Chapter 39

The next day, I arrived at the central square before the bell of the third ring and waited for Frida with Lutz. Speaking of which, I haven’t heard anything about Frida’s hair color, atmosphere, or anything that could be a landmark.

“What should I do, Lutz?”

“Are you calling me?”

“… Do you understand us?”

“I understand. Mine’s singing is special and there’s a grandfather right there so if you listen to it, you’ll know right away?”

Lutz gave up his shoulders pointing at the commercial guild building facing the central square.

Certainly, it seems to be understood immediately.

“Hey, Lutz. How was it yesterday? Uchiha …”

Yesterday, I and Lutz sold paper to Benno and returned home with money for the first time.

In our house, everyone had a rounded eye, but when they talked about making paper with Lutz, they praised me as “Wow!”

And the first salary I gave was included in my living expenses, and I decided to buy a little bit of honey, a winter-grade luxury item.

“Lutz? Are you going to be a merchant?”

Lutz was approved by Benno to be an apprentice for making paper with me. But what about the family? Was Lutz’s enthusiasm recognized?

Lutz gave a bitter face and gave up his shoulder.

“… subtle. I was pleased that I made money, but the merchant is still not. My father told me that he made paper with Mine and sold it, so he could be a paper craftsman. I’d like a craftsman. “

“Lutz’s dad really wants to be a craftsman”

I know I’m proud of making things, but it’s different from Lutz’s hope, so it seems difficult to find a place to drop.

“But I don’t want to be a craftsman, I want to do business like leaving Benno, like Ms. Benno. Mine doesn’t want to make only paper.”

“Yeah, when I’m ready to mass-produce paper, I’ll leave it to someone else to make paper. If there aren’t more books, bookstores can’t do it, and libraries What a dream, another dream? ”

To increase the number of books, paper production is not enough. Printing technology is absolutely necessary. Don’t seem to be happy to make a book with just a few notes.

…… It ’s a long way to go.

“I would like to have a bookstore with Mine. Yesterday I thought I saw a bookcase in a commercial guild, but if you want a book, you’re rich enough to read it.

“Well, that’s right”

The ordinary people in this city who can’t read the characters can’t want a book. Book? What that? is it delicious? It seems to be said normally.

“If so, wouldn’t a bookstore be able to sell to the nobles of various towns? Look, the place of the next lord that was the map”

Considering the customer base of people who buy books, this may certainly be the case.

When I was impressed with Lutz, who had been shaping my hopes, silently looking down at the map, a small footstep stopped in front of me.

“You are Mine?”

“Hey !? Ah, yes! Yes, Mr. Frida?”

“That’s right. Nice to meet you today.”

laughing, Frida was a pretty and cute little girl with twin-tailed cherry-colored hair and soft brown brown eyes.

It seems that she is younger than her age, although she is well-grown, has a severe habit, or is very mature with gestures and words. I can’t say people, but it’s an unbalanced impression.

But no matter where you look, it doesn’t look like the guild length. It seems that it was just a rumor that it resembles a guild chief. I was happy with Benno’s melancholy.

“You are Mine’s companion? I wish I was just a girl …”

Freda, who looked at Lutz and inflated her cheeks a little bit, said so.

Certainly, it’s also fascinating to talk to women, but that’s only for those who are close friends. Today ’s destination is the guild ’s house. I can’t feel like going alone.

¡I grabbed Lutz’s hand with a face that looked like Frida, and I smiled.

“I don’t have physical strength and fall well, so I can’t go out without Lutz. If Lutz isn’t allowed to enter Benno’s shop, Lutz isn’t allowed …” [19459002 ]

Before I say I’m going home, I put a word on Frida.

“If someone else doesn’t see it, it’s dangerous enough to fall down … Mine, you mean, are you eating?”

“Yes? … Eating?”

た I tilted my head unintentionally to words unfamiliar to my ears. Frida gently puts her hand on her cheek and tilts her head in the opposite direction to me.

“Do you understand the language? … Yes, there is something hot in the body and it doesn’t move regardless of your intentions?”

“Yes! Do you know this illness !?”

Information on illnesses that no one knew came out of an unexpected place. Frieda laughs a little in trouble when I and Lutz stand out and wait for the answer.

“… I was that way too. So, are you still small?”

