The Eldest Daughter Walks Down The Flower Path - Chapter 168

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The Eldest Daughter Walks the Path of Flowers Episode 168

“Ah! Mom, please! If you don’t know anything, just stay quiet! Do you think a marquis house maid is the same as our house maid? She’s really from a decent family and receives patronage from some noble who might be her aunt!”

“Oh my, really? Then it wouldn’t be bad. Though it’s a bit disappointing…”

“Aaahhh!”

David, who had been frantically pulling at his hair, suddenly brightened up and said.

“Mom, how much money do we have?”

At her son’s question, Margaret feigned ignorance.

“More importantly, you should pack your things quickly too. I told you we’re leaving tomorrow.”

“You got money from Radis, right? I heard everything. Something about cutting ties with this? You got quite a bit, didn’t you?”

“We’ll leave at dawn tomorrow. If the Willingham people find out, who knows what might happen. That, that flower shop girl was abandoned by Jade and couldn’t bear the villagers’ pressure, so she tried to secretly run away at night but got severely punished. I felt very satisfied inside, but I don’t want to end up like that.”

“Huh, weren’t father’s children at that house?”

“Those damn rat bastards who deserve to be beaten to death? Those things were wandering around unable to even get porridge scraps and followed the marquis house knights. They said something about going to find their sister. As if they know where their sister is.”

At Margaret’s words, David laughed sinisterly.

“Don’t tell me they went to find Radis? Even if those royal brats go to her, she won’t throw them a single coin.”

“Oh my, I really hope they go and completely turn that thing’s stomach upside down. What? Cut ties? What a vicious thing.”

Margaret, realizing that even the last silver tableware hidden in the innermost part of the cupboard had been stolen, collapsed right there.

“David, you should pack your things in advance and go to bed early. You understand, right?”

“I know, I said I know.”

David answered half-heartedly and then shuffled back to his room where he had been hiding.

The next morning at dawn, Margaret and David quietly slipped out of the Tillord Estate, avoiding people’s eyes.

“Are you really going?”

Jade seemed to want to stop them, but having not recovered his strength, he couldn’t even hold back his departing wife and son.

He was still unable to escape from the shock that his family had completely collapsed.

Margaret glared at such a husband with resentful eyes and said.

“Hmph! Damn man. Go find that concubine who got thoroughly beaten and kicked out, and live with her.”

“What are you saying like that.”

“Did I say anything untrue? Whether it’s Tillord or Willingham, I’m completely sick of it all. I won’t even spit in this direction.”

Saying that, Margaret spat right in front of Jade’s feet.

Even at his wife’s harsh words, Jade could only hang his head low and say nothing.

“My heart feels completely refreshed!”

Margaret said that as she carefully made her way out of the village.

They boarded a freight wagon they had arranged in advance and left Willingham.

“Let’s see.”

Margaret took out a note and unfolded it.

“First we go to Aldier… then take a carriage heading to Meadows…”

David clung to Margaret and asked.

“Mom, how about we don’t go to Chestnut Hill?”

“What? Then where do we go?”

David said with delight.

“I have an acquaintance I got to know, and they gave me amazing information. The Emperor changed, right? The currency will change too. There’s information about something called Dog Coin, and if we buy it now in advance, when it becomes the official currency, the price will skyrocket and we’ll become rich! The price is rising through the roof right now. We need to buy it even now…!”

“Dog Coin? What kind of name is that? It’s not even a joke.”

“It’s not a joke! Mom, can’t you just trust me once? I’ll make you live in luxury…!”

“Hey, just hearing the word luxury gives me chills. That’s exactly what your father, who I just divorced, said to me before we got married.”

“Father was lying. I’m real.”

Margaret carefully clutched her handbag containing the Pelletier Bank promissory note and said.

“No way. This is all for you. After you learn the work well from your uncle, I’ll give it to you then.”

“…”

David glared at Margaret with an annoyed face, then turned his head away and soon fell into thought.

When they arrived in Aldier, David got off the freight wagon first and began unloading the luggage bags without being asked.

“Oh my, my child.”

Margaret looked at such a son with proud eyes and stretched her back that was stiff from being jostled in the freight wagon.

At that moment, an ominous cracking sound came from her spine.

“Ugh!”

