444 The Twenty-fifth Day of the Tea Moon ② - The Luu Family Settlement

After finishing his business in the boarding town, it was a day off to hold a study group at the Lew family.

Resume the study group, and this is the third time this has been held.

Study enthusiastic Tour-Din and Yun-Sudra volunteer to participate again, and the rest of the members head back to Fa's house first. These streams also seem to have settled in the last few days.

When we get into the square, Mim runs into the rain to call Michelle, and we are led to Rayna-Lew during the main house.

So, an unexpected person was waiting.

He knocked at the door and had his eyes pounded like a wolf.

"Oh, that? What the hell is going on, Dalm-Lou?

"... there's me in my house, and why should I be complaining about people in the other house?

"Oh, no, I never meant to complain, because it seemed so unusual"

Darum-Lou keeps teasing me with no expression. It seems that the glare has diminished to the point where you don't have to wear the crown of "starving," but you still have a wolf's eye. It is powerful enough, even faceless.

"The men are off hunting today, too. It wouldn't be funny to pull it all the way through the house, so I pulled it off a little bit."

It was Mother Meer Ray who said so.

Others have Sheila-Lou and Lara-Lou all over their faces. With me and my eyes, Sheila-Lou snubbed up dyeing her cheeks.

Tooru-Din and Yun-Sudra, who came in after me, are bowing their heads in a lot of haste. Darum-Lou and I were supposed to look a little bit alike in the work of escorts, but we haven't been able to build a more tight, old-school, same-sex relationship, so let's just say this is a natural reaction.

"That's a lot more people. I'm going home."

That's how Darum-Lou tries to return the blemishes, and Lara-Lou says, "Uh, are we going back?" He raised his voice.

"There's no Rudd back in the room, and you're not bored to be alone? Why don't you take a look at our work once in a while?

"... there will be someone else, even without Rudd"

"In the hall, Brother Giza and Sati Ray gave up on Kota. Donda, my father is napping, and I wonder if Tito Min is in Ziba's room."

"... that's why I'm just hungry even when I'm looking at Kamado's job etc"

"When you're hungry, you can have a tasting. We make all kinds of dishes and we compare them to each other!

Then they guessed something. "Yes," Raina-Lou also voiced.

"We're not only studying street food, we're also studying dinner cooking. It would be so helpful if my family could taste it."

My two sisters sandwiched me and my servant, Darum-Lou, was also to be broken.

It is uncertain whether he was interested in the tasting products, whether he thought it was numbing to interrupt the regiment of his brother's family, or whether he had other thoughts.

However, when Darum-Lou replied in acknowledgment, Lara-Lou was sneaking on Sheila-Lou's arm to make her face even more red.

"... that's a lot of people today"

There, Michelle and Mime come.

It wasn't long before I greeted him, and now he's going to be picked up from there.

"Around noon, a pile of bricks arrived. Damn, you brought me a nasty job."

"Ah, yes. I finally finished the bricks I was ordering, so I had them carried by the Lew family. Thank you for your patience."

It was a brick to create a stone kiln by the woods.

I asked Michelle for help with that.

Michelle should be accumulating a lot of knowledge about the iron ovens used in Castle Town. Moreover, smoking is also deeply involved, and since losing his job as a cook, he has worked in charcoal-burning huts. I wondered if Michelle could rely in particular on the handling of fire.

The concept has already been conveyed. I want to make something similar to the oven in Castle Town with bricks. We were talking about whether it was possible to do that, or whether there were any other ingredients besides bricks and clay that Michelle would devise first when she had time.

"If I can cook a Poitan on top, it'll be convenient. If you need manpower to work with bricks, we can help, thank you, Michelle."

Meer Ray's mother, too, said that with a smile on her face.

Michelle responds by blurring "Oh".

"Now, what shall we start with? It seems like a lot of talk has come together about vegetables in the rainy season, but how about that?

"Right. I didn't think Leggy or Tripe could even be used for fried food. They were both delicious."

"The fried Tripe was very pleased with the Ziva lady as well. As long as the skin was excluded, it was a softness that even Ziva women could normally eat."

