Chapter 42

“Now, Mine. Why do I keep a small silver coin in the guild every time? Why not take it all home?”

Lutz suddenly asked me when I was walking on the way home from the commercial guild that got off the carriage.

“I don’t have Rutz.”

“Because Mine is doing it. I just thought it would make sense and just imitated it. I thought I would take all my money home, so I felt bad for my family … … ”

The concept of savings is thin for ordinary people who live a last minute life with no money left. At best, at the beginning of autumn, he will save money for winter preparations, but he doesn’t register for commercial guilds.

Naturally, what parents do is a common sense of children, so children also take home all their salaries and spend all their lives.

“What I save is for the next initial expense”

“Next initial cost?”

Lutz tilts mysteriously, so I will explain his experience as an example.

“When you wanted to make paper, no tools, no money, and no adults to help, it was difficult to get one nail, wasn’t it?” 19459002]

“Ah”

It was not so long before Benno was beaten by Otto for help. Lutz seems to have remembered and sang with a bitter face.

“It was good that Benno happened to have bought a way to make” Simple Chan Linshan “and paid all the initial costs, but it was very expensive to arrange the tools, too. You know, you have money to get started ”

“Wood timber, ash, thread, bamboo work … if you think carefully, isn’t it expensive?”

Recently, as a result of going around various stores for purchasing, Lutz has become aware of the quality and price of goods sold in stores, not street vendors. The price goes pale.

“So, save it. Benno-san told me that the initial investment was over because he was able to make a prototype. From now on, I’m going to add more tools to make paper, or something new. If you decide to start out, it will cost you everything, even if you make a lot of paper and make a book, you have new tools. ”

“So, why not …”

Listening to the appearance of Lutz with an unsatisfactory expression.

There is an urgent reason why Lutz needs to save more money than I do, but isn’t Lutz aware? Is n’t it?

After thinking a bit, I opened my mouth slowly.

“I don’t want to say or think about this … but if Lutz’s parents don’t allow me to become a merchant at the baptism, what would Luz do? … Do you have any? ”

Listening to my question and distorting my face painfully, Lutz squeezed with a weak voice.

“… I want to live with Benno’s husband and become an apprentice.”

“Yeah, if you want to be a merchant, you have to do it? You didn’t have to be told to give up”

When I laughed, Lutz exhales with a little relief. I’m going to leave the house this year, so I’m quite prepared, and I’m still wondering.

However, Lutz is trying to go in his direction. If that’s the case, you need something ahead of you.

“But Lutz, think carefully. When you get out of the house and live in, you have money to make up the cost of living and apprenticeship until you get your first salary. I don’t think Lutz has a free money and no money at all. “

“Ah …”

Lutz raised his face as if he was relieved.

“It’s not a bad thing to save the money you earn for yourself. It’s guilty because everyone is living with all the money, but I really do work Lutz, who is not the age to do, will bring back 13 large bronze coins in less than 5 days, give him more money than Ralph’s apprentice salary, so it ’s okay ”

“Well … I earned more than Ralf, I”

Lutz laughs proudly.

Ralph, who has just started apprentices, can only make 8 to 10 large copper coins in January, so the amount we earn is quite high.

“Thank you Mine. I feel so much easier”

“It was good”

When I laughed, Rutz suddenly turned away from me and crouched on the spot.

“What’s wrong, Lutz?”

“I will carry my back”

“Yes?”

“I’m pretty tired because I went to a lot of places today. Bad complexion.”

Lutz’s words unintentionally touch my face. I don’t feel it is hot yet, so I don’t think it’s hot.

“… Is your complexion bad?”

“It’s not that much, but it’s still called tomorrow afternoon, so don’t overdo it. It’s Mine’s physical condition management that I must do first.”

“… I understand. I will take care of you.”

It ’s true that I moved too far in the day and turned into a spatula. If Lutz shouldn’t overdo it, I’m sure it’s pretty dangerous.