It seems that I can’t grow up with a small size, or if I get rid of it, I can fall down for a little while because of the sickness of eating. Compared to the little petite Frida and her body, who are two or three years old, I am surprised.

“How can I get better?”

Frida’s word was a past tense. In other words, it was cured. After seeing Lutz and face, I asked Frida to eat.

Frida regretfully lowers her eyebrows and crawls in a sigh.

“… It takes money, really”

“Wow, desperate …”

A young lady from a merchant like a guild chief says, “It takes a lot of money.” It is hopeless in our economic power.

Frida gently slammed my shoulder, which was drooping.

“But you look so energetic. It’s okay as long as you do everything you want to do and your goals. Instead, you get a reaction when you break your heart or lose sight of your goals. Be careful ”

I see. Are you doing well these days because you set goals and want to go to the forest and decide to make paper? When I gave up Kikan, I died.

Nh? Isn’t it like migratory fish that will die if you don’t swim?

Talking about the information you learned for the first time while talking.

My illness is eating. I learned the name of the disease for the first time today. And I got one solution. In order to be well, he seems to have to keep moving toward the goal.

“If you are convinced, do you want to go home?”

“Yes”

The guild leader who was guided by Frida was also a merchant.

It’s quite big and closer to the castle wall than the Benno store. The word “close to the wall” is not appropriate. It is the highest level where you can see the temple up close as if it were right next to the wall.

“I love watching the baptismal march and I always watched it. At the baptism in summer, the hair ornament was very visible.”

If the house is here, you should be able to see the procession going into the temple without having to go outside.

“It was the first decoration I saw, so I asked my grandfather, but no information was collected, and it wasn’t spread at the baptismal ceremony in autumn, and it was strange …”

“Because it takes a bit of work, you can’t make it unless it is a winter handicraft that gives you a lot of time”

I add in my heart that my mother said.

“That was …”

“If it sells, it will be a christening girl from next spring”

“Oh! Well, I’m the only one who can wear it at the baptism in winter? I’m looking forward to it.”

Looking at Frida shining his face, I realized that Benno’s “special treatment at the baptism in winter where no one was on sale” was pretty premiere.

Isn’t it rip-off if there is a premier? I wish I hadn’t.

The buildings where Frida’s house and store are located are all rented to employees, and it seems that no one other than the related people lives. I was taken to the house on the second floor, and I was relieved.

There are many cloths.

I thought when I went to Otto’s house, but it was only the drawing room that I thought there was a lot of cloth in Otto’s house.

However, everywhere in Frida’s house, there are tapestries and cushions, and the colors are overflowing and gorgeous. There are shelves with stone animal figurines and metal statues. You can see that it is quite rich and has power close to the nobility.

“Young lady, please”

After passing through the drawing room, a subordinate woman serves a drink.

Red liquid is poured into a metal cup instead of the familiar wood.

“Ah, thank you. This is a drink that is made by adding nectar to the fruit juice of a corde and simmering it in water. It’s sweet and delicious.”

The fruit called Korde is very similar to Kiso, so it will be like Kiso juice. It was sweeter than expected when I spoke with that thought.

seldom sweet in my mouth, I realize my face is going to smile.

“Sweet. Delicious, Lutz.”

“It’s true. It’s sweet and delicious!”

“I’m glad you like it … why did you come to my house?”

Frida tilted the neck. What did the guild head explain? I’m not sure, but it’s better to explain from here.

“In fact, yesterday, the guild chief asked me to make this decoration for Frida’s baptism.”

When I remove the Turi hair ornament that I brought as a sample from the tote bag, Frida sees it and crawls it small.

“I know it, but if I was a grandfather, I thought I would make it without permission”

As expected, it is a grandchild. The correct answer.

Grandpa ran away, planned to order and surprise.

“Well, that kind of word came out, but after all I thought that it would be more pleasing to make it according to the person’s favorite color and the costume of the day, I asked to ask for hope”

Frida’s hair color is cherry, that is, pale pink. An ornament that matches the blue-green color of Turi’s hair doesn’t look good.

It is better to make it a red flower or put it neatly with an image like white flowers and green leaves.

“Yes, I thought it was smart for the grandfather, but did you stop me?”

“That’s why, if you like, please show me the costume for the day. I want to see the colors used for embroidery.”

