The next day, Mr. Harold Vassa, who had had a nightmare, woke up early, lying on his stomach in the warm bed, a little reluctant to get up.

"Credits, credits, credits!" He motivated himself so much that he finally got up from the bed, put on his scarf, put on his coat, and set out on the way to the academy.

Today's lessons are still very heavy, and the complicated magic lessons require a lot of note-taking and careful listening. Harold sat in the back of the classroom, writing hard, he was absent for two days, and if his overall score at the end of the semester was low, he would probably need to retake some courses.

With a terrible level of magic in his own right, and this usually has a record of absenteeism, Harold expressed great concern about this year's results.

In the big classroom, Harold struggled with his pen, and thought to himself: "I used to read novels, and it was quite easy to go to a magic academy to learn magic, and I will learn it as soon as I learn it!" But when it comes to me, I have to take a lot of notes every day, which is more fortunate than when I was a child in the guards. Sure enough, it's all funny. ”

The time for serious study often passed quickly, and most of the day passed like this, and at the end of class in the afternoon, Harold first went to the campus logistics office to book a new school uniform. The expensive pricing made him a little painful, but he was helpless.

After doing this, Harold left the academy to go home, buried his face deep in his scarf, only his eyebrows exposed, and slipped out of the school gate and out into the street with the dense flow of people. 、

He was a little alone and alone, and in the past few days, Lilina would always find various reasons to go with him, at least to follow him out of the three streets of the academy.

However, Lilina has been very busy lately, and all kinds of things have made her heel almost hit the back of the head, so naturally she has no time to "swear sovereignty" with Harold. Harold was also happy to be at ease, and returned to the ideal state of being a loner in the first grade

Some time ago, Harold's magic crystal was bitten by a mouse, and he didn't have time to buy it again, and the weather was too cold today, so he got out of class half an hour early, and he just took advantage of this time to take a little detour and go to the commercial street to buy a new magic crystal.

The lower temperature in winter has not reduced people's enthusiasm for going out, and in large cities such as College City, which has a population of one million and the main population is very young, the lower temperature has stimulated the frequency of young people going out.

In this cold winter, there are many more people shopping in the city than in late autumn, and the number of young people who come out in pairs has greatly increased.

This impulse to put two large fireballs into the pile made Harold sigh that the people were not old, and the world was declining.

He remembered the three winters he had spent before he came to College City, and those three winters he had spent either braving the snow in the wilderness or warming himself in a small village or town.

No one in those places would be so scared that they would run out into the streets to show affection, and the big guys were busy making children in their huts.

"Tsk. Sure enough, densely populated megacities can change the way people live. Sure enough, this is the reason why I don't want to go out in winter. ”

Thankfully, however, today, Harold was able to slip all the way down the street without having to experience the annoying visual distraction, under the cover of scarves and the girls who had gone out shopping. Talk to**, talk to**.

Harold walked for about half an hour, passing five blocks, to the shopping street of College City, when he had just arrived in College City in his first year, and his financial situation was not as poor as it is now, and the magic crystal was also bought at a special store on this shopping street. Now, he plans to follow his memories to the magic crystal shop he bought before to buy a new magic crystal.

Thanks to his good eyesight, Harold had just turned into the corner of the shopping street when he saw an acquaintance of his own at the far end of the street.

Edith Popesle, who was standing out in the crowd in the white robe that Harold had given her yesterday, was waving goodbye to a few girls with large bags. After a few moments, the girls were gone, and Edith turned and walked into the door of a shop.

After a few moments, Harold was standing at the door of the shop that Edith had just entered.

"It's too coincidental, it's really not a bad match."

Harold smiled wryly and pushed open the glass door of the store.

Sure enough, a familiar figure inside the store was leaning on the glass counter and examining the magic crystals of various colors and shapes inside.

The girl's beautiful legs are slender and plump, her waist is plump, and her chestnut short ear-length hair is wheat-colored healthy skin. Needless to say, this is Harold's long-time rival Edith Popesel.

The shopkeeper was gushing about his merchandise to Edith when he saw Harold enter the store, and the shopkeeper was stunned.

Edith, who noticed that something was wrong, also turned her head to look, the guy who had been bothering her all along, but who always popped out of her mind inadvertently, was standing quietly behind her in a winter coat.

