Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Corpse Collector
Sean is not ready to sell raw materials, that kind of business is too low-end, and packaged sales of finished goods is his real pursuit, which depends on whether his mother can make high-end things or not.
Even though the value of chili fruit powder has multiplied several times in Sean's heart, he still has no intention of intervening, but is more determined to support Ms. Elena's research, after all, she has treated Angel Bena for more than ten years, has a better understanding of her condition, and has a better direction for research.
Since then, Sean has had two more diners on his side.
As soon as the meal arrived, he showed up at his medical clinic on time, fortunately he had the foresight to open a restaurant, otherwise just cooking would take up a lot of his time, Angie Bena's amount of food is easy to deal with, as the magic power enters the active period, his own exercise can be relaxed, and the amount of food has increased, but it is also relatively limited, at most it is an adult man's meal.
But the head of the guard, Alvilia, is different, don't look at her tall and slender appearance, she is actually a serious knight, and a very senior one, her training is perverted, even Sean sighs to himself, and the amount of food is naturally quite scary.
She can swallow a one-year-old short-tailed yellow sheep with meat and soup into a non-bulging stomach in half an hour, and the whole process maintains an elegant eating posture.
What makes Sean criticize the most is that they don't pay for their meals, and the restaurant is now profitable, barely sustaining the three of them to eat and drink.
The benefits of Angie Bena's eating and drinking here are obvious, like the ruffians who fought the autumn wind like Porterlang before, let alone make trouble at the door, even if there is no trace of them in the two surrounding streets.
Even if Angelbena's mother is an Andes slave girl and is the most unpopular in the Faren family, it is only within the Faeron family, and as for the plot in the novel where the princess in distress and the beggars on the street can be humiliated at will, it will not appear at all.
A princess is a princess, unless she is in the middle of the family, she is a princess wherever she goes, and the latter one who dares to tease and humiliate her face is the lightest one to be killed on the spot by Alvilia, the chief of the guard, and it is more likely to harm her family and even the family, because the princess represents the whole family when she goes out, and her surname will never allow any blasphemy and defilement.
The second advantage of Angelbena's arrival is to give those arrogant people a step down, you see that the sick princess of the Faeron family haunts there all day long, either because she has her share of that industry, or because the doctors there are really talented and learned, no matter what the reason, they can come here to eat and seek medical treatment with peace of mind.
Angel Bena attracted not only those ordinary manyu people, but also the lords and nobles who didn't even look at the medical center and the restaurant before, especially those young and vigorous sons and buddies, dressed up one by one, like a courtship rooster, trying to show their most handsome and chic side,
The purpose is self-evident, naturally it is to attract Angelena's attention, as for whether they are because of Angie Bena's beauty or the inheritance of the Feron family, it is irrelevant.
Now in front of Sean's medical center, more than one duel scene is staged every day, and unlike previous duels, this time they not only have to win, but also win if they are injured, so that they can not only enjoy the glory of victory, but also enjoy the bandaging of Angel Bena's love in the medical center.
That's right, Angie Bena not only eats and drinks at Sean's place, but also spends most of her time here as an apprentice to Sean, and she has an extraordinary interest in medicine.
Sean understands this very well, because he has also had the same experience, and it is not uncommon for people who have been on the verge of life and death to become afraid of death and become interested in medicine.
Sean is like this, Angel Bena is like this, Charles, who did not hesitate to sacrifice his life to study the epidemic, and the great knight Ager after recovering from his illness, although a little helpless, also chose to dedicate himself to medicine.
Not only does Angie Bena have a good medical talent, but her water attribute spell power is naturally more suitable for medical treatment than Sean's fire attribute.
Sean's magic power is even more violent, entering other people's bodies, and the slightest carelessness will cause harm.
Angel Bena's is different, as long as the force is controlled, it will produce a water-like nourishing effect, which not only promotes wound healing, but also has a warm and comfortable feeling, which is completely opposite to Sean's burning feeling.
Now in the medical center, Angel Bena's popularity is far above Sean, which makes Sean can't help but sigh, no matter where he goes, the essence of the face era will not change, his magic power is not very comfortable, but in terms of bones, he has to throw Angel Bena eight streets.
He has practiced countless times, and the control of his strength is not comparable to Angie Bena, but those patients would rather suffer more crimes, but they also want to take the initiative to find Angie Bena and let her practice her own hands, Sean is helpless.
For those aristocratic sons, Sean is not polite at all, and the various expenses are very high, and this kind of fat pig sent to the door is not killed in vain.
