Chapter 60

The next day, I had to take in the skin and remove the black skin to make it a white skin.

¡Peel the skin with a knife while hitting the fire and occasionally warming your hands with hot water.

“I don’t want to do anything except summer, clearly. My fingertips jinjin”

“Yes, it’s hard to get into the river”

¡Tightly move your hands while losing frustration to complete the white skin of Trombe. Even when the skin became white, I did not see any moldy spots, and I exhaled relief.

“… Looks like there wasn’t any mold, especially.”

“Did you say Trombe is okay, except forin?”

“Is it a dangerous plant?”

Once the skin has been peeled, collect it in the forest. There seems to be some medicinal herbs that can only be taken at this time, so I picked them up and walked together with Lutz.

“Hey, Lutz. Don’t you pick up this red fruit? Poison?”

I noticed that Lutz avoids the red fruit that is about the size of the first joint of an adult thumb, falling in the forest. Maybe it’s a dangerous poison. I ask Lutz, pointing to avoid touching.

“Oh, you don’t have to touch the tau fruit. It’s almost water inside. You can’t eat it, and when you bring it back, it just runs out of water.

“What is it now?”

“It gets bigger like a fist in the summer. Tau hits something and can play water, so we play against each other”

I guessed it was like a water balloon that can be made naturally. Even if you take it home, it will die, and if you don’t leave it, it will not grow.

Strange fruit.

“A lot of adults and children are clashing together in the city. Look, the time of the star festival is amazing?”

I don’t remember the festival at all, even though it should have been more than a year.

“… Hey, Lutz. I’ve never heard of the star festival? Was there a festival in summer?”

“Did you die at the time of the previous star festival? When I went to the invitation, my aunt said that my fever wouldn’t go down at all, and after the festival I went to pick up the bamboo.

Oh, at that time.

Lutz’s words revealed when he was about to die. It was the first time I realized that I had a sense of being burned by a wooden strip and engulfed in eating.

It seems that my consciousness did not return for days, and I slept for a while after that. Probably the same for the family.

“Turi also wanted to play, but couldn’t I go because of it?”

Maybe I’m taking away the fun memories of Turi’s childhood. Lutz shook his shoulders and shook his head.

“No, Aunt looked at Mine, so Turi was in. I was fighting with Ralph and picked up tau in the forest.”

“Yes, that’s good.”

“I hope Mine can join this year”

“Yes”

This year, we were as careful as possible, and promised to participate in the star festival.

Although I promised, I don’t know if my parents will allow me to participate in festivals that collide with water.

From the next day, work in front of the warehouse.

水 The water was cold and the work was done while touching the hot water many times.

¡Drying over a few days, I started making paper with Trombe skins.

“Forin’s paper was dry. It was sunny today.”

“Trombe is naturally dry all day tomorrow?”

While confirming the work process, 26 completed forin papers were divided in half with Lutz. With 13 pieces of paper handed over, she broke her eyebrows as Lutz was in trouble.

“Now, Mine. Why do you divide here? After giving it to my husband, should I divide my money in half?”

“Because I want the actual thing. You don’t want Benno-san to buy the ingredients and use it for yourself, but if you prepare the ingredients yourself, you can get me.

If you buy paper after selling it to Benno, you will get 30% of the commission. If so, don’t sell it from the beginning.

“Do you mean you don’t sell mine?”

“I sell only half. Collect paper and make books”

The recipe was properly decided and I got used to it little by little. Then it is troubled to want to make a book. It’s hard to write down because my mother talks to me recently.

Since the work was over, I decided to take the completed paper to Benno as soon as I returned the warehouse key.

“Was it done?”

Benno received folin paper from me and Lutz, and counted the number. Lutz is 13 and I am 6. The eyebrows are hidden in different numbers.

“I don’t have much mine. What’s wrong?”

“I wanted a piece of paper, so I got the actual one. I don’t care if you bought the ingredients, but now I’m taking the ingredients myself.”

“… That’s right. I don’t care about how much I took the ingredients, but what are you going to use?”

Benno was asked by a slightly wary expression.

“I make a book, so I wanted paper.”

“Book? … What do you do with such a thing? Does it sell?”

“Huh? Are you reading it yourself?”

Benno and two of them looked at each other and leaned each other. I can’t understand Benno who can’t understand using expensive paper for things that don’t become commodities, and I just want a book without profits.

“Well, it’s good. A piece of paper of this size sells one large silver coin. The selling price is 30%. How much is your share?”

Lutz is not yet well understood. Well, next to Lutz, I answered immediately.

