Ascendance of a Bookworm

Isn't this a good project to take information fees, like when you were a Lincoln, although Benno would say great things like, "Talk about paper making, to determine the location and size of the workshop"?

I open my mouth, asking how Benno was doing.

"The interests of the Plant Paper Association don't come around to us, so we're going to need information on how to make paper, right?

"... I have no choice. How much do you want?

Benno slammed a ton of tables with a nigga laughing.

I honestly have no idea how much to spend on paper information or how much is the right price.

"Uh, how much does Mr. Benno pay?

"I'll pay you as much as you want. How much?"

Does Benno know my mood like that, Niyaniya laughed and returned it like that.

The standard for the information fee in me is three small gold coins from the time of Lincoln. Benno himself must think that the paper can be set up quite widely because it is enough to make a new one up to the association.

"Ugh... Li, you'll get twice as many Linshans, won't you?

"Okay, look, come on"

Benno holds the guild card and shows it swinging. I also put out guild cards and paired them with kachin.

I was flatly accepted by Benno without breaking the Niyanya laugh at all. Could I have plucked it more? I knew I didn't know the market.

As I was thinking about it, Otto put his arms together and looked at Benno.

"Even if the workshop listens to Mine and decides on the amount, size, size, and location of the tools. Why don't we just divert the tools from the guy in the warehouse?

I was a little confused by Otto's words.

"Those are Mine Workshop supplies! If they take it, they won't be able to make our paper."

"... the warehouse itself belongs to my husband."

I turned my gaze to Benno, pointing my lips softly at Rutz's scratch. We would be in great trouble if we were diverted and transported tools. And that tool is not for mass production.

"But I really can't. Mine workshop equipment is not suitable for mass production."

"Am I?"

I began to explain to Benno, who had raised an eyebrow just because I didn't know why.

"The tools over there are lightweight, miniaturized and simplified to make it easier for us to use, with the primary goal of completing the prototype, so they're not suitable for mass production. Don't think it's a bad idea to make Mr. Benno spend too much money on his upfront investments, and some of them have been done with substitutes..."

"Huh? Why did you hesitate when you said you'd give me money? I wish I had the best equipment."

Although Otto said it as if he was surprised "aren't you stupid," he never thought about having the best equipment for someone else's money. Back then, it was hard to get one nail, and I was just thinking about how cheap it could always be.

"I couldn't get that far. I think I can get a little fatter now."

"You don't have to get any fatter against me. So, what do you mean, it's not for mass production?

He's got a different physique.

In Benno's words I think of Benno's easiest example to understand.

"For example, the girder we use is the contract size, but an adult man should be able to paper it with a bigger girder. If you can use a girder the size of four pieces at a time, it will be more time efficient."

"I see."

It only takes time and effort to make it right in the contract size to produce it in bulk. If you have the power to use large girders, you should make them all at once.

"And then, because we can't handle it, we're using a bigger toilet, but we're going to need a bigger boat to make water (fumizu) to match the girder, right? Now I'm just tying up the chopsticks that Lutz made for me..."

"You're just a tool that doesn't sound familiar."

Some tools were not ordered, so Benno looked at me slightly as he slapped a ton of temples.

"Um, I think it's hard to tell what tools you need and how you're replacing them now without explaining them while showing you how to make them in the warehouse"

"Right. Let's go to the warehouse tomorrow. I've never seen your workplace before, so it's just fine."

And when I was appointed, I was a little. I think of the papermaking plans that were in me.

"I was just finishing up my paper today, even when they told me I was inspecting. So I was thinking of going to the woods to pick up the raw materials because I'm just going to dry them tomorrow and I don't have anything to work on."

"Ho, does that mean working from scratch?

"Right. Cut, steam and peel the wood. And I'll even dry it in the warehouse."

Hearing my words, Benno nodded several times.

"All right, let Marc go"

"Huh? To the woods?

In Benno's words I thought of Marc going with us to the woods. Doesn't look good. Rejected.

