Gold is Justice

The Thousandth Chapter 17 Reality

Priest gasped: "20%————?! Is she crazy? How is this possible?! 20% rate of return, three years? How could she make it?! Those from Cotton Flow City Do idiots believe that?!"

Messenger: "That's because... because along the way, the president of the Song of the Mermaid treated Knight George and Eddie the Invincible Magician from the Magic Association very politely. People who have been sending greetings to our people, and even buying gifts for us... So when we were in Cotton Flow City, the president of the Song of the Mermaid seemed to provoke the magician of the association with words, and the flame magician Tell me directly that the president spent three years turning one hundred gold coins into one thousand gold coins..."

Priest's eyes widened: "So? So those fools just believed it?! They just gave money?!"

Messenger: "Yes... yes..."

Priest almost cried: "Then what? Those bastards... what are those bastards doing?"

Messenger: "Knight George is leading the crowd to chase the Song of the Mermaid..."

Priest: "I know he's chasing! What I'm asking is why didn't I call you back after I catch up?! Is their carriage fast? How can such a slow carriage fail to catch up?!"

Messenger: "That...high priest, the strange car of Song of the Mermaid...it seems...doesn't need to rest. Because the seat of the strange car is small, it can only accommodate the members of Song of the Mermaid. Although the strange car Three large carriages were pulled behind the car to load the people they hired in these two cities, but the speed did not slow down at all. Our people were all accompanied by horses. But after several days of long journeys Afterwards, the strength of the horses had been exhausted and they needed to rest...but the carriage in Song of the Mermaid...it really didn't need to rest, and it could continue on its way even at night! I don't have time to buy horses, so... so..."

On this day, the Great Elder of the Magicians Association and the High Priest of the Holy See of Light were simply blown away.

But now, the second prince's big wedding ceremony is just around the corner, and they don't have the time or energy to allocate manpower to deal with this woman's affairs. Now they can only think of a way to deal with the wedding, and the rest... later Bar.

And as for the current mermaid song...

Leaving the snow-covered Hanhai City, a strange car was slowly driving on the spacious wilderness.

Although the sound seemed a bit noisy, as long as you entered the inside of the strange car, closed the door, and slightly plugged your ears with earplugs, then the matter was still very easy to solve.

Today, the starry night is in the sky.

Ariel has now changed into a suit of men's clothing that is easy to move, and is sitting in the driver's seat.It's just that there is no need to conceal his identity now, so he doesn't wear a hat anymore, and his blond hair is tied behind his head, shaking repeatedly with the bumps of the vehicle.

Holding the handle of the strange car, looking at the dark road ahead, and then at the bright ball lantern hanging on top of her head, Ariel smiled slightly, still holding the handle of the car, and stepped on the pedal again , let the car continue to move forward.

He turned his head and looked at the carriage behind him.

Through the windshield, Ariel could see that Brad was lying flat in the cabin, and Cream and Tesla were sleeping soundly on his stomach.

The female members, a little further away, were covering each other with blankets, also snoring softly.

Those flower fairies are also gathered in a corner of the carriage in piles, layer upon layer, and their wings look really beautiful.

In the ear, there was a gentle wind sound.

Immediately afterwards, Cheese sat beside Ariel, put his legs on the fender in front of the co-pilot, put his head in his hands, and said, "This car is really convenient, it can drive so many people in one breath."

Ariel gave him another look: "So, do you want to try?"

The cheese chuckled, shook his head slightly, and said, "I'd better forget it, I'm not interested in this thing now."

After that, the two stopped talking.

Accompanied by this silence, Napa silently climbed onto Ariel's lap, curled her tail, and looked like she was going to sleep.

"In the past two days, you seem to be a little restless? Are you worried that you will not pay out the money after defrauding others?"

Finally, the cheese couldn't hold back, and asked.

Ariel couldn't help but chuckled, and said, "Once things like money have accumulated to a certain level, they will generate money by themselves. So I have never worried about not being able to pay back."

Cheese chuckled: "That's right, you are a woman who has achieved a profit close to 900% in three years, and now a mere 20% is really nothing to you. So what? What are you thinking these two days?" ? If you don’t sleep, you have to drive when you stay up late.”

After Ariel pondered for a moment, she turned her head to Cheese next to her: "If I tell you, can you promise not to tell anyone? Including our members, and your blue-striped president. That's right, I Means any 'person', whether it's your kind or something."

Seeing that Ariel suddenly became so serious now, Cheese seemed a little cheerful.He turned his head, looked at Ariel with those blood red eyes, and said with a smile: "What's going on? Is this topic so serious? No one can tell? Then why are you telling me?"

