Chapter 57 - 57. The food is piling,but why?

They just entered the garden and were about to relax but the sound of knocking made them sigh inwardly. Kendra knew that the next two days it will be quite stressful.

She looked at the gate and still sighing opened it. There were at least 15-16 carriages of grain. She nodded and let them transport all the grain and flour in the garden.

The man looked at Kendra's calm face and was happy because that meant she could pay it all. "These are the ones from this and last year from my home. It's all pure wheat. The last carriage has dry beans. Next market day the village elder will come and you can talk to him about the rest of the grain and flour."

She smiled at him but shook her head. " I will go with you to someone that will take the big order. I will buy all the fruits and vegetables you personally can bring me today and tomorrow. Do you still have more grains and flour? "

"I can bring you eleven carriages of my own and about 23-24 from my brother. What kind of vegetables do you want?" he asked.

"All the vegetables and fruits that you planned to sell. Can you bring it here today and tomorrow no matter how many carriages. From your brother as well. I hope to get the same conditions as you gave me." she said looking at him with a big smile.

"Sure. We are not far from here. The next village so we can bring it already today. ", he said while he taught about the number of vegetables and fruits there are households had.

Kendra gratefully nodded and told him to bring as many as they could already today. She planned to take care of everything today and some tomorrow.

The day after tomorrow they plan to go to the half-island and stay there for a while.

When they took out all the grains and wheat flour the carriages moved back to the village, except the one. She hopped onto it with Isaa and Fluffy and went to the ice house.

She didn't plan to stay too long there. Fintan was already waiting for her. He knew that she came because of what they spoke of yesterday.

They quickly came to an agreement and he took them back home. As soon she hopped off the carriage he turned and went to get the agreed food. She then quickly run out and stopped him.

" Do you maybe have some pigs and chickens for sale? If you have can you bring it to my other place? Outside the city. But tomorrow. Today I have too much to think about."

He agreed and left. As soon he left her line of sight she waved her hand and all the stuff went into her space. She remembered the flower she put in and got it out.

Isaa and Fluffy looked at the flower and then at her and they started cheering. The plants can survive inside.

Kendra looked at Fluffy as she wanted to try the other idea. He knew what she was thinking of and vigorously nodded.

Her heart shook nervously. All she could hear is vigorous knocking of her fast beating heart in her ears, so nervous she was. Fluffy saw her scared and came to her and comfortingly rubbed his head on her leg. She squatted down and patted his head, but still feared that she might harm him if he enters her space.

She didn't want him to get harmed in any kind of way.''Fluffy. We won't do it today. I am a way too anxious to let you enter. We will try first with some simple animals like squids and fishes and then rabbits and birds. If they survive, then I will let you enter. I just don't want to harm you in any kind of way. I have a feeling inside is something like frozen time. But that means as well that there might be no air. If I let you in, you might suffocate. I don't want that.''

Isaa came and hugged Kendra and rubbed her head as well.''Brother, just do what you think is right. I know you fear to harm anyone. I know why you want to use that space. It's more to save people you care than yourself, right?'' Isaa knew Kendra's wat off thinking. She sighed. Kendra always seemed strong and sometimes even merciless, but she is actually a person who cares too much about everything and hate bad stuff. So simple it is. Bad stuff makes her get angry, and when Kendra is angry...oh my...

Kendra's heart started getting calmer. She looked at the flower and taught about it. If it survives next couple days inside the space, she will put simple creatures inside. If they show any sign of discomfort she will let them out and not try it again till she doesn't find the two things the Mother Oyster said.

She shook her head and heard some children playing on teh street. She needed to talk to Chial and Niram so she went out and told children to bring them and they will get some sweets. What child would say no to sweets?

They run off to the places she explained about and Kendra took out the cookies she made before for them to enjoy. She looked at two pairs of greedy eyes and started laughing. ''You two should be careful. Hmmm. Maybe we should start making lunch. I planned to make something I dreamed about. Luckily we have a meat grinder. You will like it.''

She finally will make use of the grinder. She used beef and seasonings to make patties for hamburgers and told Isaa to take care of cleaning and cutting the potatoes. She wanted to make hamburgers and french fries.

