Transition to Another World, Landmines Included

"Oh, hey -!"

I said it blocking my words, Yuki's outrageous words.

But when he heard it, Mr. Simon nodded unexpectedly.

"What. Then don't you have to worry about it? Well, after you have kids, you can't go on adventures for as long as you want, right?

"... No, that's crazy, Mr. Simon"

"Hmm? What is it?

"What, like three married people?"

"Really? If you guys were making about as much money, wouldn't that be normal? Even the craftsmen have multiple daughters-in-law. There's two of us, right?

………

It is the first ear.

... No, I never heard of Simon's family situation in the first place.

But you don't have to be noble to have more than one daughter-in-law... is that a general story?

"Mr. Simon, is it normal to marry more than one person?

"Isn't that the guy who can make money? There aren't many men you can marry."

"Right? After all, a worthy man needs to work hard!

Yuki laughs happily when she hears what Mr. Simon has to say.

Few men can marry - in short, fewer men have enough money to support their families.

Farmers, for example.

The only one who gets farmland is his oldest son, and after his second son it's his downwork, or he's banished from his house.

Regarding craftsmen, that's pretty much the same.

Expelled children can be found in stable jobs in the city if they're lucky, but the majority of them become adventurers, day jobs, or "adventurers” in the real sense of the word like us.

In other words, it is difficult to get a decent job except for the eldest child.

And if you're not in a decent job, marriage is so difficult...

If men and women were to be born in one-on-one proportions, marital competition, is likely to be quite intense.

Compared to men, only a tough society for a woman to live on her own.

I'm not talking about discrimination or anything like that, and a lot of the jobs that are easy to put on are just a lot of manual labor, and it's harder for physically inferior women to make money.

Of course, I have a job that I can do because I'm a woman...... that would be well in a different frame.

"Well, some female adventurers seem to surround more than one young man -"

I see. If you can make money, is there the other way around?

"Yuki's not the type, is she?"

Mr. Simon looks at Yuki as he says so and shakes his head.

And Yuki, too, immediately shook his head kickingly and denied it.

"Yeah, I don't think so."

"I guess. Well, that type can't have kids."

"Really?

"What adventurer, when you have kids, you don't make money, do you? Then it's a broken relationship. It's not like a man makes money."

"Right. You're a hippo."

I don't know about zero income during my pregnancy......

If it is a society in which maternity leave schemes are solid and have social benefits, the opposite may be true for men and women, but is it impossible in this society to work and give birth to all women?

In the first place, giving birth is literally a life-threatening act.

There's no way I can work right after having a child, especially an adventurer.

"I fell to the nursery! 'Before I said anything like that, I don't have a nursery and I don't sell powdered milk, so I need breast milk. Naturally, it may not exist with easy paper diapers.

Now the opposite of men and women would be quite harsh.

When I was thinking about it, Mr. Simon smiled a little sympathetic and slapped me on the back with a pom pom.

"If that's the case, you don't have to say it. Nao, the three of you are in a lot of trouble, aren't you? It's not just about the money. Come on, man!

"Huh..."

"Come talk to me if you're in trouble. I've had a lot of experience!

"- Ah!"

Without knowing what he was talking about for a moment, while I was confused, Mr. Simon walks away to give instructions to the workers.

Yuki smiles and looks up at me for dropping it off.

"Good luck, Nao"

"... Yuki, have you filled the outer moat in plain sight?

Every time I get a chance.

Yuki just shook her head at me for pointing that out.

That's not true, is it?

"Really?

"Yeah. Gatsy, because I'm burying it flashy. Including Uchibori."

"Hey!"

"Ha ha. By the time I realized, Castle Nao was completely naked!

Bam, stick out your hand and Yuki declares that.

Seriously, don't be alarmed.

"Come on, come on, you've had enough rest. Keep up the work!

"No, as far as I'm concerned, I'm also curious about what's an inner moat and what's an outer moat?

"I don't care, I don't care. What I don't know is that it's not working yet. Doesn't matter if it doesn't work, it doesn't make sense."

"That's what it is...?

I feel somewhat deluded, but Yuki had already told the scaffolding and descended into the hole.

I twisted my neck after Yuki and resumed work.

