39. Inability to adapt
'Lycia, I'm starting to wonder if I made the right decision to leave the house in the first place. After my mother's death, I blamed myself very much, but I can't talk to you about my grief in my letter.
Last week, I was almost caught by the church, and although I was injured a lot, my life was saved. I am now watching the coastline with a nobleman who has left home, on a nameless island near the Eye of the Dead Sea. The sea breeze can sometimes destroy our base.
I didn't think about it, and I ended up getting you involved in this, I just hope it's not a bad thing.
Although Mr. Fulinton loves money, he is very principled.
However, please do not accede to their pleas to pull you into the organization under any circumstances.
I just hope that you, as well as your father and Ash, will be safe. ’
The letter was very brief, and it was clear from the handwriting that her brother Keith was really badly injured, with signs of shaking in several places.
"Burn it when you're done. Flindona flipped through a page of his ledger and said without looking up.
Lycia nodded, folded the letter four times, and silently pointed the end of the writing against the flame of the oil lamp, and the tongue of fire burned to her fingers, before she cried out in surprise, and threw her hand into the basin of water prepared by Fullyndona.
"By the way, on the next rest day, if you have time, go to the bakery on Croatian Street, I asked someone to find a book for you, the Dark Mountains Adventure Manual. Fulin Dona took the quill and dipped it in ink, and said nonchalantly.
"Thank you. ”
Fulindona paused and sighed. "But the book costs money, thirty gold coins. ”
Lycia was stunned for a moment, so did he know how many gold coins he had brought with him today?
"I have to take a carriage ride home. "Lycia really just wants to take a piece of gold.
"Go out and turn left, I'll help you book a carriage, wherever you go. ”
Lycia was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it, she would be able to receive this quarter's tax next month, and thirty gold coins was really nothing to her.
"Okay. She emptied her purse and counted it again before leaving the bookstore.
"Yuga?!" Lycia found that there was already a person in the carriage. "You, you, why would you?"
Yuga took out the small golden box from his coat, the same box that contained the dragon scales at the auction.
Lycia was in a cold sweat, and the carriage had already begun to move slowly.
He probably didn't steal the scales.
"I see you, at the Black Pearl Circus. He saw Lycia's dull expression and thought it was her panic after being discovered, so he hurriedly said. "I'm not going to ask you why you're there. ”
Yuga placed the golden velvet box next to Lycia, and Lycia saw that his cuffs were already white, and it seemed that even the commoner family who worked for the royal family was not wealthy.
"I can't help you get the real dragon scales, but I found a replica dragon scale. Yuga plucked up courage and looked Lycia squarely. "If you have any difficulties, I can help too. ”
Yuga finished all his words in one go.
However, Lycia felt a little frightened, from a rational analysis, Yuga was so frank and sincere, she should be moved, and this was the only person she had seen so far who had no favorability and dislike, and was normal for her.
"I'm sorry, me. Lycia was about to say something soothing, but Yuga began to panic when she heard that she was sorry.
"Is it because I'm a civilian?"
"No, not because of that. Lycia herself didn't know if it was subtle, seventeen years of aristocracy had affected her, she had never thought of having feelings for male commoners, but she still vehemently denied it. "Tell me something else, Senior Yuga, do you really plan to stay in the academy and become a Pegasus teacher?"
The carriage was still walking, and she definitely couldn't let Yuga get off at this time.
"Yes, Miss Lycia. I'll be a teacher for a while. "He thinks 'temporarily' very much.
"Hmm. This is good. Lycia replied nonchalantly, and began to think of another topic for the awkward trip.
"I work at Black Pearl, not just to make money. Yuga was eager to reveal another side of her mystery.
"Do they pay well? I mean, Black Pearl Circus. Lycia smiled, and moved a little further away from the golden velvet box.
"Not high. No one is going to go to Black Pearl for money. Yuga had already lowered his head, and the noble lady's untense and twisted attitude hit him a little.
But he clearly remembered that this noble lady also paid a lot of attention to herself, and he could feel it.
While Lycia was in a daze, Yuga suddenly knelt on the ground of the carriage and then took Lycia's right hand. "As long as you are willing to accept my love, I am willing to do anything, can I be your lover?"
Lycia was eager to jump out of the car immediately, although she knew that the customs in this world were similar to those in the European Middle Ages, but she still couldn't accept this kind of courtship that was not tactful at all.
"Yuga, I don't need a lover. But Lycia still pretended to be unfazed and had seen the world. "I am, the heir to the Campbell family, and the lover is just a liability. ”
After finishing speaking, she reminisced in her heart, and even admired herself a little.
She lifted the curtain, and the carriage was already jolting down the country road.
"Then, Yuga, I beg you now, jump out of the window. Lycia fell into her superb acting skills and lifted her chin. "I don't want to get the news tomorrow that the heirs of the Campbell family have started looking for a lover. ”
Yuga suddenly looked at her deeply, as if she felt Lycia's encouragement and attention to him from her feigned indifference. "Yes, as you wish. ”
Then jumped out of the window.
"Miss, did you throw something out!" the coachman shouted, and Yuga put the circle when he came in, so the coachman couldn't hear the sound of the conversation inside, but an adult male jumped out of the carriage, and he immediately sensed that something was wrong.
"Nothing, just useless stuff. ”
"Tsk, what a wayward aristocratic lady, I just hope not to get into my wheels. ”
Lycia heard the coachman's chatter and responded loudly to him. "No, I'll throw it far, sir. ”
The coachman now kept his mouth shut, and no longer dared to say anything.
*
"Lycia, why are you home today?" said Michaeu Campbell, sitting in front of the fireplace reading the newspaper and waiting for dinner.
"Good afternoon, Dad, I want to get two sets of clothes. With a casual explanation, Lycia was going upstairs.
"Good afternoon, sit with me, Lycia. Michau asked the manservant to bring a chair.
Lycia glanced at the stairs and sat down next to her father. "Where's my sister, is she at home?"
Mi Xiu took off his glasses and placed the newspaper and glasses in the tray that the valet carried. "Bring some fruit. ”
"She was playing chess with Duke Nuken. "Michauff Campbell looks like he's completely out of the pain of losing his wife and being dismissed.