CH 16.2

Spreading Rumors (2)

Anna began to "spread rumors" during her chat with the three maids in the afternoon.

Turning to the topic of literacy, Anna said: "I really want to be literate. I made this request to Young Master Parrish today."

Abigail was a little surprised, and covered her mouth. She remembered that Anna had told Young Master Parrish that she already had a lover. Young Master Parrish should have given up Anna, right? Would he still promise to teach Anna to read?

Fiona asked more directly: "Doesn’t Young Master Parrish care that you have a lover?"

Kelly echoed: "Young Master Parrish is not going to give up yet?"

Anna smiled and made a very two-faced remark: "I think Young Master Parrish should have given up, but I'm not sure. Although I don't want to be Young Master Parrish's lover, if he is willing to teach me literacy, why should I refuse?”

Fiona and the others looked at her with complicated expressions as if they had met Anna for the first time, but very soon, they were relieved.

If they were in her position, wouldn’t they do the same? Anna did nothing wrong!

The group then began to discuss the benefits of literacy, but the three girls did not realize that Anna never said from the beginning to the end that Parrish had agreed to teach her literacy.

One must be careful about spreading rumors. Anyway, she didn’t lie. How they spread the rumor was beyond her control, wasn't it?

After Anna watched the three maids leave, she finally felt better.

She wanted to become literate very badly. If they refuse to teach her, she will find other ways.

But for now, she would let the rumors fly for a while, and see if Bobby would be deterred after learning that she was being taught by Parrish.

After Rothgarr left the small building where Parrish lived, he gave a task to one of the servants of Russell's estate.

Although Ulysses was only the second son of the Russell family, it was still the estate of a duke. Ulysses would bring a servant when he went out to practice, but Ulysses was originally an arrogant and indifferent character. He didn’t like bringing a domestic servant with him everywhere he went, and the presence of his servants was always very low. Therefore, after Rothgarr possessed him, the fact that he hadn't managed the house servants much did not arouse any suspicion.

Now that Rothgarr gave the servant a task, the servant did not ask much, only completed it neatly.

What Rothgarr wanted to know was Anna's family situation at the moment.

After he refused to teach her to read, she turned to ask Parrish. He first proposed to Anna when he was in possession of Parrish. If she had a need for literacy, she could have suggested it at that time. Why wait until now?

Sensing something unusual, Rothgarr planned to find the truth.

The servant was very efficient and soon returned.

It turned out that Anna was forced to marry. The other party was a widower. His wife was just beaten to death by him a few days ago.

Hearing the news, Rothgarr couldn't help laughing.

It turns out that this human woman has encountered such a thing. No wonder she suddenly took the initiative to ask for help on becoming literate. Was she trying to scare away the widower by relying on her status as a student to a noble teacher?

Then, of course he would not do as she wished.

He knew that she definitely did not want to disrupt her own plans, so she decided to use this temporary method to scare away the forced marriage. Originally, as long as she agreed to his marriage proposal, wouldn't she be able to escape from this predicament? After all, she didn't know what she would have to face once she agreed to his proposal.

Rothgarr waved his hand and dismissed the servant in a happy mood.

Now that he and Parrish have both rejected her, what else can she do?

He was waiting for her to come to him and beg for mercy.

The person who threatened her to agree to his marriage proposal was the widower, not him, and so he did not violate the rules of the bet with Balan.

When she agreed to his marriage proposal thinking that she would be able to escape the predicament in doing so, she would realize in the next moment that she had placed herself in a nightmare that she could not escape for the rest of her life. The expression on her face then should be very interesting.

In the next two days, neither Anna nor Rothgarr made any extra moves.

Anna was waiting for the rumors to ferment, while Rothgarr was waiting for Bobby's persecution to take effect.

Slowly, Anna began to hear people whispering about her learning to read from Parrish.

Because Anna knew that the information, she had spread was false, she called it a rumor. But when it came to others, they didn't know the truth, so to them, it was gossip. Gossip was always distorted in the process of its spreading. The version that Anna overheard in the mouth of a kitchen maid was that Young Master Parrish was teaching her literacy in order to make Anna a worthy person. When she became literate, they would get married.

Anna was very satisfied with this version of the rumors. This way, Bobby would absolutely dare not think about her anymore. Only if he didn’t want to live anymore would he steal a woman from the nobles.