PinkPanther
Stories
20
Chapters
359
Words
1.3 M
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Reading
4 d, 14 h
Having finished harvesting all her crops except for the soybeans, which would be ready for harvest in winter, Shizuko began loading the offerings of rice bales, vegetables, honey and other produce onto the cargo wagons. Once everything had been loaded, she signaled the soldiers Nobunaga had assigned to guard the wagons to depart. Since the amount of goods being transported was on an entirely different scale compared to the previous year, she had requested an escort from Nobunaga's soldiers to ensure…- 75.3 K • Ongoing
- While the rice harvest was underway, Shizuko set out separately to collect something else. Her destination was the Japanese honeybee hive she had installed near a place she had been too frightened to approach for some time. It was both the place where she had reunited with Wittmann and the site where she had been attacked by bandits. When she reported the incident involving those bandits to Nobunaga, he became thoroughly enraged and subsequently dispatched soldiers to eradicate the bandits…
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- Around the time Oda Nobunaga had established an encirclement around Mino and was waging a campaign against Saito Tatsuoki for control of Mino Province. Shizuko's village, where not even the slightest hint of war could be felt, had turned out in full force to harvest the rice. The sight of richly ripened rice plants crowding the fields was nothing short of a bumper harvest. However, harvesting rice was one of the most grueling tasks involved in rice cultivation. The conventional method involved…
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- “Hmm, I installed five of them, but only three have active colonies.” Shizuko muttered as she inspected the beehive. The inside was completely empty, with no sign that a queen bee had established a colony there. Of the five hives she had installed, four had initially attracted colonies. However, partway through, one of the queen bees had apparently taken a dislike to her hive, abandoned the partially constructed nest, and flown off somewhere. Japanese honeybees were sensitive creatures,…
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- Early April, 1566 Autumn passed, winter arrived and another year began. As the seasons turned and early April came around, nearly a full year had passed since Shizuko arrived in this era. There was still no prospect of returning to her original time. To begin with, she herself had no understanding of how or by what means she had travelled back in time. Although she had brought several pieces of modern technology with her, she had hardly made use of them thus far. They were certainly convenient…
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- Mid-March, 1565 Just how happy would I be if I could meet a historical figure in person? But I wasn’t childish enough not to understand that such a dream could never come true. Still, I couldn’t say that I had never wondered,『What if?』 Whenever I did, I would satisfy myself by filling a notebook with all sorts of things. Apparently, from an ordinary person’s perspective, it would fall into the category of a『delusion notebook.』 But starting today, I won’t need that notebook…
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- Having completed the main harvest, Shizuko and the others would now have to live on sweet potatoes as their staple food. That said, this would only last until the following year's harvest. Continuing such a diet for too long would upset their nutritional balance in other ways. Sweet potatoes were ultimately intended as emergency provisions and supplementary food. Rice was what should serve as their regular staple. ‘With two hectares, I should be able to harvest around twelve tons. That would be…
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- In late August, Shizuko and the others harvested all their crops except for the sweet corn and sweet potatoes. There was a reason why they had left the sweet corn standing even after its harvesting season had passed. By leaving the corn unharvested until the plants withered, the kernels would mature and could be collected as seeds. In other words, Shizuko intended to produce seeds for the following year. ‘Thank goodness they aren't F1 hybrids.’ There were two types of corn seeds. The…
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- Early August—the time of year when summer was truly in full swing. With the exception of sweet potatoes and sugarcane, the tomatoes, sweet corn and pumpkins had entered their harvest season. Thanks to the villagers' hard work, the crops had grown into fairly large vegetables. However, the villagers themselves found them somewhat unsettling, as they were foods they had never laid eyes on before. “Hmm, the tomatoes are looking pretty good. I made sure to pollinate them and pinched off the side…
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- With the rainy season over and early summer upon them, the heat clung unpleasantly to the skin. Even under such conditions, Shizuko's workload showed no signs of decreasing. On the contrary, it continued to rise at an astonishing rate. “So hot…” Shizuko muttered as she replenished her fluids from a bamboo water flask. She felt like forgetting everything and taking a refreshing dip in the water. If it weren't for the people around her, she undoubtedly would have done so. She figured…
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