Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai

Chapter 214: Let's Prepare The Kitchen Garden

Elna-kaasan is holding a girl’s meeting in the first floor’s lounge.

Looking at the flow of things now, the housewives will definitely have lunch together, so I headed for the dining room and took my lunch earlier than usual.

And when I went up to the second floor to escape from the first floor, I met Elna-kaasan who is heading to the dining room.

She’s probably going to tell Sara and Bartolo to prepare the meals.

That was dangerous, really dangerous. If I were a little late just now, I will be stuck with having lunch together with the housewives.

Just as I was climbing the stairs while thinking about that, Elna-kaasan - who is on the first floor - called out to me to stop.

「Do you have a minute, Al? Can you help me with something?」

「……what is it?」

「Please come down here for now」

「……I say, what do you need help with?」

I don’t know what she need help with after all. I can’t just nonchalantly go down to the first floor.

The other party is Elna-kaasan after all. I can’t be careless.

As I look at her with vigilance, Elna-kaasan sweetly smiles and says,

「You will know about it once you get down here」

「No, you can tell me while I’m here, right!」

「You are going to run away if I tell you now, aren’t you?」

「Are you going to ask me to do troublesome and difficult things?」

If she’s going to ask me to do such troublesome things, then I’m going to immediately retreat to the second floor.

「Don’t worry, come on go down here quickly」

「Don’t wanna」

When I complain about it and refuse her to help in doing troublesome things, Elna-kaasan sigh and say,

「You don’t want me to fix the doll that was cut by Eleonora the other day?」

「Kuhh! Taking my Knight as a hostage is cowardly!」

That’s right, Knight was decapitated by Eleonora-neesan and became a Dullahan.

The damage was terrible, and I can only do some simple sewing, so I was unable to fix the damage.

I heard that Elna-kaasan can cleanly repair it so I place Knight under Elna-kaasan’s custody.

And so, I obediently descend to the first floor after she took Knight hostage.

「Come here for a second」

And then Elna-kaasan beckons me toward the entry hall.

Huh? I thought she would surely ask me to go have a meal together with Myula-san and Dorothea-san, or told me to make sweets with Bartolo, that sort of troublesome things……what is she going to make me do outside?

Even though I’m having my doubts about it, I change into my outer shoes and go out to the courtyard.

Then as I trot behind and followed Elna-kaasan, she stopped at a certain place in the courtyard.

Maybe the place was already measured before, but there are sticks stuck to the ground as if they were surrounding the place.

When I ask her what are we going to do here, Elna-kaasan opened her mouth and tell me.

「I’m thinking of making a small field here. So, Al. Please pull out the weeds in the garden, alright」

「Pulling out weeds? Why should I do something like that? Bartolo or Mina can do it, right」

「’It doesn’t matter whether you are a noble or a commoner in regards to farming’, right?」

Kuh! The line I said back when I helped at Torr’s family field is now known through our parents.

Torr’s mother did something unnecessary……!

……so this is the horror of girl’s gathering?

The words you casually said are passing through a lot of people and will come back to harass you.

「It seems that you can pull the weeds quickly using Earth magic or using Psychic on a hoe and moving it to plow the field, yes? So it will definitely be faster for Al to do it than asking Bartolo and the others」

「That’s true」

Rather than pulling out the weeds slowly while enduring the pain in your lower back as you crouch, it’s better to use magic to quickly pull out the weeds.

Then Elna-kaasan throws a question to the nodding me.

「Don’t you think it will be nice to have our own kitchen garden in our courtyard?」

Kitchen vegetables. Freely growing vegetables in our own house’s garden.

When I hear that word, for some reason it gives a relaxing, slow life atmosphere in it. Wake up in the morning, looking forward to the growth of the vegetables you raised. That’s not a bad lifestyle.

「Well, we can always get fresh vegetables if we go to Koryatt village, but I guess it’s not a bad idea to grow our own vegetables in the mansion」

「Right?」

「If it continues like this, then I will have to do something like growing them later……」

「It looks like Bartolo will also grow his favorite produce, so you don’t have to worry about it. Bartolo is basically going to take care of them, you know? It’s fine to lend us a hand occasionally, okay?」

Toward my cautious words, Elna-kaasan nodded as if implying that I don’t have to worry about it.

It seems like Elna-kaasan was negotiating using various means so that it could make it easier for herself, as usual.

Hmm, it could just be to the extent of helping in pulling weeds with magic or helping with harvesting the vegetables.

That’s a cheap price to pay if I can enjoy the vegetable garden with only that kind of labor.

I used to raise vegetables back when I was still a university student, though it was troublesome to take care of them.

I thought it would be fine if I just check on them, showing up every day while thinking if the leaves have grown big today, or are there any fruits already growing out, and such.

A perfect condition for that desire has appeared this time.

「It can’t be helped then. I will help. I will leave Knight’s repair to kaasan, alright」

「Yes, you can leave it to me. I will repair it beautifully」

Elna-kaasan and I shake hands and we smile at each other.

I’m sure Elna-kaasan is probably thinking that she can take it easy now. She gave me that kind of feeling.

「Yosh, then I’ll do it quickly」

「I heard about it from Myula-san but, how did you use Earth magic to pull out weeds? I’m curious to see them」

「You raise only the area where the weeds are growing like this……look」

I immediately show her the magic to Elna-kaasan who said that, seemingly interested in the magic.

Then, the weeds are dug up as if they sprout out one after another in front of my eyes.

「……as always, you are really a skillful child. To raise the soil while selecting such a small area of the soil separately all at once……」

Well, it will be easy to raise them as long as you raise the soil clinging around the roots of the weeds, so I don’t think it’s not that difficult though.

「……this is, how should I put it……they look adorable when you see them like this」

「Right? They look like living things when they rise up like that, it’s adorable, right」

As expected, Elna-kaasan understands.

As for Torr when he saw the adorable weeds back then, ‘it’s gross’ he said.

Time flows peacefully as I raise the weeds from the soil for some time, and Elna-kaasan crouches and stares at the weeds.

「……Elna-kaasan, is it fine to leave Myula-san and Dorothea-san alone?」

「You’re right. Staring at the rising weeds made me absent-minded. Well then, pull out the weeds in the area where the sticks are stuck in the ground and plow it, alright」

Elna-kaasan came to her senses with a start after hearing my question, then she returned to the mansion.