Chapter twenty four

After the bamboo blasted with firewood, I was struck by a high fever while holding the only remaining bamboo.

Anger that burned things I made.

regret not understanding anger at all.

Desperation for the reality that no book will remain in my hand no matter how many times I try.

On the other side through everything, lethargy spread out to let go of everything.

I don’t feel like doing anything.

There was no resistance.

My mother burned a wooden letter and burned something that was supposed to be a bamboo letter brought by Lutz.

I wish I was an adult with good health and strength and strength.

When I was an adult, I made all the papyrus, clay plates, and wooden strips and made Japanese paper.

At least, I was able to challenge if I had the strength and physical strength to be able to work to some extent as well as Touri and Lutz.

Such a sick and poor child’s hand cannot even cut the trees needed to make paper.

Perhaps it may be a problem to be solved if you wait until you are an adult.

But it seemed too long.

And, will I grow like a person just because I grew up? Will the body grow larger with strength and strength?

I can’t have hope.

If everything is useless, I’d better entrust myself to the heat that rampages in my body.

Is there any meaning in living in a place where you can’t get a book even if you make an effort, negotiating with an inconvenient and dirty environment, and patience?

Maybe it’s okay to disappear.

Even just thinking for a moment, the heat in the body activates the movement to rub me. It stops spreading out as if the heat invites you to stop thinking about everything and get swallowed.

There is only one reminder. I don’t apologize to Lutz.

Even though I prepared hard thinking about materials that couldn’t be burned, I didn’t apologize for the simple use of bamboo.

Lutz’s voice revives in his brain when he said he was taking bamboo.

“This is for Otto-san to introduce me! Because I’m paying in advance, Mine should never get well!”

Such a promise remained.

Would it be okay to get away with this heat, even though I made a promise with that much help?

Certainly, Lutz paid in advance.

It is easy to get lost in the heat, but after receiving the bamboo candy, I have to get well and introduce Otto.

Talk to yourself that it is for Lutz and push in the heat. Even if you are eaten by heat, it is better to fulfill your promise with Lutz.

Personal organization is important. Because it was too sudden and there was no such time.

Yeah, when I died in an earthquake, I couldn’t organize it at all … Oh! What happened to that mass of black history! ? Oh oh! I ’m curious, I ’m curious! Yay! Not when you are dead!

When the black history of the previous life that I wanted to dispose of came up one after another, and jumped out, “I can’t die even if I die!”

Two days after I decided to push black history into the corner of my head and not think about it.

Finally, I was allowed to go out to the gate with my father, and I met Otto in the hotel room.

“I’m sorry, Otto-san. I asked for it, but I got hot …”

Yes, while the heat fell down, the promised holiday passed and I couldn’t meet Otto and Lutz.

“I heard from the team leader that the fever did not go down for five days. Is it all right?”

“Yes, thanks”

Otto looks at me with a little eyebrows, even if I show him laughing.

“Is it really okay? The complexion isn’t good?”

It is not because of heat that the complexion looks bad.

Rather, it is paper that is unlikely to be made even if you do your best.

“Oh, I have a problem that I can’t solve …. Can I ask Otto what to do?”

“Eh? The trouble, can I ask you?”

Otto rounded his eyes and looked into my face.

As a travel merchant, if I’m an Otto who has an experience that I couldn’t imagine, wouldn’t it give me an unanswerable answer?

“Yes. I have what I want right now, but I can’t make it now because I don’t have the strength and strength. I might be able to do it when I grow up, but this kind of body makes me really healthy.” I don’t know, I don’t know how big I can be, and in the first place I can’t wait for such a long time, what would Otto do? ”

Otto, who whispered while listening, raised his eyebrows lightly and gave an answer with little thought.

“If you can’t do it yourself, you should hire a guy you can?

“!?”

Scales dropped from the eyes.

There was no idea of ​​hiring someone else to get what they wanted. As expected, he is a former merchant.

Why? I could have thought of hiring someone to work, but I never thought of hiring someone.

“… I think it’s a great idea, but there is nothing ahead of it.”

“Well, I can’t have it that year. That’s right. I’ll guide you to do what you want and do it voluntarily. The bosom doesn’t hurt “

As expected, a former merchant. Although it is a refreshing and gentle smile, it is black and nice.

I ’m sure you ’ve been guided, right?ま し た You said that assistants who can be hired with a brush are kind to the budget even though they have high computing power?

“… I’ll try it for you”

Engage someone who seems to do it and let the other party do it voluntarily …?

It looks pretty difficult for me.

