Chapter 275
On the way back from the workshop one day when the snow began to flutter, I was stopped by a gloomy expression of gills and handed me a letter.
“Please read where no one knows the situation”
You can understand the circumstances without having to explain them. It ’s about Mine when Gill ’s name is so murky. So, when I always keep Mine’s letter, I decide to stop at Mine’s house before going home.
«Today, I ran up the stairs and stood in front of the main house entrance, taking care of the bag containing the letters.
“Good evening. Lutz, but everyone?”
“I’m there … Oh, maybe?”
To Turi’s words that came out to the doorway, I put out a letter from the bag and showed it. Turi happily shined with blue eyes, rocked the braid and looked back.
“Your letter has come!”
Uncle Gunter jumped out of the bedroom at the same time as the voice of Tuli who bounced. Perhaps it would have been if he had fallen asleep during a nap for a night shift. Aunt Afa quickly wiped her hands and rounded up the kitchen work.
Seeing everyone waiting for a letter as if they were facing each other on the kitchen table, Kamil said, “Camus also,” and asked him to pick him up.
Aunt Afa picked up Kamil, and I spread Mine’s letter on the table where everyone gathered.
In a letter to me, I used a medicine to rejuvenate, so I think I would go to sleep for about a season. During that time, I would like to know about the workshop and Gutenberg. It was written. There are other detailed instructions for Gutenberg.
“A letter to my family says” I’m fine because I made medicine. I’m an ordinary girl. I’ll sleep for a while, but don’t worry. ” Are lined up.
“Can you finally get well?”
“I still can’t believe that Mine is doing well”
“Lutz, are there any other letters? It’s written franc. It’s a letter that you can read, but don’t really understand.”
The letter that came out after reading Mine’s letter was a letter from Fran. Franc’s letter is a bit difficult for Turi to read because it contains a lot of wording for nobility. I have been practicing at the store, and during this time I also learned at Irkner so I can read a little.
I picked up Fran’s letter and began to look through it.
“… Is it really?”
“What’s wrong, Lutz?”
Uncle Gunter, who noticed my strong face, stood up behind Turi, tilting his head.
“What happened to Mine !?”
“… It seems that someone was attacked and poisoned in the castle. According to the chief priest, life was saved, but the period of using the medicine has been extended for more than a year …”
It is written that I want to tell my husband about it, but that is not relevant now.
When I screamed, Uncle Gunter took the Francs letter and looked at it with his own eyes. But it seems that I couldn’t understand with Turi. Close the eyebrows and throw the letter on the table.
“Sleep time is only extended, there is no difference in life … that is the only thing that can save”
Uncle Gunter, holding a tight fist, put his fist on his forehead several times and exhaled slowly, expelling anger with nowhere to go.
“Mine, are you really okay?”
“It’s okay, Turi. Mine is a strong child. I was nursed thinking that she would always die, but Mine woke up properly. I have no choice. “
It’s okay, Afrika Afa repeats her smile repeatedly. I can’t go to see you either. You can’t even ask about the condition. In such a situation, there will be no help for anxiety.
Kamil is looking up at the family in a darker atmosphere, uncertainly, without knowing the circumstances. When I met my eyes, I was reaching out over here.
“Lutz, Lutz. Toys …”
“Nothing new for a while, Kamil. My sister who made it for you is sleeping ill.”
I lightly tap the head of Kamil with a pom pom, fold the letter addressed to me and put it in my bag. I will have to show this to my husband tomorrow.
“I will ask Gil again. I can only do that …”
“Luz is always doing well. Thank you. Now it’s too late, please go home. This is a skirt.”
Aunt Apha received a pork intestine and I left Mine’s house. Run down the stairs, go through the well square, go up the stairs and return to your house.
“It’s right now”
“Welcome, Lutz. Wasn’t it late?”
“Oh, there was a delivery and I went to Mine’s house. This is from Aunt Efa”
When I handed out the intestinal filling I just received, my mother smiled happily receiving it.
“It’s almost two years since Mine died, but if you think Lutz is still Mine’s house, it feels strange”
“… I can’t fix it right away. Can’t be helped? I’m hungry, so if you don’t have anything left, just fill it with intestinal soup.”
