Chapter 17-18

*Chapter 17*

The real winter came.

The snow has not piled up yet but the considerably cold wind is blowing.

Zabuton shut itself on the tree and rarely shows up. The kuros stayed in their dog house and just waited near the fire the I lit for them.

We’re prepared so there is no particular problem.

But if I need to say something, going to the toilet is troublesome.

Because the toilet is in a different place from my residence, I have to leave several times a day.

It is pretty cold outside.

I shut myself to my residence for thirty days and snow started to pile up.

Though I’m still fine now, if the snow accumulates more, I need to remove it.

After 10 more days.

Even if it snows hard, it will only pile up for about 1 to 2 centimeters.

After that, it melts quickly then disappears.

I was relieved a little.

For the time being, I’ll try making stone mill. I am unsure if I can actually create it.

I should not panic. Let’s do things little by little.

30 more days.

The chilly wind has stopped blowing and I think the weather is already becoming spring-like.

Two days later.

I was surprised by the blizzard.

Snow has piled considerably too.

The spring has yet to come.

Ten days later.

My body was able to sense the rise in temperature.

Although there is still undissolved snow in the shade, I think spring is close.

Five days later.

Yeah, it got warmer and warmer, and the kuros came out to go to the forest.

Unfortunately, they were not able to catch any prey so it can be said that spring has yet to come.

Three days later.

Zabuton, who didn’t show up, showed up for the first time in a long time.

It has been so long so I tried to approach it but I was surprised.

There were a number of fist-size spiders surrounding Zabuton.

…Eh, to, are they her children?

She was female?

Then, where is the male?

I don’t really get it but the spiderlings love potatoes like Zabuton.

The number of my cohabitants increased.

….yup.

Spring has come.

*Chapter 18*

The horn of Kuroichi, Kuroni, and Kurosan suddenly fell off.

I was surprised to see the place where the horn has fallen from.

However, it will probably grow again like what happened to Kuro and Yuki.

Kuro and Yuki’s horn were also like that last year.

But now, they have horns again.

I collected the horns of Kuroichi and the others and probably display them in the doghouse as commemoration.

Their horns look like knives and are quite beautiful.

I wonder if it will happen again in the future.

Anyway, let’s resume my activity.

First of all is the field.

During the winter, the crops are considerably consumed.

During the winter, I thought of various things.

There is no seasoning so the crops don’t taste that good.

Garlic, onion, leek.

I don’t plan on giving the kuro’s those. I just want to enrich my meal.

Also, tea.

I should have thought about it earlier.

I planted two fields each for tomatoes and potatoes.

Since the fruit trees are already occupying two fields, there are only two vacant fields.

I was troubled at first but I decided to plant cabbage and spinach.

Greens are important too.

After taking care of the fields, I check the log fence and the moat enclosing the fields next.

I was worried that something will happen to them during winter but it seems that there is no abnormality on the log fence.

In the moat, there is a fanged rabbit but it seems dead.

Did it plan to attack us?

Thinking about hygiene, I guess it’s impossible to eat it.

In the end, I decided to make it a fertilizer.

After that, I check the waterway and the reservoir.

The waterway aside, I was surprised to see that there is some water in the reservoir.

Thinking about it, is it because of the melted snow?

I hammered the bottom of the reservoir with the hammer form of the all-purpose farming tool. It must be the reason why the water was not absorbed.

Will it go bad?

I want to drain the water but the drainage is much higher than the current water level.

I can’t do anything about it so I just left.

This probably won’t be a problem.

I decided to resume making the waterway to take water from the waterfall that was interrupted for a long time.

Though working at it after a long time feels good, there’s still a long way to go.

The amount of soil I need to pile up increases as I approach the waterfall.

I’m a bit worried about the angle since if there will be a problem, it will be hard to correct it.

Before I noticed it, it felt like I’m building something similar to the great wall of China.

The waterway that connects the waterfall to my residence.

It really looks like a wall.

Won’t this break if a wild animal tried crossing it?

This will definitely inconvenient anyone who’ll try to go to the other side of the wall.

…..

Let’s just bore a hole once it’s completed.

Yeah, there is no need to rush things.

I thought so but still bore several holes for traffic.

A real man loves holes.

TN: A man of culture.

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