Chapter 9

Well, I decided to make a book, but I could not procure paper.

If you go to a home center as a Japanese, 500 copies of paper were sold for about 200 yen, but in my place of living, my father’s monthly salary is just one piece of parchment. Disappear.

One piece of parchment is the largest piece of parchment that has been peeled off, shaved, and sold as parchment. become. One piece I found at my father’s office was about the size of A4 paper.

Even if a piece of parchment is cut and used, it will only be about 5-8 pieces. Simply put, it is too expensive for the commoners to buy a parchment that can write a book.

In other words, I need to make paper before making a book.

However, I have only the knowledge of how to make paper in a book. Because paper was what I sold when I went to the store.

Loose leaves and notebooks were lined up even at school purchases, as well as at supermarkets and convenience stores. I’ve lived in a world where I can get a notepad and a notebook with a crude product. Calendars were a rough bank, and insert ads and unnecessary direct mail were immediately garbage.

Now you can look through every corner of whatever advertisements you don’t need, and you can declare that you want to use any white space.

How extravagant was the world where paper was easily available?

Viva, Japan! If you reincarnate anyway, Japan was good.

As an added bonus, no machine is found here to make paper. As long as there is no machine, all you have to do is make your own paper.

Do you think it is natural that you have been reborn in a different world without machines?

Do you think you should read the book and know it because you have knowledge?

…… But please think carefully.

Can Japanese people suddenly make paper by hand because they just like reading and don’t take care of daily household chores using electrical appliances? Moreover, now the body is an infant, who is sick, and the range that is possible and allowed is extremely narrow.

Conclusion.

It can’t be done.

However, it is still early to give up.

Earth has a long history of political and economic necessity and record. I’ve been recording for a long time, but it’s not a long time ago that I made machine-made paper.

In other words, the older the history, the more likely I can reproduce it.

Hmm, how was it when there was no machine?

I opened the hand of a five-year-old girl, just like a three-year-old child if it was just a physique, as much as possible, and shook my eyebrows.

Old civilization, old civilization … Speaking of ancient civilization, Egyptian civilization!

Speaking of Egyptian civilization, papyrus!

Egyptian civilization, thousands of years!

In such an associative game, I came up with the idea of ​​making papyrus mockup based on Egyptian civilization. If it is an invention from the time of ancient civilization, it might be possible to manage with my little hands.

Any plant, anyway, it should have been made using straight wood and grass fibers … Maybe. Even here there are plants. Plants that are likely to be used as raw materials for paper must have become rugged in the forest.

Okay, it’s a forest. Let’s go to the forest.

I am a woman who was amazed and lamented by her family and Shu-chan when she was terribly light on footwork.

Execute as soon as possible. I asked him to take him to Turi immediately.

“Turi, I want to go to the forest too …”

“Huh? Mine is impossible!”

Refused before saying everything. It was a reflection speed that there was no room to think about.

Moreover, it seems that it is said that “it is impossible” instead of “no” and that there is no room for reconsideration.

“Why?”

“Because you can’t walk Mine? You can’t walk to the gate, but it’s impossible to get to the forest. So, you can’t climb a tree, you’re tired of your return, but you’re walking with heavy luggage on your back, you come back in time to close the gate, so you can’t rest no matter how tired Is n’t it impossible for Mine? ”

As usual, Turi has begun to count the reasons why Mine cannot go to the forest. It’s a little too much, but all the reasons are summarized as “I don’t have physical strength”.

“Because it’s already near winter, there are fewer items in the forest …”

Turi says that there is a possibility of getting tired and going to the forest almost without harvesting.

It’s really hard.

Would you like to go to the forest on the premise that there might be no harvest or give up making paper?

Too difficult.

“What do you want? I don’t think there are almost any knives.”

Turi leans to me, who is deeply worried.

The fruit of the kelly is the fruit that I made a simple chan chan, and the fruit that the Turi has taken is stored as oil without being eaten. And sometimes I put it on my hair and use it for moisturizing.