After thinking about it, Ariel said, "You're right, I really shouldn't tell you. This is my own problem, not yours. But..."

After a short pause, Ariel looked at the carriage behind her: "If I tell you, you will have a place to go back to. So, normally speaking, you are the one who is least likely to leak the secret. But other members, They have nowhere to go. If I put too much mental burden on them, I'm afraid they won't be able to bear it."

Cheese closed his eyes and snorted, "So, you just want to find someone to express your troubles?"

Ariel thought about it, and immediately said with a smile: "Yes, you should treat it like this."

Seeing this smile, Cheese knew that this human woman was definitely not a simple matter of wanting to tell her troubles.But since she is willing to talk, Cheese is happy to listen.

At this point, Ariel finally opened her mouth and spoke slowly——

"Actually... I failed in this bet."

The cheese said: "You said it, the last bet, you lost, you didn't complete the task."

Ariel nodded lightly, and said while hurrying: "In the past three years, I have always wanted to prove my worth—as a woman's worth."

"I want to prove to everyone that just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I can't do things that only men can do."

"Aside from purely physical work, such as sorting paperwork, accounting, and even running a guild, as a leader, I think I can do it as a woman. I want to prove that if it is calculated by wisdom , I will never lose to most men. Even if I don’t belong to any man, I can take care of myself, even very well.”

"For this reason, I desperately want to complete this bet, and I want to prove this to the royal family of the Blue Bay Empire and the Duke of Jinguo."

"But in the end, I still failed. Moreover, I failed so thoroughly that there was no room for return."

Having said that, Ariel suddenly turned her head and looked at the cheese again, and asked, "Do you know what the reason for my failure is?"

Cheese opened his eyes, looked at Ariel as well, and said, "Hmm... not working hard enough? There were too many accidents in the process of making money? Is there still a little... little luck?"

"No, cheese. What I lack is not this kind of thing."

Ariel took a deep breath, looked away, and looked forward again.After a while, she suddenly reached into her pocket thoughtfully, took out a stack of well-folded letters, opened them, looked at the words full of misspellings, and said slowly——

"I lost not because I was a woman. Because even if I was really a man, even if I really worked a hundred times harder, I could really earn more than two thousand gold coins within three years. According to There is no suspense in the bet to win this game, and even then I will definitely lose."

"Because I lost not because of my womanhood, but because of my... slavery."

"Before I lost this bet, I always thought that the biggest problem that bothered me was the inequality between men and women."

"You men will try their best to squeeze us women. You will treat us women as tools for childbearing, as free labor for housework, and as sandbags to vent your anger. You can beat us as much as you want, and scold us as you want. We women are seen by men. Become a 'thing', we are an object, a piece of furniture without a mind, without a soul, without independent thinking, let alone independent thinking."

"But now, I feel that the problem doesn't seem to be here."

"I lost not because I wanted to be against men or because I was only a woman."

"I lost because I wanted to fight the royal family."

"It is the most unforgivable thing for a humble slave to want to rebel against the supreme nobles, to rebel against the royal family, to step on their faces and say 'you lost'. "

"So, if I wanted to win in the past three years, it was actually very simple."



Chapter 48

"I can plead with the Duke or Sister Natalie, as long as I show great humility and obedience to the royal family and those nobles, I believe they will definitely not hesitate to spend the thousand gold coins to play with me. "

"And judging from the results, they can also easily take away all the fruits of my hard work in the past three years. The mermaid song is theirs, the property is theirs, and the guild members are also theirs. Just think, They can take the thousand gold back three years later, just like Eddie and George did in Bujuan. So it doesn't matter whether I want to win or lose It's not about trying to make money, it's about my willingness to be more obedient to the demands of the nobility and the royal family."

Napa, lying on Ariel's lap, slightly pricked up her ears, listening to the confession.

And the cheese is now seriously looking at the girl next to her who has just stepped into the threshold, looking at her pensive face.

After hesitating for a moment, Cheese finally understood what the girl wanted to say, but still asked a little worriedly: "So... what do you want?"

"equality."

"An equality that allows me to no longer submit to the nobles, and no longer need to show that sad smile in front of those royal families."

Ariel's voice seemed a little soft, but she still gritted her teeth and said softly——

"The royal family members are nothing special. After removing the blessing of identity, the tidal wave that is my husband in name can't suppress even a 'little woman' like me. So what if he knows fighting skills? If I force him to die, he will still show fear in my eyes."

"It can be seen that the royal family is not so terrible, we can respect them, but they are also human beings, just like me."

