402 Harvest Festival of the Little Families ① - Prepared Under the Feast

The moon changed and the moon of gold, it is about that third day.

On that day, eight days after Genos' martial arts club, which ended with the victory of Sin-Luu, we were finally set to execute the feast of the harvest.

It is a harvest festival by the woods that is held roughly three times a year by all families.

This is the second time I've had this event at Fa's house.

However, it was customary for this event to take place at the hands of the blood families.

Therefore, at the last harvest festival, I only enjoyed a little extravagant dinner, just between me and Ai-Fa.

Neither the hunter nor the other can compare the power of the hunter, nor dance the dance of the proposal. However, at that time, it was just after the end of the rubbing with Cycleus, so we were forced to do your work without family water.

So it is this harvest festival.

This time, on my proposal, it was decided that the harvest festival would be held jointly with the nearest families, not blood.

The reason was simple and clear, and I focused on the fact that if the house were close, the rest period would naturally coincide.

A beast named Gibba has the habit of terraining and calming his hips when he finds a rich area of forest grace. So, when you eat up the forest grace of the area, you move the territory from north to south, and from south to north.

If you are eaten up of the grace of the forest, Gibba will stay away from its proximity for a while. During that period, the hunters were resting and healing their usual harsh work fatigue.

It is the harvest festival that takes place on the first day of the rest period.

At the harvest festival, the men show the forest and blood tribe their power as hunters by comparing their power. The ladies also perform the dance of the proposal, although not as authentic as during the wedding feast. That's how you will taste Giva's meat in a sumptuous dish, deepening your ties as a blood clan, while sharing your joy.

I wanted to share that joy with the people of my family who live nearby.

Five families live in the proximity of Fa's house so much that the rest period overlaps. It is fou, ran, sudra, din, and lid.

All of them were family members who were helping us in the business of the lodging town.

Only Tour-Din and Yun-Sudra are actually going down to the boarding town, but other families have also helped us to secure the dishes to be used in commerce and the giva meat to be used in commerce. In addition, I had all the women of my family cooking by the hand, and I had them ask me to make dried meat and intestinal meat on an hourly basis, as well as to study giva bone soup.

For those help and gestures, the ladies show their faces to Fa's house as they do every day. To me, he was no longer as close and dear a compatriot as the Lou family.

So I wanted to share the joy of the harvest with everyone, in a very natural way, and I was able to get the parents of each family to accept it happily.

At any rate, there was no overlapping period of rest with other clans who were to be equally intimate from about before Easter.

With Gaz, Ratz, and Baim as his parents, seven families fall into it.

Their settlements were scattered closer to the Sung family in the north or to the Luu family in the south, and the rest period had slipped a long way.

The purchase of a luggage car with Totos has also led to a much deeper interaction with them. In addition, when these six families are unable to secure Gibba meat in the rest period, they will be the compass of the plea. Especially since Gaz, Rats, Baym and Dagola lent us manpower even in the lodging town business, so as far as I'm concerned, they were close.

but you can't possibly be allowed to deflect the period of rest on the grounds that you want to share the joy, and if you do that, you'll have difficulty securing giva meat. Gaz and Ratz's parents were also showing a lot of regrets, but how this was all difficult together.

It's a harvest festival based on all those circumstances.

If I may add further, I was supposed to invite a few guests from another family that day.

It was the presence of Din and Lid that inspired it.

The two families were the families of Zaza.

Originally, a harvest festival is a gathering of blood families. but Din and Lid were present in places that took hours on foot from the northern settlement where Zaza lived, so the harvest festival was run separately.

This was the result of the prospect of the Sung family, which was originally trying to expand its forces by connecting with distant clans.

They were originally descended from the Sung family as their parent muscles.

Therefore, at present, the connection between the north and the south is blurred because the Sung family has been cut off. In the recent past, the edge of blood was exchanged once more between Ridd in the south and Gene in the north, but the Din family and others are in the absence of the edge of blood from the northern settlement.

Well, we need to reconnect the edges of the blood from now on, but the problem is the harvest festival.

It was to be argued among the chiefs whether it was okay for families with parental muscles to hold harvest festivals with those who were not blood.

As a result, it was to be forgiven.

but Zaza's house, as a parent muscle, talked about whether we should keep track of its harvest festival.

Because of this, the conversation spread in a way that other chieftaincy muscles would try to send a spectator.

In addition, a voice was raised from Baym's house wanting to play a spectator.

Baym and Fow had the role of gathering together in the same place when the chiefs argued and informing other families of the stories raised there.

