014 Even if it's simple, it's a miscalculation
After a short period of communication around the fire, Chen Xiansong and Bai Min joined Aslan's 'Life Like a Dream' mercenary group. I have to say that the name of this group sounds very civil, and in the words of the new human, it is very 'natural' style. And such a name, not like Aslan can come up with a big old man, Chen Xiansong asked curiously, and the answer he got was that when each mercenary group was established, it was reported by the Soul Thinkers Association in the big city, and the Soul Thinkers would be responsible for helping to name it, and if you were in a good mood, you would give it a name, and if you were in a bad mood, you would just name it, and you couldn't change it.
"When our mercenary group was first established, the soul contemplator in charge of naming it was just about to get married, and he helped us name it as soon as he was happy." Aslan smiled very smugly: "This name is good, no matter where you go, when others hear the name of our mercenary group, they will give a thumbs up and say that it is very artistic and contains profound philosophy." ”
This word is very philosophical, but when used in a mercenary group, it has a bit of a strange flavor. Chen Xiansong thinks that what is called the Dongfang Undefeated Mercenary Group, Dugu Seeking Defeat Mercenary Group, and Long Aotian Mercenary Group are much stronger than calling Life Like a Dream Mercenary Group. However, he can only slander in his heart, after all, this is someone else's mercenary group, and he is now an employee who has just come to work, how can he be qualified to make irresponsible remarks.
In order to celebrate Chen Xiansong and Bai Min's joining the group, Aslan ordered a bonfire welcome party, there was nothing special, just take out some treasured dried meat, bake it for a while, and everyone divided a small piece, chatting while eating, and having fun. Having extra meat to eat is quite a joy for the mercenaries.
The director of the merchant group, who had been resting nearby, was woken up, and he put on a thick cotton coat and walked out of the carriage. Along the way, the Life Like a Dream Mercenary Group performed quite perfectly in the night guards, and he was also very satisfied, but there were still two days away from the destination, so it was too early to start celebrating.
The director's name is Akara and he is a fat man. Then again, most successful businessmen are fat.
Fat Akara was a successful businessman, he had seen many nobles, women who were nobles, but he had never seen a woman whose skin could be so good, even in the dark of night, he could see that the girl sitting by the fire and wearing tattered clothes was definitely the most beautiful woman he had ever seen in his decades of life.
No wonder the mercenary group is partying! Akara sat down beside Aslan, who handed over a small piece of barbecued jerky, he took it, put it in his mouth and chewed it slowly for a while, before he asked in a low voice, "Captain Aslan, that girl, where did you get it from?" ”
Aslan smiled and pointed to the moon in the sky: "It's an angel sent by the goddess of the moon." She's already agreed to work in our mercenary group for a while, man, don't bother her idea. ”
Akara shrugged his shoulders regretfully, he did have this idea in his heart, beauty, who doesn't like it, even if he doesn't have any ability, just put it in the business group, look at it, and use it as a vase to nourish his eyes. More importantly, he felt that these two little guys should be from noble backgrounds, and most of them eloped to cause such an embarrassing situation.
Isn't there a warning among the servants of the sun god, it's easy to put the icing on the cake, but it's hard to send charcoal in the snow. It's a pity that he was robbed by Aslan, the big boss, and I can't see it, this person is also coarse and fine. For a moment, Akara sighed in his heart, hating that he hadn't brought these two children into his business group.
Then at about eleven o'clock in the morning, he felt even more pity.
After all, they still had to hurry the next day, and after the mercenaries carnivaled for a while, they went to sleep with all kinds of beautiful moods, and Da Tie continued to stand guard, but his eyes were no longer vigilantly looking outside, but focused on the carriage where Bai Min slept. Even if he couldn't see the girl, he couldn't take his eyes off it.
