"Plop~"

The thin young man knelt down on his knees in front of Zhou Ming.

"Dear Sir, I ...... I think you should need a servant by your side, so I ...... I followed. ”

"Oh~"

Zhou Ming's expression softened slightly, withdrew the brewing magic, looked at him twice and asked, "What's your name?"

The young man's face was overjoyed: "Henry, Henry Marks, you can call me Henry!"

"Are you following me to be my servant?" Zhou Ming asked again.

"Yes yes, I can do many, many things for you!"

Henry said loudly, his eyes were full of hope, the servant of the magician, how many people dream of the position, how many low-level people have the opportunity to change their fate, but very few people can seize this opportunity, and can only envy those lucky darlings from some legendary stories.

But today, through his own observations, Henry has the courage to take this step that will change his destiny and see the spark of hope.

"I don't need to. ”

Zhou Ming's faint words instantly knocked Henry into the ice cave.

"I don't need a servant, I need a helper who can read and write, do you know how to read?"

Zhou Ming's added words made Henry, who was in despair, immediately tremble with excitement.

He immediately said, "I know, I know! My father used to be an accountant at the Combas Hotel, and he taught me to write many, many words! I can read and write!"

"Are you sure?Do you know what happens to a magician?"

Zhou Ming frowned and said, the common script of the human world is the elven script that has been circulated for tens of millions of years, although it has been simplified and improved many times, it is still extremely difficult to learn and write, and it takes a lot of energy to learn.

In addition to the regular pronunciation, the mage must also learn the pure elven pronunciation in order to release the magic fluently...... The pronunciation of Elven script, and the pronunciation used by humans, can be said to be two ways of reading.

As a result, the illiteracy rate in the human world is extremely high, and anyone who can read and write elven fluently is a middle-class with a higher income.

The thin young man in front of him said that he could read and write, and Zhou Ming would be suspicious.

"Really, I really can read and write! I'll write it to you!"

The young man looked around and looked around, found a dead branch from the corner of the wall, moved a few steps forward, and used the dead branch to write and draw on the stone floor in front of Zhou Ming.

Zhou Ming glanced twice and found that what the boy wrote was indeed a bit like elven script.

He seems to be literate.

"Okay, okay, don't write any more, three days later, wait for me at the East Street entrance of Hongmopan Street, then I will give you an interview and a written test, and if your performance is passing, I can consider letting you be my assistant." ”

Zhou Ming said that there is a high-end apartment building on Hongmopan Street, where Zhou Ming bought a three-story independent villa, with perfect interior decoration and complete furniture, with a total construction area of more than 300 square meters, and a small garden of 50 square meters before and after, priced at only 2,000 gold coins...... It can be said that quite a conscience.

Of course, Zhou Ming did not tell the specific house number to this thin young man, he understood the psychology of these low-level people eager to change their fate, but he did not want to be harassed by all kinds of people in the future because of his temporary kindness.

He doesn't mind taking one or two assistants, but only if they are talented enough.

However, the wit of this young man named "Henry" made his eyes shine, and if he was really literate, Zhou Ming would accept him.

"Thank you sir, thank you sir!"

The boy was in ecstasy, and kept bending down and bowing.

"You go back first, get ready for the interview in three days, if you don't perform up to the mark, I won't ask you. ”

Zhou Ming said with a serious face.

"Yes, yes, thank you, sir, I'll go back right away!"

The boy got up from the ground, bowed at the end, and with ecstasy on his face, turned and ran in the direction of his house.

Zhou Ming shook his head.

……

West.

In a dilapidated slum area.

In a low, dirty one-room house.

"Bang~" sounded.

The door was almost smashed.

The woman who was sewing in the house was shocked!

"Sister, sister, I've met a nobleman, I've met a nobleman, I can change our lives soon!"

As soon as Henry entered the house, he was very excited.

"Nobleman, what nobleman?"

The woman's red and swollen hands stopped working and looked at her younger brother.

Henry immediately told his sister what happened this afternoon.

My sister's eyes widened more and more, her thin body trembled slightly, her eyes flashed with tears of excitement, and she asked again and again, "Henry, is it really, is this true?"

"It's true! It's true!"

Henry exclaimed.

"Great! Great!"

Lina hugged her brother and tears welled up in her eyes.

Since their father's death, in the past few years, their sister and brother really don't know how they survived?

In fact, their family background was not bad, and their father's income was enough for a family of four to live a well-off life, and they even hired a servant to help with housework.

But a great disaster befell this family without warning.