Lutz carried me to my house on my back. As I expected, the stairs went up by myself, but I really helped because Lutz went up with me as I pulled my hand on the way.

Honestly, the staircase leading to the front of the house is the tightest.

“Now, my mother”

“Oh, Lutz. It’s unusual to come here? Isn’t Mine’s physical condition bad?”

“Today, I was only going to show Benno’s husband a hair ornament, but I met the guild head and got in the way. I was asked to give him a hair ornament directly. So, I think I ’m very tired. ”

“Thank you so much, I’ll save you”

Saying so, my mother makes Rutz hold a piece of medium bronze.

I saw the money and remembered it.

“Oh, yes. Mom, I’ll give you this before you forget.”

“Mine, what did you do?”

Referring to the five large copper coins I gave, my mother became pale.

The hair ornament didn’t seem to be so worthy, and it hardened with my eyes wide open.

“It’s money that made Frida’s hair ornament. You said you would buy it because it’s rare?”

“I heard it, but it was so expensive …”

Sorry, mother. In fact, it’s an atmosphere that I can never say that I have withdrawn a small silver coin for myself as an introduction fee.

“Is it true, Lutz?”

“I’m not telling a lie, Aunt Afa. I did it together, so I have the same amount. I split it with Mine in half.”

Saying that, Lutz also showed his mother a large amount of copper. It seems that he finally trusted me, and my mother strokes her chest.

A little mother. Don’t you trust your daughter at all?

“Actually, Benno’s husband is called tomorrow afternoon and I’m going to go to the store. So rest as much as possible.”

“Thank you bother, Lutz”

Referring to Lutz, the mother who closed the door and the door slammed me into the bed, lifting a little eyebrows.

“You can’t force it. But you bought it too much?”

“Yeah, Frieda was rich and used high-quality yarn, usually one, but you made two? And because he was busy during the winter months, he blew the price. That ’s why it ’s not so expensive to make it to others. ”

“Yeah, it was a busy time, so it took me into consideration”

In the mother, the guild leader and Frieda seemed to be very kind and gentleman-rich who can take care of the poor. From now on, my mother will probably never meet them, so there will be no need to break the illusion.

The mother who seems to be relieved knowing why the child returned with a lot of money left the bedroom to prepare dinner.

I was left in the bedroom, and it seemed that it was a heavy burden on my body. As soon as I lay down on the bed, I started to try and fell into a deep sleep without having dinner.

When I got up, it was morning.

Since I am going to the Benno store in the afternoon, I decided to take a break in the morning. Mid-forced.

Recently, I’m going out a little, so I’m sluggish even though I should have slept well. I thought I could hear the signs of a fever, and I was thrown into my bed by my family who started preparing for the winter.

“Mine is quiet. I’ve been doing too much lately. Do you want to earn more than your dad?”

My father, who checks the doors, told me so, and Turi and my mother, who started to dry with futons and carpets for winter,

“Will you go to Benno-san today? Will you fall down if you are not quiet in the morning?”

“Mine is almost useless in the winter, so do your best where it helps”

It was forbidden to move from bed.

Since there is no help for it, I dig into the futon and watch the family move without being busy.

This year, unlike last year, I know what to do in winter, so I thought it would be a little useful …

I think my family’s overprotection was because yesterday I brought five large copper coins back home, passed them to my mother, and went to sleep without waking up.

In the house I can’t be satisfied with one thing I had earned 13 large bronze coins in less than 5 days and slept without eating dinner, so it was amazing in my family’s brain I feel like I have been working hard.

But I’ve been to various places in the last few days, and for me it may have been hard work.

Hours 4 bells rang, so I wore clothes so as not to get cold and went out with my usual tote bag.

“I’m coming”

Descending to the bottom and meeting with Lutz, Lutz slightly frowned.

“Mine, physical condition, isn’t that good? Isn’t it better to go alone?”