This harvest festival is also a departure from the forestside lesson, just as it is from commerce in the city of lodging. Baim's parents insisted that he should clearly identify whether the action was the right thing to do or not, and that was to be accepted.

I don't have to think it's a big story, but I'm the one who said it. I guess you should keep your chest open that there is nothing to back off, even if it is audited by the chieftaincy muscles and the people of Baim.

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That is how I welcomed you, on that day.

On the third day of the month of Kim, in Jomtien, the number of the six families was to flourish in the settlement of Fou.

That number, 35, actually. This is the total number of the six families.

Incidentally, even women are not included in this from infants aged 0 to children under 10. Rimi-Lou, eight years old, also encouraged Kamadu to do his job, but among his younger family, he was a lesson that did not leave the work of handling fire and blades to young children under the age of ten.

Those toddlers are also brought to this occasion because they cannot be left at home. There was already a crowd of men under the age of thirteen who were not hunters, so including that seemed to extend to about thirty young people alone.

Moreover, since few human beings existed that could be called old men, the average age of every family member felt much lower.

"Welcome to Fow's house. Thank you for your day."

The constraint of the women of Fou, the daughter-in-law of the parent Berdu-Fou, told me that with a smile.

Then he looks around at the little toddlers as he smiles and narrows his eyes.

"I'll keep the kids under five at the branch house over there. The men are moving to another house, so let them play at will."

Five ladies take the toddler and move over there. Even after this, the women were supposed to take care of the toddler in five rotations at a time.

And on the spot, there are still a few members left who are not quite there yet.

They are women between the ages of 5 and 10 and men between the ages of 5 and 13.

At his age, he is a member who is not allowed to take part in a feast, while not being comparable to Kamado's work or the power of a hunter.

These members were in the step of engaging in chore work: breaking the necessary firewood at a feast or putting together a simple teardrop or a burning pedestal in the square, pulling out young children under the age of five, the number being about sixteen.

While those youngsters were being briefed on their work, I decided to keep my head down behind Bardou-Fow once again.

"It's a day, I'll take care of you. The square is already getting ready."

"Yeah. Give it a rest when your hands are free. It's hard to finish in one day."

In the settlement of Fou there existed about half the squares of the settlement of Luu. This was the widest of the six families, so it was decided as the venue for the Joint Harvest Festival.

In the centre of the square, a large mountain of firewood is already built. It is a preparation for ritual fire.

Sitting in the front of it is a flat pedestal arranged in a plank with a whole Tai. It is less than a metre high, with fur rugs laid on top and flowers decorated by the way.

"That's the seat for the winning hunter compared to the power."

"Oh, yeah. I mean, it's usually a little tinier, but I was talking about five power comparisons today. He hastily rebuilt it."

Even in terms of force comparison, it was supposed to be possible to proceed in a different step from the Lew family.

A few days ago, the heads of the six families gathered at Fa's house, and a decision had been made.

"You were talking about the fact that in the Lew family, only a comparison of the power of combat was made. In addition to that, Sudra had a tree climb and bow fight."

"Even Fou and Run had gone bow-targeting. All you have to do is fight and pull a stick. How'd it go with Din and Lid?

"Fighting, bar pulling, and then luggage pulling. The house of Fa - well, if the hunter is just alone, there is no comparison of power per se"

"Mm-hmm. But when my father was alive, he was doing combat, bar pulling and tree climbing"

When I listened, apparently that was the difference that arose from the difference in the number of blood clans.

Around fifty hunters exist in the Lou family in conjunction with their families. Moreover, it was the rule that if we won the three, we would pass the qualifying round, so it would be a one-day event only compared to the power of combat.

Therefore, the smaller families were smaller.

Fa and sudra with no branches or family members are extreme examples, but there are only 13 hunters combined in Fou and Run and 15 in Din and Lid. This is going to be over in no time compared to the power of combat.

Therefore, in smaller families, it was customary to do more or less three kinds of force comparisons.

"Maybe the Lew family began to weigh in on, among other things, the power of combat because of their grief that they couldn't defeat the Sung family. I think bow hitting and tree climbing are the same or more important moves for hunters."

"Mm-hmm. But the Lew family didn't do anything other than fight either, and they seemed to do different force comparisons from day to day. Rudd-Lou was competing for the bow arm with Zida, and they were both very good bow users."

"I see. Together, how about comparing non-fighting moves at our harvest festival?

They didn't have any parents to file for dissent, including I-Fa.

So, because of this, we adopted all the power comparisons that were going on in the Six Families.

There are five types of events in total. It was a lineup of martial arts, bar pulling, tree climbing, luggage pulling, bow hitting, etc.

