Chapter 168： go home

After helping Captain Quick hire a temporary navigator from the Adventurer's Guild, Ladi bid farewell to the crew on the South the next day and set off for her hometown alone.

In order to save time, she rented a fast horse, and after a day and night of trekking, she arrived at her hometown, the independent leader of Messiah.

It was already 8 o'clock in the morning when I entered the city. Although I didn't rest all day and night, but seeing those familiar buildings and streets, my tiredness was swept away.

However, there is also something that makes her vigilant, and that is the wanted warrant found on the side of the road, which clearly indicates the identity of the wanted person—a wizard. Logically speaking, only the local lords have the right to issue wanted warrants. Having said this, it means that the upper echelons here have either joined forces with the church, or have reached some kind of compromise with the church.

She tried her best to look like an ordinary pedestrian, leading the horse and walking straight to her home.

After walking for nearly twenty minutes, she came to the corner of an intersection, and a restaurant called "Feilongting" appeared in front of her eyes.

Ladi took a few deep breaths to calm down her excitement, then opened the door and walked in.

It was very lively inside, with many customers sitting, and it seemed that the business was as good as ever.

But she didn't find anyone she was looking for, except for a waitress she didn't recognize behind the counter, who seemed to be doing the accounting.

Hired a new waiter? That's right, after all, the previous waiter had expressed his intention to resign before she left home, and it had been several months.

Ladi slowly came to the front of the counter.

"Excuse me, is the lady boss there?"

Although she was still wearing men's clothes at this time, she took off the mustache used for camouflage, and no longer deliberately imitated male voices.

The waitress looked up and saw a pretty girl standing in front of the counter. Her green hair and delicate face always made people feel like she had seen it before.

"Is the guest looking for Mrs. Xie La?"

Looking at the slightly cute waitress, Ladi covered her mouth and smiled lightly.

"I'm looking for her, but I'm not a customer, but her daughter."

"what!"

The waitress was a little panicked, she hurried out and bowed to Ladi.

"It turned out to be Ladi Xiaojie, yes... I'm sorry, I was too rude just now!"

Ladi waved her hand and said with a smile: "There's nothing rude about it, besides, you've never met me before. Just call me sister."

"Well, Little Ladi...Sister Ladi."

"Is my mother out?"

"No, the proprietress is sorting things out in the backyard."

"Thank you, then you are busy first, and I will go to the back to find her."

"Uh-huh!"

Ladi turned around and walked back, quickly walked through a corridor to the back door.

She immediately found the figure that she had missed for a long time.

In the courtyard, a woman with the same hair color as Ladi was carrying a box, and she was also walking towards the door.

Naturally, the other party also saw her immediately.

"Aiya~, the wild girl finally knows she's back."

"Mother…"

Tears welled up in Ladi's eyes, and she immediately walked quickly towards her mother.

The woman also put down the box and opened her arms, and the mother and daughter hugged each other tightly.

Although when she was an adventurer, Ladi often traveled far away, but she was always with the companions of the adventure group. It was the first time that she lived alone in an unfamiliar place for several months like this.

For people living in Horn Bay, the northwest bay of the Aldo Kingdom is basically equivalent to the ends of the earth. How can this not worry the mother Xie La, and it is still in this period when the church's oppression of wizards is becoming more and more severe.

"If it weren't for your ability to send a letter back every month, I would have gone to you."

Thanks to the caravan of the Foster family, Ladi was able to entrust them with sending the letter to the corner of the bay, and then crushed it to the hands of Shela, the mother of the Messiah.

There are two main reasons why the Foster Caravan is willing to help this favor: one is that she is an advisor to Earl Greyman, and the other is that she used to be a member of the Lichman Adventure Group, and the second young master of the Foster family and Li Qiman Adventure Group has a good relationship.

The mother and daughter came to Ladi's bedroom, closed the door and whispered.

Xie La asked eagerly, "How did you come back this trip?"

"I took Arda's ship and took the sea to the Horn Bay, landed on Ashtar, and then went straight home."

"Sea route?"

Xie La was very puzzled. If she remembered correctly, it should be more than 2,000 nautical miles from the northwest bay of Aldo to the corner bay. Such a long distance...

"Mom, you haven't seen it before. The lord's shipyard has manufactured a ship that relies entirely on wind power. It doesn't even need an oarsman. You just need to spread the huge sail on the mast to run fast. Especially in this season when the north wind is abundant, the speed of 8 to 10 knots can be run almost every day in the process of going south."

Xie La showed an unbelievable expression This... is really unbelievable. "

She also had experience at sea for a while 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 it is a short-term speed achieved by the explosive power of the oarsmen, and it is almost impossible to run like this for a whole day.

As for the lord that her daughter was talking about, Xie La knew that she was not talking about the lord of Messiah, but the young earl in the northwest bay, who was mentioned in her daughter's letter.

According to the description in the letter, the lord seemed to be an inventor who had invented many incredible things. Although he did not expressly state it, there was a sense of admiration in his daughter's words.

It may be that the other party asked for secrecy, and there was no specific description of the earl's invention in the letter, but it seems that the ship that his daughter took this time is one of them.

"Did you encounter any danger along the way?"

"No, the journey went smoothly, and neither extreme weather nor pirates were encountered."

"How are you doing there?"

Xie La asked the question she wanted to ask the most. Although her daughter said in the previous letter that everything was fine and that she had returned safely, she still had to listen to Ladi's own words before she could let go of the stone in her heart.

"I have a very good life there. Every day is full of life, Earl Greyman and other colleagues are also very good to me, please rest assured."

"Alas! It is said that the northwest territory of the Aldo Kingdom is an alien place..."

"Mom, you can't jump to conclusions without seeing it with your own eyes. It's a little bit behind compared to other places, but it can't be said to be a foreign land, and Earl Greyman is working hard to change the situation in the territory. The current situation, the purpose of sending ships to Jiaowan this time is to explore the way for future maritime trade."