Newlywed Life Begins with a Mistake - Chapter 47
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Chapter 47
“Am I being overly sensitive?”
Pabel, who had been watching Matthew for several days, muttered to himself.
He had been tailing him due to a sudden sense of unease, but couldn’t find any flaws anywhere.
Matthew’s daily routine was simple.
Ring! Ring ring! He opens his eyes every morning at 6 AM to the sound of his alarm.
After stretching, Matthew takes a light shower and prepares for work.
“Good morning.”
“You’re early again today, Matthew!”
Arriving at the Main Infirmary, he puts on a white coat and sets up medical instruments with his assistant’s help.
“Shall we start seeing patients now?”
“Yes. Please do.”
Once the inspection is finished, he begins examinations.
“Where does it hurt?”
“My stomach aches slightly. I guess you could say it’s my side that hurts…”
“Please take a deep breath.”
Holding his stethoscope, Matthew wore a gentle expression as he carefully examined his patients.
The infirmary bustling with people only became quiet around noon.
“Matthew, it’s lunch time.”
“I don’t have time to go to the dining hall, so could I ask for a sandwich?”
“Of course.”
Due to his heavy workload, Matthew would eat by biting into a ham and cheese sandwich.
After finishing his light meal, he would brush his teeth and immediately see patients again.
His work would only end after spending the afternoon the same way as the morning.
“See you tomorrow.”
“Thank you for your hard work, Matthew!”
Matthew, who had lodging in the annex, would head straight to his quarters after work ended.
He would wash up, sit in a chair to read, or spend his remaining time writing letters to someone.
Even checking the letter contents revealed nothing suspicious.
They were just greetings to his family. Nothing more, nothing less.
As usual, when the sound of water could be heard from the bathroom, shadows fell across Pabel’s face outside the window.
“I should withdraw for now.”
Having gained no particular results, Pabel wrote a brief message, tied the note to a Jeonseoggu’s leg, and sent the bird flying.
At that moment.
Creak.
“It’s time to depart.”
Along with the sound of a door opening, an unfamiliar voice pierced his ears.
Whip, Pabel turned his head and stiffened his expression after confirming the owner of the voice.
‘The woman who came for treatment this morning?’
It was the maid who had been frowning, saying her stomach ached slightly.
She had now returned and was whispering to Matthew.
‘Is she a newly hired maid?’
However, she looked somewhat sloppy to be considered a maid.
Hair sticking out from under her hair net caught his eye.
Even if her hair was hastily tied, other aspects were equally bothersome.
Even the tomboyish Rose cuts her nails short when working, but this woman had notably long nails. She seemed unsuitable for maid work.
‘Who is she?’
She wasn’t someone he recognized.
Pabel periodically memorized the faces of the Ducal House servants for Casian’s safety.
If she belonged to a specific department, he would have remembered immediately, but the woman didn’t seem to belong anywhere.
As if his guess was correct, Matthew spoke urgently.
“There was no need to come all the way here.”
“I didn’t want to come either. If that person hadn’t sent me.”
‘That person?’
At the meaningful conversation, Pabel held his breath and listened intently.
The two people who had been bickering left the room together.
Pabel, hiding behind a tree, rolled his eyes following Matthew’s movement.
Pabel followed behind, watching Matthew leave the Duke’s Mansion.
A carriage was waiting at a location slightly away from the Duke’s Mansion.
Whether they had called for a separate coachman, a man wearing a deeply pulled cap gestured for Matthew and the woman to get inside as soon as he spotted them.
As the two people boarded the carriage, the horse picked up speed with the sound of whipping.
Pabel, gritting his teeth as he chased the carriage, could only stop walking after a long while.
Some outskirts. A desolate, dust-covered building came into his view.
As the two people got off the carriage, the coachman hurriedly drove the horse away.
When the thick dust settled, Matthew and the woman had vanished without a trace.
Pabel, who had been watching them through the broken window, urgently entered the building.
“Where did they go?”
There were no passages other than dust-covered furniture.
Then Pabel’s eyes fell on an old wardrobe.
Creeak. The wardrobe opened with a grinding sound. Inside, there were sacks placed.
“This is…”
It was the fabric he had seen during the Pican Fire Incident.
When he untied the sack, strangely yellow grains emitted an iridescent glow. Like poisonous mushrooms.
Swoosh. Pabel, who had loosened the grain with his hands, smelled it.
An indescribable doubt swirled through his mind.
