Soojiki’s note: Enjoy. 1/6

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Well, that’s that.

Honestly though, even if I didn’t have this home industry, my house has plenty of other general work to be done.

When it’s the farming season, just mom alone is enough to get the job done. Though I help by plowing the land and harvesting when it’s time.

Ordinarily, cutting down one tree would happen every 4 days or so. The time required is about 2 hours. It can take an air chainsaw about an hour to cut it down. Hatchets and machetes also take about an hour. Gathering takes another hour as well. Taking a considerable amount of time to do.

When harvesting and drying ramuno, it can get busy. At that time, the ladies that resides in the mountain area would come and help, cutting the time spent. Then they would start some girls talk to which I would go on and do a different job. I wouldn’t want to be in the middle of that.

Milking the mountains goat is done by the gramps and grannies so I usually leave it as it is. The pasture is also left to the other neighbors. But I have to spread fertilizers…

It’s almost the season to cut the mountain ram’s fur but it’s done in a day as the knife has been affixed with barrier to shear the fur.

Toota hunts but in one or three days, he can hunt a lot. Occasionally I would also go hunting, increasing that excessive amount. But it’s all for a.s.sisting the mountain residents and Granny.

I think its fine to relax and play sometimes, but there’s no form of entertainment in this rural countryside so there’s no one to play with.

It doesn’t mean I don’t have any friends. It’s just that there’s not much time to play!

The closest village is about 5 or 6 kilometers away. It’s a half fis.h.i.+ng half agricultural village so its split in two. Because of that each industry’s working time is different.

For the fis.h.i.+ng side, they get up from the moment the sun rise till it becomes evening when they return home

For the agricultural side, they also get up the same time but would finish their work around 8 in the evening. Candles are also cheap───so farmers can prioritize their side jobs first and wake up to work even when it’s night/dawn.

Though I said their hours are different, it doesn’t mean everything is out of touch. The two villages don’t just act separately. It’s called a half agricultural and half fis.h.i.+ng village for a reason, that being the bartering(market) of fishes and vegetables which connects the two village.

We mountain residents also eat fish, so we would trade the meat at the market.

But since the village population (maybe around 500?) is small, the market is usually over within an hour or so. Just like how the ladies go about their idle chattering too.

Also, the men don’t just work endlessly. They would occasionally get together with friends and go out drinking to catch up.

That’s fine for adults but kids (around the age of 8-10) often don’t get played with as the adults are too busy with work, so they play with other kids from the nearby hamlet.

There’s also kids in the mountain hamlet with some in the same generation as me. But the livelihood of those living in the mountains is tougher than those from the other hamlets.

Well, since there’s not much time to play, friendly relations.h.i.+ps are created from talking when helping or sharing any kind of work.

But still, there’s too much time.

With this much free time, I built another preservation warehouse (shelter), a secret base high in the mountain, a secret tunnel leading from the mountain to the sea and I also built a secret harbor there. Only an idiot like me would dream of doing that. The best time I spent was building that secret harbor which took 4 days to complete.

I was slightly elated as the villagers wouldn’t know of it taking the weight off my shoulders.

And so I uneventfully completed my home industry.