“Yes, I am. The wine in this village is very delicious. Just think of it as my way of thanking you for introducing it to me.”
Mr. Hannes was hesitant, but I could see that he also wanted to agree to it.
Obviously, the village would suffer if they had to dispose of all of it, and so if someone wanted to buy it from them, it would be a great help.
He had to think about the good of his people, which meant that he could not be too reluctant.
“…Thank you. I would be glad to sell you the wine. However, I think the price should be lowered even more…”
“No, it’s fine. I don’t want to buy it at a discount. It’s not like I’m entering the wine business with this…”
“But you’ve already done so much for our village… I don’t know how we can repay you… But now, we will have enough money to buy grapes from the merchant who is visiting tomorrow.”
Mr. Hannes agreed, and so it was decided that I would buy the wine.
He was so grateful towards me, that he seemed like he was about to burst into tears. However, what he said immediately after caught my attention.
“…Tommorow? The merchant is coming?”
“Yes, according to the schedule. He visits once every few months to sell us grapes. But without your help, Mr. Takumi, we would not have been able to buy much.”
So if things went according to schedule, the merchant would come to the village to sell them grapes.
The merchant from the count’s territory…
“Will it be the merchant who gave you the glass sphere?”
“If it is the usual merchant, it will be a different person.”
“I see…”
Had it been the same merchant, we could capture him… I had thought. But apparently, it wasn’t the same person.
Perhaps that merchant would never return. After all, he had already accomplished his goal.
And the other merchant probably had nothing to do with the matter of the glass sphere… Well, I should still have a talk with him anyway.
“Would you mind if I spoke with this merchant tomorrow?”
“It is possible, but… Is there something you are worried about?”
“No, but I do have some questions, like how involved he is with the merchant who brought the sphere.”
“I see… As this person comes regularly, I do hope he had nothing to do with it…”
For Mr. Hannes, this person was someone they did business with regularly.
And so they were well acquainted. He would not want to think that the person had wanted to hurt the village.
I didn’t know what the truth was, but surely he could tell me something about the merchant who brought the sphere.
After all, that merchant had visited as a replacement.
“Alright, I’ll start making the herbs then.”
After the late lunch, I went to the back of Mr. Hannes’s house and got to work.
Mr. Hannes had gone off to check the barrels and calculate the price.
He also gave me cloth to wrap up the herbs, so I was fully prepared.
“…That’s good…but now that I think about it, I have to do it all by myself now….”
Obviously, as I wasn’t in the mansion, there was no one to help me.