This area from Taizhou south to Xinjing is indeed a very livable area if you don't mention natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanoes.

Even if it's already summer, because of the abundant vegetation, walking on the road during the day will not be dizzy from the scorching sun.

It does not have a huge temperature difference between day and night, as in the Abu Sera grasslands, which lack trees and water, nor does it have the humidity of the southern border of Rigal, which is still unbearably hot at night. Although this experience is similar to the mainland of Rigal at the same latitude, because of this mountain and this water, it has a unique taste that can only be found in the Crescent Island.

There is a considerable gap between the values accumulated over the past 4,000 years and the young and immature Rigal.

The country, which has survived many natural disasters and rebuilt from the ruins, is far less enthusiastic about gold treasures than the merchants of Padrosi.

Naturally, the Lamanic scholars, who had different ideas and believed that they were the right, caricatured it as "false and high" in their usual way. But when a country and a culture accumulate to such a height, the qualitative change caused by the quantitative change undoubtedly changes the definition of what is "valuable" in the eyes of the people, at least in the upper class of the Moon Country.

As long as you live, even if you don't work hard, your wealth will always accumulate slowly.

Our Sage may not be a good example, but that's because he doesn't have too much to do with it.

In a way, Henry's values are very similar to those of a country with a long history like the Moon Country.

The pursuit of wealth is meaningful, and the certainty of money can undoubtedly make your life easier.

But what a country with a 4,000-year-old history really values is often not the seemingly precious treasures. Society is made up of people, the relationships between people, and the wisdom left behind by the things created by the great men of the ages.

Those memories written by generation after generation belong to this country, to the emotions and history of this nation.

Although they are written on paper or passed down by word of mouth, the value of these things is often incomparable to that of gold and precious stones.

The money is gone, and it can be earned back. However, if history is broken, the precious wisdom and cultural inheritance of those predecessors left behind by the great waves and sands will not be valued and will be abandoned.

This is the greatest sorrow of a country like this, which has a history of thousands of years.

It's like an empty shell without an inner body, vain and powerless to tell about his glorious past that has nowhere to rely on.

No matter how long-lived the long-lived species are, there will be a day when they will usher in the end of their lives.

Creatures complete their own continuation by passing on their bloodlines to the next generation, while humans, as a civilized race, as well as elves, dwarves, orcs and gnomes, regard their own race as a living entity, and pass on their souls through written and other cultural records.

This has become a different concept.

Even if they accept foreign races, mix blood, and even change their bloodline, as long as the core culture still exists, they are still the heirs who hold the torch and pass it on from generation to generation.

But if the culture suffers a devastating blow, even if it still maintains the purity of the bloodline, I am afraid that when it declares itself to be the legitimate heir, no matter how loud the voice is, it is only to cover up its own inadequacy.

So the Patrosi claim to be the great Lamanite lineage, and they still do so – just like many other Lamanite nations. The Lamani culture is known as a poison precisely because it allows ethnic groups of different skin tones and hair colors to speak the Lamani language and have Lamanite values.

We can't decide whether this is a bad thing or a good thing, because learning the virtues of an advanced culture is indeed the direction of progress. But when a nation abandons all its traditions and completely learns from other countries to have a complete blood-change, those cultures that are drowned in the torrent of history and no longer remembered will be more or less emotional.

But let's get back to the rest.

The 4,000-year-old Moon Country may not be felt by people like Sakura, Aya, and Narumi Yajiro who are in it, but Rigal, who is an outsider, has a first-hand experience.

From the samurai's sword wiping to the conversation of the upper classes, to town planning and festivals, all the behaviors of Wajin seem to have a certain sense of norms and rituals.

This is a habit that is difficult for outsiders to imitate and penetrate deep into the bone marrow.

It is like a well-roasted old tea, slightly bitter after drinking, but the sweetness and aroma after it can be remembered for a long time.

There are many things in this country with a long history that are not understandable to newcomers, and even the same things will have different feelings when you experience them again depending on your state of mind.

As a result, the sage became more silent than ever after arriving on Crescent Continent.

And people are proud, even more proud than the Padrossi.

When Narumi first saw Henry's armor, he said "the same thing as our country".