“Since it remains, just leave your luggage.”
When I left my luggage and headed to my bedroom, I could hear my mother laughing behind me. It’s still “Mine’s house” that sticks out in the bag, so it can’t be helped.
The bedroom where the four men who are getting bigger and bigger must sleep is too small. As Zasha decided to marry early, this bedroom should be a little larger by next summer, considering starting a new home.
…… I have money too, so if you want to get out now, you can get it.
There are enough savings to rent a room and leave the housework to the subordinate. If you are really dissatisfied with a small room, you can even rent a larger room and move with your family.
However, if I do it now, it will be difficult to deliver letters to Turi and I will have a Dupura contract anyway, so when I turn 10 I will move to my husband’s house . So, until summer, I want to stay with my family. I came to think that especially because I saw Mine torn apart by the situation.
When I left my bag and went to the table where dinner was lined up, Ralf rubbed me with a grumpy face. Even though the dinner is over, the reason why I am rarely at the table is to complain to me. I know exactly what to complain about.
[Lutz. Did you go to Turi again?]
“There was a delivery from the workshop”
praising my shoulders and answering, I draw a plate with soup and start eating. Recently, there are many complaints about Turi.
¡When I started to dine, I started to beat Ralf with a fingertip on the edge of the table with a grudged face. To be honest, it’s in the way of eating. I’m frustrated.
“… That’s Ralph. If you’re so worried, you can invite Turi directly?”
“If you can do it, you won’t have a hard time!”
At the age of 10, Turi became a Dupra of the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce and moved to the Korinna workshop in the north of the city. It’s a promising stock that has never been in this neighborhood. In other words, Turi is as beautiful as there is no one in the vicinity. There are many men who are looking at the future around the age of 10 and have gradually looked to the future. Ralf is one of them.
“I’m inviting me too, but even if I invite you to go to the forest together on a Saturday day, there are many people who are refused by Turi.”
Ralf is steadily raising his sewing arms, is beautiful, and is completely in love with the worker’s Turi. I would like to make use of the strength of my childhood friend in the neighborhood, but since both of them are 10 years old, they have work every day except Saturday, so they can’t keep meeting.
“… There is no time to go to the forest”
“Why is it?”
First, Mine’s house disappeared from sick mine and no longer paid for medicine. And Turi became a Dumpla of the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce and received a special order for the hair ornament of the lord’s adoptive woman. Therefore, it is no longer the economic situation that you have to go to the forest to collect.
Mine doesn’t want to leave a memorable house and doesn’t want to change her living environment so much that she should be able to live in a better room just by not moving. I don’t care about the economic situation of other people’s homes.
“Turi is striving to become a first-class needle, so we don’t have a side-arm. We go to the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce on days when there is no work, and it seems that we are taught various things by Corinna. I’m busy “
“Oh, I know I can’t help my job, but I’m more familiar with Turi than I am!”
“What, then, should I stop talking about Turi?”
“… No, I don’t know what to know”
sighing the troublesomeness of a man in love while teaching some things I know on the job about recent Turi.
…… Because I am a big brother, I would like to support Ralph, but I don’t think that Turi, who is aiming to have a territorial adoptive, will marry a man around here.
The next day, I went to work for Printemps Shokai. Although it is close to Gilberta Shokai, it is a store that bought another store. Recently, husband and Marc finally moved and are living on the second floor of the Printemps Shokai.
After clearing the remaining baggage, it seems that Kolinna who lived on the third floor will move to the second floor of Gilberta. When the move of the Gilberta company settles down, Turi seems to be living at the Gilberta company as Dupura.
“Good morning, Mr. Marc. I want to have time to talk with my husband because there is a story about the temple head.”
Listening to my request immediately, Marc immediately spoke to her husband and called me to her husband’s office. I’m impressed with Marc’s quick and polite work. I’m trying to imitate it, but it’s still difficult for me.
Employees other than her husband and Marc paid off and I reported that Mine stayed asleep for over a year.
“Is there no difference in life?”
