Chapter 33

From now on, we have finally started making paper.

My enthusiasm is enough. I am so excited that Lutz is said to be calm.

As part of today’s work, I learned from a timber shop and listened to various people from Lutz, cutting the trees I had a good idea of. I want to steam it in the river, expose it to the river, and then finish it in the forest until I peel the black skin. The peeled skin is brought back to the warehouse and dried.

Prototypes can be made in postcard size, so I don’t think so much material is needed. However, it has to be steamed for several hours, so there are a lot of firewood.

If you work in the forest, it will not be so hard to collect firewood and you can go to pick it up before it runs out. Lucts to bring a pot and steamer would be difficult.

Therefore, I went to borrow the key of the warehouse early in the morning and took out the pan and steamer. He tells Marc that he will keep borrowing the key because he will work in the warehouse after returning from the forest.

The preparation is perfect, but now it was unexpected.

“Lutz, are you okay?”

“… Ah”

Lutz replies, but the figure with the pan and steamer attached to his back does not look okay at all. It seems to be crushed now.

Defeat is easy.

The pot and the steamer were both considered heavy enough to carry Lutz. Lutz also said that this would be fine. But Lutz wasn’t supposed to carry them together to the forest.

“Do you have a steamer alone?”

“It’s impossible for Mine”

“… I understand”

Maybe it’s impossible for me because Lutz is impossible.

What I can do is support Lutz and go to the forest without doing too much. As usual, I and Lutz walk towards the forest with a number of children.

“Lutz, what is it?”

“What do you want to do in the forest?”

Children are curious about the pots that Rutz carries and the steamers they are not familiar with.

“Making paper with a pot and steamer”

The back baggage may be quite heavy. Lutz has few words and the answer is concise.

Even if it sounds displeased, the children who are curious will continue to ask questions.

“What? What do you make?”

“What are you doing funny?”

“… No. The ability to do this will determine whether I can become an apprentice. Don’t bother me”

“Yes, I understand. Do your best, Lutz”

The question blame that I thought would last forever moved away as I heard that it was necessary to become an apprentice of Lutz.

§ I didn’t know why the kids were drawing easily, and when I asked Lutz later, my parents often decided on a place to work, but there were many people who wanted to work at a popular place. Also rushed. If that happens, it may change where the parents ask, but there may be some sort of selection test.

It seems that children must never disturb the selection test. You may be disturbed by revenge at your own time, and if rumors of distraction spread, it will be difficult for you to find a place to work.

Hohoho, I see. It ’s always the same where people gather at popular places of employment and the magnification increases.

I met Otto at the gate and was encouraged to do my best. You may have realized that you started making paper by looking at Lutz carrying a pan and a steamer.

“Yeah, I’ll do my best. Dad, I’ll come”

My father recently seems to be a little jealous because I act only with Lutz, but when I wave my hand, he looks back with a complex face like the middle of a frowning face and a grinning face. I didn’t like my friendship with Lutz and Otto, but I could understand the psychological situation that I was glad that my daughter shook my hand.

“Hey, I’m tired. It was heavier than I expected”

Put a pot and steamer on the river side, and Lutz turns around his shoulder.

“Thank you, Lutz. Do you take a break?”

“No, if you start steaming, you’ll see the bell for a minute? Rest at that time”

While saying so, Lutz’s hand is starting to make a bowl that can be loaded with pots by placing stones in Kawahara.

As expected, Lutz. There is no waste.

For Lutz, who is used to working outdoors, even if I include the memories of the previous life, I’m indoors and I have almost no experience. It’s always normal to be useless.

I can only pick up a nearby piece of wood and hand it to Lutz.

Lutz put the river water in a pot and set it in a firewood.

“I cut trees, so Mine has a break and doesn’t ask for a pot lookout.”

“I need a Lutz for a break!”

“Until you make paper, it’s a problem if you get sick. It’s nice to pick up a piece of wood around here, but don’t move too much.

