Gold is Justice

The movement of this thief is too fast and too light.This caused the tax officer to suddenly realize that there was an extra person beside him, and he was so frightened that he didn't hold the spoon in his hand, and fell directly into the soup bowl.

"You... who are you?"

"Hahaha, don't be nervous, I am a guild member of this mermaid song, and my name is Cream."

The tax officer thought about it, and indeed he had seen this name on the personnel list, and he was relieved immediately.It's just that now he was frowning, and stretched out his hand to tentatively put his finger into the soup bowl to get the spoon, but he hesitated for a moment and then withdrew his hand, looking at a loss.

Airl also noticed Cream's appearance now, shook his head and said, "Cream, eat your meal."

"Oh, don't you be so ostentatious? They all came out to earn a living. Let's get to know each other and become friends so we can do things in the future, right?"

The tax officer nodded very seriously: "Yes, yes, being friends is naturally the best! I think President Arrow and I have already become friends. President Arrow, don't you think so? Don't you deny it suddenly! Or don't deny it in front of me, or I think I'll be a little bit overwhelmed! At least you can pretend to be my friend while I'm around, so I can feel better."

Ai Luo felt a little helpless, so he could only smile and said, "This...of course we are friends."

The tax collector was delighted, and Cream even more so!After Coco and Brad set up their plates and sat down, he raised his hand and grabbed the tax collector's shoulder!Now the tax officer just picked up a fork and wanted to fish out the spoon, but he hooked it, and the spoon fell into the soup bowl again.

Tax officer: "..."

Cream smiled and said, "Since we are friends, we should help each other! Mr. Tax Officer, I think you are quite tired. You have to walk from the capital to our place, and after calculating all the taxes, you have to bring Walking back with so much money. Wouldn’t it be very dangerous if you encounter some robbers on the way?”

Tax officer: "I'm not from the capital, I'm from Lagoon City. This road is very safe, and there haven't been any robbers. After I collect the tax money in Lagoon City, there will be special bodyguards to send it to the capital. .”

Cream laughed again: "What does it matter? The most important thing is that you have worked so hard, Mr. Tax Officer! Since you have worked so hard, you should naturally be paid for your work?"

The tax officer narrowed his eyes and looked at Cream: "You mean...?"

Cream still hooked the tax officer, moved his head closer, then took out the gold coin from his pocket, and waved it in front of the tax officer: "So, since you work so hard, you should be rewarded, then look at this gold coin Doesn't it match well with your fingers?"

"Cream! Come here for me!"

Airl didn't understand what this guy wanted to do just now, but now that he finally figured it out, he immediately yelled!

Cream didn't seem to expect that the first person to react would be the president of his family. He was startled, and the gold coin in his hand fell to the ground with a ding.

Arrow didn't care, and immediately left his seat and went behind the counter to hook his fingers at Cream. Now Cream looked at Brad and Coco who were sitting next to him with a look of embarrassment. With the expression of "you" and "always be your strong spiritual backing", you can only leave your seat helplessly and walk to Ai Luo's side.

"What the hell are you thinking!"

Airl growled softly——

"Didn't I always tell you not to make trouble for me, don't make trouble for me, don't you understand?!"

Cream felt that he was wronged, so he quickly spread his hands and said, "President, I want to help you solve the trouble! This is how we solved the problem before. Some officials came to investigate, and they put one or two gold coins in there." They are absolutely easy to use! In our words, there are no officials who will turn a blind eye to you, only officials who have not yet received gold coins."

Ai Luo clutched his head, now he only felt a burst of despair!

But it's good too!At least he now understands why the Iron Wolf Guild was able to be wiped out by himself.A guild that adheres to such a concept is doomed to be unable to grow bigger and stronger, and will be used as a weapon in the end.Thinking about it better, have I avoided a pit?

It's just that those pits are all in his own team now.

Airl raised his hand, patted Cream's shoulder heavily, and said with a serious face: "Don't let me remind you again, and don't let me remind you all of a word! Shut up and don't talk. , don’t take any action, just think of yourself as air, a cloud that will drift away immediately, as long as you eat obediently, and then go to bed obediently, understand? I’m begging you, OK?"