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Forgotten lanes.
As its name suggests, it is a presence that the city of Solo is trying to forget, located in the most remote and worst part of the city, where all the sewage collects and then merges into the depleted Jacob River, which is dozens of miles away.
There is a strange smell here that cannot be described in words, and people who come here for the first time will always have a suffocating illusion, but what really makes people fear and stay away from this place is because of the group of people who live here, they have a common occupation - corpse collectors.
Since a large city of a certain size, corpse collector is a profession that must be lacking, because no one wants to touch those who die on the streets without knowing the reason.
Who knows if they froze to death, starved to death, fell back or fell ill to death.
If the latter is the case, isn't it self-defeating to move their corpses?
Epidemics can be transmitted through contact, as long as it's not something that fools know.
Although the Holy See of St. Aether will take the initiative to collect the bodies of some homeless people out of faith and humanitarianism, they will give priority to those who believe in the Holy See, and will only involve a few streets around the church for ordinary people, and no matter how far away the Holy See can do it.
The limited manpower is one thing, and the local nobles don't like them to stretch their hands too long, so it is natural that corpse collectors come into being.
The scale of the corpse collectors in Solo City is obviously larger than that of ordinary cities, because the prosperity of the gladiator and slave trade will create more corpses that no one collects, and those slave owners usually pay a little more to collect corpses in order to save trouble, and it is customary to hire corpse collectors to collect corpses.
There are two main sources of corpse collectors.
One is the spontaneous occupation of a widower, usually a widower with no skills, who lives by collecting and collecting the wealth from the corpses and a meager subsidy from the town hall, and when such people are really scarce, the town hall will appoint some prisoners to work accordingly in exchange for a reduced punishment.
Regardless of the city, the corpse collectors are the poorest of the kind, and if they were not poor, they would not be engaged in this dangerous profession.
Fortune from the dead, that's just nonsense, homeless people dying on the streets, waiting for them to collect the corpses, how much oil and water can be fished out of their bodies?
The money for burying the corpse is a beautiful lie, when people are about to starve to death, they can do anything crazy, how can they keep money on themselves and not spend it?
The only people who have a little bit of oil and water are the wealthy merchants who die in a foreign land, but this comes at a great risk, and such people usually die of the epidemic.
Some corpse collectors have become rich, but they do not have the life to enjoy this money, and more often, they can't even grab this opportunity, and when faced with the temptation of huge wealth, many poor people will choose to take risks.
As for the financial subsidies of the city hall, after layers of exploitation, it fell into their hands, and it would be good to be able to maintain half full, but in a disaster year, the city hall will directly forget their existence.
The profession of corpse collectors usually does not live long, and they can work for ten years, which is rare.
Old John is definitely an ancestor-level existence in this industry, and he has been engaged in collecting corpses for nearly twenty years.
From a hunchbacked and lame middle-aged man, to a gray-haired, hunched back and lame old man, nearly seventy years old, not to mention the corpse collectors, even among ordinary people.
In recent years, his physical strength has declined greatly, and Old John has rarely gone out to collect corpses in person, and his livelihood comes from the help of other corpse collectors, after all, more than half of the corpse collectors in the entire forgotten alley are his disciples and grandchildren.
Old John used to be a kind person, who would always lend a helping hand when he was in trouble, and never hid his craft.
I don't know when old John has become the leader of the corpse collector industry, and he is willing to come to him for advice on anything.
In the past, others took the initiative to find Old John, and it was rare for Old John to take the initiative to call people, especially a bunch of people, which was unique.
The corpse collector industry is not big, it is not small, even if it is not familiar, most of them can talk a few words, and ask for a while, no one knows what medicine Old John is selling in the gourd tonight, and many people are called over temporarily.
The house where Old John lived was an old house, the layout was not large, and it was full of quaint and dilapidated atmosphere.
The only thing that makes people praise is that his house is neat and clean enough, and the smell that fills the air is the special smell of the Forgotten Alley itself, and there is no other smell inside the house.
Although old John was a widower, he was known for his love of neatness, and no matter how poor his family was, the house was always cleaned, and no matter how many patches his clothes were, they were very clean.
Many nobles did not pay attention to her in this aspect, because of this habit, he was not less ridiculed and ridiculed, a corpse collector as lowly as a slave, actually had the same style as a lord and nobleman.
It's just that Old John went his own way, and after so many years, everyone has long been used to it.
The collectors didn't realize that they were willing to make do with old John's house because it was clean and comfortable enough to be more comfortable than in their own messy, stinking home.