Because he guessed that the two were nobles, Aslan emptied a carriage and let Chen Xiansong and the two live in it, and sent them some clean clothes. It may be that he has slept for 10,000 years, Chen Xiansong is not sleepy, it took a lot of time to fall asleep, and when he woke up, he felt that the carriage was vibrating from time to time. ,
Bai Min sat next to the boy, and at this time she had already changed into a girl's clothes, although it was a very old kind, but it was much better than her wearing a tattered men's clothes. Chen Xiansong has seen Bai Min's naked body, which is very beautiful and beautiful, but he thinks that the girl who wears women's clothes is much more beautiful and cute.
Chen Xiansong remembered that in "The Necessary Self-cultivation of Natural Men and the View of the World", it was said that a woman wearing clothes is more beautiful than a woman without clothes, but men always like to take off women's clothes. It is nothing more than three reasons: one, conquest, two, carnal desire, and three, love. You have to learn to distinguish your feelings and figure out who the woman you really love is, the new human woman that we natural men will experience in our life will reach at least double digits, and only she will accompany you to the very end, watching you grow old slowly, and will never leave you until you die.
Let's not talk about the content behind this paragraph, Chen Xiansong feels that the first half is indeed too right, just wearing such simple clothes, Bai Min is so beautiful, even more beautiful than Youwei and Sister Jingwei, if you dress up a little and then put on a costume, what will it be? Chen Xiansong couldn't think of it, because the sexual suppressants on his body were still working, and he didn't have that kind of imagination.
Curled up and sleeping in the carriage for a long time, his body was quite uncomfortable, Chen Xiansong got up and twisted his body, and then subconsciously touched his face, but he didn't touch the water stains.
"Looks like I've had enough crying." Chen Xiansong said to himself, then turned his head and asked Bai Min, who was sitting quietly next to him, "How much time is it now?" ”
"10:24." Bai Min said lightly.
Chen Xiansong stuck his head out of the car window and saw that the weather outside was quite clear, and the carriage was slowly driving on a dirt road, surrounded by green plants, and red crystals loomed in it. While he was sleeping, the mercenaries escorted the merchant group out of the Gobi Desert.
His carriage was the last in the procession, and in front of them were more than a dozen wagons of the caravan. There were several mercenaries outside and behind the carriage in which he was riding, and when they saw him sticking out their heads, they all greeted him warmly: "The little guy is awake?" Ha Luha, you woke up so early. ”
Listening to this kind little taunt, Chen Xiansong responded with a wooden smile, making those few creepy. Then he retracted into the carriage and patted his face lightly with both hands: "Tsk, under the suppression of the emotional agent, it is not very convenient to communicate with expressions, Bai Min, how long will it take for the emotional suppressive agent to expire?" ”
"About 12 hours. Depending on the individual's constitution, it may increase or decrease. ”
"Oh. It's boring to sit like this, you have to find something to do, otherwise you'll be bored...... By the way, we're now the staff under the fence, so let's do something about the work. Chen Xiansong muttered to himself, then stuck his head out of the window and said to the nearest mercenary: "Brother, can you help me bring the account book, I want to find something to do!" ”
"You're going to get to work?" The mercenary was overjoyed: "Wait, I'll go to the regiment commander." ”
Then not long after, someone sent a stack of thick sheepskin rolls over, it was a woman with blond hair, a little beautiful, but her appearance was far worse than Bai Min's. She boarded the carriage with an unhappy face, and was stunned for a moment when she saw Bai Min, then snorted jealously, threw down the parchment roll in her hand, and left quickly.
Originally, Chen Xiansong wanted to say hello to her, but seeing her like this, he was in no mood. Natural man has been pampered by the new humans around him since he was a child, and he has always been the center of sight around him, and he will put his hot face on other people's cold butts, he also 'hummed' while learning the woman's demeanor and posture, and then spread his hands and shook his head and sighed, but there was no expression on his face, such an action was made, it was extremely strange, fortunately, there was no one else in the carriage except Bai Min.
The method of recording the account book in the parchment scroll is simple and primitive and outrageous, and Chen Xiansong feels that the most primitive knotted rope notation method of human beings may be better than this. The whole text of the parchment scroll is 'I received the task yesterday and got XXXX copper coins today', or 'I took the task in the morning and got XXXX copper coins in the afternoon,' or 'I completed the task today, and the employer paid the commission XXXX copper coins.' ’
There is no correct date record, let alone a record of expenditures, and it is almost impossible to correctly understand the 'profit and loss' of this mercenary group.
