Chapter 38: Eating Outside
In no time, the bandits were destroyed by two people.
"It's wonderful. After all, the Dragon God's words were not wrong."
Rumseil-san seemed to be even moved by the situation.
"Everyone, let's get rid of the corpses."
Wince-san said so and started throwing the corpses into the forest.
In three days, the blood on the ground will be gone.
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We walked for a while from there, and the sun was beginning to set.
"From here we will walk through the forest. It's dangerous to walk in the dark, so let's wait here until morning."
Rumseil-san pointed in the direction of Dragon Mountain.
I never thought that we would get this close in one day.
"Will this be enough firewood?"
I and Rumseil-san's role is to collect firewood
"Yes, it should be good."
"Where's Shiro-san?"
"He went to take a precautionary measure in the surrounding area."
Wince-san is taking out various things while saying so.
About 5 large iron cylinders, brown plates, and black lumps wrapped in plant leaves
I've never seen anything like it.
“Sermus-dono, what is that?”
"I don't know either."
Apparently, Rumseil-san doesn't know either.
"This? A portable distiller, a portable soup, and some pemmican."
"What's that? I know what a distiller is, but I've never seen one that small before."
“A blacksmith I know invented it. If you fill it with water in the morning, it will make enough water for one meal at night."
It looks pretty heavy
She was walking carrying it
"What is this thing called "potable soup?""
"I don't know the detailed principle either. Shiro-san taught me. And this is how it is used."
A pot on the fire, water was already boiling in it.
Wince-san puts portable soup into it.
"Ah... it smells good."
“They make the broth in advance and put fresh animal bones in it.”
"Bones?"
"Yes, the gelatin in the bones? When it cools down, it hardens just like you just saw earlier."
"Was that Shiro-san's idea?"
"No, Shiro-san only knows about it, but it seems that it has been around for a long time in his hometown."
"Where is Shiro-dono from?"
"Neither do I know. All I know is that he is from far away."
The melted soup is transferred from the pot to a wooden plate.
She put something called "pemmican" in the empty pot.
"You said pemmican, but what is it?"
“Dried rations pickled in fat. Or was it something like that?"
“Pickled in fat?”
"Yes, you boil animal fat in a pot and melt it. Then you put the dried food in it. Then it is cooled and hardened."
"How long does it keep them?"
"I haven't measured it exactly, but I'd say it lasts about a year."
"Wince-san, I brought cookies. Is it okay if I put them in the soup?"
"Ah, it should be good. It seems to be filling."
The situation is quite different from the wild food I know.
Bread so hard that it breaks your teeth as a result of being crushed hard to remove water and baked twice
Dried meat soaked in salt and dried in the sun to stiffen it
Fat soaked in salt
All of these things are just hard to eat.
Above all, they make you thirsty.
“When Shiro-dono returns, I want to ask him about the food.”
"I agree. I think it would be a good idea to get Shiro-dono's permission and distribute it to adventurers."
The fat in the pan is already melted
"Berries!"
"They are dried, though."
The pemmican contained berries, meat, and even herbs.
"Let's definitely put this on the market."
“I, for one, would be very grateful if they could be distributed and purchased. It is a little troublesome to make it myself."
"Then why didn't you show it to anyone before? If you showed it to a merchant, he would have immediately taken a bite."
“Shiro-san said that he had not adjusted them enough. I don't know what adjustments he's talking about."
"...I'll ask my father to study it under the lord's authority. We'll finish that adjustment as soon as we can and get it to the market."
"Do you want one?"
"By all means!"
I don't want to go back to chomping on cookies after being shown something like this.
After this
Shiro-san came back and told me about the preserved foods.
Pinoli, taro stem rope, aaruul, sauerkraut
None of them were foods I had never heard of
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