Chapter 242: I got a little maid, a black-robed white-haired fairy
"certainly."
Rongzhen wrapped the remaining roasted bird in leaves and put it in the little girl's hat. She instructed, "Take it secretly back to your mother along with some candy. Ask her opinion and then get back to me. I'll be waiting for you at Will Farm."
Daisy was so excited that tears welled up in her eyes. She covered her mouth and nodded desperately.
"Thank you, Miss Jenny. You are just as everyone says, a kind and beautiful farmer."
Rongzhen rubbed the sparse, dry yellow hair on her head, looked at the sky, and prepared to go back.
There are many mosquitoes near the water. Once it gets dark, they will come up and harass all living creatures. They have to leave here and go home before the sun sets.
Daisy happily accompanied her for a while, and they reluctantly parted at the fork in the road leading to Will Farm and the lakeside town.
When Rongzhen was left alone, she walked and stopped, looking back from time to time. She always felt like something was following her, but she never noticed anything unusual.
Thinking of the mysterious guy who sent her the water-stirring slime and then the fat bird, Rong Zhen rolled her brown eyes and suddenly stopped and asked behind her, "Who are you? Did you send those things? Are you following me?"
As expected, there was still no response.
Rongzhen began to tempt him: "As a thank you, I'd like to invite you to the farm to eat the raspberry pie made by Aunt Mary. Would you consider showing up?"
Hearing some movement behind a large, black tree stump beside the path, she immediately ran to check with her self-defense weapon.
Unfortunately, the other party slipped away too quickly. All I could see was a piece of black clothing and snow-white hair, and in the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the dead woods.
However, she also used this opportunity to confirm the other person's identity as a human. Judging from the back, he was about one meter tall and thin. The big black robe looked empty on him. It was probably because he didn't have enough food to eat.
I'm still thinking about sending her this and that, and I don't even think about eating more meat to nourish myself.
"Since you don't want to meet me, I won't force you to. I'm going back now. If you have anything else, just keep it to yourself and don't give it to me. I have plenty of food."
Rong Zhen shouted in the direction where the figure disappeared. After waiting for a while and hearing no response, he turned around and prepared to leave.
Just at this moment, there was a sound of hitting tree trunks in the dead woods, which could be regarded as the other party's response to her.
Rongzhen immediately waved towards the place where the sound came from, turned around and walked home with light steps.
She didn't use any self-defense weapons. The other party not only seemed to have no ill intentions, but even seemed to be trying to please her. She thought he was a socially anxious person who wanted to make friends with her. She waited for him to show up voluntarily.
Not long after they walked, Mary, who had already prepared dinner, came out to look for her. They happened to meet her on the road and said worriedly, "Miss Jenny, although there is not much danger outside now, you'd better take someone with you when you go out, otherwise Aunt Mary will definitely worry..."
Rongzhen listened to her chatter with a smile, took the opportunity to tell her about his plan to recruit a maid, and introduced the candidate.
"Oh, it's Daisy. I know her. She's a poor little girl who lost her father and whose mother is sick." Mary had no objection to Miss Jenny choosing Daisy as her personal maid.
The little girl is a good girl, smart and obedient, and has nimble hands and feet. Although she is young, she is easier to train.
That’s the deal for now.
Rongzhen knew that Daisy might come early the next day, so she went to bed early at night and woke up early in the morning.
The old hired worker who was on night watch last night came with the little girl and reported: "This little thing came before sunrise. I asked her to come in and eat something, but she refused and insisted on waiting until dawn."
Because Rongzhen had given instructions after returning yesterday, the night watchman knew Daisy's identity. After seeing her come so early, he thought of bringing her in first, otherwise he would definitely not let her in easily.
Rongzhen rewarded the night watchman with a piece of rye bread with raspberry jam and sent him off to rest, then heard Daisy's stomach rumbling.
Daisy blushed to the color of raspberries, covered her stomach and apologized shyly: "I'm sorry, Miss Jenny, I obviously had breakfast."
It's just that I ate a little early and a little little, and my body is growing and in urgent need of energy, so I digested it all soon after eating. Now when I smell the sweet aroma of raspberry jam and rye bread, how can I resist it anymore?
"Then Daisy, do you mind having another meal with me? I haven't had a good appetite lately." Rongzhen made up an excuse and smiled as she picked up a piece of bread and handed it to her.
Daisy's mouth was watering immediately, and before she knew it, the bread had already been stuffed into her stomach.
"Um, sorry, Miss Jenny..."
"No need to apologize anymore, come and have breakfast with me."
Rongzhen pulled the embarrassed little girl over and didn't let her eat at the same table with her. She just stood beside the table and ate with her.
The little girl was a clean person. She must have taken a bath before coming. Her nails and ears were very clean. Although her clothes were old, they were also fresh and clean, exuding a herbal fragrance similar to that of soapberries.
Not bad, not bad, this is exactly the little maid Rongzhen wanted.
She asked Daisy to come over, not expecting her to do any work, but just wanting a little girl who could accompany her and help her run errands and get small things when she had something to do, so that she would not have to do everything alone and have to bring hired help with her.
