After helping Captain Quirk hire a temporary navigator from the Adventurer's Guild, Laddie bid farewell to the crew of the South the next day and set off for his hometown alone.
In order to save time, she rented a fast horse. After a day and night of trekking, she arrived at her hometown-Independent Territory Messiah.
It was already 8 o'clock in the morning when we entered the city. Although I had not rested all day and night, seeing those familiar buildings and familiar streets, the fatigue in my body was swept away.
But there was something that made her wary, and that was the wanted notice found on the roadside, which clearly marked the identity of the wanted person - a wizard. Logically speaking, only the local lords had the power to issue wanted notices. Now that this appeared on the street, it meant that the upper class here had either colluded with Church, or reached some kind of compromise with Church.
She tried her best to look like an ordinary pedestrian and led the horse straight to her home.
After walking for nearly twenty minutes, she came to the corner of an intersection, and a restaurant named "Flying Dragon Pavilion" appeared in front of her.
Laddie took a few deep breaths to calm down his excitement, then opened the door and walked in.
It's quite lively inside, with a lot of customers sitting there, and it looks like business is as good as ever.
But she didn't find the person she was looking for, only a waitress she didn't know behind the counter, who seemed to be calculating the accounts.
Hired a new waiter? Yes, after all, the previous waiter had expressed her intention to resign before she left home, and it had been several months.
Laddie slowly came to the counter.
"Is the landlady here?"
Although she was still wearing men's clothing at this time, she had taken off the mustache she used to disguise herself and no longer deliberately imitated a male voice when speaking.
The waitress looked up and saw a pretty girl standing in front of the counter. Her green hair and delicate face always made people think they had seen her before.
"Does the guest want to see the landlady who writes Shelah?"
Looking at the slightly cute waitress, Laddie covered her mouth and chuckled.
"I'm looking for her, but I'm not a customer, but her daughter."
"Ah!"
The waitress was a little panicked. She hurriedly ran out and bowed to Laddie.
"It turns out to be Miss Laddie, yes... I'm sorry, I was so rude just now!"
Laddie waved his hand and said with a smile, "There's nothing rude about it. Besides, you haven't seen me before. Just call me sister."
"Well, Laddie little...Laddie sister."
"Is my mother out?"
"No, the boss lady is sorting things in the backyard."
"Thank you, then go ahead and get busy. I'll go find her in the back."
"Yeah!"
Laddie turned around and walked toward the back, quickly walking through a corridor to the door at the back.
She suddenly discovered the figure that she had missed for a long time.
In the courtyard, a woman with the same hair color as Laddie was carrying a box and walking towards the door.
Naturally, the other party also saw her immediately.
"Aiya~, the wild girl finally knows she's back."
"Mom..."
Laddie had tears in her eyes, and she immediately walked quickly to her mother.
The woman also put down the box, opened her arms, and the mother and daughter hugged each other tightly.
Although Laddie often traveled far away when he was an adventurer, he was always with his adventure group companions. This was the first time he had lived alone in an unfamiliar place for several months like this.
For people living in Corner Bay, Northwest Bay of the Auldo Kingdom is basically equivalent to Ends of the Earth. How can this not worry Shelah as a mother, and this is also during this period when Church's oppression of wizards is becoming increasingly severe.
"If you hadn't been able to send me a letter every month, I would have gone looking for you."
Thanks to the Foster Family's caravan, Laddie was able to entrust them with the letter and deliver it to Jiaowan, and then forward it to Messiah's mother Shelah.
There are two main reasons why the Foster caravan is willing to help: first, she is the consultant of Earl Greiman, and second, she was once a member of Lichman Adventurer Group, and the second young master of the Foster Family has a good relationship with Lichman Adventurer Group.
The mother and daughter came to Laddie's bedroom, closed the door and talked quietly.
Shelah asked eagerly, "How did you come back this time?"
"I took the Arda boat and took the sea route to Cape Bay, landed on Asta, and then went straight home."
"Sea route?"
Shelah is very confused. If she remembers correctly, it should be more than two thousand nautical miles from Aldo's Northwest Bay to Dajiao Bay. Such a long distance...
"Mom, you've never seen it before. The Lord's shipyard has built a ship that relies entirely on wind power. It doesn't even need a rower. It can run very fast as long as it opens the huge sail on the mast. Especially in this season when the north wind is abundant, it can run at a speed of 8 to 10 knots almost every day when going south."
Shelah showed an incredible expression.
"This... is really unbelievable."
She also had some experience at sea when she was young, so she naturally knew what a speed of 8 to 10 knots meant. Of course row boats can also reach this speed, but that is a short-term speed achieved by the explosive power of the oarsmen. It is almost impossible to run like this for a whole day.
As for the lord her daughter mentioned, Shelah knew that she was not the lord she was talking about Messiah anymore, but the young earl who lived in Northwest Bay. He was mentioned in her daughter's letter.
According to the description in the letter, the lord seemed to be an inventor and invented many incredible things. Although he did not express it clearly, there was a sense of admiration in his daughter's words.
Perhaps because the other party requested confidentiality, the letter did not specify the count's invention, but it seemed that the ship his daughter was traveling on this time was one of them.
"Did you encounter any danger along the way?"
"No, the journey went smoothly. We didn't encounter any extreme weather or pirates."
"How are you doing there?"
Shelah asked the question she wanted to ask the most. Although her daughter had stated in her previous letter that everything was fine and was back safely now, she still had to hear Laddie say it herself before she could put her mind at ease.
"I live a good life there. My life is fulfilling every day. Earl Greiman and other colleagues are also very good to me. Please rest assured."
"Alas! They say that the northwest territory of the Auldo Kingdom is a place outside of China..."
"Mom, you can't jump to conclusions without seeing it with your own eyes. That's Hino Kaku Bay... It's a little behind compared to other places, but it can't be said to be a foreign land. Moreover, Earl Greiman is working hard to change the current situation in the territory. The purpose of sending a ship to Hino Kaku Bay this time is to explore the way for future maritime trade."
Thanks to "Zartoo" for the tip.