“Yes. According to Fran’s letter, it was written that the chief would not wake up for more than a year. This is the letter.”
Husband and Marc looked at the letter and asked, “I see.”
“And then a new business will not start for a while”
“Oh, just right”
Mr. Marc’s words slightly shrugged shoulders. When I was supposed to sleep for more than a year, I suddenly broke my eyebrows. The husband sighed between my eyebrows, saying, “Emotions are too much on the face,” and exhaled a lot.
“As you know, Rosemine is working too quickly. There’s a lot of new things coming out, so we need a period to settle it. From now on, let it settle in now “
“Is it fixed?”
If you think you are going to expand your business more and more, it seems not to be the case.
“We contacted Gutenberg to spend more power in the direction of depth, rather than expanding the business, such as researching Ilkner materials, developing new ink, spreading hand pumps, increasing the number of books, etc. I’ll tell Darua and others from me “
“I understand”
When I ask big, I will immediately send out an invitation to Gutenberg and gather all of them. I gave Gutenberg a new apprentice of Darua and received an invitation.
“Hey, Johan. Is the Printemps firm good here?”
“Yeah, here. Excuse me, please follow Lutz. Huh? That’s Johann, oh … that of Gutenberg”
On the day of the call to Gutenberg, a familiar voice was heard from outside the room, and I hurriedly left the room to meet.
“Johan, Zack. Thank you for your efforts in the snow. Please come here.”
“O, rice cake”
Gutenberg who arrived at the designated date and time are put into the meeting room of the Printemps Shokai.
Metalworking Johann and Zack, woodworking ingot, Heid and Joseph of ink research, Gil of Rosemein workshop representative, and three of us from Printemps Shokai. If you line up like this, you will be surprised that there are surprisingly many people. When I was just making Mine and two people, I was really far away and nostalgic.
…… I want to eat calf butter somehow.
Recalling Zac and Johann seats, remembering the taste that was exceptional when eaten in the cold season, I sat down.
“First of all, I need to inform Gutenberg. That’s Rosemine.”
My husband told me that Rosemine had entered long-term medical treatment, and then I read the contents of the letter I received from Mine.
“… In other words, printing is the same as before, and I want ink to develop something that fits new paper. And then, Inhan told me about making a bookshelf that Johann and Zack had said before, Is demanded to increase the amount of water used and hand pumps “
As soon as I read the letter and explained its meaning, Heidi grabbed the fist and raised it up.
“It’s a new ink research! Yay! Young lady, I love you!”
“Look around. Read the air. Calm down, Heidi!”
Heidi who shines his eyes and his husband Joseph who tries to calm Heidi by undertaking research on new paper and ink. While he was holding Heidi, Joseph looked at him with a sneak peek at Johann’s face with a stunning face.
“… Nah, Lutz”
“What, Johan?”
“A metal type on a hand pump, isn’t it just that I’m busy? What does Zack do !?”
It is decided that Johan will make fine objects. The ones Mine ordered are certainly the ones that Johan is in charge of. When I thought that the amount of work was unfair, Zack frowned and looked at Johann while picking his ears.
“That’s why I have to think of a spring bed and I’m asked to reduce the wobble of the carriage. It’s a lot of design and my patron is not just Rosemine. There are other requests too, because Johan has no patrons other than Rosemine, so what should I do? ”
If you are not a person who orders finely like Mine, you cannot understand the value of Johann, so Johann will have to give up and make fine parts.
“Johan, if you don’t like making the same parts, grow up a back that you can do the same. If Rosemine wakes up, a new request will come again.”
‘Johan says to Zack ’s words,“ That ’s not it. ”No, I ’m in favor of Zack ’s opinion.
Mine said, “When I get up, I’m healthy.” Unlike before, Mine will not run out, and Mine will remain out of control.
…… Wow, just thinking a little bit hurts my head.
When I had my head in the previous prediction, my husband looked at Ingo.
“What is an Ingo bookshelf? Is it something new?”
