Volume 1 - Chapter 6 – HARVEST OF WHEAT (2/2)

「Alright, it’s complete!」

Right on time, Martha and Hanna returned carrying the wheat and saw the sieve.

「What is this!? You’ve made another peculiar thing」

「Onii-chan, what is this?」

They were surprised as expected. Jin then explained.

「Fuu-n, this can sort out the flour right?」

「That’s right. It will sort out the higher quality flour, even Roland-san would evaluate it highly.」

「Will it become delicious?」

「I see. A portion for eating, a portion for selling, it is worth trying it in various ways.」

Then without delay, he milled the last year’s harvest of wheat, resulting in flour, and places it in the sieve. （Because the wheat that was just harvested was not dried yet, it could not be milled）

「Funfun, this is how you do it, put it in, then shake」

「This looks interesting! I want to try it too!」

Seeing that, Hanna reached her hand out to it so Hanna did the sieving, Martha milled the wheat, and Jin took care of splitting the sieved flour.

「Waaa, it looks pretty!」

The light brownish wheat flour had turned into pretty white flour. With this amount now done, Jin was satisfied.

「It’s turned out really pretty. Okay then I’ll use this flour to bake some bread today」

That night.

「This is delicious, Oba-chan!」

Hanna was delighted.

「It really is delicious…」

「After all, white bread is definitely delicious」

He was raised to not be picky about what he likes and dislikes, and he was fine with eating bad food, however the breads up until now were completely different in taste to the one he was eating now.

「I need to tell everyone」

The next day the villagers were delighted to know how delicious sieved flour was, and once again, it was decided that Jin would make a sieve for every house.

「It would be great if we could make this flour into Kaina Village’s specialty」

After the sieves were given out, the village chief made that proposal, and he agreed with the village chief.

「That will be good. With this we’ll be able to acquire a little bit of foreign money.」

Was what Jin was pleased about.

Roland came after February and was pleasantly surprised when he saw the flour.

「This white flour, even in the capital there is very little! The pure white flour aristocrats eat are made by their servants who peel the exterior and mill it with their hands. Such a thing a commoner wouldn’t even eat without a reason. And so close, there’s tons of it!」

Although it was not pure white, the colour was pretty close to white, furthermore the price for it was reasonable. The merchant jumped at the chance.

And though he did not have money prepared this time, he had promised that he would purchase it at a high price on his next visit.

「Still, each and every time Jin-san sure does surprises me」

Roland muttered while eating white bread.

「I’d also like to be able to see Jin-san’s home town. When you come to the capital and need a helping hand, by all means I’ll gladly cooperate」

「At that time, please do so」

Although his home was Japan, he would never again return home. For now he decided to politely accept.