Raina-Lou also smiles and agrees.

At the study group two days ago, he also challenged the crackle to fried food.

"Deep-fried... Actually, you still have some dishes left to try, even fried ones, right? Why don't we work on that for a little while?"

What was on my head was a cream croquette.

Since I don't use Giva meat, I may not like the taste of the men, but if I can serve it with food at the inn, I'm likely to have a reputation, and even Grandma Ziva will be able to eat it without any difficulty.

It was unfortunate that there was no alternative ingredient to crabs, but the cream tongue alone would create enough surprise, and even there, if we could use a pumpkin-like stripe, we would have more fun in the rainy season.

For a little playfulness, it might be interesting to try frying bacon, intestinal meat, etc. "Gibba Katsu" was so delightful, you may have surprisingly had a high budget for the people of the woods.

"In the meantime, you mean that fried food that Rudd loves, right? What kind of dish is this?

"It's an interesting dish, made with caron's milk. It may not be the main course, but I don't think it's a bad side dish"

So we got to work on making a cream croquette first.

Stir the minced aria in milk fat and, when it is soaked, also throw the powder of the fuwano through the fire. When the powderiness is gone, add the caron's milk to make it look familiar. All you have to do is add the caron milk and simmer until it's thick.

Since the refrigerator does not exist, you should try to have a fairly dry finish so that it solidifies even at room temperature. Finally, if the flavor is prepared with salt and pico leaves, now the spring is complete.

"Hmm, but I guess this is all there is to it. Shall we split it it into three pieces, one with striped soup and the other with giva ground beef?"

Because it is only a prototype, it seemed to me that what I came up with should be more and more challenging.

We all split up and rub three different types of spring. During this time, the mellow aroma of boiled caron milk became full.

"Once this has boiled down, the rest will cool down and remove the coarse heat. The temperature is low during the rainy season, so it's much quicker than usual."

In the meantime, we also decided to prepare bacon and intestinal meat.

The bacon is usually thinly sliced and ready for the same clothing as the cutlet.

Once the intestinal meat was boiled and softened back, the clothes decided to be tempura-style.

As I proceeded with the work, I tried to hit Lara-Lew with the suspicion that was caught in my heart.

"Speaking of which, you told me earlier that Rud-Lew wasn't in the room. Where have you been out in this rain?

"Oh, Rudd is for Limi, it's Sautti's house. They're gonna give you another hand job with the Sautti women."

"Oh well. Rimi-Lou is very keen."

After recovering from the disease, I also went to Sauti's house only a few times, but as soon as the rainy season vegetables were put up for sale, the person responsible was forced to ask Limi-Luu to continue. If Limi-Luu only went down to town once every three days, it would have been easy to get to the Sauti family.

My suggestion allowed me to eat fuwano dough not only in buns, but also in wonton-style form. They carve the meat of carons and chimus, wrap it in fuwano dough, and throw it in the stew. Because of Count Turan's teasing, there was more fuwano in his mouth, so finishing all of it in a bun was just getting a little tricky.

"Ma, if it wasn't the rainy season, I wouldn't have been able to vacate a house like this all the time. I guess it's more fun to be out in the rain than to be stuck in a house."

"I see. I didn't feel it because I'm down in town like every day, but maybe I usually am. Isn't it enough for Lara-Lew to go down to town once every three days?

"Um, I guess that's just about it. I enjoy spending time with my family at home."

"Oh, speaking of which, is Sin-Lu your own home?

"... how come Sin-Lu's name comes up there?

"No, though it doesn't mean anything profound"

"... Sin-Lu is out with Rudd and Limi."

Lara-Rue has stuck her face out with a crease between her eyebrows and her nose.

She has a really cute face.

"Oh, yeah. By the way, Sister Vina is out at Lilyn's house, isn't she? I said," I'm going to take care of Kamadoku. "

and the words were to be whispered in a whisper.

Me too, I'll ask what I can only hear in a whisper.

"Speaking of which, Vina-Lou and Dalm-Lou seem to have gotten into a fight over Schmiral. Are you all right over there now?