"Why are you here?"

"Humph! If you can come, why can't I come, is this a forbidden place? ”

Edith pondered and felt that it was inappropriate for her to ask such a question, so she asked a stupid question: "Then what are you doing here?" ”

"Then do you believe me that I came here to do great health care?" Harold rolled his eyes. "Have you been unwell in the past few days, why do you just pick on foolish questions?"

Although she didn't know what the big health care meant, Edith was still slightly embarrassed by Harold's choking, she raised her little fist, and said angrily, "Let's just ask you what's wrong?" Why are you so angry, looking for death? ”

"Forget it, let's fight here and not tear down this store. I also blame me for always being unlucky and unhappy during this time. Some time ago, my magic crystal was gnawed by rats, and now I come to this shop to buy new ones. ”

"Well deserved!! Hey, hey, haha. What a retribution. Edith covered her mouth and snickered.

"That's how you treat your savior?"

"That's what we did to you, it's not a life-threatening matter. Kindness is kindness, let's still be right, I know that you occasionally fall into a little bad luck, if we don't gloat a little, wouldn't it be a loss? ”

"Huh."

Harold and Edith were arguing with each other, and the shopkeeper at the counter couldn't say a word.

After a few moments, Harold and Edith hurt each other to the content, and the two unobtrusive customers finally thought of getting down to business with the owner of the Magic Crystal Shop.

"Boss, I want this inky magic crystal. How much? Harold pointed to an inky crystal on the glass counter, and he stared at the middle-aged shopkeeper's big face with Chinese characters, and smiled meaningfully.

The muscles on the shopkeeper's face twitched, and the shopkeeper, who had just been in front of Edith, stammered: "Six....... Six gold coins. ”

"Didn't you say just now, boss, that you wanted eight gold coins?" Edith glared in confusion.

Harold glanced back at Edith: "This ruined girl, whoever marries her home in the future will suffer." ”

Harold ignored Edith and continued to stare at the shopkeeper's nostrils that were dilated by nervousness, and he secretly laughed in his heart, pretending to be surprised: "Eight? Eight gold coins are too expensive, right?! Cheaper, let's bargain. ”

This beautiful face is the same as a year ago, which a man can't forget at a glance, this charming smile like a spring breeze, which is the same pattern as the opening line a year ago. Awakens the nightmare of the owner of the Magic Crystal shop, who sleeps in the corner of the shopping street in College City.

"As far as I know, the new students have not yet been enrolled, and the magic crystal is in the off-season, and the price has been reduced. How can you still sell for eight gold coins? ”

"Six, it's six!" The shopkeeper still wants to struggle.

"Huh?!" Harold feigned surprise. "Wait, you just offered my classmate eight pieces? Is there a male or female bid? Do you have to charge more money for girls? ”

The shopkeeper covered his forehead, he saw that the girl was not good at bargaining just now, so he deliberately said that the price was a little higher, originally this girl was coaxed by the sales technology of the mouth can lotus and was about to take out her wallet, who would have thought that this beautiful bargaining maniac suddenly came out halfway, and it seems that he is still very familiar with this girl, and his handle was completely caught by him, it is really sad.

"No, no, no, these two pieces are not the same model, so the price is not the same. For example, the price of this piece is five gold coins. The shopkeeper was dying, and he quickly pulled a piece from the counter from the row of identical inky crystals and stuffed it into Harold. Five, that's five gold coins. ”

"Oh?" Harold took the crystal and looked at it, rubbing it in his hand. "Really? I've heard that synthetic crystals have only half the lifespan of naturally occurring magic crystals, and they are three kilometers less than the eight-kilometer communication length of naturally formed magic crystals. So the price is much cheaper. This is placed in a row of magic crystals with the same appearance, and there is such a difference in price? What is the reason for that? I'm going to have to think about it. ”

"Absolutely not, there is no shoddy bad behavior in the small shop, absolutely not. Ahem...... It's the off-season, and the price reduction in the off-season has to be cut by half. If you want to buy magic crystals, I will take eight gold coins, and sell two for eight gold coins. This is a big off-season sale, it's an event. I just thought about it suddenly. The shopkeeper was incoherent, he had completely given up resistance, and the price of four gold coins was barely profitable, which was his bottom line.

