Chapter 156
“Mine told me to ask for a free day …”
The call from Gilberta Shokai was about 10 days after Kamil was born.
Probably, there will be a stage that will take you to the wax workshop. I couldn’t find any other reason to be called, and looked up at Lutz with a big smile.
“Would you take me to the wax workshop? If it would be better to have Franc together, how about in the morning tomorrow?”
“No, there seem to be people who say they want to meet”
“… What is it”
The tension dropped all at once. I understand that I want to go to the wax workshop early, with my lips sharpened.
“Girls should be better than Fran to bring, because they said they were craftsmen at the Ink Studio”
My tension regained V in Lutz’s words. Let’s talk about whether you can make color ink.
“Ufufu-n. I’m looking forward to it, Lutz …. Oh, is it okay to talk to someone in the ink studio and talk?”
The deceased president of the Ink Association was searching for my information. New presidents may still be collecting information. Lutz lightly gave up his shoulders to me when I was worried.
“Since my husband has decided that it’s okay, I’ve decided to let him meet, is he okay?”
“Look forward to it honestly”
On the promised day, together with Lutz, Darmuel and Gill who came to meet in the morning, I headed to Gilberta Chamber of Commerce. Marc who seems to be busy still notices me and comes to the storefront.
“Good morning, Maine, customers have already come”
“Good morning, Marc-san, you look busy, would you like me to guide you?”
When Marc laughed gently, he was taken into the room behind Gilberta Shokai, and there was a familiar ink studio parent and a young woman. The master of the ink workshop keeps his eyebrows as nervous as ever.
The young woman seems to be an adult because her hair is raised. She looks like a woman with a braid of red-brown hair and raising it up and holding it up, and does not care about its appearance. The curiosity of gray eyes observing here and there was a busy look, making her look younger.
“Hey, dad, that child?”
“The other party is a lady. Don’t point at me”
Apparently parent and child. Being angry with a short and low voice, she hides behind her as if she struck her hand pointing at me. But the curiosity of the eyes remains fixed to me.
“Good morning, Maine”
Benno said, greeted me, and showed me by hand to sit next to me. I whispered and looked up at Dermuel. Dermuel escorts with a flowing movement and sits on a chair. As expected, nobleman. It is an elegant movement.
“Birth is the new Ink Association president because Wolf passed away. I don’t want it, but I want to do as much as I can.” [19459002 ]
So saying, Biass sighed and broke out a big sigh.
Apparently, Wolf seems to have died quite suspiciously, and it seems that it was difficult to decide after the parents of the ink workshop pressed the back of the president of the ink association. Eventually, it seems that Bias assumed the chairman that nobody wants to do. I’m sorry.
“It’s not good to say bad things about the person who died … but he was too brutally pushed into his outrageous place.”
Saying so, Bias droops. It seems that they are struggling very hard because they can push all the cleanup. It doesn’t seem to be very verbose.
“I want to run a workshop and put together an ink workshop. But as you can see, it’s not good for sales.”
Originally, the ink studio only works on making ink. Sales will be done through merchants and stores in the merchant guild.
However, there is only one stationery shop in the downtown area that deals with ink, and it seems that Wolf has always monopolized profits using a brute force method, except for wholesalers.
“Until now, we didn’t care about the sale at all, and the craftsmen just had to make ink, but when Wolf died, someone had to be the contact instead. Isn’t it unreasonable to tell a grandfather from a stationery store, who had never been associated with an aristocrat, to trade with an aristocrat? “
Certainly, there are a lot of realizations, but it is troublesome to associate with aristocrats.
From my point of view, even Benno, who seems to be dealing with aristocrats without any problems, has painful stomachs and sharp nerves when meeting with Jilvester and the chief priest. It’s only natural to remember a greeting, and failure is a decision to advance or retreat.
It’s a terrible story to say that Grandpa who came to the store peacefully only for the rich in the downtown area, suddenly dating aristocrats. The shop owner doesn’t know how to get along with the nobles, but neither tracer nor Dapura knows. Anyway, if you have a chance to find out and learn about the aristocrats, it’s not a story that says you’ll be glad tomorrow, and that you can make a profit.
