49. Settling in

On his way to capital city, Andy used the telepathy to inform Freya about his conversation with his mother and explained his plan and asked Freya to play along.

'Master why did you do that? Your mother will surely throw me out since she think I am after her boy' Freya was on the verge of crying.

'Don't worry she won't if you play the game as I suggested, also just focus on the clinic for next few days until her anger subsides a little'

'Okay master. Umm.. will there be a reward if I perform well?~'

'Of course my cute little slave, everything depends on your acting skills'

'Yes master! I will do my best!'

'And also ask Layla and Levi to act as hired maids instead of my slaves for the time being'

'Sure thing master~'

...

When the carriage reached closer to Andy's mansion, the long queue came into their view, it was around a mile long queue.

"What are all these people waiting for?" asked Emily curiously.

"To see the best healer in the country of course" said Andy with a smug expression.

"No way! Headmistress is this famous?" asked Emily with a face of worship.

"$#%@&... NO! there are all waiting for me sister!"

"Pfft... yeah right my little brother is the most famous healer in the country~" said Emily jokingly.

After a while when they reached closer to the mansion Emily realised they were waiting outside Andy's mansion only.

"You weren't joking Andy?!"

"Of course I wasn't hmph!"

The people in front of the queue were begging to open the clinic

"Please open the clinic, I've been waiting in front of the queue since yesterday. It is already 2 hours past the opening timing"

"Please my child is dying, please open the clinic..."

"Andy you should hurry up and help these people! Emily and I will manage on our own and will find a room to rest."

"Thank you mother, here" Andy touched Lily and Emily's wrists and they got a key to the mansion.

"Please do not go outside the mansion without any protection. After closing the clinic in evening we can go out and look around the capital city."

"Okay little brother, you better protect your mother and sister well when we go out, hehe~"

Lily rolled her eyes and asked Emily to come inside. Andy then went to clinic to continue with his work.

"Greeting master, how was your journey?" Freya stood up and bowed

"It was fine, let's open the clinic right away, we are already late by 2 hours. By the way do you need more potions to sell?"

"... We didn't sell any potions yesterday master"

"Hmm that is strange, aren't potions high in demand and short in supply?"

"Well commoners could get free treatment here, so why would they buy a potion... And we only had one noble customer yesterday who you dealt with"

"Haah Anyway I don't need the money, so that is fine. That reminds me did that Welf family try to make things difficult for us yet?"

Freya was curious why her master didn't need money, but didn't ask anything about it.

"No master, not yet. But I am sure they will soon even though you are headmistress' apprentice. Welf family is extremely tyrannical and will not take this beating lying down. Also that young master was Welf family head's only son and next in line to become the next family head. They will soon come knocking on our door."

"Alright I will deal with them if they dare come here." said Andy and disabled the defensive formation on clinic's public gate. He also modified the sign on the gate to clearly say that the ones to break the queue will not be looked at in this clinic regardless of their status.

After that he went to the medical examination room and left the reception to Freya.

...

Regular timings for the clinic were 10 to 6 with a lunch break. But since Andy opened the clinic late by 2 hours, it was already 8 in the night by the time he closed the clinic.

There was a meaningful smile on Freya's face after Andy closed the clinic.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" asked Andy

"Fufu~ no matter how ruthless you act, you really have a soft spot in your heart master~"

"What is that supposed to mean?! Are you looking for another punishment?!" Andy didn't like being called soft hearted

"Master could have closed the clinic at the same time since you are not making any money and doesn't report to anyone, so no one could have complained that you worked for 2 less hours today"

"Hmph! what do you know. I am a man of my word. Anyway it was strange Welf family didn't bother us today, are they scared of headmistress?"

Freya expression changed and said

"They are probably planning something big. You need to be careful master. It is a good thing that you brought your family here, otherwise they would be in danger by now."

"Alright, we will deal with Welf family when the time comes. Call Levi and ask her to clean the clinic"

"Yes master"

...

"You are late brother!" scolded Emily when she saw her brother. It was already past 8 and Andy previously promised them they will go out.

"Relax sister, this is not a small town, everything here is open till midnight, we will go out for dinner in 10 minutes"

"Really?! Hehe it will better not be a cheap restaurant!"

"Emily! don't you know Andy is not charging any fees from commoners, how can you ask him to take us to an expensive restaurant?" scolded Lily

"I-I am sorry mother" apologised Emily

"It is fine mother, I have some money left, let us go to a nice place for dinner tonight"

At that time Freya came to the mansion after finishing her work and looked at Lily with a meaningful smile.

Sparks flew as Lily and Freya looked into each other's eyes.

"What are you doing here!? Don't you have any work as a baroness? You can go back tomorrow morning, I will handle the clinic starting tomorrow" said Lily while clenching her fist.

"Fufu~ sister Lily don't be like that~ I really like working here. Also can you even prepare the contracts in your current state? Every patient needs to sign one confidentiality contract before they can see mast- ahem I mean Andy"

"That!!" Lily was surprised. Indeed Freya was right, it requires mana control to make a contract.

"Then it is settled, I will be the one working in clinic same as usual" said Freya and winked at Lily.

Lily's face was red with anger right now, but couldn't say anything.

Then Freya turned towards Andy and said in seductive tone, hearing which Lily got goosebumps

"Andy dear, why don't you come to my bedroom after dinner to practice your techniques on me?"