Chapter 40: The Reckoning and the Beggars

"It's boring......" Lorist said.

The table was full of cups and plates, and Lorlister, who had just enjoyed a delicious meal, lazily leaned against the wall and sighed.

"Day, your kid is a super-rich man now, don't just moan without illness when you're fine, disgusting or disgusting. Shi Fatzi spit out the toothpick in his mouth, with a look of contempt.

"Heh, fat man, how disgusting is my brother, don't forget that the meal you just ate was paid for by the guest invited by my brother. It is said that the hands that take people are short, and the mouth that eats people is soft, you are good, and you will turn your face and deny people when you are full of food and drink. "Anyway, it's boring, and Lorist doesn't mind arguing with Fat Shi.

"Brother is not turning his face, brother is envious, jealous, hate! Last year, your kid was still running around for a few gold coins like us, but now, your kid has bought a building, more than 5,000 gold coins, without blinking an eye, he said he would buy it. There are more than forty rooms, and seven or eight gold coins can be credited to the account every month, why don't you call us red-eyed!Telman, Yuri, Steve, do you say?"

Several people sitting at a table next to him nodded their heads in agreement, thinking that what Shi Fatzi said was right.

Yuri asked curiously, "Locke, how much money have you earned in the past few months?"

Lorist thought for a moment and shook his head: "I really haven't counted it myself, but there are always seven or eight thousand, and when El asked me if I was interested in taking over that building, I went home and found that I had saved so many gold dollar scrolls, and it was useless to put them away, so I simply took them and bought that building." ”

"I'll do the math for you. As soon as he talked about Qian Shi, the fat man came to the heart: "In March and April, you swept through the twenty-seven colleges in the college district and won the duel of the colleges, and the dead old man called you to the dean's office, and in the name of winning a college to reward you with one hundred gold coins, you received two thousand seven hundred gold coins, right?"

"Day, how do you know?" Lorist felt a toothache, the dead old man was afraid that the reward amount would be too big and make people blush, how could the dead fat man know so well?

"Don't care how I know, there's such a thing, right?" Shi Fatzi was triumphant, looking like he knew everything.

Loris nodded.

"It's the first intake, and the next big ones are the challengers. In March it was two hundred and forty, in April it was three hundred and sixty, in May it was six hundred and eighty, in June it was seven hundred, and last month in July it was five hundred and twenty, for a total of two thousand five hundred. At the end of each month, the Finance Department will settle you out, and you will have a share of three gold coins for each challenger, and you will receive 7,500 gold coins from this income alone. It adds up to more than 10,000 yuan, so this kid doesn't feel distressed to spend so much money to buy a building. "Shi Fatzi remembers it in real detail. 、

On the day, Lorist suddenly thought that the law enforcement department of the academy in charge of Shi Fatzi also had a share of the profits from the challenger, no wonder it was so clear.

"Also, there have been 18 external challenge days this month, and although there are only a few challengers who have signed up now, the academy has decided to end the event with 3,000 challengers. The morning after tomorrow is still the day of external challenges, adding up to three hundred and eighty challengers, as long as there are one hundred and twenty more challengers in the future, Locke will be three thousand wins. So he still had fifteen hundred gold coins in the academy's finance department. ”

Telman suddenly remembered something and asked, "I heard that if Locke can win 3,000 games in a row, the academy will spend more than 1,000 gold coins to create a life-size bronze statue for him to be erected in the academy as a commemoration, is this true?" ”

"What if it's true? The problem is that the more than a thousand gold coins are only for the statue of Little Locke, not for him. There's a fart. According to me, it is better to give the more than 1,000 gold coins as a bonus to Xiao Locke, and then let Xiao Rock stand in the academy and pretend to be a bronze statue if he has nothing to do, so that everyone will be happy. "Shi Fatzi has always hated these face-saving projects that cannot increase the thickness of his pocket, so he has been very critical of the college's move to prepare a statue of Lorlist.