"Mr. Marc can't because he's a nice gentleman who looks good in pissy clothes. It doesn't look good cutting or skinning trees in the woods.... um, if Mr. Benno's going to wear his work clothes, fine, right?

"What do you mean, here!

"Benno is the one who wants to know the job description, so Benno should go."

"You didn't say that earlier"

Even with his unpleasant face, Benno seems to have decided to act with him when he says he does want to know what the job is all about. Soon, we were supposed to work together in the woods tomorrow.

The next day, when Lutz went to pick up the keys to the warehouse, they had Benno in his work clothes. Marc, who picked me up, looks like he's in trouble, and he sneaks me up and tells me that Benno doesn't run wild or that he was definitely worried.

"You can often work in such a small place."

Benno, who entered the warehouse, looked around the warehouse and said so. From the point of view of Benno, who works in a large, large store, there would be no choice but to have a small warehouse where the two children can roam.

"If it's just us, we'll be fine, but when Mr. Benno comes in, it'll be very narrow. Well, I do most of the work outside, so I don't have much to do inside."

Prepare the tools to be used when taking raw materials as usual and head to the woods. A little steamer, bucket and firewood in the pan. All I have today is vegetable chopsticks, plate replacement boards, calfe potatoes and butter in my cage.

Benno called out to hold half Lutz's luggage, but Lutz shook his head loosely.

"I'm used to it, I'm fine. It's more helpful for me to take mine than it is for me to carry my stuff."

"Does Lutz usually carry all this? Pretty tough, huh?

Benno shouldered me carrying the cage, frowning and honking his nose with hun.

"Hia!?

"Hold on tight. Lutz, just give me that big wooden frame. It's going to crumble."

Benno holds the steamer with one hand and starts walking. Benno's shoulder, which walks with his big crotch, swings wide. I stuck to Benno's head, frightened.

"Uh, we decided on the size of the pan in terms of the size we could carry to Lutz, but when the pan is small, the amount we can do at a time is really small. You're just thinking about making the pan bigger or installing a few smaller pans, right? If you have a workshop on the side of the river, it's pretty easy because you can carry only ingredients, not pots."

"Hum..."

I have an adult Benno with me today, so I don't need to act with my pre-christening children. Instead of heading to the rendezvous point, he headed directly from the warehouse to the south gate.

When I walked through the gate, I saw my father and Otto talking about something.

"Father, Mr. Otto. I'm coming."

As I waved my hand wide from Benno's shoulder, the two of them rushed over here looking lightly at me.

"Mine, who?

"It's Mr. Benno I always take care of. Mr. Benno, this is my father."

Watching the two of them greet each other, I saw Otto swaying in small pieces at the edge of his sight.

"Mr. Otto, what's wrong?

"No, when you guys are together, Benno only looks like his father..."

"Shut up, Otto. I'm single."

Gon! and dropped his angry fist on Otto's head, Benno started walking slightly with his big crotch.

Hey, was Mr. Benno single? Even though it's a pretty good year.

This seems to be a low marriage age, and even my father has just passed 30. It feels strange that Benno, who looks just like my father, is not married.

"Mr. Benno, aren't you getting married?

"... oh, maybe not"

"If I asked you why, would you be angry? I'm purely interested, so if you don't want to tell me, you can ignore me."

When I heard that, Benno laughed bitterly and said, "I'm not keeping anything a secret".

"When I wanted to get married, I was full of hands to have a family, and when Corinna got married and had no more family to hold, the woman I wanted to be my daughter-in-law was dead, and there was no more. I'm not getting married because there aren't any more women than he is. That's all."

That's all I think is a pretty heavy story.

I exhale slowly. It's a story about someone who was important to Benno being dead, so I can't steam it back any more, or tear it up.

Benno grinned bitterly as I stroked Benno's head silently.

"What, suddenly?

"No, somehow. Mr. Benno is the husband of a big shop, so I was just wondering if it would be a marriage, if it was a trail, the surroundings would be loud."

