The Village Girl

Chapter Twenty - [Seetha]

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I was finally busy now in a way that made me happy. The next few weeks were filled with joy for me. It also helped that the servants were thrilled with their upgraded meals. I didn't want to brag but I had become the talk of the town of sorts. All the nobles were shocked that I was cooking for servants, and all the servants were thankful. Though the nobles looked at me with curious or dismissive looks, the servants looked unbelievably thankful.

Many stopped me to talk to me, and after telling the that they didn't have to look at the floor when they talk to me, they would look me in the eye and tell me that they had never been so full in their lives. They were eating better, their children were eating better and so everyone was happy.

This gave me even more confidence.

With this confidence, I proposed to the Maharajah that we serve a small breakfast as well. Simple appam, that was it. It was a delicious pancake of sorts that my mother would make for us, filled with sweet, thick coconut cream in the middle. It would be perfect and that, with a nice tea on the side, would fill the servants with the energy needed to spend a full day working.

The Maharajah agreed, and within a day I was waking up earlier than usual, it was at the time that Aaryan would wake up at when he was here, to help make fresh appam for the early rising servants.

Once again, they were thrilled.

And before I knew it, with my newfound power of the kitchen of the servants, I was changing things up more, giving servants yogurt and mangos on some mornings, vadais on others... and though it was not nearly as much as what the nobles were eating, or even what I was eating, it seemed like it was enough for them.

And I couldn't have been happier.

My father had also sent me a vast amount of seeds and some instructions reminding me of how to care for them, so me and my maid friends planted them right away and I couldn't wait for them to grow so I could use them in the meals we prepared.

Everything was going so well.

I couldn't care less about the Queen's angry glances at this point. Her anger was unwarranted, and she did not bother me so much any more. M

My only trouble, however, was that I missed my family.

My mother's letters to me were long. It was almost like she was trying to catch me up on absolutely everything that was going on back at home. Of course, I loved it. I read all of her letters, from start to end. She filled me in on all the village news and gossip, from who got married to who had a baby and even which village brat was naughtiest of all that week.

My mother also often mentioned how much they all missed me, especially my father. She went as far as to say that it almost looked like he had lost a limb.

I knew my mother was exaggerating, but I also knew what she meant. I knew my father missed me as much as I missed him, and that was a lot.

I was lying on my bed in my room as I thought. Since Aaryan was gone, I was back here with my maid friends.

They were not here now, busy with their other tasks, but I was not alone. Saumiya was lying down next to me, stroking her very full belly. It was only a matter of days now.