Chapter 916: How Are You Doing?

The shrine maiden's residence at Hatsuyuki Shrine is surrounded by a mahogany fence called "Tamagaki", just like the Sakura tree and the worship hall.

That was to isolate the residence of the gods from the secular world and ensure the purity of the divine realm.

As priests who serve the gods, witches are naturally allowed to live in the residence of the gods.

Looking specifically at Hatsuyuki Shrine, Sakurayuki Chiai even lives beside the Sakura God day and night.

Everything she did at home was watched tenderly by Chuxue.

In this way, everyone entered Qian Ai's home talking and laughing.

Since she hasn't been here for a long time, Erina has forgotten where the small vegetable garden is.

"It's over there." Yingxue smiled and led the way: "Open the outdoor sliding door and you will reach the vegetable garden. Why don't you go take a look first? I will come over after preparing the tea."

So, everyone happily walked around the corner, opened the wooden door, and saw a small vegetable patch surrounded by a wall.

Here, there is also a bluestone water well that looks quite old - the pool of the Teisuisha. It is probably filled by Yingxue carrying water from here every day.

Fortunately, the distance is not too far. Otherwise, just carrying water every day will probably cost you half your life.

Probably for the sake of aesthetics and not destroying the sacred atmosphere, the vegetable field is surrounded on three sides and cannot be seen from the shrine yard.

You can only enter through the two sliding doors of Yingxue's house.

Behind the sliding door, there is a short stone step leading to the yard.

This is a design found in traditional Japanese houses with outdoor sliding doors that are not entrance doors. The material is occasionally made of wood.

The reason why there is such a step is that it is convenient for people to put their feet on it when sitting there with the door open.

It is also equivalent to dividing a boundary between the outdoor ground and the indoor area to remind you that you need to take off your shoes here.

In this traditional Japanese style room with tatami mats, you have to take off your shoes when entering the room. Wear slippers only when using the restroom, washroom, laundry room and showering.

The Yida family has a semi-traditional design. That is to say, you need to take off your shoes in specific rooms such as your own room, living room, and calligraphy room. This is not required in corridors and other places.

You can see that Sakurayuki Chiai's work clothes and mud-stained boots specially used for working are placed in a cabinet nearby.

Since there are no shoes that can be worn out here, and it would be too troublesome to go to the entrance to get them, it would be nice to just stand here and look at the situation in the yard.

The yard is not too big, but it maximizes the use of space and grows many things.

At the same time, a chicken shed was also built.

There were several hens walking around inside.

The only rooster stood above the chicken shed, staring at them with its chest raised, as if to declare its sovereignty.

Probably, Yingxue wakes up to the crow of the rooster every morning - it's really a very primitive and natural alarm clock.

There are many vegetables grown in the garden.

Tomatoes, potatoes, radishes, cabbage, cabbage, eggplant...

Since the garden itself is not large, the vegetable patch seems quite crowded.

"Hehe... It's been a long time since I've been here. Seeing this vegetable field, we feel so familiar~" Sachiko looked at all this, squatting on the ground and picking up Yukikaze Pills, and said enthusiastically: "I wish we had some too Just a piece of land, that’s fine~”

Yukikaze Maru: "Woof!"

Sachiko: "Huh? You said Eunice's family originally had a place like this? Oh...it's really nice...we want it too."

Sachiko: "Although we should be too lazy to farm..."

Yukikaze Maru: "Woof! Woof woof..."

Sachiko: "Miss Eunice? Yeah, we understand! We also want to know how she is doing~"

Sachiko: "But who should I ask about this kind of thing?"

Yoshiyuki: "I guess...it would be better to ask Gunslinger Island Village?"