The root of everything still comes from his mother, the woman who is beautiful and has a heart like a femme fatale.

Their mother was born into a noble family, a nobleman from a middle-class family, and the father was able to marry the mother, who was purely the father of the mother, and owed the father a debt that could not be repaid, and had no choice but to marry the daughter to the father.

And my father really likes my mother, and after marriage, I tried my best to meet all my mother's material needs, so that she could have no worries about food and clothing, and become the happiest woman in the world.

Even so, the mother still looked down on her father, who was a commoner, and hooked up with a baron through a high-class ball.

The baron was the boss behind the Combas Hotel, his father's immediate boss.

In the end, her father died, because he attacked the nobles, and was finally killed by the other party - Lina knew that her father was angry because he ran into his mother and the baron, and he wanted to beat the baron, but he didn't expect that the other party was a middle-level swordsman who could fight.

After his father's death, his mother took all his possessions and married the baron, while he and his brother, who were only 10 and 8 years old at the time, were left to the streets.

In the blink of an eye, 6 years have passed.

In the past 6 years, Lina doesn't know how she survived, but she has not relaxed for a moment in her brother's education.

The things that my father taught her siblings from an early age were useful, she learned cooking, female celebrity and aristocratic etiquette, and her younger brother learned writing and accounting, these two sets of skills, they can only learn from home, and they can all live a middle-class life.

However, life in the slums is extremely difficult, and the money earned by helping people wash and sew clothes every day is only enough to feed two people.

Henry helped out with some work to guide outsiders and guides, and with his cleverness, he could sometimes earn more than ten days of income a day.

This strengthened Lina's idea of cultivating her younger brother into a talent, as long as she had a little spare money in her hand, she would buy books for her younger brother, urge him to study, and never let him mix with those three religions and nine streams.

Now it seems that his younger brother Henry is finally going to have a chance.

Magician's assistant, this is even brighter than the work of my father!

At this moment, Lina cried with joy, and her heart was full of relaxation.

However, she was only excited for a moment, then pushed Henry away, and said to him with a straight face:

"Henry, don't go out to work these days, read well at home, and be sure to pass the written exam and interview of Mr. Magician!"

"Well, I know sister!"

Henry nodded, sensibly picked up a book, and read it very seriously.

Lina smiled with relief.

……

The other end of the ghetto.

Inside a dilapidated building.

Home of the Bloodaxes.

On the old sofa chairs, several members of the gang were in a meeting.

"Rick boss, I went to talk to Lina this morning and introduced her to work at the 'Little Sweetheart Tavern', saying that she could earn at least 5 gold coins a month, but she still said no, this is the third time she has rejected me!"

"Andri, why are you so interested in Lina? she's not even very thin, customers won't like her like this?" said a tattooed man next to him.

"Yes, Andri, I've heard that you kid likes skinny wood-strapped girls, but that's your taste, and the customers of Little Sweetheart Tavern don't like it. Another scoffed.

"You fools, I don't know how much potential a woman has, do you know who Lina's mother is?" Belinmona, the 'Rose of the Royal Capital', I heard that three men have fallen under her skirt, her husband has gone from commoner, baron, viscount, to the current earl, she uses her beauty to climb to the peak of life step by step, it is said that her next target is His Royal Highness Prince Luther, she also wants to become the crown princess, and finally become the queen highness!"

Although I don't know if it's true or not, Belin Mona has become the idol of many prostitutes. ”

"Lina is Belin's own daughter, and her appearance will never be so bad, as long as we get her, eat and drink well for a few days, grow that white flesh, and let the bustard teach her some tricks to serve men...... She'll definitely be the number one brand of 'Little Sweetheart Tavern'!"

"Moreover, she is still a virgin, her first time, if there is an auction, there will definitely be nobles willing to pay a lot of gold coins to buy, and this money alone is enough to earn back the money we invested!"

"Rick boss, let's do this vote and tie Lina over directly! After a few more meals and drinks, she will definitely agree to work, and she will definitely become the cash cow of our Blood Axe Gang!"

Andri's eyes lit up and said that not only did he see a way to make money, but he also wanted to prostitute after Lina became the top brand of "Little Sweetheart Tavern"!

At the thought of this, Andri's lips were dry, and his lower body couldn't help but heat up.

"That's a good idea. ”

Rick, the boss with a scar on his forehead and a complex tattoo on his chest, and a big fat man, his eyes lit up, and he thought Andri's idea was very good.

"This vote can be done. ”

The others nodded their heads and smiled wickedly.