When I arrive at the clearing site, I see some crews are busy stacking the wood into the kiln while the rest is busy with the pool and clearing work. My uncle also directly involved in those works in the clearing site. Since in this place all works are going smooth, I change my inspection to another site. I go to the camp kitchen and see Craig with his helper is busy preparing lunch for the crew. The menu for the lunch is tortilla which I just teach to him. Craig hurriedly greet me when he sees me enter the kitchen"h.e.l.lo master Henry, is there anything I can do for you?"
"Not really, I"m just checking around. You make the tortilla for today lunch?"
"Yes, that"s right master Henry"
"What you"re going to use as the topping?"
"I try to create some kind of tortilla using fish and meat master Henry"
"Hmm, good. Continue your work, I still have another place to check"
After that, I leave the kitchen to see the cooking pot for making salt. After asking the progress, the firewatcher crew reporting that the pot already gets the first seawater refilling. After praising their work, I leave them to take the soapbox that I order Charles to make.
In the carpenter site, Charles already waiting for me with the boxes that he made for me.
"Master Henry, I already finished the box you order me to make, please check the goods"
"Hmm…let me see"
I"m inspecting the boxes that Charles made for me. Since it made in such short time, I can"t demand a high-quality box, but Charles handy work is quite good, although not in high quality, his box is smooth enough to hold and the carving on one of the box also nice. Simple but artistic enough, and it will not disappoint for a gift box. I take all the box and soap sample that I give to Charles as the sample for box measures.
"Good work Charles, thanks"
"It"s my pleasure master Henry. May I ask something?"
"Yes, what you want to ask?"
"What is that thing master Henry?"
Charles referring to the soap that I put in one of those boxes to test the box.
"Oh, this thing?"
I take the soap out of the box and show it to Charles
"Yes, what is that, master Henry? Is that some kind of food?"
"No, Charles, this is not food. This called soap and use to clean our body when we take a bath"
"Soap? To clean our bodies, master Henry?"
"Yep. You know sometimes when you hold greasy food, the greasy feeling in your hand don"t just go if you wash your hand with water right?"
"That"s true master Henry"
"This soap can be used to remove dirt, grease, sweat from our body when we used it on bathing"
"Ooh…that"s wonderful. I have to wipe that grease on a cloth to remove it from my hand, and that makes the cloth get dirty easier"
"This soap can be used to wash clothes too, Charles"
"Wow, that"s amazing. Master Henry, how much is that soap cost?"
"Oh, you want to have this soap?"
"Yes!"
"Unfortunately I don"t have a lot of this soap right now, and I haven"t thought how much the price of this soap if I sell this soap. The ingredients to make this soap is simple but the process needs times and not an easy one. You must already hear about that smell incident right?"
"Oh…yeah, it"s quite funny, master Henry"
"But don"t worry…once this soap can be ma.s.s produced, I will send some to this camp for the crew. I hope this product can become our important trade goods too"
"Thank you, master Henry"
"You can thank me later. I haven"t sent anything here, right?"
"I"m thanking for master Henry care for the crew. Most n.o.bles keep the good things only for their selves and never share it with common people like us"
"Ah, we n.o.bles also need common people too. Without them, who will plow the field? Who will cut the trees? Who will make things? We need each other and should work together and prosper together"
"Master Henry is wise, I"m glad can serve under Harvard banner especially for master Henry"
"It"s our pleasure to have such good people like you Charles"
After some pleasantries, I left Charles to make him continue his work. There"s nothing else I can do there, so I"d better find something else for me to do. After putting the boxes in my tent, I"m thinking what should I do at this time since it"s almost lunch and everyone will take a break to eat. Suddenly I heard the sound of horse spurred from the forest. I grab my sword and leave the tent and prepared for any bad situation that may happen later.
From inside the forest, a horse rider is riding a horse in a fast manner heading to our camp. He stops in front of the camp and gets down from his horse. From his dress, I can tell that he is one of the guards of the castle. I immediately approaching him to ask what news he brings from the castle that make him ride the horse in such a manner.
"Hey, you! Do you come from the castle?"
"Young master Henry! I"m glad I can meet you here. Yes, I send by your Highness to inform young master about important news"
"Alright, I"m here, so spill it now. What urgent news that you bring here"
"The convoy of his excellency Earl Stamford already arrived at northern border fort last night and currently heading to the castle this morning after spending one night at northern border fort!"
Earl Stamford is already at our northern border fort! That"s mean he will arrive in our castle in a few days later! In other words, it"s time for me to return to the castle.