Chapter 55

When making hair ornaments by hand, I heard a knocking sound on the front door.

After seeing the face, Turi goes to see how it looks.

“Yes, who?”

“I’m Lutz, but I brought the heel part”

“I understand. I can open now.”

When Turi unlocks the door and opens the door, Lutz, who hasn’t been able to remove the snow, has entered along with the cool air.

“Wow, it looks cold”

“Is the blizzard terrible?”

“The road to the well was quite blocked, but now it’s better.”

While saying so, Lutz has just dropped snow completely.

“This is the heel part. There are 9 because my brothers made 3 each.”

Lutz arranged the collar parts of the hair ornament on the table. When the heels are lined up, Turi stands up and brings the finished hair ornament.

“Oh, then, let’s complete what we can do? Then you know how many cocoons are missing?”

It seems that a lot was made while I was sleeping with heat. Looking at the decorations on the table, I raise a problem with Lutz.

“Twelve decorative parts. Rutz brought nine heel parts. How many are the missing heel parts?”

“Ah? Well, 3”

“Correct. Well done. I’m studying a lot. Turi and my mom ask you to make hair ornaments. I’m studying Lutz.”

I found that there was a bag with a stone board and a calculator in Lutz’s other hand.

Turi tilts his head after blinking his eyes several times.

“I heard you were calculating at the gate, but could you tell Mine really?”

“I can only teach characters and calculations”

Lutz laughed sideways when I showed my loneliness to the lack of trust.

“Mine is great at writing and calculating. Well, it’s also incapable of power”

If anything, just stop in the first half.

Looking at Lutz, my mother and Turi are laughing, so it makes no sense.

Lutz took out the slab and brush from the bag, so I also rushed to the bedroom to take out the usable part from the failed paper and bundle the notepad and pencil in my wooden box. .

In the name of teaching study to Lutz, I thought of making a book.

Usually, it is uncomfortable to make books next to my mother and Turi doing handwork, but it seems uncomfortable, but if you are teaching to Lutz, you both write Because there is no difference in the behavior, it should not be so noticeable.

Well, this is the continuation of the book making.

Since I find occasions when I find time, my mother’s sleeping tales are gathered in a little bit of notepad, but I haven’t written enough to say that it is a book.

I was holding a notepad, a pencil, a slab, and a brush, and I heard my mother’s voice when I tried to return to the kitchen.

“Hey, Lutz. Carla and his family become merchants, are you against it? Is it okay?”

Taking a breath of a serious story that suddenly started, I gently returned to the kitchen, taking care not to make footsteps.

Turi is stuck next to my mother who asks questions, and Lutz looks at her mother with a tense face in front.

When I sat next to Lutz, my mother exhaled slowly and opened her mouth looking at Lutz and me alternately.

“I think it’s probably Mine’s fault that Lutz started to become a merchant. That’s why Lutz is going to be Mine and has a good-looking and friendly Lutz.

“That’s not true! I wanted to be a merchant and I was introduced to Mine. I got Mine involved, Aunt”

Lutz immediately denied. Lutz wanted to be a travel merchant, listened to it, knew the existence of citizenship and decided to become a merchant. I have nothing to do with the process.

My mother whispered small and stared quietly at Lutz.

“Yeah, Lutz wants to be a merchant. But if you go to the same place as Mine, Lutz will try to take care of Mine as before? However, the position of apprenticeship to be able to work is not so sweet, I’m distracted by taking care of Mine, and the work will be halfway. ”

I think my mother’s advice was stuck in Lutz’s chest. As soon as I was told something unexpected, I knew that I was sitting next to Lutz.

And the word stuck in my chest. Mother’s language is not wrong.

When I was biting my back teeth, Rutz raised his head.

“… I really want to be a merchant. I was able to become a merchant because of Mine. So I want to help Mine as much as possible, but I want to be a merchant. Not because of Mine. ”

Yes, Lutz has his own dream. Merchants, not craftsmen, are more convenient for what I want to do, and I became more and more determined by interacting with Benno and Marc.

Acting with me was the shortest way to become a merchant, but it doesn’t mean that I would be a merchant for me.

“So Lutz can continue to be a merchant even if he doesn’t have Mine, for example, if his body is weak and quits his job?”

Lutz, who combined his hands strongly on the table, shook slowly, staring at his mother’s eyes.

“I’ll continue. Of course, my mom and dad only say I can be a craftsman, but I don’t want to give up because I finally opened my own way. Becomes “

“Yes … well then, I just wanted to hear from Carla and I hadn’t talked with Lutz and I was curious. Thank you for talking properly”

For Aunt Carla, it looks like I’m with Lutz.

‘I’m sure I’m swinging because of my physical condition, so I can’t say I’m completely mistaken, but that’s why I probably only heard about half of Lutz. You may be thinking of bending your will.

During this time, I was told to stop me, but I refused …

I want to know what my mother told me from Aunt Carla, but I feel like she doesn’t speak. If you are worried, you may be asked to listen to yourself.

“Aunt Afa, I have something I want to hear”

“What is it?”

My mother leaned slightly to Lutz’s voice. The eyes that quietly look at Lutz are the ones who know they promise to answer seriously.

Lutz, who exhaled a little, opened his mouth as if relieved.

“Why Aunt Afa doesn’t object to Mine becoming a merchant? Why is the merchant really hated by the people around me as father and mom say?” 19459002]

Well, I understand that craftsmen don’t think so well because merchants take a fee and repel their profits. Isn’t the profession hated by people around you a little terrible?

My mother looked at me like a voice in my heart, and then broke my eyebrows in trouble.

“The image of merchants varies from person to person, so I can’t say anything about profession. But I guess … Isn’t it because Mine was so weak in body?”

