Gold is Justice

"Mr. One-Eyed, Mr. Lianyin, you may think that if cutting off your hands is not enough, you can cut off your feet. This seems to be a heavier punishment for you, but I still want to say that what we need to formulate now is a set of rules. A rule that would appear equal to all of our ethnic groups. It cannot be that after members of our three races do the same thing, they will lead to different results. There is a sense of separation between them.”

Having said that, Ariel stretched out her hand to greet the back, and Cream behind her immediately took out a notebook and put it in her hand.She opened it, looked at one of the pages, and said with a smile——

"Just like a few days ago, when I was inspecting Pelican City, I saw a very interesting combination. A blood race woman and a human race woman went shopping together. I thought it was just the two of them, but later I found out that There is actually a flower fairy on the shoulder of a blood clan woman. So, this is a matter of the three races traveling together."

"Well, since our three races can travel together, think about it, if three members of our three races gather together and plan to steal together, what will happen?"

Ariel flicked the document in her hand lightly, and said with a smile: "The result is that human thieves have their hands cut off, their faces tattooed, and they are exiled. Human hands will not heal for life, and their ability to survive will be worrying from now on, maybe soon. It will die. The flower fairy is lighter, because the face is too small to save the tattoo, cut off the hands. But because of the natural magic of the flower fairy, even if it loses its hands, the flower fairy thief can live well , it may be a little inconvenience. In the end, even if the blood thief cut off his hands and feet, even if his face was disfigured, and he scratched fiercely with a knife, as long as a period of time, Can fully heal and go back to my previous life unscathed."

"At first glance, it seems that the punishment for the vampires is more serious, but in fact the punishment for the vampire thieves is the lightest. Over time, this kind of thing is probably not just us humans who can't bear it. The flower fairies see the same thieves And then there's one who seems to get absolutely no punishment at all, and that's also uncomfortable."

After listening to Ariel's analysis, Qiangwei over there couldn't help but tilt her head, frowned, and thought about this question for a while.

Compared with before she just compared the flower fairies with humans, now she seems to be more concerned about how to deal with the problem of blood race.

The one-eyed brow was also wrinkled now, and he stopped talking.Not only did he not speak, he also turned his head to look at Lianyin next to him.

After a moment of silence, the gloomy-looking vampire turned his head and said a few words to the one-eyed.One-eyed nodded slightly, and said again: "So, what do you humans think is a good way to deal with it?"

Round Cheese exhaled, and said, "So, I just want to ask everyone here, do you have any good ideas? Well... it can't just be our opinions, right? I just want to ask, do you have any ideas? A method that can treat everyone equally..."

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, he tapped on the table lightly with his one-eyed hand and said, "We have an idea. Since you humans feel that imposing physical punishment on us cannot achieve the purpose of punishing us ...Then how about not punishing them all with this kind of injury punishment? If they do something wrong in the future, they will all be locked up."

Ariel was slightly taken aback, and said, "You mean...don't cut off hands and feet? It's all just locked up?"

One-eyed nodded again, and continued: "That's right. It just so happens that our Night Clan has a magic circle that can imprison our compatriots. I believe your human race and the Flower Fairy Clan over there should have something similar, right?"

Qiangwei also nodded slightly, and responded: "We flower fairies also have them. If it's just to trap our flower fairies and prevent her from moving freely, there are at least ten kinds of magic of this type."

One-eyed exhaled again, turned to look at Ariel next to him, and said, "So how about this? From now on, anyone who steals things, that, one silver coin and three gold coins, will be imprisoned for 30 years, three gold coins and ten gold coins The following, 50 years, more than ten gold coins, starting from 50 years to unlimited, how about it?"