This is a kind of affirmation from a high position, believing that the existence that was originally despised by itself has achieved achievements comparable to itself in some aspects. And from the words used by people to describe outsiders, we can also read one or two:

The foreigners who came all the way from Rigal were the "Nanban", while the minority to which Lulu belonged was the "Yi people".

Along with the He, but not in the Xinjing sphere of influence, they are also called "feudal lands". In almost every detail, the central idea of the supremacy of Xinjing and the people is expressed, and the other areas are regarded as "barbarians".

The deep-rooted nature of this thinking can be seen from the vocabulary used by Narumi and others, who themselves belonged to the samurai of the northern feudal region.

The head of the Qingtian family simply thought that the Nanban people were "on a par with the country of the moon in some respects", and he was already a rare enlightened person in this country, and even went against the trend and tradition, so much so that his own son Yajiro had a lot of criticism of him.

This is a very large and complex society.

Therefore, the sage chose to be silent, and only our Luo'an girl, who was still immature, would choose to express her opinion directly.

But fortunately, Mira's personality has always been straightforward, she is not the kind of person who will dwell too much on meaningless things and find herself bored, so after only three or five days, she has become cheerful again.

Focusing on the big picture is a bit of a difficult concept for her to understand, still in her teens. Although it was a natural thing for her to do, it was something that even many adults could not do.

When the team has a common goal, put aside internal disagreements and work together, rather than engaging in internal struggles before achieving the goal. Easier said than done.

The professional attitude and skills learned by traveling with the sage, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance of parting ways in the future, the Luoan girl herself will definitely be able to make a name for herself in the adventurer world.

Today's sky is cloudless.

The dirt roads, which had been illuminated by the early summer sun for a morning, were dry and dusty, and the wind blowing up from the mountain turned them into translucent whirlpools of earthy yellow color.

On a sunny day, the wind was warm near noon. You can only feel a little cool when you walk under the shade of trees on the side of the road.

Because of the following season, the group's outfits have also changed considerably. Including Narumi and other samurai, there are few people who are fully armed.

The samurai on horseback were replaced by lighter armor than in full armor, which was originally part of the baggage and was carried as a replacement armor.

Narumi changed back to the portable stacker and folding pocket he wore when he was stationed in the Seijifu, and most of the other samurai were equipped in the same way. The carcass, which is not forged from a single piece of steel but is made of small pieces of steel joined together, provides a better fit, and the gaps between the pieces allow body heat to escape.

Underneath the rich silk armor - and the armed suit of the man - was replaced with a hemp undergarment to increase breathability while providing cushioning for the armor. The large sleeves that were originally huge like shields—the large shoulder armor—were replaced with small sleeves that were only two palms side by side width.

The full arm armor was replaced with a half-caged hand that reached only to the elbow, and the thigh armor was removed to leave only a separate calf defense.

The light mode, which is more breathable and cooler for summer travel, is not only cooler than a full set of heavy armor, but also has a considerable reduction in weight. This price is, of course, a decrease in defense.

Compared to the plate armor of the Rigal knights, the Japanese warrior armor, which is slightly weaker in thickness and coverage area, still has complete protection against bow attacks. Even if the steps and bows of more than two meters long are strong enough to penetrate the surface, they will be stuck, and the cavities in the dome structure will not be able to really cause fatal injuries to the human body.

However, now that it has been replaced with a small armor piece connected by an iron ring and stacked with full armor, there is no buffer space, and it does not have a rigid structure to resist arrows, and if you encounter a direct shot from a warrior's bow-level weapon, I am afraid that the casualties will be far more serious than when fully armed.

So even though entering a relatively safe area would have eased the burden on the march, it was prudent that none of them had changed to light clothing.

At the front of the high-ranking samurai on horseback were four men still heavily armed, armed with short spears instead of bows. In the event of a crisis, they can carry themselves in front with their heavy armor melee combat, and then the ashigaru team will press forward, while the rest of the samurai in light armor will use their better mobility for long-range mounted shooting.

This is the team configuration that Narumi improved after the battle of the bandits, and learned from the sages with rich experience in actual combat. Compared to the original monolithic structure of all mounted warriors, this small team began to diversify, with more complex tactical use and class coordination.

