It's Easy to Take Care of a Live-in Hero!Ch30.1 - Snow and Calf (Day 14)

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“…Uu, my head hurts…” 6I9dpX

I clutched at my temple while I fed the chickens. Was this a hangover? I only had a glass of wine last night, so why did my head hurt so much? How weird. But now that I had thought of it, the wine bottle was empty this morning. Don’t tell me I…

I didn’t remember doing that.

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I only recalled that I had been tired, and had fallen straight asleep while Sig was taking a bath. I was the one who offered to “drink wine” with him, so why did I fall asleep like that?!

By the time I woke up, it was already late morning; I’d rushed to the field, but it was too late. Sig had finished taking care of the morning routine. SUuXcL

Putting the disinfectant back in the storeroom, I heaved a heavy sigh.

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I’d already apologized for falling asleep last night. But that just made the situation worse.

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We gave Kacha a spin after breakfast, and this time a golden ball rolled out. The text floating on its surface read “Snow.”

“Won’t Iwao feel cold?” M5Stld

“It should be able to withstand the cold to some extent,” Sig replied.

According to God, the snow would continue to fall all day long. We took a break from the field for the day, and placed a brazier in the living room to stave off the chill.

However, it would be a waste to spend the whole day relaxing. We decided to welcome some new livestock: a cow that we’d planned to buy in the future.

Cows cost 50,000 PT each. Even though the price included seven days’ worth of feed, it was still expensive to me. I’d put a lot of thought into this decision, but it was still a pretty daring purchase. fGQRKj

Sig and I decided to build a new enclosure for it before it arrived. We secured an area to the east side of the house. Right in front of the chicken pen.

Even though it was a barn in name, it was only about the size of our bedroom before the expansion. With Sig building it, we would finish in no time.

As I looked over the blueprint to confirm the next step of the instructions, Sig gave my hand a tug. “Aren’t you cold, Minoru?” His fingers were usually cold on my skin, but they felt warm to me now.

Our breaths came out in white puffs, our ears and noses a ruddy red, but because were bundled up and kept moving, I didn’t feel that cold. abDFg8

“I’m alright. We’ll finish soon, so let’s continue.”

The snow continued to fall as we assembled the barn.

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It only took around two hours to build it, and in that short amount of time the ground had been transformed into an ocean of white.

I purchased the cow, full of excitement. It was brown, rather than the black and white Holsteins I was used to, and smaller than I’d expected. Only around the size of a pony. CZNaRd

Of course, it was a female― oh, her stomach was big.

“Eh… Is she pregnant?”

“Of course she is. Dairy cows only produce milk to raise their calves,” Sig said.

His words seemed convincing. No, wait a minute. If what he said was true, then did that mean this cow would give birth to a calf tomorrow, or even today? l7tQSk

I paled. “Sig, I… I’ve never raised a newborn calf before.”

“Me neither, but we just have to make them a comfortable bed, and then watch over them, right?” Sig patted my shoulder, gentle, and I managed to coax my body to some sense of calm.

After that, I was running all over the place, following the instructions on how to raise a cow.

There was plenty of straw delivered with the materials for the barn, so we used some to make a bed for the mother. Sig installed a livestock heater; it was the type that would heat hot water without fire, running it through a metal pipe that was shared with our home. The mechanism was the same as the heater we had in our room. DNQV9s

Before long, our surroundings had turned into a winter wonderland. Even though we could still see our footprints on the ground, we swept the road free of snow with a bamboo broom to make sure we’d have a path home.