So, this is going to take a lot of time, so let's make it all a one-shot tournament fight, which seems to put the story together.

Moreover, the aftermath has spread to Kamado's turn.

For the young men, it was an important place to show their power to the women, so they made a request not to miss it as much as possible.

Until now, even the cooking of the feast has not taken so much effort. Even when life wasn't relaxing, Kaguku was just about punching ingredients in an iron pot, so he said he had a good look at the men's activity and then worked on preparing for a relaxing dinner.

But because I have just found the happiness of eating delicious dishes, I want to sift my arms around even this one. Thus we were to gather in the settlement of Fou from the height of the sun.

Now in Jomtien, the men are scheduled to gather at about a moment. It was first a calculation that ended the minimal descent in the last six or seventy minutes, then a small pause at noon, at the end of the evening compared to the force, and all the dishes in three parts.

"Now let's get to it. Tul-din, Yun-Sudra, nice to meet you too."

Even if five of the 35 are assigned to caregivers of young children, the rest are thirty. I had divided this into ten squads beforehand and asked Tul-din and Yun-Sudra to head the squad.

Of these, my squad is in charge of the juice dishes.

Moving between the main house of Fou with the nine ladies, there were already about three giant iron pans heated there.

This is a metal lidded iron pan from Fa's house.

The lid, of course, was purchased from Dial.

When the lid was opened, the fragrance was quite intense.

It is the soup of Gibba's bone gala, which had been simmered in the morning.

The soup is cloudy and floats with a tremendous amount of ash juice.

"No matter how much Asta applied her hand, you haven't made a huge difference to this fragrance at the beginning. I'm still a little bad at this scent."

Freshly stated as such was the child-familiar Sallis Run-Fou of Ai-Fa.

"Right," I smile back.

"But the stock after boiling would be great, wouldn't it? Thanks to all of you, we are finally able to complete the procedure so far"

I was asked to work on researching this giva bone soup in parallel since my nearest family began to jointly produce smoked and intestinal meats.

That was the beginning of the day when Michelle was invited as an instructor in smoked meat making, so it would be a study every three months.

We remodeled the empty house in Sudra's settlement and we stuck together a smoked hut. So I thought I'd make the most of it because it would take a lot of time for Michelle to teach me how to make it.

Well, nothing is hard to talk about, it's just having the giva bone stock simmered even while you're smoking smoked meat. There was nothing wrong with doing it at the same time, as it was just a job to keep the fireworks going.

But Fa's house has few families, so it's hard to get manpower out. As a result, they were paying for copper coins and giving the women of the five clans a job on their shoulders.

As a result, I finally managed to construct a satisfactory way to take stock by adjusting the amount of bone gum, water, and time to burn and simmer, and experimenting with various ingredients used to remove odors.

So, this was the stock of giva bones that had been simmering in the Fou family's kamado since morning. After I visited about three hours ago and got ready to go down there, I had them on fire the whole time.

I split with Sarris Run-Fowe and the others to encourage them to pick up the ash first.

From the bone gallows, a lot more ash juice emerges than meat. They should have been stirring the ingredients for the past three hours to keep them from burning, as well as removing the ash, but they can still creep away.

It was the femur and spine, the so-called gen tricks and dorsal gala that were used.

First loosen the bottom boil with boiling water, wash it with water to remove blemishes, etc., then Genkotsu breaks and crushes the round part of the tip. So replace it with new water and simmer again.

"All right, let's put in some odour-repellent ingredients, as the ash juice will calm you down."

The ingredients for the odor removal were Aria, Myrmu, Nennon and Lamam.

To replace my hometown ingredients are onions, garlic, carrots and apples.

I would have liked a spring onion if it was meant to be, but the ingredients that turn into it did not exist in Genos. Recently, only the appearance was very similar to the ingredient Yural, but that was the hardness of a wooden stick, and yet a strange spice with a mint fragrance.

Whatever it is, this is how I took stock of my giva bones at this stage.

Simmer the under-boiled bone gallows for about three hours, then add the odour-repellent ingredients, sprinkle with water, and simmer for just another six hours. Fire is about halfway between high and medium heat.

There is also the idea of other ingredients simmering together, or using bone gallows from another area, but at this stage this seemed to be the best.

This is also an application of techniques learned in my hometown.

More importantly, I liked pork bone ramen as much as I would have liked to have "Sagittarius" on the menu any day.

So even in my hometown, when I found Hima, I was studying how to make pork bone soup. It was then that we could finally use our knowledge in the land.

"I really appreciate you guys. I couldn't have worked this long on my own."