When I was worried about the hunnu mochi, Otto slammed his shoulders and presented a stone board. The talk is over. It ’s a sign of studying silently.

“Oh, yes. If Mine-chan is doing well, can I see her on the day after tomorrow?” The place is right … The central square is good. How about the third square in the central square? “[19459002 ]

“I wanted to ask you here. Thank you bother.”

I don’t think I’ll forget it, but somehow boil it down and make a note of the third bell in the central square in the corner of the stone plate.

When I looked up, Otto was laughing and screaming with his eyes narrowed, slowly stroking his chin.

For some reason, a smile that makes you feel dangerous as if your back is twisted, unintentionally stretch your back and stare at Otto.

“Oh, it’s a funny child because Maine introduces me. I’m hoping it will be a fun holiday”

I heard that the current word is “Don’t introduce the guys, because I ’m destroying a precious holiday”, isn’t it? that? Isn’t it a casual meeting to hear about travel merchants?

When I laughed and smiled while suppressing my inner sway, I looked down at the stone.

Blow and cold sweat come out.

Bad. I don’t have time, but I don’t understand the meaning of the meeting.

I bite my teeth in preparation time. If the day after tomorrow is a meeting, there is little time. I can’t say that I’m introducing Lutz and I don’t understand the meaning of the meeting.

Thinking about the meaning desperately while practicing words on a stone board.

“Mine, go home today”

“Father”

Although it was an early time to go home, my father came to call me, so I went home and left the room.

“Hey, Dad. Lutz asked Otto to introduce you, but does this introduction mean anything?”

“Do you mean that you are looking for an apprentice at this time? Thought you wanted to do the same job as your brothers, but did Lutz want to be a merchant?”

Job placement! ? No, no, not that serious! Because a child like me cannot be connected.

“I just want to hear a story …”

“Now I’d definitely like you to introduce my apprentice. Mine’s friend would be tough”

“Tough?”

“That’s natural. Having an apprenticeship means taking care of one person all the time. Even if you’re independent, you’re not completely cut off.”

It was a tougher situation than I expected. It wasn’t just about listening. Lutz wants to be a travel merchant and wants to introduce someone to Otto who was a former travel merchant.

Oh, that is, the meeting tomorrow is like a job interview! ? I was doing such a serious meeting setting!

After returning home, I heard the story of apprenticeship from my father and mother in detail, and the day after I understood the importance of the thing, I put a large amount of luggage in the cage and came to the forest.

On the way to the forest, Lutz was apologized for talking about the end of Takekan and told that the day of the meeting was decided tomorrow. He sighed, “Banihito. Maybe you might make a mistake.” For Takekan, he was honestly pleased with “Thank you, Mine” for the meeting.

When we get to the forest, everyone is scattered. I took Lutz’s hand and headed for the river.

“Now Lutz. I’m fine here, so I’ll wash my whole body cleanly.”

“What?”

Otto is a former merchant, so she is pretty. I think it’s because you know the importance of the impression you give to your first meeting.

As I know the height of the Otto merchant that can be seen a little while helping with my work, I would like to see it in perfect condition.

Once it is judged that it is not worth meeting, Lutz should not be introduced to merchants, not to travel merchants.

“First impressions are important for meeting people. If you have time to prepare, you should be more channed. I don’t like seeing Lutz too low just by looking.”

“I think it doesn’t change much after washing”

If you can borrow Ralph’s fine clothes, it is the best, but I don’t know if you can lend it.

I don’t have a lot of clothes, I don’t have Lutz, so I can’t help doing it as usual, but I just want to prepare just the parts that can be prepared.

諭 While hesitating about the effects of the appearance, wash out the bad rutz with simple Chan Linshan.

I intended to polish it up and brought a bag, cloth and comb with a heavy thought. Wash your entire body, not just your head.

川 Put the river water and simple chan linshan in the water and wash it over and over again as you normally do.

Somehow I felt like a hairdresser and I talked to Lutz while washing my hair.

“Hey, Lutz. You want to be a travel merchant if you want to hear about a travel merchant’s story.”

“No? Aa”

Lutz’s hair wipes with cloth, and the gloss of the blonde increases. It’s so beautiful that I want to change my hair color.

I asked the question, putting some combs and thinking a little bit more about the brightness.

“Now, Lutz becomes a travel merchant, what do you want to do? Just go around?”

“What, suddenly”

“You have to think about it properly”

“Why?”

“Otto is a person who doesn’t know Lutz at all. People who know a lot like parents or relatives don’t introduce them, so you have to think about everything yourself.”

