Chapter 75 Worry
Dagon used a shovel to cover the tomb of Lati's dead relatives. Toby found a wooden board, and Maipu brought the paint and pen. Lati wrote the words "Lati's family's tomb" in a crooked manner. She also mistakenly wrote the "tomb" into "wood".
After kowtowing hard in front of the tombstone, Lati stood up and looked at Dagon with her bright black eyes. As expected, she did not cry anymore. Maybe she listened to Dagon's words. The little child should show courage and strength in front of his relatives. At this time, Geros came to Lati and asked, "Girl, do you have other relatives? If we go along, we can send you there."
Lati thought about it carefully. "I have an aunt in Heshan City, but I don't know what her name is, I only know that she used to have the same surname as my father: Meili."
"Is Heshan City on our route?" asked Dagon.
Geros nodded, but frowned. "Little girl, we are a caravan and do not transport passengers. You are too small, and the caravan cannot accept you. So you can only follow the caravan, try to keep up, and then rub every day when we are resting..."
Dagon interrupted Geros for the first time, and he felt that it was basically impossible to let this human child go on the convoy with his heels. "Boss, I am a passenger of the caravan!"
"Yes, you are a passenger. If it weren't for the Dwarf Clan Conference forcing the Chamber of Commerce to obey, you would have to heel!" Jerous frowned, looking very angry, but his eyes clearly revealed encouragement, encouraging Dagon to continue.
"She can't follow the caravan, then follow me, do..."
"Very good, that's it." Jerousy fought back Dagon with an interruption, and he seemed quite satisfied with the result. Not only him, but everyone else breathed a little relieved. After all, everyone knew that if you really wanted to keep the child at home, whether it was food shortage, beast attacks or robbers returning, it would take the child's life.
"Then... can I follow you?" Seeing that everyone nodded, Lati came to Dagong and bowed suddenly. Dagong didn't know if this was a human etiquette, nor did he know how to help her up. He just said according to his own thoughts: "Since you are looking for your aunt from afar, then hurry up and pack up your things, especially clothes and souvenirs..."
Lati nodded and ran to the house quickly. When she passed by the pool of blood in the yard, she slipped, but immediately got up, and didn't even dare to pat and rub the pain on her legs. Dagon looked at her thin back and felt that she might be afraid that she would slow down and everyone would set out in advance and not want her anymore.
Geros rubbed his temples hard, then pulled his face down, and asked very seriously: "Toby, what you promised is to find where they put the money. What do you say now? Could it be in the room where this little girl entered?"
"I have searched all of them, and only about 40 gold coins are placed in stacked clay pots. There are really no other ones... Oh, this is not usually counted, but I also found a paper money from the Halfling Spice Chamber of Commerce, with a face value of 300 gold coins..."
"Isn't that equivalent to waste paper?" Maipu shook his head and said.
"Let's do that." Geros said: "You said you could find money, but no one forced you to bet and you would be willing to accept defeat. You paid out your own pocket to make up the principal of these accounts. Everyone has seen that the robbers robbed and the debt was dead. It is logical that this would be a loss. But the principal was not lost, which is reasonable. What do you think? You can't sell Toby, right?"
"That can't, that can't." Luciga said: "It's not enough to cook him for a meal. I think it's great to get the principal back, at least I'm fine with the 33 gold coins!"
Jelos looked around everyone, and everyone nodded. "Okay, then this matter is decided, don't look back. And Toby, remember not to brag next time, do things more steadily. The half-ling's paper money is yours, you go and exchange it for your own tribe. If you can get the money, you can take it. By the way, do those robbers have money? If there is, pay the interest first and then make the account according to the rules of the caravan."
Everyone basically eliminated the resistance when they were able to get back their principal. No matter how much interest they had, even one or two copper coins would make people feel that they were profitable for nothing and forget the loss. Everyone became happy and urged Toby to flip the dead pockets, laughing at him from time to time. Dagon looked at Jeros, feeling that he suddenly became enlightened: it was obviously a loss, but reversing the order could create a good mood. It turns out that arithmetic could be used like this?
It was dark and everyone was about to set off. Dagon went to help Lati pack up his things. The little girl prepared a small package containing a few clothes and a dressing box. When Dagon found her, she was looking at a string of wind chimes under the eaves in front of the door. Lati looked at the wind chimes and Dagon, a little hesitant.
"What's the matter, just say it." Dagon said: "If you have any problems, try to solve them. Holding them in will only waste your life."
"I don't know what to call you. I know what you call Dagon Olisen, but I can't tell you your age."
“I’m sixty this year.”
"Grandpa Dagon..."
"Stop! I just became an adult this year, the Jiangu tribe... The dwarfs are 60 years old, which is equivalent to you humans about fourteen or fifteen, so just call me brother."
