Chapter 18 - Punishment

"Brother, what happened?"  Miththa asked innocently as if nothing happened.

"Haa...You don't know! Don't you really know? I think you are acting in front of me while knowing everything. Do you know how much mess you create this time?"  Siriwardhana asked angrily.

"Brother, I am so sorry about creating this kind of problem," Miththa said softly.

"Is it will be solved by solely saying sorry?  Do you know how much trouble was caused to uncle by this matter? At least you have to inform me beforehand acting on your own. Then I could have done some preparation for this matter. Is it alright to only say sorry after creating a such mess?   " Siriwardhana asked angrily but with some difficulty.

"Brother…" Miththa said in a regretful voice.

"I always said it is not worthy of giving your affection to master Migara. Do you heed ever that? Now see what you created. At least, do you understand he is not worth you?" Siriwardhana said in a concerned way.

"Brother…please understand. He is the most outstanding man I ever met. He is really worthy of my attention" Miththa said stubbornly.

"Okay…I can't stop you. But I have decided something. I decided to send you to mothers' house in Kalyani" Siriwardhana said in a stern voice.

"What? Brother… why have you taken such a decision? I really like living here. I promise I never create any more problems for you, okay" Miththa said in a shocked voice.

"No way! This is my final decision. To end up creating such matters I decided to send you there. So obey this and prepare to leave here tomorrow" Siriwardhana said stiffly.

"Okay brother, I obey you. But brother do I have to leave tomorrow?" Miththa said in concern.

"Yes.  You have to. Before meeting more troubles you should leave here" Siriwardhana said in difficulty. No matter what Miththa is his sister. So he felt uncomfortable when thinking about the leave of his sister. But as a brother, he thought the decision he got was the best decision he got to prevent more problems. So he made another sigh and looked at her sister again. Then he left the room without saying a word.

"Young lady, what should we do now?" the nanny asked concerned manner.

"I have to obey my brother. Be ready to prepare for leave. Anyway, send a message to the person in the master's house not to work on her own and keep low status. Also, tell her I will send more money every month "Miththa said to the nanny decisively.

"Okay, young lady" the nanny replied and left the room.

Miththa looked at the door for some moment and changed her eyes in the direction of Migara's house with sad eyes.

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"Lady, here we came to Amaravathi city" a voice sounded while a bullock cart stopped it in front of the city wall. A young lady got off the cart while carrying a small bay in her hands and looked at the view of city in front of her.

In front of her there was line of vehicles stopped in front of the city gate and a large human crowd was entering and coming out of the city constantly without a stop. Also, she saw different kinds of constructions that erected in the sky was placed in the city while watching through the city wall. Not only that she saw the famous Amaravati stupa among these constructions.

While that lady was watching the view of the city some time with the baby in her hands, two people were reaching to her from the direction of the city gate. Both of them were ladies and one of them was seems to be passing her thirties while the other one seems to be in her twenties.

"Are you lady Maalaa?" the elder lady among them asked the lady who got out from the cart.

"Yes. Who are you, people?" Malaa asked from the elder lady.

"Don't worry my lady. I am Charumati and she is Nandhaa. We came from 'Waruna' trade guild. We already received information of arrival of lady to here some time ago. After calculating days we thought lady should come to city in these two days. So we prepared beforehand to welcome young lady to our headquarters. "Elder lady aka Charumati replied.

"Oh! You are from the guild. Thank you for waiting for me." Maalaa said to others.

"It is not a problem. You have invested large amount of money into our guild. So your ladyship has equal status as our Jetthaka. So it should our duty to treat you like this" Nandhaa said to Maalaa respectfully.

"Okay, shall we go?" Charumati asked Maalaa.

"Wait a moment, "Maalaa said and took some clothes bags from the cart and said to other ladies " Can you take these bags?"

After hearing that two ladies quickly took those clothes bags from Maalaa without question. Then Maalaa took one piece of cloth bag from her cloth and gave it to the cart driver while saying "Thank you uncle, for helping me to reach here. Here is the payment. I added 10 Satakarni copper coins as a gift. "

"Thank you, lady, here I am going" cart driver turned his cart and started to drive his cart.

After watching the cart departure for a moment Maalaa said to the other ladies "Let's go" and three started to walk in the direction of the city gate.

"Manthaa, my baby girl. Wait for some time. After that, we will go to our country. Then you can live a life of princess" Maalaa said to the baby in her hands while walking with glinted eyes.

Kalyani – One of the capital city in the principality of Maya in ancient Sri Lanka.

Amaravati – One of capital of the Satavahana Dynasty in ancient India. Current capital of Andhra Pradesh.

Satakarni- one of the coin names used in the Satavahana dynasty time.

Jetthaka - The leader of a merchant guild in ancient India. Those merchant guilds also called as 'Sherni'.