“Seven small silver coins”

“Huh ?? 7 small silver coins ?? Cho, Oma … eh! Isn’t it too much?”

Lutz apparently didn’t expect anything at all.

“… Lutz, calm down. You might feel like getting too much now, but we can only benefit from the baptismal ceremony.” Benno will continue to sell paper in the future Compared to the profits you put in, you do n’t have to worry because it ’s a small amount. ”

“You don’t have to worry …”

[Lutz started to look around as much as he couldn’t believe, though he was going to calm down.

“Today, 13 Lutz sold 9 large silver coins and 1 small silver coin. Since I sold 6 I bought 4 large silver coins and 2 small silver coins”

“No, don’t you think that nine silver coins are insignificant no matter how you ask?”

“Well, then, will you lower the selling price?”

Looking at Lutz, who was afraid, I leaned a little and offered a suggestion, and Benno shook his head with a bitter face and rejected it.

“It’s no good to lower the sales price. There are vested interests and useless traps. Now the price is the same. I think about the sales price after it has been distributed to some extent. I’m afraid of big money Then will I add a fee? ”

Finally, Benno grinned toward Lutz.

“We don’t have the right to decide about the price, so I’ll leave it to Benno to change the price, but I don’t accept the fee change. Hey, Lutz.

“Which one to give! It was too big and I was just a little surprised!”

Lutz gave up as if hugging his guild card. Guild cards are blood-identified and cannot be used by anyone other than you. It’s a pretty safe place to deposit money.

“If you leave in the guild, you’re not scared because you don’t see the cash yourself?”

“Damn, the thick mine is enviable in a strange place”

“The figure is fat and terrible!”

I saved money in the Reno era, and I already got small gold coins in this world and paid to magical tools that would almost eliminate it, so I got used to moving large numbers of money. It was just. It’s not really fat.

I am paying the bill together with Benno, who laughs laughingly. I decided to hand over five large bronze coins to my family and received cash. In the same way, Lutz finished the payment by dividing the amount given to the family and the savings.

Then, a few days later, Lutz, who had been borrowing the key to the warehouse, came home with a letter and a large package. It is not a letter, but an invitation written on a board. And the contents of the wrap were a hood with a hood attached to the poncho worn from above.

“What is this?”

Lutz drew his eyebrows with ponchos of different colors. I read the invitation. The meeting place and the reasons were simply listed.

“I’m going to buy clothes so I want to meet 4 bells in the central square”

“Hey, clothes?”

“… There are people who come to complain about the paper we made. I want to talk about how to deal with it, but I want to stand around so that the other person doesn’t notice our existence. Our dress is floating in that store, so please wear it. “

“What? What is it! Is it something dangerous?”

Both try to wear something like a poncho that they wear from above. It is very warm and the clothes are almost hidden. For the time being, it seems to be good to hide the rag clothes.

Wearing a hood tends to hide your hair and face, so wear it when you go out. My niece seems to be very conspicuous.

“I don’t know if it’s dangerous, but if you meet Marc, why don’t you take it early so you can sell Trombe paper?” Is it okay? “

Lutz was angry at me, confirming the quality of the Trombe paper.

“Mine, why are you so crazy?”

“Eh? But when I started a new thing, it was within my expectation that it would collide with vested interests. I think the reaction is faster than I thought …”

“Obtained interest?”

Lutz puts his eyebrows on his tongue and repeats words he is not familiar with.

“A group that already has the right to make a profit. Did Mr. Benno say?” If you lower the price, you will run into a vested interest. I think this is probably the people who make parchment. ” 19459002]

“Who is making parchment? Isn’t it relevant because our paper is made from wood?”

From the perspective of how to make it, it seems that there is absolutely no relation, but the uses and customer base are completely the same. Until now, there should have been no threats to their interests, so I think the other person is panicking about strange paper.

“Well, only we could make paper, so no matter how expensive it was, everyone had to buy parchment at the time of the contract. But if another paper came out, then Can you get a customer? ”

“Well, that’s right”

Lutz whispered as convinced. Of course, if a product with the same purpose comes out, it is natural that there are customers who look at it.

“If that happens, you won’t get the same sales as before? I don’t like it. And if you sell a lot, the price of things will go down.”

“Is that so?”

I write a figure on a stone board. The relationship is explained by drawing two straight lines of X and Y axes and a simple supply and demand line represented by two curves.

“This is the relationship between ‘demand’ and ‘supply’. This is the ‘demand curve’ and this is the ‘supply curve’. People think that “supply” is a product. ”

“Ah”

“If there are many people who want and there are few products sold, the price of the product will increase.”

Talking at the beginning of the two curves, Lutz understood that “anything goes up when it is out of stock”.

