Don't Get Caught by Your Husband!

“Where are you going in such a hurry?”

Escalion moved his long legs and strode towards Belladonna.

Even though he seemed to have taken only a few steps, he quickly came close to standing in front of her.

Bella also flinched and lowered her head. She was uncomfortable making eye contact with him.

“Why can’t my wife make proper eye contact with me? I think she might be doing something suspicious without my knowledge, huh?”

Escalion asked, leaning down to meet her eyes as he lowered her head. His slightly curved golden eyes were full of mischief.

Belladonna bit her lower lip and frowned. If she didn’t, she felt like her feelings would be revealed.

“Do you feel bad?”

Escalion asked, still bowing her head to her.

Bella also took a step back from him with a slightly uncomfortable look on her face.

“…….”

Perhaps it was a bit of a shock to him, and Escalion looked down at her in silence.

“Where is Bella going?”

Escalion, who was quietly looking at Belladonna, turned his head and asked her maid who had followed behind her.

Cindy, who had been caught off guard by the sudden question, turned her eyes to look at Belladonna’s thoughts.

“Well, that…….”

One of Escalion’s eyebrows rose perkily at the way she spoke, her tone trailing off.

Just when the atmosphere was about to get really strange, Cindy, who was blinking rapidly, quickly answered.

“S, she was going to go out and buy an envelope!”

“Envelope?”

“yes…! Oh, a letter arrived from Astanya this morning. My lady said she wanted to buy new stationery to send to the Pope, so we were thinking about going out to the city or the market together.”

Cindy, thank you for your excuse…!

Belladonna lifted her head slightly and heard Cindy’s voice trying hard to come up with an excuse for herself.

“The market?”

Escalion frowned and slowly scanned Cindy’s face.

Seeing his faintly threatening look in his eyes, not only Cindy but also Bella Donna tensed and swallowed her dry saliva.

“Yes, I think she is curious about the city of Sirlenia…I’m going to take her out. I, too, am very curious.”

Belladonna nodded her head slightly, agreeing with Cindy’s opinion.

Actually, I wanted to go out and spend time alone with Cindy, but since I got caught like this, I thought I should at least stop by the market with Cindy.

At Cindy’s desperate excuse, Escalion slowly turned his head and looked at Belladonna again. After staring at his wife with an unknown expression for a moment, he opened his mouth.

“Shall we go together?”

“Yes?”

“I was just wondering what kind of place Sirlenia was.”

To Cindy, who was startled and asked back, Escalion, who was staring at Belladonna, answered.

Bella stiffened as she looked into his dangerous, predator-like eyes that I hadn’t seen in a long time. He looked as if he was looking straight into her head.

Belladonna, who had met his eyes, shook her head resolutely.

“You don’t like it?”

Nod.

At the clear expression, Escalion once again made a shocked face. It was a sudden rejection that made no sense to him, so it was natural for him to be confused.

Ah, but maybe this was a bit too much…

Belladonna looked up at Escalion for a moment, then held his hand and hesitantly wrote.

‘You.are.busy.’

“I’m not busy. Go right away. Can you prepare a carriage for me?”

Escalion tightly grasped Belladonna’s hand, which was moving on his palm, and turned around.

Now, wait……!

Belladonna, who was suddenly caught by Escalion, ran down her stairs as if running at his pace, but barely stopped, holding on to the handrail.

As her steps grew heavier, Escalion looked back at her. Belladonna wrote on his palm once again.

‘Today. I just. want. to go. out by. myself. lightly.’

Escalion, who lowered his head and read her sentence carefully, slowly raised his gaze to hers.

“…….”

As he quietly watched Belladonna, he soon let out a low sigh and let go of the hand he was holding on to.

As I felt her hot palm moving away, Belladonna blinked her eyes, feeling her relief and regret at the same time. Escalion said, giving her a small smile.

“OK got it. I feel like I need a change of pace. Have a nice trip. I hope you can show me a smile later.”

Inside the rickety carriage, Cindy, who was watching Belladonna, was the first to open her mouth.

“Um, ma’am…….”

When Belladonna, who had been looking out her window, turned her gaze away, Cindy exhaled cautiously.

“I know it’s presumptuous, but…Did you two have a fight? You don’t seem to be in a very good mood.”

No. At Cindy’s words, Belladonna smiled and shook her head.

Belladonna replied that she was fine, but Cindy continued to look at her with her anxious eyes. After studying her for a while, she quickly took a deep breath and let it out with determination.

“Then, change your mood with me today! Eat delicious food, look at pretty things, buy everything you like and go back!”

Okay, then! When Belladonna nodded with a bigger smile than before, Cindy’s face finally relaxed a little. Even though i didn’t give her a clear answer for anything, I was thankful that she worked hard for me.

The carriage carrying the two people continued along a quiet country road. The dull sound of horse hooves hitting the soft dirt floor regularly rang in my ears.