“Because I’ve been busy recently, but Mr. Benno told me that he would decide the amount of winter handicrafts, so I’m going to go today. I want to go “

“… Ah, what the amount is. I don’t know yet.”

Yes, it’s still not up to Lutz, who doesn’t know the numbers, to decide the price. I just want to go today and want to negotiate to some extent about the price Benno puts on the hair ornament.

“Now I’ll carry it on my back”

“Oh, it’s bad. Even though I was returning yesterday …”

“Today’s return is with my thread, so I can’t carry it. Don’t use physical strength now.”

“Uh, I’m okay because I slept all morning”

“Mine’s okay at times like this is not reliable”

At that time, Lutz leaned against Lutz’s back, whispering in his heart that he was stubborn and never yielded.

I have grown a little bit, but Lutz feels bigger again. Although it is because of illness, it is a little disappointing that the difference opens up in the same year.

“Luts? You seem to carry Mine, are you not feeling well?”

When I found Me who was carried by Lutz and opened my eyes as if Marc was a little shy, I approached quickly.

Marc is sensitive to my physical condition. I’m really sorry for the fact that I lost consciousness in front of me.

“… I’m getting tired because I’ve been out every day recently and going to various places. I’m probably going to fall asleep tonight. So I want to end the business quickly.” [19459002 ]

“I understand”

Marc whispered one and guided me to the back room.

“My husband, Mine and Lutz have arrived”

“Pass through”

Marc who opens the door and passes through enters the room together.

“Lutz reported that Mine was not in good health. Please be careful to get the job done quickly.”

“I understand. Sit down, both of you.”

“Yes”

The story of winter handicraft began as soon as I got to the table.

The price of the yarn purchased by Benno is presented, and I predict the number of hair ornaments that can be made from this amount of yarn and decide the price.

“Mr. Benno, I don’t want the hair price to be too high. I bought a cheap thread, so why don’t you make it as cheap as possible?”

“I understand Mine’s feelings, but it’s not a big deal from the beginning. If a lot goes on sale, the selling price will go down gradually. At first, it’s about three large copper coins.” 19459002]

If it’s for the day of Hare, it’s an amount that you can’t buy even if you do it a little. It’s a bit tight, but if you share it with your sisters, it’s about the price, so it’s reasonable to think that it will go down little by little.

“That’s about right, I understand.”

When I asked, the next story was our share.

For each hair ornament, the share minus the fee and material cost is 5 pieces of bronze coins. It’s a new handicraft, so it’s a little higher because there are no other partners to order. “

“High setting with 5 bronze coins! Isn’t Frida’s hair ornament too ripped?”

If you made two for Benno’s price, the share would have been five small silver coins. The price is 100 times different.

“That’s another good thing because the basics are the old bid”

“… Then, how much does it usually cost?”

Last winter handicraft helped to make Turi cocoons, but I didn’t care about the price per piece because there was no money given to us.

“For winter handicrafts, our merchants charge a fee, and the master of the sewing and crafting studio takes a fee. Even though it ’s a letter, it ’s expensive because you ’re not ordering through the master of the workshop. ”

“Yeah? Isn’t there a single bronze coin so cheap?”

After being surprised, I remember that the price of domestic jobs was quite low in Japan.

Certainly, even a strap like a bead was tens of yen. Considering that, it’s no wonder even about one medium bronze coin. The five medium copper coins they receive are exceptional.

“It’s basically only the parent who can buy and sell goods at the workshop. There are some differences depending on how much the parent takes the fee? Isn’t Mine experienced?” 19459002]

Since I started making hair ornaments as a winter handicraft, do you have any experience? I recall last year’s handicrafts.

“Last year I helped my sister Turi’s handiwork, but I made it without knowing anything about costs, fees, and shares, and I didn’t have any money at hand. Is there a guild registration for selling your creations? ”Was my mother registered?”

