Kusuriya no Hitorigoto
30. Sparrow
The sparrow (Vegra) was a very happy child at a young age.
My father got married when he was old in trade. It seems that she fell in love at first sight when she saw her beautiful mother.
Softly stretched tall, ivory skin, flowing curved beauty. Everyone is blinded, not even my father.
My mother is a foreigner, and her words are awkward, but she is a hard worker. I help my father a lot. The sparrow liked to go to church when they held hands. On the rest day, the three of us will pray, eat out and go home.
It seems that it was a coincidence that my father met my mother, a foreigner. My mother was aboard a boat from a country called Shaowu, next door. The shipwreck caused by the storm rescued my mother by my father's merchant ship. At first, I struggled with speechlessness. My father looked after my mother because he was good at the language.
My father immediately tried to return it to Saruo, but it didn't work. My mother's husband and child were aboard the shipwreck and died. Sand Europe does not have any family members, and they have no place to be when they return.
My father was a merchant, but he was very kind. There is no way that such a father can abandon his mother who is independent in the world. In addition, my father, who was single after forty years, made love and such without paying a year.
"Of course, I was going to take in the children of my relatives."
The following year, a sparrow was born. Father, who was a girl but didn't think he had a child, was overjoyed and continued to distribute sweets to the people who walked through the shop for ten days after the sparrow was born.
The name Sparrow was given by my mother. My father says it's cute in the name of the little bird. The sparrow did not resemble the mother of a sloppy beauty; it resembled her father very much. Not very big eyes, crushed little nose, not so big tall. However, it was also dirty. My father boasted of his sparrows among his relatives.
The sparrow was not good-looking, but she was not a bad-looking sparrow. I started walking a year before I was born, and by the time I was two years old, I started chatting with Bella. In addition, he looked at how it would grow after three years.
The sparrow's head was not bad.
I remembered that my mother disappeared before the three of them, and how she looked before she disappeared.
One day, my mother suddenly disappeared. My father was a wolf. The employee was surprised, puzzled, and in a fuss about what had happened.
Draw many sketches and search every day.
Wasn't he involved in some kind of incident? It was my father who looked for my mother, but from there, little by little, the strangest thing became a sculpture.
My father's business partner appears to be leaking information. Although there is no definite evidence, there was a strange flow of imports and exports from other countries.
My father had a job in the crowd, but it was not enough to make a business. The beauty of the sparrow's head is to give in to the Father.
My father never ignored a trivial sense of discomfort. Check the years since my mother arrived and the flow of books.
A certain country is connected.
(Lee), the country next to Sand Europe. It has no diplomatic relations, but it is a country on the east side of China and Europe.
My mother said that she was a Sandman, but her appearance was close to that of a Sandman.
"I'm going to look for you, I'm going to look for you."
My father tells his sparrows that he is going to study the scriptures. The sparrow, which had nothing to do, had the scripture read to the servant.
"Mom has a reason." I'm sure it was the only thing I could do. "
I never thought of my father as a gentle sparrow as a fool.
A few years later, my father said he might have found my mother. Someone said they saw someone who looked like a sketch.
Father rejoiced and rode on the boat to the castle.
At that time, the sparrow regretted that it should have stretched out its hand. I should have thought my mother was dead. You and your father should get along.
But I can't live up to that dream.
My father didn't come back.
What will happen to children who have lost their parents? If the sparrow had been a little bigger, the story would have been different. But there was nothing my daughter could do.
In less than a month, my father's fortune was lost. Only a few gold coins left by servants who barely felt obliged to their father remained in the hands of the sparrows.
If he had been a sane father, he would have chosen a proper guardian for his sparrow. My mother was beautiful, but how much did she drive my father crazy?
"If anything happens, go to church."
The sparrow grips the gold and goes to the church.
The priest was relatively decent. I pitied the sparrow and tried to get into the poor house. But the sparrow knew it was no good. Some of the remaining gold coins will be stolen as soon as they are found.
The goal for the sparrow was decided.
There was a teacher in the church who wanted to spread the teachings to the east. And I heard you were about to leave.
"Take me with you."
The sparrow said in front of the uncomfortable teacher.
"I can't take the kids with me."
The teacher is about forty men. Formerly, he was escorting the teacher of a large church, and he has a strong figure. He's a foreigner full of pagans, so he's got to have his hands full.
Sparrows are children. There's nothing to do with it. There was only one thing.
God, are you looking at us?
The sparrow remembered the contents of the scripture, which was repeatedly read to her. I've read it to you many times. Make every word out loud without making a mistake.
