"Thirty silver coins are really expensive. But look? The wine is worth it." The white-robed guest in the lead murmured and reached out to his waist to touch his wallet. The result was shocked - the red rope used to tie the beautiful wallet was left at some point with an empty broken head.

Not only him, except for one of the companions, the other three people's wallets were not flying.

"Children, they were those two children. They stole our wallets." After a little thought, the owner quickly realized that the two extremely cute children were actually two hateful little thieves.

Panic, angry, venting...After a series of actions that the lost people should do, the five white-robed guests had to face the wallet seriously and could no longer recover a reality. Frustrated, they paid the wine account with the remaining money, and walked to the camel to count their goods. Although the money in their pockets was nothing compared to the benefits obtained after the goods were sold, it would never be a pleasant thing to lose their wallet out of thin air.

"Dear guests, I deeply sympathize with your experience. I believe you also know that exotic merchants like you are doing trade activities here are quite eye-catching. Without a few capable bodyguards, such a thing is likely to happen again. There are so many robbers and thieves these days, everywhere. If you can bring a few mercenaries together, I believe your journey will be much safer."

This is the heartfelt persuasion of the tavern owner.

Correspondingly, the adventurers and mercenaries who were drinking in the tavern changed their calmness at this time and competed with each other's wrist strength. Some picked up weapons and shouted to help the white-robed guests go out to catch the thief, some took off their clothes and armor to reveal terrible scars, and some held their breath and raised their muscles on their arms, poked them up with a knife, saying that they wanted to engrave a striking purpose... The collision between weapons and metal and the laughter and scolding each other immediately filled the narrow hut of the "Red Bullfighting" immediately.

With the lesson just now, the white-robed guests began to understand Heya's current public security situation. Therefore, without further ado, they immediately selected two mercenaries who looked muscular and outstanding martial arts as bodyguards. Although the price of seven silver coins per day was a bit ridiculously high, it was nothing compared to the loss of money for all the property and goods. So the two selected people carried their weapons and equipment with great enthusiasm, and followed the unlucky white-robed guests to walk out of the tavern where they had been staying for a long time.

As soon as a few people left, the originally noisy "Red Bullfighting" returned to its original quiet state. The owner of the tavern sat down at his own seat behind the bar and continued to sleep. The waiter and the bar girl hid back in the cellar and continued to untied their clothes and completed advanced physical communication. The mercenaries who competed with each other seemed to have received a notice from the gods. They sat back on their seats and continued to sip the small amount of bad wine in the wooden wine glass, and their eyes were like dogs watching the door, staring at the dilapidated door of the tavern.

On a gravel path on the back street, two cute children were chasing each other happily.

"Hi! Dong Guoping, how many purses have you made?"

"I only got one. Bill, what about you? How many did you get?"

"Hehe! I've got more than you this time, I've got three!"

"Haha! We have gained a lot today. Go back to have a meal quickly! I'm almost starving. Scope must be waiting in a hurry."

"Yes, Scoop will definitely reward us today."

The rich and the poor are the basic factors that constitute every city and are also part of any city in the world. The same is true for Hea. Behind the towering churches and the gorgeously decorated Governor's Mansion, there are also dark, damp and dirty slums.

Two children, no! They should be two thieves. They happily drilled under the wooden bridge located at the upper end of the city, and rushed into an inconspicuous alley next to them along the black ditch that emitted stinking. They turned left and right along the narrow passage that was staggered like a maze, and soon walked out of the group of dilapidated houses made entirely of cold and hard rocks and decaying wooden boards, and came to the central area of ​​the slum. This is a place that the king and the law cannot take into account, and it is also a thief, smuggler, Jiang Yang

The best place for thieves and bloody men on their backs. Although it is dirty and messy, it still has the prosperity and bustle of centers such as squares. Old men and women who set up stalls to sell various snacks, various trading items from outside, and a large number of street prostitutes who are old and no longer graceful. All industries that are despised by the superiors constitute a unique commercial and trade landscape in the slums. This is also the location of one of the most important markets in Hea City, the black market.

The two cute little thieves were very familiar with this place. They happily greeted people of all kinds, while quickly and agilely slipping out of the hands of blind old ladies or old men with partial defects. Although these old people were in kindness and caressing, the two little guys obviously had already developed a strong resistance to the care of the elderly for their younger generations. In a short while, they had already passed through the most lively area in the black market and turned into a low wooden house on the west side of the block.

"Scope is not here? Where has he been?" the big boy named Bill asked, lifting the rag hidden on the door panel and turning to the little boy behind him.

