Chapter 20

It would have been nice if the clay plate could be baked and preserved. Huh.

I didn’t expect an explosion.

At least, if you have a knife like Turi, you can make a tree.

小 Made a small explosion in the fire, banned the making of clay plates, the book making stuck, and while thinking about the next method, Turi became 7 years old.

It is customary here to celebrate the seventh birthday.

Exactly, it’s not the birthday but the birth season. The baptismal ceremony is held in the temple every season, and all children who are 7 years old go to the temple to receive the baptismal ceremony.

Since I can work as an apprentice after this, will it be counted as a member of the city?

Although I feel somewhat weak when I think of religious rituals, I feel confident if I think it is like Shichigosan. Strange.

Since children under the age of 7 cannot enter the temple, I and my father are not participating.

By the way, I have decided not to participate in age, but my father is not compulsory. To my luck, my father seems to have a meeting that cannot be missed on the day of Turi’s baptism.

Moreover, this meeting was decided by a call from a senior nobleman, and if he doesn’t go, he will physically fly.

Scared!

Despite this, my father complains that he will start early in the morning, and he does not readily go to work.

“I don’t want to go to a meeting. It’s a baptism at Turi? Why do you have a meeting on such an important day?”

The baptism is certainly an important day. There should be children in the aristocrats, and if you go to the baptismal ceremony, I think there is some consideration for the date.

“That? Maybe the noble children don’t have a baptism?”

“… I’ve heard that instead of going to the temple, I’ll call the priest home. So nobles don’t understand the feelings below.”

Well, I’ve heard from yesterday night that I should just feel complaining at home. Is the sorrow and annoyance of the daughter-loving father, whose work overlapped with the children’s athletic meet and Shichigosan, common throughout the world?

I sighed Turi’s hair carefully and divided it in the middle, exhaling.

“Dad, I’ll go with you, so let’s go to work. It’s only necessary to go with Turi halfway. Anyway, only Turi children and only adults can enter the temple. Waiting in the square? ”

If you join the procession halfway and see the sunny view of Turi, you will feel a little disappointed. I thought so and made a suggestion, but my father says it’s still going.

“Waiting in the square is the role of father …”

“I think my father’s job is to earn money by going to work.”

“Wow!”

“If I don’t like going to work with me, should I go alone?”

If you keep away from it, you will see this with your eyes that seem to cry even now.

“… Going to work with Mine. I’ll be back soon after the meeting is over. I’ll definitely have a celebration tonight”

As I knit hair, Turi laughed with a smile toward his father so that his eyes would not move.

“I’m already a dad. I know. I’m celebrating with you guys, come back because I’m looking forward to it.”

“Ah”

laughing and seeing my father’s mood suddenly rise, I applaud in my heart as expected.

Such an angel remained smiling and asked me.

“Mine, watch your dad work properly”

“Let me out! I will do my best so that Turi can attend the baptism without worrying about it.”

“Hey, Mine !?”

Turi finally laughed at the heart of his miserable father.

Yeah, a good smile.

If you know that you are loved so hot, Turi will not be lonely even if your father cannot come to the baptismal ceremony.

“Yes, it’s complete … Yeah, Turi, cute”

“Thank you, Mine”

When the hair was divided in half and knitted from the left and right, the wrinkles were inserted into the finish.

Made with lace florets in winter, the flowers in the same color as the embroidery used for the garment appear to be small bouquets. Hair ornaments with colorful small flowers look great in the cheerful and soft atmosphere of Turi.

“Well, Turi. You were beautiful.”

“Eh … mother?”

The mother who heads to the temple with Turi was wearing a one-shoto to dress up today. A simple dress up to an ankle length that looks just like a shoe looks cool in light blue.

I didn’t think I would ever be a beautiful woman just by changing clothes and drawing red crushes of red grass.

My mother, too good material. Seriously beautiful woman.

“Mother sits here”

“I’m fine. When Mine joins, it looks very gorgeous. It can’t be decorated more than the main children.”

“So soft”

I didn’t think that it would be very gorgeous because I wouldn’t decorate it separately, but my mother wouldn’t help it. I don’t know what the sunny weather around here is, so it’s certainly possible to overdo it.

I got off the chair that was up to tie my hair.

