The carpenter's tools were finally completed. Although they were still quite crude, they had steel blades and saws, which made a difference at once. They were not brittle or bent. Wood is better than meat, and dwarves are naturally good at carpentry. Although they cannot read, they can understand drawings. The loom and spinning wheel are fast and good.

Except for the first few, which were a bit shabby, the rest were even better than the ones Lex had seen in the monastery.

The dwarves also treasured these tools and polished them every day. Dwarves don't say much, but they like strange and unusual things, and they especially like manual work. For them, being able to make looms and spinning wheels is not work, but a reward.

That's what they like.

Of course, it's even better when they can have a bowl of hot gruel and a bit of black bread after a hard day's work.

The Minotaurs are still clearing the land, but this time they have axes in their hands, which are much better than stone axes. They don't have to use much force, and the big trees that used to be so troublesome are cut down. Except for the roots, which still need to be dug up by hand, they are clearing the land much faster than before!

Lex would take time out every day to go to the blacksmith's to watch them forge, and he would also go to see the dwarves make looms and spinning wheels.

What shocked him most was that several female slaves were pregnant!

There weren't many female slaves in his territory, and the reason was very simple: female slaves were weaker and didn't do as much work as male slaves. Although they ate less, male slaves ate less too, and as long as they weren't given any, it didn't cost any food. Therefore, merchants almost never sold female slaves, unless they were especially beautiful and could be sold to nobles for a high price.

In Lex's territory, there were only about twenty female slaves of all races combined.

Now, all of a sudden, six of them are pregnant, and they only found out after their bellies got big.

This has Lex in a dilemma. Should he keep them from working so they can take care of their pregnancies?

Or should he let them keep working as usual? That would go against everything Lex was taught growing up.

With the steward knight and Alwin gone, Lex can only tell the manservant, "Ask them if they know who the father is. If they do, tell the male slave to do the female slave's work as well, and let the female slave avoid heavy work."

"If they don't know, they can make up for lost time after the baby is born."

The slave girls also have heavy work, but they don't have to farm recently. The slave girls' work is to go with the children to pull weeds in the fields after the Bullheads have cleared the land. They have to turn up the soil and remove the roots and seeds together, otherwise they will grow back next year.

If it's busy season, the slave girls' work is even heavier.

In winter, the slaves had almost nothing to do – unless the lord ordered them to clear the fields in the snow.

This was tantamount to sending the slaves to their deaths. With insufficient food, in the freezing cold, and without warm clothing, they would not survive more than a few days after finishing their work in the snowstorm.

Generally, there are a lot of slaves in the territory, and the lords who need to be cleaned up will do so, so that the slaves can do something before they die, and the bodies will not stink in the winter, and after they are buried in a pit, nothing will be affected.

The manservant quickly went to notify the manager.

The manager then went to find the female slaves whose bellies had grown.

But only two knew the fathers of the children, and the others didn't know.

So the two male slaves had to work twice as hard in the winter, but they didn't complain. On the contrary, they were a little pleased that they could make the women sleep with only them.

They worked even harder than before.

Lex could only sigh, the slaves were really simple-minded.

The male slaves didn't have any thoughts about passing on their lineage. They didn't have surnames, and even if they had children, the children wouldn't have any surnames either. They were just proud that they could attract female slaves.

Children born to slaves only recognize their mothers, not their fathers.

The female slaves don't just sit around when they're pregnant. They still go out to pull weeds or gather wild vegetables when they can still move around, looking for anything they can eat. They did the same when they were pregnant before, and of course the lord doesn't treat them as considerately as Lex does, so they can only go when they have a break from work.

In this way, when their stomachs get bigger and they get hungrier more quickly, they can eat and give birth to their children without problems.

The manservant's name is Jeff. He is very good-looking, with bushy eyebrows and big eyes. If it weren't for that, he wouldn't be the lord's personal manservant either. But although he is the personal manservant, the butler firmly controls everything that happens around the new lord, so Jeff has become a errand boy.

This time, the butler is not here, and Jeff feels that he must get this done!

Otherwise, when the butler returns, he will have nowhere to stand.

He also complained to Adam, "Why doesn't he have eight hands?"

Jeff dares not show the butler the slightest disrespect, but he hates him a little in his heart.

Other butlers are in charge of the domain and take care of the adult's property, such as dressing the adult and dressing the adult, or organizing the adult's accessories, etc., but Jeff has been here for so long that not to mention dressing the adult, he has not even been able to touch the adult's jewelry cabinet.

He is a personal manservant in name only, and Jeff always feels that the other servants must be laughing at him behind his back.

Adam can't do anything about it either, and he can only advise Jeff to be patient.