"How do I know! We came back together. It would be strange if I knew where he went!" Dong Guoping sat on a small stool made of bamboo, saying angrily. He was touched the most frequently along the way. Although he knew that the old men and ladies had no malice, they couldn't help but want to pull them over and kiss them a few times because they were cute. But if his pink face was kissed by those wrinkled mouths with black yellow and rotten teeth every day, no one would accept such "kind treatment". There is no way, who said that we were born so handsome?

Just as Dong Guoping was sitting there thinking about which road to come back tomorrow to completely avoid the old people's entanglement, the worn-out wooden door panel creaked and opened. A short figure in a black robe appeared in front of the two of them with the sound. Seeing him, the two little thieves who were just frustrated, suddenly became energetic and met them together.

"Master, this is mine, hehe! I stole three purses today!" Bill took out the results of the battle from under his clothes with an intoxicated face, and stuffed them into the shriveled and muscle-free hands of the man in the black robe.

"Haha! The results are good." The man in black robe smiled and turned to the other side: "Dong Guoping, where are you? How many have you got?"

"One, I only got one." Dong Guoping replied in a silence.

"Oh! So Bill's grades today have surpassed you. Hahaha! I'm afraid you'll have to be the last one to eat for dinner, and you have to wash the dishes?"

"Master, please open it first and then talk about it! Don't draw conclusions so early!" Dong Guoping, who was a little man, flashed two beautiful big eyes and looked at the man in black robe with his signature innocent eyes.

Such a request would be allowed for granted, and it was also a necessary way for the thieves to check their harvest. Soon, with the acquiescence of the man in the black robe, the two little thieves pulled open the rope tied to their purse. All the secrets were immediately presented to the three of them.

"Three gold coins, four hundred and sixty-four silver coins, thirty-six copper coins, and ninety-two slots." This is the total result of Bill's three wallets.

"Twenty-two gold coins, two rubies and one gold ring." This is Elmond's item obtained.

Comparing the two points, it is clear at a glance which one is more or less.

"Damn it, you won again. Why do you always do this? You can't compare to you..." Bill said in a depressed mood. He couldn't laugh when he thought that the deliciousness of the dinner was gone and he had to wash a lot of dirty dishes. The excitement had already flown to nowhere.

Dong Guoping sat happily beside him and looked at the man in black with hope, waiting for the reward he was about to give.

"According to the old rules, Bill should have washed the dishes today. But! Because you have good grades today, you have achieved results for a week, especially Elmond, and got valuable gems. Haha! So! You don't need to wash the bowls today. You can also take a day off to go out for fun at night."

The two little guys who received the reward jumped up happily. Such good things were rare. As the man in black turned around and brought out a plate of food that had been prepared from the hidden closet, the two children's emotions were also transferred to this.

The roasted tender lamb, the fried delicious fish, the freshly picked green vegetables, the hot and freshly baked couscous bread, and a large piece of vanilla seed cake to make sweet? The menu for this dinner is so tempting. After the two children cheered each other, they were busy and focused on the annihilation battle against the food.

"Dong Guoping, tell me, why did you only take one purse today?" The man in black robe, who was called Scoop, smiled and looked at his apprentice who was eating vigorously, and asked softly.

Dong Guoping, who was fighting with a piece of mutton, stopped chewing in his mouth when he heard this, grinned with the child's unique naughty expression, rubbed his slightly bulging belly, and said happily: "It's very simple! Because that person is the leader, he must have much more money than ordinary people."

"No, what the master taught us is not like this. Last time, the master said that wealthy people usually don't bring too much money when they go out. On the contrary, their servants will have a lot of money." Little Bill also pulled out his mouth from a bread that was almost the size of his head. He asked vaguely with his mouth full of food, with a scattered crumbs on his face: "Am I right, Master, am I right?"

"That's right!" The man in black robe looked at the two cute disciples with a smile, and then asked Dong Guoping: "Then why did you choose your master?"

Dong Guoping did not stop his movements because of answering the question. He grabbed a fat grilled fish in front of him, tore off a piece of oily tender meat from it and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he chewed with satisfaction: "The master is right, but that situation generally refers to aristocrats with a good family background. But today these people obviously do not belong to this type. In addition, from their speech and actions, they are just some businessmen who form teams, and there is no need to be so silly. So! Hahaha."

