Chapter 31: Aristocrats and Profiteers

Just as Merlin hesitated to shake hands with the proud blonde boy in front of him, a figure in an old gray cloak walked into the shop. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Morin looked intently, and found that under the familiar old gray cloak, there was the face of a young girl, with reddish-brown hair, and large brown eyes covered with bloodshots, even in such a dim light in the store, the skin was still white and oozing, it was the girl he had seen before at the airport.

He was about to say hello, but he didn't want the old man with a goatee behind the counter to call out first, "Aha, another one, this is the first one today? Let me guess, let me guess, it's the great Illuvita Academy again, right! You three little ones are lucky to meet now, it really makes me miss when I was younger." After the old man finished speaking excitedly, he looked at the light outside the window with a wistful expression, and his eyes seemed to really shine with the light and shadow of the past.

Morin was speechless for a while, what was going on with this old man who sold wands, his mood changed even faster than his own, and he guessed that the student's academy was really so happy. Xiao Hei sensed the surrounding situation in the ring marks, and was also speechless for a while. It seems that after coming out of the Gangdi Forest, Black Fire's emotions gradually increased.

The boy stepped forward and wanted to say hello to the girl who had entered the door.

But Maureen was stunned again.

Because of the dim light, it wasn't until he walked in front of the girl that he could see clearly that the girl looked weaker than before at the airport. Not only was sweat oozing from her forehead, but the girl's breathing was also rapid and short, and even her whole body was trembling slightly, as if she was about to fall down in the next moment.

Just as Morin was stunned, the girl also recognized Morin, and her gaze jumped directly to Morin's right hand raised in front of her chest, which was pinching the white Star of Ilekepeia.

"Change...... Pervert, stay away from me. The girl seemed to say this curse word for the first time, and it took a long time to spell out the pronunciation, but she seemed to feel that it was not good, and immediately hurriedly added: "Actually, it can't be regarded as a change for boys to like the fragrance of flowers...... Pervert, it's good if you stay away from me anyway. ”

The girl's voice was soft, a little hoarse, and she showed a feeling of fatigue, but after only a few words, her breathing became a little faster, and beads of sweat oozed from the tip of her nose. She turned sideways away from the stunned Maureen and flashed to the corner to pick up her wand.

Because of the girl's sudden appearance and the old man's words, the blonde-haired and black-eyed boy who claimed to be the third son of the Grand Duke of Maple Leaf, Marcas, did not notice that Merlin was deliberately ignoring his outstretched hand. So instead of being annoyed, he haughtily swept over the girl's shabby cloak and ordinary clothes, turned to Morin and said contemptuously, "Civilians are so rude, I think Iluvita Academy should have stopped recruiting civilian students a long time ago, do you think?"

Morin was already depressed at this time, on the one hand, he was misunderstood one after another, but he couldn't explain it to others one by one. On the other hand, when I encountered this kind of nobleman who looked down on the commoners, her indifferent tone was somewhat like that of Minelma, but the heavily armored woman did not show any knighthood towards the commoners. And the young man in front of him, besides Barron, would be the first classmate he met, which made him feel extremely irritable.

"Maybe it's because many great people are from civilian backgrounds that the academy will continue to recruit civilian students?" he replied casually, if it weren't for Daddy Pike's repeated telling him to take care of his relationship with his classmates, Morin wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to this guy with eyes on the top of his head, "Since you look down on civilians so much, why don't you go to the Royal Academy of Gethok?" As far as I know, that academy only admits students from the nobles of the Empire, don't tell me you can't go, you are the third son of Grand Duke Maple Leaf." ”

Grand Duke Maple is the real duke of the Gessok Empire, with a large amount of territory in the southern part of the empire, and his lineage is also deeply rooted in the power composition of the empire, which is very influential.

Unexpectedly, this question made Marcas's face red-faced, and his arrogant image was swept away, and he replied in a low voice: "If not, if not...... I'm not going to Aluvita Academy. "I didn't say the specific reason for it for a long time.

But Maureen's attention wasn't on Marcas, who was looking at the brown-haired girl with some concern.

The girl seemed to be very familiar with wands, choosing among a pile of wands about her height, her body stiffened for a moment as Marcus talked about civilians, but quickly drew a black wand, made of wood. She walked over to the black counter with the wand in hand, pulled a pouch out of her bosom, and jingled out a pile of shiny silver currency.

The jingle of coins instantly brought the old man back to reality, he stroked his goatee, glanced at the counter out of the corner of his eye, and cried out again: "Silver Semetri coins?!, the currency of the land of the dead is not in circulation here, is it the first time you have bought something in Sororumi? You need to go to the Goblin Bank first to exchange it for Gessok Gold Coins, or Mana Crystal Card." However, with all due respect, young lady, even if you exchange all your bags of Semetri coins, I am afraid it will not be enough. You must know that such a basic wand in your hand is worth five fourth-order yellow crystal cards full of magical power. ”

"It!!'s so expensive," exclaimed the three young students in the store.

The Magic Crystal Card is a universal currency, and a fourth-order yellow crystal card is worth a full hundred Gessok gold coins, which is the cost of an ordinary family of four or five for an entire year. And the value of the magical crystal card is one-tenth higher, which means that such a basic wand costs a full five hundred and fifty imperial gold coins.