"Well. But lately it's been quiet. The trace works out Corinna's kid, so no problem. That's the condition that allowed us to get married."

Wow, Mr. Otto. Come on.

While I was supporting him in my heart, I left the gate like a dark tunnel. At the same time, it changes from cobblestone to a path where the soil has swept out. The air tasted good, my vision opened, and I was surrounded by a sense of liberation.

"Oh, it's been a while since you've been in the woods."

"Speaking of which, you said you had picked Paru. I thought the merchant kid wouldn't go to the woods. Frieda also said things like only going for a picnic..."

I can't forget the shock of being told that every day is like a picnic. Benno narrowed his eyes nostalgic after a cool laugh.

"Once in a while we get out of the house to the woods and sneak out"

"Sneaking around..."

"Everyone who came to us as an apprentice has been to collect them, right? Of course you're interested, right? Aren't you still here?

"... Speaking of which, sometimes I don't see a face when an apprentice is with me."

Apprentices after the baptism ceremony also collect and hunt in the woods when their work is off. Unlike pre-baptism children, many go to the woods on their own because they will be free to come and go between the woods and the city. Sometimes, however, some children bring their friends to the rendezvous point where they can be apprenticed.

He went out into the woods with that kind of kid, too.

"How do you spend your childhood as a merchant child?

"We were basically studying. Study entertainment when guests arrive. When you go to the market, they make you look at the price and calculate it, they teach you how to tell the surplus, they make you judge the good or bad of the product…"

A life in which all one action leads to commerce is not immediately understandable, even if it is put into words. I just know that we have a completely different life.

"It's certainly a lot different from our lives."

"Little shop kids will be living different lives again."

When the baggage was transported to Kawahara, Lutz confirmed the baggage and set up the pan. Draw water from the river and zazzle it into the pan and set a steamer on top of it. I tried throwing in calfe potatoes again today.

"Me, I'm gonna cut a tree, but my husband..."

"Lutz, you're going into the store, so you can call me husband."

"What about your husband? Are you waiting here with Mine or are you going to cut a tree with me..."

"I'm interested in what kind of tree to pick, so let's go"

Lutz and Benno go looking for a tree. I left a message as I picked up firewood around the pot.

Lutz and Benno, who mowed the trees, came back with lots of branches. When he saw me sitting by the pot, Benno raised his brow lightly.

"Will Mine do nothing?

"What does Mr. Benno say I can do? It's my job to stand still here. There's no one to take me home if I fall."

When Lutz is not around, he tells me to try not to move. It is more overwhelming to cause trouble when I move around on my own.

"... Lutz is so impatient to surprise you"

"That's right. Lutz is amazing."

"Mine, tell me not to. I'll get some more firewood."

After Lutz stared at me in embarrassment, he escaped from this place. When Benno and I laugh off that back, I take the knife out.

We talked to Benno about Lutz while Lutz sorted out the phosphorus and firewood he had taken and cut the phosphorus to the size of entering the steamer.

"Lutz is really amazing. I wouldn't have lived without Lutz. He helped me the first time I was about to get swallowed up."

"Ho?

"Besides, Lutz took care of me and made a lot of things with me before what I was doing like this became money."

"... oh, you've heard of it. That's why you put your shoulder in Lutz?

It seems strange from a merchant's point of view to involve Lutz in separating his rights from his interests, even though he could have made it into a winter hand job, paper making, and monopolized his own profits.

"Right. You're helping me because of Lutz, and I want you to do all I can to Lutz. I can only think of new products, and that's because Mr. Benno sells them, so it's money."

"... I see. If so, Lutz will have to secure anything at our store."

"Regards"

Pong and Benno laid their hands on my head. Leave it to me, I think I heard the word, and I'm horrified.

By the time I finished cutting Follin to the same length, Lutz was back.

Add water to the pan and instead of adding phosphorus to the steamer, remove the potatoes that were in it with vegetable chopsticks.

"Lutz, pinch the butter right away!

"I know!

