Isekai: Princess Marquess Becomes Entrepreneur of Tempe

Chapter 32. Horse Guard

"Uhh... It's been neat yet, huh?"

Elona repeatedly straightened the dress she was wearing, hoping that nothing would tangle at all. Mai the maid also straightened her mistress's clothes.

"Already, Miss. It's neat," said Mai.

"Duh, I was afraid." said Elona who also did not go down from the cabin of the horse carriage he was riding.

The day has come to the afternoon. Currently, Elona was in front of the fence of Duke Eckart's residence. Her face was so agitated, even though the girl had actually prepared everything.

Elona wears new clothes, because her weight has dropped dramatically after her hard work on the land so far. His old clothes are too big now. Now, there is no longer a fat Elona who often sweats because of fat.

In addition to the new clothes, the girl had also been groomed by the servants with great beauty. His bright brown hair he let loose, with the bandana on his head in matching color with his dress. The natural makeup on her face also shows her natural beauty. Elona made sure that she only wanted to be thin, because do not let her makeup beat the makeup of the hostess. That is one way to achieve investor strategy from the book he had read while on earth. Either can be proven right or not.

In her hands Elona also prepared a wooden basket containing soy milk as an example product, which she covered with cloth. Not to forget, the girl also brought a tea invitation letter together from Duchess Eckart, who wrote that the location of her tea was in the Eckart residence itself.

Of course Elona was agitated at this moment. This royal land where he lived only had three Duke families, and Eckart was one of them. The Eckart family controlled the territory in the southern part of the kingdom, and the City of Armelin was one of its territories. On earth, it's like dealing with a minister.

"Miss, calm down." said Mai as she realized the mistress did not come down from the cabin. "Everything will be fine, believe me. If anything happens, I'll be by your side. There's Mr. Art too, right?"

Actually Mai has learned the true identity of Art from Wilson the butler. But he remained silent, because Mai felt Art's presence was important enough to make her young lady always cheerful. Whatever Mai will do, as long as the experience of eating disorder excess Elona due to stress is not repeated again.

"Hmm, yeah. Okay.." said Elona. The doubt in his heart began to erode. Slowly, a soldier who escorted her opened the door of the carriage cabin, and Elona went downstairs.

I should be able to. It's like a presentation on campus back in time on earth. Don't freak. Don't freak. I should be able to.

Elona chanted those words in her heart over and over again like she was reciting a spell.

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"Miss Elona Locke, your arrival has been awaited by the mistress in the garden gazebo. Let me deliver,"

One of the servants greeted Elona as soon as he set foot inside the Eckart residence. Elona nodded her head, then followed the servant to the garden.

A human can be seen peering out of the balcony railing on the second floor of his house. His eyes followed where Elona was walking and going. Who else if not Arthur Eckart. To be unknown to her identity by Elona, the man currently did not dare to descend to the first floor.

But Arthur was very curious about what his mother would do with the girl. Therefore, he was currently sitting behind the wall, where he could see the garden gazebo clearly from the window next to him.

As soon as he saw Elona's face exposed to the sun, and emerging from behind the leaves in the garden, Arthur in an instant held his breath. Elona's makeup and the dress the girl was wearing at the moment, managed to steal her heart once again.

Aghs! Why has she never been so beautiful before me?! Why is it in front of mom she even makeup herself so very beautiful so! Not fair!

Arthur shouted in his heart while tightly grasping the leaves on the outside edge of the window sill. Seeing his son acting so indistinctly, his father duke Ron Eckart approached him, coming to see what Arthur was peeping at.

"Oh, Edward's daughter has come apparently."

"Dad!" Arthur looked surprised when his father suddenly spoke. "Just be surprised!"

Now both father and son are busy peeping and stealing the talk of a pair of women in the park.

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"Greetings, Duchess Nania Eckart" said Elona politely as she bowed slightly to curtsy. Nania Eckart nodded her head.

"Greetings, Miss Locke. Please sit down."

Elona sat on the opposite seat to Nania Eckart. He breathed for a moment. Fearful. That's what the girl feels right now. The woman before him looked very dignified. Elona was afraid to say the wrong thing if she opened her mouth.

"Haha, relax. I don't bite, really." Nania laughed as she covered her mouth with a fan. The woman sees Elona's nervousness and feels funny about it.

