7 : No shopping place?

I look at the road.

As they have to walk and move a lot. It must take them a long time to reach their home.

"It seems the journey is too long to bring along the raw product"

"Carriage and horses are expensive, it's like reaching the sky from the earth. By walking, the stuff will be too heavy and it will wilt or rotten within the journey. If it's a 2 or 3 days trip maybe you can still guarantee it. But some journey may take too long."

"I thought this world had some magic item. Didn't a magic bean bag possibly solve that issue?"

"It costly more than you can imagine"

"Is it expensive?"

"It depends, the value will be depending on your capacity that you want. The bigger the higher the price. It just, the item was too hard to get. You need some specific item."

Lana thinks for a while and continues talking.

"Like certain beast skin. You have to hunt the beast by yourself. And to make it have magic aptitude, you need craftsmen that can use magic. To have it you must be determine and look all the resource in one long exhausting journey"

You need to have a journey just to make that small thing.

I was wondering if there is a place like a shop that can gather and sell the item.

"Lana, there is no shop or market in this world?"

"What is it? I never heard that such things"

She gave me a weird look.

It's the look where she is trying to figure out the words I just spoke to her.

"It's a place where people will gather their goods and stuff and they sell to others."

"I'm not sure if it's the same thing but...there was a guild in the town. But it is usually where people post a job requiring goods and they pay it with money. There were merchant guilds but it was only for noble and rich people. Poor people like me will be kicked out."

"There's no stall at the roadside? Like people sell their fruits and vegetables?"

"No. I'm sorry but it will be hard since the taxes may be higher than our life"

"What do you mean? How can human life be cheaper than fruits?"

My voice is a bit higher since I felt angry if it's true that human life seems belittled in this land.

"You are a really nice and kind lady. But i'm not sure how to explain it to you. It's more like a world problem that i'm not smart enough to elaborate"

While talking to Lana, I saw the tray that I put above the bush was falling over. I rush over to collect the mushrooms that scatter at the ground.

Lana instinctively helped me.

"This is a mushroom, there were lots around my village. Why did you sundried it?"

"It's to preserve it longer. Beside It has a stronger scent and taste after it dried."

"Really? I never knew it could be eaten in so many ways. We usually grill it and eat it just like that. I really love the food you made yesterday. It was amazing and I'm not sure if that kind of food exists in this world."

"It's called omelette mushroom and the red thing is sauce that made from tomatoes"

"Omelet? Mushroom? Do you mean using this mushroom?"

Her eyes open wide with some disbelief.

"You say there are lots of this kind of plant at your place right?"

"yes.. And there are a few kinds of fungus too. Also there is this yellow mushroom that thin and wide as wide as adult palm"

She was so excited telling everything that they have in their village. I was thinking something that I can do to have all those things.