Chapter 14
Apparently, in this city, the sunny day in winter is decided to go to pick up Parlou. My father and Turi went to pick up Paru because the previous time overlapped with my work break, but today is my father’s work day.
As expected, this time my mother touched the coat when I was thinking of giving up Parlou.
“I’m going to Turi today”
Paru is a precious food for the winter, and for me it is a fruit that can be obtained from a thick coconut milk, olive oil and a slightly sweet Okara.
squeezed residue after removing oil, but after knowing that it could be used instead of okara, the menu increased slightly. Thanks to that, my mother is more motivated than ever.
Yeah, yes, the Okara hot cake made at Lutz’s house was a long time pastry for me. Lutz’s house has chickens, eggs are absolutely there, and since they are exchanged for eggs, milk seems to be in stock. Jealous.
Lutz’s house was more abundant than Uchi, was full of boys, had a lot of labor, and was very easy to cook.
Did you name Okara Hot Cake, Oh, Parro Cake? I was impressed with the paru cake, and the mayonnaise made with paru oil, egg yolk and salt and the potato salad seasoned with mayonnaise and salt were also popular.
…… If you ever reincarnate, maybe the child of Lutz’s house was good.
Since there are many uses, Paru wants as much as possible. So, for going out, I don’t have much help, so I just want to do my best.
Good luck, good luck, Turi! Don’t lose, don’t lose, mother!
However, when Mother and Turi go to the forest, my problem is that my family is in trouble. After all, he has no physical strength, is sick and useless. Don’t take me to the winter forest. In addition, it seems that if you leave alone, you don’t know what to do, and you can’t leave an answering machine.
Is n’t it a little terrible?
While eating breakfast, my father, who thought well, struck his hand while preparing to go out to work.
“… Yes! Mine, do you want to wait at the gate with your father?”
My father takes me to the gate. Mother and Turi go to the forest to pick up Paruu. And on the way home, take me back at the gate. That way, they can go to the forest without worry, and I won’t be alone.
“That’s fine. Let’s do that! Then Mine will leave it to her father, Turi”
“Yeah! Then I’ll pick you up later, Mine”
Supplied my father that my mother was a good idea, prepared the necessary things in no time, and went out with Turi.
Paru can only be collected until about noon, so it must be done as soon as possible.
I think it will probably be exhausted quickly. Because it ’s such a delicious and useful fruit.
“Well, are you going to the gate?”
Is there an answering machine at the gate?
Well, it might be a change of mind rather than staying at home. If Otto-san is there, he will be able to teach new characters …
To be clear, I’m tired of staying at home. The only thing I can do at home, failing to make papyrus, is to play with stone plates or make a kite. No way, I didn’t think I could have this much time just because I didn’t have a book.
By the way, recently, the songs that often play in my head are “Spring Come” and “Radio Gymnastics”. You can’t go out to make clay plates unless it is early in the spring.
And I started daily radio exercises to build physical strength so that I could go outside. It looks a bit strange for the family, but I think it ’s important to make sure to do it to increase your physical strength.
Talking about the truth, I didn’t care much about health in Japan, so I don’t know what to start with.
“Yes, father. Are you today, Otto?”
“Oh, should have been?”
“I did it!”
I enjoyed answering at the gate. I will be ready. Necessities to go out are stone plates. I’m ready to go out when I put on my clothes, put on a coat, and put a stone board in my own tote bag during the winter.
“Dad, let’s go!”
“… Mine, you like Otto that much?”
“I love you”
Isn’t it likely that I wouldn’t like the teacher (determined arbitrarily) who gave me the stone and taught me the letters?
You like it more than your father? If it ’s really messed up, it will crack your relationship, so it ’s a chuck in your mouth.
“It’s cold!”
When I go outside, the air itself is so cold that it hurts so that my skin seems to be cut just a little wind.
¡If I was a basic stubborn person today, if I could get oil from Parlou, I wouldn’t make something like a moisturizing cream.
Moreover, it is snowy and I can’t walk. There may be tips on how to walk, but I don’t know how to walk on snow.
When I moved my feet just two steps, my child’s short legs were buried and I couldn’t move. I don’t know what to do next.
“Father! How can I walk?”
“… Yes, be careful not to let Mine fall.”
When my legs were buried and my arms were stretched out and balanced, my father who was walking ahead returned with a amazed face.
My father hooks my tote bag on my wrist and puts my hand beside me. He was lifted up to a high position and sat on his father’s shoulder.
“High. Amazing”
Sight is much higher than when Ralf was carried on his back. Still, the reason I don’t feel much fear is that my father, who is working as a soldier, has a wide shoulder and feels secure and stable. It is completely different from Reino’s father who was a sales-related office worker in memory.