Turi and my mother who took my handicraft kite were my mother, but I never heard of my mother going to a commercial guild. I just heard the story I went about.

“What is your mother doing in the stall?”

“No, you should be doing the dyeing work normally”

“That would be a hand-assigned work at the workplace. If you just want to recover the work that the parent has allocated, you don’t have to register yourself in the commercial guild.

At the craftsman’s workplace, the president buys and sells all together, so there seems to be no need for merchant registration for employees. Instead, each craftsman guild seems to have registered as a craftsman.

Hey, I knew it for the first time.

Well, it’s only after the workshop’s quota is over that I get help with hair ornaments.

“In other words, last year’s handwork was assigned by my mom at the workplace, leaving it to Turi, and I was also helping.”

“What did you make?”

“This is what I made. It was pretty simple because it was first made, but there were some other bags that I made in my spare time.”

When I lifted the barn and tote bag and showed it, Benno held his temple with a bitter face.

“What happened?”

“… Are you again?”

“Hey?”

What is it again? Speaking of which, I have seen such a bitter face several times. Maybe I did something again?

“Surely, I remembered that there were several fancy bags in the bag sold around the end of spring. In order to make money quickly, there were a lot of rough knitting methods, and it stood out. ”

“Ooh rice cake!”

I tried to put some elaborate decorations in my spare time and taught them to Turi, but it was really bad at the market.

“Even if you want to know who made it, you can identify the workshop, but you can’t identify the craftsman who made the winter handicrafts that are gathered together”

“It was good. I couldn’t identify …”

Since I am aware that I have changed, I intend to be buried as much as possible, but I feel I have not been buried.

“If you use it yourself, it’s natural to make it as strong as possible, so I thought Mine’s bag wasn’t so unnatural and there wasn’t any decoration, so it wasn’t tied up until now … The source of the incomprehensible things I encountered in about half a year seems to be Mine. “

Fancy bags, hair ornaments, simple chan chan, paper … Counting with my fingers, I wanted to hold my head. When I hear the story from Benno’s point of view, I don’t think it’s the work of a person who wants to be buried.

I apologized a little because there was no place for me.

“… I’m sorry”

“Well, it seems that there is a tendency to make it harder if you leave it in your spare time. The design of the hair ornament was the first one that Mine made. Don’t change it arbitrarily.

“I understand. I’ll make the different colors, but the design will be unified.”

No way, I didn’t expect the bags and bags I made last year to stand out, and I didn’t want to stand out like a Frida.

The problem should be avoided by unifying the design.

“This is the end of the business I’m talking about. Oh, yes. I’m sure you said you wanted to study during the winter. I’ll lend you this, so when you get home, keep an eye out.”

“… what is it?”

When I tried to look through the wooden bill given to Benno, I was hit by my cheeks.

“When you come home, look over! Did you understand?”

“Hahh!”

“That’s all … It’s only possible to return after the fever has fallen. Go home early and go to bed. Lutz, don’t take your eyes off this stupidity.

I read a book during the Reno period and remembered that I was back from school and was hit by a car.

On the way home, Lucz prepared it with a thread that had been ordered by Marc, so Lutz took it home. Marc was sent off with a very worried face.

Talking to Lutz about what I want to decide before going to sleep, while taking a leisurely step back.

“Hey, Lutz. I’m sharing hair ornaments …”

“What?”

“The flower part takes much more time than the heel part, so can I divide it into two and three bronze coins?”

“It’s okay. If you think about how long it will take, you can use just one or four.”

If you only think about the hassle, it’s best to do as Lutz says, but there was another reason why I wanted to split it into two and three.

“Lutz is so difficult to calculate, so let’s divide it into 2 and 3 bronze coins”

“Calculation?”

“Yes. This time, we’re going to ask the family to work with one bronze coin per flower, two bronze coins for the flower part and one bronze coin for the bag part.” Is n’t it? ”

“Eh? To family?”

If I don’t understand, I keep going ahead of Lutz, who leans.

