The Apothecary Diaries: Volume 10 [Parts 1 to 9] by Natsu Hyuuga

Author:Natsu Hyuuga
Language: eng
Format: epub

“You can’t call what they do around here farming!” Lahan’s Brother exclaimed from his place on the carpet.

“Please keep it down during meals, okay?” Chue said. She was stuffing bread into her cheeks like a squirrel.

Maomao and the others had gone back to their tent and decided to start by getting some breakfast. There was flat-cooked bread carrying skewers of sheep meat, and baozi. In the fireplace was a stewpot boiling with a soup of wheat and sheep meat. They were allegedly drinking tea, but it wasn’t like any tea Maomao had ever had. The color was lighter than most and it was made with goat’s milk instead of hot water.

Looks like dairy products and animal meat are the staples here. Not a lot of vegetables. There would probably have been even fewer if this wasn’t a farming village.

They all ate together in the large tent. Chue’s congee wasn’t ready in time, so it would be dinner. The peeled potato had been cut thin and was cooking on the hearth.

Basen sat in front of the hearth, so Chue, Maomao, and Lahan’s Brother all got to sit somewhere warm. The others who had come with them, including the soldiers serving as their bodyguards, sat around them in a sort of ring.

The soup was hot but tasted weak; Maomao got some salt from Chue and put a pinch in her bowl. The skewers were far more satisfying than anything you could get from a street stall in the Imperial capital. The bread that served as a tray was tough; you had to break off bits of it and dip it in the soup. Put some warmed-up cheese on top of it, and it was delicious.

As for vegetables, there were a few in the soup and packed into the baozi, but the quantity left something to be desired.

“Why don’t they know how to cultivate the wheat? I’m telling you, that’s the question! Do you realize how much better the harvest would be if they stomped the crop?”

“I’m sure you’re very right. If you’re not going to eat your cheese, can I have it?”

“Hey! I haven’t even answered and you’re already eating it!”

Chue had snatched the cheese from Lahan’s Brother’s plate in a single swift motion.

She doesn’t have to do that. Cheese was one thing there was plenty of. She seemed to be taking from Lahan’s Brother just to get under his skin.

As Maomao and the others ate, they discussed what had happened in the fields earlier that day.

“We’re supposed to be out here for an inspection of the farms. So what did you see, Lahan’s Brother?” asked Basen, who already seemed to regard “Lahan’s Brother” as his name. He might normally have been more punctilious about asking what he was really called—it was almost as if there was some supernatural force at work.

“I’m not... I told you, my name is—”

“You brought those seed potatoes. Presumably you mean to plant them,” Maomao interrupted.

“I told you, Lahan said to plant them if there was anywhere good.

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