"Tell me, tell me, I have a lot of time to listen. There has been no news for almost two months since you left Waikato. Everyone thought you died in some corner. They bet on your life and death.
The market is already open. Now that you have appeared, no one is not curious about what happened during this period."
Totokani couldn't be happy that his life and death were being gambled on. It was also because of the inconvenience of communication in Midland. Only when he was alive could he see people and when he died could he see his corpse. Now that he had appeared
, of course some people cried and some laughed.
To this rich and smiling fat man, the goblin said with a shy face: "Your Majesty is so happy to see me, he must be betting that I am still alive. Right, my good friend."
Hassan patted his big belly and laughed and said: "What a pity, I bet on your dead side. Fortunately, the compensation is not much, just a few coppers."
Hearing an answer that was completely different from what he had imagined, the goblin's green-skinned face collapsed on the spot, as if the sky had fallen. But Hassan stretched out his thick fleshy hand and patted the goblin on the shoulder.
He went up and said, "Don't worry. That little money was originally used to make friends with others. If it's gone, it's gone. I don't care, and I won't ask you to compensate. You should hurry up and tell me what happened these days."
.”
Totokani directly recounted what happened in the days when he disappeared in the eyes of outsiders. Originally, these things were related to Lin and others, and he should have asked me first if he was willing to disclose them.
However, there is no such thing as the right of personal privacy in Midi, and goblins are not followers of someone. In addition, the administrator has the power to investigate passers-by, so Totokani said it directly. For Lin, these things
There is no secret that cannot be known to outsiders, so there is no way to stop the goblins.
When the wizard finished telling the story in a jumbled manner, Hassan let out a deep breath and said, "Although the whole thing sounds incredible, unexpectedly, I have a feeling in my heart that it should be true.
"
"Is it true, Lord Hassan? If I hadn't experienced these things myself, I wouldn't have believed it. Where did you start to think that this was really happening?"
"Starting from the explosion of the airship you mentioned before. I want you to admit that the goblin ship is dangerous. Unless it really explodes, it is definitely as safe as a warship-level airship. You know, I
After calculating the accidents that have occurred with airships in the past, air thefts caused the most casualties. But in the cases of explosions, almost all of them were goblin airships. Haha."
...This fat man is really perceptive. Someone inexplicably felt close to this fat man. But a certain goblin really told the truth about himself. Was he trying to warn them about what should be said and what should be said?
It shouldn't be said.
"This... must be the magician and his friends that Totokani mentioned. At first, I thought you were barbarians from where you came from."
Barbarians? Everyone looked at each other. Because of the crash and fire, only the clothes they were wearing were left, and the rest were all killed. But now the clothes they wear are all animal skins, and because everyone has been here during this time
I am busy, so my clothes are not sewn properly, and they can basically cover my body. So if you really want to go by someone's standards, it would be more like a savage than a savage.
After laughing a few times, Lin said: "Sir, you are joking. The magician's relevant documents are still stored in the secret document box and are not damaged. Do we need to take them out to prove our identity?"
The fat man shook his hand and said with a smile: "No, no need. Anyway, let me confirm that the owner of the Sid is still the goblin Totokani Afstan."
Lin said directly: "Yes, he is right." Although the goblin was a little panicked, he still nodded in agreement.
"Then you are just passengers, and the things in the warehouse are just carry-on luggage. You don't have any goods for trading?"
"No."
"Okay. The airship entry tax in Abadan City is IV Jiangfan (4 silver) per person, but Totokani has a city entry permit, so the fee can be halved. There are XIV (14) of you, a total of XXVIII Jiang
鉉(28 silver).”
"Oh, Sir, you can calculate very quickly." Lin praised.
Before he announced his mathematics, Lin saw that the calculation method for business transactions or tax collection was that one person had 2 silver, and fourteen people had to make up the number. Some tax collectors would directly call 20 silver or 30 silver.
, it all depends on your mood and feeling. There are many people who even shout for 40 silver or 50 silver, and it is not uncommon for people to directly shout for 100 silver.
But this Hassan Bakhsh can actually calculate accurate numbers, even though it is just simple multiplication. In addition, he said before that the statistics of airship accidents are not what Midi's original counting ability can do.
things.
The airship manager, who was blessed and smiling happily, said happily: "This is a knowledge introduced from foreign countries, called mathematics. The knowledge in it can be said to be necessary for tax collectors. I also trust
The blessing of this knowledge has made my work less controversial."
Kaya stepped forward and calculated the tax amount and handed it to Hassan Bakhsh. Lin took another small purse from the girl's hand and stepped forward. He did not want to reveal that he was the inventor of mathematics.
Because he really didn’t invent mathematics. At best, he can be regarded as a communicator, spreading knowledge from the earth.