"It's just that day. The next time we make a scene, Donda's dad's gonna throw us away."

Whispering, Lara-Lew steals a look at her brother.

Darum-Lou was quietly exchanging words with Sheila-Lou and Mother Meer Ray, who were preparing for Lard.

"... Brother Dulm will be twenty years old in the Yellow Moon, too"

"Oh, really? It's the same month as Limi-Lu."

And it's the same month as my new birthday.

"At the Lew's, they say it's too late not to welcome a partner at the age of twenty. That's why my sister Vina was so crushed by everyone.... Well, my sister Vina is already 21."

There were five families in Lew's main house who celebrated their birthday later in the Tea Moon. In the meantime, Vina-Lou and Giza -Lou had already aged over the past four days.

"Looks like Shmiral at Lilyn's house gave Sister Vina another ornament. Sister Vina was so happy to pretend she was in trouble."

"Oh well. But it's going to take a little longer for Vina-Lou to give you the wedding."

"That's right.... but I don't suppose Brother Durm needs to spend any more time? I wish I could give you a wedding with the most suitable person in my mind right now."

I'm not really in a position to say that, so I'll leave a comment.

But well, there was no disagreement at all over the feelings.

"For example, where the hell are you going to live when Darum-Lou takes your daughter-in-law from Luu's branch? Normally, you leave the house except for your eldest brother, right?

"Yeah. You want to build a new house, or you want to get your son-in-law into your partner's house... but Kota's still tiny"

"Yeah? When Kota-Lu is tiny, is there a problem?

"I don't really want to talk about it, but if Donda's father and Brother Ziza were summoned to their souls before Kota was the age of the hunter, they'd be missing a heir to the main house, wouldn't they? At that time, if Brother Dulm had a son-in-law in the branch, Rudd would be the head of the main house."

I see. It's quite a tricky story. If Darum-Lou had a son-in-law with Sheila-Lou, he would be treated as a "family member of a branch" instead of a "second brother in the main house". In doing so, I guess we will only be able to stand Sin-Luu as a parent.

"But if Brother Durm lives in a new house as the second brother of the main house, Brother Durm will succeed the head of the family when it comes to need. If my brother Dulm and Rudd were both son-in-law in the other house... er, I wonder if my sister Vina would inherit"

"Right. With a family as big as the Lew family, it's a lot of trouble. Not to mention the fact that it's a forest chiefdom now."

But it was also logical that Lara-Lew prefaced "I don't really want to talk about it". They are all told under the assumption that if Donda-Lou and Giza -Lou return their souls in the last decade or so.

"But, well, there's nothing to worry about. Until Kota-Lou grows up, Donda-Lou and Ziza-Lou will be fine."

"I think so, too.... Donda, my dad's 43 in a few days."

"Whether you're sixty or seventy, Donda-Lou is much better"

Lara-Lew looked at me like a jerk and then narrowed her eyes gently, feeling a little unusual.

"I thought you were saying something about potent weather, but Asta thinks you wish it were.... I'm glad to hear that."

"It's natural to think so, isn't it? I want everyone who matters to live longer."

We got stuck because we didn't even think about it.

I'll put my feelings back on the job in front of me and follow the cream croquette tongue with a wooden skewer. I loosened up the contents a little bit, but the hot air never got up from there.

"Sounds like it's about time. This guy seems a little hard to handle, so I'll try to finish some with my example."

It is only a spring cooled at room temperature. I shrugged it with a large wooden spoon, shaped it a little with my fingertips, and then got to work on putting on my clothes.

This is also a guideline with cutlets and croquettes. First cover the regular fuwano flour, let it crease into the melted eggs, then cover the dried roasted fuwano sharpener. The shape is a solid mound.

"Here's the thing. Let's finish the ground beef and the stripes one at a time."

Ground beef is only served with crab of crab cream croquette on which guideline. Tripe is about 20% of the original tongue. Still, the colour is firmly stained with orange.

Surprisingly, the stripes were more sticky and difficult to mold.

So I ask everyone to practice with plain and ground beef. Among them, four of them, Raina-Lou, Sheila-Lou, Tour-din and Mime, who were handy, were also challenged by Tripe.

