Chapter 337 – 337. Mother’s Keepsake (3)
When we first met, Lily’s mother was very haggard.
She had a severe shortage of hands needed for farming in her estate, so she bought a large number of slaves to purchase serfs with the labor needed for farming.
Among them was Lily’s mother.
Teez fed the slaves he bought, gained strength and gained weight, and made them capable of farming.
The relationship between Tiz and the slaves, who taught them how to use the tools necessary for farming and provided them with food, clothes, and a bed in exchange for their labor, is like a contract.
Most of the slaves Teese bought were children, except for Lily’s mother.
If the price is cheap, and if it grows well and grows healthy.
They were selected and purchased as children so as not to upset the stomachs of the villagers while doing farm work for a long time.
Among them, it was half virginity that bought Lily’s mother.
Half because of her own rational judgment that she would need a motherly woman to take care of and raise her children.
“She cherished and cared for the serfs she purchased with her as if they were her own children.”
-Looking at you… I keep thinking of my daughter who fell.
-So… I just can’t let it go…
“Many of her children relied on her, and her mother, her mother, supported her children through her first hard farm work.”
She did not hesitate to take care of the children, as she was tired and exhausted from farm work.
“Ah…”
Lily sighed and closed her eyes tightly.
She realized what had become of her own mother from Tease’s words, which continued to speak in her past tense.
She checked the tears flowing from the corners of her eyes, and Eun-hyeon pulled her shoulder towards him and patted her.
“And she passed away three years ago.”
Lily’s mother, who had been plagued by mafia thugs from the beginning, got sick in her body and mind, and became thinner day by day.
Lily, hearing the rest of her mother’s life, her emaciation to the point where she could not do her farming work at last, put her hands over her mouth.
“Flaw… Ugh…”
Lily’s heart filled with relief and relief, and she sobbed on her shoulders.
“Thank you… Thank you very much…”
It wasn’t the end of being raped by other men somewhere, in a strange place.
I am so grateful and relieved that I ended my life in a good place and with good people.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry… Mom… I, I came too late…”
She blamed herself for not being able to see her mother’s last moments and not even say hello to her.
Tease, who was guiding her Lily and her comforting Eun-hyeon, stopped in front of a certain room and opened her door.
Eventually, the inside of the room she stepped into was a warehouse full of miscellaneous items.
Nevertheless, it is clearly revealed that the clean without a speck of dust is regularly maintained.
“Open it.”
Tease took one of her little boxes from her drawer and held it out to Lily.
“This… Something?”
Asked Lily, her eyes swollen and red as her tears poured out.
“How could I have known you would come here?”
“That…”
“Lily.”
Eunhyeon called to Lily, who was too embarrassed to answer.
“Yes?”
“Your mother… You believed in that you will definitely come No, not exactly…”
When Eunhyeon glanced at Tease, Tease nodded her head with a wry smile.
“That young man is right. She is… She continued and she never gave up hope. May her husband, your father, repent of her wrongdoing and bring you to himself.”
“Ah…”
“We know her story. Everyone, including me, was outraged by her story of her husband selling out her wife and her daughter. Don’t just wait for a guy like that, give up. He has said time and time again that it is he who gets hurt as much as he has expectations. And yet she… She didn’t give up hope. She said it was because they were family.”
-Even if you abandoned me and my daughter with a momentary judgment… That’s not his true face. Be sure to calm down… She’s going to get her daughter back and pick me up. I am… Believe. Because it’s my husband
As she had been her virgin, she loved herself and knew her domestic husband, so Lily’s mother had no doubt that her husband, Lily’s father, would come to his senses. .
If she had to work hard again to save money, get her daughter back, and come back to apologize.
She said that she would forgive me after slapping me three cheeks, with an empty smile.
However, her husband did not come to visit her with her daughter, and she passed away three years ago as her condition worsened.
“It is a keepsake left by your mother. Someday… I asked you to keep at least that keepsake in case you or your father come to visit.”
Tease accepted the will of Lily’s mother, who was a serf, and kept her belongings until now.
“Ah…”
Lily’s hand trembled as she held her keepsake in hers.
Unlocking her lock, she opened the box with trembling hands to check its contents.
“… Bracelet?”
What was in the box was a carefully embroidered bracelet and a number of letters.
Carefully taking out the stationery from the box, Tiz said.
“The letters are your mother’s will, in which I have transcribed all the words she left behind.”
A letter written by Lily’s mother, who had no doubt that if she died, even after she died, her husband and her daughter would come find her.
She said, “She asked me to say sorry for leaving first.”
“Ah… Mom… Mom…”
Lily hugged the box containing her letter and bracelet and closed herself in her tears.
Lily’s chest was filled with her guilt for coming so late.
“Lord.”
“Tell me.”
“Could you get me a room for the night?”
Glancing at her sobbing Lily, Eun-hyeon politely asked Tease.
Wanting Lily to provide her with space and a place to gather her mind alone, she understood Eun-hyeon’s intentions.
Tease calmly nodded her head.
“Okay.”
Guided to a room prepared for her guests, Eun-hyeon sat Lily on the bed in her room, holding her box.
She wiped the tears running down her cheeks with her hand and spoke to her.
