I silently sorted out the story of the bandit leader.
After agreeing to my proposal to help them settle in Morris’s territory, the bandits encountered real bandits and subdued them.
But the atmosphere seemed a bit strange, so I waited for a moment, feeling that there might be more to the story.
However, the bandit leader was swallowing his tears little by little, and his expression was changing alone; he said no more.
‘Is he sad, or is he touched….?’
Then he even looks at me with eyes of envy.
“Is there no more to the story?”
The bandit leader took a deep breath.
“There is none. That is truly the answer.”
“Why does the atmosphere feel so heavy?”
“It was really hard to catch those bastards. Look at this.”
The bandit leader showed me inside his mouth.
I involuntarily frowned at the unpleasant sight, but I could see that he had lost a left canine tooth.
“I lost a tooth in a brawl to catch ten fully armed guys.”
He started to complain to me as if he had made up his mind.
“Aren’t you sorry for me?”
I couldn’t stand the whimpering of the chaotic bandit leader in front of me. Moreover, his attitude now was too different from when we parted earlier.
‘Something’s strange.’
Turning my eyes to the other bandits, some quickly wiped their eyes with the backs of their hands and nodded.
“The Countess wouldn’t know such sorrow, would she?”
“…….”
“I thought I was going to die!”
“…….”
There was nothing to say if that’s the case.
If I stayed still, the bandit leader prostrated himself before me.
“Anyway, my lady. The graceful and beautiful Countess.”
“……?”
“My name is Polter. I was originally a commoner who did slaughter work!”
He asked me to take them in as I had suggested.
“If you allow us to settle as you said, we will live as honest subjects of the territory.”
“…….”
It was much wiser to become a subject of the territory than to be Philip’s relentless target of revenge.
Of course, I wouldn’t become Philip’s target of revenge.
But at the same time, a concern arose.
The number of people I unilaterally decided to accept was not one or two but forty.
‘Shouldn’t I have asked Philip for permission first?’
I thought of Philip’s position, who would soon hear my words through Hoyle.
He would be very bewildered.
‘If Philip had just agreed to come, this might not have happened….’
No matter how I think about it, I’ve made a mess.
‘If it was picking up cats or dogs, I could hide them or appeal to their cuteness, but picking up 40 bandits…… What do I do about this?’
“Why are you like that, Countess?”
Polter notices my concern as I only bite my lip without any response.
“No. I’ve already sent a messenger to the Count. We have to wait until the messenger returns… Until then, you all rest.”
“Yes! My lady!”
The bandits, no, the refugees, all bowed at once.
Honestly, their bowing looked a bit like organized gangsters, but since they trusted me like this, I couldn’t let them down.
‘I must persuade Philip well.’
(This is a time marker.)
“I have returned, my lady.”
At dusk, Sir Hoyle returned.
He led a maid handing over a shawl, a doorman, a few knights, etc., as soon as he saw me.
“The carriage repairman will arrive at the site tomorrow.”
He said that he had brought Mrs. Teaper in a repaired carriage. Sir Hoyle’s suggestion seemed good.
“And I’ve set up the carriages. Let’s go.”
He led me to a fourwheeled carriage prepared for me, three farm carriages filled with enough food, and a place with a prisoner transport carriage.
Sir Hoyle ordered the knights to load the refugees onto the farm carriages and push the captured bandits into the prisoner carriage.
“……?”
I was stunned. I had unilaterally notified Philip, but everything was ready like this? Especially, that prisoner transport carriage was even strange.
“Sir Hoyle, what happened?”
“Excuse me?”
“How did you tell him that Count Philip sent all this?”
Sir Hoyle scratched his head.
“That is…… I don’t really know.”
“……?”
“When I went there, everything was already prepared.”
“……?”
“I reported the situation here, and he said he would prepare a place for the refugees.”
“……?”
“It was all ready.”
Certainly, here is the translated passage:
Lord Hoyle pointed to the carriage used for escorting.
“That was particularly strange. They say there are bandits, so they confined it over there.”
“……?”
Lord Hoyle’s words were a series of questions. It was not possible to understand what had happened.
“You have no objection to taking forty refugees?”
“It was a bit odd, considering it’s not an ordinary matter…… but your reaction was the same as always.”
“The same reaction?”
“Yes. My lady, do as you wish, he said.”
“……Do as I wish? What does that mean?”
“You, Count, have you not always been like that?”
“……Ah.”
I understood.
It was Philip, annoyed by Ellen’s wicked behavior.
It means do as you please, though I don’t know why. It’s a bother.
I realized that I didn’t need to persuade Philip, and that my concerns about the refugees were pointless.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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