Miss Louisa From the Valley of the Wind

The Bandit (1)

"Is something wrong?"

"It's not wrong, ma'am. But this number is so much. If that is reserved for agricultural areas, I am not surprised. But if for Hinom city, I am a little surprised. Because the Valley of the Wind is famous for thin land. Sorry in advance Madam, if I'm presumptuous"

"Oh. It's not why sir. This is indeed for the wind valley and if all goes smoothly, I intend to order another seedling as well. But for a while enough of this one first."

"Alright, I'll calculate the amount of the cost including the shipping cost that Madam has to pay"

The man was busy counting and soon handed a paper to Louisa.

"This is Madam, please look again. Since Madam ordered in large quantities we gave a cut of fifteen percent"

Louisa examined the paper for a moment before handing it over to Reneism.

"I think it fits. But what do you think, Ren's mother?"

"It's fitting Miss" he said as he returned the paper back for Louisa to sign.

"Mom signed it. I'm doing this in Ren's mother's name" Louisa said.

Reneism was a little surprised, but then he nodded in understanding Louisa's intentions, which Cardo did not want to recognize as Gordon's former royal consort.

He took the order, then signed it.

"As per this letter, I will pay half of the order price and the other half when my goods are received. Isn't that so, sir?" ask Louisa

"True Madam"

Louisa then handed him a pocket containing a sum of money corresponding to the amount he had to pay.

"Please count the money back"

Mr. Cardo took the bag of money and counted it.

"It's fitting Madam. Here's a copy of the order. Can I help you again?"

"That's enough sir"

"Let me escort the Madam out" he said politely.

The three of them came out of the room. Seeing that Louisa and Reneism were out, the three maids who followed Louisa stood up from their seats.

When they left the store, one of the guards found Louisa and gave her a small piece of paper.

"Miss, from Shine" she said briefly before returning to leave and keeping her distance from Louisa.

Louisa looked at the small paper note and smiled.

"Bu Ren, take the others to the food stall" he said pointing to a stall not far from their place. "We'll have dinner there. I'm going to buy a snack for tomorrow's walk. I'll catch up" he said.

"Well miss" he said without refuting because he knew that the lady actually wanted to meet someone.

Reneisme invites Jen's servant and two other servants to the stall that Louisa had appointed earlier.

While Louisa walks into a snack shop with bodyguards still following her from a certain distance.

"Sir how much is this?" he said he pointed to the apple.

"One small bowl of two bronze coins, mistress. All prices are the same" replied the seller.

"Then, please pack one bowl of twelve packs each"

"But there are ten types of sweets. You mean the tenth lady of her kind?"

"Truly sir"

With a happy face the store owner was immediately busy, as it was rare for people to buy as much as Louisa. A black-clothed man approached the shop as well.

"Sir, please wrap the sweets in one small bowl each" he said.

"Separ sir. This madam has already placed an order in advance, once the order is complete, I immediately pack your order"

"Okay, I wait"

"What do you want to tell Shine?" louisa asked the guy she split.

"There are two things, chief. First up on Diana Cornor. He was not a resident of the Mordan kingdom, but came from the Lite Kingdom in the western continent. "

"OKs. Stop the investigation for a while."

"The two relate to the chairman's trip to Hinom city."

"Why?"

"A few days ago there was a traveling merchant who reported that he had been robbed by a group of bandits in the Long Forest. But like they do it randomly."

"That means they didn't pick a target??"

"real chairman. Because the merchant they had robbed earlier was just an ordinary merchant with five bodyguards and a week ago there was also a similar incident. And what they robbed was a farmer who was about to go sell his crops"

"There's been an assumption which group was the culprit?"

"Not chairman. Because there has never been a robbery of this area before. Do we need to join the chairman's party?"

"No need for Shine. But keep your distance, however, the bodyguard I brought was a member of The Power of Night as well. When they're pushed you act"

"Good chairman"

Along with the cessation of their conversation Louisa's order was also completed.

"It's Madam. Everything was two hundred and forty bronze coins."

Louisa gave three silver coins, as one silver coin was equivalent to one hundred bronze coins.

"Over the order of this master, the change is just take it" Louisa said

"Thank you Madam"

Louisa immediately went to the food stall where Reneisme and the others had been waiting.

After he sat down, the six guards also entered and sat down at different tables. Louisa gave the sweets she had bought to Reneism to share later, after she separated the two parts for herself and for Sofia's aunt.

After dinner, they immediately returned to the inn. In front of the inn, Reneism gave the sweets Louisa had bought to the guards who had been following them.

*****

In the morning, they left the city of Agriweba. On top of the carriage Louisa took out the sweets she had bought her previous meal and gave them to Sofia.

"It's aunty assortment of sweets, last night I bought it"

"It's a lot of Lorine"

"Our journey is still very long. So I deliberately bought a little bit"

They ate the sweets while talking to relieve boredom. After traveling for half a day, they rested for lunch in a small town.

Green forest city as the city was called and was the last city before entering the Long Forest area. And as the name Long Forest or long forest, there are no settlements along the way except the forest. Therefore they prepare food supplies for two days, because it will usually take one and a half to two days to get out of the forest area.

Before entering the forest area Louisa gathers all her entourage and delivers news from Shine before. And ask them all to be careful.

At night they set up a tent to rest. And the bodyguard did a guard turn to watch the situation.

The morning came and they continued their journey. Towards dark as they looked for a place to set up a tent again arrived the train stopped.

"What's wrong? Here we set up a tent?"landen asked the head of the guard who was riding a horse beside the carriage.

"Not sir. In front was a collapsed wood blocking the road" replied the head of the bodyguard.

"heart. It's entrapment. Warn the group to be more vigilant" exclaimed Louisa because from the memory of Lorine Louisa knew the bandits often do similar tricks.

"Well miss" replied the head of the bodyguard.

As he moved towards the front row of the bodyguards, about fifty meters in front of them, ten men stood in the way. And obviously, if what Louisa said earlier was true. The wood is a trap..