“… I understand”

As Lutz says, I decided to watch the pot gently. That said, it will take a long time to boil, and it will be free time.

Pick up a piece of wood around it and bring it to the pot and put it on the fire.

Since the tree has disappeared nearby, when I gathered the trees while moving away from the pot little by little, I found red nuts that looked like pomegranates, half buried in the soil.

“That? What? Can you eat? Can you get it with oil?”

The things in the forest are mostly useful for life. As expected, I spent almost a year in this world, and my thoughts seem to have been dyed here. If you find something, it wasn’t in Japan to pick it up for the time being.

“Let’s ask Lutz what this is”

With a piece of tree that I had, I dug around the red nuts and dug out the red nuts. When I picked it up, the nuts became hot all the time.

Yaba! It seems that it was the fruit of a mysterious tree that I don’t understand.

Apparently, the red nuts seemed to be friends of mysterious ingredients that I sometimes mix at the time of cooking. To be honest, I don’t know what will happen and I don’t know how to deal with it.

hurriedly I threw the tree nuts as far as possible, throwing them as far as possible … I was going to fall, but I fell down without flying 5 meters.

Bread! Papapan! Along with the sound like a bouncy sound, red berries spattered and suddenly many buds began to grow.

Even while being stunned, it grows up to an ankle and around the ankle.

What! ? What’s! ? This is Nyoki Nyoki!

In an obvious abnormal situation, I screamed while evacuating the place with bubbles.

“Lutz! Lutz! Lutz ~! Something strange!”

“What, mine !?”

Lutz, who seems to have been near, rushes away, making a noise.

When I looked at the person I pointed to, Lutz changed her face and pi ~! I heard a whistle and made a high sound.

“Tronbe!”

“What is it?”

“I will explain later!”

Talking so, Lutz shakes the straw and begins cutting the plants. Plants that quickly reached the height of their thighs beyond the height of the knees were dangerous.

“Mine is across the river! Is it okay?”

“I understand.”

There is no time to talk about emergency situations. I escaped to the river as Lutz instructed.

Contrary to me heading to the river, children who heard Lutz’s finger whistle gathered.

“What’s wrong … Trombe !?”

“Trombe!”

“Mowing immediately!”

It seems to me that I still can’t understand. The children who gathered seemed to know what this Japanese tree is, and as they did with Lutz, they stood up with a spear and knife.

I was sitting near the pot and saw the children of the straw and the mowing of the trees.

The other party is a plant and I thought it would burn if there was a fire … I wasn’t able to go beyond the river told by Lutz, because I was running for a short time Just.

“Is there any more?”

It seems that the harvesting of Nyoki Nyoki has ended while I’m in the middle of Kawahara.

The children are looking around to see if there are any uncut leaves.

“I think it’s okay”

“Maybe other Trombe may come out, so be careful when collecting. Call something with a whistle”

The children were scattered again for collection, and Lutz came next to me.

“Is it impossible to go over the river …”

“… It was impossible”

My breath is more or less rough than Lutz, which has been cut. If someone who doesn’t know anything sees it, it must look like he was fighting at the forefront.

“Lutz, what is that?”

“Trombe”

Trombe is a very fast-growing tree. If it doesn’t cut when it begins to grow, it seems that the surrounding nutrients will be sucked at once.

And when it grows up, it is difficult to cut down, and it seems to have to ask the Knights.

Hey, there are knights. As expected, it is a different world.

“But it’s strange”

“What?”

Lutz sits on the stones of Kawahara and leans his head while holding his breath.

“Trombe comes out a little early. It’s usually after autumn”

“Hey …”

“Growth was really fast, but the soil around the Trombe wasn’t rough …”

“Fun”

“What do you think Mine is strange?”

Lutz scolded me with an expression of dissatisfaction with my reaction.

However, it is not easy to ask if you don’t think it is strange. It’s my first time seeing it, so it’s strange but nothing. That existence is strange.

