"Ah, bei. The general at the grocery store said to come."

A saliva who was chatting with Ben and the others said that.

"My aunt? What?"

"I don't know ~ I"

Yeah. I asked Suribari. I was an idiot.

Even the grocery store, huh?

Complete, but our self-sufficiency rate is quite high. Food is completely self-sufficient, as are tools. Well, I really have to buy clothes and stuff, but if I order from the merchant that comes on the first of the month, I'll be fine, and if I ask for anything else I want, he'll pick it up.

That's not why there's no connection at all with the aunts at the grocery store. The management of the outdoor shop is the job of the grocery store, and there is a role for the money exchange, so we always meet once a day.

Sure, I think I saw him when he came down before. Well, it was enough to say hello.

I went to the grocery store wondering what it was.

Because it's next door, it won't take five seconds.

"Hello ~"

Since it is a grocery store in a rural village, the store itself is only about ten tatami tatami, and the number of products is not abundant, but it has more or less everything you need to live in the village.

... The grocery store also asked for the grocery store, so you can mostly get everything you have in the grocery store...

So I say hello to my aunt who stands at the counter because there is nothing very interesting about the grocery store.

"Sorry, call me."

"I don't mind. I don't need a rush."

I smiled at the plump grocery store aunt who said she was a country aunt.

Not that I have so much company, but in a small village. Little things can depend on living in the village if we don't have communication.

"What can I do for you?

Communication is important, but my communication skills are not high enough to accompany my aunt's chatter. I'm a kind of mental assault...

"Is there any extra meat with you?

"Meat? Well, there is, but what's the matter, how dare you ask for meat?

Grocery stores are only grocery stores. It is not a grocery store. Well, the adventurers will be coming, so they'll be selling preserved food, but they're not selling anything that goes up to the village table, and they're not handling it. That's not even to say that it's a part of the city (open shop), but it's a distribution in the village, so it's sufficient for the city (open shop). The rest is trading between individuals (bartering).

"Did you hear that a merchant ship came into the harbor?

"Oh. Something about being flattened by a sea dragon."

"The merchant ships buy food every day, and the vegetables are fine, but the meat doesn't make it."

Well, I don't know how much you sail, but from the scope of the deal, five to seven days by boat would be exquisite. That would load up some of the stuff, but most of it would be about as hard bread as root vegetables and dried meat soup and stone.

All I can say is that the conservation food technology of this era is so, on the contrary, low. Bin packing technology is barely available. Bins are expensive and small. Besides, it's easy to crack. Anyway, if you want to use it at home, it's just inconvenient to take it on a voyage. Then what can be packed in a barrel is much more loadable.

"How long have you been a merchant ship?

"About three days ago."

"Well, then there's still no problem."

"What's the problem?

An aunt tilting her neck. Well, it's tougher to tell a grocery store like this to find out.

"I don't know what that merchant ship is, but it's about a merchant ship, so I guess two or thirty people are on it. If that's the number of people, the village food situation will hold for a while, but if it's forty or something, the village food will decrease. I don't think we're going to have any trouble eating because we have fishing, but still, the food definitely decreases. The extent to which vegetables are served to the city to such an extent that they cannot be consumed in each house. It's also possible to pick mountain vegetables if you crack people up, but who are you going to let go when you say you're going to sow wheat? Are you a babysitter? You're an adventurer? How many of them can cover the merchant ships? I don't know about the food situation in the house, but I don't have a spare house. I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow."

There's no way in the village you're doing this is there's enough food to cover just the number of people you consume. This is the same thing as the swarm of locusts Inago came.

"... that's a big problem..."

It depends on the mayor's arm.

I don't have any authority, and I don't have any children's territory. Well, if you ask me, I wouldn't think about it. But hey, you're not crazy enough to get involved on purpose. I like this village. I also have an attachment. The people who live there are all the preferred ones. But more importantly, it's the family. If it's someone else and my family, I choose my family without any hesitation.

"- You can't do this!

I grabbed the hem of my skirt and left the store like a bullfight.

Well, the village chief isn't an idiot either, and that's all he's saying. He'll manage to deal with it.