“If the number of products sold increases, the number of people who want it will get more and more, so the number of people who want it will decrease. So the price will go down.” [19459002 ]

While explaining, I slide my finger to the point where the two curves intersect.

“If you have more products than you want, this time, how many products you prepare will not sell, and then the price will go down?”

As you move your fingers more and more, the vertical relationship between the demand curve and supply curve is completely reversed.

“Do you understand? If we make paper, the price of paper will go down like this. People who make parchment do not want to reduce the price of parchment, and the profits so far I want to make sure it ’s secure, so I ’ll come to complain about the new paper. ”

“Well, isn’t that bad?”

I laughed and shook my head to Lutz who seemed uneasy.

“Mr. Benno wants to hide our presence is that he should leave it to Mr. Benno. You don’t have to worry about Lutz. I don’t know if I don’t listen to it “

24 Trombe papers were made by the meeting time specified in the invitation, but I decided to leave them in the warehouse to see where the other party was.

“Lutz also wears a hood so that you don’t know the color of the hair or the features.”

The fact that Benno is alert enough to send clothes is not without the possibility of getting involved in dangerous things.

When I was waiting in the central square with a little tension, Marc came after the bell of the fourth ring.

“Sorry for waiting. As promised, let’s go to buy clothes needed for apprenticeship”

“Yes, thank you”

I don’t need apprentices, so I don’t need clothes, but it might be better to buy clothes that don’t stand out to get into and out of Benno’s store.

When I was walking while thinking whether it would be a waste, I was picked up by Marc who misunderstood that he was not feeling well.

“I can walk on my own!”

“No, I was just angry and I was just anxious. Please let me do this for my safety”

“I just thought about it. There are no health problems!”

Marc increases the speed of walking a little without breaking his smile. There seems to be no intention of listening to my opinion.

“Please do your best to think”

“Luts!”

“That way is faster, so stay alone.”

I gave up resistance because I was rejected even if I asked Rutz for help.

Muu, feel like singing on all four sides!

When I entered a shop that handles clothes with three people, the shopkeeper greeted me with a smile. Both shop assistants and customers wear elegant and neat clothes. If you come only with me and Lutz, it is a shop that seems to be paid in front of you.

“Oh, Marc. Welcome, apprentice?”

“Yes, yes, please order two clothes.”

The store owner smiled at Marc’s brief order, as to whether apprentice clothes were prepared here.

“Eh? Two people, me too?”

Aside from Lutz, I’m not an apprentice. However, Marc whispered without breaking his smile.

“If you go in and out of the store in that way, you will definitely stand out. I’m sorry, but I will make it. Even if you don’t become an apprentice, Mine goes in and out of the store, so it’s convenient to have one

“… That’s right”

Although it is not an apprenticeship, the opportunity to develop new products and consult Benno about profits and home work should be the same. Nevertheless, Lutz is a beautiful apprentice, and I’m sad that I’m Boro. Now that I have money to spend, it might be better to make clothes.

Lutz, who was pulled to the back of the store before me, began to measure her whole body by stripping her clothes until she became underwear.

I was also pulled into another room and stripped of my clothes. Just being measured here and there makes me very tired.

“Advance is a small silver coin”

“Yes”

I ordered clothes from the top to the bottom and shoes that an apprentice is wearing, and paid a deposit of a small silver coin with a guild card. As Benno said, the final price you pay is just under 10 small silver coins. It seems that apprentice clothes are ready.

After finishing the order for clothes, Marc took us to Benno. Benno, who had a slightly difficult face, rubbed the paper, but looked at us and eased his expression.

“Oh, you came. It seems like it’s been a hassle, so I’m thinking I’m overdoing it, but I’m on the alert. You shouldn’t neglect your precautions as much as possible. I don’t know where to go. “

It seems to be too vigilant for Benno, but he said he shouldn’t be wary because of interests. I add that we are pre-baptized children, so if we wear apprenticeship clothes, we will not be able to see them even if they wander around the store.

“Is the vested interest written on the board a parchment person?”

“Yes, it seems that the Parchment Association complained about the commercial guild.”

“To commercial guild?”

Investigating the relationship between the parchment association and the commercial guild, and tilting his head, Benno is responsible for protecting the vested interests, eliminating conflicts with new businesses, and working with the commercial guild. He explained briefly.

“It seems that a commercial guild complained that there was a guy who did not join the parchment association yesterday evening and made paper other than their own without paying money. I was informed that a request came in after it was cracked down. “

“Huh, is that so?”