“Huh? Is your body weak?”

As I didn’t understand, my mother laughed a little when she saw Lutz leaning her head.

“Honestly, I didn’t think that Mine could work. I couldn’t imagine that someone else needed Mine. So if I was good at Mine, I could help someone else. I wouldn’t disagree if Mine could work hard on that job. ”

My chest is tightened to my mother’s words. I feel my mother’s affection towards me, and my eyes become hot.

“Well … I’ll do my best, so don’t forgive me”

I hold Lutz’s hand in the bitter sounding words that spilled next to me.

“I hope you forgive me”

“Ah”

“To that end, study first.”

“That’s right”

Lutz laughed and the atmosphere relaxed.

The air that had been talking seriously began to disperse, and Turi, who was sitting with his breath closed, exhaled and started moving. Hold the sewing box in hand and sew the hair ornament on the heel.

While looking at it with my sideways, I tapped the lutz stone plate lightly with my fingertips.

“The first is a review of basic characters. Remember or write everything”

“I understand”

After making the assignment to Lutz, write down the story I heard from my mother in a notepad and continue with the book.煤 Pencils are blacker than pencils when rubbed, but unlike ink, they don’t cost money.

As he writes the continuation of the story, he sometimes turns his gaze on the Lutz stone board. Without hesitation, I could see the writing of letters.

Lutz study is going well enough.

で き る Lutz is the most disadvantaged of the apprentices who will be working together at Benno’s store with limited opportunities to study. I have knowledge.

Lutz is even thinking about leaving the house in the worst case because of the atmosphere at home, which is hard to forgive to become a merchant. That’s why I understand that I’m trying to stuff my knowledge even more.

“I have learned all the basic letters perfectly. I can write them carefully. Great, Lutz”

“Mine’s example is good”

It is difficult to write letters neatly unless you draw a line many times and get used to writing. It is different from me who has memories of the previous life. Thinking so, I really feel down to Lutz’s efforts.

“Now you can write basic characters, so let’s remember the next word. Practice using the purchase order you’re most likely to use.”

I wrote a timber purchase order on my stone board. I made purchase orders many times when I made paper, so I can write it. While writing, I will also teach the name of the workshop and the name of the master who Benno knows in the process.

“This is the name of the timber shop. This is the person who places the order. At our time, Benno-san bought it and delivered it to us, so Benno-san’s name was included. Name …… “

Lutz works hard on his slab, looking at my slate.

“In the spring, when you order to make paper, Lutz tries to write a purchase order?”

“Oh !?”

“Practice to be able to write”

“You”

When I set a goal, I seemed to be quite motivated, and started to practice while checking for spelling errors.

After seeing the situation for a while, I started to expand my notepad and write down my mother’s story. It will take more time to complete my mother’s sleeping story collection.

“Let’s practice calculation next?”

When I finished writing a story, I grew up and spoke to the next Lutz.

Lutz, who was practicing words many times on a stone board, whispered, whispered the stone board and took the calculator out of the bag.

“Now, this is today”

I write a problem on my stone. Today is a 3-digit addition and subtraction. After writing 8 questions, I saw Lutz using a calculator.

Unlike before, Lutz’s fingers play the calculator almost without hesitation.

“Using a calculator has become faster”

“Mine told me to learn, when I learned the addition of a single digit, it became quite easy to use.”

“Yeah, it’s faster than I remember …”

In simple calculations like those taught to Lutz, in my case, the answer is obtained immediately by mental arithmetic, so the speed of the fingers using the calculator does not increase easily. As usual, writing is faster than using a calculator.

Because I’m renting out a computer to practice Lutz.

So, excuse yourself. Because the time to touch is short, it is inevitable to improve. If you ask if you practice as seriously as Lutz just because you have a calculator, you can’t answer.

“It seems that you can add and subtract. It’s the same way even if the digits get bigger.”

“I’m a little confused when the numbers get bigger”

Lutz scratched his cheek, saying that, but since it was about a month since he started using the calculator, it was a satisfactory result.

“I don’t know how to do multiplication or division, so I can’t do anything”

I don’t know how to use a computer, so for the time being I decided to teach multiplication and division concepts and multiplication tables. Appropriately apply the readings of the numbers such as “ichiichi ichi” instead of “inichi gaichi”. Even if it is a little difficult to say, there is no problem if the answer comes out quickly when the numbers are arranged.

It is now possible to read large numbers and convert it to money without making a mistake.

Lutz ’s absorbency will help if you do your best during the rookie education.

…… What should I do?

My mother said earlier, “The position of apprenticeship is not so sweet that I can work while taking care of Mine. “I’m distracted by the care of Mine and my work is halfway.”

As Lutz works, I will definitely be in a good position. There is no physical strength, no arm strength, basically useless.

Although it may be useful for product development, this common sense is not well understood, so it is often troubled if there is no Lutz who knows the circumstances.

Speaking of which, Benno was also worried.

I remembered when I was asked if I could really work with this physical condition. You have to think carefully during the winter when you have enough time to worry.

Is it possible to work without ruining Lutz and everyone in the store?

What should I do?

The next day, I didn’t get a good answer, and my father spoke to me who was moving the crochet while thinking.

“Mine, if you are in good health, go to the gate? The snowstorm has stopped today”

“Yeah, go!”

I got up and started preparing to go out. Put a slab and a brush in a tote bag and put on several clothes to get out in the cold.

Otto is at the gate. Otto must give a harsh opinion from the merchant’s point of view and from the perspective of a third party who is not relative.

Let’s talk to Otto.

Is it okay for me to apprentice at Benno’s store as it is?