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The Reincarnated Thirty-Something Woman’s Otherworldly Reform Life

[Surely, Not Rushing]

Translated by: ME

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Agriculture is a key industry, but Azenda doesn't seem to have particularly fertile land.

When traveling by carriage, one sees many wheat fields, but rye, barley, and buckwheat are also cultivated.

According to the documents, common vegetables include onions, pumpkins, cabbages, potatoes, turnips, garlic, carrots, melons, beets, bell peppers, eggplants, and beans, along with various other small crops that come to mind.

As for fruits, there are many cherries, apples, pomegranates, grapes, berries, and pears, and citrus fruits like oranges are also grown in the southern region.

—It doesn't go as far as being a cold region, but the lineup feels slightly inclined towards the north.

In addition, there is a bit of dairy farming, beekeeping (small scale), and naturally growing mushrooms.

(Should I think of it as a climate similar to Japan? Mediterranean climate because it's near the sea? ...But there are few citrus fruits for that... European agriculture has an image of wheat and dairy, or oranges and olives near the Mediterranean. And I only have an image of harvesting lots of berries in Northern Europe.)

She sighed at her own poverty of imagination.

However, this is neither Earth nor Europe, so knowing that would only serve as a reference at best.

Moreover, she had never done farm work except for school events.

(Tomatoes... red tomatoes, was it? If those exist, are there corn and sweet potatoes too?)

All of those were crops brought from other regions (on Earth). Potatoes... poteto-imo are the same.

She recalled the botanical encyclopedia she had looked at in the Gilmore house, but the number was vast and she couldn't remember everything.

Even if they existed, she wondered if they were native here, or if they were brought in and took root in an older era. Whether they were considered edible or not.

While advancing the carriage toward the mansion, she gazed at the road where the greenery was gradually deepening.

It seemed to be a road with many coniferous trees, and the leaves were lush green despite the chill in the air.

The lord's mansion is located at the edge, away from the center of the territorial capital; on the way, there are farmlands, and further on, it stands surrounded by small lakes, streams, and thickets.

It stands in such a place rich in nature.

After riding the carriage for a while from the center of the territorial capital, farmlands come into view.

While having the carriage run around the perimeter, she confirmed what was being grown from the carriage window.

Since autumn was deepening, the crops in the fields were surely fewer than in the warm season. Open-field cultivation must be the main method. Although there are vegetables for cold regions and those that prefer low temperatures, relatively speaking, the harvest would be more plentiful in the warm season.

Besides wheat, there were things like green onion leaves and several types of leafy vegetables.

And perhaps preserved, there were fields where root vegetables could be seen under withered leaves.

(Will I spend my time here seeing the changing seasons from now on?)

While feeling a bit sentimental, the longer they traveled, the more vacant land caught her ibis-colored eyes than she expected.

...Were they resting the fields to resolve replanting failure? Or were they idle farmlands?

(If it's empty, I want to utilize it effectively. Buying crops to circulate the economy is of course one thing, but can't I utilize it for something...)

Indeed, it would be an option to buy seeds of crops that can be grown in Azenda from stalls at the port and grow them on a trial basis.

Since it's already cultivated, she wanted to use it as farmland, but if that was absolutely difficult, she thought it would be good to build a direct sales place like a roadside station, or build a workshop using agricultural products.

「...Have you heard anything about pwoblems with farmland, or things they are twoubled by?」

Dean and Lily looked at each other, but the escort knight raised his hand hesitantly.

「I heard that when there's too much produce in season, they get beaten down on price so they sometimes throw it away. Also, when selling in large quantities, it seems they often get cheated on the price.」

「...Becaush they can't wead or calculate?」

The escort knight nodded and told her with frustration.

「That's right. Not limited to rural areas, there are many who cannot read, write, or calculate... It might be unavoidable, but it's unforgivable if it's malicious.」

「You're wight...」

Education is important. But there are things to do before intervening there.

There is a mountain of things to think about.

Don't rush. Start from what you can do. Crush them with certainty. In the end, that's the shortest route.

However, prepare what is necessary so you can do it anytime.

Whether someone told her, or she told someone.

The adult she used to be admonished the impatient Magnolia.

Yes. Towards the future and goals, just keep it in mind like the proactive activities that were popular in Japan in the past.

—"Intestinal activity" (chō-katsu) to clean the intestines for health. "Job hunting activity" (shū-katsu) and "marriage hunting activity" (kon-katsu) for a better future... Such various activities were called "XX Activity" (XX-katsu). —Abbreviated as "XX-Katsu".

(In this case, different world life improvement/reform activity... "Isekai-Katsu", then.)

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She decided to wrap things up at a reasonable time so as not to be scolded by Sebastian.

She wanted to talk to the farmers too, but there was a limit to what a strange child could ask by suddenly talking to them.

(I'll go home and refine the plan. I have to make a prototype too.)

It was amusing that the escort knight sitting in front of her looked relieved to hear they were finally going home.

Magnolia thought with a wry smile that he must have been quite worried being swung around by an escort target who wouldn't sit still.

She wasn't convinced by Dean looking somewhat relieved too, though...

As the mansion came into view, she could also see silhouettes standing together.

A large shadow and a small shadow. Probably Claude and Sebastian.

「I wonder what happened...? If it were just Sebastian, that would be one thing, but for Lord Claude to be there too.」

「Did something happen?」

The knight tilted his head in wonder. Lily murmured anxiously to no one in particular.

Then, the inside of the carriage was instantly filled with heavy air.

The distance of only about five minutes felt very long.

