CH 46.2

「What’s wrong?」

Laura-san, who was sitting at the opposite side of me, probably saw me with a complicated expression on my face as I was stuffing my mouth with meat. She approached me with a concerned look.

「I’m just suffering a little because of summer….」

「Is that so? Hey, Mion, tell the chef to prepare some wheat porridge tonight.」

「Understood」

Ehto, wheat porridge….that’s fine but as an ex-Japanese, I’d like to eat something else.

Like cold shabu shabu or somen noodles….

Areh?

I mean, we can just do both, right?

We have pork and somen’s ingredient is wheat, right?

「Wait a minute, I have a suggestion.」

「What is it? Do you have something you want to eat?」

「No, I have a dish I came up with so I’ll let my slave cook it.」

「Your slave…..I think our head chef would be offended, what do you think?」

Laura-san glanced toward the kitchen and said that.

Right.

I never cared about it because meritocracy was so pervasive in the Schenker family. However, nobles usually don’t eat food made by slaves.

Yeah, I should have the chef make the finished recipe.

「Then, I’ll bring the recipe here once we made it.」

「Is that so? Then, how about I help you out?」

「Eh? I’m going to be researching with a slave chef, are you fine with that?」

「Oi oi, do you think I’ll care? After all, I’m the wife of the slave king of Torquiva.」

Saying that, Laura-san gave a playful wink.

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After dinner, we rode to my parent’s house on the eight legged bicorn I made for Laura-san.

We went to my parent’s house to get ingredients for the recipe we were going to make today.

My family is a merchant family that is arguably the best in Torquiva so we have accumulated a wide collection of supplies.

My elder brother is always riding in his very eye-catching magic construct bicorn but for me, it’s embarrassing to be pointed at all over the city.

Well, in my previous life, it will be similar to riding a ferr*ri so let’s just consider it a fame tax.

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「Fish sauce is okay but….what do you use dried seaweed for? Fertilizer? Animal feed?」

「It’s for cooking. It’s for katsuboshi.」

「What’s that? I’ve never heard of it.」

I called up the head butler who was at work and had him show me around the warehouse. However, it’s quite stocked.

By the way, Laura-san is talking with father.

It’s a father in law – daughter in law reunion.

Before I left them, father begged me to cast a strengthening spell on his stomach. I don’t think there’s a need to be nervous with someone you’ve drank sake with.

If you’re that nervous now, you’re going to look like a dried-up fish every time I go to show you our future children.

Dried fish….ah, right, is there any dried shiitake mushroom here?

Shiitake mushrooms are called “dead tree mushrooms” here.

「What about dried dead tree mushrooms?」

「There are only a few. That’s a rare, high quality product.」

Dead tree mushrooms are almost exclusively grown by merchants in the mountainous areas in the east.

They are hard to grow elsewhere and seem almost impossible to cultivate…..

Currently, it seems like they can be found in the mountains far from Torquiva and you can only get them by spending money to hire adventurers to go on an expedition.

No, wait, can’t I cultivate it here too?

「Okay, give me that too. I’ll try cultivating them myself.」

「Eh…..? I don’t think that’s possible….」

「You’ll never know until you try.」

「Heh….then, maa, if you succeed, please bring it to us.」

He’s making fun of me again.

But it can’t be helped.

The cultivation of dead tree mushrooms has been a private research for a lot of people for a long time.

There are rich people who are addicted to it and have gone bankrupt because of it. It can be treated as a kid’s debauchery.

「Send the dead tree mushroom to the mansion.」

「Understood. Should I have the fish sauce, dried mackerel, and dried seaweed to Chicken at the headquarters?」

「No, they’ll be used soon so just load them on the horse.」

「I’ll make the arrangements.」

At times like this, the limousine-like longness of the eight legged horse is very useful.

We can just strap anything to the back of the horse.

The downside is that we’ll be chased by the children in the city.

Laura-san and I were once again the talk of the city until we reached the headquarters of the Magical Schenker Group.