Pinch the butter, then turn it into butter. Benno looked down at the potatoes with the same tedious face as the first Lutz when he saw the butter, though lined up on a board that was replacing the plate.

"Sir, Mine's cooking is good. It's just potatoes."

Laughing more at him, he sees Lutz hit the potato, and Benno seems to have no choice but to carry the potato to his mouth.

"... that's good"

"Ugh, steaming is stuffed with deliciousness, and the hawk potatoes you eat outside the cold are extraordinary."

After eating potatoes, Benno asked me to watch the pot, and me and Lutz started collecting. The herb was picked with a little mountain vegetable.

The skin could steam, so I expose it to water and start peeling immediately. I also asked Benno to help, but he is surprisingly clumsy and his skin is worn out. If Benno helps me, my black skin is going to get less and less.

"Mr. Benno, it's peeling. Yes. Stay and clean up with Lutz."

I'm done peeling my black skin, so I come back to the warehouse and dry my skin. Benno helped me dry into the nail that was punched on the shelf with a wrinkle in my nose. Unlike us, I envy not having to use the platform.

"This black skin, too, can't be dried with more quantity. The truth is, we put trees together like this, and we dry them."

I will paint on the tablet and explain the tools that are not here. Benno is nodding and asking questions, touching tools.

"We're going to expose this black skin to the sun and dry it until it's crispy. If not dried properly, it can cause mold. Dry skins expose to rivers. Left in the river for over a day."

"You're about to get stolen."

"Right. It's also the most worrying part. If only I knew how to make it, it's because of the money. That's why I think it's better to have a workshop near the river."

I say so, pounding the bag of ash on the edge of the warehouse.

"Once you have stripped the black part of the skin exposed to the river with a knife, simmer it with ash and expose it to the river again for more than a whole day. Cooking with ash softens the fibers."

"Ho."

"After that, remove the scratches and dirt on the skin fibers and gump them so that they look like cotton with this horn stick. This also fits Lutz, so if you're an adult man, it's bigger and heavier, so it's more efficient to do it."

Pointing to the corner bars and the table for slapping, Benno started swinging with the corner bars. "If you do crush something, you want more weight," he mutters.

"And then combine fluffy fiber with a neva named Trolo and water to make a marine water. We use this girder, but if you're an adult, the girder will be bigger, and the number of pieces of paper that can be used to match the girder will be higher. Stirring the water in the boat can also be done by bundling the chopsticks that Lutz made for us, but when the boat grows bigger, it doesn't mix with the whole thing, so it starts to mix with tools like a big one."

Like this, as I painted on the tablet, Benno began to stroke his jaw, saying Phew.

"Then, using the girder, shake or tilt it this way, lay it on the paper floor with an even thickness of paper. So this is what's drying them naturally. Tomorrow we'll put heavy stones on top of this and let it dry even further"

"For what?

"Now we can take the trollo neva. Then stick one on that board at a time and let it dry in the sun. You can peel it off."

After explaining the entire journey, Benno sighed like he was impressed.

"It's gonna take a lot more time and effort than I expected."

"Well, while it's dry, I don't really feel like it's taking long because I'm going to do another job. I'm pretty busy trying to make quantities. Besides, it's hard to get into the river this time of year."

Benno nodded deeply today as he helped draw water in the river. "Don't be the type of workshop that closes in the winter," he whines. I can't get into the river in the winter, and the trees are strong and not suitable for paper making.

"Think carefully about the location of the workshop because you can't make it without the river"

"Oh, okay. This is going to be busy."

I gently supported Benno, who seemed to enjoy himself to say that he was going to be busy, "Good luck ~" in my heart.

We were completely like other personnel, but when Benno, who actually had a little papermaking experience, strained out and started choosing the workshop, we were the ones who got busy. Marc sews between the papermaking and takes me and Lutz around and asks the craftsman to make the tools. This job is also part of the information fee, if you ask me, I just have to move.

By the time the tools were made, people were gathered, teaching them how to make them, and the workshop took some form, the season was about to be summer.