Through the conversation on the way, Marin learned that the Kahn family was originally a serf of a nearby landlord's family. However, since Kahn began to develop a few years ago, he is very edible, and one person can eat the amount of food of three people.
Although, Kahn is also more powerful. If it is placed on the collar of any knight, maybe Kahn will be recruited as a knight attendant. Because Kahn has the potential to become a fierce player.
However, the owner of the manor where the Kahn family lived was just an ordinary landowner and squire, and he didn't need a good-for-nothing. In addition, the harvest of the manor has not been good in recent years, so last year, the Kahn family was kicked out.
Kahn's father Zmelmann knew a little about carpentry, so he went to the city to work for a carpenter's shop. And Kahn, his mother, two younger brothers and a little sister, a total of 5 people, built a simple wooden house on the edge of the Black Forest. Usually, Kahn goes to the forest to pick up dead branches as firewood (logging is subject to the approval of the lord), and sells them to the city people to earn a little money.
Kahn's mother, on the other hand, took her younger siblings to the forest to pick wild fruits and mushrooms, and dried them for food...
Because Kahn ate a lot, even though Zmelmann's income was good, the family tried hard to find ways to subsidize the family. However, everyone is still very tight.
This year, Kahn has turned 18, and Zmailmann had already taken Kahn to the city at the beginning of the year, intending to make him an apprentice. However, after seeing Kahn's terrifying appetite, those artisan shops rejected Kahn without exception (apprentices are not paid, but they have to take care of the food)...
In desperation, Kahn had to come back to accompany his mother and younger siblings. Unexpectedly, Kahn's mother Jenny fell ill and became weak. Because after spending all their savings on seeing a doctor for his mother, the whole family began to be hungry... So, Kahn thought of learning from other hunters and quietly went hunting in the deep forest (the lord here is not strict with the hunting of the people, and many Everyone hunts quietly, and if caught, they will be beaten at most). Unfortunately, the first time I hunted, not only did I not catch the prey, but I became the prey myself and fell into the trap...
When he came to the wooden house, Kahn put down the wild boar, pushed open the dilapidated fence in front of the house, and shouted:
"Mom, I'm back! It's a distinguished guest!"
Soon, a middle-aged woman with a haggard face came out with a boy of fifteen or sixteen, a little boy of about twelve, and a little girl of about ten.
"Kane, who is this master?" The middle-aged woman looked at Marin and knew that the other party might be a knight.
"My dear lady, my name is Marin, and I am a knight." Marin introduced himself, and saluted by the way.
"You are too polite, Sir Knight, we are just commoners and cannot afford your courtesy!" the middle-aged woman said in panic. In her memory, only commoners saluted or even kowtowed to nobles, how could nobles salute commoners? Moreover, she is just a low-level woman without a surname, and she simply cannot bear the honorific title of "Mrs."
That is to say, Marin, a traveler, doesn't pay much attention to social class differences. Putting it on another knight, he would never look straight at a commoner. Being able to talk to civilians would feel like giving them a lot of face.
Hearing that Marin was a knight lord, the younger boys and girls were frightened and hid behind the woman. On the contrary, it was the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy who looked at Marin curiously without fear.
"Kohler, what are you staring at? Why don't you salute Lord Knight?" Kahn glared at his second brother Kohler.
Kohler reacted and saluted Marin, but after the salute, he still looked at Marin with curious eyes. Of course, this is not the kind of presumptuous scrutiny, but a peek like a little boy...
"Kane, go, drag that wild boar in!" Marin ordered casually.
"My lord, what do you want?"
"Open a guy at your house, let's eat together."
"No, no, how dare we eat your food, sir!" Jenny shook her head.
"It's okay, that's it. But, ma'am, can you cook me some food?" Marin could see that Jenny's illness was cured, but her body was still very weak. About half of them were also hungry.
"OK… "
"Kane, do you know how to kill a pig? Has this wild boar not been dealt with yet?" Marin suddenly remembered that this wild boar seemed to have not been dealt with yet...
"Yes, my lord. I worked as a helper in a slaughterhouse in the city for a few days at the beginning of the year, so I know how to butcher pigs! Look at me!" Then, Kahn took the newly bought one that Marin handed him Sharp short knife, go to deal with the wild boar.
Although the technique was a little rusty, Kahn finally managed to clean up the wild boar. It's just that the wild boar skin was a little damaged because Marin shot several arrows at the beginning.
Jenny quickly cut ten catties of wild boar meat according to Marin's request, and went to the kitchen to cook.
An hour later, Marin looked at the food on the table and frowned...
"Ma'am, you only know how to roast and cook meat?"
"Huh? Yes. Isn't everyone doing this?" Jenny didn't understand what Marin meant.
Marin also reacted instantly - how do Europeans know how to cook...
It's just that he couldn't bear to see the delicious wild pork wasted on the roasting and boiling of ancient German machinery...
Then Marin asked:
"Ma'am, do you have a pot at home?"
"Huh? Yes, yes, there is a frying pan!"
"Frying pan..." Although it is not a professional pan for cooking, it is better than nothing.
Then, under the surprised eyes of the Kahn family, Marin took off his armor and walked into the kitchen...
After entering the kitchen, Marin called Kahn and asked him to light the fire. And he himself started to prepare the stir-fry...
But to Marin's despair, Kahn's house did not have the oil needed for cooking...
No wonder, these days, Europeans only have two expensive edible oils, butter and olive oil, and only nobles often use them. Well, use some animal fat too...
"Yes, animal fat!" Marin slapped his head, and then, holding a short knife, went to the wild boar carcass to cut some pig fat, and threw it into the pot to cook the lard...
After boiling the lard, Marin took out the sliced meat that Jenny helped to cut, threw it into the pot, and started to stir fry...
