When traveling, even in the middle of summer when it is at its most vibrant or in the autumn, most people don't rely too much on ingredients from the wild.

There is no need to complicate things like identifying poisons and gathering knowledge, it's just a simple reason – it takes time.

People are on the road, mostly to get to somewhere. This sentence sounds stupid when you say it with your mouth, as if "people inhale to breathe" and "people die when they are killed" is extremely correct nonsense, but it is indeed a reasonable description.

Those who are in a hurry, those who walk on the road, do not come out for a picnic. Therefore, instead of spending hours collecting wild fruits or going hunting, unless you are looking for extreme light clothing or shyness, bringing enough rations with you when you travel far away is the choice that normal people will make.

A person's life is a matter of constant trade-offs. If you choose not to carry rations and save weight, you will need to spend time gathering ingredients. It's just that the things you choose to sacrifice are different, and in fact there is no perfect choice in this world - but let's get back to the original place.

Often walking in the mountains and wilderness, there is a concept among the highlanders and mountain hunters of the Rigal world: there are two kinds of rations, one is to be cooked, nutritious, with a small pot to carry with them and can be processed with firewood collected on the mountain, generally called camp meals.

Most of the camp meals are made with grains and salted meats, and some seasonal wild vegetables and fruits collected in the mountains add flavor to the delicacy that can be comforted after a cold day and a hard trek.

This kind of meal made with portable and shelf-stable food can restore people's physical strength to a greater extent, and at the same time, people are full, and the temperature brought by the hot meal will also make people's body and mind more comfortable.

But like relying on gathering ingredients in the wild, camp meals that need to be cooked consume time and energy.

When chasing prey, when you need to rush all the time, you need to replenish nutrition while the physical strength is exhausted, and the time is extremely tight, so the cold meal that can be eaten directly, the so-called "action meal". That is, most of the individual travelers and adventurers who save weight and don't even bring a pot will eat.

Warm campfires pass through the enclosed cave to ward off the cold winds that carry the moisture. Most of the more than 100 people who sat on the ground took out the lunch they had prepared before.

Since Narumi's original plan was not to stay for a long time, naturally, the rations they had prepared before their departure in the early morning were also action food that could be eaten directly.

The rice is cooked with coarse salt, then kneaded into triangles by hand and wrapped in gauze. This ingredient pronounced "Oh Ni Gili" in the Chinese dialect of the moon made Mira think that it had something to do with the so-called "Oni", that is, the cannibal, because of the language barrier.

Later, after the introduction of Aya and Sakura, I learned that the "Nigili" part in the back means "to clench", because this kind of rice ball needs to be made with the hand to hold and shape, and the so-called "oh" has a similar meaning to the "pa" in the Padro Silaman language, which is used for naming.

The word "Pa" of the Paderosi means great, the great Lamanid successor, Padramensia. And the Land of the Moon is a country with a long history, and it is not uncommon for similar honorific/polite language in the language to become colloquial.

"O" or "Oh", the word written in the country of the moon is "御", which is not easy to understand alone, but when combined with other words, the word "Gozen" refers to the presence of the emperor, and the meaning can be roughly guessed.

It's an honorific title, a simple syllable name, used to describe something honorable, or a person who is honorable.

It has become so common that it is used to describe a hand-kneaded rice ball, and in a sense is also a subset of the profound and pervasive class notion of the country.

As we have been saying, a few nobles, a few rich, what the upper class pursues does not necessarily represent the whole picture of the whole country. Because no matter how times change and how turbulent the region is, the lives of the rich are rarely affected.

When the times are turbulent, it is often the people at the bottom who suffer, and most of the nobles with rich accumulations are still able to live their own good lives.

Therefore, the nobles of the Moon Country pay great attention to the concept of class, which is understandable. But even the common people, even the more popular language, reveals similar caution and attention to detail, which is actually a little scary when you think about it.

But let's get back to the rest.

As the accumulation of long years, the language of the Moon Country often has complex meanings. This syllable is not only an honorific title, but also a noun related to the word when it is preceded with "ao". "Nigilly" means to grip, while "Onigilli" means "something that needs to be grasped to make".

There are similar expressions in classical Lamanic languages, and with this coupled with the problem of pronunciation similarity, it is no wonder that the Lamanites learned the Chinese language of the moon with half the effort.

All in all, this little knowledge of pronunciation can be regarded as a little more or less insightful for the two beginners, Mira and Kaleva. The sticky texture of this rice ball, which is eaten cold as a food for transport, is a cause for concern at first, but after you actually bite into it, it is surprisingly delicious.

The soil and water quality of the Moon Country is very different from that of Rigal, and although the climate is similar and the vegetation looks similar in some places, the japonica rice grown here is very different from the long-grain rice of Rigal – the most important thing is that it retains its good texture and taste even after it is cold.

The soft and glutinous rice grains can be easily dissolved in the mouth, but this is not the kind of mushy and powdery taste that will be scattered after the ordinary rice grains are cold, it still has a certain elasticity, as if it has just been cooked.