“Poison? This… why is it here…?”
He could be mistaken, but combining the scents he knew, this was definitely deadly poison.
“Did someone intentionally make this?”
Just as Pabel’s suspicions grew uncontrollably.
“How did you come to be here?”
From behind him came a monotone voice that seemed to drift through the basement.
“An explanation seems necessary, Sir Matthew.”
Pabel turned around and met Matthew’s eyes.
Matthew smiled and looked back and forth between the sack and Pabel.
“That seems impossible.”
As Matthew spoke calmly and stepped back, Pabel reached out toward him.
However, someone striking the back of his head hard came first.
“Ugh!”
“You brought this little rat all the way here?”
The woman who had infiltrated as a patient was breathing heavily while holding a shovel.
The fallen Pabel tried to get up while clutching his throbbing head, but Matthew pressed his foot firmly on Pabel’s back.
“If you hadn’t brought me here, we wouldn’t have been discovered.”
Matthew muttered coldly toward the woman, then his gaze fell on Pabel.
“How unfortunate. This wasn’t something you should have known about.”
Matthew looked down at Pabel with emotionless eyes, then eventually took the shovel from the woman.
Then he raised the shovel.
“Farewell.”
Pabel fixed his gaze on the shovel raised in the air, glanced at Matthew, then closed his eyes.
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Clatter!
Dirt-covered shovels came pouring down.
The Heteus retainers, who had been staring blankly at the shovels scattered at their feet, asked as if entranced.
“What is this?”
“What else, they’re shovels.”
Evelyn, who had gathered all the retainers together, spoke calmly and gestured with her chin.
“Take one each.”
“These things?”
When Evelyn pointed to the shovels on the ground, the bewildered retainers looked back and forth between the shovels and the herb garden, then all fainted in shock.
“What do you take us for!”
“This kind of thing is what commoners do!”
It wasn’t enough that she dragged them here out of nowhere, now she wanted them to dig!
It was something they had never heard of in their lives.
“We are the proud retainers who protect the House of Count Heteus!”
“We cannot waste our labor on such trivial work!”
As the retainers jumped up and down in a fit, Evelyn blinked her eyelashes and asked nonchalantly.
“So you were slacking off?”
“…”
The surroundings rapidly fell silent.
All the retainers who had been shouting shut their mouths as if they had eaten honey.
The reason they had no choice was…
“Today’s meeting is unavoidably difficult to proceed with.”
Three hours earlier.
Hans had notified the retainers who came to work at the Duke’s mansion. That Evelyn was busy and would have difficulty attending.
When Hans left, the retainers who had been keeping their posts all burst into broad smiles without exception.
“Hahaha! How long has it been! Not having to see the Princess’s face!”
“The stuffiness is completely lifting! I finally feel like I can breathe!”
Casian was also strict, but Evelyn was no less demanding.
When they presented an agenda item, she would ask until she was convinced about how they reached such a conclusion.
[Are you saying you made the contract through personal connections?]
[That’s not it… since we used this company last year, wouldn’t it be fine to continue with them?]
[No. We must proceed fairly.]
While not wasting money was most important, people could be lenient in some areas of life, but Evelyn was merciless.
Therefore, the retainers found it quite troublesome whenever meetings with Evelyn were scheduled.
Still, thanks to Evelyn’s diligent work, the banquet preparations were sailing smoothly like a ship with wind in its sails.
“Since the complicated work is finished, wouldn’t it be fine to relax and take it easy today?”
“The most troublesome budget execution is done, and we’ve placed orders with the designated stores, so we can rest.”
There were still matters to resolve, but according to Hans, they could leave work after filing reports. Since the Shopping District would deliver on time, there wasn’t much to do, so all the retainers in the Meeting Room agreed.
“There happens to be a magical device for simple games here.”
“Hey, isn’t this kind of thing for young folks?”
There were magical devices suited for twenty people. Though they waved their hands with indifferent expressions, before long they had each picked up a magical device and started playing games.
It was when the retainers were absorbed in their games.
With a hissing sound, the magical power operating the devices all went out at once.
“Huh? What’s this? Who cut off the magical power!”
As the screens in the magical devices turned black, the retainers showed intense reactions.
“Ah, damn! I was winning!”
“This is driving me crazy! I had almost caught everything!”
It was when they were acting roughly while spitting out vulgar curses.
Whirrrr.
As the screen turned on, Evelyn appeared.
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