Margaret felt the sky turning yellow.

With such a long way to go, her back condition was not normal.

David looked at Margaret with annoyed eyes and opened his mouth.

“What’s wrong? Why are you like that? Your back again?”

“Son, son. We need to rest here for today.”

“…”

David looked down at Margaret with conflicted eyes, then snatched away her handbag.

And before Margaret could stop him, he opened the bag and took out the promissory note from the envelope inside to check the amount.

David’s eyes widened at the unexpectedly large sum.

David turned the promissory note this way and that, checking it several times.

“Hey, stop looking at that. What if someone steals it…!”

“…”

David put the envelope containing the promissory note into his vest pocket and shoved the empty handbag at Margaret.

Then he suddenly turned around and began walking away quickly.

“Da, David?”

Sensing something ominous, Margaret tried to follow David while dragging her luggage bag.

However, the luggage bag was too heavy with dresses stuffed greedily inside, so she couldn’t do it.

In the end, Margaret had to abandon the luggage bag too and follow her son while holding her aching back.

“David, David!”

David walked quickly without looking back and said.

“I’m not going to Chestnut Hill. I hate chestnuts and making fertilizer.”

“Hey, why are you being like this without even trying it?”

“I know without trying it.”

“You, you! Then that money, at least give that back!”

“This is all for me, right? You said it with your own mouth, didn’t you? Then it doesn’t matter if you give it to me now!”

Margaret hurriedly ran out and grabbed her son’s clothes.

“David, I understand! I get it! Let’s do as you say. Let’s rest for now and talk about it…!”

“No. Let’s cut ties here too.”

At her beloved son’s words, Margaret’s mouth opened wide.

“What?”

“Mom goes back to Chestnut Hill, and I go my own way. Let’s do that. You understand, right?”

“What? What did you say!”

Margaret shouted with a pale face.

“How can you do this to your mother!”

David also shouted back without backing down.

“Then what am I supposed to do! What have you ever done for me!”

“You, you!”

Margaret felt the world collapsing.

This couldn’t be happening.

David was her everything.

She had loved and cherished her son more than herself.

Margaret cried out in anguish.

“I, I loved you! I gave birth to you in pain, and I gave you everything I had! How can you do this to me?”

David shouted angrily right in his mother’s face.

“What did you ever do for me! You always act like you did something for me, but all I remember is suffering like a dog! Your only achievement was pushing me into that beggar-like Extermination Corps! Do you know what I went through there!”

David screamed at the top of his lungs and pushed Margaret away with all his might.

Margaret ended up falling onto the dirty ground covered with horse dung.

“Ahhh!”

Margaret struggled to get up from her seat while calling out her son’s name at the top of her lungs.

“David, David!”

However, David instantly mixed into the crowd and disappeared from sight.

“Haah…”

Alice stood at the edge of the street filled with carriages from Aldier.

After receiving David’s letter asking her to run away together, she had struggled with the decision for a long time.

In fact, she was still struggling with it even now.

“Today, I’m deciding today…”

David approached her, waving his hand.

“Alice!”

“Lord David…”

David smiled brightly and tried to take her hand.

“Have you been well?”

Alice carefully hid her hands behind her back and said.

“How could I be well after receiving such a letter? I, I haven’t decided yet. Betraying the trust of everyone who cares for me and leaving is something that for me…”

“Alice, your mind will change when you see this.”

David slyly pulled out a promissory note from his chest and showed it to her.

Alice’s eyes widened when she saw the amount on the note and Radis’s signature below it.

“Wh-where did you get this?”

“It’s mine.”

David put the note back in his inner pocket and patted the spot where it was placed with his hand.

“Life is about one big hit. Alice, let’s leave together. I’ll make you live in luxury.”

Alice, who had been looking at David with a frightened face, asked.

“What about Mother? Is she waiting somewhere else?”

“Huh? Why are you asking about mom?”

“In the letter, you said we’d all go to a place called Chestnut Hill together.”

“Ah, we split up. We’re just taking different routes.”

“…What did you say? You’re making Mother, who isn’t even in good health, travel alone?”

Alice pointed to the pocket containing the promissory note and said.

“That money, isn’t it what Lady Radis gave to Mother? Why are you the one carrying it, Lord David?”

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