“Oh, it’s a ridiculous bookshelf. It’s a mobile bookshelf with moving shelves. Did you say it’s a congested library?” Only a few original bookshelves were brought in. I’m going to complete this first, because I have a few metal parts, so I’ll ask Johan … that’s what. Don’t ask. “
Ingo said, looking sorry, looking at Johan. Johan ’s complexion is getting worse.
“Oh, is that really … I mean my work has increased?”
“I thought it was good, Johann. I was able to work differently from metal type.”
“Your new job is fun? Let’s do our best together!”
“I don’t like it!”
Gutenberg’s gathering was concluded by her husband, laughing together with Joak, who was in tears, with the encouragement of Zac and Heidi.
“It’s like that, until Rosemine wakes up, take care of each job. The secretary of Rosemine’s money is kept by the priest. I want you to be active in the street. “
“Hey!”
And when the winter, when snowstorms lasted longer than last year, was over, and in the middle of spring, I was consulted by Gill. There seems to be almost no print story left by Mine.
“I consulted with Franc once, and then the priest gave me the story I heard from the aristocratic children in the winter castle, all of which were written in children’s words and difficult to read. Rosemine was like a book that could be read in a book, and what should I do … ”
Printing is not possible without talk about printing. I’m thinking of Gill ’s troubles. Picture books that can be sold to aristocrats are our main products. With the touch of selling to aristocrats, it has also begun to sell to Australian merchants. It is difficult to stop printing here.
“… Ah! Surely Turi should have received a handwritten book. Ask if you can borrow it.”
“No. Ask. If you make a lot of books, Rosemine might want to get up early because he wants to read. I want to do my best.”
“Sure. If you have stacked books, you’ll probably get up.”
After talking with Gil, I went to Turi, who was supposed to live at Gilberta, and asked if she could lend me a book.
“Gills seem to treat me with care, so it’s okay to lend … This is what Mine wrote for the family, so I don’t think it’s suitable for business.”
Talking so, Turi gave me a “Mother’s Sleeping Story Collection”. All the stories that Mine had accumulated since writing on the clay board were written. As I flipped around, there were a number of stories that I had heard on the way to the forest, and somehow I wanted to go back and cry.
“As Turi says, it ’s too different from previous picture books, but can I borrow it?”
“Okay, can you hear me?”
It is unusual for Turi to come up with exchange conditions like that. As I blinked, Turi raised his blue eyes with determination.
“I want to learn the manners. Lutz is taught by a gray priest at Irkner, so it moves very well and he can read difficult words for the nobility?” Corinna told me that if I learned the manners, I would take him to the aristocratic house, but I don’t know how to do it, instead of lending this book, gray that will teach me the manners I want you to introduce a priest. “
I was educated by the gray priests with the people working in the Irkner’s palace. Although I didn’t feel that much, my husband and Marc gave me up, and the movement seems to have been refined so that Turi can be understood immediately. I can understand the feeling that Turi from the same poor area is impatient.
Before I entered the temple and started the workshop, there were places where I and Turi looked down, saying that the gray priest and the gray priest were orphans. Except for Mine, who said, “I will respect you just by entering the library,” I think the people in downtown were probably the same.
However, if I knew it deeply, they were well-educated and well-educated, so that they could not be embarrassed even if they were put out before the nobility. He has the knowledge he wants to get even if he pays money.
“I understand. I’ll try talking to Gil and Fritz.”
Oresin’s Rose Mine workshop, which is printing, has been under the jurisdiction of the Printemps Chamber of Commerce from the Gilberta Chamber of Commerce. You have to talk to the temple first.
When I went to the workshop, I asked Gil for a book I borrowed from Turi.
“That’s why, what about Turi’s manners? Is it Gill?”
“If Turi wants to learn, it might be better to have a gray priest teach it than a gray priest. Turi has been indebted so far and asks Vilma and Fran.” [19459002 ]
Turi has been working hard to teach sewing and cooking for children in an orphanage and to take them to the forest. He is familiar with the orphanage because he has also visited the winter temple classroom many times. Therefore, Fran and Vilma gave permission to teach the manners in the form of giving back. However, it seems to be a condition that I, who is allowed to go in and out, brings Turi.