“I never saw it for the first time. I don’t know if it’s different than usual.”

“Well, it’s been spring since Mine came to the forest”

As I was convinced, as soon as Lutz whispered several times, the sound of the gulp and the pan began to boil began.

“Lutz, what about trees?”

“Must be scattered around here …”

Lutz pointed around Trombe and drooped drastically.

It was supposed to cut the wood that became the material before the hot water boiled, but Lutz seems to have thrown out the cut wood because of the emergence of Trombe.

“… Hey, Lutz. So why don’t you make paper with this Trombe?” There are a lot of things and I mowed the beginning, so the fibers would be soft … ”

“That’s right. It’s quite hard to go picking from now on.”

Put Trombe in a steamer and let Lutz put it on the pan. You only need to replenish firewood for a while so that the fire does not go out.

Lutz sees the fire as he throws the pieces of wood that I have collected.

“Mine. Bad, can you see the fire? Picking up a thrown tree”

“No, I understand”

Lutz went to pick up the tree that threw out and was surprised if he recovered after a short break.

I was entrusted with the turn of the fire, I grabbed a piece of wood and stared at the fire. You can adjust the fire a little, but when you take your eyes off, there are too many things that change and it fails.

Gas stove was convenient. Now IH and microwave are magical areas, really.

Lutz began collecting while steaming Trombe. At the end of summer, the forest that is about to fall has a lot to eat.

As I watched the pot in turn, I picked up something I could see.

“I got a lot, Lutz. How is it?”

“Which … Mine! Show me everything! Check if you can bring it back!”

When I looked at my collection and asked Lutz who changed her face, about 30% of the collection was poisonous.

“This is no good. If I eat, my limbs are numb and I can’t move for about 3 days. This is also no good. If I eat, I die by blowing bubbles. If you don’t remember it properly, you’re not sick, you’ll die by poisoning? “

Yeah. Surely I will die if I don’t remember properly, not only me but also my family.

As we live here, how to identify poisons is classified into items that must be remembered immediately. There is no picture book, so you can only see and remember the actual thing.

“Tell me because I will do my best,”

“Ah”

I heard a bell sound faintly from the town, so I removed the steamer. Although my face was hot with steam, I couldn’t tell if I had enough time to steam.

“Are you okay?”

“I’m not sure, but I’ll put it in the river and peel it off”

Roughly exposed to the river and peeled off while it was hot. It was peeled off and never shattered.

Easier than I thought. This may have found a good material.

“This Trombe may be suitable for paper material”

“I don’t know when it will grow up, and I’m not sure you can get it before it grows up”

“… That’s not good”

«I remembered today and sighed. It’s a shame that if you can grow it, it will be a very good material.

“Now, Mine. Is it all right for today’s work?”

“Yeah, next time I have to dry this skin”

“… Fun. Well then, I’ll clean up the pot, so can I leave it to you?”

Lutz leaves it to me and starts washing and cleaning the pot and steamer in the river.

Sitting down and facing the skin was a lot of fun, and I was happy and peeled.

Since it was time to go back to town, I put black skin and some crops in the cage. Lutz puts his pot and steamer on his back. There are also collections, so it is definitely heavier to return than when you came.

Lutz and I both went back to town and went away from everyone to the warehouse. Lutz unlocks and unloads the luggage.

“Oh, it was heavy!”

“There were more collections on the way home. I wish I could have more …”

I can only carry what I picked up. There’s no room to help Lutz.

When sitting in the warehouse, Lutz took out the black skin that had been in the pan and shaken it.

“Now, Mine. How do you hang this and where do you hang it?”

“Eh? Um … what should I do?”

Imagely, it feels like drying rice straw, but there are no extra bars.

I looked around and looked for something that could be used, and I banged Lutz’s shoulder.

“Lutz, I’m tired but bad, can you hit the nail on this shelf at equal intervals? I’ll dry it.”

“… I can’t help it”

I hang black skin on the nails struck by Concon and Lutz. It is possible because there are not many, but when it comes to mass production, a place to dry is also needed.

