Chapter 35: Homecoming
In the evening, Karina and Rollin finally returned to the town of Possan after a year's absence, Rollin first went to Karina's house, took a lot of things she had bought from the space of the dead, and then politely declined Karina's father Morey's kindness to have dinner with him, and rode on a donkey and hurried towards his house.
The three huts of his own house in the distance finally appeared in view, but Rollin found that there seemed to be three people standing at the door, arguing about something, and when he got closer, Rollin finally saw clearly, two of them were his parents, and the other was Arthur, who was second only to Morey in the town of Poissan, but he did business outside the town all year round.
At this time, Arthur's voice came from Arthur, who seemed to be extremely shocked: "Oh, Gegil, you're not joking, just your three small broken houses with only one floor cost 600 gold coins!"
"Brother Arthur, you see that the materials of my three houses are not very old, if you save a little to live, there should be no problem to live in for more than ten years, 600 gold coins is quite reasonable." "Gegill is racking his brains to sell his house.
"Gegil, you must know that the business of this house has been getting worse and worse recently, and it is estimated that it will take a long time for someone to take over your house when I buy your house now, so 400 gold coins is already my limit!" Arthur said with his hands spread out, as if helpless.
Arthur spends most of the year running business outside the town, only to return to the town at the end of the year to celebrate the Valkyrie Festival with his family, this year just arrived home, was found by Gegil, to sell his house to himself, he saw that Gegill and his wife seemed to have something urgent, selling the house is anxious, so he decided to press the price hard, get more oil and water, in fact, he made a lot of money for 600 gold coins in these three houses.
Seeing Arthur say this, the Gergill couple couldn't help but look at each other helplessly, and Isa said eagerly: "Arthur, we are really in a hurry to use the money, so let's do it, we only need 500 gold coins for these three houses, and we can trade them now!"
The more he saw that the Gergils were anxious, the more calm Arthur became, and his years of experience in business told him that this was the best time to reduce the price, so he pretended to be helpless and shook his head: "Ms. Isa, I also know that you are in a hurry to use the money, but I, Arthur, can't do a loss-making deal, no, I can only get 400 gold coins out of this house." ”
"Father, mother. Just as the Gergils were about to negotiate another price with each other, Rollin walked over.
"Oh, my little Rollin, you're back, let's go to the house and rest for a while, and we'll talk about it later. Gegil, Isha saw Rollin standing in front of her, and the anxious look on her face eased a little.
"You're Rollin, we haven't seen each other for a long time, where are you going?" As a businessman who traveled from south to north, Arthur was naturally very discerning, and at this moment, he found that Rollin, who had just arrived, seemed to be much stronger in temperament than before, so he couldn't help but chat casually.
Rollin turned his head and said respectfully, "Uncle Arthur, the academy is on vacation, and I just rushed back from there for the vacation." ”
"Oh, Academy, when did Rollin go to the academy and which academy did you go to?" Arthur, who has been doing business all year round, naturally didn't see the scene when Rollin passed the magician test when the town recruited students a year ago, and at the end of the year, as soon as he arrived home, he was pulled by Gegil to discuss the transaction of the house, so he didn't hear the family talk about it, but he was extremely shrewd, so he naturally had to inquire carefully.
"Uncle Arthur, I went to Potter Academy. Rollin replied truthfully.
When Arthur heard this, his eyes couldn't help but widen, "What, Bo, Potter Academy, is it the best magician academy on the continent of Aragon, which is not far from the emperor?"
"That's right, my little Rollin is taking classes at that Potter Wizard Academy. A look of pride appeared on Gergil's face.
After living in the same town for so many years, Arthur naturally knew that Gegil was an honest man, and he would never lie, so as soon as Gegill said this, he was convinced, and as a shrewd businessman, he immediately made a decision, "Oh, Gejir, you are really, why didn't you say earlier that Rollin's kid entered the Potter Academy, in this way, your three houses will be 600 gold coins, and the extra 200 gold coins will be regarded as my small reward to Rollin!"
The Gergils couple couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard this, they thought that their three houses could only be sold for 500 gold coins at most, but they didn't expect that they could sell for 600 gold coins at this moment, which was undoubtedly a relief for them who were in urgent need of money.
However, just as Gergill was about to make a deal with Arthur, Rollin suddenly said, "Father, Mother, I don't think our house should have to be sold!"