Although I intended to avoid the statement and diverted the topic casually from the guild leader, Frida laughed as soon as I said it was a prospect.

…… Is all children with advanced education grown up like this?

The gestures and behaviors look more adult than me. At least, they are completely different from the children who went to the forest together.

“Wait a little. I’ll bring you a costume.”

When Frida took his seat, Lutz sighed as much as he was. Whether it was painful or still, I moved my body by turning my shoulders and shaking my neck.

“Lutz, are you okay?”

“I don’t have a conversation. I don’t know what color suits me, and I can’t speak with that kind of word.”

When I was talking to Frida, I spoke unintentionally and politely, and I didn’t get rough or nervous.

“No. When you get to work, it’s better to remember the words you’ve felt, but today I’m going to ask for hope. It’s hard to be quiet, but one person Because you are thin, stay together. ”

“Rice”

It ’s encouraging to have allies.

frida came back when i exhaled relief.

“Thank you for waiting. This is the costume.”

“Wow, nice!”

Frida brought me the costumes for the baptismal ceremony. The white color is the same as that of summer Turi, but the thickness of the fabric is different. Specifically, Frida’s outfit has some furry parts that seem warm to watch.

I put on many pieces and imagined my winter outfit, and I nodded.

Since the summer baptism ceremony is a thin fabric, the sewing arm was more important than the economic situation, but the winter baptism ceremony is likely to make a significant difference due to economic power.

“Do you like this color, Frida?”

“Yeah, so you’re getting embroidered?”

Detecting red embroidery in white and comparing it with Frida’s hair. This looks good on clothes and hair.

“Is there still enough thread for this embroidery?”

“I think there is, but what do you do?”

“If there are flowers of the same color, they are better organized. Are you sure you want a little? Try searching for the same color thread”

“Yes, that’s good.”

Ask the Benno to search for a thread of the same color, and divide the thread to make a flower decoration.

The hair ornaments made for Frida have been set to be quite harsh by Benno, so you may be particular about the thread.

“Is this enough?”

frida came back with a lump of thread that could be embroidered with another piece of clothing.

“It’s enough …”

“Thank you for this.”

I was handed over by a lump of deep red thread and I was at a loss.

If you get the raw materials here, the rip-off will be spurred. What should I do? ?

However, I can’t say to me, “Benno-san is overhanging, so I will discount the ingredients.” It’s awkward that Benno’s relationship with the guild leader is more complicated.

And in his brain, Benno was angry, saying, “When you can take money, you can only take it from where you can take it.”

I caught my eye on Frida’s hairstyle, whispering.

“What are your hairstyles going to be on the day?”

“Same as today?”

Frida’s hairstyle has a twin tail, so two of the same decorations are needed.

It was good to confirm. Incidentally, I’m glad that the guild leader was stopped. If it was made as the guild chief told me, Frida would have been in trouble because he didn’t look very good and got only one hair ornament.

“… If today is the same, you need two decorations, right?”

“… That’s right”

Frida also became a frightened face just to say that he noticed it now.

¡If you are relieved that you can relieve some rip-off by making two, Frida puts your finger on your chin and makes a little serious face.

“I have to double the amount,”

“No, I got the yarn to be used as material, so this is fine.”

I can’t get two rip-off charges when the cost is almost gone. My stomach hurts.

“But that’s not the case. I promised to make it with that amount. I will pay you exactly two charges.”

“Such! Even though I got the material, what are two minutes …”

Pay, don’t need, when I and Frida began to develop into an endless argument, Lutz, who had been silent until now, suggested scratching his head with Polypoli.

“If so, should the second be half priced?”

“Huh?”

“Mine wants to discount because she gets the ingredients. Frida wants to pay two more so that there is no trouble between the guildmaster and Benno’s husband later. The second is half price. Let ’s do it ”

“Lutz, genius! Is that okay, Frida?”

I jumped to the place where Lutz proposed.

When I turned around, Frida had an inexplicable face.

“I don’t care, but … when you can get money, you can save it from where it can be taken?”

Talking words that do not look cute and cute. Frida was undoubtedly the merchant’s daughter and the granddaughter of the guild.

“… Is that the merchant’s knowledge? Like Benno was saying the same thing …”

“Oh, is that business like that?”

