The man of the house

Seeing this scene made my heart ache, skinny women trying their best to do a good job. The more I looked, the more fundamental problems I encountered.

Since the day I was born in this world, I ignored the problems, telling myself that it was better to wait until I was old enough to be taken seriously, but it seems that I will not be able to return to my normal life after seeing everything that is happening here.

This area is not far from our mansion, so much so that Ellena allowed me to come here unaccompanied, about 15 minutes on foot to reach this area, by my clothes, hair color and eyes. I was easily recognized. I greeted some people who were working, but I could see a little bit of ostility. Not that I can't understand that.

I cannot judge them, while they are facing difficulties I was comfortable in the mansion, I think that a large part of my mother's permission for me to be able to come here is due to this, she wanted me to see the conditions of our lands.

I walked five more minutes before arriving at the main warehouse, when I got close I could hear some people talking about the situation.

"Camila, the harvest was worse than expected, we have to warn everyone to reduce the ration so they don't starve."

"This ... I will do it Anye ... I just hope it can get better soon. If it continues like this, there won't be many of us left, sooner or later there won't be enough for everyone."

I watched from a distance without alerting them of my presence, the woman called Camila was very beautiful, with blond hair and blue eyes, about 1.65 meters tall. Anye was a more common beauty, with brown hair and the same color eyes.

I was interested in hearing what they say, in a few dialogues between them I was able to know that the situation is much worse than I imagined.

Women had no experience in the fields, at least in some areas that were previously cared for by men, I could see that they were very discouraged, I did not hear any complaints about my mother or the queen who ran the kingdom, I think they understand that it is not nobody's fault, if they had to blame it would be the plague that took the lives of the island's men.

I researched this supposed plague, and in fact there are many speculations, the most accepted of all is that the divinity that protects the island punished men for their vile acts.

I don't feel sorry for them, many good people died, but most women were treated as doormats, rape and domestic violence were common when the place was dominated by men.

...

I was watching the women from a distance, hiding behind some pressed bales of hay, they didn't notice me, so I kept watching.

...

Camilia, who was talking to Anye, noticed movement where I was hiding.

"Who's there?"

"Why are you spying on us?"

As I was discovered there was no reason to continue this. I got out from behind the hay bales and introduced myself.

"Ladies, sorry to scare you, my name is Lucian Brown, I came here today to see our family's lands"

I introduced myself in a very polite and gentle manner.

Camila was scared when she saw me completely and also a little surprised by my appearance.

At ten years old I am 1.68 meters tall, with my white hair and blue eyes, I really am what they call "handsome man".

There was a silence for some time, which was a little embarrassing for me, I was thinking about how to start a conversation with these women when camila came out of her stupor and spoke to me.

"So it's the Young Master, sorry for not realizing it was you at first sight. Can we do anything for the Young Master?"

Camila was speaking in an unnatural way, I could tell she was a little nervous.

I tried to calm her down a little so she wouldn't get any worse.

"Miss Camila, you can call me by my name, only Lucian will do."

She was surprised that I knew her name, but as she was nervous she didn't bother to ask why or how.

"How can I do that? It would be disrespectful to call you by your name, young master."

Camila immediately rejected my request firmly.

I was a little lost for a moment without knowing what to do, but then I remembered the conversation I heard before I was noticed and to hide my embarrassment I asked.

"Miss Camila, I could hear that things are not going well in the fields, could you tell me more about that?"

"That ..."

Camila was obviously a little surprised and scared by my question, because even when there was still a marquis here, He never cared about the servants and their jobs or the harvest and the animals.

"Just tell the truth, Miss Camila, why don't you come with me to see the property and tell me more about it?"

She nodded a little reluctantly, I can understand since in her mind she may be thinking what a benefit it would be to tell problems to a young man who knows nothing.

It is worth remembering that one of the courses that Jordan was trained in was agronomy, so counting on his memories, I have the greatest capacity here.

After saying goodbye to Anye we went to the area where the grains such as corn, wheat, oats and so on were stored.

Getting close, I could already see dozens of problems to be solved, the place was not well isolated and it was also a bit damp, the barns were not maintained and this ends up jeopardizing safe storage.

I haven't pointed out any problems or solutions yet, I don't want her to think I'm just an idle person.

I asked Camila some questions when we were close to the warehouses.

"Who's in charge of doing maintenance in the barn?"

"What is the storage capacity?"

"What products are stored and how to care for them?"