I let everyone on the spot call me that.

Each squad is placed in such a way that the human beings of the five families, with the exception of Fa, are as equal a number as possible. And any clan woman had more or less been involved in the study of giva bone soup.

In my hometown I was able to greatly reduce the time to simmer by using a pressure cooker, but that is not quite the case in the forestside settlements. That's why it was essential to me that they cooperate.

"We were also allowed to bring back the broth that we made, so I just wanted to say thank you, Asta."

"Right. I think a lot of men would have liked this broth."

Everyone answered me orally, that's how.

As much as I am truly grateful.

"What kind of dish was this broth going to finish today?

"Right. I'm going to add some vegetables and meat later to make it into regular soup, but at the same time I was wondering if you'd like me to try some pasta."

"Huh? It's just that slightly odd Poitan thing, right?

"Yes. That was also common use in my hometown. It may be a little hard for you guys to eat, but I thought it might be all right for you to hit the pasta later."

All of them also want to try to rub something close to Chinese noodles, but it would also be nasty to call ginseng noodle-inspired giva bone soup pasta. The pasta should now have been prepared by Thur-din's squad in another house.

"Shall we then also do the necessary cutting of the materials within the present? I'll get the ingredients from the luggage truck, so I need two of you to help me."

The ingredients of the day, by the way, had been prepared by the house of the prior fa.

However, it was the remaining five families who prepared the giva meat, poitan and fruit liquor.

Considering that a total of 84 members of the family attend the feast, plus close to ten guests in a special frame, the amount of giva meat consumed is also frightening. So, no, Giva meat is also a value of 120 red copper coins for 40 kilograms, so even if Fa's house received all the other ingredients, it shouldn't have been that unfair.

"Nevertheless, it's a strange comfort that Asta and other clan women are cooking at the Fowe's"

and Sarris Lang-Fou, who ran for haulier, has said so while holding a vegetable wrap.

Clear, with some slightly feeble points, but the core part is likely to be solid Sarris Run-Fou. I am the mother of one child, but my age is the same generation as mine and Ai-Fa.

"I've been in and out of the Lew house for a long time, so I'm not very uncomfortable, but I guess that's usually the case"

"Yes. But, of course, I'm not feeling bad. It's just a little ticklish in the back of my chest."

"Me too. I don't feel bad about anything because we often worked together in Fa's house and smoked cabins"

And it was the young ladies of the run that came with their mouths.

Sarris Run-Fou is also from Run, so I'm sure she's familiar with her face from an early age. I've been smiling happily since just now.

"But there are 80 of them in all six families. I think it's amazing that there are as many as a hundred people in the Luu clan alone."

"Oh, the Lew family is seven families, if you add their families. I guess it's the only thing that makes a difference at that point.... but since Fa's house has only two family members and Sudra's house has only nine, isn't the other four families quite a number? The total number of people by the forest is 500, and the number of families is 37, which means that the average should be 13 or 4."

"Thirteen or four? There are eighteen Fou houses, except for children under five."

"The house of Run, there are fifteen people. Din and Lid are taking on some family members from Sung, so I don't think that's the right number."

Indeed, Tour-Din and his father were also transferred from Sung to Din.

But I felt something that caught my eye.

"But after all, when I heard the total number of 84 people in the six families, I felt that it was a lot of them, right? And the Lew family, which has about forty people without family members, is still amazing, but it also caused me pain."

"Yeah, I think it's a tremendous thing to have 40 people in one family."

"So, there were more than 20 Rutims in the family, nearly 20 Rays, and it just felt like there were about 110 to 120 Luu blood clans, right? When I was first given Kamadoku's turn at the Lu family banquet, I thought it was strange because the dish for 100 people was a lot less light."

"Ah," Sarris Lang-Fou leans her little neck wonderfully.

"That's another tough number. But what's wrong with that?

"No, I was just wondering if the number of people by the woods, which I heard was more than 500, was actually more, that there were about 120 people of Luu blood, which I heard was more than 100 people. I was wondering if 550 or 560 people would be left alone with more than 500 people by the woods"

On the other hand, I had been led to the same idea by the number of Zaza's family, Din and Lid.

The total number of six families today is 84, minus the number of four, excluding Din and Lid, and the rest are 41. Din and Lid will have about twenty families each.

But in the former Parents' Conference, Graf-Zaza said the total number, including his family, was about seventy. Even if we now welcome more than a dozen human beings from Sung's division as family members, the total is as high as 90.

So, Zaza has six families, just like Luu.