Benno can’t be done quietly. You should have found a suitable place to drop. When I urged me to continue without much concern, Benno raised his lips like a predatory carnivorous beast.

“I’ve argued exactly. This is not paper made from animal skin, so it has nothing to do with the Parchment Society.

Benno’s attitude is too wary and he quickly gets bloody.

Did you sell quarrels in front of vested interests, rather than finding a trap?

“Huh? Did you search for a place to drop, or didn’t you?”

“You idiot. If you get out of the way, you’ll be licked. Actually, you don’t steal the way you make it, you don’t pay technical fees. Paper made from animal skins and paper made from plants. It ’s not the same thing, and it does n’t have a hierarchical relationship.They just want to monopolize all the rights to paper and, if possible, take advantage of it. ”

Here, there is Benno’s way here, so I think there is no way to complain, but isn’t it a little more relaxed?

“Well, I think parchment is made from animal skins, so I don’t think it’s possible to suddenly increase production. If a commercial guild can get in between, the agreement is that the official contract paper is limited to parchment. How about securing some sales channels and profits to date? “

“You are as sweet as ever”

Benno shook his nose.

Securing sales channels and profits, if parchment is certified as official paper, I think it will make you grow up, but isn’t it?

“I don’t like useless conflicts, and if possible, I would like you to increase the volume of paper and make it possible to use paper in many ways. Instead of contracts, books and notes. I want to make it easy for kids to use, such as books, drawing books, origami. “

“It’s a grander dream than expected”

ベ ン Opened his eyes as Benno was amazed.

“Eh? Is it spectacular? I think it will happen if it can be made in large quantities. So, it’s better to use fallen paper at a lower price than parchment and use it for anything other than contracts. For example, there is a report there, which is much easier to carry and save on paper, easier to write than a board … “

“I see, I divide the usage depending on the paper … Let’s make a suggestion”

This time it wasn’t said to be sweet, Benno narrowed his eyes to plan something. Something seems to have touched the heartstrings and profit calculation in the brain.

“If you use different papers, is Trombe paper a high-class route? Honestly, I think the quality is better than parchment.”

“That’s right. Trombe intends to set the price much higher than parchment.”

“Huh? Pretty?”

Listening to Benno’s words and opening my eyes, Benno contemplates lightly and looks at me and Lutz alternately.

“… Did you notice it?”

“What? What is it?”

“What are the characteristics of Lutz and Trombe?”

After a sudden question, Lutz jumped around and started to line up the features of Trombe.

“Hey? Features? A tree that grows at a tremendous rate by sucking the nutrients of the soil all at once, hard to burn”

“Maybe! Is the paper made from Trombe difficult to burn?”

Speaking of which, my father also said that the furniture made in Trombe is hard to burn and sometimes remains in the fire. He said that young, soft wood does not become furniture, but is paper.

“Oh, yes, it’s overwhelmingly hard to burn compared to regular paper. It’s definitely not burning at all, but it’s a good paper to use for national secrets and national official documents. Paper is expensive. “

It is certainly a special paper, and it is natural that it becomes expensive.

In Japan, not all paper prices were the same. Some papers were surprisingly expensive when they were hand-held, rare or special.

“I’m convinced … and how much is Trombe’s paper?”

“5 big silver coins with contract size”

“Wow …”

Too bullish pricing, I even had a headache, and Lutz was surprised that he couldn’t speak, but Benno said, “If it is hard to burn and rare paper that is rare, it’s like this.” I said with a natural face.

“Then, don’t come to the store for a while until the discussion with the Parchment Association is over. There’s a reason why you want to hide you. If you do not, you will be killed.

“Huh?”

When it suddenly became a lousy story, Benno told me about the covenant magic that I had completely forgotten.

“Mine decides who will make the paper with contract magic and sell it through Lutz. If a guy who doesn’t know about the contract makes it and sells it, I don’t know what will happen.

“Yeah? Is contract magic so dangerous? Isn’t anyone who knows anything in the range?”

I have a head in a situation I never imagined. I didn’t think contract magic that required the stability of their jobs would work in such a dangerous direction.

“Are you sure of your rights to the aristocratic partner? Even if you don’t know the contract, you’ll be penalized when you violate it. I declare to the commercial guild that there is a contract witchcraft that we make and sell, and keep the Parchment Association in check. “

Perhaps it was not a stable job, but a contract magic that called danger to them. I think that I, who have the right to decide who to make plant paper, and Lutz, who has the right to sell, are actually in a very dangerous position.

“I want to hide that you have the right. I’ll leave the warehouse key, so don’t go in and out of the store for a while. Contact me

わ た し Me and Lutz nodded in the words of Benno.