Although the knitting was also appreciated, what is more important is the book rather than beauty. It is a plant fiber that is needed to make papyrus mud.

“Well, is there a plant that easily breaks down fiber?”

“What? What?”

Listening to me with a suspicious face. This is a face that was never communicated in Japanese.

Well, think for a moment, and try to replace it with words that are easy to understand.

“… Slightly thick stem and straight grass. I want only the stem”

Turi, who heard my words, thought that well. Do you have any idea? Wait for Turi’s answer.

After a while, Turi gave up his neck and opened his mouth.

“Yes, I’ll try to cooperate with Ralph and Lutz”

“Huh?”

Don’t ask for help, try?

When I leaned my head because I didn’t understand the meaning of the words, Turi seemed a little surprised at my reaction. I blinked several times and tilted my head, “What are you talking about now?”

“Ralph has chickens, so you have a lot of feed for the winter?”

No, I don’t know if you say “Oh?”

Since Turi has spoken as a matter of course, I kept my voice hidden and said, “I don’t think so.”

“So instead of helping to get grass, ask if you can get a little stem. But the grassy season is over, so it’s not too much?”

“That’s fine, thank you, Turi”

As expected, Turi. Good older sister.

Next day, I went down with Turi going to the forest and asked Ralph and Lutz. I was relieved to have received it, but I can’t just leave it to Turi.

I go to get the grass myself. Fortunately, grass was growing around the well, except for the cobblestones. Can you use that stem?

“Mother, I also go to the well”

“Oh, do you want to help?”

“No, no.”

It ’s bad to be happy, but I will definitely deny it. If you help, you can’t collect grass.

“Collecting grass”

Saying that, I showed a small trap that Turi made before.

“Yes, do your best”

Refused help with Bassari, but mother refused to accompany me, whether he thought he should n’t disturb his motivation I did not.

Descending the stairs again with my mother holding the laundry. Today is already the second round-trip, so after all, I’m short of breath and I can’t take the grass.

I took a break next to my mother who was pumping water from a well and washing it with a stubborn animal soap that wasn’t bubbling at all. As Turi says, you can’t go to the forest without some physical strength.

“Oh, not Maine”

“Good morning”

“Oh, Carla. Good morning. It’s early this morning.”

I don’t remember, but I heard that an aunt named Carla seemed to be familiar. My mother also talks swayingly, so I’m sure she’s an acquaintance of Mine. Who? I tried to find a little memory while paying attention not to appear in the face.

After all, he knew. According to memory, Ralf and Lutz ’s mother. A little ugly, um, someone who seems to be very dependable.

Should I say “I am always indebted” in this case?

No, no matter how many children are five years old.

What kind of conversation do you have with your aunt, an acquaintance of your child?

Help someone!

Rotating thoughts turn my eyes, Aunt Carla begins to wash with water without seeming heavy from the well. After all, using smelly animal soap.

“I’m fine today. It’s rare to be outside”

“Take the grass. Ralph and Lutz said they were collecting for the birds.”

“Well, for me? Bad?”

While answering with a light mouthfeel that I don’t think is bad, Aunt Carla is washing with Zakazaka. While talking to several mother groups including my mother all the time.

By the way, no matter where my mother’s mouth is moving, her hands never stop. amazing.

Still, soap still smells.

wonder if it will be a little better if you use a deodorant herb?

Or is it a more terrible odor with smell x smell?

While thinking about a proposal for improvement, I got up and started to tear the grass around. I choose grass that has as thick a stem as possible and hard fibers, but that won’t break me.

Bare hands are impossible. Please bring some scythe sickle.

Of course, the mowing scythe never arrives, and it cannot be torn off with bare hands.

Alright. Expect Turi who went to the forest and Ralph and Lutz who are working hard for chickens.

諦 I gave up as soon as I took my own stem, and I picked and picked soft leaves and buds that would be eaten by chickens. At this level, I can do it without any problems.