“Now I’m going”

Celebrate with Turi, I leave the house with a tote bag to go to the gate. My mother who goes with Turi and my father who wore work clothes are also together.

As usual, my mother who walks with the starta raises the hem with her hands and goes down slowly without dragging her skirt, no matter how much baggage is held. Turi imitated it, lifted the skirt lightly and began to step down.

My everyday wear was unusually faster than the two, and went out a step ahead.

“Wow …”

There were many people in the square with a well. Apparently, this baptismal ceremony seems to be celebrated throughout the city. I could see Ralph and Lutz even though they were not related to today’s baptism. All the people around here come out and say blessings to today’s protagonist.

Although there should have been a baptism ceremony in winter and spring, this was the first baptism ceremony for me to see because I was not in physical condition.

“Faise, congratulations”

“A lot of men have gone up”

The pink head Faye seems to be a baptism today. You can see white sashes and green sashes tightened up and down with embroidery on the edges, just like Turi.

… Oh, I see. That’s important. Sewing arm.

Since all are handmade, the difference in arms is remarkable. In Japan, there was no particular need for a sewing arm, and since it was worn only here, even if it was said that the sewing skill was a condition of beauty, it wasn’t quite right.

However, the difference is clear when wearing new clothes like this.

I didn’t know because there was no comparison target so far, but my mother’s sewing arm is amazing. I’m proud of you. I’m determined that I can’t get married or a lover here either.

“Well, Turi! How cute!”

Aunt Carla, who found out that Turi came out, praised Turi with a loud voice that reverberated throughout the square, holding her cheeks as if impressed.

As soon as Turi attracted attention, people blessed the word of blessing.

“Turi congratulations”

“Beautiful hair, like a princess”

Turi, who was complimented by Aunt Carla, embarrassedly dyed her cheeks and laughed. The blue-green hair that has a cuticle angel ring that no other child has, sways softly in her mother’s pride of white clothes.

My Turi, Serious Angel. I know my dad will be a idiot.

“Mine worked hard”

“Well, Mine? There was a deal other than unusual dishes”

Aunt Carla, terrible.

But I was a little relieved. I had a deal that was recognized in this world.

“It’s so complicated, this.

“Which?”

Women of all ages look into Turi’s head.

Hi, it’s just a braid so don’t take a closer look! Because there was no proper comb, there is a place where the division is a little rattling.

“That’s nice, Turi. I have a baptism in winter, so I want you to do that.”

When a girl said that while sighing envy, a similar opinion was raised. When someone follows me, “I and I”, there is no end.

“Everyone wants Mine to do it? What can I do?”

Turi smiled happily and suggested, but I immediately shook his head and refused.

“It’s impossible”

“Why?”

“I don’t know when my fever will start. I’ve never seen a baptism today.”

“Turi is laughing to brag about her sister, but I don’t know it well at every baptismal ceremony.

But I can assure you that it will never be like Turi.

髪 Their hair is the same as the old Turi, and they are not cared for at all. I don’t want to touch the hair that I have to start with.

“Well, I’m getting better, but I don’t know when I get fever. Mine is amazing, I wanted to brag”

Since it is basically useless and cluttered, I feel like I want to hear Turi’s request, but it is physiologically impossible.

“… I can do it as long as I can show you where I’m braiding Turi’s hair, but I don’t want to make a promise to tie the child’s hair”

“Yeah, I made a promise that I couldn’t keep, and my father told me during this time. Everyone, if Mine could show and teach me how to tie my hair!”

Developed by Turi, who was satisfied with the compromise I made, a hair-cutting class was held at the well square at a later date.

No, I didn’t think that weaving was so noticeable. The mother declines to tie her hair.

“Then, what is this hair ornament? Who made it?”

“Mine”

“No, Turi. Everyone in the family! Flowers are me and my mother. My niece is my father”

“Oh, that’s right”

The mother who was good at sewing didn’t know. Lace knitting seems to be rare here. This is how the aunts bite.

“Hey, Maine. How can I make it?”

“It’s easy to teach, but I have to make a thin crochet. And I think my mom should teach me how to make hair ornaments. It’s better than me.”

I’m not good at people I don’t know, I don’t know the common sense here, I might say strange things, and I don’t know what to talk with my aunt around here. I think it ’s best to get away with it.