¡I swung my head to Frida who leaned on the small neck and said so as usual.

“Is there a limit, or there is a reasonable price for things … Well, I’m glad I found the dropout”

“You guys are changing”

The medicine and Frida laugh. But it looked like a very friendly and natural smile, not ridicule.

‘It ’s not as if a friendship has started as a result of a dispute, but it seems like a strange sense of solidarity has been born.

Talking about business negotiations is not enough, but there is a set of things about hair ornaments.

I thought I was going to have some free time, but when I was transported to replace the cold water, the guts of Lutz, who was full of returning home, were fixed with cold water. I also want to enjoy sweetness, and I’m tempted to go to a little chat time.

“Yes, picking up the nuts and picking up the firewood in the forest. Every day is a picnic.”

薪 Picking up a kite is not so long because it takes a life. Rather, I’m more interested in Frida’s life without having to go picking up a kite.

“What does Frida usually do? Children around here don’t go to the forest?”

“I like mine the most … fufu”

After a beat, Frida smiles and opens his mouth.

“Is it possible to count money?”

Eh? Are you empty? Is it because of your mind? Was my ear crazy?

I feel that a hobby has emerged from the mouth of a pretty little girl.

“Oh, I’m a little different. I’m sorry”

If you are messed up with an unexpected answer, sway your head and correct your remarks as Frida behaves pretty.

It was just a moment when I stroked my chest, just to say that it was just a mistake.

“I don’t just count, but I also like to store. It feels great to feel the heavy weight in the bag, and the sound of money rubbing isn’t it nice?” [19459002 ]

“… Well, that may be true. I was also happy that the weight of the piggy bank increased.”

After somehow expressing the word, I closed my eyes lightly.

… It wasn’t a hallucination. Who did you talk about hobbies? It ’s me! My stupid!

«I didn’t want to know that the hobby of a lady who seems to suit her words like making sweets and embroidery is money.

“Well! Do you understand my hobby !?”

¡Frieda started to talk about how he likes money because he felt good about being affirmed.

“I’ve always loved the sparkle of gold coins since I was a child, and it was my pleasure to count gold coins together when my grandfather calculates the balance once a month.”

Is it a gold coin with all copper and silver coins removed? Hold this money!

Frieda’s hot story continues while I was distorted. Moisturizing and cheering up the cheeks, it happily touches on the expansion of money accounts and business.

“Recently, it’s also exciting to think about how this money will increase or to find a product that seems to sell.”

…… What should I do? It ’s a very strange child. It’s cute but it’s too disappointing.

“Hey, Mine”

“Yes, what is it?”

When I was half-conscious, I correct my posture and it was almost the same time that Frida grabbed my eyes and grabbed my hand.

“I love you very much”

“Thank you?”

I want you to miss that the endings have risen unnaturally. I don’t really know where I liked it.

When she leans her head, Frida dyes her cheeks with a pretty smile.

“Do you work with me?”

“No!”

Lutz immediately dismissed, faster than I would react.

“Oh, because my house is bigger than Benno’s shop, and I’ve been doing business for a long time, so the conditions are good?” So I can be my apprentice, and I’m listening to Mine, I’m not listening to you. “

That? This development, yesterday too …?

“Thank you for the invitation, but I can’t return to Benno …”

Refusal, before continuing, Frida smiled and covered the lines.

“Oh, that’s what I’ll give you instead”

“Eh? Um …”

I have refused, but have not refused.

There were no mistakes in rumors, and Benno’s worries weren’t worried.

It’s exactly like the guild head! Talking together with just a different tone is the same!

¡Lutz’s mood suddenly drops when he is intimidated by Frida, who has the advantage of changing stores one after another without breaking his smile.

“Mine, answer as clearly as yesterday”

“Oh, I refuse!”

Refusing to be so clear that I was scared to make the child cry, but Frida just rounded her eyes.

Rather, I sparkled my eyes so as to burn with fighting spirit.

“Oh, sorry. But there’s still plenty of time before Mine’s baptism, and if you’re temporarily registered in a commercial guild, you’ll have many opportunities to meet up. I’m looking forward to it. “

What is it?

It seems to be the feeling of the eagle trapped in the serpent, or the feeling of being blocked by the escape route, or the cold and sweat are emerging.

Benno-san, please help me!