In addition, there is no multiplication and division at all, for example, the record of paying a fixed amount by day, which is calculated in the parchment roll (n+n=2n, 2n+n=3n, 3n+n=4n), not (nx4), the most outrageous thing is that there is a task that lasts for more than a year, so I add it day by day, write a dozen parchment rolls, and then ............ The final result was miscalculated, and it was about a third less than the amount. ,
It took nearly an hour for Chen Xiansong to finish reading all the parchment rolls, and he felt dizzy and too hard. With a sigh of relief, he stuck his head out of the window again, and shouted to the mercenary just now: "Brother, can you please ask Uncle Aslan to come over, there are some things I want to ask about the account book." ”
It didn't take long for Aslan to board the carriage where Chen Xiansong was, he put the old broadsword in his hand aside, then wiped the sweat on his face, and asked, "Little guy, is there anything wrong with the account book?" ”
"It's a big problem, at least a third of the records in it are calculated wrong, and besides, the way this account book is recorded is too rudimentary." Chen Xiansong took out three of them from the bottom of the parchment scroll and put them in front of Aslan: "I want to ask, these three parchment scrolls are the records of the same mission, and the handwriting is still very fresh, it should be the settlement of the mission amount of our mercenary group this time." ”
Aslan took a look at it, nodded and said, "Yes, although I don't know how to read, and I can't count more than 100 digits, but every time Campbell records, I look at it from the sidelines, and this is it." What, is there a problem? ”
"Uncle, can the head of the regiment tell me the content and amount of the task."
Aslan thought back for a moment and said, "Akara hired us to escort the merchant group from Black Earth City to the Wau Empire, and then come back, even today is a total of 96 days, and we will return to Black Earth City in two days, and he will pay us a commission of 51 copper coins every day. We agreed in advance that no matter how long it takes, as long as the goods can be safely returned to Black Earth City, Akara will pay us a commission for 100 days. ”
"Is it a cost to eat and stay in a hotel?" And how to calculate the casualty pension? ”
These words were a little new to Aslan, he thought for a while before he understood what they meant, and immediately shook his head and said, "The food is fixed and distributed free of charge by the merchant group every day, and we solve some of it ourselves, and it is not included in the commission." The casualty pension you mentioned should refer to the money for selling your life, these merchant groups don't care, they are generally responsible for the mercenary group themselves, what's the matter, did Campbell miscalculate? ”
Chen Xiansong nodded: "Well, I miscalculated, I just don't know if she counted the extra food expenses in it." ”
"Except for some of our food that the merchant group gives away for free every day, the rest is obtained by us hunting in the wild." Aslan said seriously: "All mercenary groups, when they are on a mission, will never spend an extra copper coin on food. ”
Chen Xiansong looked at the wrong number calculated after the most difficult on the parchment roll, and asked, "Uncle, did you get the commission?" ”
"I got half, 1,700 copper coins, and Campbell told me that half of the 3,400 copper coins was 1,700. The rule of the mercenary industry is to take half of the deposit before the official start of the mission, and take the remaining half after the mission is over. To make it easier to carry, we went to the nobles' shops and exchanged the copper coins for gold and silver coins, and of course, the vampires took 50 copper coins from us as a fee. Thinking that the other party could take away the reward that their mercenary group had worked hard for a day, Aslan was quite unhappy in his heart.
"Wrong, wrong" Chen Xiansong shook his head vigorously: "According to what you say, the amount for 100 days should be 5,100 copper coins, and half should be 2,550 copper coins." ”
Aslan was stunned, although he didn't know how to count, he still had basic common sense. The number 2550 sounds a lot more than 1700. He slapped his thigh violently: "Miscellaneous, Akara this shit, you dare to lie to me, no, I'll go to him to theorize." ”