……
"Please take me with you."
If it's worth nothing, no one will see it.
For my father, the sparrow was valuable because it was his daughter.
The sparrow was valuable to the employee because it was the employer's daughter.
Therefore, the sparrow showed its value as a useful pawn for the preaching of the teacher. Above all, sparrows are mother's daughters. He has a bigger face than the east.
After that, the doctor apologized for a while, but he broke it, so I'm glad. Maybe they knew that the sparrows had no place anymore.
"I can't be held responsible for dying."
"I know."
The sparrow headed east with the teacher. However, it moves slowly as it carries out its missionary activities. It took me a year to get across Sand Europe and get to Tsubaki. However, it was very difficult to move around.
On the way, I got a scripture written by my teacher in various languages.
"Look, it's a word. Remember your words. Make no mistake, word for word. It can be life-and-death."
The teacher is bluffing, but it was good to take care of him. However, I was annoyed because I was chased around several times by people who were against the Church's teachings. Sometimes they were locked up and treated like torture.
"Pagans, I won't allow you to proselytize."
It's the teacher's mouth.
It was strange how it came to a place full of pagans, but it was irrelevant to the sparrow.
Although a group of churches, the treatment of children's servants was not so good. The group of churches themselves had no choice because they didn't have much money. At that time, I remember what I am. I'm not the daughter of an Australian merchant. It was just a servant's hunger ghost.
So he narrowed his mind to eat. Sometimes, when I wept and showed myself to the kind wife I met in town, they occasionally gave me a treat. Some children shared snacks when they made me laugh like a clown. Once in a while, when a feast was served for a celebration, I ate to save for something I didn't normally eat.
When I was with the parade entertainers in the procession, I learned magic. He climbed up a tree and hid, as he was beaten to a sack when he stole his practice. When I did this in front of the rich, I was able to get some change.
The teacher was angry that I could find it, but I regretted not being able to feed them properly, so the sweets and pennies I received were not taken away.
The sparrow (Vegra) changed its name to mahjong (mahjong). It was the teacher's teaching that pretending to be a human increases the chance of survival.
You're going as far as Xidu.
Yes.
It seems that the teacher and his group will stay in the town where the biggest church is built. It is said that they will use it as a base to spread the teachings.
Shall we go that far?
It's okay.
The sparrow was already twelve years old. I'm almost the right age for a daughter. Normally, you'd think it was dangerous. But the sparrow was cutting its hair short. Small eyes and a broken nose are never beautiful. I followed him as a pawn in the merchant corps going to Xido.
When I arrived in the western capital, it was already the thirteenth day of the year. I walk with a sketch of my mother, who has been in a mess for quite some time.
The sparrow seemed to be a good match for clownishness. During the day, I made money by showing off my magic in a silly move, and at night, I slept in the water above the cold. After living like that for a while, I heard that there was a person who resembled my mother's sketch.
"I saw you at the biggest mansion." Well, once and for all. "
Believing the words, the sparrow went to the mansion.
The largest mansion in Xidu. In the end, I couldn't put in a dirty sparrow figure. So I waited for someone to come out in front of the Mansion.
"Brother, please wait."
I heard a voice.
A well-built man comes out of the gate. He was called a man, but he would still be about fifteen years old. It's just that she's wearing more beautiful clothes than a sparrow. A crisp eyebrow would be good for a young girl.
The next person out was my daughter. The voice I heard earlier must be this girl. She was a daughter of appropriate age and had a beautiful face with sharp eyes. The cloth I used a lot was probably the silk that my father used to touch when he was in business. I haven't touched it for years.
"Come on, hurry up!" My brother will escort you. Thank you! Oh, if it wasn't for Grandma's request, I would never do it. "
After the strong-looking daughter, the other daughter follows. She has beautiful red hair and emerald eyes. Unlike my daughter before, my eyes are gentle. She seemed to be about the same age as the sparrow, but why is this different?
"Silver (in), keep your mouth shut."
I heard a voice.
A voice I hadn't heard in years.
"Ye (iodine) is going up to the harem." Think about where you stand. "
There was a beautiful woman with a soft stretchy back, ivory skin, and flowing curves.
My daughter, who was called Silver, got grumpy. But I don't care about sparrows. However, I was wondering why the beauty I was supposed to be with was there.
I understand, Mother.
Silver said.
Mother, the sparrow rebels. It took me a few years to learn it well. It must mean 'mother', and I didn't know why my daughter was saying it.