In addition to lard, Kahn's family only has salt as a condiment. In desperation, Marin could only choose to put some salt...
Half an hour later, a burst of aroma wafted from the kitchen, making Kahn, Kohler, Kleiman and Mina's mouth water...
After the fried pork slices were served, everyone except Jenny stared at them with drooling eyes.
"Don't look, let's eat something together!" Marin took the lead to start. The others were still hesitant at first, but after Kahn started, several children started rushing to eat... After a while, a plate of fried pork slices was gone...
"I'm sorry, my lord, the children are too greedy!" Jenny saw that it was worth it, grabbing the knight's food, isn't she afraid of being killed...
But Marin didn't care. This fried pork slices was actually not very tasty because of insufficient seasoning. Of course, that is relative to the Huaxia stir-fry in later generations. In this era, it can be regarded as the first time Marin ate fried vegetables.
"It's okay, it's nothing. It's a big deal to fry another one!"
The second time to cook, Jenny didn't dare to let Marin do it by himself, but planned to do it by himself. Under Marin's guidance, Jenny also managed to cook a decent plate of fried pork slices. Then, it was divided up by a few brats...
"Oh, it's really delicious, if only I could eat meat every day!" Kahn sighed contentedly after eating.
"Come on, brother, unless you can become a servant of a nobleman, you will have the opportunity to live such a life." Kohler said venomously. The servants of nobles, even if they are eating leftovers, still have the opportunity to eat delicious food. As for the civilians, they can only eat black sticks and bricks...
"The servant of the noble..." Everyone couldn't help turning their attention to Marin—isn't this a ready-made noble
"My... my lord, do you lack an attendant to run errands?" Jenny asked nervously. She could tell that Marin was a knight, but there seemed to be no knight attendant around him. Maybe it's because I'm still young.
"Attendants...not yet, I plan to recruit a few more attendants after I defect to His Majesty the Emperor." Marin said his plan, and it was not a secret anyway.
"Emperor... Emperor... Your Majesty..." Several countrymen were stunned by Marin's plan. Usually, in their eyes, the knight is a superior existence, the emperor, it is said that he is much, much bigger than the knight master...
The Kahn family unanimously agreed that the future of Marin is limitless. Can a knight who can serve the emperor have no future
Then, Kahn immediately looked at Marin with dissatisfied eyes:
"My lord, can you accept me as a servant? I'm very strong!" After speaking, Kahn showed off his muscles to show his strength.
"Very strong, can you move the stone at the door?" In front of Kahn's house, there is a big stone weighing about three hundred catties. Marin saw the stone at the door and asked casually.
"Look!" After Kahn finished speaking, he ran over excitedly, picked up the stone, and raised it above his head...
Marin was taken aback. He was able to lift 300 kilograms, which is considered to be very strong. You know, Marin himself, in his previous life, could only lift (not lift) 200 catties, and he would be considered a strong man in his later life.
What he didn't know was that this 300-jin stone was actually the "sports equipment" that Kahn usually used to exercise. Kahn's limit was more than 300 jin.
"Very good, with a little strength, just right for me to hold my armor and lance!"
"So?"
"As long as you want, follow me, 3 Finney's wages per day!"
"Then... What about food? My lord, Kahn eats a bit too much..."
"Eat a lot? How much can you have?" Marin is not surprised. Generally, fierce generals are idiots. For example, Xue Rengui, the amount of food for each meal is calculated in buckets, not in bowls.
"At least 6 pounds of food a day, and maybe 8 to 10 pounds if you eat it openly..." Jenny was a little embarrassed. However, this is an important question, and she did not dare to deceive the knight lord. For an average adult, it is enough to eat two pounds of food a day, and Kahn, the rice bucket in their family, needs to eat at least 6 pounds a day...
"Uh... It is indeed edible. But, Kahn, do you dare to follow me into the battlefield? You will die in battle at any time!" Marin doesn't care about food intake, but about courage and guts.
"No problem, my lord, do you want to eat with you? As long as we eat, we can do anything, and we are not afraid of death!" Kahn said honestly.
"Okay, I like bold men. Alright, I'll accept you!"
"Thank you, sir, for your appreciation!" Jenny was very pleasantly surprised. She was not only happy that Kahn got a good future, but also happy that this poor family got rid of a poor family...
"My lord... Look, can I?" Kohler was also very moved when he saw that his elder brother became a knight entourage.
"Kohler, do you have any special skills? Your elder brother is strong, what skills do you have?" Marin recruited his men, but he was unwilling to confiscate his skills.
"I... I have a good memory, and I can settle accounts..."
"Accounting... have you read books?" In the Middle Ages, accounting was not something ordinary people could do. Generally, only aristocratic families, merchant families and rich families will teach their children to calculate accounts.
"No, I learned how to use Arabic numerals from the Jewish merchants in town..."
"Stealing..." Marin was speechless. Stealing can learn to settle accounts. It seems that this Kohler has a pretty high IQ. However, are he and his elder brother Kahn, who is not very intelligent, really brothers? Who picked it up
Then, Marin tested Kohler's three-digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and found that Kohler answered well. It's just that Kohler couldn't answer when the school came to the four mixed operations.
"Probably, Kohler is at the mathematics level of the third grade of elementary school..." Marin remembered that the four mixed operations seemed to be in the fourth grade.
The mathematics level of the third grade of elementary school seems to be enough for accounting...
Then, Kohler also honorably became one of Marin's attendants. As for the younger Kleiman, even Marin, who is an individual, will not want it for the time being. Because, he doesn't run a nursery school and doesn't know how to take care of children.
Afterwards, Kahn was ordered to go to the city to find their father Zmailman. After all, the son followed others to be a servant, and the father should know.