"Fuck off, you have nothing to do with standing in the academy and pretending to be a bronze statue, brother is not El. Lorist scolded. As soon as he said this, everyone remembered the past when they pretended to be plaster statues in the women's bathroom, and they laughed together.

Shi Fatzi continued to settle accounts for Lorlist: "Little Locke's biggest income comes from the plates they opened, although they haven't gotten their hands on it yet, and now few people buy Locke and lose, but the plates have to wait for the end of the academy before they can settle the bill." However, last time I checked the general ledger with El, and this kid Locke at least has a share of more than 20,000 gold coins. I can't stand it when I think that this kid can lie down on the pile of gold coins and sleep in the future, my brother can't make so much money in his life after suffering in the academy!"

"Hey, hey, don't say you're fat, you're gasping, my brother's money is earned by my brother fighting in the ring, don't forget that you also earn a lot from your brother, 10,000 is not enough for a few thousand gold coins. Speaking of which, you people are all small billionaires with a net worth of thousands of gold coins, can't you afford a building and a small yard? Fat man, if you want to sleep on the pile of gold coins, you can do it, and you can go on when your brother gets out of the ring. Lorist said.

"Day, do you have the ability to return to the ring? Shi Fatzi said stupidly.

"If you can't bear it, shut up, every day you are jealous of this and envy of that one who is talking nonsense, if you have this idle work, it is better to go back and work hard to cultivate, and it is the right thing to be promoted to the gold rank as soon as possible. Brother Locke can earn so many gold coins because of his ability, you don't know how many risks you have experienced in the ring in the past few months, who is sure that you can survive a day? A voice interjected, and scolded Shi Fatzi with a slashing head and face.

"Day, El, when is it your turn to teach your brother a lesson......" Shi Fatzi was furious and jumped up.

The person who came was El Er, and I saw him squinting and pouting at Shi Fatzi with disdain: "What, I'm not convinced, why don't we go to the backyard to practice?"

"I'm ...... day" Shi Fatzi was stunned, sat down hatefully, raised his wine glass and took a big sip: "Brother is a civilized person, and he doesn't have the general knowledge of your mixed society." ”

Two months ago, El's dark attribute fighting spirit was finally promoted to three silver stars, so he happily went to Lorist to compete, and the result was the same as the original, and he still had to lie down. But then El regained his balance in Fat Sh, who told Fat Boy to stand aside and talk nonsense while he was competing with Lorlist, and he was burned.

Shi Fatzi was promoted more than a year earlier than El, and seeing that Lorist beat down El so easily, he thought that he must have no problem dealing with this newly promoted rookie. Who knew that El's dark attribute fighting spirit was much more powerful than that of ordinary attributes, coupled with the messy thief tricks that El himself had figured out blindly, Shi Fatzi was disgraced, and he went up three times and lost face three times. Shi Fatzi was not convinced, and in the following month, he tried seven times in private with Er. The results of the competition announced to the public were that Shi Fatzi proposed that harmony be precious, but Er did not agree.

"Here, it's all done. El handed Lorist a brown paper bag. It was a real paper bag made of cowhide, and inside it was a title deed, a receipt for the management fee, and a tax certificate, as well as a few gold dollar rolls and a few gold coins.

Er picked up a bottle of black plum fruit wine on the table, pulled the cork and didn't use a wine glass, and directly mouthed the bottle mouth "grunt" is a few big mouthfuls: "The name of the owner of the house has been changed to your name, the management fee is 5/1000, the tax is 10%, and there will be no other charges in the future." The rest of the money is in the bag, you count. ”

Lorist raised his glass, "Thanks, El." ”

"You're welcome, brother. ”

This is Lorlist's first property in the city of Morente, a concave building on the Rose Avenue near the business district, with a Gothic four-storey spire loft with twelve suites on each floor. It was originally the mansion of the Earl of the Duchy of Mobia, but three months ago, the Duchy did not know what had happened, and the Earl was in a hurry to sell the building for cash.

