Truth be told, my shoulders are going to be exhausted.

For those guild members, they can just go back to rest, but for the guild leader, the current task is far from over.

"I know you may be tired, but can you listen to me a few more words now?"

At ten o'clock in the evening, just as everyone was about to go upstairs to their room, Arrow suddenly stopped them.

Cream looked back at the president of her house, nodded, walked back to the counter, and pulled a bar stool to sit down. Coco walked over to the bar and stood. Brad was even more direct, and ran to the counter with Parfay, his eyes looking very energetic.

"What's the matter? President. ”

"I have a mission for you, and this is an important task for our guild, so I hope you will be vigilant and make sure that nothing leaks out. Don't ask anything but the work I've given you, and don't know anything. If someone asks you about this task in the future, you will just tell you what I will tell you about later, and answer everything else by not knowing. ”

Arrow's expression was very nervous and serious. Seeing such a serious expression on the face of their own president, the members couldn't help but mention the spirit of 120,000 points.

Coco: "Brother President, don't worry, we are absolutely obedient." It's just that...... If it's too dangerous a mission, I'm afraid that I won't be able enough to cause trouble for the president's brother......"

Realizing that his expression was too serious, Arrow changed his expression to a gentle one and said, "Don't worry, this task doesn't require any effort or risk. Just pay attention to a few of them. ”

Cream: "President, what is the task?" I'm really itching when you say that. ”

Arrow bent down and took out six gold coins from the bag where the black money was placed, and divided two of them and put them in front of Cream: "Cream, two days ago, a rich merchant named Uso came to our guild to entrust a mission, and from the beginning of this task tomorrow, you will be the spokesperson of this rich merchant of Uso. ”

"With these two gold coins, Big Boss Uso hopes that you can take these money to Honglu Town next door and buy about two gold coins of barley. Then, drag the barley of the two gold coins to Kingfisher, a little further away, to sell them. ”

Then, he moved one of the gold coins in front of Coco, and said earnestly—

"Coco, that big boss of Uso wants to hire our guild to be a bodyguard and escort. So starting tomorrow, you will be the bodyguard of the rich businessman's spokesperson, and you will protect the whole process of the rich businessman's spokesperson buying barley for sale. Wait until the whole process is over, and then you can get the coin back. ”

Coco looked at the coin with a confused expression, and although she could see that she had a question to ask, she obediently did not make a sound.

"Finally, Brad." Arrow moved the last three gold coins to Brad and said slowly, "Starting tomorrow, you will be a merchant named Leon, and your boss will ask you to go to Kingfisher Town to buy some barley and drag it to Honglu Town to sell. When you see someone selling the barley (and the cream), you buy it for three gold coins. After that, you can re-transport the barley to Honglu Town. However, because of a miscalculation of the market, you can only sell the barley to Honglu Town for one gold coin. Now, do you understand? ”

Arrow spoke again in elven language, making sure that Parfay and Brad both understood what he meant.

Of course, their faces were still full of questions after saying this, but it didn't matter, Arrow just had to continue to command-

"Cream, you have to remember that after you became a subordinate of the Great Boss of Uso, you no longer have anything to do with our Mermaid Song. You put on your hat and dress it tightly so that no one will recognize you. It's autumn now, and the weather is getting cooler, so no one will see you outside wearing it like this. ”

"Brad, Parfay, you too, you are Boss Leon's subordinates in tomorrow's mission, and you have nothing to do with our Mermaid Song anymore. It's best to do some camouflage as well, and then wear a set of clothes outside after putting on armor, and try to cover your mouth and nose. Especially Parfait, your characteristics are too obvious, so don't appear in front of people, just hide secretly. When you have sold all the barley and come back, you will be considered a good member of our Mermaid Song. ”

"As for Coco, your task is relatively simple, just accompany Cream the whole time and watch him sell out the barley."

"It's best for you to communicate with people less along the way, be polite, don't cause trouble, don't attract attention, just do these things all over again and come back. Now, do you understand? ”

If he could, Iero would really like to go out in person.

After all, as you can see from the confused expressions on the faces of these members, they really can't understand this kind of practice of buying barley and then turning around and selling it, only to lose money.

But it doesn't matter, these things are indeed too complicated, and it will probably take at least a year or so for them to understand them all at once, and Arrow doesn't have that much free time now.

In fact, if they had more knowledge, Eero would have been able to make the ring work more quickly and efficiently, and with better concealment. But that would be too complicated to ensure that these guys wouldn't make mistakes in the process, so it was as simple as that.

Arrow repeatedly confirmed with them what he needed to do, and only after these doubts, but he was still able to say exactly what he should do and what he shouldn't do, Arrow relented and announced that he would disband on the spot.

Watching the members return to their rooms one by one to rest, Airo rubbed his stiff shoulders and dragged back to his room with tired steps.

But before closing the door, the cat poked its head out of the crack in the door. Well, Iero eventually opened the door and let the cat in before closing the door.

"It's weird, what do I want to do, don't I?"

Arrow knew that if he didn't explain it to the cat, he probably wouldn't be so easy to put himself to sleep.

Napa landed on Arrow's bed, and her two front legs kept stepping on Arrow's futon, waiting until she found a really comfortable position before lying down, and continued to look at Arrow with a lazy look: "Explain, what is this strange thing for?" The little ones may not be able to understand these things, but as the vice president of Merfolk Song, I feel like I need to know what you're trying to do. ”

Arrow smiled, sat on the edge of the bed and took off his shoes, pinching his somewhat swollen feet. After pinching it twice, he looked back at the cat, and suddenly on a whim, he wanted to reach over and touch its fur with the hand that had just pinched his feet.