The samurai in front of them in hot and heavy armor will be replaced in shifts, and in the absence of a direct high-intensity threat, the hot weather becomes the worst enemy. If the same people are given this responsibility all the time, they will be dizzy and unable to rest enough inside the complete armor like a steamer, and eventually they will not be able to perform at critical moments.

In addition, after a skirmish with a rogue and an encounter with ghouls, Yajiro, who was deeply aware of the importance of light close-fitting armor that could be worn for a long time, was also very generous in purchasing light iron armor for the rest of the team, including Mira, at the Sho House near Ansang.

There was no skirt armor or even back armor, and only a short breastplate that was worn close to the body and tied with cross-cloth straps at the back was enough to make a big difference in the outcome of a skirmish.

Although the Roan Maiden still thinks about her lost Brigundy-style plate armor, the light armor design of the Moon Country is also very good.

Painted short armor was fastened with cloth around the shoulders and waist for comfort, and the armpits on both sides were hollowed out to prevent hindering the use of the weapon. The fitted design allows it to be worn on the inside of the garment like a Brigon floor armor, making it look as if it is unarmoured, so that the attacker will not be able to judge that the armor is on the body and will instead attack smaller, harder-to-hit but unprotected parts such as the head and throat.

It's a tried-and-true lightweight design, and although the head of the Tsujiya claims that Yajiro is a samurai and sells armor, Mira seriously suspects that this highly concealed design was developed in order to create a loophole in the law that prohibits non-samurai classes from owning private armor in the Land of the Moon.

All in all, in a word. A morning was spent in the middle of the day, and by noon, the team had found a relatively shady area with a flatter shade on the side of the road, and prepared a meal and a short rest.

The young master Yajiro has always been from a wealthy aristocratic background, and even if his personality and samurai dogma make him more able to endure a hard life in some aspects, it does not mean that he will choose to eat common people's food for reasons such as saving money.

Summer in the Land of the Moon is always very long, so what to eat in summer has been a question that has plagued people for thousands of years.

Ice cubes brought down from the snow-covered mountains and stirred into crushed ice with syrup were something that only the wealthy among the aristocracy could afford, and the cold drink cooled by cool underground spring water was extremely limited by geography, and if there was no underground spring nearby, it could only be put in a wooden barrel and chilled in a deep well.

Therefore, the most widely accepted food is the so-called "summer snack" steamed with herbs mixed with flour.

In the summer of Crescent Island, there is the fragrance of tea and the slightly bitter taste of grass and snacks.

The ground grass is mixed with flour and steamed in molds. The palm-sized dim sum was affordable even for the common people, and the crystal-clear texture of the flour after steaming, and the turquoise color of the grass juice mixed in with the inside, even if it was not chilled, gave a visual feeling of cooling off the heat.

As with any Crescent Island food, the taste of the refreshments to cool off is modest, but after getting used to it, it has a lingering aftertaste.

Yajiro's favorite summer sweets are similar to those eaten by the common people, but they are said to have been named because they were made of mutton in the past. However, the monks ate vegetarian food, so they changed to steamed red beans and flour. With the expansion of faith, it has spread to the society of Japanese people and has become a classic snack.

The biggest difference between the version eaten by the nobles and the refreshments of the commoners is that a lot of sugar is added, and to some extent, it is even a little sweet and greasy, so it must be accompanied by roasted bitter tea, neutralized by bitterness, in order to be able to eat.

It's not all that good for storage, and it's actually easy to spoil on a hot summer day. But this still couldn't stop the little master from loving it, so that he accidentally bought a little too much, and he couldn't eat it all by himself.

A blessing in disguise, in line with the idea of avoiding waste, Yajiro also shared them, and the ashigaru people, who had been difficult to taste this delicious taste for about their entire lives, have eaten enough in the past few days, and even the fatigue and slight dissatisfaction that they had to help the superior samurai maintain their equipment all the way were also swept away.

Something good is always a great way to improve your mood, and simply sharing it to make people look forward to their next meal is enough to make the ashigaru smile.

The campfire licks the kettle on a makeshift iron rack, and coarse tea is poured from the packaging into a bamboo sieve.

The rice served as a meal is washed and put into the pot.

There was an eagle hovering in the clear sky, perhaps thinking about what to eat for lunch.

Today is another peaceful day.