When you start mass production, ask Benno again. Is n’t it necessary yet?

“Now you have to dry the black skin completely. If it doesn’t dry, mold will grow. Take it to the forest tomorrow and dry it in the sun?”

“So, just bring your skin tomorrow, and you don’t have to do anything special? Then, it looks like it can be collected normally. There are many things that I have to pick up now, so I’m saved.”

“Yeah, I want to pick up a lot of rice cakes and make dried rice cakes.

“… Mine can recognize the poisonous mushrooms”

The next day, I took a black skin in the forest and caught it on the edge of the reed, picking up a large amount of reeds while drying in the sun.

20% were poisonous mushrooms.

Funny. Is this supposed to…….

Sun dried for several days to dry the skin completely. I didn’t know how much it was completely dry, so I dried it too much.

Going to the forest with a shiny black skin. The weather is important because we will be exposed to the river for more than a day.

¡Place the stones around the river so that inconspicuous people do not get close to it so that the black skin doesn’t flow.

“Is this OK?”

“… Maybe. Let’s take a look once on the way home”

I don’t have any experience, so I’m not sure, but this shouldn’t be wrong. While thinking so, I looked at my feet in the river.

…… It’s natural, but you don’t have rubber boots or gloves.

Today is still a hot day, so it’s okay to enter the river, but in the coming season, entering the river will be a life and death season.

“Lutz, before it gets cold, it’s not good if you don’t have to leave all the trees here, not just Trombe. You won’t be able to enter the river”

“… definitely, it’s still quite cold”

Lutz also thought that he would work after it got cold, frowned and agreed with my opinion.

“Cut the tree today and hide it somewhere like clay. If you bring a pot and steamer tomorrow, you can’t have the wood of material?”

“That’s right”

On that day, look for trees that are likely to be used as paper material, cut them, collect them by type, and hide them under the shrubs.

While collecting, sometimes go to see the black skin. The black skin floating in the stone surrounded the stones and swelled slightly by sucking water without flowing into the river.

“I’m worried about leaving the forest, but I’m fine”

“… Yes”

Even after coming home with the thought of pulling back hair, I can’t help thinking about the state of the black skin that was left unattended.

Suddenly something like a guerrilla heavy rain fell upstream, the water increased, and what should I do? What if the bandits came out and were just taken when they found the treasure? Strange thoughts come to mind when I am dull.

The next day, I headed for the forest, but it seemed that there was no guerrilla rain or watched by the bandits, so when I went to the forest the next day, It was there.

“It was good. It wasn’t gone”

“… What do you do with this?”

Lutz leans over the black skin that has drenched water.

“Peel this skin with a knife to leave only the white skin of the endothelium, but let’s start steaming the tree yesterday first. Just do it while steaming.”

“I understand”

The stone jar made last time still remained, so some repairs were made and a pot and steamer were set.

When it was over, I and Lutz began to peel off the outer skin with a knife on a large flat stone in Kawahara where the pot was visible.

“You can leave this dry for a while. Let’s finish making the white skin while it is warm.”

“You”

Grigigari Gigi Gigi Giggi

Put a black skin on the stone and peel the black skin on the surface so that only the white skin is left. It’s like taking a strip of scissors. Since the skin is not so strong, it will break off. I think there are more efficient ways and tools, but this is what I do now.

Grigarigari… GigiGigiGigi ……

“Now, Mine. This isn’t impossible …”

“Yeah, I needed a stand”

Goosebumps do not stop standing with the feeling that the sound of rubbing a knife and stone resonates throughout the body. In order to do the skinning work, I really want a board like a cutting board.

Even if I remember in my head and started writing out tools, there are quite a few things that are not enough when I actually work. There are too many things I didn’t understand even if I knew it. As you work, you will need to replenish the missing items little by little.

While I was peeling my eyes with tears, I knew the importance of experience with the goosebumps that did not stop.