But his good impression of Hassan and the other person's attitude made him feel that he could get some help from him, so Lin stepped forward and held Hassan's hand, stuffed a Kir (gold coin) into it, and asked at the same time
: "Since your Excellency lives in Abadan City, could you please tell me if there is any store selling magician supplies in the city?"
Without answering the question first, Hassan Bakhsh held up the gold coin and asked carefully: "Is this...?"
"This is the consultation fee. I ask you questions and you help me answer them. This is a deserved reward." Although a certain time traveler has never done this kind of thing on earth, he is not considered a first brother in the Lost Land.
For this kind of petty official, a little extra sweetness can be exchanged for courtesy. Of course, when we were poor in the past, it was more common to force the other party to follow the rules.
When he heard someone's reasonable explanation, Hassan did not accept it directly, but glanced at the hatch thoughtfully. How could Lin not understand the meaning? Of course he stuffed it in again.
A gold coin and said: "This is the cost of tea for two adults. You two have been running back and forth so hard that you want to take a good rest, take a breath, and drink some elves' herbal tea."
"It's easy." Hassan used a very skilled technique to hide the gold coins. He said: "If you want magician supplies, you can go to the east of the city. There is a branch of the Magician Association there. Although it is not as large as the divisional headquarters,
But we just don’t lack some common things.”
"Thank you. Is there any restaurant or pub with delicious food? For more than a month, I have been eating barbecue, barbecue, and barbecue. I can't stand it anymore. It would be better to have vegetable soup, or
Potato soup, anything else is good, but it doesn’t have to be barbecued meat.”
"In this case, the tavern with buffalo horns in the east of the city will definitely satisfy you. The owner's wife has the best cooking skills in Abadan, even better than the city lord's own chef. If the other party were thirty years younger, I would
They all want to marry her home and eat those delicious foods every day."
"What you're saying, I can't wait to fly over."
"Airships are not allowed in the city."
Regarding the joke that was inexplicably connected to the joke, the two looked at each other and laughed knowingly, leaving the audience speechless for a while. After the laughter, Hassan asked: "So, my friend, do you have any other questions?"
"The remaining part is the issue of repairing and transforming this airship. I want to ask Totokani about this aspect. The reason why I don't ask him about the clothes and food is just that I can't trust the taste and taste of goblins.
Taste.”
"Correct, friend." Giving a thumbs up, Hassan added: "Since you have no other questions, and I have collected so much consulting fees, let me give you a very useful piece of information. That troublesome person,
Come to Abadan."
Although it is said to be free information, who can understand this kind of information that has no beginning or end?
Seeing the magician's confused expression, Hassan smiled and said: "From the perspective of the administrator of Abadan City, I can't say too much about that person's criticism. But Totokani, who has been here many times,
, I must have heard from that person. Just ask him for the details."
The goblin who was named was unclear at first. But following Hassan's words, he suddenly thought of a character and asked in a trembling voice: "Could it be that one?"
"Who else can Abadan's trouble be? He is the only one. At least you should be happy that it is not Gwana's trouble." After saying this, Hassan left quickly and stopped asking questions for everyone.
opportunity.
Now all the troubled eyes were directed at the goblin. Totokani could only say simply: "Anyway, that one is the useless second young master of the Imperial Viscount family. He is very good at causing trouble, but he doesn't have many people."
Dare to touch him."
Noble. Just hearing these two words, you know that he is a troublesome person.
Now that he knew there was such potential trouble, how could Lin not ask carefully.
To understand the extent of this person's troubles, Totokani will first introduce the status of the city of Abadan. This place is the territory directly belonging to the emperor of the Gwana Empire, and the city owner is Javid Poole, the general of the tenth army of the empire.
Responsible for guarding the western part of the empire. On the surface, the mission is to defend against monsters that may escape from the Jura Mountains, but secretly, it is responsible for monitoring the nobles in the western region.
After all, the purpose of the latter cannot be clearly explained, and it has been a long-standing practice for nobles to become imperial officers. Therefore, the middle and lower-level officers of the Tenth Legion are filled with small nobles from the vicinity of Abadan City. Therefore, the work of the Legion has become both
It has the function of surveillance and co-optation.
...After all, this system has existed for hundreds of years, and the time and space environment is different from when the Tenth Legion was established, so it is inevitable that there will be some changes that are different from the original intention.
The point is that the eldest son of the Imperial Viscount was deeply trusted by the general in the Tenth Army and became the deputy general in charge of thousands of people. This is already one-tenth of the strength of the army of ten thousand people. Together with other
The status of his father and his family has also increased, and he is popular among the nearby nobles. Of course, the above does not include the number of auxiliary soldiers, but the number of combat soldiers.
If a useless and trouble-making son is born in such a family, the consequences are of course self-evident. For other nobles, they are happy to provide some insignificant help and just wait to see the family self-destruct; but for the common people,
From a personal perspective, that one was a disaster.
Now the trouble of Abadan has come to the city from the family territory again.