The reform of the estate continued, but when Marin entered the barn to inspect, he was irritated...

Why? It turned out that a bunch of mice ran out of the barn...

The angry Marin commanded everyone to chase and kill the rats, but how flexible the rats were? Only one of the young men sent by Marin hit a hapless rat. All the other mice escaped.

During supper, Marin got angry:

"Why are there so many mice? Do we have no cats?"

"Cat?" The whole family looked at Marin like a fool.

Marin also realized that something was wrong, so he asked everyone carefully:

"What's wrong? Is there anything wrong?"

"Malin, don't you know that cats are evil incarnations?"

"Cats are evil? Is there such a saying?" Marin was a little Spartan.

"Well, brother, I heard that the hateful big black cats are all bad wizards. They are the incarnations of ominousness and disaster!" said the younger sister Anne seriously.

"Oh cake sellers! How could you have such an idea?" Marin also remembered that there seemed to be a saying in the Middle Ages that "cats are evil incarnations". It seemed that because the cat screamed in the middle of the night, it was too shrill, which made people feel scared.

"What the Bishop said!" Speaking of this, even the smartest Lady Mary was a little unconfident. Because the Bishop said that she could not take a bath, it had been overthrown at Hoffman Manor.

"It's all nonsense. Cats are natural enemies of mice. With cats, we are not afraid of mice stealing food. I looked at it. Because there are no cats, mice are too rampant now and have stolen too much food. The rat that was beaten to death was because it was too fat and could not run!"

"Puff-haha--" The younger brothers and sisters were amused.

"Don't laugh, these hateful mice are fighting with you for bread, do you understand?"

"Oh..." The younger brothers and sisters seemed to understand, but were suppressed by Marin's powerful aura and had to pretend to understand.

"So, Marin, what are you going to do?" asked Old Hoffman.

"I want to keep a cat!"

"Uh... But, brother, no one is raising cats around us. Since the church said that cats are evil creatures, there are basically no one here to raise cats. Where can you catch kittens?"

"No one raises a cat?" Marin was a little stunned. In his opinion, there should be many people raising cats, just go to someone who has a female cat and gives birth to a cat.

"Yes, under the propaganda of the church, everyone gave up raising cats. Of course, it also caused the flood of mice."

"No wonder the Black Death is raging..." Marin sighed.

"What? Marin, what do you mean? What does the Black Death have to do with cats?" Everyone was shocked.

"It's like this. It has been introduced in the medical classics of the East that the Black Death is also called plague, which originated in the East. This disease is mainly transmitted through mice, so it is called plague. It is said that the Black Death originated from Asia and was brought by Venetian merchant ships from Asia. Moreover, it is mainly transmitted through rats on Venetian merchant ships..."

"Oh my God, that's what it is?"

"Yes, Europeans do not raise cats, which leads to the flood of mice. The Black Death is spread through mice. Now there are so many mice in Europe, so of course it will spread quickly, and there will be more people dead!"

"So that's it, then, let's go and raise cats!" Simon, Albert and Anne said in a frightened voice.

"But, where are we going to catch kittens?" Marin was also a little helpless.

"I know where there are cats!" Mrs. Mary thought for a while and said.

"Where?" Marin was also excited.

"My hometown, East Friesland!"

"East Friesland?"

"Yes, most of the Friesians on the beach are fishermen, and they are good at fishing on boats. Therefore, every family has a lot of fish. Walking in the fishing village on the beach, you can see that every family and every house are drying with dried salted fish..."

"That……"

"Friesians don't keep cats, but cats like to eat fish. So, there are always many stray cats outside the Friesian fishing village. Sometimes they steal dried fish that fishermen hung outside, and sometimes they go to eat the internal organs of fish discarded by the Friesians after killing fish..."

"Woo--the kitten is so pitiful--" Anne couldn't bear to say.

“That is, there are a lot of stray cats outside the Friesian fishing village?”

“Yes, a lot, and a lot.”

"Okay, Adler, let's take a few entourages to the Friesland beach to catch a few kittens!"

"Catch a cat?"

"right!"

The next day, Marin and Adler stepped on the war horses, and accompanied them, two attendants of Adler who rode on horseback. Kahn and Kohler wanted to come with them. However, they could only ride cows and were not skilled in riding horses. So Marin asked Adler's two attendants who were familiar with horseback riding to follow.

Bochum was not far from East Friesland, only more than four hundred miles away. Marin and his men, who were not wearing heavy armor, were lightly equipped with swords and one person and two horses. So, on the third day, they arrived at the beach.

After arriving at the beach, Marin found that there were many stray cats in the grass near the fishing village on the beach. However, these stray cats were very cautious and hid in the dense grass when they saw people coming, which was difficult to find. Moreover, they were very agile and flexible.

However, this did not make any trouble for Marin. In the past, Marin used the method of catching sparrows learned in Chinese documents (with bamboo poles supporting the basket and sprinkling some rice underneath), and after a little change, he came to catch the cat.

The specific method is to buy a few fish with a strong smell from the fishing village on the beach, and then buy a few wooden baskets. Then, Malin tied a small wooden stick with a rope to support the wooden basket. Under the wooden basket, there were sea fish that emitted a fishy smell...

The stray cats in the grass have poor living conditions, and many cats often get hungry. Therefore, many cats can't help but temptation and run under the wooden frame to eat fish...

At Malin's order, several baskets were pulled down one after another. Then, a cat was caught...

With this method, Malin and the others caught more than a dozen cats. But most of these cats were greedy kittens. Those adult cats were mostly cautious and smart and would not be easily deceived.

But what Malin wants is the kitten. Because kittens can be kept. And those old cats are easy to escape.

Among the dozen cats, Marin removed adult cats and several black cats. Because, in Europe, black cats are considered an ominous symbol. Although Marin wanted to raise cats, she did not intend to raise fearful black cats.

Finally, Marin selected five kittens with beautiful fur and planned to take them away. However, considering that the cats love to eat fish, Hoffman Manor is close to the Ruhr River, he can consider fishing. So Marin recruited several bankrupt fishermen in the fishing village.

It's ridiculous to say that although Hoffmann Manor is by the Ruhr River, it should be said that there should be no need to worry about not having fish without fish. But in fact, because Europeans regard bathing as a taboo, people are unwilling to go into the water. Therefore, in addition to the fishermen in coastal areas who have to go into the water to catch fish in order to survive, there are very few fishermen in inland areas, and only a few people fish in their spare time. This is because, in inland areas, if there is no field planting, you can choose to hunt or workmanship. Therefore, there are actually very few inland Europeans who fish on rivers. This also leads to a lot of freshwater fish in inland rivers.

So, Marin could find that Hoffman Manor lives a poor life by guarding Baoshan...
Chapter completed!