"Oh... Brother Dagon, can you help me get the wind chime?"
"I can't reach it either, step on my shoulder." Dagon squatted down and pointed at his shoulder. "Come on, step on it, I have a lot of strength and will definitely support you. By the way, your hand can hold the hunting axe, so that you can stand more steadily, come on!"
Lati nodded, stepped on Dagon carefully. Every time she moved her feet, she would ask if it hurts. She was very well-behaved. She took the wind chime and looked in her hand for a while, with a sad look. A big tears were about to burst out of her eyes, but she tried to hold it back. She shook the wind chime, and listened to its crisp and moving sound, Lati's face was slightly relaxed. Then, she pushed the wind chime into the bag, as if she had broken it from the past.
"Brother Dagon, is the thing I was holding just now your weapon? You carry it everywhere you go?"
"Yes." Dagon thought that Lati was trying to divert her sight and relieve her emotions, so he patiently explained to her the story of the hunting axe. Perhaps this weapon was also an object that Dagon placed on his longing for his parents, which was in line with Lati's current mood, and it was obvious that she listened very seriously.
"The wind chime I just made was made by our family. I was responsible for rubbing the ropes inside. The ropes I rubbed were very good, and they all praised me. At the market in Baima Town, the ropes I made could be sold for money."
"By the way, money." Dagon slapped his head and said, "There are still your things in the well!"
The two of them walked shoulder to shoulder to shoulder toward the well. At this time, Toby came up. He kept rubbing his hands, laughing, his teeth-missing mouth looked very funny.
Dagon pulled Lati, pulled her away from Toby and moved her to the other side of his shoulder. "Toby, you laugh like this doesn't feel like a good thing. If you have any problems, please solve them quickly. Don't waste your life."
"Okay! That's right. I want to ask the little girl, your family still has...I mean, can you...uh..." Toby suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself, squatting on the ground, feeling that he was about to cry. "I did something wrong, and I was thinking about being in Xiao Lati, who had just died... It's okay, I haven't said anything."
Dagon scratched his head and suddenly figured it out. "Wait, Toby, are you not enough money?"
"Well. It's logical that when I say this, I should have to cancel the account. I still have a gap of 70 gold coins. If I can't pay it back, I have to owe it, and I have to pay it back to the caravan at the double interest rate of the debt."
"Then I'll lend you these seventy gold coins and fill in the gap first. Just give me the money before sending me to Minamelis. I don't want your interest."
"Thank you! Thank you, I won't have to worry about this. You can don't have the interest, but I have to give it to the caravan. There are rules to prevent bullying the small by the big one. I, Toby, make a living by relying on credibility, and I will pay for my debts!"
"You just need to remember not to look for Lati. She follows me now, and I have the responsibility to protect her." Dagon's hunting axe hit the ground hard, as a clear warning to Toby.
Paying money to solve Toby's troubles was not only to help Toby, but also to prevent the debts of the Merry couple from affecting Lati. There was a box in the bucket in the well, and the sound was rumbling. It was basically certain that it was coins and other valuable things. If Dagon wanted to let this money go to Lati without a doubt and safely and to ensure her future life, she had to solve her parents' debt problem.
Geros is a shameful person after he speaks. The prestige he wants to maintain is definitely more valuable than three hundred gold coins. The only variable is Toby. If he claims the issue of debt transfer and ownership, he may have to be upset again. Now Dagon has also paid money, and if he is careful, it is equivalent to helping Toby bear the debt. Then he has the right to speak in this matter. If he has the right to speak, then he has the opportunity to use numbers as flexibly as Geros and let things develop in the direction he wants.
"Okay, okay!" Toby nodded and said, "If you can overcome this difficult situation in front of you, the things that will come later will not be difficult for me. I still have that piece of halfling paper money. The Spice Guild is still in business, so I may be able to exchange the money. But I want to ask Lati, how can your family have the paper money for the halfling Spice Guild? Do you have any business dealings?"
"We bought some spices and made rabbit meat. We supplied the Count of the Wild Boar Castle during the previous martial arts competition. Hesitated and tasted delicious. The spice guild also bought some rabbit meat. They also wanted to buy the recipe, but grandma didn't seem to agree."
"Oh, then you understand. Maybe this piece of paper money can be exchanged for real money, because the spice maker will want to continue doing business with your family." Toby said with a smile: "If you go and change, you may not be able to exchange much. If I change it, I will give you half."
Lati thought for a while, looked up at Dagon, and tilted her head to look at Toby. She knew that the paper money belonged to her, but she also understood the current situation. So the clever little girl nodded and said, "Okay. Let's make up for it!"
Chapter completed!