# 9
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After applying the medicine, Scarlett said: “I’m going to lie down for a bit.”
“Okay”
Isaac moved closer to the wall to make room for her.
Scarlett lay down next to him, and Isaac asked her: “How’s the watch shop?”
“It's okay. The clocks I made actually work.”
“Awesome. I'm proud of you.”
Isaac spoke gently, then a look of regret appeared on his face.
“I wish I could visit the watch store...”
“Once it is arranged, I will take you to see him immediately.”
“No”
Isaac shook his head, then said in a bright tone: “I will go when I see. I will look at the watches you made.”
“Yes. When you regain your sight, we will demand that the guardianship be stopped. Then you will go to the Crimson Factory.”
“Good”
“We will restore all our factories.”
“Our factories”
“Why our factories? The title and factories are inherited by the heir.”
“If my parents were alive, they might have made you the heir.”
Isak, who rarely showed stubbornness, would only become stubborn when talking about factories.
Scarlett sighed and said, “Okay.”
“Once you stop guardianship, I will visit your store alone. I have memorized the address well.”
“Ah, thinking about that turns me on.”
Scarlett spoke excitedly.
After a short talk, she got up and said, because Isaac couldn’t see her tablet in her hand: “I have to go now.”
“Take care of yourf”
Isaac smiled and waved his hand.
Before she got up, he touched her arm and took it and said: “By the way, Scarlett, I don’t think like that. You know?”
"What?"
“That you abandoned me. I never thought about that.”
Every person is different, but Scarlett was the type of woman who would blame herf if she had not been told this, thinking that she had left her blind brother and gotten married. Of course, this does not prevent her from blaming herf, but his words were better than silence.
Scarlett smiled and nodded.
“Yes”
She replied, then left the room.
After closing the door, Isaac placed his hands on the cloth covering his eyes.
After Scarlett married the Domfelt family man, Isaac thought he would no longer be a burden to her. But she spent most of the money she got from the divorce on this unsafe medication.
“I want to see...”
Isaac remembered a day in his childhood when he stood up against his uncle Evil Crimson, who was beating Scarlett.
Evil said to him that day while calming him down:
Then Isaac placed his hand on Scarlett's cheek.
That would have made Isaac one of them.
Isaac slapped Scarlett's cheek until his uncle was satisfied.
That night, Scarlett came to him and whispered:
Then she laughed softly.
From that day on, Isaac never opposed his uncle, and he no longer believed Scarlett's laughter.
***
Scarlett rode her bike back to the watch shop. On the glass wall of the store, “Scarlett Crimson Watch Shop” was written in large print, and below it in smaller print was “Made to Order.”
The Crimson family was a family of great watchmakers, who had earned the title of Count five generations earlier due to their skill.
The word “Crimson” was not only the family name, but also the name of a part of the watch. The use of this name for the shop means that it is able to make watches containing this part.
When Scarlett announced the use of this name, the Crimson family craftsmen were strongly against it. But when I made the Crimson part, they fell silent and backed down.
Scarlett entered and asked Andrei: “Are there any requests?”
“Yes, but don't overreact.”
Andrei spoke in a condescending tone, then held up an empty box.
“This is sold out, and the next customer has pre-ordered.”
Scarlett looked at him with wine-red eyes, which were usually sparkling with joy, and said: “I told you, it would l well, didn't I?”
Andrei put the box down and said: “Just say it: I told you.”
"I told you! Didn't I say it would l well?"
“Yes, yes, I did not expect this crowded ruby to continue to l. This is my only mistake.”
Andrei spoke in a tone mixed with annoyance, then scolded Scarlett: “What are you doing? Hurry and make more crowded rubies.”
“It's the Eye of the Ruler of the Sea! Why do you keep calling it Crowded Ruby?”
“You're the only one who thinks the name Sea Ruler's Eye is cool. In fact, I call it something else.”
"What? What do you call it?"
Andrei pulled out a hidden nameplate.
“Nautical watch studded with rubies”
Scarlett tensed at the word “navy” and asked: “Why nautical?”
“Because it is an elegant watch that suits the Navy. Who is the most beloved in this capital? Commander Victor Domfelt and the elite of the Robed Navy, right? That's marketing.”
Scarlett's eyes looked surprised at Andrei's audacity to use her ex-husband for marketing.
Despite her dissatisfaction with his behavior towards her, Andrei was a brilliant salesman with the nobility, running operations with great skill for a pittance.
Andrei said calmly: “Ma’am, focus on making watches. When will you finish the masterpiece for the exhibition?”
“I'll start now”
Scarlett spoke and went up to the second floor, where her house and workshop were.
The house contained only a bed and a closet, without any sense of daily life.
Her workshop was full of drawers containing watch parts.
Due to a lot of manual labor, her fingertips, which had been kept ladylike smooth during her marriage, became cracked in less than a year after the divorce.
She took off the scarf she had worn to avoid the cold, and her golden hair fell like waves to her waist.
She tied it into a tight braid and sat down in front of the work table.
The watch, called “Crowded Sapphire,” contained twelve very small rubies.
Scarlett began carving grooves to preciy place the ruby. Its work continued until early sunset, when the guards lit gas lamps in the streets.
Meanwhile, two children from the neighborhood entered the store, and Andrei looked at them resentfully and pointed to the stairs.
The two children walked up quietly, after Andrei scolded them many times.
When they reached the second floor, there was a closed wooden door.
The two children knew that Scarlett did not notice her surroundings when she was concentrating, so they called out to her in a loud voice: “Scarlett! Fix her!”
“Broken again!”
Despite their shouting, she did not answer, looking upset.
They shouted again with all their might: “Scarlett!”
Scarlett finally heard, put down her work and turned around.
They were Charlie and Susan, the children of the head of the tram drivers' union, and they started gossiping as soon as they met her eyes: “The tram has broken down again!”
"It's so old, it's always breaking down. You should fix it, Scarlett!"
Scarlett hesitated with an embarrassed face and shook her head.
“I told you, if the tram breaks down once, it's over. Repairing it is illegal.”
Last July, the king and the high priest agreed to ban the repair of trams and bicycles.
The main reason was that people used trams and bicycles to go to the suburbs on weekends, which they considered to be against Governor Lescia.
The Salantir people, who founded it as nomads, tended to reject technological progress. But they were not so naive as to accept this law.
At first, the citizens considered the law ridiculous, but when the harsh punishments began, they became afraid and complied.
Recently, religious extremists killed some Engineers based on the words of the King and the High Priest.
Since then, no one dared to repair the tram, but people's prejudice against a young and weak woman like Scarlett made her repair the tram secretly without arousing suspicion.
The brothers complained, not realizing that this might put Scarlett in danger: “If the tram breaks down, our father will lose his job.”
“He said we would starve.”
The previous two times, I had reluctantly fixed it for them after hearing this.
You shouldn't have started in the first place.
If the tram she was riding had not broken down...
Scarlett sighed, looked into their sparkling eyes, and reluctantly got up.
“You two are idiots.”
“We are not stupid!”
“That's right, whoever says stupid is stupid!”
The seven-year-old twins were good at talking, and never left a word unanswered. They were annoying, but Scarlett couldn't bear the thought of them starving.