I heard that my husband and I had children before I met my father. But you said the ship was wrecked and dead.
Mother-
One more voice.
A child. Smaller than a sparrow. About eight children.
"Please take me with you."
"No, you're studying with me." Let's do our shopping again. ”
Um...
Children cling to their mother's feet.
The sparrow does not know what it is being shown. However, the reality is that all the children around my mother are much prettier than the sparrows.
The head of the sparrow is shaved with a razor, and the clothes have been wearing the same thing for years. A filthy hungry ghost who can't stay in an inn and hasn't bathed in water for days.
Unexpectedly, he stood up from the cone where he was hiding. One step at a time, one step closer to my mother.
"There's something dirty."
A daughter named Silver said. Obviously, it is an eye for dirt, an eye for things that are not worthwhile but are not allowed to exist. It reminds me of my father's eyes when I was made to appraise junk.
Silver, don't worry about that.
The man said. Never mind, it's hard for a sparrow to tell what's in it.
However, the sparrow saw a beautiful woman.
The beauty glanced at the sparrow as much as the silver, and returned to the mansion with the child as if nothing had happened.
I didn't know what to do with a sparrow.
However, the sparrow chased her mother's back. I thought my mother would notice something when she saw a sparrow.
But I didn't even notice.
What did the sparrows do to chase after her for years?
Did you want to reunite with your parents and children? No, I don't think so.
I wanted to know what the sparrow was worth to my mother.
The sparrow sneaked into the mansion that night.
I had to make sure of it. What was a sparrow to my mother?
It was easy to sneak into the Mansion thanks to years of pagan pursuit. My mother moved to find out which room she was in.
The rat stinks and I can't help it.
Someone said it right behind the sparrow.
I looked back in a hurry, but before I could do that, I was suppressed.
"The vagabond is taking things?" They'll cut off your fingers. "
It was the man who held him back. I wonder if it's about thirty. I can't see my face because I'm being held back.
"It's not a gift."
The sparrow used as polite a rhetoric as possible. That's what my teacher taught me. But that was counterproductive.
"You're a foreigner, aren't you?" I have a pronunciation habit. "
The sparrow is squeezed to the ground.
“You're still young, but what country is it? More west than that? What's the point?"
The man moves the sparrow to an invisible place.
"I'm here to see my mother,"
The sparrow broke its mouth in pieces.
"My mother? Do parents with such dirty clothes and hungry people work in this mansion?"
Taunting laughter. I don't care about the sparrows, no matter how much they scold me. However, I presented a dirty sketch from my pocket.
"... what is this?"
The man's voice changed. Confusion is emerging.
The power to restrain the sparrow has been relaxed.
"Are you her child?"
I don't know who he is. However, all that the sparrow can do is aim for the confused moment. It's just hard to escape. How are we going to aim for the gap?
"Thirteen years ago my mother was rescued by my father in distress. I was born at that time."
"My daughter? Haha, I see, I see. I'm sure you were.
The man laughed.
"You're the girl who left her unnecessary."
The word "unnecessary" echoed in the sparrow's head.
No?
"Yeah. No need. I don't think you need to go back to the Mansion." Identification while hiding in an exotic country for several years. That was the value of your existence. "
It was a past form. You don't want a sparrow anymore?
"I can't take you home. I don't need them to play a role."
"An unwanted presence"
A shock like a sparrow's head.
I knew it. By the time I left my father and sparrow behind, I should have known about the sparrow.
"What happened to your father?" If you're a good merchant, you'll have a wife, right? "
I wish my father had been like that. My father was kind and dumb.
"When I heard that my mother was in Sago, she left and died. The house is crushed. I've been chasing my mother without leaving anything behind."
"Do you have one of those sketches?"
Yes.
Hmmm.
The man seems to be thinking about something. I watched as I stepped on a sparrow.
The sparrow thought. Right now, we're trying to determine the value of our sparrows here. If nothing is found, it will probably be disposed of as unwanted.
"I can speak my mother tongue, Chinese and Sarao. I know a few more languages.”
I remember the scriptures that my teacher gave me, and I speak a foreign language.
"You can also do arithmetic. I have been hungry for only a week with water. It's pain-resistant, and my hands are dexterous.”
Sparrows show off their magic spells.
Anything. To survive, to find value.
"... you're a Moga." This way, you're much more educated, aren't you? "
A man spoke sloppily.
"All right, show me your talent for a while." If it seems worthwhile. "
The man laughs nervously.
"I'll make you my heir."
For the sparrow, the man became the master.