"Surely this is hard to make. I'm a little dressed up."

"You're good at Tour-Din. … for once, this kind of work might be better done by Limi"

"Uh, I can't do it at all! Sorry, I messed up..."

Mim crushed Tane with the first eye, and ended up with the result that Raina-Lou and Sheila-Lou were too far apart, and Tour-Din was as successful as I was.

"Mim has something called bad work, too. I'm sorry, but I'm a little relieved."

"I don't like it, you guys are amazing! How can it be properly shaped that way?

"Maybe it's because you were familiar with it in the past, etc. The first time I made it, I couldn't cry."

Will that mean that Tool-din, who is not involved in the making of croquettes, is skillful because his fingertips are purely clever?

Tour-Din is shrugging his neck to escape everyone's gaze.

"Oh well. Tool-din has also been working on making confectionery for a long time, so you're familiar with sprinkling fuwano dough. I originally thought you were good, but maybe that's the kind of experience you're living through."

"Oh, is that so... If that means I'm getting the job so far, I'm happy too..."

"I'm sure you are. Tour-Din has worked so hard to get to work."

Either way, the cream croquette is ready.

And then there's bacon and intestinal meat. Nobody struggles with this one, letting them wrap their clothes one after the other.

"That's a lot of work. … you mean this much hassle?"

And, Darum-Lou crumbled with a bump.

Sheila-Lou, who was nearest, responds with a smile, "Right," he said.

"But I think it's still easy to prepare underneath because all you have to do is cut meat over there. It feels the same as this one."

"But that food was delicious. Especially the one with Sheila-Lou."

"Huh?" Sheila-Lou rounds her eyes.

Then, just now, the surface stained red.

"Well, when is that a story? I think it's a long time ago..."

"I don't remember when, but that delicacy is not something to be forgotten"

In contrast to Sheila-Lou, Dalm-Lou was an ordinary mind itself. I mean, I guess there's also no awareness that you're uttering anything special. Without even trying to look at Sheila-Lou, he's just looking around like he was impressed with the lined table of ingredients.

But was it fortunate? Sheila-Lou had always turned bright red, and still couldn't even hide her face because her hands were dirty with fuwano powder or something, she just twisted herself diligently.

"... in this case, should I praise Brother Dalm? Should I scold you?

and Lara-Luu whispers around in his sigh.

I answered with all my heart, "I guess I should just relax."

In the meantime, it is a frying operation.

This was decided to ask inexperienced mimes and Yun-Sudra to take the initiative.

Tour-Din, who has had help with 'Fried and Grilled Giva' in the stalls, could still show off his hands here. Seeing that, Mother Meer Ray and others were so impressed.

"You're so small, you look so handy that you're no different from Raina or Sheila-Lou.... How old were you, Tool-din?

"Wow, I recently turned eleven"

"Eleven years old. It's really a big deal. We're still ahead of us, but I'm sure you'll be a good daughter-in-law, Tour-Din."

Thank you. It seemed like a day of attention to Thur-din.

Well, she's just been trying to keep up with it. Michelle, who has been quiet since just now, also felt like she had a very long time to turn that eye towards Tour-Din.

In that, the fried food is finished one after the other.

Three cream croquettes with bacon cutlets and intestinal tempura. Whenever the heated lard gave a puffy and sound, the aromatic aroma grew darker, stimulating my appetite even though I didn't like it.

"Right? You got it staying, didn't you?

Lara-Luu smiles and looks back at her brother.

"To not try it, I don't even know if I get it," Dalm-Lu had returned to Cool.

"Then try it all! Because it must be delicious!... er, which one was made by Sheila-Lou?

"Yay, it's just a taste, so it doesn't matter any of it...?

"It's okay! Oh, this is it! It's a small number, so it's half the time with me."

Lara-Lew uses two wooden keys to cleverly take up the finished product, which has been cut off oil on the iron net. Transferred to a wooden dish, it was only a cream croquette with ground beef.

"Oh, that's probably a lot in there, so if you try to cut it on a plate, it might break its shape."

