When the time came, we moved to the room where the course on herb collection will be discussed.
As we moved to the room, I heard a whining voice from somewhere, but I tried not to pay attention. Sue on the other hand, flinched the moment she heard that annoying voice. Maybe noticing her emotion, Shiro held Sue’s hand and smiled at her. Sue also seems to have calmed down a bit as Shiro holds her hand.
When we arrived at the private room where we are going to take the course, an old man was preparing various things. Samples of medicinal herbs are laid out on the table.
“Hello!”
“Oh, hello. Please take your seat and wait for a moment.”
“Yes.”
He seems to be a good-natured old man, Shiro is not wary of him at all.
Today’s lecture is about medicinal herbs collection so there are children and women in the classroom as well. A total of about 20 people are here to participate.
“Okay, let’s start the course on herb collection. We will have classroom lecture first, and then let’s go outside to do hands-on medicinal herbs collection.”
“Ye~s.”
Shiro always reply cheerfully, but some people are giggling at her. Of course, she did not mind that.
Then after a short while, the lecture begins.
“There are some sample of medicinal herbs in front of you guys. Please try and find out what are their characteristics.”
“Hmm, there are white hairs growing on the back of the stems and leaves.”
“It smells a little bit. It smells unique.”
“That’s right. There is a little hair-like stuff in most medicinal herbs. They do have a smell too.”
This herb feels like mugwort in my previous life. It has a distinctive smell, like Houttuynia cordata. They used to grow in my backyard.
“Most of the herbs grow at the entrance of the forest, and they need a certain amount of sunlight to grow. Depending on the type of medicinal herb, the place where you can get it is different, so please refer to the medicinal herb encyclopedia for details.”
I see, so it is possible to collect medicinal herbs without going deep into the forest huh.
That makes sense why the rank required for adventurers to do herb collection is also the lowest one.
“But it’s still in the forest. There is a possibility of animals and monsters appearing, so you need to be alert at all times.”
Since we are going into the forest, we are all well aware of the dangers. Even when we were walking along the main road near the forest, we saw wolves and so on.
By the way, for some reason, medicinal herbs can only be harvested in the forest and cannot be cultivated outside. This situation is being investigated by the national research institute.
“Basically, ten leaves make up one herb. That’s why the herb-picking kits come with a special string. Well, we also sell strings alone.”
Some of them took out their herb gathering sets and checked them.
I also gave the string to Shiro and Sue, and Ao and we all looked at the string with interest.
Oh right. Before we actually go to collect herbs, I need to buy a kit for herb collection for Sue and some extra strings as well.
This is translated by Yume Neiji. Kindly read at yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com.
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