Yesterday, when I talked to my parents, the kids in this city seem to start an apprenticeship by basically introducing their parents and relatives. For this reason, most of the jobs are related to the parent’s work.

For example, as Turi dyed his mother, she became an apprentice apprentice at her friend’s workplace.

Since it is easy to get sweet, it seems that there are few going to parents’ workplace even in the same occupation. However, for similar jobs, parents are safe if they are within reach, and there are eyes of relatives around them, so children will also work seriously.

There are quite a few people who want to be introduced to other people because they want to get a job that is opposed by their parents like Lutz.

“Mr. Otto will meet in-laws this time, but it’s not so kind. Because he is a former merchant, he’s a person who has a good profit and loss account.

Tomorrow’s meeting is an interview for job hunting.

If you are looking for job hunting, you may not be able to face other people unless you are dressed up and think about the motivation and self-appeal.

“… What is Mine?”

“Huh?”

“Mine asks you what to do as a merchant and can you answer that right away?”

Lutz, who sharpened his lips in a regretful manner, mourned me, as if the answer did not come up immediately.

“Yeah, I want to sell paper. When I become a merchant apprentice, I’d like someone to teach me how to make paper and make it”

Book is for me, what I want. I wanted to make a substitute for a book as much as I could without relying on others.

However, it is already a limit. No matter what you do, everything will be useless.

I want to put out only knowledge and make a circle to someone from the beginning to the end. I think there are people who make information if they take information fees and give them profits.

“Paper? Isn’t it a book?”

“I need it to make a book. The book is here, no one else wants it except me.”

“If you only want Mine, can’t you sell it?”

laughing and affirming Lutz’s words as if amazed.

“Yeah, I don’t think it’s easy to sell a book. But if it’s paper, I think it’s cheaper than a parchment and I think it sells. At least it picks me up because I know how to make it. There are merchants “

“… So, Mine thinks properly. I think for a moment”

“Otto’s assistant friend is often refused. But if Lutz clearly says what he wants to do and it benefits him, then the merchant is Will you take care of it? “

rushed the water into the river, and washed her whole body clean.

“If you don’t move your hand while thinking, you have no time.”

If possible, I told you to borrow Ralph’s fine clothes, but it seems that he couldn’t lend him if he was in trouble.

Much earlier than the ringing of the bell, I walked to the main square with Lutz, who was much more beautiful than usual, but with usual clothes.

“Hey, the third bell? Isn’t it too early?”

“Oh, it’s fatal to be late. If you sit and talk, time is too short.”

Hours are identified by the bells of the temple that resonate every two to three hours.

In this town where there is no clock, it may not be so strict to be late, but we should avoid the delay of our requesting position in view of the other party’s testimony.

“Speaking, yesterday, it was hard to ask my mother what happened to this hair?”

Lutz pulled the glossy blonde with a sad face.

I understand the feeling of Aunt Carla. If your son’s hair is slippery in just one day, you’ll be worried.

“Beauty is the most fascinating topic for women”

“I told you that Mine did it. Ask Mine what you want to hear.”

“Wow !?”

¡I have a strong head, a loud voice, and my head hurts when I think about encountering Aunt Carla’s question attack that will not be released once caught.

“Teach me how to make it, make it myself. I don’t have much”

“… Oh, bad. Important thing, did you let me use it?”

“Okay, I’m indebted to Lutz”

I don’t hesitate to use it for Lutz, who has helped me for a long time, but I’m sorry to use it for Aunt Carla. I’m patient with the basics of washing with water and washing my head with Simple Chan Linshan once every five days.

“But …”

“If you’re so worried, you can make me a lot. I’m too weak to squeeze the oil well.”

“What is that?”

While talking about that, Otto appeared in the central square.

Otto, who stood at the entrance, looked around the square, found our figure, and laughed grinning clearly even from a distance.

Oh, it was still being tested.

し て I have been wary of the vague designation of when the bell rings, but when I was given that dangerous smile, it seems that I was trying to see if I could come before the bell rings.

After the small Otto’s mouth moved, when I waved my hand in another direction, another man appeared and walked here with Otto.

Thunder and cold sweat are transmitted through my back. Unconsciously grabbed the next Lutz hand.

“Come on, Lutz. Let’s start with a greeting”

“Ooooo”

From the friendly situation of the two people walking while talking, it can be seen that they are merchants of Otto’s friends. The friend glanced at me and shone sharply like a bargain.

I haven’t heard that there are other interviewers besides Otto!

Uh, I’m nervous because of an interview with Lutz!