Camila was really surprised by the series of questions I asked her, she didn't expect that from the youth beside her. For some she didn't know the answer.

Although she answered, it wasn't all of my questions.

A woman named Clara was responsible for maintenance and was the only one who had this ability, since carpentry was dominated by men before.

Since Clara was just one, she couldn't handle all the work, even teaching some simple things to others, her supervision was still necessary.

"How many people work in the fields today?"

"About 150 people work on these lands, young master."

After a few hours talking and walking around, Camilla was no longer afraid to talk to me and even complained about some things.

"Okay, so I'm going to ask you, I want each person responsible for a particular job to make a report for me, I want to know what problems they are facing so that we can focus on the most urgent ones, I hope you can do that quickly and go to mansion to inform me. "

"This ..." Camila made a small face.

"Would it be very difficult to do that?" I asked a little upset since what I asked for in my view is something simple.

"I-it is not that it is difficult young master is that ... none of the people who work here know how to read or write ... so it will be difficult to send a report."

I was really shocked by this, not that I didn't know that there were few literate people, but out of 150 people, none of them can read or write.

As I am already 10 years in this world, naturally I learned to read and write and counting on the books in our library I ended up having a good knowledge in several areas.

This is really a big problem, without trained people it would be very difficult to put my knowledge into practice.

I thought for a moment, I didn't have a solution for that, without qualification it was difficult for development.

'Wait ... Since I don't have qualified staff, I just have to teach them! Right! it can be a little complicated but it can work. '

With that idea in mind I turned to Camila and looked her in the eye, she was a little scared by my look, which seemed to see a prey in front of her.

"Camila ..." I got rid of the ornaments and called her name directly, it gave her a little pressure, she thought I would scold her and get rid of her.

As we are at a time when lords generally abuse their power and humiliate their servants, it was normal for her to think so, but against her thoughts, the profanity and contempt never came, and what this young master said really surprised her.

"As of tomorrow, I want you to get together, as soon as your duties are over, I would like you to come to the main warehouse. As of tomorrow, I will teach classes for everyone."

Camila did not believe what she was hearing, a nobleman really wanted to teach the commoners, she never heard anything like this, she really thought it was just a bad joke, since nobles would never waste their time on something like that, but how it was an order from the young master that she could only obey.

"One more thing. Since they can't write written reports, tomorrow I would also like to talk to those in charge, so that they can directly tell me about the problems."

"As you wish, young master."

Camila responded in agreement, but she really didn't believe it would make any difference.

"Okay, so it's agreed then. Tomorrow when your tasks are over I'll be waiting to get started."

As soon as he said that, he left for the mansion, leaving behind a stunned Camila.

...

Arriving at the mansion the first thing I did was to ask the maids if my mother was at home, I was told that she was in her office.

Arriving at the door, I knocked a few times until I heard a sweet voice that said:

"In between."

"Hi mom, are you too busy?"

"I will never be too busy for my beautiful son."

She answered me with a beautiful smile.

"Say, you visited the fields today, what did you think?"

She asked me looking in the eyes.

"Can I speak sincerely?"

I sat down next to my mother, letting out a weak breath, I asked.

"Of course, I would like to hear your sincere opinion." She spoke when she sat beside me, smoothing my hair with her hand.

"To be honest, the situation is very bad."

"I see ..." She didn't look very surprised.

"But ..." I looked into her eyes steadily, she was visibly surprised by my serious look.

"But ... I think we can still reverse that. I won't try to explain how, but I would like you to give me permission to manage the land and the servants on it."

My mother was surprised by the change in events, and cannot respond for a long time.

"Y-you ... Do you want to manage the servants?"

She couldn't believe what I asked for, this was not normal for a child my age, even though I already look like an adult man because of my training, but I was still a child in her eyes.

"Yes. I would like you to trust me, I know you might think I'm just kidding, but it's not like that. I really want to put our lands in order."

My mom looked at me suspiciously, this was the first time she saw me acting so mature, she really wondered if I was really her ten year old son.

Sighing deeply, Ellena calmed down and put her thoughts in order, she looked differently now, not looking at me as her little son, but as an equal.

"Are you sure you can handle this?"

She asked me firmly.

Without hesitating even a second, I answered it directly and decisively.

"Yes, I can handle this!"

She was not very convinced, her ten year old son suddenly seems to be a mature man, she would be crazy if she thought that was normal.

"Can you tell me why you want to do this?"

I looked into her eyes, raised my hand and gently stroked her face and then answered her gently.

"Because from now on I am the man of the house."

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