Watching Lara-Lew try to get his hands on the cooking knife, I let him advise me that way.

"Oh, what the hell? Well, brother Dulm will be there first."

Even men and women of your age are allowed to imitate that if they are family members. Darum-Lou received the wooden dish, with no expression.

"Please be careful not to burn me. I think it would be more dangerous to twist a little bit."

Darum-Lou scowled at me in a loud way, then carefully grabbed the cream croquette.

Actually, the question is, what good is it? Asking Darum-Lou for the first taste was also somewhat disturbing.

But such anxiety ended in concern.

Darum-Lou, who was silently chewing, had thrown the rest of the cream croquette into his mouth.

"Ah! I told you half the time!

"We still have numbers, so don't make a scene. How was your taste, Dalm?

"... I feel delicious when I do it because I'm hungry"

While stating so, Darum-Lou looked back at Sheila-Lou.

"But I don't think it's a very hunter's food because it's messed up when I do it, and I'm only sorry about the giva meat in it... is there anything that could make something like that taste better than that stupid dish?

"Ah, fried food is wonderful and delicious when it's ready. So extra, didn't it seem delicious?

"I see. Is that what happens?"

Darum-Lou put his arms together and somehow began to think about it.

In the meantime, we'll have a tasting too.

First of all, the cream croquette on the plain was a fine finish as far as I'm concerned.

Sheila-Lou is right, it feels exceptionally delicious because it's freshly fried. The fried clothes in the lard are crusty, and when I break through them, the hot contents spread thickly. The intense flavor of caron milk was wonderful and very mellow sweet.

"Sounds kind of like this is a treat. Thinking like that, I love it!

Yun-Sudra, who was eating the same thing, said so.

Plus Mother Meer Ray comes along to give her consent.

"Sure. Like confectionery, and then, did I say side dishes? Anyway, as a dish that doesn't use Giva's meat, it tastes perfect."

Next to it, Rayna-Lew was inclined to his little neck.

"I feel the same way. It might stick better without meat than with this ground beef.... but maybe that's what I think because it's a forest folk"

"Yes, if you're a person in town, can you accept both without discomfort"

Sheila-Lou said so before offering Dalm-Lou a parchment and a wooden dish.

"Good, check the taste of Darum-Lou, too, if you like. This is a normal creep, and this one uses a stripe."

"Oh."

With that sight sideways, I also checked the other two flavors.

Ground beef may indeed be missing somewhere. Do you feel the difference with crab cream croquettes in my case? There is nothing out of harmony with the cream tongue, but this might have been preferable to a croquette of ground meat and chacci.

Although not purchased at the Lou family, crustacean dried foods similar to amah shrimp exist in the ingredients of Castle Town. With that, is it also possible to reproduce the flavor close to the crab cream croquette?

But also, it is a valuable ingredient that can be delivered from the King's Capital. The price will probably go up, so the people at the woodland must not be thinking about buying it for side dishes. Besides, this cream croquette was delicious enough without having to ask for seafood flavors that much.

And it is a cream croquette with a stripe.

Again, we couldn't beat the plain.

After all, Tripe seems to go well with caron milk. I can feel such harmony that it brings out your sweetness and complements it. As a side dish, it would be more than enough.

When I thought of it that way, Darum-Lou groaned, "Ugh."

"This is both... exceptionally delicious"

"Are those still in your mouth better than those made with ground beef?

"Mm-hmm. When they use giva meat halfway through, it's kind of unsettling. This way, you can find it delicious as a different dish from Giva's."

"Brother Dulm also likes such sweet chatch cakes and stuff!... By the way, the one Sheila-Lou just ate."

"Right. It's really your turn."

Sheila-Lou seemed very happy while still being no more.

After a satisfactory look at you, Mother Mia Ray looks back at Michelle.

"Have you had Michelles, too? What the hell would it feel like to be a person in town?

"It was delicious. This kind of craftsmanship will please even Castle Town."

"Craftsmanship? Oh, is the contents melting in place? Sure didn't surprise this guy."

