Being a Life Player in the Middle Ages

After figuring out the golden finger she possessed, Mia's confidence soared. Even when facing this strange world that resembled the early Middle Ages, she was no longer so confused.

On the first day after waking up, she couldn't get out of bed. During this time, Martha helped her to take care of her physiological needs. What made Mia feel ashamed was that there was no toilet in Martha's house. They used the toilet directly to take care of their physiological needs. In fact, it was a wooden bucket with a lid and no handles placed in the room. So when Mia was taking care of herself, Martha watched by her side to prevent her from falling.

This made Mia very uncomfortable, but Martha thought she was dissatisfied with the toilet being too dirty and explained: "This bucket is new, you can use it without worry."

Being able to have a knight as a neighbor, Martha and her husband's living conditions are actually quite good. They don't have a toilet in their house, so the couple uses a toilet when they need to go to the bathroom. The only toilet in the house is in the couple's bedroom. Mia's ankle injury makes it difficult for her to go downstairs to solve the problem, so the careful Martha prepared a new toilet in advance.

Since she said so, Mia didn't feel comfortable to be pretentious any longer. She quickly finished the job and was helped back to the hay bed.

After resting for another day, she felt much better when she woke up. Although her throat was still a little sore and she even had a slight cough, her energy and spirit had recovered a lot, especially in terms of physical strength. After eating breakfast, she had the strength to get up by herself.

Martha brought breakfast, which was still a bowl of porridge, but it was made by mixing bread, minced meat and butter. People here call it paste. Like milk paste, it was also a children's meal, but it was for older children. As for Mia, she actually no longer ate this. Although she was still a child in this world at the age of thirteen, she was already a child who could be engaged and married, so she naturally did not need to eat children's meals anymore.

But Martha obviously didn't think so, and she believed that as a patient who had just recovered from a serious illness and was injured, it would be good for Mia to eat these liquid foods.

Unable to refuse the kind offer, Mia had no choice but to eat it.

After breakfast, Martha found her a walking stick from somewhere.

"This is what John used before. It might be a little long, so you can just use it."

John is Martha's husband. Did he use the cane because he had been injured before?

Mia noted this, thanked him, and took the cane.

Martha had washed all her clothes, and even repaired some of the scratches that occurred during her escape. Mia had been wearing Martha's old clothes during the days she was unconscious. Now that she had changed back into her own clothes, she was shocked to find that there was nothing underneath the woolen dress except a long petticoat and stockings.

No bra, no panties!

The feeling of shifting into neutral was so refreshing that Mia felt she didn't even dare to move a foot.

Leaning on her cane, she carefully moved to the door.

As she thought, she was indeed in the attic on the top floor, but Martha's house had not one but two attics. The two attics were opposite the door across the corridor, and next to them were the stairs leading downstairs.

The wooden stairs were narrow and old, and they made a creaking sound when stepped on. Before Mia went downstairs, the people downstairs already knew she was coming down.

Martha's house, including the attic, is a three-story building. The second floor also has two rooms. She didn't look any further and continued down the stairs to the first floor.

Compared to the two floors above, the first floor looks much larger because the entire first floor is connected, with only shelves in the middle, dividing the front and back into two parts. The front is the herb shop, and the back is a mix of kitchen and restaurant.

The entrance to the stairs was stuck between the two. When Mia came down, she could see the old man, who should be Martha's husband, busy in front of the herbal medicine cabinet in front, and Martha doing housework in the kitchen in the back.

And Martha and her husband naturally saw her too.

Seeing John's gaze, Mia nodded and greeted him generously: "Good morning, sir."

Martha's husband was a rather serious-looking man, which made him look not very old, but his short black hair with graying hair showed that he was not young at all.

He was not very tall, about 1.7 meters, and a little thin, but his back was straight and he looked very energetic.

Hearing Mia's greeting, John nodded at her, although his face was still serious: "Good morning."

Martha also looked up from the pile of plates, smiled at her and asked, "How is it? Is the cane still suitable?"

"very suitable."

In fact, it is a bit long. The height of her body is not particularly tall. At the age of thirteen, she is only 1.3 meters tall, which is far lower than the level of modern girls of the same age. However, it is a very good height in this era. As long as she maintains it, she is expected to exceed 1.6 meters after adulthood. At this time, most adult women are less than 1.6 meters tall, especially civilians. Most of them are only about 1.4 to 1.5 meters tall because they cannot absorb enough nutrition during their growth and development period. Martha, for example, is less than 1.5 meters tall, but Mia thinks this is also because Martha's height has shrunk as she got older.

The cane was used by John, who is now 1.7 meters tall. It is a bit long for Mia, but it does not hinder her use.

Martha: "How about going for a walk in the backyard? I don't think it's a good time for you to go out."

Mia had already spotted the back door of the house, right next to the kitchen stove where Martha worked. The door was open, and she could see what looked like a garden behind the house, with a fence, flowers, and of course a vegetable patch.

