Chronicles of The Hardships of Komachi in The Sengoku Era

Due to the completion of the harvest and devotion of major crops, a kind of full mood was spreading in Shizuko's village.

I would otherwise run to secure food support to get past the winter, but I didn't have to do that this year.

It's hard to say, but there are plenty of sweet potatoes, and I have secured a large number of pumpkins, which are vegetables for winter.

Rice is there too, so if you don't luxury, you won't have any trouble supporting food until next fall.

The work to be done also had no major work to do, except to carry out further agricultural land expansion.

Vegetable seeds were planted to collect vegetable seed oil, but other winter vegetables were already under cultivation.

Agricultural land expansion also did not have to go through complicated procedures like modern times, it was simply good to the extent of "let's farm land from here to here".

Of course, it was necessary to report the expanded farmland to Nobunaga at a later date, but they were left to the color, so there was no need for Shizuko to go out on purpose.

"Well, let's go mushroom hunting today"

"... Shizuko. Please let me hold the cage abruptly and stop taking you with or without me."

Shizuko turned to the day after tomorrow with tremendous momentum in the calm penetration of the colors, and blew a whistle that didn't even blow.

It's a colour that I can't tell you about, but I also thought it was ridiculous to complain, and I just exhaled one heavy sigh.

"Well, it's this autumn season, so help me hunt mushrooms. I can take a lot of it, but I don't have enough people."

Shizuko laughs bitterly with her back of her head.

The mushroom season depends on the type, but the season begins roughly from September to October and at the latest around November.

But mushrooms are basically in full harvest time in October.

The owner of the mountain will be trustworthy, but he has been told that he can use it without making a report if it is other than a specific resource.

The minerals, that is, gold, silver and iron, will be reported as soon as they are found.

"Hmmm... I had a lot going on last year and couldn't get a lot out of it, but I'm going to take it all out this year."

There are no other villages in the neighborhood but two, so if you don't invade their territory, you can harvest all you want.

This means that you can fully enjoy the taste of autumn.

"Um, what are you willing to take?

The color of not keeping up with Shizuko's tension asked Shizuko, who was twirling around, because she had a slight hips pull but needed to see what she was willing to do.

"Hmm? - Right. This year, you're a mushroom player, a mushroom player, a mushroom player, a mushroom player, a mushroom player, and a mushroom player! Speaking of which, I failed last year, but I wonder if Shiitake mushrooms are growing well this year."

In a moment, the colour blew out with great momentum.

Plus she started coughing, so Shizuko rushes to her back.

"So, it's okay!?

"It's okay. I'm just a little upset."

That's the colour to breathe in, but Shizuko had a worrying look on her face.

She calms her own mind and plays the usual poker face.

"(all of a sudden...) Shall we go, Shizuko?"

"Yeah... you can't be unscrupulous. If you can't, you can sleep at home, okay?

"It's okay. Instead, if I leave Shizuko alone, I'm not going to sleep worried."

"Rude. I'm still familiar with mountains."

It was a dialogue with no shards of persuasion, but Colour said nothing but a small sigh.

The relationship between the two felt more like a distant friend of the year than a husband and servant.

"(You need to report this) Shizuko at the place. I said cultivate shiitake mushrooms, what are you going to do with that one?

"What do you do, how do you use it other than eat shiitake mushrooms? Oh, if you want it to be stock, you'd better dry it."

When I heard that answer, Colour wanted to hold his head.

I don't know because Shizuko speaks with a modern sensation, but Shiitake mushrooms were a luxury product until the establishment of an artificial method of cultivation in the twentieth century.

Because it had been produced in Japan since ancient times, but artificial cultivation methods had not been established, and there was no other way than to harvest native ones.

On the other hand, it was an essential product for taking stock in refined dishes.

When a Zen monk from the early Kamakura period called Doyuan passed to South Song, one of China's dynasties, there was an anecdote about a local monk asking if he had dried shiitake mushrooms.

Mushrooms are so luxurious that there are also historical shiitake mushroom dishes, but for Shizuko, who still has a modern feel, they are cheap mushrooms to the extent that they are sold in supermarkets.

On the contrary, it is the pine mushrooms that she thinks are luxury products that are rare and irrelevant from warring humans.

Because if you climb the mountain, there are few people who want to eat pine mushrooms on purpose on top of growing all over them.

In a time of belly filling but top priority, there are only a few people who can afford to enjoy the fragrance.

"I failed to cultivate last year, and maybe not this year."

After saying it with extreme ease, Shizuko walked out with her cage back on her back.

After that, the colour follows with a very subtle face.

(You're right about the woods. This person's values are somewhere different......)

Colour sees Shizuko's back so cheerful that she is likely to sing a nose song.

The gaze is enough to even spy on the killing, but the person at the time of the pointing climbs up the mountain with ease without any notice.

"We're almost there, so please get the cage ready."

On the contrary, it was the end of a smile with no malice at all on the color.

I really didn't think I could figure out a person named Shizuko, the color, but she just wanted to stay true to her work.

"(Will I have to take the time) I see. If you don't look ahead, it's dangerous."

The job is to find out what talent Shizuko has for you.

Tens of minutes after walking through the conversation, the two finally arrived at Shizuko's destination, Shizuko Hatake, one of them.

Even when it comes to shimeji fields, it is a solidified area that is native, and not fully artificially cultivated.

Shizuko has named the mushroom a field that is easy to take.

"This is a good place to eat. This is not yet...... this is a poison mushroom. Whoa, this is huge."

Do you have a sharp sense of smell? Shizuko finds one mushroom after another and puts it in a cage.

