428 Rainy Season, Coming (2) - Unexpected Request

After business in Inn Town, we were headed to the settlement of Sauti.

But I was the only one who was being called, and I had the prospect of letting you drop by Lilyn's house on the way home, so I needed the Tour-dins to keep the bottom line going for tomorrow.

So I asked everyone to return in Fafa's luggage, and I was thinking of going to the settlement of Sauti alone, but the people of the Lou family were to be asked to accompany me. It seems that Dari-Sauti, the head of the opening works, gave Donda-Lou the word to determine what he intends to ask Asta of Fa's house.

By the way, Donda-Lou was finally letting him resume his work as a hunter from the Golden Moon.

Donda-Lou, who had been swept over his right shoulder by the Lord of the Forest and who had been encouraging him for all three months to rehabilitate and rehabilitate, was finally resurrected as a hunter. The night before that, Rayna-Lu and the others had told me that she had drank fruit liquor as if it were unusual.

So, he is a member accompanying him.

Limi-Luu and Vina-Lu had been elected to this.

He doesn't have any deep meaning in this facial rash. However, we talked about the duty in Accommodation Town today being Rayna-Luu and Limi-Luu, and that those two should head straight to Sauti, because Rayna-Luu had a job waiting for you, so Vina-Lu was supposed to serve as an understudy.

Moreover, Lyada-Lu and Barsha were to be added there as well.

Guards, not so much, but now guards and the people of the north are waxing by the settlement of Sauti. I didn't feel comfortable just visiting such a place, so I was to be accompanied by both names who didn't participate in the hunter's work.

Barsha was, of course, a martial arts form, and Lyada-Lou was carrying swords and bows and arrows. In retrospect of his recent audition with Donda-Lou, Lyada-Lou has not yet faded, except on his right leg. It was a story that I could not encourage my work as a hunter because of the difficulty of running, taking on heavy things, or walking for long periods of time, but that if the people in town were opponents, I could be sufficiently wary.

"If it were five people, one luggage car would be enough. The settlement of Lulu is on its way home anyway, so let's take Gilu's luggage car with us."

That's how we headed to the settlement of Sauti.

Of course, or whatever, I wanted a ride from me to involve Vina-Lou in my visit to the Lilyn family. I can't believe they're walking home in this rain, either. The diligent people of the woodland didn't want to visit the houses of other families even though they had no business, so this is how I plotted them.

(You can tell me you want to stop by Lilyn's house after you've done your errands at Sawty's. If this happens, I'd like to stay in Sautti until about evening and make sure he meets with Schmiral)

Tomorrow's bottom preparations will be fine as long as we leave it to the Tour-dins. The story of letting everyone use it without me goes through to Ai-Fa in the morning. The rest will remain guided by the woods.

"It's a hiccup to go to Sautti's house! Donda, since your father was injured. So the purple, silver and gold moon is over... it's been about three months!

Instead of Vina-Lou, who does not stop sighing, Rimi-Lou is still full of energy today.

The facial rash there, Barsha and Lyada-Lu, was quite a fresh combination.

"Speaking of which, haven't you started your study group at the Lou's yet? Because of Michelle and Mim, I'm sorry about your sister Raina, right?

"Yeah, of course I'm listening. I just wanted to get ready to cook with a die or a sun. After a short period of time, if you do the same trick again, you will be able to increase your skill more effectively."

"Hmm, so-called."

"Besides, when it was time for Michelle to be able to move around, right? While Michelle couldn't move, I'm sure Mim would want to be tight and see a doctor, so you thought she'd turn you down even if you invited her to a study group. So I figured I wouldn't have to rush until I could ask you both out."

"I see -! Asta, come on!

Even though we are often praised for our culinary skill, we are rarely praised for being smart.

I loved Rimi-Lou so much.

"Still, these rainy seasons are beyond what I hear. Don't you think there's a landslide hazard if you stay down this morning?

When Barsha spoke that way, Lyada-Lu had replied, "There is no problem".

"Forestside settlements have solid ground. So you can take the sticky sand, and the house and the road won't break down.... I remember hearing from the oldest that it is the kind of land that a field can't originally do because of its quality"

"Oh, and these are high ground, so does rain water flow all over town, too? Whatever it is, I want this depressing season to just pass."

"But I also hear that this rain brings grace to forests and towns. I guess all is the will of the forest and the gods."

As Lyada-Lu put it, there was no major obstacle to driving the luggage even in this rain.

Of course, although my vision gets worse, the yellow-treaded and solidified road supports the weight of my luggage truck well. If we proceeded by avoiding a large puddle of water, it seemed that we would not even be taken wheels by the mud.

Neither do the Totos, starting with Girl, seem to suffer from the rain. It's a blurry face as usual, and it drives fine, unchanged. As long as it is comfortable to make.