“Have you caught it with your own power?”
“Yes”
‘Shoulder wheel shakes too much for a long time, and it ’s a bit throbbing. He clung to his head and he started walking on the snow. The narrow alleys that weren’t snow-capped were carefully walked step by step as if they were tracing people’s footprints, and began to walk normally when they came out of the main street.
“Mine, Otto is already married?”
‘If my father who walked silently suddenly opened his mouth, this was the word he said.
Eh? Did you say I want to be Otto’s bride? I have never said that I want to be my father’s bride.
“Uh … so what?”
“Is he because he only has a bride?”
‘What a check against a five-year-old daughter! Is it okay to chop my father’s head and tsukkomi?
“What happened?”
“……”
Oh, already! Silent here! ? Bothersome!
I don’t read here. Do you really want to tell such a troubled father that “Dad is better” or “I like Dad”?
“That is, Otto is a man who cares about her bride, isn’t it nice?”
“… No”
dad seems to have completely asked, and then walks silently. I got to the gate with a really troublesome father.
“Good morning”
Somehow bowed the soldier standing at the gate. Seeing strange things for a moment, I remember that there was no habit of bowing down during greetings.
Or was he greeted on his father’s shoulders and made a strange face?
“Richt, my daughter’s Mine. When I finish taking Paru, my wife takes me home, so I’ll leave it in the inning room until noon”
“I understand”
“Mine is an inn room. Otto is there, is it okay?”
Wow, I feel like my voice is sharp. that? Maybe it ’s baked at a level that Otto does n’t have? ？ Did you mess with human relationships?
“I’m just looking forward to having Otto-san teach me new characters”
“… I don’t need Otto”
Sorry, Otto. It seems that it was even more troublesome to follow.
I can’t figure out where my father’s thoughts wander even though I was just floating on being able to teach new characters.
“I will enter”
My father knocks lightly and opens the door to the hotel room.
The direct-operated room is lit up by the fireplace and there is a lamp on the desk, which is much brighter than the house. There was a desk relatively close to the fireplace, where Otto was working on paperwork.
“Otto”
“Team Leader … and Mine-chan? What happened?”
“I’m waiting here while I picked up Paru. Please take care of me.”
concisely, or saying so in a domineering way, my father takes me down from my shoulder.
Suddenly adding a babysitting job, of course, Otto opened his eyes and looked at the documents and the father’s face alternately.
“Hey? No, but I … accounting report and budget …”
“Mine, it’s warm here. Be careful not to catch a cold”
“Hey”
I waving off my father, who was leaving with no intention of listening to Otto’s words, and turned to Otto.
“Sorry, Otto-san”
“Hey?”
“I’m glad to get a stone board and I’m more happy if I think I can meet Otto today”
“That was good. I’m happy to see Mine-chan …”
After laughing a little shyly, I got an incomprehensible expression, “Are you apologizing?”
“Actually, when I praise Otto, my dad asks me …”
“… Achaa …”
“I’ll be quiet until my mom picks me up, can you tell me a new letter?”
If you see parchment and ink on the desk, you can see that you were working on paper. I don’t want to get in the way of work, but I’m not going to miss the opportunity to teach new characters.
“Well, that’s fine. If you’re Mine, you’ll practice quietly …”
When I took out the slab, Otto whispered me and wrote the letter. When he got the stone, he was able to play alone on the stone for hours, so he seems to have trust in a strange sense.
“Mine-chan. If you’re out of heat, the team leader seems to be more upset than it is now, so don’t sit here.”
Otto gives a seat in front of the fireplace, shifting things on the desk little by little, laughing.
Since I fully agreed with that opinion, I sat down in front of the fireplace without any hesitation.
“Thank you, you can practice with this.”
The letters used here are like alphabets. It is not a phonetic character like Hiragana, nor an ideogram like Kanji. It is a character that changes its pronunciation and meaning by spelling.
For the time being, only the sound of a flicking brush and the sound of a surreal pen tip running on parchment resonated.
I remembered some written characters and when I looked up, Otto faced the parchment and calculated with a serious look.
There is a calculation tool like an abacus at the side of Otto, but I’m not sure how to use it.
I don’t think that the abacus itself can be used even if it is the same as the abacus because it is only practiced for subtraction in the elementary school class.
Talk to the place where the calculation is once delimited.
“What is this, Mr. Otto?”
“It’s financial reporting and budget preparation. I have to make a budget for the year in winter and submit it by spring, but there are many soldiers who are not good at calculating. I’m good at gold accounts, and I’m going to create accounting reports and budget tables. “
“You’re being pressed for trouble”
Looking at the parchment, I can’t read it, but there are three numbers next to the lined items. Unit price, number of pieces and total. Maybe because the previous two are calculated by multiplication.