I also tell my husband to learn manners in the temple. I have to go with Turi, so I’m going to tell you. Even though I was taught a lot at Irkner, it is quite different from Gil who is serving the side. I must do my best.
“My husband, that’s why, for a while, I go to the orphanage on Saturday to study manners”
“Is it only Lutz and Turi? Can’t I put anything else?”
Husband seems to want to devote manners to Dalua of Printemps and Gilberta companies, but as long as Mine who gives permission is sleeping, other people cannot be screwed.
“I think it’s impossible. Turi has been doing everything for the orphanage, so only Franch and Vilma have given me permission.”
“That’s right, I don’t think that runaway girl would be up at this time.”
Husband, who was laughing, tightened his expression.
“Lutz, learn well. You two have a connection with the lord’s adoptive woman, even if it’s not cut off at any time. Work hard to make the most of that precious connection.” Don’t neglect “
“Yes!”
“And this is what Rosemine said before …”
My husband gave me permission to buy with some precautions, so I headed to Korinna-sama’s workshop. Then, an invitation from the husband is shown in the workshop, and Turi is called.
“Turi got permission. He told me how to behave.”
“Thank you, Lutz. I have to learn hard!”
トゥーリがやる気に満ちた目で、グッと拳を握った。以前にマインから少し物の扱いを教えてもらっただけで、トゥーリはあまりきちんと教育を受けていない。コリンナ様が教える行儀作法は工房で浮かないようにするためで、行儀作法より針仕事に関することが大半を占めるそうだ。
「じゃあ、買い出しに行くぞ。中古でいいから袖が長い服を買ってこいってさ。立ち居振る舞いの練習には必要なんだって」
「えぇっ！？ そんな余分なお金、わたし、持ってないよ！？」
ギルベルタ商会に所属したことで、トゥーリもギルドカードを持っているし、ダプラ契約をして領主の養女に贈る髪飾りを一手に引き受けているのだから、給料は同年代よりかなり高い。それでも、袖口がひらひらしたお嬢様用の衣装をポンと買える程のお金は持っていないらしい。
オレはちらりと自分のギルドカードを見た。金はある。忙しくて使う暇がないから貯まる一方なのだ。
「今日はオレが買ってやるよ」
「悪いよ、そんなの」
「トゥーリ、気にしなくていい。マインが起きたら、マイン貯金の中から返してもらうから、心配するな」
予想通り固辞しようとするトゥーリにオレはひらひらと手を振った。
「……ルッツ、マイン貯金って何？」
「死ぬまでのマインが貯めていた、家族のために使うお金。家族に手紙を書いてもらうための紙やインク、トゥーリやカミルが勉強するために使うって、言っていたから、今回の教材に使ってもマインは文句言わねぇよ」
「教材って、袖が長い服は高いでしょ？ そんなの教材にするなんて……」
無駄遣いだよ、とトゥーリが首を振ったが、貴族に通用する行儀作法を身に付けるために、豪商はもっと大金を払うのだ。
