Me, a Princess? My Lord! - Chapter 110

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Chapter 110

Heidi’s eyes widened at Lawrence’s words.

“You’re saying it won’t be here?”

“Well… it could be here.”

Lawrence raised his eyebrows with a subtle expression.

“But as soon as I heard what you said, a place immediately came to mind. A place only those in the know would know about.”

Lawrence grinned.

“If we go there, you’ll think it was fortunate that I came to this place. It’s somewhere you two would never find on your own.”

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“…You’re saying there’s a field in a place like this?”

Heidi, who had been climbing the steep incline, stopped and panted heavily. Even for her, who was accustomed to hill roads from living in Everton, this was not an easy slope.

“Didn’t I say it was somewhere you two would never find?”

“At this rate, it seems like not just the two of us, but anyone would be unable to find it.”

“We’re almost there. You can see it up ahead.”

At Lawrence’s words, Heidi looked around. Deshion also straightened his back and examined the place Lawrence was pointing to.

“…There’s nothing here? It’s just a dead-end.”

Heidi asked, pointing at the tall cliff.

“Don’t tell me we have to climb up there?”

“Correct.”

“What?”

“That’s impossible, isn’t it? How could we possibly climb up there? Follow me.”

Lawrence, who had been teasing Heidi with laughter, strode ahead. Without hesitation, he headed toward a corner and pointed to one spot.

“Here it is.”

What on earth is supposed to be there?

Heidi narrowed her eyes and examined the place Lawrence was pointing to. Then she saw a hole just large enough for one person to barely crawl through.

“This dog hole?”

Lawrence nodded his head.

“It may not look like much, but the inside is a bit wider. Though you do have to crawl to move around.”

Heidi looked over Lawrence’s face with a distrustful expression. They were supposed to be looking for a field or greenhouse where herbs might be found, but suddenly he was telling them to crawl through a dog hole in a cliff.

‘Is he really on our side?’

Heidi let out a deep sigh and said.

“Then you go in first. I’ll follow behind you.”

“Alright.”

Lawrence, who readily nodded, bent down. He slowly crawled into the cave.

Heidi and Deshion’s gazes met. Deshion shrugged his shoulders.

As Lawrence had said, once they passed through the entrance, there was some room to spare. Like a cave, the ceiling became higher and their voices echoed.

“How much further do we have to go?”

“I can see the end.”

Lawrence, who had entered first, answered. Shortly after, Heidi also gradually began to feel light.

“Be careful coming out. Watch your head so you don’t bump it.”

Deshion, who had gone out first and was waiting, said while covering Heidi’s head with his hand.

Perhaps because she had been on her knees for so long, Heidi’s body swayed greatly as she tried to stand up.

“Ah!”

Then, solid arms suddenly extended from both sides of Heidi.

“Careful.”

“Are you alright?”

Deshion and Lawrence simultaneously grabbed Heidi’s arms tightly. The two men’s eyes met directly in mid-air.

“I’m fine. But more importantly…”

Heidi frowned as she looked at the scene spread out before her eyes.

“This place really is…”

A vast field stretched out in front of Heidi. It was surrounded by sheer cliffs, making it impossible for people to approach.

“Lawrence, how did you know about a place like this?”

“Quite a long time ago, I followed my brother’s trail a few times. He would disappear for several hours a day without saying anything, which was suspicious. I was also bored, so I decided to tail him.”

Following people around out of boredom. Thinking that Lawrence also didn’t seem quite normal, Heidi perked up her ears.

“I wondered if he had hidden some treasure or something, but what do you know. This uselessly large field appeared. I was disappointed at the time. To think that what he was doing in secret was farming.”

Lawrence approached the field and asked.

“So this is the herb, right? Is it some expensive elixir of immortality? Or does it contain dangerous poison…”

“It’s called Bloodgrass, a common herb. It’s not poisonous either.”

Heidi, who was crouching down, said while examining the leaves of the herb. At Heidi’s words, Lawrence showed a disappointed expression.

“Then finding this has no meaning at all, does it?”

“It’s a plant that reduces fever and relieves pain, so it goes into most medicines.”

Heidi said, looking at Lawrence.

“But Pretium has been monopolizing this herb. Before, herbalists used to gather what they needed, but now they have to pay very expensive prices to obtain this.”

Heidi let out a deep sigh.

“Before I became a princess, when I was working as a maid at Count Haizen’s mansion. I really worked all day without rest. My mother was sick, and my father had injured his back, so I had to support both of them.”

Lawrence and Deshion quietly listened to Heidi’s words.

“But even when my salary increased from work, I kept getting poorer. The speed at which medicine prices rose was much faster than the speed at which my salary increased.”

“…”

“Now I finally know the reason.”

Lawrence opened his mouth with a face completely drained of humor.

“So because of Clovis…”

“The Viscount probably didn’t do this alone. It must have been something he conspired with Anastasia on.”

Deshion said.

“When I looked into it, most of the Bloodgrass sold at herb shops was said to be imported from Aras. But when I investigated, there was no Bloodgrass listed in the import items.”

“You mean they disguised what they grew here as imported goods and sold them at high prices?”

A look of shock appeared on Lawrence’s face. He had thought Clovis had some dark aspects, but he hadn’t thought he would be low enough to play around with people’s lifelines.

Disappointment and shock about Clovis, mixed with guilt toward Heidi, complicated his mind. After thinking for a while, Lawrence spoke.

“But where did all the money earned that way flow to? I looked through every ledger there was, but there were no gaps. There were no points that I felt were particularly strange either.”

“That slush fund most likely flowed to Anastasia’s side.”

“There’s also a possibility that it’s secretly piled up somewhere. I didn’t think he was particularly greedy, but seeing him today, I realized I don’t know much about my brother.”

Heidi, who had been listening to the two men’s conversation, said.

“If it’s Clovis, he definitely would have written down something about that slush fund somewhere.”

Lawrence and Deshion’s gazes reached Heidi. Heidi looked at Lawrence and said.

“I looked at those documents you brought me for quite a while before. When it came to money, he had recorded everything down to the individual coin. It was the same when recording the nobles’ private lives. It felt obsessively compulsive.”

Lawrence nodded his head.

“He does seem to have an obsession with records in various ways. He records the time he leaves home and returns every day.”

“Then the problem is where he put that secret ledger.”

Lawrence, who had been thinking while touching his chin, slightly raised the corner of his mouth.

“If it’s that, there is someone who might know.”

Heidi’s eyes widened.

“Who is it?”

“It’s probably someone the Princess knows well too.”

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