Ascendance of a Bookworm

"Hey, Mine. Why do you keep one small silver coin in your guild every time? Why don't you take it all home?

Walking back from a commercial guild off the carriage, pompous, Lutz suddenly asked me that.

"You keep Lutz, too."

"Because Mine does. I thought it meant something, and I just tried to imitate it. I thought I was taking all my money home, so I felt bad for my family..."

The concept of savings is thin for civilians living a critical life where there is no money left. At best, I don't sign up for a commercial guild and deposit it, even if I would ever save Tans for winter support when it comes to the autumn entrance.

Naturally, what parents are doing becomes common sense for the child, so the child also begins to take home all their salaries and live a life of spending them all.

"I'm saving it for the next initial cost."

"Next initial cost?

Lutz leans his neck strangely, so we take our experience as an example and explain it.

"When you wanted to make paper, you didn't have tools, you didn't have money, and you didn't have adults to assist you, it was even hard to get one nail, and you had a lot of trouble, right?

"Ah."

It wasn't so long ago that I asked Otto for assistance and Benno scolded me. Rutz also seemed to remember, nodding with a bitter face.

"I'm glad Mr. Benno happened to buy me a way to make" Simple Lincoln, "and he paid the full initial cost, but Lutz also knows it costs a lot of money to get the tools together, right? I have money to start anything."

"Lumber, ash, yarn, bamboo craftsmanship in a pan... if you think about it, it's awfully expensive, isn't it?

Recently, Lutz, who has come around various stores for purchasing and has figured out the quality and price of the items sold in the store, rather than in outdoor stores, blues to the price of his initial investment in making paper.

"So save it. Mr. Benno told you that the initial investment was over because he had a prototype, too, right? From now on, if I'm going to get more tools to make paper or start something new, it's all going to cost me money. Something with new tools, even if you can make a whole lot of paper and you're going to make a book"

"So, for the next..."

Stick around and see how Lutz looks like he's convinced and doesn't.

I have a compelling reason Lutz needs to save more money than I do, but I wonder if Lutz doesn't realize it. Haven't you thought of it?

After a little thought I slowly opened my mouth.

"I don't want to say this, and I don't want to think about it... but what would Lutz do if Lutz's parents wouldn't allow him to be a merchant at baptism?... what's ahead, what's on your mind, anything?

After hearing my question and distorting his face spicidly, Lutz whimpered in a powerless voice.

"... I'm going to ask Benno's husband to become a resident apprentice"

"Yeah, if you want to be a merchant, you're gonna have to, right? I'm glad they didn't tell me to give up."

When I laugh and show, Lutz exhales like a little relieved. I'm going to try to jump out of the house this year, so I think I'm quite prepared, and I think I'm still lost.

But Lutz is trying to go in the direction he wants. Then we still need the first thing.

"But, Lutz, think about it. I have money to jump out of the house and get my clothes ready as an apprentice until I get my first paycheck even when I'm living in. I don't think Lutz, who jumped out of the house, has the money to be free."

"Ah..."

As hazy as it was, Lutz raised his face.

"Keeping the money you earn for yourself is not a bad thing. We all live together for the full amount of money, so I may feel guilty, but I'm not really old enough to work, and Lutz is just less than five days away from taking home 13 big copper coins, okay? You're gonna give the house more money than Ralph's apprenticeship pays, right? So it's okay."

"Oh well... I earned more than Ralph, I did."

Lutz laughs proudly.

Ralph, who is just starting his apprenticeship, can earn about eight to ten large copper coins in a month, so the amount we earn will be quite expensive.

"Thanks, Mine. Wow, that makes me feel better."

"Good."

When I laughed at him, for some reason, Lutz suddenly turned his back on me and crouched on the spot.

"What's wrong, Lutz?

"I'll carry you"

"Yes?"

"I went to quite a few different places today, so you're pretty tired, aren't you? You look pale."

In the words of Lutz I touch my face with a pepper by accident. I don't feel hot yet, so I don't think I have a fever.

"... are you pale?

"Not so much yet, but they're still calling tomorrow afternoon, so you better not force it. Mine's the best job I have to do."

"... ok. I'll take care of you."