It's a pity that his hand has just reached over, and the cat immediately stands up its fur, staring at Arrow's hand with a fierce grin: "Don't touch me with the hand you just pinched your foot!" ”

A sad expression appeared on Arrow's face, and he withdrew his hand a little abruptly, sighed and said, "Actually, it's really nothing, just find a way to change the stolen money into money that we can use." ”

It took a long time for the fried cat to recover a little, and it looked at Arrow's hand and moved it to the side very vigilantly, and then found a soft position to lie down again: "What does this mean?" Make it clear. ”

Eero changed his foot and pinched, he has been running around for the past two days, and the soles of his feet are indeed tired. While pinching, he said, "As I said before, this money is stolen money, so it can't be used normally." However, if it is our normal income funds, it can be used conveniently. ”

"So, I told them to resell the barley, and since we are buying at a high price and selling it at a low price, the barley should not be stuck in our hands. After such a change of hands, we lost a total of 1 gold coin, but if you think about it in another way, we also earned 1 gold coin commission fee through the 'normal commission' channel. This gold coin is our normal income, and it is the amount that can be entered into the books and audited. ”

As a monster, Iero was pretty sure the cat didn't know much about this kind of behavior. I saw that Napa was now with her head down, tilting her head, as if she was trying to think about the connections and problems. After a while, the cat seemed to finally figure it out, looked up and said, "So, you just used the method of spending a gold coin to turn the original stolen money into normal income?" How can you humans be so troublesome, complicated, and so troubled? ”

Arrow smiled, folded his legs and sat cross-legged on the bed: "No way, we humans are so troublesome and complicated." As long as you can avoid taxes, as long as you can evade the investigation of the tax officer, you can think of any way. ”

Napa: "This is also what you learned in the economics department?" ”

Arrow shook his head: "To be precise, it was invented by many big people who used this method to turn black money white. By the way, there is a more professional name for this method, which is called 'money laundering'. Laundering black money and turning illegal income into legal income is one such method. ”

After a moment's thought, Napa finally fully understood what was going on. Obviously, the cat didn't care much about this money laundering by Eero. And Iero doesn't think that Warcraft will really want to understand the economic situation of humans.

"It's a good way, but I don't understand, you can actually make it less complicated, can you?"

Napa licked the hair off her hands and wiped her face again—

"If you directly record in the ledger how many more bottles of potions or maps you sold, won't you be able to pocket all the money?"

Arrow smiled and nodded, "Of course, there is also this method. This method is generally called 'making false accounts', or 'yin and yang ledgers'. I've thought about doing that, but not so far. ”

Napa looked up at Arrow, "Why?" ”

Arrow: "Because we don't have that much business right now, we've only had three jobs to explore the mines in the past two months. Wouldn't it be strange if I sold a lot of potion maps here? And, if I'm doing a fictional quest, it doesn't match the map I've drawn and what I'm doing in Pelican Town. Suppose I make up that tomorrow we go out to do a task, but tomorrow a townsman happens to come to us to entrust us with a job, and when the tax collector checks on us, wouldn't it be a good thing to ask? ”

"So, although the current money laundering method is a bit troublesome, it is still safe. On the surface, Barley's change of hands has nothing to do with us, we just earn a bodyguard fee. This kind of thing doesn't need to be done too often, once every five or six days, and at the same time let the three of them swap roles with each other, and then resell it in other ways in the winter, I believe that the money will be washed away soon. ”

Napa understood the purpose of Arrow's actions, and the cat licked its paws, wiped its face again, and floated slowly towards the door. But just as he was about to go out, the cat suddenly turned his head as if he had thought of something, and flew in front of Napa again.

"It's quite hard for you as a president, and it's hard for an adventurer's guild to think about money laundering."

Arrow took off his coat and changed into pajamas, still with a smile on his face: "Haven't you checked this several times?" ”

Napa nodded, and it circled around Arrow before saying, "So, when are you going to go to that mine again?" ”

Arrow's eyebrows raised, "You know exactly what I'm thinking!" I don't plan to go into the mines just yet, though, as Pelican Town doesn't have a craftsman who can craft spears or spears. To deal with those who eat corpses, you must use a piercing weapon. So, I hope to try to get us all armed before we go down. ”

After hearing that Arrow was not going to go to the mine for the time being, the cat's eyes flashed with reassurance. Naturally, this touch of color did not escape Arrow's eyes, but he was also glad that the cat could worry about himself.

"If you want to go to this mine...... I suggest you get me as many magic crystals as you can. ”

Napa flew towards the gate again.

"Compared to the blacksmith, if you give me enough magic crystals, I will be able to provide you with enough equipment and supplies. Your four men are far from strong right now, so I hope you'd better let me help once in a while. ”

Arrow wanted to thank the cat, but before he could say thank you, Napa opened the door and floated out.

Well, it's all right.

Arrow exhaled and lay back on the bed.

Anyway, the guild is in its infancy, if it really needs its help...... At least, it's better than a real failure.

- September 28, 1301, food expenses: -2 copper and 1 iron, equipment production and repair expenses: -1 silver, balance 82 gold, 2 silver, 7 bronze and 8 iron——