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Chapter 137: The Future of the mountain village(Yamamura)

The day after the dinner party.

Leada was very happy.

Last night, she had signed an exclusive contract with the village Chief.

With this, Leada had secured a production base for mayonnaise.

It was also promised that the Marches Trading Company would take care of future shipments of Tomatoes and Tomorro.

Tauro said that the mustard seasoning was just as delicious as mayonnaise, so they can expect more of it in the future.

As for the jagamos, the mountain village and the Marches Trading Company are planning to discuss the possibility of setting up a stall in the city of O’circus, specializing in products from the mountain village.

Fried and steamed jagamos with lots of mayonnaise are easy to prepare and sell well if you have the space.

Tauro also said that the impact of the jagamos was not strong enough, so he’ll tell them about a good dish when it becomes possible to produce explosive tomorros.

The explosive tomorros are one of the varieties of tomorros that look dangerous, but when cooked, they are good for attracting customers, and the product is called “popcorn”.

Anyway, it seems to be profitable for the Marches Trading Company and she wants to report it to the Marches representative as soon as possible, but she has to stay in the mountain village until noon.

This is because Tauro will be teaching the villagers how to cultivate in the morning.

Now that he has made the contract, he can relax until noon.

Tauro was carefully instructing the villagers on how to grow the essential jagamo.

Jagamo is relatively easy to grow and cultivate, even in small spaces, but it’s not a vegetable that can be continuously cultivated.

He advised that once you plant potatoes(Jagamos), you should not grow them in the same place for at least three years, so it is better to prepare four different places and grow them alternately.

The jagamos can be harvested twice a year, require little water and will grow on their own as long as they are fertilized and thinned out.

Even a novice grower in a mountain village should be able to grow it easily.

Tomate grows best in a sunny place, so Tauro recommended growing it on a slope.

It’s also good that it’s at a high altitude so it’s far away from its natural enemy, humidity.

Once it is grown, he recommended making Tomate sauce.

Tomorros, like tomatoes, need to be grown in sunny places and since they are a crop that absorbs a lot of fertilizer, they can absorb excess fertilizer from the field and clean up the soil.

It can be grown in the same field as long as you take care to thin out and add fertilizer.

The villagers immediately began to sow the seeds.

Tauro was relieved to see the villagers working with more vigor than on the day of his visit.

It was agreed that the money Tauro had lent would be repaid gradually after the harvest through the Marches Trading Company.

The mayonnaise could be produced quickly and would be profitable soon, but it wouldn’t be a valuable source of income until the harvest and they would have to spend a lot of money to raise and increase the number of mountain chickens, so he decided to wait.

In fact, Tauro thought it would be better to increase the number of mountain chickens and mass produce cheese and butter, so he decided to invest even more. He took out a leather bag filled with money from his “magic storage” and handed it to the village chief.

“Is this really okay?!”

The village chief was surprised at the weight of the bag.

“It’s an investment, so please use it in a meaningful way along with the money I gave you earlier, while consulting with the Marches Trading Company. Please do your best to rebuild the mountain village.”

Aeris was watching Tauro from the side and wondered where his money was coming from.

The money came in in spurts, probably from the sale of “Refrigerator” and other items.

There seemed to be some other income as well and she’d seen him withdrawing money from the adventurer’s guild, too.

The only business she could think of for the guild is making miso at the “Resting Pavilion”, but she was sure the revenue from that is minimal.

He might have been doing some kind of business in the town where he used to be, but she hadn’t heard that much about it.

“Who are you?”

That’s what she asked when Tauro asked her if she wanted to get ready to leave.

“Eh? When you asked me before, I told you. My mother died when I was little and I ran away from my violent father to the city and became an adventurer at the age of eight.”

“I remember that, but…”

Tauro did not tell Aeris that he was the creator of Reversi.

If he did, it would complicate things.

It would cause trouble for Mauve, the adventurer who lent me his name and it would also involve Leo, the head of the Adventurer’s Guild Saisi Branch, who had mediated between us.

In order to convince Aeris, who seemed unconvinced, he told her a fact.

“Between you and me… there’s a store in my old town that I own.”

It was information that Tauro hadn’t told her yet.

“What? What do you mean?”

When he told her that he was running a restaurant specializing in curry under the management of a guild in the city of Saisi, Aeris was surprised but believed him.

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