Karan Karan … and the bell of the temple rang. When the central temple rings the bell, it rings around the city while playing.

People who were making noise in the well square screamed for a moment.

The next moment, someone cheers and shouts.

“Departure! Go to the main street!”

If you go out to the main street with the children who receive the baptismal ceremony, the children coming out from the alley to the main street and the onlookers came out in the same way.

From the edge of the city, towards the central temple, the procession walks down the main street with children dressed in white. The procession is made up of baptized children and their attendants, and the rest of them will be seen off the main street.

This scene is similar to that.

There are people waving hands along the roadside and saying congratulations. The feeling of the procession progressing between them, and the cheering approach, show the progress of the procession. It looks like.

A cheerful cheer comes closer from far away.

When I looked at the Turi next door, it seemed to be tense and my face was a little tense, so I stretched back as much as possible and struck the Turi cheek with my index finger.

“What? What?”

“It’s a smile. If you laugh, Turi is the cutest. Really?”

Once I rounded my eyes, I smiled on the face of Turi, who slowly narrowed her eyes.

“If you’re already mine”

“Yes, Turi will be the cutest even if you don’t laugh”

What should I do with this father?

During the exchange, the procession started to appear. While cheers, applause and whistling, children dressed in similar white sunny clothes walked with a radiant smile, a slightly tense face, a good expression, an anxious face. come.

Turi and Faye walked one step ahead from the visitors on the main street. While watching the procession of the procession, proceed with a light gait and join the back of the children. After confirming the two who were in the procession, Faye’s family and we also joined the parent’s back row.

Every time there is a corner on the main street, the number of children gradually increases. By the time you get to the temple, which seems to be in the center of the city, you have no idea how many people are increasing.

Some parents have already been moved by tears walking in line. For example, my father.

I walked in a loud cheer while keeping a slight run to keep up with the procession.

Since the voice flies from various places, if you look around, the people watching from the windows of the houses on both sides of the main street and the small white flowers that have been picked somewhere are blessed I saw a person to do.

A white flower thrown from a window in a high room seems to fall from the blue sky. A happy voice comes up from the children in the procession.

I’m quite short compared to the surroundings, and I could only see the hands of the children stretching towards the heavens to get flowers.

The procession stops once at the intersection with the fountain where the main street and main street intersect. The procession increased with the children who came from different streets.

This is the last time my father and I can walk together.

“Dad is over here”

I got out of the procession by pulling my father who was in the mood to go to the temple with the procession. So as not to disturb the procession, stop by the end of the main street and see the procession with the visitors.

“Turi …”

“Oh! Dad is over here”

When the procession passes, the spectators begin to return home. We bent towards the south gate with such a human wave.

I look back at the procession many times, but is the meeting time okay?

“Team Leader! It’s late!”

When I got to the gate, there was an otto with his eyes lifted up. I send my father to the conference room and I practice writing on the stone as usual.

From now on, I was able to remember the name from the goods that went in and out so that the merchant’s luggage table could be read.

This is the first daily word learned from Otto. Today’s words are all seasonal vegetables of this season.

Although vegetables used in everyday dishes such as pome (tomatoes that look like yellow paprika), vel (red lettuce), and fusha (green eggplant) are easy to remember, imagine vegetables that are not on the table I can’t, so it takes time to learn.

I want to go to the market once and connect the actual thing with the word. But the butcher is still not good at it.

When practicing crispness and letters alone, a relatively young soldier jumped in with documents.

“Do you know Otto-san?”

“I’m going to a meeting today?”

“Oh, that’s right! What should I do …”

It seems that today’s gatekeepers can’t read the letters on documents.

“Let’s read?”

“What? Are you?”

“I ’m Otto ’s assistant”

It looked like a terrible smell. Well, it can’t be helped because it doesn’t look like you can read a character like this. I got used to this line of sight.

Since it was a kindness, it’s fine if you don’t want to show it separately.

Because there was no response, I decided to continue practicing the character with my gaze facing the stone.

“… can you read it?”

When it comes to reading, confidence depends on the type of document. I can’t say I’ve completely learned it yet.

“Well, I can read the referral form and the referral letter of the nobility without any problems. Even if I can read the numbers on the merchant’s luggage list, I’m not very confident about the items.”

