Volume 5 - Chapter 4 – Mof village (1/2)
Here’s the 4th
Translated by Rabie
05 – 04 Mof village
Although there was trouble, the carriage progressed smoothly after that, arriving at the destination Mof village, at around dusk.
Although the slope illuminated in the evening after-light was a dry grass colour, it is usually covered by a pasture between spring and summer, and is covered with colourful flowers blooming, or so Elsa explains.
“You know quite alot”
Jin is impressed,
“Because I had travelled to Potlock on the same road when summer was in full bloom,”
Such an answer came back.
Well, even in this village, facilities for accommodating travellers who are traveling on the highway are enriched, by the way the coachmen and attendants are heading to the inn, while the four of them, Jin, Reiko, Elsa and the nanny are foreign nobles and employees, and by telling a nobleman friend, they were to be taken care of at the village head home.
“Jin, will let the horses rest so our departure will be the day after tomorrow”
Jin who was told by Elsa headed to the village heads home while thinking about attaching a damper this time.
Dinner of the day is bread and cheese dishes. It seems that cheese is a famous dish here.
Bread has quite the whiteness, which means that the village head may know how to appropriately welcome Elsa.
Cheese cuisine begins with cheese itself, oil fried cheese, salad with cheese. Bread is bread baked with cheese and two baked cheese.
The drink was milk or Brule [buru-ru] juice.
“I like bread baked with cheese.”
That’s when Elsa put cheese on some bread and handed it to the waiter for baking. Jin kept the cheese as it was and tried it.
“This cheese is delicious”
Jin wants to buy some and send it to Horai Island if he can.
“What is this Brule?”
Jin drank the dark purple juice and asked Elsa who liked the taste.
“It is a fruit made from a low tree growing in the mountains, it is a famous cuisine here”
Jin admired that there are famous products unique to the mountain region. I wonder if this fruit can be found on MT. Horai, and I wonder if I can make this Brule.
“Oh, did it not suit your tastes?”
While Jin was contemplating the village chief asked. Jin hurriedly,
“No, it’s very delicious.”
He answered, and the village mayor who heard it smiled satisfactorily. Reiko gazed at such a Jin.
When I tried to go back to the room after the meal,
“Customers, I am sorry, we cannot prepare for bathing because there is a shortage of water in front of the spring rainy season, so …”
“I understand. You only have to prepare some water to wipe the body.”
Elsa replied, before anyone else could.
“Really? Thank you for your kindness. I will have it in the room later.”
Jin entered the room thinking that a village in the highland is likely to have a shortage of water.
A little girl like Elsa brought me some water for the tub. Jin asked the child.
“Is it good for a moment? Is the weather here really bad here?”
Then the child,
“Customers do not know? Yes, rain hardly falls in winter and summer, the rain often falls in spring and autumn.”
Then pointing to the water in the tub,
“This water is not for drinking, each household has a barrel as a reservoir, there is spring water too, but then there isn’t enough for washing or cleaning, we use the water which is pooled in a big reservoir for that.”
“So this water is the water you got from that reservoir?”
“Yes, it is the water that we cleaned the water with cloth.”
“Okay, thanks.”
That’s what the girl thanked for and left.
“After all, the water situation is not very good”
When Jin murmured, the door was knocked.
“Yes”