"Since they are all human beings, why am I born to be a slave, a maid, and a 'doll' who must accompany Alice Kingo?"

"As for those 'superior people' who were conceived in October like me, and then born through the peristalsis of the uterus and the vagina (harmony), they must be nobler than me? It is the channel that squeezes them out that is covered with gold ? Or is the tube that injects white liquid into that channel studded with diamonds? Or, when they were born, they were natural generals who needed a hundred thousand troops to help them out from their mother’s noble belly ?”

After finishing speaking, Ariel couldn't help but shut her mouth and let out a deep breath.

But after waiting for a long time, the cheese next to him didn't respond?She turned her head, only to see that the vampire was looking at her with a very incredible look.

"President, if you had said what you just said a few months earlier, I believe that no one in the guild would guess what noble son you are."

Ariel smiled slightly and said, "Why? Aristocrats don't know how to swear?"

Cheese pinched his chin and thought for a while, then said: "Maybe it won't be as straightforward as you said. Indeed, from the perspective of our Night Clan, there is indeed no difference between your human nobles and commoners. Slashing with a sword will kill you, and hitting your head with a piece of wood will make you dizzy. To me, you humans are no different. But what I didn’t expect is that you, President, think that there is no fundamental difference between you humans. .”

Ariel smiled and said, "Perhaps, it's because of you in our guild, after I got to know the flower fairy and our vice president Napa, that I can understand this."

Cheese chuckled and said, "Then President, if you think that what you said just now is the problem between you and those human nobles...then what do you want to do?"

After finishing speaking, Cheese paused and continued to say——

"Of course the best way is to put a knife on their foreheads, but I don't think you can put a knife on the forehead of every noble among you humans."

Ariel exhaled, held her hands and looked ahead, after thinking for a while, she continued——

"Actually...there may be a knife in this world that can withstand the forehead of every nobleman. It's just that I don't have the strength to use this kind of knife right now."

The cheese seemed a little interested: "Oh? It's interesting, some kind of weapon that can withstand the head of every nobleman? What is this? The sword of the legendary brave? A weapon made of the teeth of the red dragon Chifei? Or something A wonderful large-scale magic?"

Ariel: "It's a gold coin."

Originally, Cheese was somewhat interested, but after hearing Ariel's answer, he obviously rolled his eyes, showing a disinterested expression.

But it doesn't matter if the cheese is not interested, Ariel continued——

"I want all the nobles to understand that people are equal. No one is inherently nobler than others, and no one is born to be as low as dust. The only weapon is money."

"The nobles used their status to occupy the land, and then collected rent from the occupied land to support themselves. In order to protect their land from being usurped by others, the nobles also used part of the rent to maintain their own violence. This kind of violence can be mercenaries, guilds, private recruits, all kinds of things. But there is no doubt that if they want to ensure that the status of nobles will not be deprived, they must use money to solve their security. question."

"As you said, Cheese. In front of you, there is no difference between a high-status nobleman and a low-status slave in the eyes of the Night Clan. Then, as long as a slave-born person like me can master If you have enough wealth, build your own army, and develop a more powerful production capacity than those nobles, then no matter how upset those nobles are, I'm afraid they can only hold back."

Having said that, Cheese's expression became a little nervous, and he waved his hand with a half-joking smile: "Hey, hey, President, do you know what you are talking about? I didn't want to join the Mermaid Song But do you want to take such a path in the end? Yes, in my eyes, there is no difference between you humans, but do you really understand... what do you mean by this sentence?" Compared with Cheese's half-joking With a smile, Ariel didn't seem to be joking at all.She took out the letter in her pocket, glanced at it again, and said slowly——

"Of course I know what I'm talking about. In fact, I should have known what I wanted a long time ago. In fact, the things described in this letter are enough to represent everything. Identity is not the mutual relationship between us and those nobles. The key point of distinction is wealth."

"Only if our money is not less than those nobles, or even more than those nobles, and the weapons in our hands are more powerful and advanced, an ordinary person who has no magical talent and has not experienced any combat training can completely fight those nobles. dialogue on an equal footing."

"From the moment I lost the bet, I have decided that I will never have any illusions about the nobles or the royal family. I will not expect them to treat me well, and I will no longer believe in the so-called light." Gods, heroes, brave men, or other "noble" beings with some kind of "goodness" in their hearts can be kind to lowly civilians or slaves. If you want them to admit defeat obediently, sit at the table with me obediently Speaking of which, I have to be able to make the people at the top realize that we have better weapons than them, better productivity than them, richer wealth."

"This is the only way I can think of."

The cheese looked at the president silently, with a very complicated expression on his face.