Although Cream didn't quite know why, but looking at Airl's eyes that were about to kill someone now... Well, he was pretty sure that he should shut up now, say nothing, do nothing.

Back at the seat, Cream silently took Arrow's place, sitting with Coco and Brad.Seeing this, Airl could only choose to sit next to the tax officer, with a smile on his face again.

"President Arrow."

The tax officer slapped the gold coin in front of Airl, and said with a serious face——

"What does this mean."

Ai Luo turned his head and glanced at Cream opposite, Cream immediately picked up a croissant, looked up at the ceiling, and gnawed on it.

The chairman smiled, and a commercial smile immediately appeared on his face: "This is the tax money I have prepared, can you see if it is enough? If it is just right, wouldn't it match your fingers very well?"

"Oh! So it's tax money?"

The tax officer who seemed a little serious just now breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled again——

"Scared me to death, I almost thought you Song of the Mermaid was bribing me just now! Recently, several officials who were corrupt and broke the law were executed. During the war, the royal family's law enforcement was relatively strict, which made each of us nervous Xixi. Since it’s a tax, it doesn’t matter! But President Arrow, I haven’t finished my accounts yet, so you should pay me after I finish the calculations, not now.”

Airl nodded, and put the gold coin into his bag with a smile on his face.

With the scene just now, all the members of the guild could only eat with their heads covered, and there was no such atmosphere as usual when they were eating and chatting all over the world, discussing with each other what they encountered at work today.Everything seemed tense, and even had a slightly depressing atmosphere.

Seeing that the members of his family didn't speak, just lowered their heads to eat, Ai Luo knew that what he said before was a bit heavy.But there is no way, now he has no time to adjust the mood of his own members, so he can only bear it a little bit.

Chapter 59 Details make or break

"By the way, President Airl. I didn't pay attention to it before, but I remembered those children just now. Did you teach the children here?"

Ai Luo was slightly taken aback, nodded and said, "Yes, is there a problem?"

The tax officer tilted his head, thought for a while with his lips curled up, and said, "There is a problem... yes. I don't know if President Arrow has a teacher qualification certificate? Generally speaking, registration is required to open a school. In this way Only the empire can carry out overall planning, and only then can it come to guide the teaching policy from time to time. To put it more broadly, those students should also know where to learn more advanced knowledge? It is like saying that they should know when Only then can you test your alma mater."

Airl nodded with a smile, took a sip of milk and said, "Unfortunately, I don't have a teaching certificate. However, I never thought about running a serious school to teach. The reason why I opened this school is It's just because there is no school in Pelican Town, so I just take it as a way for the children to learn how to read and help take care of their parents when they are busy. If the empire is willing to send teachers to open a school here, I can immediately shut down my school. Small class."

The tax officer laughed twice, nodded and said, "Oh, it doesn't matter if that's the case. That's fine! I'll report this situation. Alas, now presidents like President Arrow who think about the future of the town are also It’s really rare. Old Teng Shu’s tuition costs two to three hundred gold coins in total, right? Your fee is indeed very cheap.”

After eating beautifully, the tax officer wiped his hands, leaned on his seat and held his stomach contentedly, as if he was finally able to have a good meal after working for too long.

Seeing his contented appearance, Airl felt a little relieved.

Generally speaking, this tax collector should have no other problems with his own guild, right?

After the dishes were cleared away, those ledgers were spread out on the table again, like a beautiful woman whose last layer of clothes had been removed, struggling powerlessly but paralyzed there with a dead heart, and could only wait for the unknown torment of the other party.

Airl took a deep breath, continued to maintain his smile, and at the same time only hoped that his guild members would not come over and cause any trouble.

"Yeah, just like the accounts in August, everything is clear and messy. I even think I can figure out all these bills if I stay up a little bit today!"

The smile on the tax officer's face was really visible to the naked eye, and Arrow can only apologize now: "It's nothing, I haven't done much tidying up...it's ugly." "No, no, no! It's really clean too A lot! Well, great ledger, I am a little looking forward to your next ledger in Pelican Town. Oh, look at this mine exploration, all expenses and income are clearly written. There is also this helper commission, This is really meticulous! And this bodyguard commission...huh?"

