The Second Life Of The Mercenary
Chapter 41 Memory and tea cup

A 10-year-old boy stood with a basket of bread, shouting to sell his bread to passers-by.

"Why are you selling bread?" asked a boy who did not know where he was coming from, suddenly he was standing next to the little girl.

The girl was surprised and then with a flat gaze she replied, "I sold bread so I could eat, you want to buy no?"

"No. But you're so weird, why don't you just eat this bread instead of you having a hard time selling it?"

"If you don't want to buy then just go there, don't bother me selling."

"I'll accompany you to the sale. But you answered my question first, how?"

"You want to negotiate with me?"

"Of course."

"Hhhmmm, can. But you have to sell all the bread in this basket first, a piece of bread costs 1 piece of gold. Do you dare?"

"Why don't I dare, you just wait and see." The little man took the basket and left.

"Curtain! you new boy, "the girl's inner self while sitting by the road waiting for the little guy to come back.

Not long after the little man returned with the basket that had been filled with gold pieces, not a single loaf of bread was left in the basket.

"You ... How can you do that?" ask the girl to be amazed.

"Of course because I'm great. This kind of matter to me is very easy," the man replied arrogantly. He secretly went home and forced the knights in his house to buy all the bread in the basket.

"Little huh? what if you sell every day? looks like you're talented in this field, said my uncle, only a person with the power of a god can spend a sale so quickly."

"really? if it were true then I would sell all your bread every day, who knows later the gods would give me more power. But now you have to answer my question first, why did you sell bread to eat when you could eat that bread instead of trying to sell it."

"Because I would make a profit if I sold the bread, this loaf of capital made it only 20 pieces of gold and I could make 40 pieces of bread which would later be 40 pieces of gold, he said, so I can profit money eating every day and money making bread again. It's called business, do you really want to sell to me tomorrow?"

"Of course I want, this is your business later I can be profitable too. But by the way what's your name?

" all right. Our money is 2 to 8, in the future you call me Isabella."

"I'm Charlize. All right Isabella, see you tomorrow here," said Charlize who immediately left.

"How do you do this, I don't care. Tomorrow I will make a big profit again, he sells and I will also sell. I must make the most of that innocent child, "inner Isabella. He came back with a feeling of pleasure.

After the incident Sabella and Charlize always sell bread together, they will divide the profit even though the division is not balanced. Suddenly something bad happens to Charlize one day, Charlize is kidnapped by slave traders who want to buy bread. The disappearance of Charlize at that time made Isabella know the identity of Charlize who turned out to be the son of a Duke.

Isabella who was afraid of being punished by Duke Arsena immediately went to look for Charlize's whereabouts, he knew exactly where to find the little man because Isabella was a crazy girl who was famous in the hiding place of many slave traders. He had been kidnapped several times, but Isabella always separated from them because she would make a scene by hitting all the slave traders. Therefore, many slave merchants were unwilling to deal with him.

After searching for quite a long time finally Isabella found Charlize tied up and hidden in the warehouse, the warehouse was guarded by several men. But Isabella managed to get inside through the open window, the arrival of Isabella makes Charlize feel happy always calm.

"Ssttt, quiet!" isabella whisper. He untied Charlize's body.

"Ishabella." When Charlize's bond was released, she hugged Isabella with a trembling body, "I'm afraid, thank God you're coming."

"Here you go, let me go!" Isabella forcibly releases Charlize's embrace.

"You get out that window and run straight ahead, don't look back until you get to the square" Isabella added.

"Then you? we're going together, right?" ask Charlize.

"don't want. I'll go with …."

Charlize's words came to a halt as Isabella kissed her forehead, "Trust me, I'll catch up with you."

Charlize who blushed in embarrassment could only nod, a while later Charlize managed to escape with Isabella's help, she ran quickly all the way to the square. After Charlize there, it turns out there are several armies of knights Arsena family. They brought Charlize back to the residence, Duke and Duchess Arsena crying happily while hugging their only son who finally returned in good condition. Unfortunately after that day Charlize never met Isabella again, until finally the family of Duke Arsena returned to the Imperial Capital.

No matter how Charlize searched, she could not find her first love. Isabella's kiss at that time managed to seize the small heart of Charlize, even to adulthood Charlize can not forget the figure of Isabella.

"Huft .. I dreamt about it again," Charlize's inner self awoke from her sleep. He dreamed of the incident in his childhood because he thought too much about Allred.

"Hopefully I can find you Isabella. It used to be a clue to find you just the scent of jasmine and now the man has also become a clue," Charlize muttered gazing far out the window, enjoying the view from the plants watered by the rainwater.

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The duke's family car finally arrives at Isabella's residence, Cedric sends Viscount Jovan Oriel to pick up her biological daughter. Cedric accidentally sends Jovan to Isabella's place because Jovan is a single man who loves beauty and cleanliness, Isabella is just a lowly nobleman who may not know ethics so when he meets Jovan later, he meets her, Cedric firmly believes that the spicy words from Jovan's mouth can make Isabella hurt and refuses to return to her residence.

Jovan's arrival is greeted kindly by Callix, and Audrey. But not with Jasper, because Isabella once told him that she did not like anyone from her father's family. Though it was just nonsense from Isabella so that Jasper did not question his family too much.

"Please sit down." Callix invited the flat-faced Jovan to sit down in a friendly manner.

"You guys are very friendly. Did Isabella educate you concubines well? you guys are …."

Brak!

Jasper placed the bowl roughly on the table, then with a smiling face he cut Jovan saying, "We are not his concubines. Miss thinks of us as her family, but not her concubine so please don't say that."

"really. Miss helped us out of trouble and generously made us her family, so please don't say that" Callix added.

"Not concubine? is the duke's information wrong? but how can it be?" jovan's inner confusion. He did not want to believe Jasper and Callix's words, only he saw no lie from the gaze of Jasper and Callix.

"Again if you see this residence .. I don't think if Miss Isabella is a woman who is not right, the proof is that this residence is very clean even all the furniture is neatly arranged. Simple, but elegant. Very good," Jovan's mind circulated his gaze at every corner of Isabella's residence.

Then Audrey came from the kitchen with a cup of tea and a piece of cake, they had not opened the store for the past 7 days. This cake can be served by Audrey just because he was lucky because Jasper was whining to make a cake.

"Good fun. It's just a simple dish I can make" Audrey said.

Jovan was fascinated to see a beautiful pastry and a piece of cheesecake, this was the first time he had seen a cake made from cheese. But more interesting is the tea cup, it is a very expensive tea cup with a dandelion flower motif. It was a teacup made only by the elf race, and not many nobles could buy that cup including Cedric.

"In-this ... Where did you buy this?" ask Jovan while eating a mouthful of cheese cake.

"Ummm, it's very tasty and the texture is soft." Jovan was surprised that the cake he ate instantly melted inside his mouth, "The dry cake is also very tasty. The chocolate taste is not at all bitter, whereas the chocolate cake in the capital tastes a little bitter not like this."

"I'm so glad you like that cake. I made it with a recipe from Miss Isabella, and for the cup …." Audrey looked at Callix. Because he didn't know about the cup.

"It was given by one of Miss Isabella's friends as a gift" Callix replied.

"Te-friends?" Jovan was shocked until his hands trembled touching the cup. Hearing this cup given by a friend is impossible, because Jovan's friend who has a cup like this let alone given his friend it does not even allow Jovan to just touch the cup a little.

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