Actually, the shops in downtown are associated with aristocrats only at the husbands of the shops that are said to be big stores, and the number is never large. If the store is not funny even if it handles ink, it will be narrowed down to a few.
“Was the guildmaster’s shop handling such aristocratic accessories? How about if you ask them?”
Benno lightly raised his eyebrows and saw Vias. Benno says, “I will sell ink”, whether it is not attractive to ink sales, more troublesome than actual entry, or no more hands can be extended, so that I want to take the job from the guild head Did not say.
Beas expecting Benno to take over, Vias drops his shoulders and shakes his head as if disappointed.
“I want to do it in the mountains, but as soon as Wolf became chairman, what the guild head of the commercial guild originally handled, monopolized …. if you ask again, you’ll see what happens.
Benno distorts his face as if he immediately thought of the face of the guild.
“Don’t look at your feet. You’ll come to the face of a grandfather who laughs badly.”
“So I wanted to rely on the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce”
Developed a new ink, and it is mysterious to handle the sale of ink at the Mine workshop, which has been confirmed to become a large customer in the future, and the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce that sells picture books created at the Mine workshop. is not.
Benas shook his head while holding his temples.
“Don’t say it easily. Some aristocrats will tell you if Wolf will take care of the dark work behind him, and if I’m going to sell ink, the guild. Will the chief make a stranger idiot than ever? ”
I looked up at Benno.
“… Do you give it away?”
I understand Benno’s feelings of disappointment, but if the ink association starts to drop ink to another store, I must deal with that store. Just think about how much effort it will take to be beaten up and be able to trade properly.
“From now on, if you want to print a book at Mine Kobo, it is clear that you will need a lot of ink, so I treat it to Benno rather than other shops. It ’s safer if you have it. ”
“Look, the young lady is saying this, ask, my husband”
“Well, but …”
Benno, who shows his eyebrows and shows disappointment, but his power to refuse is weaker than before. After seeing it, Bias looked at me and begged with a desperate face.
“Why don’t you ask me more from the young lady?”
“… It’s fine to help Benno’s persuasion, but please help with the development of color ink.”
“Color ink? What is it?”
Heidi, who sat still, raised his hand beside him, beside Bias leaning.
“I’ll do it! I came here because I wanted to talk”
“Uh … Heidi-san, aren’t you?”
“Oh, it’s my daughter and the trace of my studio. I like making ink, I like new things, I’m over settled when I’m over 20 years old. It is this man and his husband who make the “”
It looks like a mature adult, but it seems that he was over 20 years old and was married. I’m surprised.
“Young lady’s way of making ink was innovative and completely different and exciting, so far. Best regards.”
“My name is Mine. I look forward to working with you.”
“For now, even if you make ink for plant paper, there is only a chance to buy Mine Kobo. Buy more and use more and more.”
The existing ink is not easy to use, just because the plant paper is easily damaged. Therefore, even if the number of people who buy a little cheaper plant paper increases, it is almost the case that ink is replaced with the existing one. You don’t have to buy and use different inks.
Above all, the amount I wanted to make and released to the ink studio is how to make highly viscous ink for printing. I don’t think other people want it right now.
“Then you have to make the second picture book early!”
“Yes, so when I was making vegetable paper ink, I thought I could do anything other than black with the same method …”
Heidi was wondering if he could make colored ink, but he couldn’t make it right away. “It ’s the Gilberta firm, who makes a contract like a contract magic to give up the rights of black ink,” said his father, Vias. .
Heidi, who really wanted to make color ink, came to consult about whether it would be okay to make color ink for Benno. It seems that Benno knows little about ink making, so I met him.
“You can do anything other than black. Please make it.”
“I just didn’t know what the material was, but … I came here thinking that I had some information. I collected a lot of materials used for paints and dyes. However, what kind of material is suitable? “
Seen straight and sparkling gray eyes, when I tried to open my mouth, Benno pressed his shoulders.