Suddenly, the expression on the tax officer's face froze, and he stared at the account book as if he had been immobilized.

Such a sudden stop made Airl fully experience what it means to have a heart stop!Even Coco, Brad, Cream, and Buffy in the back can clearly see that their president has suddenly turned into a stone statue.

"This bodyguard entrusts... um... um..."

The tax official picked up the power of attorney and looked at it, and then checked it carefully against the account books.

Ai Luo couldn't hold back any longer, and asked, "Excuse me... is there any problem with this commission?"

The tax officer raised his head and glanced at Ai Luo, continued to look at these accounts, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "President Ai Luo, the various tasks that your guild has done before are very complicated, and of course there is also transportation work in the nature of bodyguards. Commissioned. But..."

He slowly put the letter of entrustment in front of Airl, and said slowly: "Before this, all the entrusted transportation work you took over were from Pelican Town to Kingfisher Town next door or Honglu Town. One of the small towns, and then come back directly. Moreover, the amount earned by bodyguard transportation is also very small, basically only a few copper coins, and the number of iron coins is even more."

"But this sum..."

The tax officer pointed to the only entrustment in the entire account book that was fraudulently laundered by Arrow, and with a slight smile, the tax officer said generously——

"This entrustment is to ask your guild members to go to Honglu Town, and then deliver some things to Kingfisher Town?"

"It takes about one day to ride a horse between Honglu Town and Kingfisher Town. In just one day, your guild has earned a full gold coin through bodyguards? Hehe... your mission The report says it’s barley, but it takes a gold coin to be a bodyguard to transport the barley? Could it be that… the Uso boss is transporting a large amount of Du Lengjia?”

Airl's mouth twitched, and the fists under the table were clenched tightly again.

The members behind the bar in the distance became a little nervous, but Keke raised his head and asked, "What is Du Lengjia? Brother President looks even more nervous now."

Brad shook his head slightly, with a silly look on his face.Cream snorted coldly: "Dulengjia is a kind of analgesic. No matter what kind of illness or injury you suffer, as long as you put one on it, it can greatly relieve the pain. At that time, I was still in Iron Wolf's At that time, Wolf had made a few, saying that after having this kind of thing, he would not feel pain when he was injured, and he could move forward more courageously. In addition, the price of this thing is quite expensive. I have always heard that only those big Only the guild can distribute it to its own members. Because of this, many people try to smuggle this medicine, which can make huge profits."

Brad scratched his head and asked, "Pain relief? But, isn't our therapeutic aerosol also able to relieve pain? Is it necessary to charge such a high price?"

Napa in Coco's arms yawned, and said casually: "It's different. Although the treatment aerosol can heal the wound, it can't eliminate the pain in a short time. Even the wound healing process itself will cause some pain. .Also, my therapeutic aerosols are not effective for body aches due to illness."

Cream nodded: "That's right. And the treatment aerosol can only treat some minor injuries or try to convert serious injuries into moderate or minor injuries that can still move. If the medicine is not enough, the pain effect will still be there. Yes. But even a small piece of Du Lengjia can instantly calm down a person who has lost a limb, without any pain. It can be said that it is an epoch-making drug.”

"At the beginning, I heard that this drug appeared on the battlefield. Think about it, how terrible would be the army that is not afraid of pain and no longer afraid? But later I heard that if you take a large amount of Dulenjia It may be addictive, and then it will produce a lot of hallucinations, and its mental and physical conditions will deteriorate. This is how it is gradually eradicated from the army. But I heard that the military management of some small countries is not strict, and Dulenjia is still a drug. It was used as a way to strengthen the military."

After listening to the explanation, Ke Ke continued to look at Airl over there.

The president of Song of the Mermaid pondered for a while, and under the watchful eyes of the tax officer, it didn't take long for him to show that calm smile again, and said slowly: "To be honest, this price was driven up by me. Yes. You see, didn’t Shining Forest just have an incident about King Slime not long ago? Everyone in our small town saw it. So when someone came to entrust me with a few words, I tried my best to frighten The other party raised the price. Hmm...isn't that okay?"