Is it an application for equipment? When I was looking at it, I found a calculation error.
“Otto-san, is this correct?”
“Huh?”
“Is this 75 and 30? If you think, 2250 would you think? … Oh, this is also different”
I can read the numbers, but I don’t know what to say here for the multiplication formula.
“Why can’t you read the letter? Why is it calculated?”
“Ufufu, my mom taught me the numbers in the market. So, you can calculate by looking at these numbers, but I can’t read this area at all.”
Otto had some idea when he said that he couldn’t read the text on which the item was written. “No, but” there are spills.
“… Mine-chan asks with shame. Can you help me?”
Is this a good thing to undertake?
Isn’t it awkward to help such a child before a secret or secret leak?
Rather, are these children so tight that they have to help if they have computing power?
As Otto says “Be patient with shame”, it would be unusual to ask a child for help. Otto dares to ask, so if possible, I would like to take over.
And there is something I really want. Since it was a lot of work, I decided to accept it with a replacement condition.
“I understand. I’ll hit a hand with a brush and letter teacher”
“What?”
Suddenly, he didn’t expect the young girl to be conditioned. Otto has rounded eyes. I explained my current situation with a little laugh in response to what I expected.
“I said a while ago, but my mom taught me so I know the numbers. But I don’t know the letters, so I want Otto to become a teacher.”
“It’s okay, but … What is a stone brush? Isn’t a stone brush expensive?”
As Otto says, stylus is sold at general stores in the market. In fact, I had my mother buy it. So if you want to buy it, you can buy it easily.
However, it is difficult for me to obtain.
“I bought it before, but even if I told my mother, I wouldn’t buy a stone brush …”
“Why?”
“Maybe it’s because I’ve been playing with slate all the time. If you buy it, it will disappear soon …”
“Hahahahaha …”
If you’ve been playing for hours, a writing brush will get smaller soon. For me who can’t get any money, I can say that refilling a brush is a matter of life and death.
“Anyway! I’m not a cheap woman to work without any rewards”
“… I think it’s pretty cheap”
Otto officially became my teacher with a bitter smile.
The document seems to have been correct in the application for equipment, and it seems that it was in the process of confirming the document made by another person.
“What should I do?”
“Is it possible to check if there is a calculation here? Anyway, I don’t know where the calculation error is lurking, so it takes time to check.”
Obviously, there is no personal computer here, so it takes time to create a small amount of documents, but having to check all calculations alone is also a shortage of human resources.
“There are soldiers who can calculate a little more”
“… That’s right, but I can do this because there is a reason …”
Apparently it seems that Otto has become a soldier. As a hungry person for information and knowledge, I want to ask for more information and hurt.
However, since the amount of confirmation work is enormous, I put up with it and decided to use it next time.
“Mine, do you use a calculator?”
“Yeah, I don’t know how to use it. I have a stone board”
Writing stones that can be erased are very convenient to use instead of calculation sheets. Using a stone board, I will help with calculations by writing.
The numbers seem to be completely in my head, and when I think of the number 9, I can write the numbers here.
“It’s so easy. I was impressed. I was really saved. I didn’t expect the confirmation work to finish so quickly. I could calculate this much, so Mine might be suitable for a merchant. Can you introduce it to a commercial guild? “
For the past few years, it seemed that it was a job that had to be done alone for financial reporting and budgeting, and even though I only checked the calculations, Otto was thankful.
If you can make a lot of books, it might be a good idea to have a commercial guild introduce you to become a bookstore. I got a connection unexpectedly.
At the same time, it seems that I was recognized as a valuable assistant for Otto.
“Mine-chan, if you want to learn the letters, should you seriously hit them? Then, next year, you’ll be helping with document creation”
“Really !? I did it!”
“Eh? Where are you pleased?”
Otto rounded his eyes as if he was surprised, but would you be pleased if you really taught them? Isn’t it helping with document preparation and touching parchment? Isn’t that writing in ink?
Isn’t that very happy?
“Mine, please wait”
“I’m going home”
Today I have done a lot of calculations for the first time in a long time, and I have been able to exercise my brain miso. Just like after reading a large number of books, the feeling of fatigue that Gene and the back of the head are numb is comfortable.
It was a very fulfilling day.
“Thank you, Otto. Thank you for your help.”
“That’s right. I was saved”
“Now, dad. Work hard.”
“No”
My father is in a bad mood even though he only has time. Rather, is it worse than in the morning?
Why?