"Kendra, we will not tell anyone about you and Isaa having powers. I don"t know why we act childish around you. It"s kind of fun looking at your expressions, I think. Look at this gold. Tell me how much you want."Behind her eyes fleeted flash of mischievousness but she gave it up. "Just give me how much you all own me. I need to pay those people money. They worked hard and deserve enough respect from me to pay them plenty. Don"t make me into lier."
He didn"t feel comfortable listening to those words. "I promised that I will pay."
"You promised, but I"m still waiting. "She opened her hands at him and smiled brightly. "My money please."
He poked her head and laughed. "Don"t be cute. It"s scary."
She puffed her cheeks and acted cutely at him, then she turned to Xara and took her hand."Look, your man is bullying me. You have such a large treasury. Can"t you pay in his stead? I don"t want to be bordered by any man."
On top of that, she blinked a few times with her eyes and Xara totally melted.
"Don"t you worry, your aunt Xara will punish him with total closeout inside the palace. He anyway has so much to do. He won"t bother you." She pinched Kendra"s cheeks and felt so happy.
The woman saw Kendra"s face turning red from all the pinching. "Stop that. Two of you will get married at the end of the year. After that get yourself few cute daughter"s. Then you can pinch them as much you wanted."
Kendra rubbed her cheeks and looked pitifully at the woman."Do not act cute in front of me. I am not going to fall for it."
Kendra nodded and turned serious. "I need to go. I will need the money and someone to bring me there."
The Lord nodded and ordered the secretary that just came in to send her to her place. Kendra bowed politely to them, turned around and was about to leave when she saw something in the corner. She got closer and saw it"s a little money bag. It seems to be old, but better than hers.
She looked at the Lord and waved with it."Can I have this?"
He looked at the old bag and furrowed his eyebrows. He pointed at the gold behind him."Next, to all this gold, you want that old thing?" After she calmly nodded he sighed.
He bucked down and got a full hand of big gold coins. "At least take these." She shook her head and he angrily stuffed the gold into her hands."Its compensation for your idea."
She looked at him with big eyes and then brightly smiled."These are your words, you can"t take it back. The pouch and the gold are what I earned right? You two are my witnesses, right?"
He sighed again. She likes money, but only that one she earned herself. "Yes, yes, I promise. You will get paid for everything you gave us. All the ideas. Now go..."
Kendra happily put the coins into the bag and put it over her head. Now they have two bags and one she will give Isaa.
But what she didn"t see is a naughty smile on Lord"s face. He looked at Xara and winked. He saw Kendra was gone and went to stand next to them."Well, I just promised to give her all the money we own her. So how many hills can be packed into her garden? "
They laughed and looked at the path that Kendra left.
But as usual, Kendra didn"t care.
"Secretary, can I have money in smaller silver coins and the normal coins so I can fairly pay them?"
He nodded. "Don"t worry, we knew in advance what you need it for. So we prepared appropriately."
He gave her a box and when she opened it, it was filled with silver coins. She got another box and when she opened it was filled with common coins.
She was really thankful to the secretary for his thoughtfulness. She gave him a sincere smile and got giddy to go as fast she could but then she remembered the thing she saw in the corner of the garden.
The secretary looked at the same line and could see only a house made of gla.s.s. He looked at Kendra questioningly, but she already took a turn and walked straight there.
When tehy entered Kendra almost fainted from anger. The poor plants. There are so many that almost dies from thirst as no one watered them.
She saw bucket and barrel full of water she took a bucket and started watering almost dried plants.
She turned around and looked at the secretary.""Sir, can you ask his Lords.h.i.+p to give me this as a gift and all the plants as well. They are in buckets so it will be easy to transfer them. I want just this.""
So many fruits and there is cuc.u.mber, tomato, bell peppers, red pepper, all kind of seasonings, corn, she even saw things like radish, potato and many types of greens. All in straight line stood there. It seemed someone was taking care of it but not last few days.
She looked at him. ""Ask the female owner for it and pay with the money that teh Lord planned to give me. I want this. Today.""
He nodded. Kenda turned around and saw one young officer.""Can you please do me a favor. I saw you before, you have earth ability, right?""
He nodded.""Yes.""
""You see the gla.s.s house over there?""She asked-he nodded.""Take a few soldiers and transport it somehow without breaking to my home tonight. If you do that I promise I will cook something you never ate and is amazing. By the way, Be careful with the plants. I want them as well.""
She looked at him sweetly and smiled a s.h.i.+ny smile at him. He got stunned and turned red. But then realizing that that is a boy and a child he got his grip fast and nodded.
When Kendra left he patted his heart and heard a voice:"" You are not the only one. That child does that every time she needs something. Be careful."" said teh Lord while looking smilingly after the child.
Then he looked at the secretary.""What that child needs, give. She likes plants we all know that. One day she might replant the whole country with her weird ideas."" Little did he know that Kendra had no big ideas, just wanted to have some familiar plants. Misunderstandings happen often.
Kendra at same time sat with officer Luar on his horse and rode fast towards her estate.
With the horse, it was not that long. Soon tehy came near the stream and she asked officer Luar to let her off and go back. Too much attention is not always good.
He put her carefully down and wanted to go back to his duties. But she stopped before he went.""Could you please send someone to clean the garbage around my house and latrine. Since I bought the house never anyone came to do so. Can you help me and find who does that?""
He got angry.""No one came? Their duty is to take care of dirty things every second market day. Sorry about that. I will see what is going on.""
""Thank you officer."" she politely bowed and went slowly while carrying two big boxes of money.
Luckily she got stronger lately so it was no big deal. Already from far, she could hear laughter and murmur of talking people.
When she came near they greeted her with cheers as they saw her carrying two boxes.
""I can"t stay long today. I have some work at home so I hope you all will have fun. Goluk did you bring enough food for celebration?"" she asked Goluk and sat down at the table.
""Yes, the kind lady gave me lots of meat and other things for today"s celebration. Thank you."" he bowed lightly at perplexed Kendra. Then everyone turned to her and bowed lightly. She could hear loud thank you and cheers.
She heard so many fake thanks doing past life and was stunned how good it felt when someone is sincerely thankful.""Thank you all. You gave so much time, sweat and strength. You all pushed yourself to finish it before time and so I will do as I planned. You all will get a full bonus today.""
Everyone stayed cheering even louder.
Suddenly one voice could be heard behind her back.""You are finally here to pay our money...""
She first got stunned and then turned to look icily at the group people that came...