King of German Mercenaries

After getting 1,100 Finneys, Marin immediately found a hotel and stayed there. In the past two days, he hadn't slept in bed and felt very uncomfortable.

However, the price of hotels in Bonn is quite high, and a single room costs 10 pfennigs per night. For a small hotel in a small town, one or two pfennigs a night will suffice.

However, people are worth the money. At least, the hotel in the small town is filthy to death. These days, there are no mandatory hygiene requirements. The average cheap hotel is very dirty and smells great. Even the quilt inside had a rancid smell (this is the memory of my predecessor Marin Hoffman staying in a country hotel). And this one in Bonn, although the hygiene can't compare with the hotels of later generations, but at least there is no strange smell in it. It seems that the owner still pays attention to cleaning.

After handing the second-hand war Makar to the doorman and taking it to the stable in the backyard, Marin asked the innkeeper for a large oak barrel and a few basins of hot water-obviously, Marin wanted to take a bath...

Although it is early spring, you can take a shower every few days. But what frightened Marin was that his predecessor, Marin, was a devout Catholic. Under the preaching of some bastard bishop, many believers believe that bathing can lead to disease. Therefore, many Catholics do not take a bath for many years. For example, the famous Sun King Louis XIV, who reigned for 72 years, only took seven baths. Then, the lover of this guy was stunned by the strange smell on the bed...

Well, the above is a rant about the Sun King. In this era, people in high positions, especially kings, dukes, etc., are most afraid of death. And some second-hand bishops preach that people will easily get sick and die if they take a bath. Therefore, people who are generally afraid of death do not take a bath. And knight families like the Hoffman family who are ready to die at any time are not so afraid of death. But because of religious beliefs, the Hoffman family can't take a bath several times a year. According to the memory of the predecessor, the Hoffman family generally takes more baths in summer and autumn. Because, during the knight training in summer, I sweat too much, and I can't do it without washing. In the autumn harvest season, there is a lot of sweat when harvesting rye (the Hoffman family personally went to the field to participate in the autumn harvest), and they also need to take a bath. As for the rest of the season, the climate in Europe is cooler. Therefore, the people of the Hoffman family, in the rest of the season, bathe less often.

For example, it is now the end of March. But Marin "remembers" that his body was the bath he took before Christmas...

"My God, I can't feel myself stink these two days!" Marin was shocked...

In fact, it's not surprising that Marin has been busy thinking about how to survive in the past two days. How could he consider hygiene issues? Moreover, it is difficult for ordinary people to find the strange smell on their body. Unless you really stink...

Resisting the urge to vomit, Marin waited for the big oak barrel and hot water brought by the hotel clerk. Then, Marin started taking a bath in the room...

This hotel is run by Jews. Jews are not Catholic, and many of them travel between Europe and the Middle East and are well-informed. In the Middle East, especially in Turkey, bathing is very popular, and the Turkish bath is very famous. Therefore, Jewish hotels are generally cleaner than local hotels, and they also provide hot water for bathing. Of course, the sly Jews are also a little more expensive in terms of fees.

Entering the large oak barrel, because there is no soap (in fact, there were soaps sold in Europe in this era, but they were more expensive, costing 10 pfennig a piece, generally only the nobles and the rich could afford it.), Marin had to use it. Rub your body with your own hands to remove dirt. Who knows how to wipe it off with one hand and get dirt on the other hand...

The metabolism of young people is relatively strong, and if they don't take a bath for more than three months, the natural dirt is very thick and thick, like an extra layer of skin. Fortunately, Marin took a shower in time, which made him feel refreshed and felt that he had lost a few pounds...

But after taking a bath,

Marin found another troublesome thing - he didn't have a clean change of clothes...

However, it is no wonder that Europeans in the Middle Ages were sloppy, and the original owner of this body was just a 16-year-old boy, how could he have the ability to take care of himself? Therefore, in the clothes package, there are only a few dirty changes of clothes...

In desperation, Marin put on one of the cleanest sets. Then, walking out of the hotel, under the guidance of the hotel owner, I came to a tailor's shop...

Obviously, Marin was shopping for clothes. But the price of the ready-to-wear clothes also surprised Malin—a set of ordinary clothes made of linen actually cost 15 pfennig, and the wool cloth was even more expensive, costing more than 30 pfennig. You must know that in these years, the average person works, and the daily wage is only 2 pfennig. Craftsmen work, only 3 pfennig a day. 15 pfennig is almost equivalent to the salary of a strong man working for 7 and a half days.

Fortunately, Marin got a huge red deer before and got enough money. Otherwise, he can't afford a set of clothes. Marin, who originally planned to buy a few more sets of clothes for washing, only bought two sets of linen to take home.

After returning to the hotel, Marin planned to throw away the dirty and worn clothes in the original suitcase. But now, Marin silently picked up the tub and went to the well to wash his clothes...

For dinner, Marin spent six pfennigs, asked for a loaf of brown bread, and a roast goose, and had a big meal. It's just that the Europeans' cooking talent is too bad. A good roast goose has no taste, only the taste of salt...

It is no wonder that these years, the great voyage has just begun, and the Europeans have not yet occupied the spice producing areas in Southeast Asia. Therefore, the price of spices in Europe is comparable to gold, and it is very rare. Generally, only aristocrats and rich people eat meat with spices such as ginger, aniseed, cinnamon, and nutmeg. For ordinary people, a little salt is fine. It is said that in Russia, which believes in the Orthodox Church, the highest etiquette for entertaining distinguished guests is to serve white bread made of wheat and salt...

After eating the tasteless roast goose, Marin began to open his mind again - if he could rely on his half-hearted Chinese cooking skills to open a Chinese restaurant in Europe in this era, it would not be a huge profit. ...Marin is caught in YY...

But not long after, he came to his senses again. This era is not an era of the rule of law. Yes, he uses Chinese cooking skills, although he can make the business prosperous in a short period of time, making Europeans swallow their tongues. However, the secret recipe of cooking is bound to be coveted. And it's hard to protect yourself.

The reason is very simple, the era of the nobility in the Middle Ages. In this era, the nobles take everything, and the common people's lives are like a must. If you master the secret recipe of cooking, you have no status. Then, any nobleman dares to send someone to arrest him, and then torture himself to get the "secret recipe". And then, in order to monopolize the market, this nobleman may restrict his freedom, and maybe even kill himself...

Ma Lin, who has seen a lot of "Gong Xin Ji" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan", thinks of this, and can't help but fight a cold war - it's terrible...

"In the end, if you want to live in the Middle Ages, you have to have aristocratic status!" Marin sighed, stuffed the roast goose on the plate in front of him, and then went back to his room to rest...

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