Chapter 163: 165

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Chapter 165 - Food, Clothing, and Shelter

 

　I've seen the reality that people die in the winter.

　I wondered if I could at least make it a little easier to survive through it.

　The only reasons I can think of right now are the food problem and the cold.

　When snow starts to pile up, the greenhouse I built is the only way to grow food properly in the winter.

　However, I have turned the greenhouse into a medicinal herb garden.

　If possible, I would like to continue to use the greenhouse, which uses the heat from the hot spring, to grow medicinal herbs.

　If this is the case, we need to increase our food production during the snow-free season.

　Well, I think this can be improved somehow.

　Or rather, that's the point of my magic.

　Unlike the past situation where we only had poor farming techniques, the condition of the soil will definitely improve if we use my magic.

　I've been using my magic in the fields for many years now, and I believe I have the experience to say so.

　In addition, I've been sending Baito-nii to other places now.

　In fact, last year we had such a good harvest that we wanted to use the new technology of the rotary thresher and windmill to grind the wheat, but we don't have that much wheat left.

　Still, I think we have a much larger stockpile than usual right now, but the war was not good.

　I didn't want to fight on the battlefield away from Barca with a hungry stomach, so I had to transport a lot of the grain from the stockpile.

　As a result, the amount of food consumed was incredible.

　It was because of this that I took the risk of sending my brother outside my territory to improve the farmland.

　If there is a good harvest in other places, we can buy food from there.

　Above all, if other places had good harvests, there would be no need for the people of those places to migrate to the Barca Knights' Domain out of poverty.

　The fact that there will be deaths in the winter means that people who are about to die are coming to Barca.

　If there were more food available in other places, it would prevent these people from coming to Barca, and thus reduce the number of winter deaths in Barca.

　But even if the food problem is solved, it is not enough.

　It's still very cold.

　The climate around here is so snowy that it would be more efficient to go sledding in the winter than actually travel with a caravan or horse.

　The problem is that we don't have enough warmth to get through the cold.

　Or rather, I think the problem is that the clothes we are wearing are fundamentally too shabby.

　No matter how much someone tries to keep warm by lighting firewood, they can't keep out the cold if they're wearing flimsy clothes.

　We need warmer clothes.

　They say that food, clothing, and shelter are the most important things in a person's life, and I guess we need to make sure we have them in order.

"But those lads are wearing warm fur coats, aren't they?"

"Well, yes. We've been putting the big boars' fur to good use."

"Isn't that all one needs? Boar fur can be used as coats or even as leather armor."

"No, we can't do that, ojisan. The number of giant boars is definitely not enough to meet the demand of the city. We need a stable supply of clothes."

"Enough clothes for everyone? That'll be a lot of clothes, kid, but I suppose we'd make a lot of money if we can do that..."

"Clothes are pretty expensive, aren't they? Ara, ara. Anyhow... how is it going?"

　Securing warm clothes as a means of surviving the winter.

　The old man and I went to look at a place that held one of my cards I'd prepared beforehand for this purpose.

　The location was the ranch we had built on the northern area of Barcania.

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　He and I came to the ranch, moving along the road where there was still snow.

　Our goal was, of course, the goats.

The wild animals who could use [Leap] which Barca brought from the Great Snow Mountains east of Uruk last year.

　I had tried to keep them in the walled city, but had failed because they could jump so high.

　The goats jumped over buildings all over the city, and the residents complained a lot.

　Kyle's emergency action of bringing them into the Valkyrie stables solved the problem, however.

　When a goat tried to [Leap], a horned Valkyrie fires [Shotgun] to intimidate the goat, making it docile.

　Seeing this, I decided to let the goats and the Valkyries live together in a ranch area surrounded by walls.

　I didn't go into that pasture area at all during the winter.

　We have built some buildings to shelter them from the snow and put some food there, but I wonder if the goats are safe.

　To find out, we came to check on them.

　The ojisan and I opened the door to the pasture and entered the paradise of the Valkyries and the goats for the first time in months.

"Cui!"

"Meh."

".... old man, have my eyes malfunctioned? It looks like the goats have changed their appearance..."

"That's strange, kid. I am seeing the same thing. Are you sure these are the goats we brought to Barca last year?"

　As we entered the pasture, we saw Valkyries and goats roaming around.

　The Valkyrie is as usual.

　It had two horns on its head, and its white, straight hair flowed easily over its thoroughbred-like body.

　The sight of it walking on the still snow-covered ground was fantastic.

　In contrast, there was a goat nearby.

　This goat also had white fur and was a bit poofy.

　But this was strange.

　When I first saw the goat with the old man in the hill area of Einrad, I believe it had brown hair.

　And the hair was not that long either.

　I wondered why its appearance had changed.

　If it hadn't been for the goat horns on its head, I wouldn't have recognized it as a goat at a glance.

"Do goats maybe change their hair and turn white in the winter, ojisan?"

"...... No, I've never heard of anything like that. But it's definitely a goat. It's white, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is. ......"

"Hmm? Old man, take a good look at the goats. They're bigger than they were before winter, aren't they?"

"Yeah, I guess. ....... Yes, they do look bigger than they did before winter. But what does that matter, kid?"

"No, I'm just wondering if it's because the goats ate the stalks of the honeysuckle until they were too big for their own good here in the safety of the pasture."

"How is that possible?"

"I don't know. It's just a theory."

"Okay. Well, but it's not a problem, is it, kid? From the looks of it, the goats have survived the winter despite the change in appearance."

"That's right, old man. I mean, isn't it a good thing that their hair has grown longer? Let's see if we can make some clothes out of the goats' hair."

　The state of the goats was somehow transformed.

　The old man and I were somewhat confused when we saw one.

　But the old man was right, the goats had survived the winter in Barca.

　Moreover, they had warm-looking, long hair.

　Trion and I immediately took one of the goats and brought it back to Barca Castle.

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