The front door was also open, but it was on one side of the wall instead of the center. The door of the herbal shop was not big. Because of the business, in addition to the door, other areas of the wall facing the outside, about 70 to 80 centimeters in diameter, were built into window holes. This window hole, which occupied most of the wall, had no glass and no frame like the attic window hole, but there was a wooden baffle matching the window in the corner. After the herbal shop stopped operating, these baffles would be placed on the window hole.

In addition, there are display boards on the windows, on which are placed many commodities, but they are not herbs, but some handicrafts, including woven fabrics and small ornaments that do not look very valuable. It can be seen that Martha's herbal medicine shop also sells other things.

Martha's house is built on the side of the road. Through the window, you can see the bustling street outside. There are not only people, but also many animals, such as cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, and geese.

Mia recalled that in her memory, she "saw" that people living in cities during this period would raise livestock on the streets due to environmental constraints. She decisively gave up the idea of ​​going out to take a look, accepted Martha's kindness, and went to the garden outside the back door.

It is called a garden, but in fact it is more like a vegetable garden. The piece of land behind the house, which is enclosed by a fence, is about one mu (approximately 66 square meters). A circle of flowers and plants are planted around the fence, and the middle part is divided into two parts. About two-thirds of the area on one side has been cultivated into a vegetable field, and the remaining side is built with wood into a chicken coop against the fence, with a rooster and four hens in it.

Martha and her husband's family background can be said to be quite good, as they own a fairly large house in the city with its own garden.

As soon as Mia walked into the backyard, Martha moved a bench and placed it against the wall.

"Let's sit here and bask in the sun. It's a nice day today."

Mia smiled and accepted her kindness, sitting obediently on the chair. The herbal medicine shop was built along the street, and the people living in this area seemed to have good family conditions. Generally, houses in the city are closely connected back to back, but Martha's family has their own yard, and the neighbors on the left, right and back also have them. Everyone's houses are close together, and the yard is naturally too, but there is a path about one meter wide between the house opposite.

However, like Martha's, the yards of each family were mostly used for growing vegetables and raising livestock, so these gardens were not beautiful at all. On the contrary, many of them looked dirty and smelly. In comparison, the yard on her left seemed a little different because there was only a lawn in that yard.

Mia looked at the yard for a while, wondering if this was Knight Bayard's yard.

She withdrew her gaze and began to think about her current situation.

Her current situation is actually very bad.

Mia's current country is Constantiburg, the capital of the East Bai Empire.

This name made it hard for Mia not to think of the Eastern Roman Empire in the original world that spanned the entire Middle Ages, namely the Byzantine Empire and its capital Constantinople.

Although Mia had learned almost no history about the Middle Ages during her three years of high school, she had a certain interest in this area, so she had read some relevant documents and watched some film and television works. This was why she was able to quickly determine from Mia's memory that the situation of the Eastern Bai Empire was very similar to that of the Byzantine Empire, and even some major historical events could be matched one by one. She also used this to determine that this world and the surrounding countries were probably still in the early Middle Ages.

——For this reason, Mia once thought of going to the far East to find her homeland, but unfortunately, in Mia's memory, there was no ancient country named porcelain in this world.

This may be the biggest difference between the two worlds.

The lives of common people during this period were not easy, especially since she was an orphan who had lost her parents and was penniless.

The original owner, Mia, was a little girl who was not old enough to be keen on jewelry, especially when she was going out. Her father also specifically told her to be more restrained in her clothing. However, revealing too much of her family's wealth would make it easy for bad people to target her, so when she left the convoy to relax, she didn't even have a single copper coin on her.

After her father's death, all the property of the caravan was looted, which also meant that those things no longer belonged to her. It can be said that Mia is now truly penniless and so poor that she only has the clothes on her body.

Fortunately, her residence and property in the original city were still there. Although her father wanted to send Mia to live with his lover to be taken care of, he would still do business outside, and that residence was still a necessary place for him to stay. So when he left, the businessman only asked Mia to pack up some of her daily necessities, and most of the property was left there. As the businessman's only child in that city, and a legitimate child, even if Mia was a girl, she could inherit the property he left behind after paying a large inheritance tax.

But the prerequisite is that these inheritances will not be embezzled by her relatives.

Although Mia's father had no brothers or sisters, he had many cousins ​​and other more distant relatives, many of whom lived in the same city. Many of these people had some status in the local area, and it was easy for them to seize property from an orphan like her. They could even use their status as elders to marry her to anyone regardless of her own wishes. So if Mia wanted to inherit the inheritance smoothly, she could only seek help, and the only person she could try to ask for help at the moment was her savior, Knight Bayard.

So Mia really wanted to meet Knight Bayard as soon as possible. In addition to wanting to thank him sincerely, she also wanted to seek his help to see if he could help her inherit the inheritance smoothly. She would be willing to do so even if he gave her most of his property.