Chapter Five

“Then, the rest is meat. You have to buy a lot and make it salted or smoked”

Mother who finished buying vegetables and fruits enters the back of the market. It seems that the meat is sold near the outer wall.

“Why do you buy so much?”

“Do you have to prepare for the winter? This is the time when every farmer will leave enough livestock to pass the winter and crush others, so the most meat is sold in a year. You can get delicious meat with fat because you nourish it for the winter season. “

“… Well, is the winter a market that disappears?”

“That’s right? There aren’t many vegetables that can be picked in the winter. The number of times the market will open will be drastically reduced.”

Though it was natural when I thought about it, I never thought of it.

Even in Japan, until house cultivation became popular, vegetables were seasonal, and until the development of distribution, local production for local consumption was commonplace. In the era when refrigerators and freezers were available and they could not be preserved fresh, preserved food would have been prepared at home.

“… I’ve never done winter preparations”

“What did you say?”

“Yes”

How to make preserved food at home? Where do you store in that narrow house? Isn’t the storeroom too big?

A young girl who would not be beaten so much even if she couldn’t help, she was really happy.

“… ku, smell”

“The smell of meat”

As the butcher approaches, the off-flavor becomes stronger. In front of me walking while holding my nose, my mother walked with a natural face.

Did meat smell so much? Uh, I have a bad feeling.

Even if I was holding my nose and breathing in my mouth, when the air coming in from my mouth smelled and I was in tears, I reached a place where butchers lined up.

In addition to bacon and ham, the butcher was lined with thighs that were still in the shape of animals. In the back of the store are bloodless animals hanging, and rabbits and birds with white eyes and loose tongues are lined up.

“Higyaaaaaaaa!”

“What’s wrong, Mine !?”

Honestly, I had never seen a pack of meat that had been completely dismantled and cut into bite-sizes.

The goose bumps are standing on the whole body and the tears and tears are swollen. I want to close my eyes so that I can’t see them, but once I open my eyes, they are fixed and don’t move as if I forgot to close them.

“Mine !? Mine !?”

My mother shakes me.

At that time, the place where the pig was demolished while screaming jumped into the eyes. There are a lot of happy smiling people around and waiting for the pigs to be killed.

Why do everyone seem so happy?

Are you grinning?

Stop and stop! I ’m scared!

“Wow !?”

screaming small, I fainted on the spot before the last blow to the pig.

Something was flowing into my mouth.

A liquid that is quite stimulating and smells of alcohol. Unlike what I consciously swallowed, unexpected alcohol entered the trachea.

I jump up, coughing and making my eyes black and white.

“Wow! Heh! Heh!”

Is it sake? ? Where and when are the idiots that have drunk drunk to a tasty infant? ? What will you do if you become acutely addicted to alcohol? ?

When I opened my eyes, I saw a mother holding a sake bottle.

“Mine, did you notice? Good, I was careful.”

“Kohhhhh … mother?”

It’s a little bit difficult to say because it’s hugging me with a relieved face, but can I say it in my heart?

Don’t let an infant drink such a strong drink! It ’s just an ill child who is sick, but just dying from a high fever and finally getting fever down! ? !! ? It ’s stupid! ? Die! ?

“Now, Mine. If you notice, I’m going to buy meat”

“Wow !?”

shook his head unexpectedly. The scene just before is completely burned in my mind. It ’s a dreamy sight for a while, but I do n’t want to go to a place where I can get goosebumps.

“ I used ugly liquor to get rid of the sick child, and I brought my daughter who had abused in front of the butcher again to the butcher … Isn’t this mother quite a devil?

“… Well, I’m still sick … I’m sitting here. Mom, go.”

“Eh? But …”

Referring to my mother who is afraid, I turn around and ask the aunt of the store. It is necessary to secure a place to stay before she is taken by her mother.

“Aunt, please let me wait here. I sit still so as not to bother me”

“It’s a small but firm lady. You’ve got some alcohol, and it’s okay. Please finish shopping early. It’s hard to bring a child saying you feel bad and fall down again.”

Perhaps my mother bought an alcoholic beverage, and the aunt of the alcoholic stall struck me lightly laughing.

The uncle of the next general store looked at me and beckoned me.

“If you’re in the store, there’s a guy who’s going to get rid of …”

An uncle put me in the back, so feel free to sit down.

I feel like the strong alcohol put in my mouth is spinning around in my body. It ’s dangerous to move around now. In the sense that no one will notice the cause even if it falls due to acute alcoholism.

Sitting down and looking at the products of the two stores, it seems that the liquor store is just like the season when new fruit wine is in stock, and many customers are buying one after another in small barrels. On the other hand, the general store is dull.

What is this world general store selling?

Looking at the products lined up in the general store, it is unclear how most will use them. Point to the items that are lined up in front of you and ask the uncle.

“Uncle, what is this?”

“Did she ever use it? Isn’t it used when weaving cloth? This is a mechanism used for hunting”

An uncle who doesn’t have a customer and is free will answer every single point I point to. In this city, the items counted as daily necessities are all I don’t know. I don’t remember if I wasn’t interested in Mine’s memory.

