I Was Reincarnated as a Poor Farmer in a Different World, so I Decided to Make Bricks to Build a Cas

Chapter 91 - Food Storage

 

"All right, let's make that, too."

　After creating and naming the spell for creating the Hardened Brick Horseshoes that are part of the Valkyries' equipment, I decided to move on to the next thing.

　It was about the storehouse for food.

　Up until now, we had been storing our food in a very ordinary warehouse in Barca Village.

　However, I had always been curious about this food storage.

　With the memories of my previous life, I had always been surrounded by a plentiful supply of food throughout the year, and I had taken that for granted.

　However, there is a natural principle that every food has a certain time of the year when it can be harvested, and it is not possible to eat it outside of that time.

　It was only after I was reincarnated in this world that I realized that it was an abnormal situation to be able to eat food at any time regardless of its season.

　Since I was born here in Barca Village, I can say that I've always lived my life thinking about food.

　I've been constantly evolving the magic I dreamed of having in my previous life in order to eat food.

　However, no matter how many spells I created to improve the soil so that I could harvest more food, I could not extend the period of time I could store the harvested foods.

　At best, people here could make a hole in the ground and store the food there, but even that was only a little better than storing it at room temperature, and it would be inedible after a while.

　Even so, it was only a little better than storing them at room temperature.

　But that's all over now.

　I've got a new way to preserve food.

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　A new storage facility.

　I created it on my land.

　But I didn't build anything unusual.

　It was just a big warehouse.

　However, I made the walls of the warehouse very thick.

　The walls were made very thick so that no sunlight or wind could enter, and there was not a single gap in the space.

「Ice Spear」

　I used that magic inside the warehouse.

　I used the Ice Magic that I had acquired from Carlos, the head of the Fontana family.

　I've been able to use only magic related to Earth or strengthening my own body no matter how hard I tried, but after receiving a new name, I've been able to use magic called "Ice Spear".

　I repeated this spell, which was originally an offensive spell meant for the battlefield, into the empty warehouse.

　The 「Ice Spear」 is a spell that creates an ice pillar about the thickness and length of an adult man's arm, and shoots it towards a target.

　The icicles tumbled down into the warehouse.

　It's not that the Ice Magic doesn't break down and disappear after a certain amount of time, as it did when I fought before.

　The ice pillars are just like the ones I can make with Earth Magic.

　But of course, unlike Earth, the Ice would melt over time.

　So, once I had accumulated a certain amount of ice, I scattered sawdust on top of it.

　Yes, the warehouse I built was more fitting to be called an Ice House.

　Normally, ice from ponds is stored in a basement called an ice house, but if you cover the surface of the ice with sawdust, it will not completely melt away even when there is no ice.

　I decided to use my newfound Ice Magic to preserve the ice.

　However, I am not the only one who can make ice.

　Since I was named by Carlos, my 'Children' with the surname Barca have also been able to use the ice magic [Ice Spear].

　In this way, it became possible to create and store ice at any time throughout the year in Barca.

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"But, Ars-dono, was this ice house necessary, desu?"

"What are you talking about, Gran-san? This ice was prepared to preserve food."

　The reason why I took the trouble to build an icehouse as a warehouse.

　I'm sure you'll agree.

　What I wanted to build was not a place to store ice.

　I wanted to build a refrigerator.

　I've never used one of the antiques myself, but I've heard that refrigerators in the past did not use electricity.

　There was a refrigerator made of a wooden frame, in which ice was put inside, and the cold air from the ice cooled the inside of the refrigerator.

　I wanted to recreate that.

　However, there was no need to keep it for home use.

　The ice was stored in a large warehouse, and there was also space to store food in the cooled warehouse.

　However, it would also be natural to build a wooden refrigerator for home use in addition to the warehouse.

　Even though I gave them the surname Barca, it was not like all the villagers could use Ice Spear.

　I will sell ice to those who are not able to produce it themselves.

　With the advent of this ice-house refrigerator, foods that used to not last very long can now last a reasonable amount of time.

　My diet has improved a bit, as I can now store vegetables that I used to be able to eat only right after harvesting, as well as the occasional wild boar meat.

CadmarLegend Oooh, new improvements... so many improvements... and the diet... I didn't think of that before. How're you liking all these chapters being posted?