“Mine, do you understand?”
Talking loudly, don’t speak for free. I closed my mouth and whispered once towards Benno and turned to Heidi.
“You will receive 10% of the sales of color ink as an information fee”
“It’s too expensive! It takes a lot of money to become a product!”
Heidi screamed. I know that research and development takes time and money. I tilted my head.
“We will receive 10% of sales, but we will have half of the initial research expenses”
“I got on!”
Heidi shined his face and put out his hand immediately. Business negotiations are finalized. When I tried to hold Heidi’s hand, Benno’s hand flew over my head and Father’s hand, Bias, flew over Heidi’s head.
“Don’t decide on your own, you!”
Me and Heidi all hold their heads and watch their parents.
“… Eh? But isn’t it a reasonable place?”
“It’s not valid. You’re getting too much. If you want to give information, you need only a quarter of the initial investment.”
“That is reasonable”
After receiving Benno’s corrections, Vias nodded. As parents began to make detailed arrangements, I had no choice but to talk about Heidi and color ink. Heidi is looking at me with the eyes full of expectations, whether he thinks the same thing.
“Don’t you go to the workshop? I tried to arrange the materials I thought of from one end. Thanks to my father, I was devastated.”
“Nice! I really want to go!”
I wonder what Heidi is. At the moment I and Heidi are trying to get up at the same time, their guardians grab their necks and sit back on their chairs.
“The story is not over!”
“Relax, stagger!”
Parents and guardians are also breathing. Benno exhaled a deep sigh while holding my neck.
“… I can’t help it. We deal with ink for the time being. However, we are exclusively monopolizing for plant paper handled by Mine Kobo. This includes color ink. For other inks, if other people want to enter, let them enter. Increase the number of guild leaders. ”
“I understand. I’m saved”
It seems that the way to sell ink has been decided safely, as Benno and Vias are exhausted.
“Are you sure you want to go to the workshop?”
“Let’s make a new color immediately”
When Me and Heidi stood up, Benno called Lutz and placed his hand on his shoulder.
“Lutz, watch carefully …. It’s like Mine has become two.”
“My husband, I can’t take care of that. Mine alone is full of hands.”
waving a big hand to Benno who was looking away with his eyebrows in trouble, I headed to the ink studio.
Heidi, who seems to be unable to withstand the speed of my walk, said, “I’m preparing ahead,” and rushed to the workshop alone. Bias apologized to me with a blue-faced face, but that doesn’t hurt me anymore.
“Hey, Lutz. Heidi is an enthusiastic and interesting person, but a strange person.”
“… Mine doesn’t say”
The ink workshop guided by Biass was like a science lab. There are a lot of instruments, there is a scale like a scale, and weighed carefully. There is a craftsman making ink.
In the corner, there was a place to make plant paper ink that I asked for. A few bottles of ink are put in the bottle.
So, Heidi, who should have returned, was beaten up by a man in his mid-twenties. It’s like “work before you play”.
“Mr. Biass, is Heidi busy?”
“… No, it’s not what the young lady cares about. Hey, Joseph! It’s good today. Heidi makes the customer a partner.”
Biass said so loudly, Heidi looked back with a shining face, and a man called Joseph rounded his eyes as surprised.
“Parent, is it sane to let Heidi deal with the customer?”
“It’s a valuable customer who wants a new color of ink and pays a quarter of his research funding. He does not have to stop his research today. Just look at me “
It seems to me that the usual Heidi is treated in the interaction between the two.
“Daughter, this is Joseph. Heidi’s husband, and heidy, who is essentially a trace of this workshop, asks all of you”
“Mine, the main manager of the Mine workshop. Today I asked him to buy a plant paper ink and see how he made a new color ink.”
Joseph sighed in my words. Although I made it, there was no customer who wanted plant paper ink, so I thought it was something.
“This is what we have now”
“Now bring this to the store tomorrow”
Lutz, the Dumpla of the Gilberta Company, purchases from the parent and sells it to the Main workshop. At first glance, it seems to have to follow such a procedure. I left Lutz to exchange merchants and looked around the workshop. Darmell and Gil also seem to have rare workshops in the downtown area. I look around with interest.
