Chapter 7 - In the farm part 2 (1/2)

The morning light beamed on Flavio's face, who stared at the ceiling of his room with a defeated look ”Here we go again”.

Flavio's morning routine could be described as boring, he gets up at 8 a.m. to go to the bathroom but he needs to use the sponge of the sea for cleaning ”Very soon you will be in the past, stupid sponge”

Then he goes to the lavatrina of the house (Bath for the Romans) and washes his body

”I must take advantage of the fact that I am in the field to create soap and I can not bear to just bathe with water but it is still better than only using oil that experience was disgusting.

But even all that discomfort was small compared with the way the teeth were cleaned here, my parents and the principal servants used urine, I almost vomited when they offered me to do that disgusting thing.

Fortunately, as I am a child, I did not have the misfortune to try it personally before I unlocked my memory. I forced them to never touch urine for brushing their teeth again, and instead, I made a mixture with ground mint leaves and charcoal, it had a leafy flavour but it was still better than urine and also improved the smell of the breath of the person which is a win-win ”

After washing his body and brushing his teeth, he wore his silk clothes and went towards the triclinium(Dining room for the Romans).

Breakfast had changed quite a lot, thanks to the orders of Flavio. On the table you can see freshly baked white bread and honey in a small jar, As for the main course you can see a plate of scrambled eggs and for drinking there was hot milk which was freshly milked from a cow and pasteurized,

There was also a kind of thin bread in the form of a saucer, and next to it was the same thin bread but with cheese inside it. Yesterday Flavio taught the maids how to make what he called flour tortilla, he also said that once the tortilla was prepared and cheese was placed inside and folded the tortilla to heat it again causing the cheese to melt.

He called it that quesadilla and he made it very clear that if it has only cheese then it is quesadilla if the tortilla contains any other food, it is called taco and even if the taco is topped with cheese, it is still a taco. Thanks to Flavio's efforts in the 21BC, in the 21st century there was never a quarrel over the quesadilla that was with cheese or without cheese (in the author's comments you can find the link to a curious animation that explains why this last line)

After having a slightly more familiar breakfast Flavio was in a good mood and thus went to his father's studio, to draw some necessary plans, a few hours later Sadiki entered the studio and informed him that the architect Marco had arrived.

Flavio instructed Sadiki to let him in, the architect Marco was a man about 30 years old who was surprised that the person who had summoned him was a 5-year-old boy.

”Welcome architect I have been waiting for you, I hope you can help me build buildings using few of my plans that are quite special, but before that, you need to look into my eyes as it is the protocol of this house”

After doing what was necessary Flavio showed him 5 papyrus, Marco was surprised by the detail of the plans, he had never seen that level of detail before but he did not understand those strange letters that the plans had though.

”Very well I'm glad you like it but first of all take this other papyrus will help you to understand the construction plans”, Flavio placed 3 more papyrus on the table Marco looked curiously at the content of that papyrus when he took one for seeing he was surprised to see a lot of text explaining the conversion between units that he knew (Roman) and another system called the universal system.

There was also the conversion of the numbers that he knew to these other numbers called imperial (Arabs) what surprised him most was the facility to make large sums, all because of the curious number ”0” that represented nothingness, but it allowed us to do a great variety of calculations.

Marco knew that this knowledge was very important, he looked at Flavio and said ”You can count on my loyalty young master, nobody else will see these scrolls even if it costs me my life ”

Flavio nodded in satisfaction ”Now let me explain these scrolls, we'll start with the simplest to the most complicated”