Chapter 003: Making a Living
Flipping through Ryan's memories, he found that Ryan's previous life in Kata was even more down. Most of the silver coins obtained from the hard work of completing a mercenary mission are used for drinking, and the remaining silver coins are used to buy some baked cakes to fill their stomachs.
As for the place to stay at night, when you first have silver coins, you can also rent a cheapest bed in a hotel to sleep. Later, when there were no silver coins, they would lie down and sleep wherever they were, not much like a beggar. In the end, when the silver coins ran out, he naturally became diligent again and went to the mercenary association to take tasks to make money. I came back to make money and started drinking again. I lived like this for two years.
Thinking about it, Ryan couldn't help but smile bitterly, his previous life was too simple and decadent. Changing to the current Ryan, I really can't adapt to this kind of life.
"No, I'm going to live my own way in the future, and the former Ryan is dead." Ryan quickly made up his mind.
Now that you've made up your mind, it's time to act. But Ryan can't think of future plans yet, or Ryan hasn't had time to think about it yet.
Ryan looked at his body and saw that it was so dirty, muddy and stained. Now Ryan finds that he really accepts a body that is not so dirty, and he can't help but despise the previous Ryan, who is too sloppy.
Ryan decides that the first thing he does when he is reborn into this world is to take a bath.
Looking through Ryan's memories, Ryan soon found a communal bathhouse. After paying the fee of 20 copper coins, Ryan went straight to the bucket in the bathhouse. After soaking in the bucket and rubbing every part of his body with a cloth several times, Ryan found that the body looked rough, but the skin was still very delicate, but he couldn't see it if he didn't look closely.
It took Ryan more than an hour to finish his shower and slowly come out of the bathhouse. Ryan then went to a shop that sold clothes and bought a burlap shirt. Then he took off his leather armor and put on his newly purchased clothes.
The original leather armor did not meet Ryan's aesthetic standards at all, and it felt a little silly. The newly bought shirt was a bit small, but after Ryan cut off the long sleeves, it became a tight-fitting sleeveless vest, which can be worn on the body to show off the burliness of the body. This made Ryan happy.
The night in Kata City is already approaching, and the midsummer heat will slowly subside.
Only then did Ryan have the leisure to re-appreciate this familiar and unfamiliar city.
Pedestrians on the road become scarce as night progresses. Many shops are lit up with bright lanterns at the entrances of shops, streets, and intersections.
Ryan looked at the dazzling light inside the lantern and was surprised that there was a candle inside. Or is it light oil? Flipping through Ryan's memory, he found that he didn't know what it was to light up. Ryan shook his head with a wry smile and thought, "Whatever?" It won't be electric anyway. ”
Ryan looked closely at the houses on both sides of the street, and found a bit of a European medieval style in his past life. But to be honest, it would be difficult for Ryan to describe what European medieval style is, given the memory of his previous life, which can be called a lonely memory. So the so-called European style feeling is the attic, castle, minaret and other buildings.
Ryan walked around the streets of Kata City for more than an hour and began to lose interest in shopping. The streets are now less crowded with pedestrians, but the many bars in Kata are brightly lit and bursts of laughter can be heard from time to time.
Ryan in the past may have been in the bar by this time, drinking and bragging. But now Ryan has no interest in going in, and even has some disgust.
Next, Ryan found a hotel, rented a bed, and prepared to stay for one night.
Lying on the bed, looking at the roof beams, Ryan had to think about his future plans in detail.
It's a world of swords and sorcery, but Ryan has only learned some superficial swordsmanship before, and the most important fighting spirit has not had a chance to learn. He relied on this stout body to take on some simple mercenary tasks in the mercenary association, and with Ryan's overly simple mind, there was really no other profession to be qualified for except to be a meat shield and had no future.
So when Ryan was considering whether to go back to his old business, he didn't have to think twice about it, and just vetoed it. "Just kidding, if you still do the deadly profession of meat shield now, it will be insulting my brain."