Seven families if you add Zaza. So if you divide 90 by 7, the average family member in one family will be 12 or 3. In addition, the fact that Din and Lid have 20 families at a time brings the average of the remaining five families to about seven.

Maybe some of them have small families, like the Lilyn family.

but it was hard to believe that the northern clan, feared so much by the woods, was that few elite.

Or so I don't even think Graf-Zaza made a false declaration at the Parents' Conference.

Then I wonder if there is a problem with the measurement method.

In the Lew family and smaller families, for example, there are lessons not to include young children under the age of five in the number of families. In the same way, is it a lesson not to account for humans who have not reached a certain age in the northern clan?

It can be inferred that the unacceptable under-15 of marrying a partner, under-13 of not being handled as a hunter or a lady, or under 10 before separating men and women - anyway, the border line of age is higher than that of the Lew family and smaller families.

"Right," Sarris Run-Fowe said with a bit of a decent face as I went through the deceptive history and let my theories unfold.

"We can't assume that the northern clan is that small a clan, so if we even include the youth, I'm sure there will be more families than din or lid. If you do, Zaza's family will be more than a hundred."

"Then the total number of people by the woods might actually be close to 600 instead of 500."

"Yep. Even so, I don't find it particularly strange. Even if the number of people is 500 or 600, it doesn't make a difference in our lives."

I felt that the words of Sarris Lang-Fou represented the temperament of the people by the woods.

It may be too much to say about temperament, but in short, the people by the woods don't really care. To me, it doesn't seem a lot different whether the total number of people is 500 or 600.

(Besides, I guess there is a background to the fact that I was indifferent to other families. Also, it's not clean to make things look bigger than they really are, so maybe it's customary to talk about the number of family members in truncation instead of cutting them up)

I hope the part that was indifferent will be improved from now on, and I think the temperament that does not put up a void is a beauty. but apart from that, shouldn't we keep a proper account of the total number of people?

(Let me talk to Gazran-Rutim and Lyelpham-Sudra about things around here. If it were those two, they'd agree with my question)

With that in mind, I worked on cutting vegetables.

As such, time quickly flowed too far, and the pompous and hunters began to show up in Fou's settlement as well.

So, of course, or whatever, it was our dear parents who showed up first.

"Oh, Ai-Fa. Welcome to Fow's house."

Aiming Sarris Lang-Fou called it that way, Ai-Fa nodded sternly at the entrance between.

"It's the first time I've invited Ai-Fa to Fou's house since I became Fou's family, isn't it? Oh, I'm so glad."

"... um"

"Ai-fa has been delivering me extra giva fur for a long time, but it didn't come in all the way into the house, did it?

"... I don't remember delivering anything like that"

Bad eye-fa of the predecessors insisted that way, turning a puffy face.

But Sarris Lang-Fou remains smiling with pleasure. It's like putting Ai-Fa in front of her would bring her back to childhood.

"Please come inside, Ai-Fa. As Fou's family, I'd like to invite Ay-Fa sometime."

"Even if I step in, how long will I be cramped? Besides, it's almost time for a force comparison."

That's how Ai-Fa gave me a glimpse of myself, too, and then I just gave her back the quickie.

"I'll be waiting in the square. You should get together when the job is over."

"Yeah. Compare forces, good luck"

Dropped off by a smiling Sarris Run-Fou, Ai-Fa walked away without sound.

"I'm an excellent hunter, but how does it compare to today's power? I guess a larger hunter in the body is more advantageous than a force that needs arm strength."

"Right. He said there's no way to carry a load."

When I answered that way, Sarris Lang-Fow inadvertently narrowed her eyes, "Really?"

"But I'm so excited. I can't believe Ai-Fa compares power to Fou and Lan's men as if they were blood... I just imagined it would fill my chest"

Sarris Lang-Fou was alienated from Ai-Fa due to complicated circumstances. If you try that on Sallis Run-Fou, your emotions would be a mess.

"I really appreciate Asta. We owe it to Asta that Fa and Fou were able to reconnect and celebrate the harvest together."

"As for your friendship, I'm not the only one in charge. As I've told you before, it was the parents' Birdu-Foo who decided not to fear the Sung family's eyes and try to reconnect them."

I laughed and made him answer like that.

"It's the same thing about harvest feasts. I'm just saying, it's the heads of the six families, including Eyfa, who made the decision."

"Yes, I would like to express my gratitude to Asta and her parents"

Sarris Run-Fou placed the cooking knife and combined her fingertips in front of her chest.

All the other women are laughing at me.

In the meantime, all the hunters were finally assembled in the square and the power comparison of the harvest festival was finally held as a carriage.