The good taste is accompanied by the coarse salt added during kneading, the rough and earthy flavor and the heavy weight, although it is not the same as the type of Qingzhi rice with many condiments, for some reason, our Luoan girl only likes it very much.

In the morning, they ate bamboo shoots and stewed with something called dried tofu, which was quite a bit but tasted completely light and unpleasant to Mira's own liking.

And when she finally couldn't help it—even though she had only eaten it for two or three days—consulted about the storage of meat, Mira received a negative answer, even though she was a rich samurai and Aota was not stingy with supplies for the trip.

The meat of the Land of the Moon is more expensive than they can imagine.

In the Crescent continent, which is extremely scarce in the plains, it is absolutely impossible to graze cattle and sheep on the steppes on a large scale. Cattle here are either important laborers in farming or pack animals responsible for transportation, neither of which are raised to be slaughtered for meat. The same is true for sheep, because the wool industry in the country of the moon is not very developed because of the scarcity of pastures, so most of the clothes here are made of cotton and linen, and the more luxurious ones are silk.

Based on these two points, instead of meat intake, they have developed this habit of eating a lot of soy products.

Soy products and fish, as well as poultry that are less terrain-intensive, are the main protein foods of the Tsuki Country. But fish and poultry are not easy to preserve, and only pickled tofu can withstand the long, rainy spring weather, and they can only eat these when they come and go.

It's a pleasure in the bitterness, our Luo'an girl, who is not accustomed to eating light but helpless, but after tasting the rice balls with only salt flavor in a lack of interest, she unexpectedly likes this simple action ration.

She ate it in three or two bites, and together with Lulu, she began to stare at Sakura and Aya, the two of them who were from the best of their families, so much so that the latter two turned their backs to them.

Seeing that the rain seemed to be unable to stop for a while, someone on the samurai's side also took out a small pot for boiling water, pulled out the wooden stopper of the bamboo kettle he carried with him, poured out the water inside, and took out the fried coarse tea from the cloth bag and added it to it.

"Oh?" said our sage, who had smelled the scent of tea, came over shamelessly, making it clear that he also wanted a copy, and this act caused the samurai to look at each other, and instead of being angry, they burst out laughing.

"Your Excellency Heng, as a Southern Barbarian, also likes the tea of our country?" the warriors opened their mouths to the sage, and then the two of them began to discuss it.

The rain rained heavily for more than ten minutes, and then the thunder gradually subsided, and the dark clouds began to become less thick. Narumi stood at the entrance of the cave and was talking to Yajiro about something, as if he was planning to see if the rain weakened again and then brave the rain to move forward, because it was really not a good place to stay for long.

But God didn't give face after all, even if the dark clouds weakened and the thunderstorm was far away, the rain did not mean to converge at all, and several low-lying places began to spread because the speed of flowing water could not keep up with the speed of rain falling. Some of the cracks in the roof of the cave also began to seep in, dripping down the round stalactites into the cave, so that many people who had been sitting there had to move further inside.

"Old Joe, go and rest. Eat something and drink some tea too. Narumi walked up to Qingtian Qiao and said this, judging from his tone, the two of them were obviously old acquaintances. Although there is a gap of more than ten years in age, the relationship is very good.

"Okay. The bearded samurai said this, and returned with his bow and several samurai who had stood guard for more than twenty minutes. Another group of people who had changed shifts came over and continued to guard both sides of the cave.

"Wow! I'm starving. The grinning countryman directly pulled the chin strap of the helmet, took off the helmet and handed it to the person next to him, and sat next to the sage.

The meal and tea went on like this for a while. And the group of people who became companions by chance also slowed down because of this opportunity, and began to chat about various problems and share each other's stories.

The samurai's interest in a foreign land attracted the three missionaries to join the discussion, but the intermingling of things like the supremacy of the Lamanite Empire and the preaching of the White Church between the lines also made the atmosphere awkward and cold from time to time.

Fortunately, our Sage Gentleman, although he is generally very reticent and talks about history and observations, is also able to tell the story in a variety of ways because of his rich experience.

Before you know it, what was originally a gossip discussion seems to have turned into a story meeting for Henry alone. Most of the others nodded occasionally or asked questions in some places, and it basically became him alone.

"Is that kind of a person?" Sakura and Aya, who saw only the silent side of the sage, looked at Kaleva and Mira in bewilderment, the former nodded, and the latter turned around and took the third rice ball Lulu handed her.

"Sir, that's it occasionally. Caleva said.

Time passed slowly, and the campfire was filled and filled, although in moderation, but still consumed a lot. When it finally darkened again, the rain had not abated, and the water on the surface of the cave was more than two meters long, and although the remaining space was still wide, it was really annoying.

"It's going to be a night shift. Narumi, who had also eaten briefly, turned to the people around the campfire and said:

"This rain. ”

"Looks like it's going to be the whole night. ”