「必要経費だ。袖がないと感覚がつかめないんだぞ。これで無駄遣いって感じるなら、最初から行儀作法を覚えるのを諦めた方が良い。今回は、今までのトゥーリの善意を返すってことで、孤児院で教えてもらえるけど、本来は大金をはたいて、行儀作法を教えてくれる先生を招かなきゃダメなことなんだぜ？」
「……そうだね。ルッツにお願いしておく」
トゥーリと一緒に練習用のひらひら服を買いに行き、ついでに工房に着ていける普段着も数着積み重ねた。女物の服が積み重なった情景にトゥーリが悲鳴を上げる。
「ルッツ、こんなにいらないよ！」
「旦那様に言われたんだけどさ、コリンナ様の工房やプランタン商会は金持ちの見習いが多いから、オレやトゥーリは浮いているんじゃないかって、マインが心配して、いつも服を買う時期や枚数を指定していたんだって。マインがいなくなったんだから、自分で気を付けて服を買えって、旦那様に言われたんだ。……だから、こっちはオレの分」
オレは自分の服も積み重ねた。オレも旦那様に指摘されなかったら、服装には全く構わないから、本当に気を付けなければならない。
知らなかった、とトゥーリが呟きながら、積み上がった服を見つめる。そして、嬉しそうに口元を緩ませ、目を潤ませて、服に手を伸ばした。
「……側仕え達の服を買うお手伝いをしたお給料代わりって気分だったけど、マインがわたし達のこと、考えて指示を出してくれてたんだね。そんなの、言ってくれないとわからないじゃない。マインはもうあっちが忙しくて、こっちのことなんて忘れちゃってるんじゃないか、って思ってたのに……。わたし、バカみたい」
「トゥーリ達は直接話ができないから、わからないかもしれないけど、お前ら、どっちもお互いのこと好きすぎ。ウチもそんなに悪くないけどさ、ウチの兄弟とは大違いだよ」
こうして、仕事が休みになる土の日にオレとトゥーリは孤児院で行儀作法を教えてもらうことになった。孤児院でオレはフリッツに、トゥーリはヴィルマに。
毎週トゥーリが休みのたびに一緒に出掛けることになるので、ラルフがじっとりとした目で見てくるようになった。何を言っても無駄っぽい。仕方がないので、ラルフのためにちょっとトゥーリに探りを入れてみることにする。
「なぁ、トゥーリはそろそろ恋愛とか考えないのか？ 周りにはそういう話題、増えてきただろ？」
「周りはそうだけど、正直、わたしはそれどころじゃないんだよね」
周囲が色めき立ってくるお年頃なのはわかっているが、自分には全く関係がないというか、むしろ、巻き込んでくれるな、という気分らしい。同じような気分になったことがあるオレには、トゥーリの気持ちがよくわかった。
「あ～、その気持ちはわかる」
「でしょ？ マインに追いつこうと思ったら、むしろ、こっちは忙しいんだから、恋愛なんかで邪魔しないでよって、気分にならない？」
「なるなる」
イルクナーで領民の女子達に取り囲まれ、邪険にすることもできず、同じようなことを思っていたオレは、心の中でラルフに謝った。
……悪い、ラルフ。今のトゥーリに恋愛は無理っぽい。
そして、マインが眠って、そろそろ一年かというくらいの秋の終わり、旦那様が血の気の引いた顔でグーテンベルクを全員集合させた。
冬支度の最中なんだけど、と不満顔をしていたグーテンベルクも、旦那様の顔色を見て、背筋を伸ばす。
「ローゼマイン様の母親に当たる方が、ご自分の印刷工房が欲しいとおっしゃっているそうだ。ご実家のあるハルデンツェルで大々的に事業を行うらしい。植物紙工房を作り、お抱えのインク工房を作り、印刷工房を作ると神官長から話があった。ローゼマイン様の代わりに印刷事業を広げるのが母親の務め、だそうだ」
「えーと、それって……どういうこと？」
ハイディがよくわからないというように、首を傾げた。
「次の春から秋にかけて、グーテンベルク全員の大移動が行われる。長期間抜けても工房や店が回るように、冬の間に各自準備をしておけ。それぞれの協会にも話を通しておくんだ。商業ギルドは俺が受け持つ」
グーテンベルク全員が駆り出されるという予想外の大事業に、全員顔色が変わった。
「いきなりハルデンツェルに行ったとしても、協力してくれる工房がないと活動できないこと、冬は川が凍って紙作りができないことを理由に、これでも春まで引き延ばすことには成功したんだ」
当初は今すぐにでも、と言われたが、印刷したい物をローゼマイン工房で先に印刷することと引き換えに、何とか猶予をもぎ取ったらしい。さすがウチの旦那様だ。
「エルヴィーラ様は生粋の上級貴族だ。神殿育ちのローゼマイン様と違って、平民の事情など考慮してくれんからな。あの方を止められるローゼマイン様はお休み中だ。春になったらいつでも出られるように準備を怠るなよ」
マインが眠ったら、その家族が暴走し始めた。それも、オレ達には止めようがない上級貴族が相手だ。
グーテンベルクに休息なんてなかったらしい。真っ青になったグーテンベルク達が一斉に会議室を飛び出した。