Chapter 310
Chapter 310 Deep water wells
Jin and the others had left the city of Banyuu and started heading west using the highway . They had an early lunch at Kurowas city and stayed the night at Hatata city .
They were travelling about 40 kilometers a day but since they were already in their home country, Reinhart wasn’t hurrying anymore .
In fact, it also seemed a bit like he was a little sad that the journey was going to be over soon .
Even though he had wanted to go to his motherland as soon as possible when they were stopped at Asunto .
Hatata city was the connection point of highways, and so many people could be seen coming in and going out .
As the spring sun was still high, Reinhart guided Jin and showed him around the Hatata town . Reiko silently accompanied them .
“Unlike Banyuu city, this one has quite a lot of single-storied buildings, huh?”
One could see quite a few two-storied buildings in Banyuu but one-storied buildings were more in number here .
The eaves on the roofs were small so the roofs looked even smaller to Jin .
“Ah, yeah . There is a lot of land compared to the population so there are no need for 2nd floors here, you see . ”
“Certainly seems so . ”
Although there were a lot of coming and going here because of the highways, since the city itself was quite big, people spread throughout it and, as a result, the city looked deserted at a glance .
“It doesn’t rain as much here . Banyuu had the Divide river close to it, so it has plenty water but you need to dig pretty deep wells here to get water . ”
Hearing that, Jin understood why the roofs were small . When it rains a lot, inversely, the roofs are much bigger and the eaves are deeper .
“Ah, so that’s why it’s kinda dusty here . ”
The windows were also quite small to prevent the dust from entering .
“More or less . One more thing… you can’t really expect much of the food here . ”
Reinhart said disappointedly .
They returned to the inn after 4 pm, after some sightseeing .
“Welcome back . ”
The inn was different, being two-storied . And like the other buildings of this city, as the sites were wide, it also had a wide garden .
“I will bring the ‘rinse’ immediately . ” The doorkeeper girl said energetically .
By ‘rinse’, she meant water and towels to wipe off the dust, as this city is always quite dusty .
Beside the huge entrance hall of the inn, a well was dug and a pulley and a bucket was there to pull up water .
“Here we go . ”
Seeing the girl pull up water, Jin was reminded of Kaina village’s previous state . Seeing Hanna strenuously draw water, he had built a pump .
Hanna was 8 years old back then . Now, the girl drawing water was about 12-13 years old . Jin gazed at the scene, without any particular thought .
“Ah, shoot!”
Seems like her hand slipped, making the bucket fall down, making a loud noise once it hit the water .
In case of drawing water using a pulley, it’s quite hard to stop a bucket from falling down if you let it go once .
And as expected, the girl’s palm was abraded as she had tightly gripped the rope .
“S-sorry! I will pull it up back again!”
Saying that, she began pulling the bucket again . As Jin saw the girl pulling the bucket back up again, he realized that it was taking quite a while and remembered how Reinhart was saying how the wells are very deep here .
“Sorry it took so long . Here’s the water . ”
She handed them the bucket and towel . Reinhart and Jin took that silently and wiped their faces, necks, hands and feet .
“Thank you . That was refreshing . ”
Saying that, Reinhart gave the girl a tip .
“T-thank you very much!”
Seeing the happiness on the girls face, Jin realized that he didn’t have any money on hand . And so,
“Show me your hand . ”
Saying that, he took her hand and,
“‘Cure’ . ”
And used healing magic . The hand which had blood flowing from it was clean again .
“Th… thank you very much!”
She must have been pretty happy, as she gave Jin a deep bow, and later, went off with the water bucket .
Their room was quite large and they all had different bedrooms . Jin, Reinhart, Matheus and Reinhart’s butler Claude were in the same room .
Jin, who had something on his mind, called out to Reinhart .
“What happened, Jin?”
“We need to talk . ”
Jin talked about the pump he had made before . It became quite popular in the Kurain kingdom but since Reinhart looked like he knew nothing about it,
“There’s such a tool?! I am extremely curious, I will help . ”
Reinhart was very excited .
And so, Jin and Reinhart went to meet with the inn’s owner together .
“Isn’t the well here very deep? What do you think of installing a far more efficient and easy tool to draw water?”
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