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Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai (Web Novel) - Chapter 358: Spring Water
Chapter 358: Spring Water
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After happily splashing water in the river with each other, we took a break and then walked to the source of the spring.
There is the figure of Bartolo walking while being drenched in front of me.
His usual clothes are sticking to his skin and I can see the skin color of his back.
If this person in front of me is a beautiful woman instead, then I’ll be charmed by her sexy figure but unfortunately, it’s just an ossan right there. I’m really not happy with the sight.
And that see-through ossan let out a sigh.
「Good grief, don’t you know about going easy on someone, boy?」
「Well said. Despite you childishly splashing water on me with your foot」
I don’t think he will make a surprise attack on a seven years old kid by kicking up water.
There are only childish adults around me, like Irvine, Mort, and Roomba.
「Even so, using Water magic was unacceptable」
Bartolo grumbles while wringing his clothes.
Although, I guess there was also a part of me who thinks that I’m childish when I don’t say anything further.
For now, let us let bygones be bygones and so I ask him.
「How much further until we reach the spring from here?」
「A little more. We will reach it in less than fifteen minutes」
Hmm, in that case, I have to endure it a bit more. When one has clear info about your goal, people can do their best to reach them.
Let’s walk upstream of the river in front of us right now.
Holding anticipation inside, I walk along the riverside with Bartolo.
The river is flowing right next to me and the sunlight is not shining directly on us so it’s very cool.
Even if we don’t talk with each other, just enjoying the sound of the cool water and staring at the flowing river is fun enough.
As I walk along the riverside while watching the flowing water, Bartolo suddenly stopped.
「Have we reached the spring?」
「No, I found shirabi and nobiru so I’m gonna gather them up」
Mu? Where are they? Bartolo continues to walk toward a place a little away from the riverside before I even have the chance to ask him.
And when I follow him as if chasing after his figure, I saw what looks like a thick stalk of plant with two branches on the ground, it was shirabi, an ingredient that occasionally appear on the dining table.
「This guy prefers places with a lot of moisture. They thrive in the shade of a tree near a river 」
「Heeー, so it’s like that. I never saw them in the forest, but does it only grows in the mountains?」
「Yeah, only in the mountains around these parts」
I obtained valuable knowledge again.
Although there are familiar vegetables nearby, unexpectedly we don’t know where to find them, what they looked like, or where they grow.
「You pick them by cutting them a little bit above the roots with scissors like this. If you do that, they will be able to grow again」
「Understood」
It looks like a spring onion, but apparently, even the way it will grow again is also similar to a spring onion. Maybe it’s the same variety of plants.
I receive a scissor from Bartolo while thinking about that.
「I will gather the nobiru growing over there and be back」
In the direction Bartolo points to is a long and narrow blade of grass that looks like chives.
They grow in a place similar to shirabi, so they probably also grow in a place with a lot of moisture.
After Bartolo leaves my side, I sit down and palace the scissors at the base of the shirabi.
The thick stalk was easily cut when I cut it with the scissors.
I thought that it was going to be a bit more difficult since the stalk is thick, but it seems like the scissor is surprisingly sharp.
I repeat the cutting while taking care not to cut the root and making them float by using Psychic.
Bartolo has his pack basket. Going there to put the plants inside the basket every single time is annoying.
「Ou, boy. That much is fine」
As I procure the twentieth shirabi and make them floats, Bartolo called out to me.
「Can I put it in the pack basket?」
「No, let’s leave the shirabi and nobiru in the river for a bit. That way will make them more crisp and firm」
I see, so they have such characteristics?
I also have a thought to collect them on the way back, but now I’m convinced by that reason.
So Bartolo and I return to the river again.
While I quickly wash away the dirt sticking to the shirabi and nobiru, Bartolo builds breakwater-like weirs made of stones at a place where the water is flowing gently.
(Something like this, but using stones to surround the area)
It was completed by the time I finished washing them all, so we put the clean shirabi and nobiru inside the stone basket.
