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Kendra looked at the books and taught about it.""Can I get these history books to read and the basic books from all the elements? I really need to read this. Later when you male school, don"t open the library to anyone or give books out. The students should be given cla.s.ses from teachers but the original books should be held hidden. And make cla.s.ses and..."" she wanted to say more but the Lord looked at her grudgingly.
""You know I have amazing people in our offices and courts. They are already making plans, please just relax. Take the books you need and then when you are done take again."" he said with a sigh.
""Oh. Then can I take and copy those that I need? When you are done with the library let me know."" she sighed. Should she tell them or not. If she tells them she is afraid of pulling them in into secret that could turn dangerous to everyone. So she threw away that idea.
Xara patted her head with care and laughed.""When you two are free, come to the palace. We will keep the books there. You can either learn copy or just take books you want. Now take those you want now and go. I can see you are worried about Isaa and after all this place...is unclean. We will send you enough gold for everything and you can sign the contracts with officer Luar. Now go.""
Kendra was softly pushed by Xara towards books. She chooses those she wanted and one of the soldiers took her back home with the carriage.
But at home...the h.e.l.l. The garden was filled with bags and boxes filled with all kind of produce. The rooms as well as there was no more s.p.a.ce. They took outside the table and chairs so the room could have more s.p.a.ce. She saw the last carriage coming over with flour and as she jumped off the carriage she greeted the man.
She took care of all the payments and on the end, even s.p.a.ce where they slept was filled with bags. She happily looked at all the food, gave money to the man and sent him off. The two families looked at the amount of food with big eyes and opened mouth.
""Officer Luar, now I am back and I need you to help me out one more time, if possible.""She could see the tiredness on his face but he still agreed and smiled.
""I just want you to find two houses nearby and buy them in their name. They need a place to live now. Is there something nearby, maybe?"" she looked at him in hope that he would say yes and she was right.
""Actually, after we cleaned rats last time, some people had to leave the city and there are five empty houses in this part of the city. Those two from another side of the street are smaller ones. There are three big ones with a bigger garden near the market and the gate. Which ones do you plan to buy?"" Kendra looked at the expectant eyes and smiled at them. ""Of course bigger ones. They have such large families. By the way are they clean? I really cant sent anyone to a dirty place. Once was enough.""
""These are quite big and clean. I will take you all there,"" he said and looked at those people.
""Wait."" she stopped him and motioned her hand to them to come closer.""Come closer all of you.""
""I know that you took only basic stuff from that place. You probably have no food at the moment. So what I am going to do is to give you food but not for free. I promised payment if you work for me. So do you all agree with working for me? Of course, that has nothing to do with houses. You will get them from me as repayment of old apartment destruction.""
The men looked at their wives and they nodded with a big smile and the kids started cheering. They liked little boss, as they called her.
""If it"s like that let"s take food for the beginning. I will give you enough food for the whole year. All you have to do is work for me in the fields and help out in case of need. But most of the time you probably will have leisure time. Enjoy it. I still will give you payments but it will be bit smaller considering the food you will get. Is that fine with you?""
Actually, even officer Luar was stunned after hearing what she said. She looked at him and asked him to go get more carriages on the gate so they can transport all the food to their new homes. And he should bring house contracts. He sat on his horse and run off to deal with it.
When she saw his back, she turned around looking seriously.""If you even try to be cheap and not take enough food I will definitely get upset. There is so much food as I taught off you all. I already knew that you would take my offer so I planned this. Don"t take me an easy target. You will have to work hard. Oh yeah, I bought eggs and milk products and so many vegetable and grains. Take lots with you. Till next summer your pantry should be filled. No matter big or small family. It"s never too much. understood?""
They all nodded with emotions. Niram"s wife even started crying but Niram patted her and gave her hug. She looked at Kendra thankfully and bowed deeply. So did the rest of them. She just motioned at the garden filled with stuff and the two women started cleverly counting what they need.
On end, they choose all the grains except pure wheat flour. From vegetables, they took lots as they planned under Kendras urging to dry as much as they could as long there is summer. They took almost all milk products because Kendra told them she still has enough and more will come anyway as she ordered it more.
