Chapter 12
Snow began to flicker when winter preparations ended or did not end. The arrival of full-scale winter.
During the winter, this area is closed with snow, so you will basically spend your time in the house except on sunny days.
Originally, I had been withdrawn as much as I could with books, so it’s not hard to spend a long time in the house.
However, there is no book.
Can I withdraw for a long time without a book?
When snow begins to fall, it often becomes snowstorm, so the doors are closed tightly to prevent cold. A little thicker cloth is put on top of it, or it is packed in the gap to prevent even a little gap.
“… Wow, it’s dark”
“I can’t help it because it’s a snowstorm”
The only lights in the closed house are the fireplace and candle. It’s the first time for me to have a dark room with no electricity, even though it’s daytime.
The blackout during the typhoon was a flashlight and a mobile light, and it was quickly restored. Wouldn’t you feel depressed for a long time in the dark?
“Hey, mother. Where is this house so dark?”
“Well, if you get a little rich, you seem to have a lot of lamps, but there’s only one in my house.”
“Well, let’s use that lamp.”
My mother shook her head, sighing, as I insisted I had to use it if I had a light fixture.
“I want to save oil, so I’m not using it as much as possible. Wouldn’t it be a problem if the candles were gone when the cold continued and the winter lasted?”
When it says saving, there is no word to return.
Speaking of which, my mother when I was Reno was devised in various ways, saying “saving, saving”.
To save electricity bills, turn off the TV from the power outlet, stay asleep with the TV turned on, or conserve water when brushing your teeth, or keep it running when washing dishes I was a mother who taught me the importance of self-satisfaction.
Isn’t it possible to make this room a little brighter by following my mother who had been devised in various ways?
“Mine, what are you doing?”
“Is it a little brighter …”
I thought it might be a little brighter if it looked like a three-way mirror or a pair of mirrors, so I polished the metal hand that my father used during the war and arranged it next to the candle.
“Mine, stop”
“It’s hard to see at hand”
Refused immediately by two people.
Unfortunately, the hand is not a straight metal and the surface is never smooth, so it seems that it is irregularly reflected, the eyes flicker, and the hand is harder to see.
“Uh, it’s a failure. Anything else that could be used instead of a mirror” …
“Don’t do anything extra”
Since I received a strict refusal from my mother, I gave up on my strategy to brighten it by reflecting light.
Although I wasn’t reading a book, I took a sigh in a situation where my eyesight was going to drop, and I took a position near a warm kite.
Immediately, my mother begins to assemble the weaving machine.
Weaving cloth is not a big weaving machine like I have seen in Japan. It was more primitive.
I was wondering how to make cloth in this small house, but there seems to be something of a certain size.
“Turi has a baptism, so I have to remember a lot of work,”
So, my mother begins to teach Turi as we take a loom. Turi picked up a spool with a serious face.
“Put the spool here and prepare the warp first. Pass the thread like this …”
Clothing begins with weaving a cloth using yarn dyed during autumn. Weave cloth, sew clothes, embroidery. At the same time, we will spun the next year’s yarn from the wool we bought.
You can only buy raw materials. It doesn’t sell new clothes here, and even the cloth doesn’t seem to be available to the common people.
“Yes, that’s how I remember. Turi is a good reminder. Try Mine too? If you don’t get good at sewing, you won’t be called a beauty.”
“Eh? Beauty?”
“Yeah, it’s important to make a family outfit, whether it’s a good look or practical use. The conditions for a beautiful woman are sewing and cooking.”
Oh, I can never become a beautiful woman.
…… Isn’t it a good wife’s condition, isn’t there any relationship between beauty and sewing?
In my sense, clothes are bought at stores. When I went to the store, there were a lot of clothes of all genres and designs.
I wasn’t interested in clothes as long as I could wear them according to the TPO, but I still had a lot in the closet. I never wore two or three old pieces that had been spliced together.
Sewing was just what I did in school home economics, and I used a sewing machine that could be sewn electrically. Holding a needle was at best about putting on a button.
To be clear, even during the winter, spinning women’s yarns, weaving cloths, and making family clothes is a problem even if it is said that a woman’s big job. I’m not motivated.
Ah, but if you can use the woven cloth instead of parchment, you can weave as much as you want.