「I have weturned.」

Helped down by the escort knight, she greeted Claude and Sebastian who had come out to meet her, but the two were confirming Magnolia's figure with an air of tension.

「Milady, is there nothing wrong with your body?」

「Yesh. I'm fine?」

Sebastian, with a stiff expression, relaxed slightly upon hearing the answer.

Claude remained stiff.

「Did shomething happen?」

Magnolia confirmed in a lowered voice. Then, Claude spoke.

「Cruse... An illness of unknown cause has appeared in the port town we went to yesterday. I think it is likely Voyage Sickness.」

The three people other than Magnolia stiffened their bodies as if twitching.

Magnolia furrowed her brows at the disease name she had never heard.

「Voyage... Shicknesh...?」

「Yeah. It's a disease that sometimes develops upon returning from a voyage. It is not clear whether they catch it in foreign countries or if there is another cause. I don't think it's a contagious disease, but just in case, I intend to isolate Magnolia, myself, the three who acted with you today, and Sebastian for a day.」

「......」

Magnolia dug up famous medieval diseases in her mind.

Black Death, typhus, dysentery, cholera, tuberculosis, smallpox... all scary infectious diseases.

Especially the Black Death, also called the plague, must have caused a pandemic and taken many lives.

However, Claude just said it was probably not a contagious disease.

「...Undershtood. For now, let's go to the offish.」

Claude and Sebastian nodded silently and turned on their heels. The four followed behind in silence.

Upon arriving at the office, Claude sat at the executive desk, Sebastian served tea, and the four sat on the sofas respectively.

When Magnolia asked for confirmation, Claude answered.

「Could you tell me in detail?」

「It seems several people suspected of having Voyage Sickness appeared on a foreign ship docked a few days ago. The crew is multinational, and among them was a person from Azenda who was visiting home... and it seems symptoms are seen in that person as well.」

Magnolia tilted her head.

「...Why is the weport coming only now?」

「First, one reason is that the ship belongs to another country. Although there are rules to report serious matters, they tend to be cautious to minimize friction. ...It seems the people from other countries are being nursed on the ship without landing just in case. The person from Azenda is apparently being nursed at their parents' home, but since there was no sign of it spreading to others after several days, a family member went outside, and it became known to those around them.」

(I think it would be proper to inform immediately, but...)

Ignoring Magnolia's subtle reaction, Sebastian continued.

「Since they couldn't distinguish if it was a disease peculiar to foreign countries, they were observing to see if it was contagious. A fast horse just arrived from the knights stationed in the west. Since no one else has developed symptoms, they judged it to be Voyage Sickness based on the condition. However, it is difficult to determine clearly. Just in case, it might be better not to leave your room.」

There were many points to retort to, but she put them aside for now.

...As expected, it seems to be a world where medicine hasn't advanced that far. It could be seen that development hadn't reached the level where they could determine what the disease was through testing.

「Undershtood. Have there been any deaths?」

「None this time.」

「...Does the conshept of contagiousness exisht for disheases?」

Claude nodded suspiciously. The others seemed to be silently watching the flow of the conversation.

Dean looked terrified. Poor thing. It was understandable, but his complexion was terribly pale.

「Ash long as the twue nature of the dishease is unknown, we can't shay for shure... but for the time being, there are shymptoms that led you to guesh it is a non-contagious dishease called 『Voyage Shicknesh』, wight?」

At Magnolia's question, Claude explained while thinking about how to convey the current state of medicine in this world clearly.

「How should I put it... Diseases are not very visible except for symptoms. Therefore, there are few for which the cause is clearly known. However, there were people with similar symptoms in the past, and after comparing with different diseases, I believe they judged it to be Voyage Sickness this time.」

「Undershtood.」

She remembered being surprised that there were surprisingly no major epidemics of infectious diseases when she looked up diseases in this world.

Maybe because it's a pseudo-medieval/early modern style, although far from modern Earth, surprisingly, waste treatment is done to a minimum, and the often-mentioned bad smells aren't that bad.

Many of Earth's past infectious diseases spread due to issues with hygiene concepts.

She had thought that perhaps because sewage and waste were managed to some extent, infectious diseases were fewer compared to Earth's Middle Ages.

「Firsht, there are disheases caused by 『bactewia』 and 『viwuses』, and thoshe caused by the destwuction of body functions or tissues. Contagious ones are ushually welated to bactewia or viwuses, but even if one becomes a cawwier, the incubation pewiod until onshot vawies depending on the causative agent... I think isolating for a few days without weason has little effect.」

The four other than Claude were looking at Magnolia as if dumbfounded.

It might be better not to let Sebastian hear this, but the situation was urgent. Solving it came before consideration right now.

Voyage Sickness (Kokai-byo)... It's probably "Scurvy/Navigation Sickness".

So this hasn't been cleared... she wanted to sigh at the difference from her original world.

Judging from the name, she guessed it was likely a deficiency disease caused by long voyages.

There are three well-known ones on Earth.

Beriberi, Pellagra, and Scurvy.

「Could you tell me the detailed shymptoms of that 『Voyage Shicknesh』?」

「The degree varies, but bleeding is seen on the skin in most cases. They weaken, teeth fall out, and some have old wounds open up. It seems there is a bad smell, and rarely they become depressed.」

Magnolia was convinced.

It wasn't certain because she didn't know the differences between Earth and here, but judging from the situation over the past five months or so, she thought there wasn't much difference.

「Undershtood. That pwobably ishn't contagious, sho there's no need for isolation. That is 『Scuwvy』.」

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