The food was a.s.sorted and everyone felt happy. Isaa and Fluffy came from another side of the garden and she inwardly sighed in relief. They are safe.
""Come the carriages are here. Let"s go and chose houses. I found two more near the market and you can choose which one you want to have."" He waved with the contracts.
On end, Niram took one house that has big cellar and garden with planted fruits near the market and Chial took the big house with attic rooms, big pantry and huge garden near the main gate. Kendra paid the houses and gave them the house contracts written on their names right away.
""These houses are yours. Welcome to our city. I hope you can live happily for a long time here."" said Kendra and they all cheered. But they had so much to do. They had to transport all the food back.
Most people would think she was stingy and greedy for money. She was, but what is the money for if people you know are in dire situation. She can earn more with time.
She went back home and the rooms and courtyard got empty again as they left with all the food. Before leaving the families together came and cleaned the garden and rooms thoroughly.
When Isaa saw that she got happy. Since she met Kendra she started getting annoyed as well by big dirt in the house. Outside she didn"t mind but in house. It seems it rubbed of Kendra onto Isaa.
Kendra suddenly felt hungry. She didn"t eat anything and now she was hungry. She wanted to make just something simple as she planned to bury the potatoes in the ground today.
She fried some meat and vegetables and ate it with the bread. ""Isaa it might be hard today for us. But we need to do this alone. Later on, it will be their duty to water it and weed it and rest. I will explain to them what they have to do. Just today. Tomorrow we will pack our stuff and go for vacation on the sea.""
Isaa didn"t know what ""vacation"" means but Kendra needs rest definitely. She saw her face all white when she entered the gate but didn"t want to say anything. So she will do anything to make Kendra carry less burden.
""Isaa lets make the pizza dough and leave it in the pantry so it can rise slowly. Tonight Cian, Fintan, and the old Lady will come for dinner. So we need to finish it all very quickly."" She said while finis.h.i.+ng with food.
They finished it all and when they wanted to go a knock could be heard on the gate. Kendra already started grumbling but then she saw secretary with doc.u.ments and box in his hands. Money?
""Yes its promised gold for idea and houses. The Lord said this is a fair price and he promised to leave some money on the side from profit for your future.""
""Tell him if he plans that then he should open a hospital in this city. There is no doctor, no healer no nothing that could be of help in case somebody gets sick seriously. Let him invest that money in that. It"s my wish, tell him."" she spoke while signing the contracts and taking the big box in hands. But the box seemed to be filled to the brim so it was quite heavy.
The secretary sighed.""This is a special box. It has a traveling s.p.a.ce. It was something her Highness gifted to you. Put drop off blood on it and it will be yours. Or it will continue denying the owners.h.i.+p and you will have a hard time taking it around.""
She bit her finger ( oh dear that finger must have hurt like h.e.l.l, how many times she plans to bite it) and drop of blood fell on the box. She lifted it now with ease and wanted to open but the secretary stopped her.""I have to go now. Count it later. It seems you plan to do something.""
Kendra nodded and pretended to take the box to the well. There she put it in her s.p.a.ce and run out. ""Wait, are you with the carriage?"" he nodded and saw them happily running out to sit on the back.
He shook his head and ordered his coachman to go to the main gate as Kendra asked. She went to the coachmen at the gate and asked him to drive her to their land and wait for her to finish. She even paid him two slivers to do so, so he happily accepted it.
They ran to the land and saw that the workers already prepared everything. They told the man to go to their house and rest as long they are on the field. When he want away Kendra sent Isaa to run to the brook form another side of the land and take lots of water as they need to water it.
She planted the potatoes with sprouts up and burrowed it with feet fast. She got faster with time and soon they planted and watered all the potatoes. the sprouts were already large so they were outside the earth. She let Isaa water just earth around sprouts, not sprouts themselves or they would die. They finished everything quick and were already on their way back home.
But halfway they met Fintan, Cian and the old Lady that planned to come to their home. They let the old man go back as he was already paid and went home with Fintan"s carriage. Doing drive they chatted about this and that but n.o.body knew that they secretly told each other what really happened in time they haven"t seeing each other and it was quite a lot...