Xiaoqiang pretended to touch his head and recalled.

"I dug it out of the dirt while I was playing in the backyard."

"Huh? Digging out of our backyard? Are you sure? ”

Xiao Qiang nodded blankly and replied.

"I don't believe it, Daddy and I went to the backyard to have a look, the hole is still there."

After receiving his son's confirmation, the confusion on his father's face suddenly turned into a smile, and then he hugged his wife and said excitedly.

"It's gone, it's gone, since this bead was dug up from our backyard, it's ours, and now my gambling debts have been found."

Seeing that her husband was excited, her mother, who was still a little puzzled, confirmed.

"This bead can sell for twenty gold coins?"

The father nodded, "It's just a lot, and depending on the size of this bead, it is estimated that it can be sold for thirty." ”

Listening to her husband's words, the surprise on her mother's face was overflowing.

But thinking of her husband's character, the mother hurriedly held the beads tightly in her hand and said in a firm tone.

"Since this bead is so valuable, I will keep it all after I sell it."

Seeing his mother's appearance, Xiaoqiang laughed in his heart.

When my father saw it, he didn't dare to refute, but asked in a low voice.

"What about my gambling debts?"

Seeing that her husband was still thinking about gambling debts, her mother's mood suddenly stagnated when she was finally happy, and she said angrily.

"Of course, I have to pay it back to you, but I will definitely not leave you a child for the rest of the money, and that money will be used as tuition for Xiaoqiang."

"Tuition?" The father didn't seem to understand what the mother meant, and asked, "What tuition?" ”

Mother snorted, "I heard from the neighbors before, there is a magic academy in White Tiger City, since our son has received the blessing of the temple, he will naturally be able to enter the magic academy, as long as his son graduates from it, he will definitely be able to enter the White Tiger City Guard to work, and then we can also get out of this village and move to the city to live a good life." ”

The father is an ordinary person who keeps his duty, he didn't think about letting his son go to the magic academy to study, and after listening to his wife's words at the moment, he suddenly felt that this was also a way out, but when he thought of the high tuition fees of the magic academy, he retreated.

"But I heard that the tuition fee of the Magic Academy is very high, even if you sell this beast core, you may not be able to afford Xiaoqiang's tuition!"

The mother waved her hand and smiled, "You don't have to worry about this, I have asked, the annual tuition fee of the Magic Academy is two gold coins, and it is also food and accommodation, as long as we save a little money, it is not a problem for my son to graduate from it." ”

Seeing his wife's resolute attitude, his father didn't want to say anything more, so he looked at Xiaoqiang and asked.

"Xiaoqiang, do you want to study at the Academy of Magic?"

Xiao Qiang had long wanted to leave this home and go outside, but now that he had a chance because of his unintentional actions, he was naturally willing to contribute to this matter, so he nodded.

"Of course I want to go to the Academy of Magic."

Seeing that her son agreed, her mother immediately happily hugged Xiaoqiang.

"It's good, it's worthy of being my son, when my son graduates from the Academy of Magic, he can take us to White Tiger City to enjoy happiness."

Since the day she got the beast core, her mother seemed to be a different person, and everyone looked like she had bad intentions.

Carrying the beast core all day long is afraid that others will snatch it, even when sleeping, you have to hold the beast core to sleep peacefully.

However, in the middle of the night, she would get up from time to time and look out the window a few times, which made her father very helpless.

In the past few days, my father has been tortured several times and proposed to sell the beast core, but my mother has never wanted to go out of the yard for fear of being targeted by gangsters.

It wasn't until the morning of the third day of junior high school that my father mentioned the gambling debts, and my mother reluctantly left the house, and the three of them drove the carriage straight to White Tiger City early in the morning.

Along the way, Xiao Qiang leaned on the railing of the carriage and looked boredly at the scenery along the way, while his father drove the carriage and thought about how to sell the beast core.

As for the mother, she was nervous along the way, looking left and right, and from time to time she would remind her father to pay attention to passers-by, which made the father and son laugh again and again.

White Tiger City is thirty miles away from the town where Xiaoqiang lives, and the carriage traveled for most of the day, until the sun set in the west, and the three of them came to the foot of White Tiger City, but as soon as they arrived at the city gate, they were stopped by the soldiers guarding the city.

I saw a ruffian soldier head step forward, swept over the three of them arrogantly, and then asked arrogantly.

"Where did you come from, and what are you doing in the city?"

The father was well-informed, and hurriedly got out of the carriage and nodded.

"We are villagers from Deadwood Town, thirty miles away, and this time we came to White Tiger City to do some things, and asked the military master to let us in."

Seeing that his father was dressed in poor clothes, the soldier didn't have the heart to interrogate deeply, and after a brief inspection of the carriage, he picked up a notebook and recorded it, and then said like a flower child.

"Three copper coins for the entrance fee."

My father had long heard that he needed to pay an entrance fee to enter White Tiger City, and at this moment, when he saw that the military master stretched out his hand, he immediately understood the meaning, so he looked at his wife behind him and motioned for the other party to take the money into the city.

The mother didn't realize it, and still held the bulging burden and said nothing, and the father hurriedly stepped forward to remind him.

"Get me three copper coins."

Mother said curiously: "What do you want three copper coins for?" ”

"It's not me who wants it, it's the entrance fee."

"What? Do you have to charge to enter the city? Is there still a royal law here? ”

When my mother, who had never been out of the house much in her life, heard this, she immediately screamed, and the loudness of the voice immediately attracted the attention of the soldier, and the eyes that looked at this side became ill-intentioned.

Seeing this, the father hurriedly covered his mother's mouth and whispered urgently.

"This is the rule of White Tiger City, you don't say anything, otherwise we will go to jail if we anger the military master."

When my father said this, my mother was so frightened that she didn't dare to say much, and honestly handed over three copper coins.

After receiving the copper coin, my father hurriedly came to the head of the soldier, nodded and handed over the copper coin in his hand, but the head of the soldier did not take it, but raised his head and ignored it.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, my father hurriedly smiled and said.

"Master Jun, you have a lot of adults, and the women have never gone out, and the words just now are all unintentional words, don't go to your heart."

The soldier snorted coldly, glaring at his mother with a sharp gaze.

Frightened by the other party's look, the mother hurriedly lowered her head in fear.

"The rules of White Tiger City are not a day or two, haven't you inquired before you came, what is the fate of not being willing to pay."

Seeing that the soldier's anger did not decrease, but he had the posture of making a big fuss, and the father who was afraid of affecting his wife and children was heartbroken, he turned around and gave his mother a slap, and the explosion was extremely loud in the empty city gate, which immediately attracted the attention of countless passers-by.

"You headless and brainless woman, let you talk too much, let you contradict the military master, and don't take the rest of the copper plates to honor the military master."