That's how the time filled with bickering and sighing passed, finally approaching the settlement of Sauti.

So far, I haven't seen any guards or the people of the North. The real southernmost tip of the forest should be home to Sauti's family, so not going that far may have been hard to see the construction.

With that in mind, I get my luggage into the settlement of Sauti.

It's raining unchanged, so I don't see any figures in the square either.

but I was able to find a different trace than before.

Slightly smaller than the settlement of Lou, there was a huge leather roof on the square.

I wonder what this is all about. It covers almost half the size of the square. Many wooden columns were punched into the ground, and the space over the Blue Sky Dining Room in the Inn Town was protected from the rain.

I lean my neck, bypassing that space and going for the main house.

The main house was seated as I remember it, as the mist and rain began to fall.

As I descended from your platform onto the wet ground, the door of the house was opened at the same time.

I'm sure you saw us through the window. What showed up was Mill Fay-Sauti, who was also with you at the ball.

"Welcome to the house of Sauti. I've been waiting for you, Asta.... Are the people of the Lou family with you?

"Yes. He asked Donda-Lou to accompany him, wondering if something had happened."

"It's not a... it's not a strange thing, but I need to talk to Asta. Come here first."

Mill Fay-Sauti, wearing a rainy hooded cape just like us, walks out to the back of the house.

I followed it and connected Gill to the shade along the way before being led along with everyone else.

For the first time in three months, it is a time of nostalgia.

We fit in there and let the wet rain gear hang on the wall before once again being relative to Mill Fay-Sutty.

"First of all, let me say thank you for your hard work to such a place. And since the head of the family, Dali, is on his way to work as a hunter, let me convey his words from me."

"Oh, could Dari-Sauti finally get the job back on track, too"

"Yes, and that's thanks to Asta and the others for the help. All the other men, except the two who lost their power as hunters, never regained their power."

Mill Fay-Sauti, who doesn't move much expression, narrowed his eyes and slightly lowered his mouth.

Then immediately regain a serious look and start talking again.

"So, first of all, I have to explain the situation… the task of clearing the way by the woods has begun, and today is the fourth day. In the meantime, they were supposed to have lunch in this settlement of Sauti."

"Oh, is the roof stretched out on that square for that? I thought it was something."

"Yes, there is a family home further south than this, but there is no square there that can invite so many humans, so it was for Sautti to lend the place. During the rainy season, there are no people to give you a wedding, and I don't think that would create inconvenience."

"I see. So, what do you want to talk to me about?

"Yes, it's about the meal that the people of the North are eating."

That said, Mill Fay-Sauti took a small breath.

"As a matter of fact, here we are, dividing that meal into just one serving. I'm going to warm it up again now, so could you eat that?

"Yeah? Of course, there's no difference... you've become more and more enigmatic"

Mill Fay-Sautti nodded and started putting fire in which one of the kama.

On top of that, there is a very small iron pan. When the wooden planks covered there were taken away, a truly unusual dish was to be exposed to our eyes.

"What is it, this? It's like oatmeal."

"Oh-oh-oh-oh?

"That's the kind of food that was in my hometown. But this..."

In a nutshell, it was a crude dish.

Well, it's what people in their capacity as slaves eat, so I guess it's just the same thing. At least salvation was a palpable milky paste, with pieces of vegetables and meat peeking into each other.

Eventually, the aroma of the cooking that was heated begins to fill.

Limi-Luu, whose eyes were shining with curiosity, let his nose snap like a rabbit.

"The scent looks so delicious! This white color was caron's milk."

"Yeah, it's caron's milk and an ingredient called Fuwano that resembles Poitan."

The dish was only left for about one cup in the cup, so I was able to warm it up again immediately.

Transfer that to a plate of wood, and then Mill Fay-Sautti will give it a "go ahead".

"I also eat during the day, so I swear to the woods that there is never anything wrong with my body"

"I don't doubt that. Besides, it doesn't smell bad."

I tried throwing it in my mouth with a wooden spoon.

Really, it brings a pitiful voice to "Ugh".

"I don't know... it's a delicious flavor to flatter."

"Yes, though it may be easier to eat than juice made with giva meat that still hasn't drained blood"

That is certainly true, as Mill Fay-Sauti put it. It doesn't taste strange, and the aroma smells sweeter and sweeter with caron milk.

However, the texture was the worst.

It is as powdery as it once was in Poitan juice, and all the ingredients have become sloppy. Both meat and vegetables were so uncertain what was used that when it came to flavoring, it was all about the flavor and saltiness of caron milk.

Tasty or unsavory, it would be an unsavory category.

The sweet flavor and saltiness of caron milk are also difficult to say that they go well together. The fragrance is sweet, but it's actually soggy, and the texture is bad. Oatmeal. It's like muddy water, I wouldn't even say, but it was hard to find a part to praise for doing so.

