Ore no Ongaeshi: High Spec Murazukuri

Spring broke out in the village of Uld.

It will be my second spring in this world.

"It's finally spring, Mr. Yamato"

"Oh. That's a long awaited spring."

"Yes, it's been a hard winter."

The village at the dawn of winter takes a look around with the village chief's granddaughter Risha.

As was the case in the conversation, it was a hard winter this year.

There wasn't that much snow, but it was a tough day to freeze.

During the winter months the villagers gather in a large house with excellent insulation and spend time burning and resisting the fireplace.

"You've lost a lot of stockpiles this winter."

"Yes, stock of dried meat and vegetables was critical"

Riesha, who manages the food bank's inventory in the village, turns a blind eye to the note at hand and reports.

According to that, stocks of food other than cereals were lower than expected.

Meat obtained from livestock and hunting, by the way, and vegetables grown in the field are salted or smoked (kunsai) and preserved before winter arrives.

It's one of the wisdom to keep raw things from rotting in a world without refrigerators.

"The kids are growing up. Let's add a little more volume in the future."

Yes, Mr. Yamato.

This Uld is a village with only old people and children.

Therefore, for children who are growing up, we should instruct them to increase the amount of preserved food from the next time.

They are also fine workers in the village, albeit before adulthood.

We need them to eat it as an investment in the future without food.

"Speaking of crafts, they're getting a lot done."

"Kids remember things well, so the quality is better than last year"

During the winter months, farming and hunting in the woods are not very possible, so the villagers work indoors for indoor jobs.

Make and store leather products, textiles, and porcelain, which are specialties of the people of Urd, during the winter months.

From the old men with skilled moves, the children inherit and learn traditions and moves.

At first, their crafts, which are undressed, have also evolved into fine products by the dawn of one winter.

"I was also contacted that I was ready for the Wood store in Orn"

"It's time to get started, Yamato."

Those crafts will be transported to the trading city of Orn as a commodity when the snow breaks and you can go away.

High quality Uldian crafts are popular among city dwellers.

We met last fall when we went for a deal in a carriage, leaving it to the self-proclaimed Player Rack to prepare the store.

"Speaking of which... there are no buildings that collapsed with snow, and it's a relief this year, Master Yamato"

Are there any damaged houses during the winter… check the status of the fields and waterways again to plan for future work with Riesha.

"For the cold, there's not much snow in Wold."

"Speaking of which, Master Yamato's hometown was talking about quite a snowy zone..."

"Oh. The ground floor part was buried with snow, and there were years when you came in and out of the second floor."

"Are you going down so much!? Incredible......"

The village of Uld is in a mountainous basin, but it was less humid and less snowy.

So far, there has been no damage due to the weight of the snow, just a relief.

In comparison, Japan is humid and snowy.

Especially in the North, where I lived, where there was so much snow that there were doors upstairs without jokes.

The winter in the village of Uld, which is only cold compared to that, was kind to me.

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"This is to Miss Riesha, Lord Yamato. Village patrol?

As I patrol the village, an old woman who was working in a livestock hut calls out.

He's a villager who's been in charge of cattle care since last year.

Livestock in the village was ongoing, mainly with the Han children, who were used to livestock in grazing from an early age.

"How's the livestock?"

"Heh. It was growing so well."

With the old lady's guidance, we enter the cabin.

The adorable chirping of a newborn child pig echoes indoors.

"Eighty or more in all? You got more this winter."

"Hey, thanks to the sage who taught me how to feed."

The old woman comes to explain the current situation while taking care of the pig with a familiar hand.

Thanks to the new livestock revolution I taught him, he said he was many times more efficient at raising than usual.

(Livestock revolution... can't help but think so)

Many of the village pigs were slaughtered before winter.

This was for smoking (kunsei) and salting and preserving for winter because there was a shortage of feed during winter and livestock could not survive.

But then the number of livestock will not increase forever, and it will become a precarious meat supply cycle.

So I started last year recommending the cultivation of winter root vegetables that I found in the woods to feed my livestock during the winter.

As a result, the village livestock was increasing in number.

"I've been working with Han children lately, making dairy products. Try it next time."

"Oh, I'm enjoying it. If I catch another wild beast in the woods, I'll bring him in."

"Heh. I hope so, sage which"

After the livestock hut as the old lady dropped me off, I head next.

"Master Yamato taught me how to grow new livestock is really amazing...... I've never seen so many more pigs in spring"

The girl Risha is still impressed by the sight earlier.

Growing up as the village chief's granddaughter, she had never seen so many pigs alive before in the spring.

"If things go well like this, we can even sell them in the city of Orn"

"I didn't know you were thinking that far... That's right, Mr. Yamato"

Liesha is impressed, but the pig's excellent breeding power is a famous story.

The length of pregnancy is shorter than that of a person about four months in order to give birth to a pregnancy, and if successful, one female pig increases to about thirty children a year.

In addition, pigs of birth were able to become pregnant in a few years, so that the breeding power of the pigs was excellent among the livestock.

It's perfect as a livestock for meat.

"So do you want to go look at the newly completed building next? Mr. Riesha."

"Yes!"

While making regular patrols in early spring, he headed to a new facility in the village that I designed.