Soup Forest: The Story of the Woman Who Speaks with Animals and the Former Mercenary Vol.2 by Syuu

Author:Syuu [Syuu]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Cross Infinite World
Published: 2024-11-30T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22: Chestnut Cream

AUTUMN marched on, winter drawing nearer. Every year, Olivia would think of how winter was approaching when she would get up at dawn and find her breath misting white in front of her while she was in the kitchen.

While she was halfway down the stairs, she heard Rob pattering over.

Wanted see you! Wanted see you!

It was his morning greeting. Every morning, he bounced around with excitement, as if it was their first time seeing each other in years.

Came. Food came, thought Dale, who was always waiting for food every morning. Olivia thought he would come upstairs to join her and Arthur in their bed when it started to get cold, but he just stayed curled up next to Rob.

Olivia filled a pot with plenty of water and set it on the stove. She fed the horses, Annie and Greta, and the goats, Pete and Pepe, while she waited for the water to boil. She changed out their water, too, then fed Rob and Dale next.

Rob nearly inhaled his breakfast, while Dale ate more slowly, though making chomping noises as he did. Olivia sipped a cup of tea while she watched Rob curl up in his bed once he finished and Dale carefully cleaned his face.

“Good morning, Olivia.”

“Good morning, Lara. You could have a lie in, if you want to. A girl your age could really do with more sleep, don’t you think?”

The two of them tackled preparing breakfast together while they talked. Today’s soup was going to be a salty pork rib, spring onion, and carrot soup. Olivia’s secret ingredient for this was garlic, and she tossed in some barley, too. The soup thickened as the barley boiled until it was soft. It was the kind of soup your body was grateful for after it was forced to huddle against the winter cold.

Arthur came down around the time breakfast was ready. Rob once again shouted, Wanted see you! Wanted see you! while wagging his tail so hard it seemed about to fly off.

Dale just glanced at Arthur from the bed. Mate come. Slow.

That gave Olivia the impression Dale didn’t dislike Arthur.

“I’m off work today,” he said. “I was thinking I’d chop some wood. Couldn’t hurt to have a bit more, right?”

“Right. You can never have too much firewood. Thank you for taking care of it.”

The three of them checked in with each other about their plans for the day while they ate their breakfast of soup. Arthur was going to chop wood. Lara was going to work on grinding dried medicinal herbs into powder in addition to her apothecary studies. Olivia hadn’t decided what she would do yet.

“What’re you thinking of doing?” asked Arthur.

“Hm. I kind of want to make some chestnut cream today,” she replied.

“I’ve never had chestnut cream, but it sounds delicious!” said Lara. “How do you turn those hard, dried chestnuts into a cream?” Her eyes were sparkling. She’d fallen in love with anything that had “chestnut” in the name ever since she had that first dried chestnut.

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