It's a fact that we move too much over there in one day, and it's a snare. If Lutz says we shouldn't force it, I'm pretty sure he thinks it's in a pretty dangerous state.

Lutz carried me back and drove me home. The stairs just went up myself, but it really helped me because Lutz came up with me, pulling my hand, which seemed to creep along the way.

Honestly, the stairs to the front of the house are the toughest.

"I'm home, Mother"

"Oh, Lutz. It's rare to get here, isn't it? Is Mine not feeling well?

"I was just going to show Benno's husband the hair decorations today, but I met the guild chief and he was going to interrupt the house. She asked me to give her hair decorations directly. So I think I'm probably very tired."

"Yes, thanks for everything. That would help."

That said, my mother makes Lutz grip a piece of medium copper coin.

When I saw the money, I remembered.

"Oh, yeah. Mom, I'll give this to you before I forget it."

"Mine, you, what the hell did you do?

My mother turns pale when she sees the five large copper coins I have given her.

He didn't seem to think the hair decoration was worth that much, and it solidified with his eyes slightly open.

"It's the money that made Frieda's hair ornament. You said you'd buy it expensive because it's rare, right?

"I was asking, but I can't believe it's so expensive..."

I'm sorry, Mom. As a matter of fact, I can withdraw one small silver coin for myself as an introduction fee and commission, what an atmosphere I can never speak of.

"Is it true, Lutz?

"I didn't lie to you, Aunt Aefa. Even I did it together, so I just have the same. Mine and I split it in half."

That said, Lutz also showed my mother the big copper coin for what she had received. So he finally seemed to trust me, and my mother strokes her chest down.

Hey, Mom. Don't you trust your daughter at all?

"Actually, Benno's husband is still calling me tomorrow afternoon, and I'm supposed to go to the store. So let him rest as well as you can."

"Thanks for taking the time, Lutz"

Dropping off Lutz, Batan and his mother, who closed the door, threw me into bed, lifting her brow a little.

"You can't push it. Still, you bought me a lot more expensive, didn't you?

"Yeah. Frieda was rich, and she used high-end yarn, and even though she's usually one, you made two, right? Besides, it's a busy time for winter support, so he bounced the price. So it's not that expensive to make it for someone else."

"Yes, because it's a busy time, you've taken care of it"

In my mother, it seems, the guild chief and Frieda have become very kind and gentlemanly rich, who can also take care of the poor. From now on, my mother won't probably see the two of us, so she won't even have to break her fantasy.

She finds out why the kid took home a lot of money and seems relieved. My mother leaves the bedroom for dinner support.

I, left in my bedroom, still seemed to be under considerable strain on my body, and as soon as I lay down in bed, I began to groan, without eating dinner, and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up, it was morning.

I'm supposed to go to Benno's in the afternoon, so I was supposed to take a break in the morning. Half-enforced.

I should have slept a lot lately because I've been out a little bit, but my body is weak. If I thought I could hear the signs of a fever, I'd be thrown into bed by the family that started winter support.

"Mine stay quiet. I've been working too hard lately. Are you willing to make more money than your father?

That's what my father told me to go around inspecting the slab doors, and to Touri and my mother, who started spreading futons and carpets for winter and drying,

"You're still going to Mr. Benno's today, aren't you? If you're not quiet in the morning, you're going down.

"Mine is of little use in winter support, so good luck where you can help"

So they forbade me to move out of bed.

I had no choice but to dive into the futon in the first place and watch my family move busily.

Unlike last year, I know what winter support will do, so I thought it would help a little...

I think the overprotective condition of the family is probably because yesterday, after returning with five large copper coins and giving them to my mother, I fell asleep without waking up.

I feel like I have done a tremendous amount of heavy labor in my family's brain because I can't satisfy one thing in the house that I earned 13 big copper coins in less than five days and I was sleeping without even eating dinner.

But I've been to a lot of places in the past few days, and it could have been a heavy labor for me indeed.

4 bells rang for lunch, so I clothed myself not to be cold, and went out with my usual tote bag.

"I'm coming"

Going down and face-to-face with Lutz, Lutz glanced slightly at him.