By the way, I can also help Daisy and her daughter.
The breakfast on the table was finally finished by the two of them, and Daisy, who was full, showed a bright smile.
Rongzhen thought her smile was much more beautiful than the heroine Lillian's. At least Daisy's smile was pure and real, without any purpose.
Mary estimated the time and came up to collect the plates. She looked at Daisy, who was accompanying Miss Jenny, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "Miss Jenny is a kind employer. Daisy, you must cherish this opportunity."
Daisy nodded. "I understand, Aunt Mary."
Mary knew that Miss Jenny had something else to say, so she picked up the basket of dishes and went downstairs.
Rongzhen then took out the employment contract drafted last night. After learning that Daisy was illiterate, she read it to her word by word. If Daisy had no objection, she could put her fingerprint on it and the contract would be finalized.
In fact, without the guardian's signature and seal, it is just a formality and has no real legal significance.
But in order to reassure the girl, Rongzhen symbolically issued this employment contract.
After all, Daisy's mother was recuperating at home and couldn't come out. She couldn't ask her to take it back and have her mother sign it... Well, it seemed like it might be possible.
"But my mother can't read either." Daisy pressed her fingerprint decisively after hearing this, and said that she didn't need to take it back to show her mother.
There are not many literate people in the town. Even the employees of Will Farm simply signed employment contracts with the mayor. As long as the employer can pay their wages on time every month and does not deliberately abuse them, no one cares about the contract.
In the central continent where various races live together, the human principality has very little control over the lower levels, and the grassroots are mostly autonomous.
It's like this in a lakeside town. If there is any problem, people go to the mayor for help. If that doesn't work, there are elders who can convince everyone.
So Rongzhen asked Daisy to press her fingerprints and that was it. She said casually, "You have to learn to read from me in the future. You can be illiterate as my maid, but you can be illiterate as my personal maid."
That person is almost like her secretary, who needs to help her deal with many things. How could he be really blind?
Daisy was stunned when she heard it, and pointed at herself and asked, "Can I, can I?"
"As long as you study hard and keep working hard to improve yourself, you will succeed sooner or later." Rong Zhen casually painted a big picture for the little girl and gave her a visible future.
Daisy jumped for joy, but when she heard the floor creaking, she quickly stopped and acted serious.
Rongzhen smiled knowingly and told her not to be restrained and to just follow her and learn slowly.
Daisy felt that this was the happiest day she had had since her father passed away. Not only did she have a full stomach, but she also had new clothes to wear. All this was thanks to the kind Miss Jenny.
Meeting Miss Jenny was the luckiest thing that ever happened to her.
She will definitely cherish it.
Happy times always pass quickly. After a happy day, Daisy walked out of Will Farm as the sky was filled with sunset, carrying a small basket in her hand.
In the basket was the hired workers' meal that Aunt Mary had packed for her, allowing her to take it home and eat it with her mother.
In fact, it was just ordinary rye bread and wild vegetable soup, plus raspberry jam and straw sugar made under Rong Zhen's guidance.
It was nothing to her, but Mary was always very strict about food, especially the two desserts at the back, which not everyone could eat.
Because it was Daisy's first day at work and she was still young, Mary asked her employer to bring her some home to try.
"So sweet, so fragrant, I want to eat it so much." Daisy walked on the path, smelling the aroma coming from the small basket. She couldn't help licking her lips, wanting to turn into a greedy cat and eat it in a few bites.
But no, she has to take it home to share with her mother.
Daisy pursed her lips and began to jog home, almost bumping into the guy who suddenly rushed out from the dark dead woods and blocked her way.
He was wearing a black robe, had long white hair, and had a goblin-like face. It was obvious that he was not a good person.
Daisy immediately guarded the basket and asked him, "Who are you? What do you want to do?"
The white-haired goblin in a black robe handed over a green fruit and said slowly, "Here, in exchange for candy."
It turned out that he wanted to exchange the fruit for the straw candy in Daisy's basket. That was the thing that made Daisy drool the most. There was only a little bit of it, and Daisy didn't want to exchange it.
But this bad guy was so tall and scary. What if she disagreed and got beaten? And she didn't want to bring danger to Will Farm and threaten Miss Jenny.
That was her benefactor, and Daisy didn't want to be ungrateful and get pregnant.
In exchange, it’s just some candy, can’t she just not eat it? Woo woo woo woo, she is so sad to have wasted Miss Jenny’s kindness.
Seeing her crying miserably, the white-haired goblin in a black robe added, "Eat the fruit. It will be good for your mother."
Daisy understood the meaning of the words and immediately burst into laughter. "Really?"
"Really, it can relieve the injury." The white-haired fairy in black robe stuffed the fruit into her hands and took away all the sweet-smelling thin grass candies, not leaving a single one for her.
Daisy wanted to cry again when she saw this. This guy was so hateful.
But thinking of his mother's injuries, he quickly forgot his sadness and asked, "Can the injuries caused by the dragon's flames also be healed?"
"I don't know. I haven't tried it." The white-haired goblin in the black robe said the last sentence, turned around and quickly disappeared into the dead woods, running faster than a rabbit.
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