"Have you heard it? Bill, Dong Guoping is right, and the fact is indeed the case. Remember, there are many things in this world that you can understand just by hearing others say. You must experience them personally to gain useful and valuable experience. This is the knowledge that no one can teach you. Do you understand? This is the difference between you and Dong Guoping. Look at him, you only need to judge and you can beat you casually. You have to work hard! Use your brain more, use your eyes to discover the truth, and use your heart to explore the world. This is what a thief must learn." In response to Elmond's answer, the man in the black nodded with satisfaction and then taught to another disciple.

Bill nodded thoughtfully.

"Actually, what the master said is not exactly right." Dong Guoping suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and the speed of chewing food in his mouth gradually slowed down. He blinked innocently at the man in black and said, "Master, I was the one who was the one who was eyeing those people first. At the dock, I saw the leader opening his pocket and stuffing money in it."

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After the meal, the two little guys made an appointment to go out for fun, leaving the man in black robe alone facing a pile of oily dishes.

"Really, is there a master like me? I have to eat and pull, and I have to wash dishes and clean the house... It's true!" Shaking his head helplessly, the man in black robe stood up from the chair with a wry smile and slowly packed up the miscellaneous items scattered all over the floor. There is no way, who told me that he had something to say first?

"Squeak", the wooden door opened, but it was not the two little guys who came in, but the boss of "Red Bullfighting" Canson Nowell.

"Scope, you old guy, why are you washing dishes alone again? I said why are you suddenly changing your sex now? I remember when we were together, you didn't want to do this job!" The owner of the tavern was obviously an old acquaintance in the black robe.

"What can I do? Alas----" Facing the friend's smile, the man in black could only hug him and sigh.

Soon, the man in black had already packed everything in the house. He took out a bottle of wine and two cups from the closet and placed it on a tattered wooden table. The table was terrible, with only three legs left. If it weren't for the wooden sticks I got from somewhere, they would have turned into a pile of firewood to burn.

"Tell me! What's the matter with me?" The man in black robe forced open the black lid on the bottle, carefully poured half a glass of sticky purple-red liquid into the two copper wine glasses that had just wiped clean with the corner of the black robe, and handed one of them to the owner of the tavern sitting opposite him. The latter took the cup, raised his neck and poured it all into his mouth as if it was a bottomless abyss. Then he shouted with an unsatisfactory face: "Only good wine can you drink such delicious wine in Scope Logan."

"You damn old guy, you always come to me with a different name to cheat me for drinking. For the sake of the omnipotent God of Thieves, please don't come again next time. Damn, you are the owner of a tavern! You don't drink your own wine, but you want to come here to mess around. Really, how can this make sense? It's really bad for you to know a friend like you for eight lifetimes!" said the man in black robe.

"Hehehe--it's not that I don't give you a drink. Every time I ask you to go to my place, you don't go, who can you blame?" The owner of the tavern licked his thick lips hard, as if he wanted to swallow the little bit of accidentally spilled wine left on it. His eyes stared at the slightly dark and inconspicuous wine bottle, as if it was a beauty who had taken off her clothes and was teasing him in various seductive postures.

"Hmph! How can you drink all the garbage you have? Your so-called signature beer is OK to coax the layman, as for me—" When he said this, the man in black robe gently lifted the wine glass in front of him with a very elegant movement, and slowly took a sip of the liquid in it. Then, with an extremely comfortable expression, his eyes closed slightly, "Tell me! If you come today, what else do you need my help?"

"Haha! You said this wrong. Today I am here, not because I need you to help me, but because I will help you!" The owner of the tavern with a slightly red face said seriously.

"Oh?" The man in black robe was quite puzzled.

"It seems you are really old." Kansen Nowell sighed: "Scope, do you still remember our agreement ten years ago?"

The man in black robe was silent, obviously he already understood what his old friend meant.

"At that time, several of us picked up Dong Guoping outside the Black Language Forest. He was still a baby at that time. Now, the ten-year period has passed. It is my turn to raise him, right?" The owner of the tavern could not see a sign-like smile that was always inherent. Now he is a judge with a serious look.

"I know, but you also understand that Elmond has been living with me for so many years. In addition, he was too young at that time and could not impart too much knowledge. I was worried..." Faced with the reasonable request of his friend, the man in the black robe had a little helpless expression and could only express his concerns in his heart.

"Haha! I understand your difficulties. I didn't say I had to take him away from you? I mean, we should take on the task of teaching him in the next two years. After all, at that time, as agreed, Kasan will come and take him away. We can't even keep him even if we want to. Why not take this opportunity to teach him all our things quickly."

The tavern owner's advice was obviously a taste for the man in black. However, he soon thought of another question: "Then, should you bear the support cost of Elmond? You also know that I have been..."
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