“Mine, don’t you?”
“N, see you again”
Turi calls out from the weaving machine, but I don’t think I want to weave it.
Turi, who wants to become an apprentice apprentice, has her mother teach me needlework, but in my case, I am not enough at all because of her height, hand size and above all. it’s no use.
“Now, mom. Make my clothes, make me. I will make candy too.”
“Yeah, leave it to my mom. I’ll make it super nice!”
My mother is confident in sewing.
The baptism ceremony is a place where mothers can see what costumes can be prepared because children who are 7 years old gather together in the temple in the same season. Isn’t it a kind of presentation for my mother?
The warp that my mother began to happily smile and looks much thinner than the thread I used to practice Turi.
“This thread is thin”
My mother smiled when I thought it would take time to make cloth.
“Turi ’s baptism is in summer. If it ’s not a thin fabric, it ’s too hot and troubled?”
“Did you get ready for a winter outfit during the summer? Is Turi getting bigger?”
I think children grow better in summer when they have more food than winter and can move around healthy. At least that was the case with the anthropometric test results in my notification table.
What should I do if I make a sunny outfit now and it is too small to wear in summer?
“Sorry, it’s okay because you can adjust it a little bit. What’s more difficult is that Mine and Turi are so different from each other that they can’t be lowered. It’s also difficult to fix. What will you do next year?”
…… That is hard. Do your best, mother.
Feels like it looks thin, but when mother starts to weave the fabric with a thread that is a little harder than woolen yarn, Turi begins to knit the knot for sale.
As my eyes began to get used to the dark room little by little, I decided to make papyrus as the first step in my ambition.
After weaving grass fibers, you should be able to make a paper-like one.
The ancient Egyptians will not lose! It ’s a game!
Place the fiber on the table and remember how to make a square coaster made when you were Reino.
Much different fibers than the thread used by the mother to weave the cloth. Combine vertically and horizontally.
My lack of money, technology, and age, I have no choice but to fight with patience, perseverance and perseverance.
Wow, it’s too fine and my eyes are full.
Oh, I made a mistake!
Chimachi Chimachi …….
Chimachi Chimachi ……
Since the fibers are thin, it is not easy to start over if you make a mistake. It will collapse greatly.
When I was struggling with fine fibers while struggling, Turi, who was making a spear, stopped his hand and looked into my hand.
“Hey, Maine, what are you doing?”
“Nh? I’m making” Papyrus modoki “”
Turi once again looked at my face and hand alternately and tilted his neck. It says on the face of Turi that he couldn’t hear the words or understood it.
Yeah, I don’t know if you see it, right?
It’s not a centimeter square, and I don’t know if it really makes a papyrus.
My mother moves the fingertips little by little while weaving the cloth.
Chimachi Chimachi …….
Chimachimachimachi …
“Mine, if you have time to play, make Turi and a kite”
“No. I’ll make it when I’m free, so don’t talk to me.”
I am not playing and I am not free. Rather, since I started living here as Mine, it was the busiest and I couldn’t afford it.
Oh! I made a mistake again!
This is because my mom called out.
Now!
Chimachi Chimachi …….
Chimachi Chimachi ……
“Mine, what are you really doing?”
“That’s why” Papyrus dodoki “”
も な く There is no room for a gentle answer to Turi’s questions.
‘I don’t dislike detailed work, it ’s something I like and do. There is no choice but to continue patiently.
Chimachi Chimachi ……
Chimachi Chimachi ……
“Hey, Mine. Isn’t that much bigger?”
“I know!”
The pointed out by Turi was a star, and I wasn’t thinking of hitting it, but I felt irritated.
It takes a day to become as big as a fingertip. I want you to understand this feeling.
Chimachi Chimachi …….
Chimachi Chimachi …….
From the next day, face to the fiber while telling myself that it is perseverance. If you care about what Turi says, you lose.
“What will it be?”
“……”
If you care, you lose. If you care, you lose.
Oh! I became rattling!
Uu, we’re going on! If you correct it, you will break your heart!
Machimachi Machima …….
Chimachimachimachi …
“Hey, Mine …”
“I can’t do it anymore! I can’t do it!” Ancient Egyptians “, I lose!”
¡I grabbed the papyrus who became disgusted on the way.