She left some fresh meat inside her space and just taken it out. It didn't change in any kind of way so she wants to try it out. Too bad, she has no pepper powder. But she will still make patties from whole peace. Then she will leave some fresh patties inside and some fried as well, to check is it possible to have some food without spoiling. And to see if they get spoiled how long it would take.

She made a huge amount of patties, put few in a pot and sealed it as they are and most of the fried ones in different pots and put as well into her space.

While she was frying the patties, Isaa came back with the thin cut of potatoes. Kendra looked at the potatoes and sighed, oh well this is closest to what she taught about. She fried those as well and on end she used some salt sprinkled n it and let it on the side while taking the bread she made before. She put the tomato sauce she made then meat patties some greens cut tomatoes and some cuc.u.mbers on top. Isaa copied her and did the same.

They slowly bit into it and went happy. This thing tasted amazing. Kendra looked at the bread and got an idea that Niram should make a bunch of buns. If everything else can survive, that thing might as well survive in teh space for a long time. Then tehy don't have to worry about food for a while.

She even taught about a step further. What if she can take more food with her. Maybe she should put apart the food from other stuff. She looked ta her space and an amazing thing happened. The fresh food like raw meat and milk products went into one corner and were somehow hidden behind see through walls, the fresh vegetable went into a different room and been put on different kind of shelves as it seems. The other things like clothing, the beddings, beds, and other inedible stuff went into the boxes with signs on it.

Her space turned now more spacious again and clean. Maybe she can think about one corner where they can be living things and looked at the space. Half of the space turned into somewhat different space and she had a wild idea to put the greenhouse there. With a wave of the hand, the greenhouse disappeared and appeared in the space.

She taught about that thoroughly. If they leave the plants will die anyway, so why not just take it with her. Maybe they can survive hard conditions inside the space. As she munched the hamburger and french fries she saw the two little ones munching with happiness as well. ''I will make lots of it and then when we go to teh sea we can just eat this sometimes and sometimes seafood. What do you think?''

The two slowed down and while still munching nodded. They knew she will feed them good. Kendra planed to use Niram and let him cook a bunch of food. She has lots of wheat flour anyways. She can ask Chial, Dawn, Niram, and Gillie to make some dried noodles when she is not around and dry it on the sun as long there is still enough warmth. Who knows what is it good for. She can explain to Fintan the importance of dry rations.

She heard the slight knocking on the garden gate and she invited them to enter. Of course, there were Chial and Niram. ''Sorry to bother you again. I think I will give you more work from now on. If you think you can't do it alone take Goluk and let him find a few people to help you in case of need. I will leave enough money with you to pay for all that is needed.''

She explained her idea and they agreed. Soon the man from the neighboring village came and brought again a huge amount of grains, wheat flour, beans, vegetables, and live animals. She already explained to Chial what he needs to do so he want with the two carriages with chickens and pigs to teh farmstead and Niram stayed there. She sent few carriages with flour to his house as he said there is enough space and the rest stayed there.

The man didn't wonder about the food that was no more there as he taught someone picked it up. Soon an older man came in and the man introduced him as his older brother. She stood there stunned, but he acted as he never saw her in his life. She quickly collected her thoughts and realized that she looked totally different than that day.

She saw that he looked healthy and content and happy as he got the promised amount. From their story, it seems they had lots off children and the older man actually already had grandchildren. With the money, they got they will be able to live good till next year. After all, it's hard to sell expensive wheat as only the nobles buy it.

''From now on you are our main supplier. The man I introduced you is a good person. He will need teh flour every year as he plans to open a bakery. So don't worry about not being able to sell it.''

The two brothers happily smiled. ''Our wheat is one of the best in the whole country. We have fertile land and we could plant even more if we were sure that we had enough buyers.'' said the old man.

It seems they have enough fertile land to feed many people.''Soon the city granary will be built. The city Lord will buy off all the products for the safety of the city. So you can plant more. Even if the city can't eat it all, Fintan will find who will buy it. So don't worry.'' she reassured them.

She taught about something.''If you can buy as much fertile land as you can. Soon the field prices will rise and you might not be able to buy it anymore by the current price.''

They looked at each other. They were curious why she said that but looking at her solemn expression they knew that she really means that. They have enough money now to do it and with this amount they can but huge pieces of land. Maybe it's better to listen to the little child.

