The Hard Work Will Never Betray Me

CH 8

"Wow!"

Lily's eyes sparkled as she ran around the flower garden. Even though his tongue was muffled in some places, he could greet us with frightening assertiveness to a six-year-old, but there seemed to be a part of him that was appropriate for his age. She looked like a six-year-old girl as she happily played with nature in a garden filled with colorful flowers.

He's so cute that I want to take pictures of him if I have a camera. (i'm not a pedophile!) But unfortunately, there were no cameras in this era. Apparently there was a magic tool called a telephoto camera, which had a camera-like function using magic, but it seemed very expensive, to the point that even the legitimate son of a great noble could not easily obtain it.

They used to record the historical buildings of the empire, or when important meetings and ceremonies were held, they were taken by photographers who reported directly to the imperial family. Some of the photos taken can only be accessed by going to a reference library such as the Imperial Library. It is said that they have letterpress printing technology, but they do not have the technology to do good and sophisticated printing like photography, so I guess that is to be expected.

Well, what can I do if I don't have a camera? I just have to catch it in my mind '. If it continues like this, she may become my wife in the future.

It's good, isn't it? I feel like we were childhood friends. We will play a lot, and grow together, happy, worried, sad and laughing. It was a feeling I was unable to experience in my previous life, and it made me feel a little warm inside.

“Hey, is there no other good place to visit?”

Lily, who had been repeatedly rolling around in the lawn beside the flower garden in a way that was inappropriate for a noble lady, asked if I had anything more interesting to do, which was not the case, it was as if he was tired of the game. Her expensive white dress was covered in grass and I couldn't even see it. She's beautiful, but she's still a kid.

"Alright, let's go to my secret base."

"Confidential headquarters?

“This is a secret from adults, it will be our secret place.”

"What's? I don't know what it is, but it sounds fun!”

Lily ran towards me with the grass stuck to her hair. I clasped his hand and walked into the backyard. It's time for me to show my manly wiles.

“Wow, this is awesome! Did you make this, Hal?”

"Yes I did it. Isn't that amazing?”

Lily was surprised to see the secret headquarters I had built. In front of me stood a hole that looked like something out of a history textbook.I worked hard for about a year, and I was proud of it.

The hole residence. It may not be as stylish as a wooden cabin or a tree house. But in terms of comfort and practicality, this is an incredible place that no one else can compare to!

Firstly, comfort. With the tree house, you do not need to go up and down the tree. Besides, considering that I was a child, I would probably refuse the treehouse because of the danger of falling.

Lastly, practicality. Tree houses and wooden cabins are very difficult to build. In fact, they did not appear until much later in human history. On the other hand, hole dwellings appeared in ancient Japan from the beginning. And until the Heian period (794-1185), they functioned well as the dwellings of farmers. The ease of construction and practicality of pit occupancy is evidenced by the history of ancient Japan.

And last but not least, do not forget about romance. This is the most important thing. The wooden house is good. If a log house suddenly appears in the middle of a forest, you may fantasize that a witch living in seclusion might be living there. Treehouses will also be uplifting, such as athletic activities in forest gardens. But it's not good enough! Wooden houses and tree houses are both "houses"! They're not "secret bases". On the other hand, a hole house does not feel like a house at all, but it can withstand practical use.

Although it was a secret headquarters, given its feasibility to live in, its practicality, and most importantly, romance, it was an inevitable choice to become a pit house.

"Why don't you go inside?"

"Yes." Yeah."

"That's big."

"Really?"

The excavation house I built was relatively large, about five meters wide and four meters high, about the size of a one-room apartment with a high ceiling. It can't stand rain and wind, so it's quite livable. In addition, on the empty ground floor, I rolled out a tatami mat made of igusa-like grass. Other than the fact that I'm a former Japanese, this is also because this world is not a foot-dirt culture.I don't know much about how the lower classes live, but at least the aristocracy did not seem to live with shoes on their feet. I think it's very hygienic.

"It's so soft!"

Lily said happily while jumping into a futon made of straw matting. When I first met her, I had a picture of her as a young, somewhat tomboyish woman, but now I see that she is indeed a tomboy. But Lily's funny like that.

"Let's have a snack."

"Snack?"

"Yes come on."

Then I took out two lango nuts from a jar on the wall. I picked them up from the garden on the edge of the backyard. They were raised by a servant as a hobby, and as long as I chose them occasionally like this, I thanked them rather than being criticized for eating them. Well, I guess not many servants could be angry at the heir to the head of the family in the first place. ……

Besides, I love Rango berries, eating them since I was a baby. The servants worked hard to grow it and it tasted very sweet, juicy, and delicious. They often present me a lango pie made from them as a snack.

“Nails Rango?”

"Well, it's them. Yes, from the garden.”

"Did you not cut it?"

Lily asked with a curious look. Of course not. Normally, a noble lady would not bite down on an entire Rango. It's bad behavior. But right now, only I am staring at him.

"It's okay, just bite!"

I said, and bit Rango big as if I was showing him an example.

"Wow, big mouth."

“Compression, chew, chew, chew.”

"Uh huh's. Ahh! Hit it!

Lily bit Rango with a mischievous expression on her face, as if she had never eaten such food in her entire life. There was a lot of Rango liquid on his cheek, so I took out my handkerchief and wiped it.

When we ate Rango together, somehow I felt like Lily and I really got along well.