Papyrus Maki was frustrated at the level that he finally reached the size of a message card.
If you knit the fibers densely enough to make paper, you don’t know how many days it will take to make postcard-sized paper.
In this situation, I don’t think I can prepare enough papyrus for the book.
Message card-sized papyrus murmurs were found to be disgusting from the middle. Although the center is knitted densely, it is bumpy as it goes to the end. Overall, it was not paper that could be written.
I’m a little rattling, but can I use it as a coaster? It is a substitute. It didn’t become memo paper.
“Wow, uh … failed, my papyrus plan”
Material procurement, creation difficulty and creation time are not suitable for mass production. For example, even if Papyrus Madoki is completed, no book can be made.
“It’s noisy, Mine! If you play with such grass, weave a kite!”
“I don’t become a book …”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you’ve failed?
Because my mother was so angry, I decided to knit a kite. Spiders are much easier than papyrus, which weave thin and fine fibers.
“Turi, my mom tells me, I’ll knitting too.
“I will teach you how to do it”
Supplied the material, and Turi said with a smile, but I shook my head as I picked up the material.
“Yeah, I know because I know”
“Huh?”
I started to knit while driving Turi out of sight, blinking mysteriously.
Carefully combining the materials of bamboo-like straight wood and knit tightly so that there is no gap. I just wanted a little outing bag. Let’s try to make every effort to make the failed papyrus.
After carefully creating the bottom, calculate and weave so that the side has a slight pattern. Attach the handle and devise it so that the hand does not hurt when you hold it.
Unlike papyrus, which only had a message size over 5 days, the tote bag was finished in 1 day.
I think that the work is also good for children who are not very dexterous.
“Wow, Mine. I have such a talent. Wouldn’t it be nice to become an apprentice in the future?”
“Yeah? That’s a little …”
Basically Mine’s unexpected talent (?) Is delighted by her mother’s shining eyes, but she does not intend to become such a thing.
I have decided to work at a bookstore or library. There is no book, no bookstore, no library, and there is no occupation in the world.
“Uh, why is Mine so good?”
Comparing my candy with my own candy, I noticed that Turi was obsessed with the difference.
“Turi, don’t worry. It’s okay if you can knit tightly and put in the pattern”
Because this is a difference in experience.
A long time ago, I was involved in “Okan Art”, which makes a bag with materials made from thinly rolled-up advertisements in newspapers. I never thought it would be useful to have such an experience.
“Uh, Mine is better …”
Yabai.
It seems that he hurt his pride as an older sister. Although it was easier to stay under asylum than to be seen as a rival by Turi, it failed.
“Oh, uh … Yeah! I told you when I was entrusted to Gerda Grandma. It’s just a little bit better after Turi is going to the forest. When I’m making a kite, you’re doing something else, so are you good at it? “
«Because I have almost never taken the child’s mood, I’m lightly panicked. I’m going to explain hard so that I can fix my mood, but honestly I don’t know what I am saying.
“… That was right”
I don’t know where I was convinced, but it seems a little relieved that there was a reason to be better than myself.
“Now, I’ll make a lot during the winter and be better than Mine”
“Yeah, do your best, Turi”
Exhausted after relieving Turi’s mood.
‘The life here is only when there is no support from Turi no matter what you do. If you are left with “do it yourself,” you are in trouble. The mood was fixed and I was really happy.
“Oh, Turi. If you put your power here and align your eyes, you will look beautiful.”
て も Even if you can do well, I’m just empty. I want a book.
I looked at the Turi braids sideways and taught me the tricks, and I stared at the unsuccessful papyrus.
What should I do next if papyrus can not be repelled?
During the winter, I continue to think about the following while knitting a beside beside Turi.
Egypt is useless.
The difficulty is too high for me as a child.
What to do next if Egypt is no good?
Next is Mesopotamia!
Good, cuneiform!
Hot, clay board!
Mesopotamia civilization, thousands of years old!
Certainly, there must have been a clay plate left behind as a result of burning in a war or fire. If you make a clay board, chop the letters, and bake it with firewood, you might be able to.
And if you knead the clay and make a clay board, it will be like a child’s clay play, and it will also make adult eyes misleading.
Decision! Let’s go with this.
When the snow melts and spring comes, it’s a clay board!