(4) Geraldo

Liana had gone to the backyard, it turned out that there were not too many plants in her house, only wild vegetables and cassava.

The rest was nothing else.

"You three planted this?" Liana asked looking at the three of them.

The three of them nodded.

"We can only get this." Said Deon on behalf of his younger siblings in speaking.

Liana nodded understanding "this is cool, you guys are great, better than me."

Deon, Daniel and Derel immediately shook their heads "no, nothing is different." They replied compactly.

Somehow the three of them didn't want to see their Mama sad or feel useless, because their Mama was now good and already loved them.

Liana smiled softly and looked around "enough to eat for one week." Liana muttered, so now she was at peace that they had something to eat for a week.

"I want to go to the market, do you guys want to come?" Asked Liana looking at the three of them.

Deon, Daniel and Derel looked at each other "what about brother?" Daniel asked looking at Deon.

Because they had also been invited to the market, it turned out that Liana wanted to sell them, making them afraid and traumatized if they went to the market with their own Mama's grudge.

Deon sighed softly, then he looked back at Liana "but Mama won't throw us away, right?" Deon asked openly.

He also talked about this seeing the conditions first, according to him now his Mama was somewhat calmer, so he could talk openly with Liana.

Liana was silent for a while, who wanted to sell them?

"Mama wants to go to the market to see the market, not to sell you. Why do you think that? Are I'm a bad mother?"

Deon and Daniel shook their heads, but Derel nodded, indicating that the statement was true.

Suddenly Deon and Derel looked at Derel with a warning look.

But Liana's response was only to laugh "I'm sorry, Mama won't do that again, you guys are really valuable. If there are no of you, Mama will be alone."

Liana ended up looking gently at her three children, how could she sell such sweet children? She would lose a lot if she lost the three of them.

"Right Mama? You're not lying, are you?"

Liana nodded "of course it's true, now let's get ready to go to the market, Mama wants to look around first, later maybe mama will sell at the market."

"Sell?" Deon muttered, in his entire life he had never seen his mother selling, and now she suddenly wanted to sell just like that.

Liana nodded "Yes, selling at the market, we can generate income for our daily lives."

Now Liana immediately pulled her children's hands to get ready.

"You have to change your clothes first." She said as she dragged the three children to their room.

But when Liana opened the closet, she didn't find one good shirt, everything looked dull and the colors were mostly faded.

Liana was confused about what to wear for her three children.

"What's wrong mama?" Deon asked, approaching Liana.

"Do you have any more clothes?"

Deon shook his head "No, we'll just use these to go to the market, no need to be fancy." Deon suggested.

The problem was that when Liana opened her own closet, there were quite a lot of good and decent clothes, in contrast to the clothes of her three children.

"Are you guys okay?" Liana asked worriedly, could her children be jealous?

Liana had also searched the contents of her closet, all her clothes were still decent, if there were clothes that were not decent she would definitely wear them, so that they could be the same as her children.

The three of them nodded "we have always been okay Mama, just seeing Mama is good we are happy." Derel said casually.

Clothes didn't mean much to him, what was important was that they could be worn and could protect his body, what was important was the changing nature of his Mama.

Liana felt guilty, she wanted to buy her children new clothes but she didn't have enough coins, she had to use them as capital to sell later.

"Alright, we're leaving now."

They left only on foot, if they used a horse-drawn carriage, they would need coins too, but Deon said the market was not too far away, maybe half an hour would be enough.

"Are you happy?" Asked Liana who saw her three children enjoying walking to the market.

The three of them nodded and smiled softly "happy!" They answered in unison with enthusiasm.

When else will they go to the market with their good Mama? This is a rare moment that they should not miss.

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"I don't want to get married."

An 18-year-old teenager is resisting his parents' decision.

He is Geraldo, the son of Duke Tian and Duchess Elena.

Geraldo is the second child and he has an older brother named Justin, Justin got married a few months ago.

Now Duke Tian wants to marry off his other son.

But it was quite difficult to persuade Geraldo.

"Honey, why don't you want to? You are old enough to get married, many noble girls are interested and want to be your wife." Said the mother, Elena looked at her son a little pleading to agree to this marriage.

But Geraldo shook his head "No, father give me one week." He pleaded seriously.

Geraldo was very adventurous, he didn't want to be confined by marriage.

So he wanted to find someone he could work with to help him get away from his parents.

That is with a contract marriage, so Geraldo will be safe and still be able to have adventures without having to be bound by nauseating ties.

Duke Tian sighed deeply "Well, i'm gives you one week, if you don't bring a woman to this house, you will have to accept the woman that your father and mother have chosen."

His father's long-winded speech was well digested by Geraldo "Okay dad! I'll go out for a while." Geraldo bowed briefly in respect to his parents.

"Where are you going Geraldo?" Asked Elena as she watched her son walk away.

"To see my friend, Mother."

After that he left on his horse away from the residence of Duke Tian, his father.

"That boy, hopefully not looking for trouble, he is already an adult and will be labeled as a disgrace if he doesn't get married in the near future." Said Tian, whose conversation was directed at Geraldo.

Elena nodded at her husband's words, "Even though there are many women who want to be with him, even more than Justin, but why doesn't he want to?"

"Because he likes adventures to other countries, he has no interest in women, that's his biggest problem." Tian could tell everything Geraldo was interested in.