"Honorable Mr. Merchant, do you need a temporary servant or two to help you carry your luggage?"

When the cargo ship docked at the port, Xue Hua walked from the deck to the port with two "bodyguards" transformed from mimicry chicks carrying a duffel bag that was actually empty.

As soon as he walked onto the wooden pier of the harbor, which was covered with white salt frost, a group of ragged and skinny coolies surrounded him.

The coolies all looked like children, some of whom were probably not even ten years old, with thin bodies and torn and stained clothes.

These children are the children of poor families living in the port area, and the saying that "the children of the poor are in charge of the house early" is also applicable in this world.

All the poor people living in the port area have to work so that they can barely feed their families.

Xue Hua didn't have anything in his duffel bag, so naturally he couldn't hand it over to others so as not to reveal a flaw, so he handed the duffel bag in his hand directly to the two "bodyguards" behind him, and then said to them in the disappointed eyes of these children: "I don't need a servant to help me carry my bag, but I need a guide who can show me the way, and if any of you can take me to familiarize myself with the terrain in King's Port, then this is his!" ”

Xue Hua put his hand in his pocket, and after feeling for a long time, he didn't find a coin smaller than a gold coin, so he finally had to take a gold coin out of the inventory, put it in his hand and tossed it lightly.

It didn't matter what he did, but it made the eyes of all the coolies on almost half of the trestle straight.

You know, in this world, things like gold coins are dropped by monsters, which are not only common all over the world but also have a very high value.

In contrast, other smaller currencies are minted by the various human kingdoms themselves, such as King's Harbor, which is a very common gold, silver, and copper triple decimal system, that is, one universal gold coin can be exchanged for 100 King's Harbor Silver Sail Coins, and so on.

Not only can the value of this kingdom self-mint coin not be comparable to that of the universal gold coin, but also many kingdoms do not recognize the circulation of other countries' currencies in their own countries, and large-scale international trade uses the gold coin settlement system, even if there is a small difference, merchants would rather round up than collect the kingdom coinage.

This is even more common in the port area of King's Port, where merchants from almost all kingdoms of the First World trade with it, as it is a large and cosmopolitan port.

The sheer volume of trade also brought with it all sorts of currency problems, which were of little significance for the bulk trade between merchants, but which were detrimental to the poor who made a living by selling coolies by the port.

These coolies are often paid for their service by a variety of Kingdom coins, which basically have to go to the black market and be exploited by the black-hearted mints before the rest can actually fall into the hands of these coolies.

Few coolies ever received gold coins after their work, and a universal gold coin was worth almost as much as half a year's total income for a family of five.

Now Xue Hua took out a gold coin from his pocket, and claimed that he could get this golden gadget as long as he took him around King's Harbor, who wouldn't want such a good thing?

Almost half of the coolies on the trestle looked at the gold coin in Xue Hua's hand, but the strange thing was that more than ten minutes had passed, and none of the coolies dared to come up to earn this windfall.

Even the group of children who had surrounded Xue Hua before now ran away from Xue Hua's side.

"What's going on?" Xue Hua frowned.

In fact, he didn't need any so-called guides at all, the swarm had already infiltrated the aristocratic district and port area of King's Harbor in the previous months, and all the details of the terrain and the city here were naturally recorded in the mind of the main nest for Xue Hua to read, the reason why he did this was just to look at these skinny little guys for a while.

This result was indeed beyond his expectations, could it be that the money taken out at once was too much, and it made these coolies think that they had some other sinister thoughts?

If that's the case, then he really can't do anything but say that God won't let him do this good.

However, just as he was helplessly about to put away the gold coins, he inadvertently captured a detail through the monitoring field of the King Worm.

It was this detail that made Xue Hua suddenly understand why no one dared to come up to take this deal.

At the huge docks of King's Harbour, under the eaves of the old, low, salt-covered buildings, a few men dressed in black leather and ruffian faces were staring greedily at his coat pockets across the trestle crowd, while a few hooligans who looked like they were leaning against the pillars of the trestle, scanning the coolies around them with menacing eyes.

There was a faint glimmer of cold light on the cuffs of these guys, and the port coolies passing by them clearly bypassed the entire position where these guys were standing.

Heh, dock gangsters......

Xue Hua sneered in his heart, remembering a passage he had seen in "Chronicles of King's Port".

"The docklands of Kings Harbour are a haven for the gangsters, and there are hundreds of gangs in the area. The first test for newcomers to the city is these nasty thugs and scoundrels, who are the first feast for passing travelers in King's Port.

Here, you have to be vigilant at all times and take every opportunity to show your toughness and invincibility, otherwise you will not be able to make it to the port area at all, and you will be cut through your purse, your throat will be cut, and you will be thrown into the sea to feed the fish. ”

The author of this book clearly understands this, and devotes an entire page of parchment to the vicious deeds of the gangsters in the docks of Port Kings, and at the same time writes about many precautions against these leprosy fellows, including but not limited to carrying a loaded light crossbow with him, hiding his money bag in his underwear and hanging it on his chest, etc.

Of course, if you're a professional or mercenary, most dock gangsters will let you go as long as you show off your class traits.

After all, although there are some professionals and mercenaries among them who have degenerated to such an extent, the first purpose of these guys is obviously to seek money, not to involve themselves in a battle that could kill them.

However, Xue Hua's will clone is now playing the identity of a businessman, and even in order not to be accidentally recognized by the people of the Majeri family, he has even made a significant modification to his appearance, so carefully disguised, naturally he can't let a few dock gangsters leak the bottom.

So he pretended not to see those little gangsters, and walked towards the edge of the trestle with two "bodyguards" with a disappointed expression.

Just as he was thinking about how he could teach these lawless creatures a quiet lesson, a petite figure suddenly ran towards him from the pile of goods on the side of the trestle.

The two mimic chick bodyguards behind Xue Hua immediately raised their vigilance, but this reckless little guy stopped urgently a step or two in front of Xue Hua.

"Kind sir, I would like to be your guide and show you around King's Port!"