Jeff: "Because of him, none of us can get anywhere near the master."

He says angrily, "I hope he doesn't come back after this trip!"

Adam: "Keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear you."

Jeff is just venting his anger, and he lowers his voice: "Anyway, as long as he's around, the master can't see me."

He just wants to be seen and to do things for the adults. They scold him when he does something wrong, but praise him when he does something well.

He doesn't like feeling ignored.

Adam: "Have you arranged everything with the slave girls?"

Jeff nods: "I saw the slave girls go back myself."

Adam envies him: "You're better off than me. I have to clean the dust in the castle, but you can stand by the adults."

Jeff is also pleased, but quickly becomes depressed.

He became the personal manservant because he was good-looking, but if someone better-looking and more capable than him ever appeared, he would be easily replaced.

Lex noticed that in the few days since the butler had left, the servants had become more enthusiastic towards him. When the butler was around, the servants would never dare get too close to him, but now that he was gone, they were like ghosts, often inexplicably standing close to him, which had scared Lex several times.

It was probably because of this that Lex discovered just how long it had been since the servants in the castle had bathed.

He saw the cuffs, wrists and backs of the servants' hands were two different shades of colour, and he even felt that if he rubbed them together, the dirt would be absolutely terrifyingly thick.

Lex finally couldn't help but ask Jeff, "How often do you bathe?"

Jeff didn't understand, and as he was sorting Lex's clothes, he said, "Once a year on my birthday."

Lex: "..."

They only have a birthday once a year, which means they only take a bath once a year.

Lex swallowed hard: "Don't you get lice?"

Jeff winked: "Sir, don't worry, because we have to serve you, so we comb your hair every day."

What does it mean to comb your hair? It means to use a fine-toothed comb to scrape the scalp and remove lice and eggs.

Lex instantly lost his composure! He felt itchy all over, and told Jeff, "Stay away from me, you, you go out first!"

Jeff didn't understand what he had done wrong

He was very hurt, tears were rolling in his eyes, but he still backed out.

Lex just didn't see Jeff's expression. As soon as Jeff was gone, he stripped himself naked and combed through all the hair on his body, relieved when he was sure he hadn't found a single louse or an egg.

How could he have forgotten this!

He remembered reading about the Middle Ages online.

Back then, kings and queens defecated wherever they pleased, just like the common people, and were covered in lice.

And there were kings who bled to death.

Then Lex issued an order that left everyone speechless.

He ordered everyone in his territory to shave their hair, and everything in the house had to be scalded with boiling water and then dried in the sun.

The slaves carried out the order quickly, not caring about it, they did whatever their master told them to do.

After shaving their heads, they were ordered to wash each other's scalps, to wash all the dirt off their heads. In addition, they had to wash their bodies, but they could not go to the river to wash, they had to draw water from the river, heat it up and then wash.

The common people found this hard to accept, but whether they accepted it or not did not affect the forced implementation.

The servants were the first to shave their heads and take a bath. They were now all bald, men and women alike, and they were busy cleaning all the cloth and fur blankets in the castle and taking them out to dry.

Lex himself had his hair cut short. His original hair reached his waist, but after cutting it, it only reached the base of his ears.

Not only was it refreshing, it also made Lex feel much better.

He hated bugs, all kinds of bugs, and whenever he saw one, it gave him goosebumps.

Of all the bugs, lice were clearly the most terrifying.

When the butler and knight returned, they would also have to shave their heads, and not only their heads, but all their body hair.

Alwin probably needs to shave too.

Everyone in the kingdom has become bald, except Lex, who still has his beautiful hair, and is therefore the most handsome boy in the kingdom whenever he appears.

Jeff has also shaved his head. He was originally quite good-looking, but now that he has shaved his head and eyebrows, he looks particularly strange, with his eyes especially large. He walks carefully over to Lex, afraid that Lex will reject him again as he did last time. He says pitifully, "My lord..."

Lex is once again taken aback by Jeff: "Where are your eyebrows?"

Jeff: "Didn't you say you wanted to shave all the hair off?"

Lex: "..."

Do eyebrows get lice? He doesn't know, he's never had lice before, but shaving is probably safer.

He's relieved: "That's good, you should bathe more often. Why do you only do it once a year? Don't you have a day off? That's the day you're supposed to bathe."

Jeff looked at Lex strangely: "My lord, rest days belong only to the sanctuary. Although we also have rest days, that's just a name for it. Only the clergy can bathe frequently."

Even bathing is restricted.

The sanctuary is really insane.

Lex: "...

Anyway, the sanctuary will not send someone over if there is nothing wrong. As long as he is here, he will never allow anyone in his territory to have lice on their heads!

All the heads on this land belong to him!