Before you know it, it's late at night outside.

Ariel wrapped her two cloaks around her, exhaled at her hands, and curled up in the night.

Duck was by her side the whole time, but as he walked, he looked at Ariel with an incredulous gaze.

"President."

After walking down a street, Duck finally couldn't help himself and asked—

"Knowledge is a very expensive thing. I don't know exactly how you learned that much as a maid, but I'm sure it won't come cheap. If that knowledge really comes from Lao Tengshu, then you should respect that knowledge even more, and you shouldn't let it leak to outsiders casually. ”

Ariel rubbed her hands together and turned her head. Under the illumination of the elemental light, a smile appeared on her face: "So what? ”

Duck exhaled, "So...... Don't you think you should value your knowledge? If there are more people who have acquired knowledge, the knowledge you have will not be so good. ”

Ariel was still smiling: "For example? ”

"For example? …… For example......" Duck's eyes rolled, and he exhaled, "for example, I signed a contract with an illiterate person, and what I said was not the same thing as what was written in the contract. The illiterate person didn't understand, so he signed in a daze. Even if there is a dispute, it will be easier for someone like me who can read and write to gain the favor of the judge. And if the person opposite me is illiterate, then basically the person opposite me is a poor person. Judges, of course, are not on the side of the poor as a matter of course. ”

Speaking of this, Dark's brows furrowed slightly, and he said with a little regret: "But if these most ordinary civilians have also learned to read and write, then if you want them to unknowingly sign a contract that is unfavorable to them and occupy their property and fields, it will take a lot of effort." Sometimes things don't work so 'pretty'...... Forehead...... President? ”

As Duck said this, Ariel leaned over and stood in front of him, standing on tiptoe and looking at the berserker's face. She still had that faint smile on her face, and said slowly-

"If it's not 'pretty', does it mean that you can't be fooled, and you can only do it with your hands?"

Dark's face turned red, but he finally nodded and said, "Our guild ...... Ah, I mean the Light of Heaven, my father's guild. Heaven's Light had been entrusted by several nobles with the task of occupying the peasants' fields, and his father said that things must be done 'beautifully'. Those peasants no longer have land, so they can not be rude as much as possible, and it is best to persuade them to die. But if something bloody happened, my father would be furious, saying that the members were not doing things 'pretty' and were not ...... at all Elegance. ”

Ariel nodded, clapped her hands, and continued to walk in the direction of the guild: "Then do you think that the Mermaid Song will be the kind of guild that minds that other people are too smart?" ”

The more he came into contact with Ariel, the more Duck felt a little incredible. He frowned and said slowly, "President, the so-called 'opinions' put forward by those civilians just now...... You won't take it seriously, will you? Do you really want to let commoners guide the nobles...... Is it? ”

Ariel wasn't angry, because she knew that there was no such strong malice in Duck's words. It's just that it's too different from his previous three views that he can't come back to his senses. So, she smiled and said, "Why not?" ”

Duck shook his head and said with some regret, "President, I don't mean to target you, but I want to say ...... The aristocrats needed to keep their faces. It's a shame for you to mingle with commoners, but if you let the other nobles know, any commoner can come up with ideas to guide the nobles...... If the commoners of other regions, even the slaves, felt that they could also instruct the noble nobles in certain matters......"

"Dark, calm down, okay?"

Ariel, walking in the night breeze with her hands behind her back, now looks so light-

"Are you a person who easily reverses the decisions you made?"

Faced with this question, Duck pondered for a moment and shook his head: "I'm not. ”

Ariel nodded and continued, "I'm sure you're not, too. So, since you think there's nothing wrong with joining the Mermaid Song, then please continue to believe in me and accompany me down to see, how about it? I don't expect to completely reverse your understanding of the past 20 years in less than a month, but I still hope that you can maintain a wait-and-see attitude and watch silently, how about it? ”

Finally, after being silent for a long time, Duck nodded after a long time.