“Young lady, over here, over here”
When Heidi headed to the beckoning party, he gathered a lot of materials, just because he collected materials. It’s already shattered, so I don’t know what it was. And not only materials for making colors, but also various kinds of oils were collected.
“Heidi, what’s the oil here?”
“I collected it from one end. Maybe linseed oil alone might not be enough?”
“Yes. I was thinking the same thing.”
“I wanted dry oil to make ink, but the only thing I could see in this town was flaxseed oil. Because there is something like hemp in the dough, I tried to guess that it would exist.
However, the amount of linseed oil alone is not enough and the price is high. I was also looking for other alternative oils. I want to find out what kind of oil is in this world.
“There are dry oils that dry when dried, and non-dry oils that do not dry when dried, but dry oils are good for making ink.”
“Well, then there are several other types besides flaxseed oil. It’s about Misch, Pede, Aize and Tulum.”
Heidi sorts out the line of oils, naming them papapa. I was given the names of walnuts and flowers and I hurried down and wrote it down on the writing board.
“The ink I know is often made by mixing colored ore into a powder and mixing it …. Well, in this kind of ocher soil, a color that is between yellow and brown I can do it. ”
“Okay, let’s try. Help Joseph,”
Heidi called Joseph and started making it. Joseph begins kneading ocher and oil on a marble board.
“… ?? What should I do with brown?”
“Why, why?”
If you mix ocher and oil, it should turn ocher. It cannot be another color. Nevertheless, there was some blue in front of me. A bright blue like a clear blue sky spreads over the marble and is stunning.
“Let’s try other oils”
Joseph and Heidi mix with ocher in the order of Misch, Pede, Aize and Tulum. Only Aize was finished in the ocher color that I knew, but other than that, it turned red and turned blue-green, which was an unexpected result.
In front of five colored marbles, everyone, not just me, blinked their eyes.
“What’s wrong with thinking?”
“… Isn’t it funny, but should I say that it was good to make various colors from one material?”
It seems that the color changes with the type of oil. The result is unexpected, but the increase in the number of colors is welcome.
Joseph, who had been mixing one after another, looked at me with a tired face, turning around his arm.
“Young lady is more positive than expected”
“I want color ink because I don’t have any problem unless it becomes clear and colorless”
I will write the results on the writing board.
Lutz stared at the colored ink and tilted his neck.
“Why does this happen?”
“Do you think so? Isn’t it strange? I’d love to figure it out.”
Heidi shined his face and took Lutz’s hand. Heidi seems to be the type that can’t help trying to solve the wonder.
“Heidi, it doesn’t matter why this happens. The important thing is how many colors can be made”
“Wow! Doesn’t the lady want to know why this wonder happens?”
Just as if he was betrayed, Heidi opened his eyes and stared at me. Joseph’s arm extended from the side, holding Heidi’s head tightly.
“Heidi, don’t make a young lady your freak!”
“The weirdo is terrible. I just thought I could understand this young lady”
Although bad for Heidi, I don’t want to clarify mysteries. I want to make a colored picture book for my cute brother Kamil. By the way, although I don’t want to do mysterious clarification by myself, books that summarize research results are welcome.
“I want to know the result rather than the reason and cause. Aize is the color that I expected. Let’s mix the blue there with Aise. Common points and differences may become apparent. ”
When I pointed to the blue powder, Heidi laughed and whispered.
“I agree on that. Let’s try one after another.”
Ocher was an Aize with the expected color, but when mixed with blue like a lapis lazuli powder, it became a bright yellow for some reason. It’s perfect for drawing rape fields, but the color I asked for wasn’t yellow.
As an aside, it was flaxseed oil that produced a blue color like lapis lazuli.
“… this may be difficult”
In front of a large amount of materials and five kinds of oil, I felt a big gap in the difference between my knowledge and the common sense of another world, and struck the letter board with the results.