"Mine, you're not feeling so good, are you? Why don't you just go with me?

"I've been busy lately. But Mr. Benno said he was going to fix the amount of handiwork for the winter, so I'm going today. I want to go, even if it is left to Lutz to carry the yarn, to fix the price"

"... oh, the amount, hey. I'm not sure yet."

Yes, I still can't leave it up to Lutz, who hasn't quite figured out the numbers, to fix the price. Only today I want to go and negotiate to some extent the price Benno puts on his hair decorations.

"Well, I'll at least carry you"

"Huh? I'm sorry. I even had him carry me home yesterday..."

"I'm taking the yarn home today, so I can't carry it. Don't use your strength now."

"Ugh, I've been asleep all morning, even though I'm fine"

"You can't count on Mine being okay at a time like this."

Lutz leans against Lutz's back, whining in his heart that Lutz is stubborn and will never give in at times like this.

I feel Lutz has grown again, even though I have only grown a little. It is a bit regrettable that the difference opens up so far in the same age, even though it is due to illness.

"Lutz? You seem to be carrying Mine, but aren't you feeling well?

When he found me carried by Lutz and opened his eyes as Marc did a little, he stopped by early.

Marc reacts hypersensitively to my physical condition. I am so sorry that my unconsciousness in front of you seems to be quite traumatic.

"... I've been out every day lately, going to all kinds of places, so I'm starting to get tired. I think maybe I'll start sleeping around tonight. So I just want to finish my business."

"Okay."

Marc nodded one and led me to the back room.

"Sir, Mine and Lutz have arrived"

"Let it pass."

Marc, who opened the door giggly and let me through, comes into the room with me.

"Rutz reported that Mine wasn't feeling very well. Please take care to get things done quickly."

"Okay. Sit down, both of you."

"Yes."

As soon as we got to the table, we started talking about winter handiwork.

I am offered the price of the yarn purchased by Benno, and I predict the number of hair decorations that can be made from this amount of yarn, and I decide the price.

"Mr. Benno, I don't want this hair decoration to be too expensive to sell. Can you make the yarn as affordable as possible for people to buy because I also purchased something cheap?

"I know how Mine feels, but it can't be a big sale from the start. If you start going out in large quantities, the sales prices are going down gradually. That's about three big copper coins at first."

If it's for Halle Day, if you can't do it a little bit, it's an amount we can't even afford. It's a little tight, but if you decide to share it with your sisters, you can manage to price it as much as...... so I can say it's reasonable considering that it's going to go down a little bit from now on.

"That's about right, that's reasonable. Okay."

When I nodded, the next thing I knew was our share.

"For each hair decoration, five medium copper coins are included, minus fees and material costs. It's a new hand job, and I don't have anyone else I can order, so I'm setting it a little higher."

"Set high with 5 medium copper coins!? After all, Frieda's hair decoration, isn't it too bloated!

With Benno's pricing, if I had made it for two, my share would have been five small silver coins, 100 times the price is different.

"That's all right, because the basics are tight."

"... So how much is it usually priced?

Last winter's handiwork helped make Thuri's cage, but there was no money given to us, so I never cared about the price per capita.

"We merchants take fees for winter handicrafts, and our parents take fees for sewing and finishing workshops, so even one medium copper coin per piece of gold actually in the hands of the guy who makes it is a thank you, right? You didn't go through the parent of the workshop. It's expensive."

"Yeah!? Not a single medium copper coin is that cheap!?

After being surprised, I recall that the price of domestic work was quite low in Japan as well.

Sure, it was dozens of yen each, even like a strap of beads. Considering that, it's not surprising that there's about one medium copper coin per piece. Five medium copper coins we receive are broken.

"It's basically just the parents who can buy and sell goods in the workshop. Depending on how much the parents charge, there's a slight difference, right? Isn't Mine experienced?

You said you'd make hair decorations as a winter hand job, so you'd have experience, wouldn't you? When asked, I recall last year's handiwork.

"I helped my sister Thuri with her handiwork last year. But I was making it without knowing anything about the cost, the fees, the installments, and the money didn't come to me. Is that it? Speaking of which, selling what you make is a registration for your guild, right? My mother, were you registering?