The plants are floating inside the stone weirs.
「We don’t have to worry about them being washed away now, do we?」
「Yosh, what’s left is just to go to the spring!」
After watching and confirming that the plants won’t be washed away, we continued our mountain climbing along the river.
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「We’ve arrived. This is the spring」
After climbing the mountain along the river for some time. Bartolo and I finally reached the spring.
There is a circular water hole that looks like a lake right in front of me and a massive amount of water is falling from the cliff at the back.
There is also a large quantity of moss around, they grow luxuriantly there as if claiming that this place is their natural habitat.
I gasp in surprise, seeing a place that can be called a sanctuary birthed by nature in front of me.
I’ve been living in Koryatt village for seven years now, but I’m surprised that there was such a place like this.
Although I found climbing a mountain to be troublesome and usually avoid doing it, I’m glad I can get here now.
Though climbing the mountain itself is annoying, being able to see such a sight - not only the spring water - is not bad at all.
「How is it? It’s beautiful, isn’t it?」
Bartolo proudly asks me while I’m fascinated by the sight in front of us.
「You should have told me sooner if there is such a beautiful place here」
「Hahaha, sorry. I wanted to see your surprised face, y’see. Besides, if I told you there was a beautiful place here from the start, then the strong impression from seeing it will become less, right?」
Bartolo said while smiling broadly.
Indeed, the hurdle will increase in anticipation when you told me that there was a beautiful place here and I may not have gotten the current impression I’m feeling right now.
I’m a bit grateful to Bartolo for giving me a surprising and strong impression.
「By the way, where is the source of the spring?」
「It’s under the cliff, in the center of the river」
「In the center of the river?」
I can imagine that there is probably a water vein right under that cliff, but you’re telling me it’s in the center of the river?
「I can’t tell since it’s far from here, but you can see that it’s gushing out from there if you try to get closer」
I can see the place where Bartolo’s finger points to, but it doesn’t look like it was gushing out from there.
Following Bartolo who leads the way, I approach it.
「Ah, it’s true. It’s gushing out」
Water sprang out and the water’s surface is moving while the sand at the bottom is slightly moving at the center of the circular water hole.
Heeー, so it’s coming out from there? So there are two places, one under the cliff and one at the center of the water hole.
「So then. Let’s have a taste」
「Un」
There was spring water flowing from the cliff next to Bartolo, so I reach out to it.
Cold water gathers at the palm of my hand, and I drank the water from my palm.
「Buhaa! It’s good!」
「Right?」
It tastes so great maybe because of the fact that I intentionally came here and struggled to climb the mountain or it was because I was thirsty.
The water is cold and pleasant as it passes through my throat. The water in the village and the lake are clear and taste good enough, but the spring water here is even better than those.
「Aah, I knew it, the spring water here is so good」
Bartolo also drank the water in the same manner as me, then he said that as he sigh.
The water on my palm was gone in no time at all, so I scoop up the water and drink it again.
Un, it’s great. It makes me want to drink it many times.
Even so, this is a very luxurious way of spending my time, isn’t it?
If you’re doing hard labor, having this kind of laidback time would definitely be impossible.
Even if it is possible timewise, it’s impossible if you’re mind is not calm, and even if you did have it then it will just be taken from your limited time.
It probably took us around two and a half an hour to get here from the mansion.
It would be difficult for a working adult in my previous life who had never experienced any inconvenience due to water to exert this much effort to get it.
At most, I will just get water from the supermarket or a convenience store.
「Boy, give me the barrel. I’m going to fill it」
As I was thinking about such things, Bartolo called out to me and said that so I pass the floating barrel to him.
Then, Bartolo set the barrel directly below where the waterfall.
I hear the sound of flowing water entering the empty barrel.
「Yosh, let’s have our lunch box while waiting for the barrel to be filled!」
「Let’s do that!」