"Child, if we don't sell the house, where are we going to get so many gold coins!" Isha said with a wry smile, for the past two days, Gegil and her have been embarrassed by the matter of gold coins, and finally they have to sell the house.
"Huh!" The light flashed, and six black leather pouches suddenly appeared in Luo Lin's hands, and from the opening of the bag, you can see that there are bags of gold coins in them, Luo Lin has already exchanged the bonuses in the magic crystal card for bags of gold coins when he was in the academy, and when he was in the imperial capital, he spent a total of more than 300 gold coins to buy magic staff and other tools to go to the Mayan Mountains and some gifts for his family, and at this moment he took out almost all the gold coins left on his body.
Gegil looked at the full six bags of gold coins that Luo Lin's small hands couldn't put down in disbelief, and couldn't help but tremble: "Little Luo Lin, the academy is not a place to make money, where did you get these gold coins?"
"Father, this is the prize money I got from participating in the academy competition, I think with this, we don't have to sell the house!"
"Son, you have suffered so much outside, not only can we not help you, but now we have to spend your hard-earned gold coins......" Isha looked at Rollin, whose little face was covered with dust, and couldn't help but pull him into her arms, her eyes reddening.
Gegil was even more excited and couldn't control himself, and his big calloused hands couldn't help but tremble.
"Brother Gegil, sister-in-law Isa, you have a good son, it seems that there is no need to sell your house, and I won't bother you here, let's see you later." Although the deal was not made, Arthur didn't care at all, and left after a few polite words with the Gergill family.
Gegil rubbed his somewhat sour eyes, took Isha and Rollin's hands and said, "Isa, little Rollin, let's go and get Little Hawke back." ”
"Where has little Hawke gone?" Rollin hadn't seen his brother since he came to the door, and had always thought he was in the house, but now he heard his father say that he wasn't at home.
"Son, your brother's leg suddenly deteriorated yesterday, we sent him to the church in the town last night for treatment, they still saw your face before we treated little Hawk without paying the gold coins, this is not the two of us coming back today to raise money to send to the church. As soon as she heard Little Hawk, Isa's eyes were full of water again.
On the way to the church, Rollin gradually figured out that this afternoon, the Gergils saw that little Hawke had finally been rescued and had nothing to do, so they were a little relieved, and after discussing it, they came back to raise money.
In order to treat Little Hawke, the church was busy all night and a morning, and the natural consumption of manpower and material resources in the church was extremely large, and Doug, who was in charge of the church, tried to minimize their expenses, and finally calculated that they still had to pay 500 gold coins.
These 500 gold coins are undoubtedly impossible for the already impoverished Gergil family, even if Rollin's eldest uncle Alva takes out 500 gold coins at once, it is a bit difficult, and the last time he lent money to Rollin for the magician test, Gergil did not plan to borrow it from him.
As for Morey, the richest man in the town, as honest and honest Mr. and Mrs. Gergill naturally would not borrow 500 gold coins from others because their son and the other party's daughter were in the same college, so they discussed and discussed, and the two had to decide to sell the house for the time being, and after paying the church 500 gold coins for treatment, they would rent a cheaper house to live in.
The three of Rollin came to the church, gave Doug the 500 gold they owed, and then came to see little Hawke.
"Brother!" When Rollin appeared in front of the hospital bed, his face was pale, and the thin little Hawke's eyes suddenly lit up, and he opened a pair of small arms for Rollin to hug.
Looking at his younger brother who was tormented by illness, Rollin's nose was a little sour, but he forcibly held back his tears, picked up little Hawke and said a few words with him, and then carried him to the wheelchair, originally he wanted to push, but his mother Isha reached out and pushed the wheelchair, saying that Rollin was very tired along the way and wanted him to rest.
Rollin couldn't compete with her mother so she had to give it to her, Isha pushed the wheelchair out of the church first, and just as Gergill and Rollin were about to leave, the main pipe of the church suddenly gently pulled the corners of their clothes.
"Lord Doug, what's the matter?" Rollin asked softly as he looked at the church director who had conducted the mage test for himself a year ago.
Gegill also looked at each other with a puzzled expression.
Doug nodded at Rollin, and then said with a heavy face: "Gergil, Rollin, the next thing I want to say may be a big blow to you, you two be mentally prepared first!"