“Now, I’ll ask you because it’s a noble introduction”

The nobility’s letter of introduction has a lot of trouble, but it doesn’t write anything difficult if you remove the decorative text.

In short, it is only necessary to read who is introducing who and who needs a seal.

I sucked the smell of parchment and ink into my chest and looked fluently.

… Ah, the chief is also in a meeting. Isn’t it better to wait until the meeting is over because it is an introduction of a lower class nobility?

“Well, with the introduction from Baron Bron, he seems to go to Baron Graz. I need the seal of the chief.”

I return the parchment, remembering Otto’s work. I can do this as long as the manual is available.

“Take the merchant who brought this to the waiting room for the lower nobility. Since today’s meeting is a call for senior nobility, please wait for the chief’s seal until the end of the meeting. I don’t think Baron Graz’s customers are the ones who can’t do it. ”

“Thank you, it was saved”

Because I was saluted twice by hitting my chest, I jumped off the chair and returned salute. While I was Otto’s assistant, I was able to do it as usual.

Well, if this is the case, I’m likely to get a job as a clerk here.

By the start of next year’s apprenticeship work, I thought I would make paper and become a bookstore, but I couldn’t see the tip and seem to make money.

¡When I continued practicing letters on a stone board, my father jumped in after finishing the meeting.

“I’m going home, Mine”

“Oh, a while ago …”

“That’s because I listen to the story on the way home. Turi is waiting”

When my father put a stone board or brush in his tote bag, he picked me up and started walking with his luggage.

“Dad !? Anne! Report is …”

“I’ll come out before I get caught by Otto”

“Wait! Otto has a report!”

Otto caught up while talking.

“Oh, Mr. Otto. A merchant with a letter of introduction from Baron Bron to Baron Graz is coming. Since the chief is also in a meeting, we are waiting in the waiting room for lower aristocrats.

“That’s my assistant. Well done.”

“My daughter”

Otto held his temples in his father’s words and exhaled.

“Order an important assistant to an important assistant. Go back with this team leader immediately. Because of the team leader who is intimidated and restless during the meeting, I was swallowed by a senior aristocracy and reduced my life.”

“… Dad, life must be taken care of”

“Otto is saying, I’m going home”

If you go home with your father who has completely gone home, that night will be the birthday celebration of Turi with your family.

Celebration in me was accompanied by a cake, but there is no such thing in my house. Looking at the ingredients that could be used, the substitute I prepared was French toast.

slicing a fairly hard millet bread to the mother and adding it to the egg and milk that was exchanged for the recipe from Lutz. I got my mother baking it with butter. I don’t have honey or sugar, so I tried adding a little bit of jam-like fruit jam.

Another thing I did for Turi. It’s a vegetable soup cutout. He was pleased that Turi was cute with vegetables cut into hearts and stars.

“Here, Turi. It’s a present.”

“Wow, father, mother, thank you”

Turi got work clothes and work tools. When he was 7 years old and received baptism, he worked for an apprenticeship. There is also a place where I live, but the apprentice of Tsurumi’s apprentice goes well.

Isn’t it a good idea to become a beautiful woman?

I want to tell Ralph that “Turi is a really good woman”.

“You work every day, right?”

“Well, I can’t do a lot of work at first, about half a week”

“Because I’ve been taking care of my apprentice for a long time, I can’t get my job done”

Certainly. On the day I teach letters and calculations to apprentice soldiers, I can’t study much, and I have a memory that Otto’s work has increased.

“And this is Mine”

Parents placed a long and slender object wrapped in cloth on a table and goton.

I blink and I tilt my head. I do n’t know why I ’m not a baptism.

“I ’m not a baptism, right?”

“Instead of Turi starting work, Mine will now pick up the kite, which is necessary.”

When I opened the wrapped cloth, there was a dull shining knife. The blade is thick and has a heavy weight on the hand.

It may be said in Japan that such a sharp danger seems dangerous to give to a child, but with this common sense, you can’t even protect yourself without this much. It’s like a baby who can’t help or do anything.

I got a knife.

Until now, I was completely treated as a baby. Turi’s help to help. Rather, do you always do extra things?

However, as Turi began apprenticeship, I would have to give me a knife.

But now you can make wood simple!

I’ll make a wooden simple!