“Well, given the speed of making my flowers, I think I can only make about 30 in a month.

It’s not easy to leave only the heel part, so let’s start with a family of 30 cocoons in a month and remember that they take a fee. “

“Is it to become a merchant?”

Lutz, who seemed to remember the difference between the merchant and craftsman I talked about earlier, seems to have understood what I want to do.

“Yes, why don’t you start with Ms. Benno? Lutz needs to study hard to become a merchant apprentice? If you make it yourself, you can use the money you make. ”

It ’s like taking money from a family, so it ’s not so good for me, but after becoming a merchant, if only my family is doing something special, I ca n’t stand up as a merchant right away.

In my explanation, Lutz was groping the ground for a while, but raised his face.

“… Try it”

Since it is better to leave the thread in my house where the flower part is made, Lutz brought the thread to the house.

As a matter of course, the family seemed surprised to bring back a large amount of yarn, and they stopped their winter preparations.

“Lutz, what happened to this thread?”

No, so why not ask my daughter, not Lutz?

I explain the difference in trust between me and Lutz.

“It’s a thread for making hair ornaments. Instead of selling the finished product to Mr. Benno, I was able to buy the thread. This is my handicraft material, so I shouldn’t use it without permission.

“I understand. Thank you, Lutz. Eat this if you like.”

Mother gives a freshly made jam in a small bottle to Lutz. When Lutz shined his face and received the bottle, his gait was lightly back.

“This is in the storeroom, so Mine is going to sleep.”

My father went to the storeroom with a bag of yarn and I was driven to bed.

“Uh, I want to wipe my body at least. I didn’t wipe it yesterday, and today I feel bad because I went out.”

“It’s just because the hot water has just started to boil. I wanted to clean it and take it with me.”

“Thank you, Turi”

About one year, I’ve been cleaning my body with Turi.Turi seems to be worried if she doesn’t wipe it for about three days recently.

を Prepared for a bath in the warmest area behind the cocoon in the bedroom, and said Turi in a mellow tone while wiping her body.

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“I’m surprised that Mine, who was doing something I didn’t know last year, would pick up her job this year”

“Does Turi make a candy again this year?”

桶 I asked Turi while washing and squeezing towels in the tub.

Turi will dismiss the braid and tell his schedule while wiping around the neck.

“My mom’s workplace is higher than my workplace’s handwork. From now on, I will cut and peel the wood for making cocoons”

“Is that right? Isn’t handwork in the workplace absolutely necessary?”

か Wasn’t it assigned by the master of the workshop? Turi smiled a little when I leaned, thinking that there was a quota from the story I heard from Benno.

“Because you can make money, there are people who make a lot of things, and people who are busy making clothes for their families, and there are people who can’t turn their hands to work, aren’t they?”

“Oh, there are circumstances for each”

I thought I would get help when the workshop quota was over, but if it wasn’t a quota, it wouldn’t be a problem if Turi helped me with my handwork from the beginning. .

わ た し I glanced at Turi and smiled.

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“I make hair ornaments that I made in Turi. If I make one of those hair ornaments, I get 2 medium bronze coins”

“Eh !? What’s that? It’s really money. Can I do it together?”

“Yeah, let’s do it together”

When I said so, Turi began to frustrately. Make a lot of money and make your eyes shine.

“Hey, Mine. What should I prepare?”

“Mr. Benno prepared the thread, and the heel part is made by Lutz, so there’s nothing special to prepare.

“It ’s so easy that you do n’t need to prepare”

ト ゥ ー Turi, who was laughing, suddenly frozen his smile and pointed behind me with blinking eyes.

/> When I looked back, my mother stood with her hands on her cheeks. He thinks of something with a very serious look.

“Hey, Maine. If I finish Mine’s sunny clothes, can I do it?”

Lutz, what should I do?

My mother’s motivation has started.

追加 Addition is necessary for the 簪 part.