“Wow, what a peaceful and quiet scenery.”

Cindy blurted out while looking out her window. Instead of answering her, Bella also brought her face close to the side window of her carriage.

It was revealing as the empty ground turned dark brown. Although it is much warmer than Griblata, winter is still winter, and most of the crops here in Sirlenia have already been harvested.

‘I guess this is a more familiar scenery to me than the crowded downtown area.’

Belladonna thought quietly.

It was interesting that the scenery outside the window was similar to the rural village of Astanya, where I lived in my previous life, but also subtly different.

Belladonna quietly blinked, feeling like she had returned to her hometown that she hadn’t visited for a long time.

Cindy, who was looking outside together following Belladonna’s gaze as she watched intently, spoke out.

“Hmm? But what are these people making?”

The farmers of Sirlenia were sitting on the empty land after the harvest, working hard to make something.

Belladonna, looking at them, smiled secretly without realizing it. Every winter, my previous life self would sit down on the ground and make something like that.

“It doesn’t look like there’s any farming going on.”

At the front, Cindy continued to mumble.

Belladonna resisted the urge to turn her head towards her and tell her that they were making fodder for cattle.

‘Because there is not enough grass to feed the animals in the winter, we dry the leftover grass in advance after harvesting!’

In her mind, Bella also cried out on her behalf, and as she sat still, she recalled her previous life.

At this time of year, she, like the peasants she now saw before her, would trim her dry grass and store it in a corner of her shed.

It was quite tiring because she had to touch and trim the rough grass with her bare hands, but it was also a secretly satisfying and rewarding task after neatly trimming it and putting it in a pile.

She said she really didn’t want to do it at the time, but now that she looks back, it seems like it was quite fun.

‘Besides, whenever I do such a simple task, I always…….’

Before I could even finish thinking, the mouth of one of the farmers sitting on the ground opened. At the same time, a familiar song played.

yes! After all, when you work, you have to sing work songs!

“In the sky……”

A smile appeared on Belladonna’s lips as she heard the farmer’s voice coming through the window.

The song, which started with a man singing, soon became a chorus song with everyone singing along and rang loudly.

“…I hope a good harvest…hmmm… ”

“Little birds…..”

Belladonna carefully lifted the corners of her mouth and listened to their lyrics.

The lyrics were similar to her favorite work song, but the rhythm and pitch were completely different. Sirlenia and Astanya are quite close, so the lyrics are similar, but it seemed like there was some variation in them in some way.

‘It is said that the work songs of the Eleanor Empire vary greatly from city to city…’

Bella also slowly moved her body to her right and left. As I heard the melody for the first time in a long time, my body moved spontaneously.

“Wow, it’s nice to hear a work song.”

Cindy also moved her body with a small smile, as if she had heard the song somewhere.

“Ah beautiful bird…… .”

“…. nestled in the big wings…..”

That’s right, these were the lyrics.

For some reason, Belladonna was filled with memories and pondered the lyrics.

The familiar and friendly song seemed to improve my depressed mood a little. They sat quietly in the slowly passing carriage and listened to the farmers’ work songs for a long time.

* * *

“Umm…? Where am I? Is downtown Sirlenia really this complicated?”

Cindy, who was ahead, looked back at Belladonna with an embarrassed face.

Well, so…..?

Belladonna blinked as she looked at the somehow familiar street. It wasn’t her mood. It seemed like they had been circling the same place for several times already.

“Weird? Didn’t we come this way a little while ago?”

i think so too!

“I definitely went to the right from here earlier…Hmm, then let’s go left this time?”

Belladonna nodded her head, and Cindy took her steps and veered to her left.

Is this the right way to go? At that moment, when Belladonna, who had been following her diligently, moved her head to look back at the road, a carriage full of milk bottles passed between her and Cindy at a slow speed.

“I’ll just pass by for a moment!”

Huh?

Thanks to that, Bella’s steps were blocked, and I looked at the back of Cindy’s head as she walked away without even looking back at her, and her eyes widened. Now, wait a minute…!

“We’ll pass by too! The water is overflowing, so be careful not to get your clothes wet.”

To make matters worse, as a wagon full of milk bottles passed by, her men carrying heavy water jars on either side once again blocked her path. Belladonna stamped her feet in place and looked at the alley where the quick-footed Cindy had disappeared.

Why are you walking so fast! I’m really going to miss it…!

She felt like she wanted to scream and grab her right away, but she couldn’t, which made her frustrated.

quickly…!

Finally, when all of men in line had crossed the street and disappeared, Belladonna picked up her pace and veered to the left.

“…….”

uh…..

She hurried after her, but there was no sign of Cindy.

She looked back down her alley, not seeing Cindy, and Belladonna blinked her eyes at her confused face.

Cindy, you’re quicker than I thought…?