, and guests who come to the house can just stay there to clean up. Don’t you think it is very convenient?

The carpenter was more and more satisfied. Although there was no patent at the moment, they planned to give him a discount on part of the fee to purchase the right to use a few drawings.

They only have bunk beds, and the remaining space is for the table, chairs, and cabinets. The table doesn't seem to save much space, and it can be put away when not in use, which is inconvenient to carry. The chairs don't look as comfortable as the straight-back chairs. There are also some cabinets. Although they look very different from modern ones on the outside, the internal layout is quite different. Especially the wardrobe with horizontal bars can be used to hang clothes directly on the hangers, which is very convenient for many clothes that are easy to fold and store.

"I really know where you get so many fresh things from. Since they are so good, I can make them for you for free. Of course, you can pay for the rest."

Although they said so, Richard felt that most of the small furniture had high requirements for craftsmanship, and his nephews might not be able to do it well without his help, so the wages he charged them did not decrease accordingly. After all, it was just a work for their apprentices to practice.

So the price he finally gave was definitely very low and did not give us any room for bargaining.

However, after much bargaining, I was able to get a good deal, so I was of course very happy. I still had to pay a deposit this time. However, before leaving, I asked the carpenter apprentices to collect three sets of small hammers for me, so I had to pay a small part of the money in advance.

Because the three hundred small mallets were too easy to take away, he went to the carpenter who stockpiled energy products and bought three energy boxes of suitable sizes, which were just right for him to put in his box for easy storage.

"You didn't help me get the small seed boxes for the remaining seven sets."

Originally, he could have stopped by the carpenter's shop, walked around a few times, bought a few storage boxes of the same size, and then asked Richard to arrange for someone to deliver them to his door.

"That's right!"

Richard suddenly remembered something and stopped to leave.

"Your father came to ask me before if I had any work to sell. I'll find out for you. A skilled hunter in our village is coming to his home and planning to sell it to people in the city. You can go ahead and ask him to take your family there tomorrow when he comes."

The carpenter's family moved to the city from a village outside the city more than ten years ago. He still had few relatives in the village. For example, his son lived in the village when he was an apprentice, and he would come home to visit him from time to time. That's why John asked him about his son.

After hearing what he said, although he felt that there was a high probability that his queen and his cubs would not have a male queen suitable for breeding, they were still very happy.

The little one is younger and the big one is younger. It’s better to raise him for a while until he grows up.

"Then let him send it over."

The next morning, he received a letter from Komnenos saying that he would come over in the afternoon to discuss the matter in detail. Then the carpenter said that the hunter could deliver the latter to him.

To many people's surprise, the hunter named Theo brought them to his nest with his little one, and they had four older brothers and six younger brothers, a total of ten of them.

We can indeed have him in our nest later.

Cave queens are social animals, and high-ranking male queens will have multiple mates. When hunters catch a cave queen, the carpenter said that after his family knew that some of the people were working there, he would go to the wild to find the queen's nest and smoke her out.

There are four males and three females. The age of the young ones is between one and a half years and two years old. Although they can reach adulthood after a long time, for most of them, it is difficult for them to survive more than two years old in the wild.