At this point, he was a little relieved of Ariel's approach, and put these problems behind him for the time being.

"But...... It's a pity. ”

Passing by the factory again on the way back, Ariel walked in front of the factory with her hands behind her back, sighed, and shook her head helplessly.

Duck asked, "What's the pity?" ”

Ariel hesitated, sighed again, and said weakly, "It's a pity...... It's a shame. Dark, what do you see in your eyes right now? Don't you feel sorry for it? ”

At this point, Duck knew that it might be a long time before he could fully understand the president like the rest of the group. He turned his head, looked at the factory next to him with the locked door, frowned, and said, "The factory that was closed." So, what exactly should I be sorry for? ”

Ariel seemed a little angry at this answer. This kind of anger seems to irritate Ariel's nerves even more than the question just now!

She pointed to the locked factory gate and said loudly—

"That's right! You see, this is the factory at rest! ”

"I was so kind that I had the hired men go up from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Now that I think about it, it's only been ten hours! In addition to the six hours they had to sleep, there were eight hours when the workers were idle! ”

"You know, I'm paying them! They work 10 hours a day and I pay that, they work 12 hours a day, 14 hours, 16 hours I pay that little, so why can't they work 16 hours a day? Why should I arrange for them to have one day off every six days?! "It's okay for them to rest, but my factory is also closed!" But Dak, you know what? The ones in the factory are elemental machines that don't get tired, they don't get tired! The Elemental Machine doesn't need to rest at all! In other words, at night when the temperature is cooler, they can work more efficiently! ”

Ariel covered her head, with a look of remorse, gritted her teeth and said-

"Alas...... I really shouldn't have relented at the time...... If only I hadn't relented...... Is there any way to get those workers to work at night? I'll let them sleep six hours a day! They work sixteen hours a day, sleep six hours, and have two hours to eat, wash, and relax! Dark, don't you say? ”

Darker continued to look at his president as if he had seen a madman, shook his head, and said, "I...... I don't know. In the past, when I was on a mission at the Hand of Heaven, I had a situation where I didn't sleep for twenty-four hours in a row...... But what about factory work...... I do not know. So...... President, are we going to find a way to get them to work at night? ”

Ariel took out her pocket watch and looked at it, gritted her teeth and said, "It's eleven o'clock in the evening." Well...... You say, what if I had you quick-witted guys go and set up each of their alarms at night while they were sleeping? They don't bring an alarm clock when they get to work anyway, so you can turn it back when there's no one in the apartment......"

The corners of Dark's mouth began to twitch a little, "President, do you remember what you said about being equal to those civilians?" ”

Ariel said with a serious face: "Of course I remember! It's just when it's time to make money...... There will always be a humble voice in my heart that tells me to stop caring about equality...... You see, at the end of the day, I feed them, right? If it weren't for my factory, they would have to go back to their cities to be beggars, homeless, or even wandering, right? So I took them in, and it was only natural that they worked sixteen hours a day for me, right? ”

The corners of Dark's mouth finally twitched twice, and he shook his head: "This ...... I don't know. You might want to talk to the guys...... But it's really inconvenient for me to give an opinion. ”

Ariel sighed, waved her hand, and said, "I know...... I know that too...... I also want to try to restrain this damn thought...... Every time I see their eyes that trust me so much, I want to exploit them as much as possible...... I can't bear it......"

She raised her head and sighed at the bright moon in the sky—

"It would be nice if anyone would be willing to help me work at night~~~"

"Yo! President, Dark, are you back from shopping? ”

Just as Ariel sighed and pondered, she was cold, but a voice came from ahead.

Ariel was stunned for a moment, lowered her head, and saw that on the roof of the Mermaid's Song Guild not far away, Cheese, who was on night duty, was sitting on the eaves in high spirits, stretching out his hand, and waving to Ariel and Duck with a smile on his face.

Looking at the members of the Night Clan, Ariel was a little weak at first.

But soon......

She laughed.