"... I didn't know how to do it."
In such a way as to recall one by one, she began to mention it as a pout.
"Not long after the house fell to this castle, I had washed my shirts and sheets.... but I have no idea how to launder the first dress or uniform I see."
"Yes, of course."
"The seniors ran around busily, saying, 'Because I don't have time to teach. Remember as you look at my work'. Even if I want to hear something I don't know, it's kind of hard to ask..."
"Right. Anything else?
"There was really a lot to remember. Depending on the material of the cloth, the soap and washboard used may vary. Tools may be used separately depending on where they are cleaned. It's not only the type of tools, but also the place where each is treated… but it wasn't acceptable to ask again what I was taught once"
The newcomers look at each other as if they were surprised. Leishe knew why.
What Deanna has just said is the same thing that is bothering them, the newcomers, and delaying their work.
He searches around without knowing where the tools are, it's hard to hear even if someone asks him, and he seems busy and atrophies. Every newcomer has that kind of trouble.
"... but!! I grew up in that situation, properly in public! The day after I came to this castle, I should have been able to do what I taught the day before. Unlike them!
"There's only one big difference between you and the newcomers."
Let Deanna, who has argued, say and listen.
"That's because they can't read and write."
"Ah......!
As Deanna rounded her eyes, Else leaned down.
Literacy rates among ordinary people are similar in every country. Especially when you're a woman, few houses educate you like that until you spend it.
Born in a merchant, Deanna knew the letters so she could deal with them. Her and her friendly surrounding samurai are also probably close circumstances.
But many samurai are not.
"The job description is only heard once in words. If you can't record it for yourself or read it back later - still, are you confident you could have done your job as you are now?
"Oh, that's..."
Deanna unconsciously or did her hand in the pocket of the apron. She is there to serve notes with different appointments for the day and to help her work properly.
That's why you understand how much you are helped by the fact that you can 'read and write letters'.
And it will be easy to guess how hard the samurai who can't use that means are feeling if you realize it.
"They all work as hard as you do. Think about it, remembering you back in the day."
"Same as me back then..."
Deanna sat up like she was powerless.
"... sorry, do..."
"Senior Deanna?
"Guys, I'm sorry. I thought I'd become someone who didn't have anything. No more property in the house, no back shield for my family, and I have to live alone! Now that I can do it from scratch to this point, it's sweet that you newbies can't...!
Deanna shudders her shoulders and covers her face with both hands.
"But it wasn't! I was never, ever zeroed! What I've taught you so far still remains in me. But I don't even know that I was blessed. Get on with it, what did I say......!
"Deanna......"
"I'm sorry. Really, I'm sorry..."
The newcomers rushed over to her sitting back, surprised by a head-on apology.
"That's not true, Mr. Deanna. I'm sorry we didn't rely on you."
"Mr. Lieche. Mr. Deanna was scared, but his work was always accurate! The same goes for the other seniors. So please..."
"It's okay. It's only natural that I'm not chosen as a samurai. Because this..."
"Deanna"
Reached softly to her, Leishe smiled.
"I told you. You have a favor to ask."
"Huh...?
"I want to make this castle an educational place for the new samurai."
With that said, the samurai on the spot bothered. Not only are they, but Oliver also has his eyes round.
"Those who have no experience will remember the work of a samurai here. 'Look and learn with your eyes,' of course, not in a way, but with a polite explanation. I don't know how many times, but I'm going to create a system that keeps asking questions until I can remember. Once you have acquired your skills as a samurai, you will flourish in the main castle where the royals live."
The problems encountered by Deanna and Else are those that are happening in other castles and aristocracies.
Those who do their daily work cannot take the time to teach the newcomers. The newcomers have no choice but to acquire skill in their own way or fall out of work.
Maybe even those who quit that way could have demonstrated their abilities if only they had been properly taught.
Even though it is possible that those who have gained knowledge from self-study and appearance imitation are making some decisive mistake.
But if you are educated clearly somewhere, that problem will also be resolved.
All you have to do is do it at the Castle of Lieche.
"As Deanna said, you won't lose the skill you gained once. Reading, writing, how you work, and how you remember your job. If it is worn, it becomes a weapon that works wherever you go. Even when you're about to be kicked out of one place of work, if you have to live a different life, it's bound to help."
Earlier, the samurai, who were frightened that they would not be hired in this castle, sparked their eyes at the words of Liesche.
"So twenty of the newcomers will be the maids with me. - And Deanna. I'd like you to help me teach."
"I'm your assistant, Lieche!?
"I'm going to ask this samurai who came to leave the castle in the future to study words for about an hour a day. I want Deanna and the others to play the role of the teacher and make the materials they use to study. You can use it when you can read, and you can use the samurai's work books."
"We're the teachers... teaching materials, making textbooks...?
Deanna opens her mouth pompously.
I was given a choice I never imagined, and it's like I'm not following my head. Leishe retrieves Deanna's notes, which she was gently sneaking into her nostalgia.
"Here, let me see that."
"Why did you do it, Lieche?"
Keep your mouth shut for that question. I can't tell you that this morning I've been mixed up with a samurai cleaning the main castle and looking for notes.
"The main points are accurately summarized, and the letters are beautiful and easy to understand. If you're so talented at writing down what you've seen, heard, and learned, I think it's appropriate to make materials."
"... eh"
When I told her that from the bottom of my heart, Deanna's face, which had previously been wolfed, was dyed red.
"Do you praise me that way...? I said such rude things."
"What are you talking about?"
Deanna bites the crease all the time and takes the hand Reeshe reached out to her.
When I stood up, I bowed my head deeply and said:
"I will continue to do my best"
I'm counting on you.
Liesche then turns to Else and the new samurai.
"Everybody, I think it's hard to remember a lot for a while. You can always tell me when it gets hard."
"... Yes...!
When his squire Oliver returned to the main castle, his lord Arnold, who turned to the desk in the office, said this without even looking at this one.
"Have you decided on the maid of the leachet?"
"About that, my lord."
Oliver moves on to his husband.
"Do you remember? Previously in this castle, 'new servants retire quickly and are vulnerable to manpower shortages' became a problem."
"... oh. You responded by raising your salary to lower your turnover rate. Still, the current situation is somewhat better than it was at the time."
"Sooner or later, Master Liesche may find a permanent solution."
Arnold raised his face from the paperwork to the report.
"I found among the samurai a talented person in teaching materials and was declared to create a system of newcomer education around that person. Moreover, with the explanation that 'the skill acquired will be an eternal asset', attract the newcomers on the learning side"
……
"The samurai were touched and very pleased. There was supposed to be a faction with the newcomer and the original samurai, but today we're going to take each other's hands together."
"… ha. I see."
Arnold laughs satisfactorily and starts moving the pen again.
"So is it what you expected? You don't seem so surprised."
"What can you predict? Well, I was hoping you'd do something pleasant."
"If you're too overtly amused, you're rude to the depths of the future..."
Oliver leaks after clapping his shoulders.
"But I'm going to enjoy it, too. I want to know what you're going to do."
"Oliver."
Arnold lays down his eyes and says in a slightly lower voice than usual.
"Liesche is not a wife brought in for the benefit of the royal family or for the national good"
……
After sighing, Oliver replied, "I understand," and resumed helping his master.
In those days, in a corner of the courtyard in the castle away.
"- Come on, hey!
The leachet at the time was plowing the ground with a swing of bamboo.