When El got the news, he remembered that Lorist had said that he wanted to buy a building, so he took Lorist to see it privately. Horist thought it was good and entrusted Eldai with him to buy the building. The original building worth more than 7,000 gold coins only cost 5,004 to get Lorist was very satisfied, but then the tax of 10% of the real estate transaction amount and the management fee of 5/1000 that needed to be paid to the city hall made Lorist feel pain. However, it is comforting to know that as long as these two fees are paid, the building truly belongs to Lorlist, and there is no need to pay any taxes on the building until his death.

"What are you going to do with the building?" El asked.

"Leave it to Ledos, isn't he building a club that specializes in labor services, and I'm going to entrust the building to him, let him rent and manage it for me, and give me half of the rent every month. Lorist said.

"It's okay, in the past two days, I'll ask Ledos to sign a power of attorney and management agreement with you. El nodded, agreeing with Lorliste's idea.

"Uncle Locke, I want a big chicken leg too. The little girl, Alyssa, ran over and shook Lorlist's arm, having just played with her brother Schward in the backyard of the Rook Tavern.

Lorlist's hometown, the middle-aged mercenary Bodfinger at the peak of silver, nursed his injuries at Lorlist's house for more than two months before recovering from his injuries, during which the two talked and became friends. And Bodfinger's two children are also deeply loved by Lorlist. The boy Schward is extremely sensible, loves to learn, and is diligent and hardworking. Bodfinger once saw Lorist instructing his attendant Reddy to practice swords, so he said that when Schward awakened his fighting spirit in a few years, he would learn swords from Lorlist.

Originally, it was just a joke, but who knew that Lorist asked him very seriously, is what he just said true? Bode Finger nodded inexplicably, and then saw Lorist call Schwart over and let him kowtow to him three times, and let him make a big salute to Reddy, so Schwart involuntarily became Lorlist's second apprentice, and his senior brother was the attendant Reddy.

As for the youngest daughter Alyssa, it is even more Lorist baby, every time Lorist sees her, he always thinks of his youngest daughter in his previous life, so he is very fond of Alyssa and responds to her requests. even specially found a craftsman to convert the small attic into a small bedroom for the brother and sister, which made Alyssa and Schward excited. made Bo Finger jealous, and his daughter was not close to her father, but to Uncle Locke.

After Bodfinger recovered from his injury, he wanted to take the children away, but he was forcibly kept by Lorist for many reasons, one is that the two children like to stay here and the living conditions are relatively good, so it is better to follow Bodfinger around. The second is that Schward is already his own apprentice, how can there be any reason for the apprentice to leave the master. The third is that Bodfinger doesn't have to go to a destination, how can he take his children to endure hardships if he hasn't settled down well? The last reason is extremely powerful, when Bo Finger defeats himself, he can leave at any time.

Seeing that the two children were one-sidedly supportive of Lorlist, Bodfinger reluctantly agreed to stay for a while longer, and then take the children away when he found a place where he could settle down.

Lorist originally wanted to recommend Bodfinger to become a Silver Instructor at Dawn Academy, but Bodfinger refused, citing his unwillingness to stay in Moriente. Lorist couldn't force it, so he had to leave it to him. Then he took him to the Rook Tavern, introduced Old Gal to him, and asked him to take over the commission from here in the future.

It's August now, and most of the college's professional disciplines have been closed, but there are still dozens of students in the Dou Qi Initiation Class that Lorist is in charge of are still undergoing final training, and they will have a Dou Qi awakening at the end of the month. The eldest young master of the Peterson family is also among them, the big fat man who used to be more than 370 pounds successfully lost half of his weight after going through a hellish weight loss process, although 180 pounds is still a little overweight, but it does not prevent him from awakening his fighting spirit.

When President Peterson came to visit in private last month, he wept with joy when he saw his precious son squatting in the bushes now, and desperately took out the gold dollar scroll from his pocket to express his gratitude when he parted.

The academic system of the college is very peculiar and relaxed, with two semesters every year, one long and one short, the long one is in March, the end of July to the end of August is the holiday, September is the festival of the harvest, this month is the thunderous holiday. Then classes start on October 15 and end on December 15 and continue until March of the following year. Lorist speculated that this may have been due to the fact that the people of Guelinthia had a custom of cat winters in the past, which made this winter vacation so long.