It was not only the girl and Morin who screamed, but also Marcas, who was originally planning to watch the play. The blond-haired and black-eyed boy suddenly exploded: "Although this price is not worth mentioning to me, don't bully me for being young and ignorant, I have read more books than your beard, and the price of a basic wand will definitely not exceed a hundred gold coins!"

Obviously, being deceived by an old man in a shady shop is more infuriating than the constraints of aristocratic etiquette, Marcus waved his sky blue sprint sleeves and shouted at the old man in annoyance: "You liar, you must not be a good wand, I have been here for so long, I will buy it again when I get to the academy, I wish you to go bankrupt and close your door soon!" After speaking, he walked out of the store out of breath, and before leaving, he turned back to Morin and said: "You can also go to the school to buy it again, and I also advise you not to get too close to the commoners, after all, the identity is different." ”

Originally, Morin just thought that Marcus was not so annoying, but when he mentioned the noble thing, the good feeling in the young man's heart suddenly disappeared.

Seeing Marcus leave in a rage, the old man with the goatee shouted, "Oh, don't go yet! I promise the wands sold by the Eluvita Academy are the same price!...... Alas......" Seeing that it was irreparable, the old man set his eyes on the two people who were still in the shop, and continued: "I don't lie to you, I haven't changed this price for hundreds of years. ”

As he spoke, the old man took out a large dusty square sign from under the counter, and when he saw that the handwriting on the sign was no longer legible, the old man rubbed his cuffs hard, and wiped them a little cleaner, and stood up and said to the girl and Morin, "Look, I didn't lie to you. ”

Mo Lin looked at the sign speechlessly, he knew why the gray of the old man's robe was so strange, it turned out that it was not gray, it was just dust. I saw that on the brown bottom of the brand, a few large golden characters were written in the lingua franca: Wang Del's wand, since the fifth hundred and seventy-ninth year of the Quaternary Age, only the best wands have been produced. There are also a few rows of small print below, and only the first row can be seen clearly: the introductory basic wand, five hundred and fifty gold.

I don't know what the square sign is made of, and the corners are carved with delicate ornamentation, and it looks quite old, but it really doesn't look like a temporary deceptive thing.

The old man squinted his eyes and hit the railroad while it was hot: "Feel such a smooth flow of magic power, such a clear perception of magic power, and such a classical and beautiful line design, even in the Eluvita Academy, you will not buy a better one!"

The brown-haired girl in the old gray cloak closed her eyes slightly for a moment, then looked at her small bag of Semetri silver coins on the counter with complexity, and said weakly, "But ...... This is all my money, I have collected it for a long, long time, but I didn't expect it to be so bad......" As if knocked down, the girl became even weaker, and muttered: "Hope, is there really no hope at all, even the first step ......"

"I'll buy it for you first," a young but energetic voice came, and it was Morin who walked to the counter and said to the girl, "You can go to the academy and get the bursary and then pay me back, you also went to the Illuvita Academy, right?"

The girl nodded slightly.

Seeing that the girl's brown eyes were about to look at the flowers in her hand again, Mo Lin hurriedly said: "I don't like to smell flowers either, it's just because of physical reasons, I need to smell them, well, it's like drinking medicine, you understand, right?"

There was a thud that interrupted the teenager's explanation.

The old man with the goatee was looking under the counter with an embarrassed expression, as if he had broken something, he raised his head, stroked his beard, and said with a big grin: "Well, as far as I know, Iluvita Academy pays a large amount of money to students with financial difficulties every year, and there is no problem. His eyes narrowed into slits, and he looked at the boy and girl in front of him slyly. It's just that no one noticed that when the old man's gaze swept over Morin, the extra rays of light flashed in the corners of his eyes.

The brown-haired girl looked at the young man's clear blue eyes, remembered her rudeness before, her cheeks were slightly hot, and she whispered, "Thank you, I'm sorry...... I was so rude before. Why don't you pick a wand, it's better than the average wand, at least better than the one I used before. ”

Mo Lin waved his hand and said, "Haha, it's okay, I do look weird like this." As for the wand, I'd better go to the academy and buy it again. ”

After speaking, he glanced at the old man suspiciously, and the old man immediately made a childlike expression.

After opening the package and rummaging through it, the boy was suddenly embarrassed to find that he didn't have that much money with him.

Yes, Iluvita Academy does not charge tuition, although there are many things that need to be purchased by yourself, they are not expensive, and Mo Lin's large box in the afternoon only cost less than a hundred gold coins. Before leaving, my father said that he would send it to the academy when he didn't have enough money, but who would have thought that the only place where Zororumi sold wands would be so expensive, didn't the letter say that the academy sold them more expensive.

After rummaging through the package, there were only more than three hundred gold coins, and the young man's face was slightly red. Seeing the old man with the goatee looking at him with a wicked smile, Morin snorted softly and picked up the strange musket hanging from his waist.

I don't know where he pressed, but the handle of the musket that seemed to be a mess of parts pieced together, cracked a thin slit, clicked, and popped out a light green crystal card. Merlin proudly clipped the crystal card between his fingers and handed it to the old man, and proudly quoted a famous saying: "Ignorant businessman, never doubt the purchasing power of a nobleman." ”

The corners of the boy's mouth curled, and for the first time, he felt that on some occasions, it was quite refreshing to learn from a guy like Marcus.

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