Among other things, he said, "I ate the rimi too - hey!" There was a statement, so a new wooden spoon was prepared.

As far as taste is concerned, sharing is allowed even if it is not the family, unless the wooden spoon is put on twice. In the meantime, everyone except Lyada-Lu was to taste that impossible dish one mouthful at a time.

"Hahaha, that's not good"

"It's hard to say it tastes good... if you can do it, I don't want to eat any more wow..."

"Something, you just pounded in the leftovers and simmered them. Even this powdery smell doesn't seem intolerable."

"Exactly, I think you're right. Would you like to see the ingredients used?

Mill Fay-Sutty put on some rain gear and now he's got us in the pantry.

The pantry was like there was no foot trap. On one side of the floor, giant pots, crates, etc. were lined up.

"With these ingredients, as much food is made as just now. Check it out."

The pot and crate were all covered with lids, so I decided to take a look at them from scratch.

The majority of them were vegetable scum.

Aria, Nennon, Nanar or Shima, Guigo or Pra or Chang or Rohyoi or - whatever the original price, the various vegetable slices are packed tightly. It even included parts of the mushroom pattern, which is a luxury ingredient, and the skin of the seal that even I would throw away if I thought so.

Other than that, it is salted meat and caron's milk.

The meat was also full of cuts, and inside there was also a whole bunch of stuck carons of abalone, kimmus feet, etc. I thought I was finally searching for a spot of lump and it was dyeing blue. Such meat, even salted, was likely to break my stomach if I didn't have to eat it by tomorrow.

Besides, even caron milk should be bad for sunshine.

From the smell, it doesn't seem to be damaged yet, but I'm just a little worried. Low temperatures during the rainy season would have been at least a consolation.

"Looks like this is the leftover ingredient collected in Castle Town."

"Yes. Can Asta still guess"

"That was well, because it even included ingredients that nobody quite uses in the boarding town. … is this the food of the people of the North?"

"Yes, they've spoken the same thing in Turan," he said.

In Turan, slaves should have been in service for years now. In the meantime, I guess it is well established in what form to serve meals. It would also have been easier to build a route to recover the surplus of these ingredients if Cycleus had been close to a number of restaurants.

"The only difference is that something called Fuwano is used, not Poitan. Until the rainy season, they used Poitan, but now they can't even get another one. Right."

"Yeah, even the residents of the Inn Town are fighting over it. But it's a little ironic that Fuwano, a high price, is going to be used instead of Poitan."

"It is the people of the North who are tormented by that irony. Because of the high price of fuwano, they've reduced the amount of it."

I'm stuck with words.

Mill Fay-Sauti stares at me with a serious, unobtrusive look.

"It is the arrangement of the nobility of Genos that the people of the North are being given a crude meal. But that meal was not only to be crude, it was to be reduced to an amount. What does Asta think of that?

"How... of course, it's painful. I had no idea there was such a mess with the people of the North."

"Parent Dali, too, thought so. I'm so glad Asta came to the same idea."

That being said, Mill Fay-Sauti softened his gaze slightly.

"Of course, the only thing that's been reduced is the thing called Fuwano, but is that food as important as Poitan? Even in forestside settlements, poor humans cannot speak enough Aria and Poitan, and that will weaken their power. My parents, Dali, were worried that the people of the North would weaken this rainy season."

"Yeah, I totally agree. And I'm extra worried because I'm sure they're forced to labor more harshly than usual."

In simple calculations, the value of Fuwano is about 1,5 times higher than that of Poitan. That only grabs the same budget, which means your daily intake is reduced to two-thirds.

The fact that carbohydrate intake would be so reduced was supposed to be a very harsh story as a person engaged in manual labor.

"Yesterday, parents Dali finally got to know that fact. So, we're supposed to discuss this morning with the heads of the family and send out messengers to Luu and Zaza this evening. So if the other chiefs agree, I'm going to tell the nobles that the people of the woods want to pay for the missing fuwano."

"The people by the woods?... Oh, for a moment, are you thinking of putting the reward on that?

"Yes. I guess you won't know if that's enough, unless you do the math"

More than a hundred people from the North should be involved in this opening. The cost of one-third of the fuwanos those people eat a day - indeed, it seemed that a fairly detailed calculation would be necessary.

"If it's not enough, I'll pay at Fa's house. No, as much as I'd rather have the full amount at Fa's house. Poitan is out of stock because I'm the one who started it in the first place."

"But did Asta devise a new way to eat Poitan to teach the forest folks something called a delicious meal? Besides, we hear that the technology was spread to the town to inflict pain on the spiteful aristocrats."

"Yeah, well, that's right -"

"Then the house of Fa is not the only problem to bear. Asta is a family member by the woods in the first place, so all her hard work should be borne by all her compatriots."