The tax officer stared closely at Ai Luo for a long time, then he let out a breath and said with a sad face: "Maliciously driving up the price? Although it is not worth encouraging, it can't be said that there is something wrong. That Kaizi finally sold the wheat How much?"

Ai Luo shook his head: "I'm not very clear. The members of our guild are only in charge of bodyguards. I don't know how much they sold. You see, this account should be taxed next year, but this time Suddenly, I didn't sum it up properly." The tax officer sighed: "Okay! You are a graduate of Lao Teng Shu College, how can I not trust the talented students of Lao Teng Shu College? Let me take a closer look. , In fact, you don’t need to look carefully, this account book is full of logic and judgments that can be seen everywhere! Any incoming and outgoing account has a perfect correspondence! It’s like... um? What’s going on here?”

He said it well, but the tax official's sudden change of tone caused Airl's heart to rise to his throat again!He really wanted Brad to give the tax collector a good punch if he could, couldn't he just keep it serious? !In this way, at least I can also have a mental preparation!

Facing Airl, who was tense again, the tax officer handed over the account book, pointing at the account for September 9th.

"President Airl, this bill...doesn't seem right?"

Airl's heart skipped a beat, because September 9 was the day when Song of the Mermaid wiped out the Iron Wolf Guild.

"Where... isn't it right?" Airl swallowed.

There were smiles on the tax officer's face, but these smiles looked so terrible now: "Look, your guild spent two silver coins for medical treatment on this day. But...why suddenly, such What about the medical fee? The doctor in Pelican Town is that Cora, right? If I remember correctly... His consultation fee for the whole year last year was one silver coin per person at most. But on this day, why do you need Charge you two silver coins?"

Chapter 60 Why so many questions?

Damn!

Arrow cursed himself heavily in his heart.

Before, he never thought that the account in September would be checked, so he didn't try to balance the account at all!The tax official looked friendly and respectful to the old Tengshu Academy, but his heart was really careful and his vision was very vicious, and he turned over his account that he had not settled.

Facing the current situation, Airl's hands under the table have already clenched into fists, tightly pulling his pants.But the smile on his face was the same as usual, without the slightest change: "Oh, this... this is very simple. Because this day... we went to attack King Slime."

The tax official's cold eyes were immediately covered with excitement and excitement: "Oh? King Slime?"

Airl nodded: "Yes, we spent a lot of effort to finally defeat the slime king. But our guild members were injured during the process, so we sent them to the clinic for treatment."

Hearing this, the tax officer nodded again and again, as if hearing a very exciting story, and exclaimed: "Oh, the Adventurer's Guild is full of talents~~~! I only saw it in dramas and musicals before. Over this kind of monster, King Slime! It is said that this kind of monster can transform at will, and can devour everything in the world! Only salt can kill it! But..."

The tax officer flipped through the account book in his hand again, hehe, a sneer rose from the corner of his mouth: "I don't think I saw a record of your guild purchasing a large amount of salt in the account book of Song of the Mermaid?"

So, one trick must be filled with another trick!Lying is not good, good children must not learn!

Airl used to be very clear about this truth, but now he has a deeper understanding of the correctness of this truth through practical actions!

What's more, you are too incompetent to be a tax officer. Ai Luo really wants to introduce this uncle to take up a public position in the Criminal Court of the Empire. He will definitely be able to do a better job there!

"Gee, we didn't use salt." Arrow smiled.

The tax collector frowned slightly: "Why? How are you going to kill King Slime if you don't use salt?"

Airl continued to smile: "Mr. Tax Collector, if a large amount of salt is really used in the Shining Forest to deal with King Slime, then it is very likely that the land of the Shining Forest will be turned into saline-alkali land, at least part of it will become saline-alkali land." .Have you ever thought about this? The forest will gradually be destroyed by then, and the herbal collection area that our guild depends on will also be destroyed."

At this moment, the tax official immediately seemed to be enlightened, and the suspicious expression on his face immediately disappeared: "So, so! I see, this point does make sense. To prevent it from becoming saline-alkali land without using a lot of salt, this Makes perfect sense!"

Airl smiled: "That's why I used the torch. It's just that I was a little careless, and the Shining Forest scorched a small area. But the forest scale of the Shining Forest will almost be filled by next summer."