Chapter 148: The Insider
The knowledge system of this world is monopolized by the aristocratic class, and generally only the families of the nobility have the environment and opportunities to learn culture. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoTake Nicole herself, she is Adam's personal maid, and her status is higher than that of ordinary domestic servants, so she has been instilled with the cultural knowledge required by many excellent servants of large families since she was a child. With her level of culture, she was only good among the nobility, but if Nicole was brought to the commoners, she could definitely be called a scholar.
The cultivation is completely different, as an adventurer, although it also depends on family background, but more on talent and hard work, from this point of view, as long as civilians are willing to endure hardships, they also have the opportunity to become famous adventurers.
The Holy See School is a school set up by the Holy See in the people, with the intention of cultivating outstanding talents among these civilians for their own use.
Of course, no matter what kind of school it is, unless it is under the command of a saint, the ultimate goal is also to make a profit. Therefore, the Holy See schools claim to cultivate talents among the common people, but in fact, the largest number of students are still from the wealthy class.
Nicole looked up at the magnificent white jade gate in front of her, and a trace of confusion involuntarily appeared in her eyes.
She has been secretly studying here for more than ten days without Wu Ming.
The cost of the Holy See school is quite expensive, and the family's savings are not much, after a series of things such as buying a house, banqueting guests, and assessments, she and her grandfather Yang Deshan respectively managed a total of less than thirty gold coins. This money is enough for a family to live well for several years in a middle-sized family, but it is a drop in the bucket for all expenses in school. In this school, it costs money to attend classes, try out props, and borrow venues...... There is hardly a place that does not have anything to do with money.
The little maid who is so thrifty that she can't even take a carriage to school, and would rather be tired of walking by herself, can accept such a flowing way of spending money? After negotiation with the school, the little maid became the cleaner of the whole school, and the head of the school promised that as long as she spent a day cleaning the whole school, she would be allowed to listen to classes for free at night and try out the school's props and equipment. Although the school closes after ten o'clock and she only spends a few hours studying in the evenings, such a treatment is quite satisfactory for the little maid.
I must not become a burden to the young master!
After cheering herself up, the little maid with a determined face strode into the main entrance of the school, first took out a mop and a rag in the utility room, and then came to the dojo where the most laborious cleaning was done. The ground here is made of precious wood processing and covered, although it is not easy to step on and damage, but it is easy to leave sweat grease and stains on it, which will inevitably affect the training of students, and this area of hundreds of square meters of avenue needs to be cleaned twice a day to pass the level.
At this point in time, there were already a few scattered students in the dojo, and they were all gathered together to review yesterday's spiritual lessons, and no one paid even a single glance to Nicole from beginning to end.
Although many students were amazed by Nicole's outstanding appearance when she first arrived, after seeing the girl silently cleaning various areas of the school by herself many times, the students' curiosity about Nicole gradually faded, and they only regarded her as a poor work-study person.
Seeing that the number of students gathered in the area on the left was gradually increasing, Nicole took a rag and began to clean the floor on the right.
While Nicole was working hard, Wu Ming, who had been following Nicole closely, was stopped by two papal knights guarding the door.
Although the two knights did not ride war horses, they were all dressed in uniform papal knight light clothes, and from the left shoulder to the right waist, they also wore a dark blue sacred shawl embroidered with the name of the pope.
"This is the town Holy See school, and no one outside the school is allowed to enter." A knight on the left said solemnly, and the knight on the right stretched out a spear in his hand to block in front of Wu Ming.
"I'm a student here......" Wu Ming blinked innocently.
The two knights glanced at each other, and the knight on the left pointed to the badge on the shoulder of a student passing by Wu Ming's side, and gestured, "Where is your epaulettes?" ”
Wu Ming sighed in his heart, knowing that it was impossible to blend in like this. He was about to force his way in, when he caught a glimpse of the knight's outstretched fingers curling slightly upward, and suddenly understood something.
But seeing that he took out a bag of coins from his arms, put them in the palm of the man's hand, and whispered: "This is a hundred silver coins, the two eldest brothers have worked hard to stand guard, why don't you take them to buy some good wine to drink?" ”
The knight weighed the weight of the money bag with his hand, and his stiff features eased slightly: "If you are light of wine, there is still a lack of good food for the table, right?" ”
Wu Ming resisted the urge to scold his mother and handed over another bag of coins, and the knight quietly gave his companion a look, and the other knight moved his spear and looked ahead, with an expression of "I didn't see anything".
Wu Ming was about to move forward, but he turned back when he thought of something, and said to the two knights: "Two big brothers, little brother, I just came here and don't understand the market, can I ask you about something?" ”
The two knights standing guard glanced at each other, and the person on the left who received the money was not easy to refuse, and nodded: "If you want to inquire about anything, let's hear it first." ”
"That's right, I heard that this is the largest school in town, but I wonder what the fees are here? What is the standard of teaching? My younger brother has a younger sister who clamored every day to come here to study, so I came to find out the information first. ”
The two knights had strange faces, and the knight on the left frowned, looked Wu Ming up and down, and said unceremoniously: "Boy, looking at your clothes, your family background is average in the town, right?" At most, it's just a small nobleman who doesn't even have a title, I guess right? ”
Wu Ming nodded naturally, he didn't pay much attention to clothing, and the clothing and etiquette of the nobles in the other world were too cumbersome, and he didn't bother to imitate them. In addition to the mage robe and feather shoes, the pants and the shirt exposed from the neckline are quite cheap, so it is no wonder that the two of them can deduce his family background just by looking at it.
"Seeing that you're not bad, I'll make it clear to you here." The knight on the left approached Wu Ming and deliberately lowered his voice, "If your family is not rich enough to spend all your spare money, don't think about coming to this school to study." The fees at this school are frighteningly expensive! However, the teaching level of the school is not bad, after all, the name of the Holy See is hanged, you can see the two of us standing guard here, and the Holy See still attaches great importance to the Holy See schools in various places. ”
"That's how it is...... Isn't the propaganda of the Holy See claiming that schools should train excellent civilians? ”
"What kind of training civilians, in this case, it will deceive you civilians." The knight on the right scoffed, "Unless it is a person with outstanding talent to the extreme, the school will provide special care, and ordinary civilians will not be able to study for long before they will be drained of their net worth, and finally leave empty-handed." ”
"And even if your talent is really top-notch, you may not be noticed by the school, as the so-called Hades is difficult to deal with, it is not the first time that the old students in the school have been angry and suppressed potential newcomers. Some civilians with good talent came here to study, and they didn't even see the teacher a few times, and they were tossed and fled by the old students who had the connections, no matter how talented these people were, what could they do if they weren't known? The knight chatted and couldn't help but pour out the emotion in his heart, "I heard that there is a new girl in the school recently, and her performance in the spell talent test is even amazing to the examiner, but so what? A few old students who are jealous of her talent secretly make a few random stumbles, which can make her fail the usual tests again and again. After a long time, the school forgot about this person, and this girl didn't have to rely on being a cleaner to pay off the tuition in the end? (To be continued.) )