With a mixed look of severity and kindness, Mill Fay-Sauti said so.

I say, "Excuse me." I say, "Excuse me."

"I was shallow indeed. I'm ashamed I haven't thought enough."

"Asta is still young, so you don't have to worry about her that much. Whatever it is, it is never a story to be missed that our deeds make others unhappy. Donda-Lou and Graf-Zaza will surely also accept the words of their parents Dali"

That is the people of the woods.

Inside, I was to be shaken again by the pride of my countrymen.

"We are going to send messengers to Luu and Zaza from now on.... and from here on out is my offer to Asta..."

"Yes, don't hesitate to say anything"

"Now let me tell you exactly what I have to say from my parents, Dali. Wouldn't Asta use these ingredients to create more delicious dishes?

"Huh? Using these ingredients, is it?

"Yes, it seems Parent Dali has been heartbroken that the people of the North are filling their hunger with an impossible meal that is also equal to Poitan juice. I suggested that if I could at least bake Fuwano like a poiton, he could make it a little more decent meal, but that got stuck by the guards"

It's a lot of work to bake over a hundred people's worth of fuwanos, and you're going to need fuel. Not to mention that it is now a rainy season, so fuel itself should be valuable.

For the sake of slavery and others, such hassles and budgets cannot be put on - which would also be a legitimate argument if we made it to the nobles of Genos.

But I was very sympathetic to Dari-Sutty.

"Okay. It's the same ingredient, the same working time, and you just have to fit within the same budget. Let's just think about it."

"Thank you.... but Asta keeps working from morning to noon, right? The women of the people of the North prepare their meals in the morning, and soon they turn to help the men."

"Oh, are we preparing our own meals? How many of those women are there, and how long is it taking them?

"The number of people is five, and the time is... well, does it feel like we have about half the time to reach Jomtien, coming some time after the sun comes out"

From dawn to Jomtien, I've been here for six or seven hours. Considering the travel time from Turan, the calculation is about three hours.

"It's quite a hassle, isn't it, because just five people make a meal for over a hundred people?... All right, I get it. Anyway, I'll work out what kind of dish it should be first."

"But Asta can't leave her job herself, can she?

"Yes, but I wouldn't have to give the Mahydra ladies a clue myself. I hope I can get Mill Fay-Sauti and tell them that."

"Huh? Wow, are we going to give hand to the people of the North?

"Yes. Can't you take such time?

"No, it's not a matter of time, it's in our arms..."

"That's not true. Mill Fay-Sautti and the others are well equipped because they have kept Kamado together. If that's what you're thinking right now, you can do enough work for the women of Satie."

"Has Asta already decided what to make of it?

"Yes. Or it's going to be decided without a response because there are so few options"

Mill Fay-Sauti began to shake his head as he felt.

"Damn, I'm surprised. My parents and I were about to give up half of how Asta would never cook a decent dish with this kind of surplus alone..."

"That's not true. Even in leftovers, what is prepared here is a pile of treasure, including fine ingredients. I'm a little short on seasonings, but I don't think it's hard to finish them deliciously"

Anyway, a lot of caron milk is being prepared for this occasion. Caron milk is inexpensive, so I guess the Castle Town cooks are ready to hurt themselves and buy it in bulk. Speaking of which, even the former Count Turan mansion was stocked with large quantities of unused caron milk.

With this caron milk as my spear, I was willing to work out a strategy.

"The problem is, it's going to take a little while for you to see it. Are we allowed to mess with ingredients at times like this?

"Yes, I'm renting you a place, so I won't let you complain about that"

"Then I'm sure you'll be fine. After business, this is how I come to help out, and there are free days every five days, so I want you to actually look at the hands of the Mahydra women."

To my words, Mill Fay-Sauti smiled softly.

It is a slightly unexpected, attractive smile.

"Thank you. Parent Dali will be delighted, I'm sure. I am proud that Asta is a family by the woods"

"It is with great pleasure that I am pleased that Dari-Sauti and Mil Fay-Sauti are heartbroken by the treatment of the people of the North. We have no grudges against them."

"Yes, I am not in a position to say anything about the dispute between the North and the West... but the nobles of Genos sent the people of the North to the woodland settlements of their own free will. In this land, then, we ask you to follow the currents of the forest."

The thought that Mill Fay-Sauti was decisive, but never insulting the nobles, also came through with a hint. I suppose they think that while they recognize the other person as superior, they just don't give in to their own possession. It may have come to such a state of mind because it was the first Mill Fay-Sauti to step into the castle town and actually face the nobles.

(If you can deliver a delicious meal to the people of the North, though it may just be self-gratification, it's the main hope....... does that include Eleo-Cher)

With that in mind, I glanced over a pile of ingredients laid on one side of the floor.

The pots and crates with their black mouths clenched open as if they were laughing without a voice telling them to try if they could.