"Ah, sorry, I'm so nervous." replied Elona honestly.

"Ah, a very honest girl huh, haha." Nania looked into Elona's eyes. "I know all about you. My son-umm, I mean Art, explained everything."

"really?"

"Yes. So even though we're going to talk about business, we're talking casually, like, what kind of relationship?" Nania looked up, looking for the right word.

"Like a friend, is that it?" guess Elona. Nania shook her head a little.

"Ah, I know! What if it's just like the relationship between in-laws and daughters-in-law?"

"Ah, what's that sound?" Elona almost jumped out of her chair when she heard a coughing sound that came out of nowhere. But Nania knew it was the sound of her son peering out the window.

"Oh that's the sound of horses." replied the hostess.

"Eh, horse?"

"Yes, there are horses that sometimes like to cough indistinctly around here." Nania made up the story. Elona nodded her head trying to be polite, and Nania tried to hold back the laughter of seeing her.

"Yes already. Let's get to the heart of the conversation, shall we?" nania. "As you know from Art before, if the nobles avoid to consume soy."

"Ah, yes Mrs Eckart, I've prepared-"

"Dam!" Nania interrupts Elona's explanation. "Don't call Madam. Just call me Mother."

"Y-mother?" Elona asked confusedly.

"Yes. Mama can too! I've already considered you my own daughter." Nania smiled meaningfully. But Elona could not catch his point. While Arthur who was behind the window had his face reddened like a boiled crab at this time.

"Oh, okay... Mommy." Elona again explained with a confused feeling that actually has not disappeared.

"So Nyo-um, Mom, I've prepared something." Elona put the wooden basket she had brought to the table. The girl opened the cover. There are several bottles of different colors in it.

"Oh, what is this?" nania asked, and she picked up a bottle. "Soybean milk?"

"Yes. This is my solution. If the nobility do not want to consume soy milk because it does not want to be equated with ordinary people, then we make soy milk is different." explained Elona.

Then, the girl took all the colored bottles out of the basket while introducing them one by one.

"This pink strawberry flavor. The yellow taste of ginger. The chocolate chocolate chocolate flavor. This orange one tastes orange." Elona pointed at the bottles according to their color.

Nania Eckart looked at all the bottles in amazement. The woman also tried to open one of the yellow bottles with ginger flavor and drink it. A sweet taste mixed with warm slightly spicy filled his esophagus, making it fresh.

"With these different flavors, making soy milk for nobles is more exclusive than milk with a genuine taste." Elona closed the explanation.

"intriguing. Very interesting idea! I like this!" Nania Eckart, then called a waiter and whispered something. A moment later the maid left, and returned with a young man whom Elona thought was the same age as her brother Stefan.

"Well, Elona, meet this cafe manager, her name is Hansen" Nania said as soon as Hansen stood next to her.

"Oh, salute." Elona gave her greetings.

"Hansen is what will help you make a letter of agreement with the cafe. Hansen, you help Elona."

"Okay, Madam." Hansen nodded his head, then turned his eyes to Elona and chatted with her for a while.

Elona immediately signed the letter of agreement that had been made by Hansen. There it was stated that Elona was willing to sell soy milk products in a consignment system, with 30 percent of profits cut for the cafe One Sesapan. For the matter of price, the decision on what price to install for the product is the right of the cafe owner.

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A while later, Elona smiled brightly after finishing everything. It turned out that Duchess Eckart wasn't as creepy as she thought. In fact, the charisma that was about to show it was like a mother to her child.

"I was wrong to think. It turns out Nyo-um, Mom, it's really nice huh!" praise Elona, make the hostess laugh.

"Hahaha, thanks!"

"It's no wonder Art said she knew this family so well. Though, he's just a horse-keeper kid here." chirped the girl. Hearing him made Nania stop her laughter.

"What's? Horse keepers?"

"Yes. Art says that her father was a horse keeper at Eckart's residence" Elona said innocently.

After the girl returned from Eckart's residence, Nania immediately grabbed her son's ears, until Arthur was dragged.

"Accuse me ouch!! What the hell, mom?!" Arthur cried out in pain.

"You are nothing!! You said your father was a horse keeper? So I'm the wife of a horse keeper, right?! Brash kid!!"

"sick, Mom! I had to say it! I can explain!!"

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