Kusuriya no Hitorigoto - Ch. 76.1 - Festival (Part 1)

[MangaDex]

 

[Amimikamoon]

... red-green colourblindness, maybe?

 

[IlsaTilsaKilsaMilsa]

Racoon Dog due to being the daughter of the Tanuki Prime Minister?

... red-green colourblindness, maybe?

She probably has several ties to the royal family over the years since it's founding, that would make sense.

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Another episode of Mao Mao's field trip while everyone back in the palace is worried sick
With the relatively low amount of pages per chapter, this will probably read weird for a while, having one part of Mao Mao being "kidnapped" and one focusing on her rescue / the circumstances (a consort and her father MIA) around it...

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Thanks for the upload again

 

[SuperOniichan]

Can anyone remind me what year or century the story takes place?

 

[AnotherDuck]

A racoon dog and a cat. Good match.

Yeah, better not give that hairpin away.

 

[alacaelum]

I am curious what is the plan here.

It obviously seems to have something to do with overthrowing the current royal family... or at least it is that at first glance.

But when I factor in that they only attacked Jinshi and it doesn't seem the current emperor was targeted... I am not so certain it is so simple.

Then we come to Maomao's kidnapping, Shi Shui's escape, and all that, it is a lot... but please for those that have read the novel don't say anything, I do want to experience it fresh.

 

[PinkSakuraFlower]

Two chapters?! We're eating good tonight everyone!!! Thanks to the team for the translation and all the hard work! Much appreciated.

Now I'm wondering if that entire village is part of the royal line directly, or is part of the family from the 'west'? cause with that many people with red-green blindness, either someone or a handful have been busy or they're from a extended area.

 

[BalrogDeMorgoth]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Madologist]

Can anyone remind me what year or century the story takes place?

Hard to nail down, since it borrows elements from multiple different eras. But in general from the western stuff we have seen, late 17th to early 18th would be a good guess.

I am curious what is the plan here.

It obviously seems to have something to do with overthrowing the current royal family... or at least it is that at first glance.

But when I factor in that they only attacked Jinshi and it doesn't seem the current emperor was targeted... I am not so certain it is so simple.

Then we come to Maomao's kidnapping, Shi Shui's escape, and all that, it is a lot... but please for those that have read the novel don't say anything, I do want to experience it fresh.

There was a plan, and there was a plan B. By now they have moved on to plan C, which stands for Complicated Mess. Aka. we fucked up, time to wing it and not get on the chopping block.
A single kitten can do so much damage by just satisfying her curiosity, it would seem.

 

[Meijin]

Can anyone remind me what year or century the story takes place?

Not in any year or century in our history.

 

[Gilthwixt]

Can anyone remind me what year or century the story takes place?

Fictional/Alternate Reality China with a mix of different time periods. Try not to tie it to history too seriously.

 

[cryum]

I am curious what is the plan here.

It obviously seems to have something to do with overthrowing the current royal family... or at least it is that at first glance.

But when I factor in that they only attacked Jinshi and it doesn't seem the current emperor was targeted... I am not so certain it is so simple.

Then we come to Maomao's kidnapping, Shi Shui's escape, and all that, it is a lot... but please for those that have read the novel don't say anything, I do want to experience it fresh.

All I remember is that there's so many steps and plans within plans that I can't even tell if stopping any particular plot changes anything in the grand scheme of things.

 

[testro]

Can anyone remind me what year or century the story takes place?

IIRC, the society and most tech is around the 15th to 17th centuries (Edo Japan), with exception of medicine, which is 19th century

 

[alacaelum]

All I remember is that there's so many steps and plans within plans that I can't even tell if stopping any particular plot changes anything in the grand scheme of things.

There was a plan, and there was a plan B. By now they have moved on to plan C, which stands for Complicated Mess. Aka. we fucked up, time to wing it and not get on the chopping block.
A single kitten can do so much damage by just satisfying her curiosity, it would seem.

I can totally see that being the case.

I bet that their using the old palace's maids was something that they suddenly decided "Hey, let's use the traumatized and furious women sex slaves that have decades of festering hate boiling down, it certainly will streamline our plan".

 

[Xel-naga]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Angoldd]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[SveNo]

IIRC, the society and most tech is around the 15th to 17th centuries (Edo Japan), with exception of medicine, which is 19th century

Edo Japan is 1603 to 1868, or 17th through most of 19th century.

Then again, this is fantasy China so any attempt at dating will probably be off.

 

[Official229]

Can anyone remind me what year or century the story takes place?

IIRC, the society and most tech is around the 15th to 17th centuries (Edo Japan), with exception of medicine, which is 19th century

Edo Japan is 1603 to 1868, or 17th through most of 19th century.

Then again, this is fantasy China so any attempt at dating will probably be off.

Others have already mentioned this in the thread, but the story takes place in an alternative historical timeline which draws from multiple historical periods of Chinese history.
Any attempts of pinning it down to a particular period in our history is going to make your head start to spin since it has things from early Imperial China history (3rd century) as well as stuff from the very late period (18th century)... at the same time.
From what I know, the author has already addressed this by saying something along the lines "I've given up, so you should too."

Basically, the author is just pulling stuff from different periods as they go.

I went looking through the messages in the channel we use for working on the series and found the following stuff, but there's probably more stuff in there that I didn't find:

• The consort system that's used in the story (the 4 noble consorts) appears during the Tang dynasty (618 AD ~ 907 AD).
• Given that they had couches in chapter 56, this means this has stuff from after the very early period at least, around or after the Han dynasty (202 BC ~ 220 AD).
• The punishment Mao Mao's adoptive father received is called Yuè and was a part of the Five Punishments during Ancient Chinese history, and was used before the coming of the Tang dynasty. It was already abolished in that form during the preceding Sui dynasty (581 AD ~ 618 AD) and replaced with less harsh punishments.

You can see how it kinda conflicts there.

 

[Rebootedc]

... red-green colourblindness, maybe?

Colour blindness. I was thinking the same