“Mine, I’m going home”

It seems that the laundry has already ended. My mother who had the laundry squeezed tightly called me called me. I haven’t picked up about half of it in a small basket yet, but my mother has a job today, so I can’t say anything about it.

I went home with a small bag.

“Are you ready? Well then, I’ll go”

“Yes”

After I became a mine, I didn’t know because I had a fever, my mother took a break and I was living in the house all the time. It seems to have been entrusted to a grandmother in the neighborhood.

Otherwise, Turi cannot go to the forest. Convinced.

“Mom goes to work, but Mine is here to stay quiet.”

“Yes”

“Gelda, best regards”

“Yes, yes, come here.”

Mr. Gerda, who works as a babysitter, had several children like me. Basically, there are some toddlers who finally escaped the infant.

In this town, when you are over 3 years old and your physical strength comes, you can be taken to the forest by your brother or sister and help you with your house.

In other words, my physical strength is as good as I can walk, and my family is thought not to be able to leave an answering machine alone.

What do you mean? ?

There was a boy who was trying to put a toy on the floor in front of me who was stunned by the evaluation of his family. Next to it, a little girl started to cry when hit by a boy.

“This is dirty! Don’t put it in your mouth!”

“Arara”

“You shouldn’t be suddenly crazy. Why did you do that?”

“Well”

Even though I should be a child, I am supposed to take care of me around because of the biggest.

Oh, oh no, not!

Grandma Gerda, work a little!

While laying down a small child with Gerda Grandma, I thought about how to make papyrus with the delivered stem.

Honestly, I don’t remember how to make papyrus.

Because I didn’t take that exam.

Certainly, the papyrus looks pretty hard, the fibers are vertically and horizontally, and the fiber direction is different between the front and back, so it can only be written on one side and not bendable I remember that there was a note in the corner of the page … but I wasn’t writing how I could make it.

Unfortunately, I can’t think of how to make a papyrus just seen in the picture.

I feel like the fibers were running straight, but how do the fibers stick together? Do you need something that is as gluey as Japanese paper?

Leaning his head while recalling a collection of historical materials that hadn’t written much.

For the time being, how about using the fibers of the stem part that seems to be the hardest, and then weaving them like a cloth? If this is the case, it may be manageable even if there is no glue.

Even parchment is like a cloth, and the first papyrus to be made is all you need to write and write.

“Mine, I came to pick you up”

“Tourie!”

In the evening, Turi and others came to pick me up on the way home from the forest.

Thank you. I’m really happy to pick you up. With such feelings, I hugged with Turi.

Gerda Grandma’s babysitting was not a nuisance, but a way to keep it in a safe place. Even if you pee, wipe it with a wet cloth and leave it afterwards. The room smells dirty.

It was really hard to see the lullaby here with Japanese common sense stuck in my head.

It ’s too bad to take a babysitting.

However, even if I want to do something, it is a problem that is not enough for my little hands. I can’t think of my little hands as a babysitter and I don’t know if Gerda Grandma’s way is normal here. I might be stranger at the accused.

«I wanted to get away from this inferior environment as soon as possible.

“What was it, Mine? Did you feel lonely because you were entrusted for the first time in a long time?”

“Mine can go to the forest together if he has a little more physical strength”

“I wish I could go in the spring”

My head was pompomed by Turi, I was comforted by Ralph and Lutz, and I knew I had to get serious. It ’s bad that you do n’t have physical strength.

“Yes, I’ve taken the promise of the grass stalk”

Ralph showed me the stalk in the cage. At that moment, Gerda Grandma blew away from her head.

Book from Grandma. Paper.

“It’s full. I’m happy! Well, I collected some grass today at the well.”

¡When I reported with my chest, for some reason I was stroked by three people.

As a bonus, Lutz, who was looking from above, was praised with a warm smile saying “I did my best”.

Hey, how much do you think I’m a child who doesn’t work?

…… No, I’m definitely not working.

草 Swap the grass in a small cage that Turi has taken and the bundle of stems that the three have taken.

Now, I’ll make a papyrus and make it.