Though it was my mother who took the cage, which was my handiwork with Touri, I have never heard of my mother taking her to a commercial guild. I was just listening uncommonly to what I had done.

"What, is your mother even in an outdoor shop?

"No, you should usually be working on dyeing"

"Then it would be a hand job assigned in the workplace. If the parent simply collects the assigned job, the craftsman does not have to register himself in a commercial guild. We just need to register the parent who will buy and sell on our behalf."

At the artisan's workplace, the president buys and sells them together, so employees don't need to register as merchants. Instead, they have registrations as artisans in their respective artisan guilds.

Heh, I've never known it before.

Then I wonder if you can help me decorate my hair after the workshop norm is over.

"I mean, last year's handiwork was assigned to my mother at work, and she left it to Thuri, and, in addition, I was helping her."

"What did you make?

"This is what I made. I made this first, so it's pretty simple, but some of the other bags I made in my spare time were pretty elaborate."

When I lifted the burn and the tote bag to show it, for some reason Benno held the temple down with a bitter face.

"What's wrong with you?

"... again, you"

"To?"

Again, what is it? Speaking of which, that kind of bitter face, you've seen it several times. Were you messing with me again?

"I did recall that there were a few elaborate bags in the cage that were sold around the end of spring for decoration. Hand jobs don't increase if you don't do the numbers. In order to make quick money, I was noticeable when I did it, out of all the rough knitting."

"Ooh, ooh!

I tried to put in a little elaborate ornament in my spare time, or taught Thuri that, but I didn't know it was evil noticeable in the market.

"If you want to know who made it, you can even identify it to the workshop, but not to the craftsmen who created the winter handiwork that can be collected together."

"Good. I can't identify you..."

I am aware that I am changing, so I intend to bury it as much as possible, but I do not feel that I have been able to bury it.

"For my own use, I naturally made it as sturdy as possible, so I thought the bags Mine had weren't so unnatural, and no decorations, so I never tied them together before... but the origin of all the puzzling things I've encountered in the last six months or so seems Mine"

Fingerfolded counting elaborate bags, hair decorations, simple phosphors, paper… made me want to hold my head. From Benno's point of view, it seems very unlikely to be a human undertaking you want to bury.

Somehow I apologized small because I had no place to be.

"... something, I'm sorry"

"Well, fine. Better yet, it seems like you tend to be condescending in your spare time. Mine was the first one to design hair decorations. Don't change it on your own. This is absolute. All right?"

"Okay. I'll make different colors, but the design will unify."

No way, I never thought the cages and bags I made last year would stand out, and I don't want to stick out and evil stand out like when Frieda did.

The problem should be avoided by keeping the design uniform.

"That concludes my business to talk to you about. Oh, yeah. Sure, you said you wanted to study during the winter? I'll lend you this, so keep your eyes open when you get home."

"... what is it?

I tried to look through the wooden plaque that Benno gave me, and I got my cheeks curled up more and more.

"When you get home, you're gonna look through! Got it?

"Ha-ha!

"Not at all...... I can only return it after the fever drops. Go home early and get some sleep. Lutz, don't take your eyes off this idiot. I read the plaque on my way home, and I think I'm gonna be in an accident."

While reading a book during Reino's time, I remembered that I was coming home from school and getting stuck in a car, and I shut my mouth and strayed from my gaze.

On the way home, Marc was preparing a cage with the yarn he had ordered, so Lutz takes it home. Marc dropped me off with a very worried face, and I went home.

While returning in a lazy, slow foothold, I consult Rutz on what I want to decide before going to bed.

"Hey, Lutz. It's part of the hair decoration..."

"What?

"The flower part is much more time-consuming than the brass part, so can I divide it into two and three medium copper coins?

"That's good. If you think about the time it takes, you can have one or four."

Given the hassle alone, it is best to do as Lutz says, but I wanted to divide it into two and three sheets for a different reason.

"Then it's hard to calculate Lutz, so let's divide it into two and three medium copper coins."

"Computation?"

"Yes, this time we'll take one medium copper coin for each fee we take, two medium copper coins for the flower part and one medium copper coin for the ox part, why don't you ask your family for a job?