I quickly put mushrooms in a cup of cage in my hand and carefully in the cage that was carrying them.

The mushrooms that were around him were harvested in houses, and all that remained were small and poisonous mushrooms.

"Next up is Mai Mushroom. Next is the pine mushroom. Shiitake mushrooms are the last thing you need."

Not even giving Colour time to pinch his mouth, Shizuko rebacked his cage and headed to the next picking place.

The color rushing after her, but it was the best I could do just to chase her to Shizuko, who was used to the mountains.

Not very much, but I couldn't afford to question it.

She finally realized that when she was about to climb, she cared about Colour's physical condition and slowed down her walk.

"All right, we're at the Mai Mushroom Hunting Ground -. I found him fast!

I thought I could take a short break because I finally arrived, but Shizuko ran with great momentum to see if she found the mushrooms.

He moistened his throat with a bamboo water bottle that was lowering to his waist after wiping the sweat off his forehead, as he was not energetic enough to run to the boulder or at a distance he would lose sight of.

I was very comfortable with my body lit with just a little cold water.

"I wonder if this is about ten kilometers. Oh, it's over there too! This year is the norm!

Leaving the colors resting on the trees, Shizuko even worked for the collection of dance mushrooms.

They went down the mountain once because the cage was full where they had collected the shims, the dance mushrooms, and the pine mushrooms.

Shizuko thought Shizuko would be fine next time, but because Colour really wanted to see it, they had to go up the mountain again.

And enough to climb the mountain, the two arrive at Shizuko's shiitake mushroom growing site.

"Did you grow up this year?"

Shizuko shrugs at me in a far-sighted pose.

On the other hand, Colour was breathtaking and seeing into the sight in front of him.

Not to say one side, but nevertheless there were enough shiitake mushrooms to be considered massive.

So much so that I can assure you that this will be a fortune.

Yet Shizuko was only happy that Shiitake mushrooms had been successfully cultivated. I don't feel any desire for money.

"(This is…) I have to report this amount to the museum on the boulder"

"Huh? Really? With shiitake mushrooms?

Moment after moment, Cai sighed so tired that he made Shizuko look like him.

The two of them eventually took the shiitake mushrooms home by rootspicking them, but Shizuko tried to cook and eat them quickly.

It is stopped in color with all the effort, and processing is carried out in order to make everything dry shiitake mushrooms except for insect eating.

When shiitake mushrooms are dried in the sun, vitamin B is lost, but vitamin D is increased tenfold instead.

It is definitely better to dry shiitake mushrooms than raw mushrooms because the flavour ingredients also increase and the aroma improves.

"Still, shiitake mushrooms are that expensive?

Shizuko, who does not know the value of shiitake mushrooms, asks the value of shiitake mushrooms in the color of working silently.

She said as she stopped her hand and exhaled small, then watched the shiitake mushrooms lined up in cages to dry.

"I don't know how much either, but rumor has it that with about fifteen pieces (kan) (about 56.25 km) you can buy one castle"

"Then with all this, you can buy a little house. I don't need it because it's hard to clean."

"... If you could hire more people, would you build a large house?

"Huh? You can't use up a house that big. Enough is enough for the house."

The color I tried to find out how greedy Shizuko would be by talking hypothetical stories, but the answer to returning was a much more abnegation than she expected.

Harvesting mountain blessings doesn't end in a day or two.

For days it is necessary to climb the mountains to harvest what is intended, and to bring them home for processing.

Besides, there's something different that I'm going to pick up that day.

If you think you have harvested native tomatoes and sweet persimmons, you have harvested a wide variety of mountain blessings, such as harvesting every iga of falling chestnuts, digging up natural potatoes (screw threads), and picking up the dust falling all over them.

Other fruits other than persimmons were harvested but not sunny, so they were mostly eaten on the spot as snacks under collection.

"Let's just dry the tomatoes."

Shizuko peels the tomatoes in front of a pan that is boiling gutsu.

When she finished peeling, she bracketed the string on the persimmon's axis and placed the persimmon in a boiling pan for about five seconds.

Brace the strings in the dry area that they were prepared to finish, taking care not to overlap persimmons.

There were not so many persimmons, about thirty, but she was also amazingly handy in color.

"That's it. About forty days."

Shizuko grins satisfactorily at the sight of a wide variety of dried foods, including shiitake mushrooms and persimmons.

"Autumn is good because it's fruitful."

"... right. By the way, Shizuko, you seem to have some insight into mushrooms, but where did you learn such knowledge?

To Shizuko, who was checking the dried products, Colour asked while taking care to flow into a natural story only.

To avoid being taken seriously, but unfortunately Shizuko is missing a little, so I didn't really suspect that Colour was thinking about it.

"Hmm? Oh, my relatives are mushroom scholars." Mushrooms are funny, Shizuko! I was so excited to learn this. "

"Really?"

"I used to live in an aging place. Is that why everyone wanted a successor? I was taught something like that. From a young age, I was able to enroll in agricultural high schools under the direct authority of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries."

"Of, Agroforestry? Agriculture...... high school? Enrollment?

Within Shizuko's words, the second half of the words made no sense at all, but I found that she possessed a wide range of knowledge because the village humans taught her to want a successor.

In other words, Shizuko thought of the collection of knowledge that the village possessed, Cai said.

(Such a skilled village...... never heard of it)

"All right, it's over. Time to get cold and go back to your room."

"... right"

I tried to find out about the traits of Shizuko, but the extra mystery deepened. It was a color that dawned on me.