The day after fetching water, I took action to improve my life.
The first thing you can do is get a fluffy feeling in your bed. My bed is on bare ground and thinly strewn dry grass. The sad reality is that it is almost as hard as the ground. So I’m going to mow the grass and spread it over the bed. I believe I can say goodbye to hard ground with this.
Now, what you need to cut grass is a sickle. This is a refugee settlement, and even railroad equipment is valuable, and this is also collected and managed in one place. It’s an important tool that was distributed.
After finishing the lunch ration, when I arrived at the hut where the tools were kept, an old man was sitting on the ground.
“Excuse me, please lend me your sickle.”
When I called out, they finally met face to face. However, as soon as the guard grandfather saw me, he looked suspicious.
“Riru huh… I’m sorry I can’t lend you one.”
“Eh. Could it be that your parents are the cause?”
“That’s right. Riru’s parents don’t help out, it’s a very difficult village. There’s nothing you can lend to such a family.”
“is that so……”
Parents are also mentioned here. I wonder if my parents stopped helping me a long time ago, and it seems that the hatred is building up more than I thought.
At that time, I was frustrated that I couldn’t do anything and clenched my hand.
“But you started helping out yesterday, right?
“… it’s no good, it’s not. Thank you, I’ll do my best.”
I clung to the words of salvation. I listened to my grandfather’s story seriously and nodded strongly.
“Because we are watching. Bad things and good things.”
“Understood. Your parents caused you trouble.”
I deeply bowed my head and left the place. The destination is the women who are by the stove. I have to talk about the situation and fetch water.
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It’s hard to regain lost trust. If you don’t have credit, you can’t borrow tools, and if you can’t borrow tools, living better is a dream. Once again, I was able to understand the situation in which my family was placed.
It’s frustrating that things didn’t go as planned. My parents… someday I’ll let you call me Gafun. Anyway, now I have to do my best, I will definitely lose.
I endured hunger and fatigue as I fetched water for a week. Even if I don’t like it when I’m fetching water with the adults, their gazes are focused on me as a child. There are no words of effort. Rather, I was looked at with cold eyes that it was a natural result.
Perhaps, if I hadn’t moved, I might have been taken to the village council and expelled from the village. Even in a village like this, there are the minimum necessary things to live, it’s an important place. I shudder to think about when I was exiled.
It was a really dangerous place if I didn’t recall the memories of my previous life.
However, after continuing to draw water for a week, the unpleasant gaze disappeared and it softened. It seems that the old man’s advice was correct, and if you do good deeds, the bad things will decrease.
I realized that from now on, I should take care not only of myself but also of those around me. I’m not living alone here, so I have to work for someone else, too.
And, as promised, I finished drawing water for a week and came to the front of the warehouse again. The same old man as before is sitting there. When Grandpa noticed me, she loosened her expression a little.
“Riru, I’m listening to you.”
“Yes. Um, so…”
“Oh, I’m pretty sure it was a scythe. Wait a minute.”
My grandfather moved without me saying anything. I stood up and opened the door of the warehouse and went inside. After a while she appeared with a scythe in one hand.
“It may seem like you’re being persistent, but you should continue to help out. This is a village where everyone cooperates to survive. If those parents don’t do it, Riru will do well. I understand.”
“Yes, I understand”
“You must be worried, but do what you can do properly.”
He spoke seriously, and I was able to tighten myself up. Fetching water was hard work, but thanks to the old man, I was grateful that the sightlines in the village were no longer painful.
Taking care of the scythe that was offered to him, he bowed deeply and left the place.
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Alright, alright, I got a sickle!
Fetching water was really hard work, and sleeping hungry every night was the hardest part. I managed to survive my hunger by picking nuts while I was fetching water, so I was able to do my best.
It made me realize that although I care about myself, trust is even more important. He realized that having trust and not having trust makes life completely different. I think they were watching me when I was fetching water to the point that I thought there would really be a hole in it. In my life notes, trust comes first.
I have to be careful not to damage the sickle I borrowed. I’m borrowing an important tool from the village, so I have to handle it carefully.
“Okay, do you want to do it?”
Around the back of the house, weeds of about 30 cm are spreading all over. If you cut these, your sleep today will be much better.
To tell you the truth, I wanted to cover it with dry grass, but my body is so tired that I can’t wait until it becomes dry grass. I’m going to sleep on the fluffy grass today!
“Hmm”
Roll up your sleeves and squat down. When I grabbed the grass and applied the blade of the sickle to the root of it and pulled it out, the grass snapped off.
“Fah, it feels good”
Unexpectedly, a stupid voice came out. But right now it’s irresistible. I never knew mowing the grass could feel so good.
Grab the grass, apply the blade, and spa. Hmm, really good.
Grab the grass, apply the blade, and spa. Grab the grass, apply the blade, and spa. Grab the grass, apply the blade, and spa.
Silently mow the weeds and collect the mowed grass in one place. As time passed, small piles of grass began to form. But this is not enough. I want more, I want more
So I kept mowing the grass.
“Haah, I’m tired. How much has accumulated… wow!”
I cried out in surprise that the mound of grass was level with my head when I was squatting down. I didn’t realize I was cutting so much before I knew it, but my arms and hands hurt.
Hesitantly, I pressed my hand against the grass on the small mountain—wow.
“Wow, amazing!”
Huh, huh, huh. You won’t be able to stop pushing the softness that will surprise you. Hey, what is this, it feels good. It smells like weed.
When I was single-mindedly pushing the pile of grass, I suddenly came to my senses.
“Ah, I have to go return the sickle.”
It’s dangerous. Leaving the grass intact, I hurried away to return the sickle.
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When I finished returning the sickle, I came back to the mountain of grass. By that time, the sun had set and the area was dyed red.
“All that’s left to do is spread the grass on the bed.”
I lifted Kusayama with both hands, but I couldn’t lift even half of it. I had no choice but to go around to the entrance of the house and enter the house. I’m happy that my parents are not at home and I don’t have to say anything. I want to have it covered before I come back. Go to the next room and scatter it on your bed.
After repeating the process three times, it was finally finished. Sit down on the ground and spread it out according to your body and shape it. Spread it out and hit it, spread it out and hit it.
Then a bed of grass about 5 cm thick was completed.
“Faaa”
It’s okay to ride on this, isn’t it?
“Yeah”
I spent a lot of time on a bed of grass. A fluffy sensation envelops my body, and I don’t feel the hardness of the soil at all…a great success!
“Nfufu~”
It smells like grass, but this softness becomes a habit. Next time I’ll procure food… Ah, sleep like this – Suyaa.
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