Inheriting a Lost Bloodline, My First Task is to have heirs?!-Chapter 394 - Dealing with troubles in Ersha (Part 2)

Having completed a total of four construction projects from the wee hours in the morning until now, I feel like I was sent to be a builder and not a doctor, much less a royal envoy. Why is this job so labor-intensive anyways?

Since the community kitchen is up, I decided to do what I usually did back in Hoffen City which is cook for a community lunch. I started pulling out firewood, pots, chopping boards, knives and various ingredients from my storage much to the surprise of the onlookers. I started washing stuff at my newly built make shift sink and faucet then started meal preparation quietly. This is my first step as a doctor since I am planning to cook some medicinal porridge to address some basic issues like malnourishment and honestly, just hunger.

I prepared the porridge ingredients including some shredded wild pork and even started boiling some bird eggs that I will serve together with the porridge for added nutrition. I also plan to stir fry some vegetables and serve some fruit juice for added color. The community kitchen has 6 wood fire stoves since wood is the most common fuel in these parts and it is not like a gas stove will be useful at these times.

Just for boiling eggs for about two hundred people has already occupied two stoves with two pots of boiling slightly salty water in it. Seeing that I was busying up in the kitchen on my own and with the sheer number of eggs on those pots, some of the married men with a few young children started walking nearer and nearer to me.

Finally, one brave soul, a child not more than 10 years old, approached me and asked how he can help me so that everybody can be fed. I smiled at the child and patted his head a bit. Since I can’t make him use any of the huge knives I have, I asked him to wash the vegetables and fruits properly instead. The child beamed at me and then bolted back. When he came back, he was already holding a basin from his home to help out.

Seeing that even a child understood what I was trying to do and doing his part, other young children who seemed to be friends with the first child, ran to their homes to do the same. Before I knew it, I have a kitchen brigade of vegetable and fruit washers of about a dozen children which looked quite lively and fun to look at. free𝑤ebnovel.com

The adults looked at me as if asking if I would accept help from older people since I am honestly someone who doesn’t look quite approachable on the get go. One of my kitchen brigade members saw who seems to be an older brother in the crowd so he ran and pulled him towards me. The child then started blabbering that his brother knows how to cook and can help me chop some stuff at least.

I looked at the guy who is looking at me hopefully as if it is his greatest honor to help out. I nodded and he beamed just like his younger brother. With one person and a dozen children already leading by example, more help came before I knew it and work became lighter for everyone. It was also easier for me since somebody is chopping the vegetables, looking after the pork and shredding it after it was cooked, checking if the eggs are ready and then peeling the shell off of them and finally somebody is cutting up, removing the core and juicing the fruit of the day that I chose which are apples. Vitamin C is good for fixing the body and the boosting the immune system anyways.

Since my main tasks have been delegated, I just have to make sure that everybody are doing things correctly. I have a few people watching over the work of others. I don’t like being idle so I started making some slightly sweet cornbread dough for baking. The oven is the only thing that isn’t being used by my kitchen brigade as of the moment.

When I brought out two types of ingredients made of corn which are cornmeal and corn flour, the eyes of the people around me widened at the uncommon ingredient that they must have seen for the first time. The chief suddenly appeared beside me from who knows where and asked what the yellow powder was. I simply answered that they are products made out of corn. He seemed to be very interested in it and asked if I could teach them how to make it and I readily agreed.

It turns out that the lands in this area are more conducive to growing grains compared to other types of plants. They are used to faming wheat, oats, rye and rice. Any excess they produced are then brought to Bragen City which is the nearest city, for selling or trading for other food items that they do not have.

Being a business owner, an idea quickly came to my mind. If every town or village had a specialty product, it will increase the variety of items that exist in the markets of Athanoviya Empire. If you take a specific food as your specialty and concentrate on it, you get better at it and thus better yields and resources will be used more efficiently while producing the most number of products as well. I have to tell my in-laws about this idea soon.

As a royal envoy though, I already made up my mind that Ersha will become an agricultural town focusing on grains. Besides the previous crops that they have, it would be good to add grains that can be used as animal feed such as sorghum, millet and barley which I accidentally discovered during my travels. I am glad the plants here are quite similar to the ones back in earth.

Taking care of domesticated animals for selling and source of food is nothing but a no-brainer project at this point since this place produces grains. Selling animal feeds to other territories is a good source of income too. These ideas were welcomed by the people of the town almost instantly.

While we were working on our lunch, I decided to introduce myself formally as the royal envoy from Hoffen city and a new doctor. I also light-heartedly explained what the trading post and the little house next to it was. When the people realized how important those two seemingly unassuming structures were, they became even more thankful for my visit but the worries that they have about the bandits lurking just outside the walls is not something that they can get rid off that easily.

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