The advent of books has given people many more ways to pass the time, and there is so little entertainment in this world.

Although the town of Prairly is more prosperous than the average town, it is still inferior to the other towns in Brettnia, let alone the county town of Brettnia. There are only a handful of pubs, nightclubs, and a circus venue in the town, neither of which are places that people are used to going (for obvious reasons). As for the circus that provides entertainment, it is only a year and a half that some grass stage troupes have come here to stage some entertainment programs. Although there is an opera house in the county town of Brettnia, in which opera is staged from time to time, this kind of high art is not the habit of ordinary people. As for the drinking parties and balls held by the nobles living in the county, this kind of entertainment is not a luxury, and it is not something that can be attended by the time-traveling people who have little fame and status in the world of Iber.

Therefore, all the entertainment that everyone can do is to go out and visit the town's shops once in a while, or to go hunting at the invitation of the nobles and knights of the Kasha who are also in the Prairly Domain, or to practice martial arts in the martial arts arena of the villa.

It's just that not all people are so idle.

In an office on the first floor of the villa, Li Xiang, Fu Bin, Yang Qianyu and Sun Xiaoyu sat around a round table with a stack of loose parchment.

"These are our bills for a month's expenses?" Sun Xiaoyu looked at the pile of parchment on the table and asked in surprise. "How can there be so many?"

"If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are, you don't know how expensive they are." Fu Bin spread his hands. "This is the cost of rebuilding the house, this is the cost of purchasing the necessary furniture for each room, this is the cost of purchasing food, this is the cost of firewood and charcoal, and the salary of the servants in the villa, the cost of additional furniture, the maintenance of the carriages and horses, and the daily consumption of raising horses...... All that adds up to six hundred and seventy-eight gold coins for the month -- I wiped out the odds by the way. ”

Sun Xiaoyu couldn't help but smack her tongue when she heard this.

"But some of these costs are not long-term ongoing expenses." Yang Qianyu looked at the account sheets and said: "For example, the cost of remodeling the house and the purchase of furniture are not fixed expenses every month. If you remove these words-" After calculating, the corners of Yang Qianyu's eyes jumped. "I also spend more than 400 a month......

The four of you felt the financial crisis you were about to face.

It's been a year since the group traveled, including more than nine months at the Rogue Knights camp in Harudal. Because of the special hospitality they receive in the camp, they don't need to spend money directly on their daily expenses.

At the beginning of the crossing, the place where everyone was located was an abandoned village. Although many coins were found in it, they were of little use under the circumstances. Even Yang Qianyu complained that things like 'a bunch of metal discs that can only be seen but not eaten are not as valuable as a handful of wild wheat grains'.

Therefore, over the course of a year, the people relied on the search for the belongings of the fugitives in Harudel County, the bounties obtained from completing the mission, and the occasional windfall to accumulate a total of more than 20,000 gold coins. Unexpectedly, after settling in the Prailly Territory in Kasha for less than a month, he spent nearly seven hundred gold coins like a stream. Even according to the level of consumption expenditure mentioned by Yang Qianyu, more than 20,000 gold coins are only enough to spend more than three years. For those who want to live in the world of Yber for a long time, the present possessions are far from sufficient.

"Can you find a way to cut back on your expenses a little more?" Li Xiang proposed.

Fu Bin looked at the account list and shook his head. "These are the bare minimum expenses, and if we want to cut them, we will have to deduct the salaries of the servants and our daily pocket money. Who do you want to detain first? ”

When Li Xiang heard this, he could only smile bitterly - the practice of deducting the servant's salary was definitely a hateful plan. If a lord did such a thing, the servants and tenant farmers in the territory might not dare to protest or flee because they were afraid of the lord's force, but it was not necessarily that there would be no one who would take risks because they couldn't stand it, and the big deal was that they would either die or flee after the rebellion failed. After all, there are many places in the human city-state that the law does not control. As long as you are able to escape to the sphere of influence of another lord who has a bad relationship with the local lord, the end result is often nothing. There are not many opportunities for the so-called laws of the city-state kingdom to be strictly enforced. Even if it is a serious felony that infringes on the interests of the nobility, then it will be as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack to hide incognito in the deep mountains and old forests that are everywhere in the city-state. In the southern city-state of Tristram, the most notorious leader of the 'Phantom Thieves' in the description of the nobles, a thief nicknamed 'Robin Hood', was a young slave who poisoned the lord for his life because he couldn't stand the lord's unlimited exploitation.

What's more, although Li Xiang and others have traveled to the world of Iber, they are different from those in YY's novels who travel back to a more backward era and are busy advocating the concept of 'equality for all'. At least the people do not have the idea of overthrowing the feudal lordship tradition of the human kingdom of the world of Ibel and liberating all mankind. Not to mention that before the crossing, everyone itself had a so-called 'certain N generation' background, and the so-called 'equality' alone has never been in the past, is not now, and will be ...... in the future I'm afraid there won't be ......

If any daring slave runs to his master and preaches equality, I am afraid that the only fate is to be hanged on the gallows and let the crows peck; If any of the idle and panicked lower-class nobles ran to the king to talk about equality, perhaps he was unlikely to suffer any direct losses, but it is conceivable that the future of this fellow is 100% bleak; And even if the noble king has a fever in his head and preaches the equality of gods and believers in any church that worships the true God, then even if he is punished by God on the spot, I am afraid that no one will dare to question anything......

As long as there are people, society will be formed; As long as there is society, there will inevitably be a division of classes. The 'equality' thing is like the illusion cast by a clever sorcerer, it looks real, but it never really exists.

Of course, although true 'equality' does not exist, this is not a reason for Li Xiang and others to 'justifiably' deduct the salaries of the servants who serve them. After recruiting these servants, the traversers signed employment contracts with them, and the salary of each servant was agreed upon before they were hired. As a time-traveler from the modern earth world, the minimum code of conduct of 'walking the talk' can still be achieved.

In the same way, although the daily pocket money obtained by the traversers is calculated in gold coins, because most of the aborigines they make friends with are the noble families of the Prairly Collar or the relatives and friends of the knights, so the daily money should not be too shabby. Therefore, each of them had a pocket money of three gold coins per week, which was already the lowest amount of change among the children of the nobility.

Again, it's because of being in a 'country place' like Praile. If you live in a city in the county, the children of the nobility who only have three gold coins a week are not embarrassed to go out with their friends.

After all, this kind of bad habit exists in any world.