Harold looked at the magic crystal in his hand, and suddenly smiled: "Okay, then sell us four pieces." ”

After all, it is not easy for a businessman to be forgiving and forgiving.

Harold put his hand in his coat pocket and was about to take out his wallet to pay the bill, when suddenly his body stiffened, and the relaxed smile on his face instantly disappeared, and his face tightened

The pockets were empty, no, it wouldn't be accurate to say that, there was still such a thing left in the coat pocket.

A big hole.

Harold's expression was extremely embarrassed, his face was red and white for a while, if the god of luck in this world appeared in front of him now, he would definitely not say a word, and hit with a fist.

"You've negotiated the price, and now you won't say you didn't bring the money, right?" Edith had a strange expression, as if she was asking Harold with concern, but she always felt that the expression on her face was barely made, as if she was smiling.

"I did, but it was worse than not having one." Harold flipped out his coat pocket, revealing a hole that was just big enough for his wallet to fall out.

"Uh, that's miserable......"

Harold hugged his head in pain and let out a wail: "That's almost all the liquidity!" It's over, I'm broke! Broke! ”

Seeing the human tragedy that was happening in front of her, Edith rarely did not mock her rival, and she sighed: "So you have a bad personality when you have grief? Although I hate you very much, let's help you get through the current difficulties first. ”

Edith pulled out her purse and pulled two checks out of it.

She borrowed a pen from her boss and quickly wrote and drew on two checks.

After writing the first one, he handed it to the shopkeeper, who paid eight gold coins, and the boss felt a pain in his heart, but he still carefully wrapped the two magic crystals and handed them to Edith.

A second check, Edith, was handed to Harold, with twenty gold coins available for withdrawal.

Edith said softly: "Now, this money is for you to use in an emergency, and we will help you with the money of the magic crystal first." ”

Harold stared at Edith, his eyes now full of gratitude. Suddenly, he bowed to her very sincerely: "Thank you, in short, I will pay you back as soon as possible." ”

Edith immediately changed to a fierce expression, she stomped her foot, and she didn't know why she turned around, pinched her thin waist with her hand, and turned her back to Harold: "Who cares about your thanks!" We've been repaying you for your kindness, and we're not loan sharks, you can pay it back whenever you want, and we'll talk about it when you have plenty of money. ”

Harold was silent, the atmosphere between the two was a little delicate, and Edith became more and more at a loss.

"Ahem." At this time, the shopkeeper coughed twice and broke the silence. "Two guests, do you need any other services?"

"It's gone." The two replied in unison, and then the two quickly slipped out of the store, one after the other.

The boss shook his head, on the one hand, he felt sorry that he didn't make any money in this business, and on the other hand, he sighed in his heart: "I'm old, I'm really old, I can't understand how the little couple is awkward now." ”

Harold and Edith walked side by side on the streets of College City a meter apart, silent for a while.

"Isn't the direction of the academy over there?" Harold pointed in the opposite direction, and he wondered for a long time, and finally asked.

"Humph! If you can go in this direction, why can't we go? Is this direction off-limits? The little girl who held a grudge learned Harold's previous tone of speech and sent Harold's questions back.

Harold was bored and immediately kept silent. Just silently accelerated on his feet, and walked forward in a hurry.

Seeing the man in front of her walking in a muffled voice, Edith quickly approached Harold's side and touched Harold's arm with her elbow

"What? Are you angry? ”

"No, I thought about it, it's really none of my business which direction you go back to the academy, I talk too much, I shouldn't ask more."

"Obviously I'm angry. Stingy man, only you can bully us with words, so we can't bully you with words? Sure enough, it's still the man with a bad personality, who hates you to death! "The girl took the lead in making a final judgment on Harold's character.

Harold looked at Edith with strange eyes, and his heart became more and more strange: "Something is wrong, something is so wrong!" Why does this violent chick sound so coquettish when she says this? Didn't she hear it herself? Could it be that she has eaten something inexplicable by mistake lately? ”

Seeing Harold looking at her with strange eyes, Edith's cheeks were slightly hot, and she twisted, she grabbed the sleeve of Harold's coat: "Well, we know a good place." You just come with us. Eh, don't look at us with such guarded eyes, in short, we won't treat you badly. ”