Blow away the nasty weather! 2-4H

Blow away the nasty weather! 2-4H

[Field]

Yuu: Tougou said she'd be around here...

Its: Ah, are they the people over there?

Kar: Are they drying something on that platform? Fuu! What are you doing there!?

Fuu: What, you bunch are here too?

Tou: Just the right time, we're almost done, so we were just about to have a late lunch.

Its: Done? Uh, what are these green fruits?

Uta: Itsuki-san, you've never seen them before? They're plums for umeboshi before being dried.

Its: Eh!? But the stuff I always eat isn't this colour at all!

Tou: They turn red once you pickle them together with red shiso.

Yuu: Really!? So you can make umeboshi by yourself, I had no idea!

Sum: In the past, almost all families would pickle them around this time of the year.

Yuu: Does it depend on the season?

Uta: Yeah. The plums all bear fruit around this time.

Yuu: Plum trees are real hard workers, growing fruit even under the rain!

Sum: Since it's the rain that falls when the plums bear fruit, the kanji for rainy season can be read as "plum rain".

Yuu: Really!?

Uta: I have a pretty big plum tree on the field too. It bore a lot of fruit, and it was a lot of work to harvest them all.

Uta: And washing, pitting and drying them all would be too much for me and Mii-chan.

Kar: So that's why you called Fuu and the others.

Its: You could've just said so.

Fuu: Sorry, sorry. I had no idea you'd worry so much.

Its: *pout*

Tou: Well, we two love traditional activities like these. Right, Sumi-chan?

Sum: Yes. Fuu-san thought we'd like it, so she called us first.

Fuu: Sorry for worrying you, Itsuki.

Its: Alright...

Mit: Here, I have some onigiri with umeboshi and drinks with plum syrup!

Mit: There's enough for you three too, so help yourselves.

Its: Is that okay? We haven't done anything.

Uta: Don't hold back! They're all plums from my field, so they're tasty!

Its: Eeh!? Umeboshi are this fast to make?

Mit: That'd be too much. The farmers that made them last year shared some with us.

Yuu: Waah! That's awesome! Self-grown plums are this tasty!?

Its: You're right, they're great!

Fuu: Next year, we're going to be eating lots of umeboshi we've made ourselves!