"Huh? To my family?

I keep going to Lutz, who tilts his neck if he doesn't know why.

"Um, considering the speed with which I make my flowers, I think I can only make about 30 in a month.

We'll have trouble keeping all the pieces, so let's start by having our families make 30 pieces in a month and remember we'll take the commission. "

"Is that to be a merchant?

Apparently Lutz remembered the difference between the merchants and craftsmen I mentioned before, and he seemed to understand what I wanted to do.

"Yes, why don't you start by imitating Mr. Benno? In order to become a merchant apprentice, Lutz has to work hard on his studies, right? I don't think you can make all the pieces, do you? Well, if I make it myself, I think I can make my own money for what I make."

It's like taking money from a family, so it's with me that I don't feel too good, but when I become a merchant, I stop standing as a merchant as soon as only my own family is acting special.

To my explanation like that, Lutz stared at the ground for a while, but raised his face with a grudge.

"... I'll try"

I had Lutz carry the yarn to my house because you should leave the yarn in my house making the flower part.

Naturally, my family seemed surprised that I brought back a ton of yarn, and stopped by for winter support.

"Lutz, what's wrong with this yarn?

No, so why ask Lutz, not me, my daughter?

Much to the difference in trust between me and Lutz, I explain.

"It's a yarn for making hair decorations. Instead of selling the finished product to Benno, they were supposed to buy the yarn. This is my handiwork material, so don't use it on your own."

"Okay. Thanks, Lutz. Eat this if you like."

My mother gives Lutz a freshly made jam that she entered into a small bin. When Rutz let his face shine and received the bin, his footsteps also left lightly.

"I'll leave this in the storeroom so Mine can go to sleep now"

My father leaves me a cage full of yarn in storage, and I am driven to bed.

"Ugh, at least, I want to wipe my body. I didn't even wipe it yesterday, and I'm sick because I went out today."

"It's fine because the water is just starting to boil. I wanted to clean it up, too, and I'll take it with me."

"Thanks, Touri"

For roughly a year I have wiped my body with Thuri. He's also concerned that Touri hasn't wiped it for about three days lately.

Preparing for a hot bath in the warmest part of the bedroom on the back of the ledge, Tulli said in a smudging tone as he wiped his body.

"You're surprised Mine did something he didn't know about last year, but he's getting himself a job this year."

"Does Thuri make cages again this year?

I asked Touri, washing and squeezing the towel in the bucket.

Touri leaves the three braids, wipes around his neck, and tells me what he plans to do.

"Because my mother's workplace is more expensive than my work at work. I'm going to cut a tree to make a cage and skin it."

"Really? Isn't handiwork at work something you definitely have to do?

Wasn't it allocated by the parent of the workshop? I thought there was a norm from what Benno told me. Thuri laughed small as I tilted my neck.

"Because you're a penny earner. Some people make a lot of them, and some people are busier making family clothes, and they can't get around to hand work, so they're definitely not, are they?

"Oh, we each have our own situation."

I was going to ask you to help me when I finished the workshop norm, but if it's not something called a norm, wouldn't it be a problem to ask Touri to help me with my handiwork from the start?

And I looked at Tulli, and laughed nicely.

"What I make is a hair ornament I made for Thuri. If you make one of those hair decorations, you'll get two medium copper coins."

"Huh!? What's that? That would be a lot of money. Can I do it with you?

"Yeah, let's do it together"

When I said so, Thuri began to sneeze with joy. Make it full, get a penny, and make your eyes shine.

"Hey, Mine. What am I supposed to prepare for?

"Mr. Benno has prepared the yarn, and Lutz makes the bamboo part, so there's nothing in particular to prepare. If you have a thin pin, you'll be fine."

"It's so easy not even having to prepare down there."

Ugh, Thuri, who was laughing, accidentally froze his smile and pointed behind my back as he blinked.

As I turned around and looked back, my frowning mother stood with her hands on her cheeks. I'm thinking of something with a pretty serious eye.

"Hey, Mine. If you finish mine, I can do it, too, right?

Lutz, what do we do?

Mother's motivation caught fire.

I think I need to add it to the (10) section.