"There's nothing I can do if I can't taste it even if it's elaborate, but this guy tastes great too. Even in Castle Town, where fried food is supposedly out of fashion, this guy will have such a reputation."

It was also a fresh perspective for me. Michelle calls it "craftsmanship" when a solid coat is packed with semi-liquid utensils. Even the usual dishes for me may be taken as bizarre and incredible dishes by people I don't know.

Moreover, when I make it to the people of the woods, my cooking was a wonder from the beginning, so I am not so surprised by the appearance of cream croquettes. It was also kind of a delightful action.

"It's really delicious! I've also been dying to work on fried food dishes more and more!... but your father won't forgive you."

And, mime looks up at his father's complexion.

Michelle kicked it off with a "hunch".

"If you think this is going to work, you can do it yourself. If it's Asta, it'll be as handy as you want."

"No more! You can just say no if you can't! You're so mean!

Mim turns into a shiny face and pulls his father's clothes as he tries to wear them.

It's a cute, age-appropriate trick that I can hardly show without Michelle by my side.

After that, it was a tempura tasting of bacon cutlets and intestinal meat.

There might be a little more room for research on what this one is called. Bacon cutlets and the like feel like they're going to make great food in just one step. I just wanted another twist on whether to add other understatement to the bacon or season it.

The tempura of the intestinal meat is such that it is neither acceptable nor impossible.

While the deliciousness of the intestinal meat is not compromised, there will be a more delicious way of eating as many other things as possible. Well, in the midst of all kinds of tempura, even with this guy around, I wonder if he'll ever buy a disapproval.

So, for me, the great success was plain and striped cream croquettes, the next thing I knew was bacon cutlets, and the out-of-selection suspension was intestinal meat tempura in ground cream croquettes.

When I gave everyone else my opinion, I was able to get more or less my consent. Which is more delicious, plain or tripe, so my opinion broke.

"In the first half of the game, is this the place? Then in the second half, even the vegetables in the rainy season -"

When I tried to say that, the door slammed rampantly between my legs.

Darum-Lou reacts faster than anyone else, and I can tell Raina-Lou, who was closest to the doorboard, not to move.

"I'm leaving. You guys stay back."

Rayna-Lew nodded and came down to me.

Slipping through its flank, Darum-Lou stands in front of the doorboard.

"... who is it?

"It's Sin-Lu. I'm here to call Meer Ray-Lew and Darm-Lew."

The tension is relieved at the top.

Lara-Luu, however, rushed by Darm-Luu with one worried expression.

In the meantime, Darum-Lou pulls open the doorboard and exposes us to the appearance of Sin-Lu wrapped in rain gear.

"What's the matter, Sin-Lu? Something happened at Sautti's house?

"There is no danger to Limi-Luu and Lud-Luu. But the guards of the west and the people of the north were attacked by a hungry Gibba."

Another different tension runs indoors.

Sin-Lu was a calm face as usual, but he was only a little out of breath.

"The wounded are gathered in the settlement of Sauti. Safe guards headed to town for help, but they're short on manpower and medication anyway. At Donda-Lou's discretion, it was also decided to lend humans and medicines from the Lou family. I want you to help me, too, Darum-Lou."

"Okay.... So what happened to that hungry giva?

"That one, they've managed. Anyway, there were over a hundred people there."

Dalm-Lou nodded, looking back at his mother.

Faster than that mouth opens, Mother Meer Ray nods "Oh".

"It's medicine. Gather it from the branch and it will be quite a lot. Asta, I'm sorry, but I'm going to make it this far."

"Ma, wait! Could you take me to the settlement in Sauti, too?

Darum-Lou flies a candle of glance.

"What will you be when you go out? It's not your turn."

"I just want to see how it goes, can't you? If there's anything I can do to help, I'll help!

"... it's my father Donda, not me, who decides that"

That's how the study group at the Lou family was to be cut off in unexpected ways.

It was the presence of Eleo-Cher, Chiffon-Cher's brother, that was holding my heart.

(Is Eleo-Cher safe...? Damn! I should have been very careful with Giva, how could you do this...)

I had to wrap the rain gear around the wall and jump out into the foggy rain.