Chapter 171 Returning Home
After helping Captain Quick hire a temporary navigator from the Adventurers Guild, Ladi said goodbye to the crew of the Southern Ship the next day and set off for her own ship alone. hometown.
In order to save time, she rented a fast horse. After a day and night of trekking, she arrived at her hometown, the Independent Territory Messiah.
It was already 8 o'clock in the morning when we entered the city. Although I didn't rest all day and night, seeing those familiar buildings and familiar streets, the fatigue in my body was swept away.
However, there was something that made her wary, and that was the wanted notice found on the roadside, which clearly stated the identity of the wanted person - a wizard. Logically speaking, only the local lord has the authority to issue it. The fact that this wanted order appears on the street now shows that the upper echelons here have either been in cahoots with the church or have reached some kind of compromise with the church.
She tried her best to look like an ordinary pedestrian and led the horse straight to her home.
After walking for nearly twenty minutes, she came to the corner of an intersection, and a restaurant called "Feilong Pavilion" appeared in front of her.
La Di took a few deep breaths to calm down her excitement, then opened the door and walked in.
It’s quite lively inside, with a lot of customers sitting there. It seems like business is as good as ever.
But she didn't find the person she was looking for. There was only a waitress she didn't know behind the counter, who seemed to be calculating the accounts.
Hired a new waiter? Yes, after all, the previous waiter had expressed her intention to resign before she left home, and it had been several months.
La Di slowly came to the counter.
"Is the boss lady here?"
Although she was still wearing men's clothes at this time, she had taken off the mustache she used to disguise herself and no longer deliberately imitated a male voice when speaking.
The waitress looked up and saw a pretty girl standing in front of the counter. Her green hair and delicate face always made people think they had seen her before.
"Are the guests looking for the lady boss Xie La?"
Looking at the slightly cute waitress, La Di covered her mouth and chuckled.
"I'm looking for her, but I'm not a customer, but her daughter."
"Ah!"
The waitress was a little panicked, and she hurried out Bowed to Ladi.
"It turns out to be Miss Ladi. I'm sorry...I was so rude just now!"
Ladi waved her hands and said with a smile: "There's nothing rude about it. Besides, you haven't seen me before. You Just call me sister."
"Well, little Ladi...Sister Ladi."
"Is my mother out?"
"No, The landlady is sorting things out in the backyard.”
"Thank you, then go ahead and go find her."
"Yeah!"
La Di turned around and walked to the back, quickly walking through a corridor to the back. door.
She suddenly discovered the figure that she had missed for a long time.
In the courtyard, a woman with the same hair color as La Di was carrying a box and walking toward the door.
Naturally, the other party also saw her immediately.
"Oh, the wild girl finally knows that she is back." "Mom..."
There were tears in Ladi's eyes, and she immediately expressed her joy to her mother Walk away.
The woman also put down the box, opened her arms, and the mother and daughter hugged each other tightly.
Although Ladi often traveled far away when she was an adventurer, she was always with her companions in the adventure group. This was the first time she had lived alone in an unfamiliar place for several months.
For the people living in Corner Bay, the northwest bay of Aldo Kingdom is basically equivalent to the ends of the earth. How can this not worry Sheela, a mother, and this is in a world where the church is increasingly oppressing wizards. Severe times.
“If you hadn’t been able to send a letter back every month, I would have gone looking for you.”
Thanks to the Foster family’s caravan, La Di The letter can be entrusted to them and sent to the Bay of Horns, and then rolled to the hands of the mother of the Messiah, Zera.
There are two main reasons why Foster Caravan is willing to do this: one is that she is an advisor to Count Greyman, and the other is that she was once a member of Leachman's adventure group, and Foster The second young master of the family has a good relationship with the Leachman Adventure Group.
The mother and daughter came to La Di's bedroom, closed the door and talked quietly.
Zela asked eagerly: "How did you come back this time?"
"I took Arda's ship and took the sea route to the Bay of Horns, and landed on Asta. , and then went straight home.”
“Sea route?”
Xie La was very confused. If she remembered correctly, there should be a route from Aldo’s northwest bay to Dajiao Bay. More than two thousand nautical miles, such a long distance...
"Mom, you've never seen it before. The Lord's shipyard has built a ship that relies entirely on wind power. It doesn't even need a rower. It can run very fast as long as it opens the huge sail on the mast. Especially in this season when the north wind is abundant, I can run at a speed of 8 to 10 knots almost every day while going south."
Xie La looked incredible.
"This... is really unbelievable."
She also had experience at sea for a period of time when she was young, so she naturally knew what a speed of 8 to 10 knots meant. Of course row boats can also reach this speed, but that is a short-term speed achieved by the explosive power of the oarsmen. It is almost impossible to run like this for a whole day.
As for the lord her daughter mentioned, Sierra knew that she was not the lord who was talking about Messiah anymore, but the young earl who was in the northwest bay. He was mentioned in her daughter's letter.
According to the description in the letter, the lord seemed to be an inventor and invented many incredible things. Although he did not express it clearly, there was a sense of admiration in his daughter's words.
Perhaps because the other party requested confidentiality, the letter did not specify the count's invention, but it seems that the ship his daughter took this time was one of them.
“You didn’t encounter any dangers along the way, right?”
“No, the whole journey was smooth, and we didn’t encounter any extreme weather or pirates.”
“ How are you doing there?”
Xie La asked the question she wanted to ask the most. Although her daughter had stated in her previous letter that everything was fine and that she was back safely now, she still had to hear it from La Di herself before she could put her mind at rest.
"I live a good life there. Every day life is fulfilling, and Count Grayman and other colleagues are also very kind to me. Please rest assured."
"Alas ! It is said that the northwest territory of the Aldo Kingdom is a place outside of China..."
"Mom, you can't jump to conclusions without seeing it with your own eyes. That's Hino Kaku Bay...compared to other places. It's a little behind, but it can't be said to be an alien land, and Earl Grayman is working hard to change the current situation in the territory. The purpose of sending a ship to the Horn Bay this time is to explore the way for future maritime trade."
Thanks to "Zartoo" for the tip.
(End of this chapter)