Since I started to walk, it became a daily routine to go out for a stroll in the sunny days alongside Tanya. I hadn’t gone to any personal trip while I was still in Japan, even when I had gone to a business trip, I would come back as soon as my business was over. So, the scenery of this tranquil farming village was quite refreshing for someone like me who only experienced the crowd of the city.

Moreover, since this was a different world, its vegetation was also different. On our stroll, I keep asking many questions to Tanya about many things such as; the names of produced crops and the ways of eating them, the flowers growing in the neighbourhood, or the insects that I caught.

Also, it took a few days, but I had grasped the general picture of the whole village. The number of the households is about 60. If you think that each households has around 3 or 4 members, then the population of the village would be around 200. It’s really a small village. The main product of the village is wheat, and in addition to that, the root crops or vegetables are also planted. It doesn’t seem that there are any wild plants such as Clovers. (TL Note: I didn’t exactly understand this line. However I guess this is what he says.) The bread on dining table is hard and unappetizing since the wheat bran is not removed from it. I thought it was milled in a water wheel, but as I learnt it later, there was no water wheel in this village. Since it would be troublesome to inquire about water wheel or Britain farming methods which Tanya had never seen, I just shut my mouth about it.

Something piqued my interest when I saw the village folks. There were only young people in the village and there were no old people. Also, since the farm work is a manual labor, you normally expect that mainly the males would do it, but the number of females who work was actually higher.