In addition, Dawn Academy claims to have more than 5,000 students, but in fact, it is already very good to have more than 2,000 students in class every semester, and more of them are enrolled students. Or work part-time at the academy as Lorist used to. Or they can't make up enough tuition, so they have to work for a while and wait for enough money before returning to the college to take classes. Or covet the cheap rent of the student's residence, like the last time Shi Fatzi took someone to inspect the student's residential area, he found that several couples had given birth to children and were still nesting in the student's dormitory, and checked the information and found that they were all old students five or six years ago, and they lived in the college before graduation and regarded the student dormitory as their home. In short, the academy is extremely laissez-faire and free for its students, which makes Lorist sometimes feel that the academy is less like an academy and more like a large community.

As El said, Lorist has now truly become a celebrity in the city of Moriente, black iron lock, silver invincible. The famous Dawn Academy's black iron gold teaching. It is even rumored that at the end of this year, Dawn College finally climbed over the mountain of San Marceau College and rose one place in the rankings. Among them, Lorist's academy duel and the victory of the silver teaching that swept through the twenty-seven colleges played a large role.

After July, fewer and fewer Silver Swordsmen from Dawn Academy challenged Lorlist, even if Dean Levins raised the prize to five hundred goldfords. Garry Lando, the owner of the Crow Tavern, said: "Five hundred gold coins looks tempting, but you also have to have the ability to get it." Instead of chasing this illusory bubble of wealth, it is better to grab the ten gold coins in your hand. ”

So Lorist felt a little bored, it had become a habit to challenge duels for months in a row, and now that the challenger was gone, he felt very uncomfortable, feeling that he had nothing to do, and he couldn't go out on adventures as a mercenary and his friends as before, after all, there were still some things to end in the academy. So today, I brought the two children and Reddy, and gathered my friends from the academy to go to the Red Crow Tavern for a big dinner.

Affectionately scratched the little nose of the little girl who shook her arm and coquettishly said, Lorist said dotingly: "Okay, okay, Uncle Locke will call our little princess a big chicken leg." ”

Raising his head, Lorist shouted at the counter, "Boss, ask Madoff to serve us another plate of fried chicken thighs." ”

Standing behind the counter was the former maid eldest sister Louise, who became the proprietress more than three months ago. Since agreeing to marry old Gal and go to the Temple of Honey to buy a recovery potion to take, it has only been more than three months since she got married, and Sister Louise has a body, which makes everyone praise Gary Lando for being an old man, and it is admirable that he is almost sixty years old and can still make Louise pregnant, and Old Gal is proud. However, El privately revealed to Lorist that the dead old man had taken several bottles of Terrance donkey whips from him, and if that didn't work, he could only say that the dead old man's thing was useless.

The fried golden fried chicken thighs were quickly delivered to the table, and Alyssa took two and said that she would bring one to her brother Schward and hopped to the backyard. But after a while Alyssa ran back and wanted to take two more.

"Huh, Alyssa, why did you eat so fast? Uncle just took two bites, is Alyssa's mouth bigger than uncle's?" El teased the cute little girl.

"No, Alyssa's mouth is so small, it's not as big as her uncle's. Alyssa gave those two chicken legs to a beggar, and he was so pitiful. The little girl pouted, very upset that El said she had a big mouth.

Lorist took two more fried chicken legs and handed them to the little girl: "Don't give these two chicken legs to the beggar again, if he wants to be pitiful, he can ask his brother to give him two copper coins." ”

The little girl took the chicken leg and replied innocently: "But my brother's money has been given to him, my brother said that he is also from the Northland, and he came to Moriente City to find a young master called Norton Lorit, Aunt Louise said that she had never heard of this name, and she gave him a bowl of oatmeal porridge because she was pitiful, and Alyssa gave him chicken legs when she saw that he had no vegetables." ”

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