Thinking about it, Ryan began to sketch a bright future in his mind: learn fighting spirit, practice swordsmanship, learn magic, defeat masters from all walks of life, soak a beauty, obtain treasures, kill a dragon, and become famous in the continent......
Ryan couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought of the happy place.
Suddenly, Ryan's mind woke up as if struck by lightning: "In my previous life, when I was studying, I also fantasized about a bright future, but the cruel reality made me only able to live in the factory in a mess. If I do these fantasies now, I'll be muddy in the future. No, I want to live on the ground. ”
After careful analysis in his mind, Ryan came to a result: first find a way to solve the problem of food and clothing, and then gradually improve his strength.
After making his decision, Ryan turns over his memories of this life and discovers that Ryan is the son of a blacksmith in a small town near Kata City. Since he was a child, his father taught Ryan to strike iron, but Ryan, like all young people in this world, is not satisfied with such an ordinary life at all, and dreams of being able to be vigorous and famous in the mainland.
So, at the age of 16, Ryan, who had learned some rudimentary swordsmanship, left home and began to live as a mercenary.
Looking through other memories, Ryan sadly discovers that Ryan doesn't know any other skills except being a blacksmith and striking iron. Moreover, iron-striking is only a superficial iron-striking technique.
However, the current Ryan does not reject the iron-making industry, so he decided to see if he can find a job in iron-making tomorrow and earn some money to solve the problem of food and clothing.
With a plan for tomorrow, Ryan began to sleep with his eyes closed.
Ten minutes later, Ryan noticed that something was wrong, he found that his mind was very clear, there was no drowsiness at all, and he couldn't sleep.
No, how can this be? Ryan in the past should have been snoring at this time. Not to mention in his previous life, he had already fallen asleep after working too much overtime.
Why can't you sleep at all now? Too excited? Not tired? I had insomnia.
No, you have to go to bed early, or you won't have energy tomorrow.
Next, Ryan tried countless ways to make himself fall asleep, but he was still in good spirits and did not feel sleepy. Later, when it was almost dawn, I felt a little sleepy and fell asleep.
As soon as it was dawn, Ryan woke up, and he found that he had only slept for more than an hour. Although I only slept for a while, I was in good spirits, just as good as I had slept for one night.
Ryan had some oddities, but he didn't take it to heart, because the main thing he was looking for today was to find a job as a blacksmith.
After nibbling on a few hard-to-swallow pancakes, Ryan began to look for blacksmith shops on the street.
From Ryan's memory, I know that the shops that usually need to hire people will put a note at the door to sign it.
But after Ryan walked a few streets, he found that the few blacksmith shops he saw did not have notices for applicants.
"It seems that to give full play to the characteristics of being a person in the previous life, that is, to be thick-skinned." Ryan decided to take the initiative and asked the store directly if he wanted to hire someone.
Next, after countless inquiries through the door, countless rejections, and countless blows out of the door, Ryan finally found a small blacksmith shop to hire someone.
This shop called Moya Blacksmith Shop is the only owner Moya's father, who originally had a son to help him, but recently his son who was unwilling to be lonely followed a mercenary group away. So just when Daddy Moya was still thinking about whether to ask someone to help, Ryan came in and asked if he wanted to ask if he wanted to help, which made Daddy Moya decide to ask someone to help.
After asking Ryan some questions, and after Ryan tried to hit a piece of iron, Daddy Moya recognized Ryan's ability to strike iron. However, after Ryan proposed the condition of including board and lodging, Daddy Moya thought carefully for a while, and finally gave a salary of 10 silver coins per month.
10 silver coins per month, which is equivalent to a few hundred dollars per month in the previous life, is a little less, Ryan doesn't care, anyway, doing this iron-striking is not a job that he wants to do for a long time, it's just a transition.
However, Ryan thought about it for a while and put forward a condition, that is, he was allowed to take some raw iron ore and make a set of his own weapons.
Daddy Mo Ya was a little strange, but considering that the original iron ore was not worth a few dollars, he agreed.
In this way, Ryan began his blacksmithing life at Daddy Moya's blacksmith shop.