He was impressed and looked at the product, but he saw a thick and large back cover that was just a book in the corner of the miscellaneous goods lined up.

In the library, it seems to be in a glass case, and the cover of the leather is finely crafted with gold in the four corners. It is a size that seems to be about 40 cm tall. I can’t even have it now.

Not a book! ? That’s not a book! ?

The moment you find a book that looks like a book, your eyes are rosy. My heart suddenly became bright and clear like a dark rain cloud was swept away.

“Oh, uncle! This is! What is this?”

“Ah, it’s a book”

Yes! I finally found it! There was a book! There was only one book, but there was!

A book I found while despairing that it might not exist in this world. I stare at the back cover, trembling with excitement.

A book that looks pretty big and heavy, decorated with a trowel. I don’t feel like I can buy it no matter what I ask.

However, since books exist, there must be smaller and easier to hold books. I asked the uncle as fast as possible.

“Uncle, do you know where the book shop is?”

“Store? There are no shops”

Uncle told me with something like “What are you talking about, this child?” And my tension dropped all at once.

Well, what does it mean if you have a book but no bookstore?

“…… Why? Why are you selling here?”

“The book is borrowed from the author and transcribed, and it’s too expensive to sell like that. It’s also a noble product that no longer has its debt back, and it’s not for sale yet. But it ’s not like a nobleman who wants to buy something like this. ”

My nobleman! If you were born to an aristocratic family, you can read the book! Why am I a commoner! ?

A lightly nobleman was murderous. I’m too blessed to be surrounded by books since I was born. What should I do?

“Is this your first time seeing a book?”

Listening to Uncle’s words, I kept listening to the book over and over again.

This is the first time I have seen a book in this world. And since there is no bookstore, not a sale, this may be the last trap.

…… If so!

“Oh, uncle! There is a request!”

squeezed his fist tightly, stood up once and corrected his posture, then went to the spot.

“What? What happened suddenly?”

Uncle suddenly opened his eyes to me who suddenly had knees and hands on the ground.

As long as we ask here, it is the basic of the basics that shows sincerity.

Speaking of sincerity, Prostrate.

ビ Take your head down and tell your feelings honestly.

“I know I can’t buy it, so at least let me touch that book. I want to cheek. At least, I want to scramble and enjoy the smell of ink!” [19459002 ]

, but sincerely asking, the scene and painful silence are filled, and no response is returned.

When I raised my terrible face, for some reason Uncle looked at me with a startling and disgusting eye, like seeing an unbelievable metamorphosis like crushing a bitter melon.

That? Sense that sincerity is not transmitted?

“I don’t understand what you’re talking about … It’s dangerous to touch Miss”

“That’s right !?”

When I tried to ask again, I heard a time-out voice.

“Mine, wait. I’ll go”

“Mom”

Listening to my mother’s voice, I almost started crying.

The book is right there but I haven’t touched it yet. I don’t even smell.

“What are you, Mine? What have you done?”

“No, not!”

I suddenly shook my head to my mother who suddenly turned her sword to the shopkeeper.

If you don’t solve the misunderstanding in a hurry, you’ll be hiding from going to the butcher and telling you about the book.

“I don’t feel good here. Mom, what did you drink before?”

“… Oh, I might have been too keen to take care of it. If you go home, you can drink water and be quiet.”

My mother nodded as if she was convinced, but she doesn’t seem to think anything about having the child drink alcohol. Just pull my hand and urge me to go home.

I looked back and smiled at the liquor store and general store.

“Thank you for letting me sit down”

礼 If you don’t forget to thank you, you will not be calm. I wasn’t in the habit of bowing from my memory, so I smiled for the time being.

Smiles are essential for smooth relationships. Both of them smiled off and seemed to have a smile effect.

“Mine, are you still feeling bad?”

“… Yes”

Talking to my house with a few words, holding my hand with my mother. There is no bookstore in the store on the way home.

Talking to my mother about a picture book for children, I was trying to learn a little by little, but it ended up in vain.

Although there was a castle of the lord and a town with a fine stone gate, there was no bookstore in this town. Because it was said that the book was not for sale, it may be that there is no bookstore in the world.

Despaired.

Did you think that it would be terrible to live a book-free life in Reno, who was satisfied if there was a book when he pulled out the meal two days a day?

At least if you can reincarnate into a noble family … Hey! Reincarnation to the commoner … God, did I do anything wrong?

Even if I tell my parents that I want to be an aristocrat who can buy books, it will be shed lightly as a cute whispering dreaming child. I can’t say I didn’t want to be born to this family.

But I want to be a noble. Even if I couldn’t become a nobleman, I wanted at least the financial power to buy and catch fallen aristocratic grass.

Although I was struck by the terrible environment, I learned that books could not be obtained even if I was crying. There is no bookstore, but you can’t get it.

What to do if you don’t get it?

You have to make it yourself?

Actually, I want a book from this world, but I can’t say luxury. In order to fulfill your request quickly, let’s learn these letters a little later and make a book in the Japanese you still remember.

If this happens, no means will be chosen.

Never get a book!