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"I didn't know you'd even be involved with deputies."

The Hulkas, who broke up with the Naos who started the work and returned to the house, were gathered in the living room for a breather to discuss what had happened earlier.

"Right. I mean, Harka, are you glad you left Nao-kun alone? Even Hulka can help a little, right?

Natsuki asks Hulka as he nods, glancing at the naos he can see through the window.

Hulka shakes his head, even as he gets a slightly worse look.

"That's a little bit. But I'm not good at dirt magic, and I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Are you talking about the deputy?

"Yes, it"

"As far as I'm concerned, I imagined I'd be making booze out of my hobby for a little while... it feels like I'm going to build something big."

All the Toyas saw was that Simon was in territory, but even then, Jiangping knew, so it was obvious that it wasn't a little cabin.

"Alcohol brewing, if you fail... you're a little nervous"

"Yes. If you were that deputy, you probably wouldn't say impotent. I think we know the relationship with the Viscount Nenas."

Whatever it is that Hulka and his deputies made a presentation about alcohol and asked him to fund it, there is no relationship between Hulka and his deputies at this time, just that Simon told them about alcohol.

It's not usually possible, for example, that it would be detrimental to them, but the rights to alcohol are by no means small.

Taxes on alcohol and the right to authorize sales.

If we can brew liquor in this town as a business, it will make a pretty big profit, and I can't tell you enough that a blinded deputy won't say anything unscrupulous about the Hulkas.

"Sister Halka, if Master Ilias is in trouble, he said you can count on him!

"Oh, yes! You said you wouldn't mind contacting me at any time."

The Hulkas smile bitterly at the meatiers who say such things with their breasts up.

"I appreciate the offer, but I'd rather not rely on it if I could."

"Right. Whatever happens between you and Elias, when Viscount Nenas gets involved, it's a matter of borrowing."

As things stand, the relationship between the Hulkas and Viscount Nenas is that Viscount Nenas prevents interference from troublesome nobles in return for the Hulkas' commitment to solving the kidnapping case.

Even the Hulkas are not very happy about breaking that relationship.

"Hopefully the liquor will work... no, will it bother you if it works? I don't have any rice."

"Simon said the deputy thinks..."

"The most convenient thing for us is that rice is going to be made around here, but what do you think?

"Because the farmland itself is small. There's no river beside it, so if you're going to build a paddy field, you're going to have to build a pond or pull water from the river."

"But it's possible that Halka, maybe our rice, land rice?

"... well, isn't rice necessarily rice? I don't have to worry about the water... but on the contrary, there will be problems with continuity."

In general, many crops, when cultivated continuously in the same place, suffer from malnourishment due to continuous cropping disorders.

In this regard, rice and rice can be grown in the same place every year, without having to do anything like Norfolk farming, avoiding its continuous failure by running water.

Actually, paddy fields are pretty good farming methods.

Of course, there are shortcomings that are only possible because of the abundance of water.

"This is not how we can import and grow rice.... when you have a good drink, use it as bait, enough to incite rice cultivation"

"It's a bad way to put it, but that's a good idea. You'll be able to eat rice steadily."

That's the only amount of rice the Hulkas have bought that can be eaten on an annual basis, but that's all if you say so. If you eat it up, you'll have to go buy it again, and if you're going to use it to make liquor, that amount will decrease at once.

Even if the deputy decides to make rice, the result will be as early as a few years later.

Either way, it is almost certain that there will be no rice left.

"But... well, we got Koji, and maybe we could try to make a new drink, not just sake?

"No, no, Harka, it's not that easy to make new alcohol, is it?

Seeing Hulka, who said something unexpected, Toya tells him like he's a little shuddered, but Hulka shakes his head.

"That's not true, is it? Alcohol can be made with starch or sugar if you argue. There is alcohol made from something quite unexpected. For example... Toya, do you know what tequila is?

"Oh, it was definitely Mexican liquor, wasn't it?

"Yep. You know what that's made of?

"... hmm? Around there... potatoes or something?

It's probably an image from the fact that it's close to South America, but it's corn that can also be a raw material for tacos when it comes to Mexican produce.

And naturally, tequila ingredients are not potatoes.

"No. It's Lyuzetsuran."