''Try to buy land with water sources. Make big cellars and let the water inside in case of a dry year. Sometimes even wells can dry out. But if you have hidden deep wells, you might survive the perilous situations.''All she could do is to give them good advice. She hopes they will listen to her. She got that idea after seeing the city well. Maybe such a thing can as wells ave many people outside the city as well.

They frowned as they taught about this year. It's just mid of summer and there is less and less water around. They agreed with the child's thoughts.

Soon Niram came back and the two men said goodbyes and left. For today she is done with them. Tomorrow will be a day as well bit stressful and then she will just go. Finally. She looked at the flabergasted Niram as he saw a huge amount of food.

''If you think that you or Chial still need food, better say now. Tonight this food will go to another place and I would prefer to make sure that you get enough in time. But he shook his head. ''No need. We really took last time enough food for the whole year. By the way, what do you plan to do with pigs and chickens?''

''Chial will today make a fast scoop for chickens and the pigs he should let inside the forest. You can feed teh chickens every day with fresh grass and let them drink water. By the way, later on, you can make bigger scoop so the chicken's, peasants and rabbits can be together. When I am not around making a wall around forest so the pigs can't run out and furious animals cant enter. For now, the forest has no big animals like wolves, bears or foxes. So it's fine to let them run through it. Eat teh eggs while I am not around and when the colder times comes we will slaughter them all for all of us. Next year I will just buy more and let them live happily in the forest doing teh summer.''

He nodded. It will be hard to take care of animals so far from the city so letting them live till fall is fine. He already asked they can keep few chickens in scoops at home over winter but no pigs. So it was fine with that idea.

''So what kind of food do you want me to make for you?'' he asked while going to wash his hands.

Kendra saw his motion and was happy. Truly professional cook.

''In the pantry there, is enough meat and there are many other ingredients. Please cook as many different dishes you can with given products in and around the house. He nodded and got in taught. First, he prepared ingredients and started making dish after dish. she actually asked him to make it worth for 20 people for each dish as she wanted to see how he was doing it, and she was stunned.

He was a really professional cook. Dish after dish came out and she put the dishes in pots and let them out. From each dish, she took a bowl of it to try it out later on.

They saw him as his eyes changed and he vigorously cleaned, cut and cooked dish after dish. And we are talking about huge amounts. Soon the small room was filled with pots that were filled with food so Kendra stopped him and asked him to make as many buns as he could till Chial comes back.

He nodded and started kneading and preparing the dough after dough and left it to rise as he made more and more. When the first ones have risen he kneaded them again and used medium fire to evenly bake them.

Isaa and Kendra slowly learned what mistakes they made and how the simple batter that they made was totally different than the batter Niram made. They stood there with curious eyes and looked at his every movement. He knew tehy wanted to learn about cooking and food and he was happy to show it to them so everything he made, every move was clean and neither to slow or to fast,

Soon there were piles of buns in flat baskets around the room as he baked over and over again. When Kendra saw that he already made over a hundred buns she stopped him. ''It's enough. These will be enough. Let's wait for Chial.''

But as she said those words a knock could be heard and Chial came in with Kendra's permission.

''Are you done?'' she asked.

''Yes I made a simple chicken coop. Tomorrow when we go to water pants I will take the children with us and we can make it bigger. The pigs are in woods.''

''You both did great. So today as it was something external and not mentioned before I plan to pay you some extra silver.'' She took out the small bag and gave each of them 20 small silver. They got happy. They have still money from before. And this money they can definitely live good this winter.

After greeting everyone Kendra swept all the food into her space and looked inside. Soon the cooked food was steaming hot and went into the different section than buns.

Why did this all happen? Then she remembered putting the power water inside teh space. She looked at Fluffy. ''Luckily you made that well so I can use it to enhance the space, saw his red face. Is there something you plan to tell me?''

Fluffy looked at her bit guilty and looked at the sky. It was still daylight but soon the moon will come out, then he can tell her. She understood and nodded.

They waited till the first lights of the moon hit his head and he started talking.'' I have to tell you that I lied to you...'' said Fluffy with a guilty expression.

''What about?'' asked Kendra while thinking about the hunch she had before...

''The well... It was not me that made it. That's well that is probably older than I am. I used some of its water to fill the well in the Lord's palace. But actually, its real locations is...''