Chapter 21: Irina
It was nearly midnight, and the county of Jocha was still brightly lit and full of people, which showed that its business was thriving.
In the backstreets of the southern city, Nuosen and Kembo stood in front of the bounty that should have been closed for a long time, and on the way back to Jochashire, Nuosen had already put the three magic cores into the secret ring, and at this moment, he took out the primary magic core from the secret ring.
After too many years, the core has lost its luster and faded to a pale muddy gray, and the shell that wraps it has collapsed into an irregular round cake, like a persimmon cake in the world of Erth. He's already probed, and the quality is six stars white.
Entering the bounty office, the previous tall and fat woman made a 180-degree turn in her attitude towards the two, serving tea and pouring water, greeting her with much enthusiasm and enthusiasm.
Nuo Sen didn't want to stay longer, and urged her to do it as soon as possible, but the tall and fat woman didn't dare to delay, and soon put the prestige stone and the bounty of two thousand copper coins on the counter.
Norson put it into the Ring, asked for a new Prestige Stone, made a simple registration and hurried to the port.
Two thousand copper coins, this is the first pot of gold earned by Northam, and one of the contracts with the goddess of life, Demer, is to "have enough gold coins", although two thousand copper coins are very small, but they have finally taken the first step on the Great Wall.
He took one out of the ring and played with it in his hand, a brand new copper coin with a bright luster peculiar to red copper, with a soaring eagle on both sides, the size of a five-cent coin, slightly thinner thick, but as light as paper.
There are four empires in the Endless Continent, including Tianfeng, Xilan, Saiga and Lunte, and there are many principalities under the jurisdiction of each empire, all of which use gold, silver, and copper to make coins, although the patterns printed are different, but according to the treaty of change jointly concluded by the four empires, the exchange ratio of coins between countries is 1:1, which greatly promotes the development of transnational commerce. Each city also has a bank directly operated by the government, which is convenient for the people to exchange, 1000 copper coins = 1 silver coin, 1000 silver coins = 1 gold coin.
Arriving at the port, Northon went straight to the ticket hall, where Doug could easily find out who Kembo was, and he probably knew everything about his situation.
The port of Jocha County was developed throughout the day, with one long-distance airship to other empires almost every day, one every two hours to the capital Holy Imperial City, and three airships to Andal.
He spent 1,000 copper coins to get two tickets to the last class, and the departure time was five o'clock in the morning.
One thousand copper coins, enough for two months' expenses for an ordinary family in Desert City, although Nuo Sen spent a lot of pain, but he finally had to leave here and go to the Andal Principality to find Mentor Philip, he was much more relaxed.
It has been nearly a month since he traveled here, and the Endless Continent has also revealed the tip of the iceberg to him, and a series of experiences during this period are many times more exciting than the boring 996. Although the contract with Demer has not made any progress, he is full of expectations for the future and the vast Endless Continent.
Of course, thinking of the destruction of his family, his father's serious injury and disappearance, and Leah, who was willing to go into the demon cave to protect him, Northon's mood was very sad, he desperately hoped to have the strength of Kenbo immediately, but it was not easy to improve the level of the gunsmith, not to mention that he was only a white three-star spear spirit now.
It was one o'clock in the morning when he came out of the ticket hall, and Northon gathered up his mood and walked to the West Side, four hours before departure, and before leaving, he was going to visit someone.
After a few rounds of tossing, Northen and Kembo stopped in front of a small bakery with a relatively simple decoration.
The two pushed the door in, and several bells hung on the door, jingling bells.
"Welcome!" A crisp and pleasant girlish voice, "Is there anything I can do for you?" ”
Northon looked the girl up and down, she was dressed in a very ordinary gray apprentice's suit, a pink and white plaid apron tied around her waist, tied in a ponytail, her purple-black hair was slightly unkempt, and there were some breadcrumbs on it, her skin was not good, but it was white and flawless, and if she applied some foundation, it would be comparable to those noble ladies.
"Excuse me, is it Miss Irina?" Northon asked.
"You know me?" The girl smiled and said, "Just call me Irina." ”
Northon was going to tell her the truth, but after thinking about it, he gave up, saying, "I'm Northon, a miner with Uncle Sam, and he dragged me to visit you. ”
"Mr. Norson, you look like you have fine skin and tender meat, not like a miner."
"I didn't work as a miner for long," replied Northon with a sneer, "how about an apprenticeship in a bakery?" ”
"It's the same hard work, getting up early every day and following the master to make bread, and being scolded when it's baked. It is said that it is 600 copper coins every month, but the boss will always find some reason to deduct some salary, and it will only be four or five hundred when he gets it. ”
"We are all young people, and it is appropriate to suffer some hardships." Northen comforted, at this moment, he realized the superiority of the gunsmith, in the bounty of the mission, very few use copper coins as a bounty unit, two-star, three-star missions, the bounty has dozens to hundreds of silver coins, four-star and above is directly measured in gold coins.
The one-star task I received by myself had a bounty of two thousand copper coins, which was converted into exactly two silver coins, which was almost Irina's salary for four months.
"Do you have any plans for the rest of your life?" He asked again.
Irina let out a long sigh and said: "If I don't ignite the spirit of the gun, it will be difficult to get rid of the fate of poverty in my life, my father is getting older and older, and I won't be able to work as a miner in a few years, I want to take advantage of this time to endure more hardships, save some money, and then open a bakery of my own in Nancheng, and let my father be my cashier." ”
As she spoke, her eyes looked at the neatly laid bread on the counter, and a slight smile spread across her face.
But when Norson heard this, he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he got into the Ring, put all the remaining copper coins into the cloth bag, took it out of the Ring, and said to Irina, "Uncle Sam dragged me to give it to you." ”
Irina opened the cloth bag and saw that it was a bag full of copper coins, and she wondered: "In the past, there were only three or four hundred, why are there so many suddenly?" ”
"Oh, I've been busy with the mine lately, and I've given out some incentive bonuses." Northon panicked, he was afraid that the other party would find out if he stayed for a long time, and found a reason to rush back to the mine as soon as possible.
"Mr. Northh, please wait a moment." Irina put away the cloth bag, walked quickly to the back kitchen, and turned back after a while, with a few more men's clothes in her hand, "It's autumn, it's cold in the mountains, I made a few clothes for you to bring him." ”
Norson took the clothes, and Irina put a few more breads on the counter, put them in a brown paper bag, and handed them to him: "It's a few days to go to the mine, please take these breads with you on the road!" ”
One hand of clothes and the other hand of bread, Nosan felt that these two things were so heavy that he was almost out of breath, and he escaped from the bakery in three steps and two steps, while the voices and smiles of Sam and Irina always lingered in his mind.
Jocha County, the lord's house.
Doug sat on the chaise longue, leisurely sipping Andal black tea, and was about to fall asleep.
A slightly bowed middle-aged man walked up to him and whispered for a while, this man was the director of the bounty office.
The more Doug listened, the angrier he became, slapped the handrail hard, and shouted, "Someone is coming......"
Dawn is approaching, the east is gradually revealing the whiteness of the fish's belly, Nuo Sen and Kembo boarded the airship to Andal City, sleepless all night, but he was not sleepy at all, looked back at the bustling port, and said in his heart: No matter how difficult the road ahead is, I vow to change the rules of the Endless Continent!
Turning to enter the airship, a familiar figure broke into his eyes - Vio Sigma.