“Lily is resting here. Don’t cry too much.”
“Yes…”
“If you need anything, just tell me.”
Leaving Lily in her room, who nodded her head in agreement, Eun-hyeon left the room.
Tease, who was waiting for him outside her room, asked Eun-hyeon with her somber face.
“Is it okay if I leave you alone?”
“She is a strong woman. Now… I want to leave you alone.”
“What is your relationship with that wife?”
“This is my wife.”
“Right…”
Since the man who came was a young man who did not look like a commoner, Tease had guessed something from the beginning.
“Her husband… ?”
“…”
Checking her hardened face while sparing her words, Tease was certain that her guess was correct to some extent.
“Are you alive?”
“I live a miserable life wandering the streets.”
“At last… Her wish didn’t come true…”
Lily’s mother’s wish that Lily’s father would bring her back was not fulfilled.
Her husband couldn’t come and only her daughter came to visit her, so it’s a pity that I can’t say anything.
“Thank you. Lord.”
“What. You have not done anything to deserve thanks.”
Tease shook her head calmly and denied it in gratitude for her pure Eunhyun.
“It’s weak, but I want you to accept it.”
Eun-hyeon took out her pocket containing a bunch of gold coins from her bosom and held it out to Tease.
When Tease realized that the inside of the unusually thick money bag was all a bunch of gold coins, she put on a surprised expression.
“This is… It’s too much to be a room attendant for a day’s worth…”
“It’s not just the rent. Didn’t you keep the letter of my wife’s mother’s will and her belongings until now?”
Besides, she wanted to be treated with respect, not as a slave, but as a person and a person.
“I’m repaying the amount of gratitude that my wife and I are feeling, so please don’t worry too much.”
“…”
Tease swallowed her saliva.
Certainly, the amount of money in this purse was an amount that could be of great help to the management of her own estate, which was her small estate.
It is natural to be greedy, but it was also a burdensome amount.
However, she checked Eunhyeon’s face, who showed no intention of backing down, and Tease nodded her head heavily.
“… I will be grateful.”
Taking the money bag Eunhyeon held out, Tease groaned softly at the heavy weight of the pouch.
“Hmm…”
Eunhyun stared out the window.
He stared at the figure plowing the fields on the farm outside and spoke to Tease.
“It is still early for the sun to set. I have nothing to do, so can I help with the farming?”
“Have you ever worked in the fields?”
“Sure.”
There is no way that Eun-hyun, who has a greenhouse environment in her house and grows various vegetables, does not know about farming.
“You are a wonderful young man. He is an aristocratic young man who knows how to work in the fields.”
“Anyway, should I do something like a lord who farms himself?”
“That too.”
Tease didn’t say a single word, and smiled at Eunhyun’s counterattack.
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“If you’re reading this letter, it probably means that that ugly person really repented of his mistake and brought you here.”
“… Mom.”
Lily’s heart skipped a beat when she read the opening words of her letter.
True to Tease’s words, her own mother, she firmly believed, would come to pick her up with her daughter, after her father had remorse and remorse for her wrongdoing.
The foolishness of not losing her faith in her husband, even after she was betrayed and sold.
She made Lily sad even more.
“Or, like a miracle, my daughter met a wonderful man, lived happily ever after, and came to visit me with a wonderful husband. But I can’t easily imagine that something like this would happen.”
“No. Miracles… There was.”
Even though she was transformed into a demon and became inhuman, the miracle of salvation that came upon her existed.
“Lily, this mother is living happily in her own way. She trembled at her sense of betrayal when people didn’t keep her promise that she would let you meet her, and she despaired… The life of a serf in this estate was not an unhappy life for me. It’s truly a miracle.”
Lily’s mother thought that she hadn’t been sold to a strange place, and that it was really close to a miracle that she was sold to this place with a good place and good people.
As with her own miracles, her own mother was also experiencing her own miracles.
Various emotions fill Lily’s heart, including her relief and sadness.
「So, there is no need to blame yourself for coming too late. Since you’re so kind and tender, I’m sure you’ll shed tears for coming late, blame yourself, and hurt yourself, so I’m really worried about this mother.”
As her days wore on and her death neared, Lily’s mother worried about her.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t go to find my daughter because of her illness.”
“I’m sorry I left you alone.”
“I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you.”
Together they were sold into slavery, and Lily’s mother’s repeated apologies for not being able to protect her.
“No, no… Mom… I, I came too late… I’m sorry. I’m really sorry… Whoa…”
The more she read her letter, the more Lily’s hands trembled, and Lily’s tears fell on her letter paper.
“My daughter’s birthday… I’m sorry I never took care of you.”
“I’ll put the bracelet I made while thinking of Lily in the box.”
“I’m so sorry I couldn’t leave you with only this.”
“Ah…”
Lily carefully pulled out of her box her carefully braided bracelet of her own, and held it in her hand.
“Mom wants Lily to have more smiling days than crying days.”
“Mom…”
“My beloved daughter, as much as it was difficult, I hope she will be happy.”
“Huh, ugh…”
Tears do not stop flowing from Lily’s eyes as she holds her letter containing her mother’s will and her own bracelet, which she left as a keepsake, in her arms.