Originally, Ariel was quite interested in exempting from amputation of hands and feet, and tattooing on the face, but after hearing the number of years, she immediately felt that the whole person was not well, and hurriedly He waved his hand and said: "Slow down, slow down, Mr. One-eyed, I am very grateful for your idea, and I also think that it might sound good not to cut off people's hands and feet... Looking back carefully, I often saw it when I was young. Some people have their hands and feet broken, or even beaten to death just because they made some small mistakes. I agree with all hands that no corporal punishment will be imposed, but only the restriction of life freedom. It's just..."

She raised her head, smiled awkwardly and said, "It's just that there is something wrong with this age limit?"

Qiangwei on the other side immediately interjected: "Why, is it too short? That's true. Maybe the time can be extended a bit... Otherwise, the time punishment of a flower mound will pass, which means there is no punishment..."

Now, the corner of the round cheese's mouth twitched.

Ariel continued to wave her hand and said, "Shortly! How about defining it as one year, three years, and five years or more? I know! I know that for the blood clan and the flower fairy clan Two years is like doing nothing, and it is not a punishment at all. But it is already a very strong punishment for us humans!"

Hearing what Ariel said, Round Cheese over there had a somewhat disapproving face.After discussing with the participants next to him, he said, "President Ariel, I also agree to abolish corporal punishment, it's just to restrict the freedom of life. But in this way, I don't think it's too much for us human beings." Is it too harsh? The life span of their flower fairies and vampires is so long..."

Ariel shook her head and said with a smile: "Their lifespans are indeed long, but our economy is also developing very fast~~~!"

The president turned his head, looked at the blood race and the flower fairies present, and said: "These short years may be just a short moment for you two races, but our Pelican City is developing, I believe This year's Pelican City and the previous two years' Pelican Town are two completely different worlds. I don't think that if there is a vampire or flower fairy family who have been imprisoned for three years, they can easily appear in the world. In Pelican City three years later, you can continue to live as if nothing happened."

Ariel said very seriously: "It is not the so-called lifespan that determines the value of time, but the experience. Even if you live forever, even if your lifespan is a little longer than the two tribesmen present, you can live for thousands of years, ten thousand years, but this thousand years If all the years are confined to a small space, and there is no way to keep up with our development speed, then I think there is no difference between thousands of years and not having lived at all."

Round Cheese couldn't say no to Ariel. After discussing with the councilor next to him, he finally nodded and said, "Since that's the case, then we don't have any objections. After all, we all believe in President Ariel."

Seeing this, Ariel finally let out a breath, nodded, smiled, and said: "Then, we have decided to replace corporal punishment with punishments that restrict freedom. And this set of punishments will be for our three races... No, we should It is said that it is a common punishment in our Pelican City, and does not distinguish any race. According to this idea, let's continue to draft the next law."

On this day, from early morning to evening, there were two breaks on the way, and the two blood races were allowed to hide in a room with airtight surroundings for a little sleep when the sun was strongest in the afternoon, and the rest of the time They are all engaged in such legal debates, delimiting each other's powers, and formulating a law that can be accepted by everyone.

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Although both the Flower Fairy and the Blood Race strongly demanded that they judge their own clan members and avoid interference from other members in the specific trials, Ariel finally decided to use the "citizens of Pelican City" as a person who can cover everyone up. In the name of the court, the interrogation system for the relevant cases was determined.

It is required that no matter whether it is a case about the human race, the case of the flower fairy, or the case of the blood race, and no matter whether there are other races among the parties, the judges who hear the trial must be judged by a human race, a The Flower Fairy Clan, a judge council composed of three judges from a blood clan to discuss the case, finally reached a confirmation of guilt or innocence with all three votes or two votes to one vote.

At least on this point, Ariel still feels that it is really good to be able to reach an agreement.

Of course, if this is the case, of course there will be problems.The most important question is, who will be the judge?

The judge problem on the human side is easy to solve, and even Ariel herself has already drawn up an internal candidate.

The key is the flower goblin and the blood race. It is really a headache for these two ethnic groups, who were originally almost equivalent to tribal life, to choose a judge who can read these legal provisions and conduct a trial. matter.

But fortunately, both races have expressed their understanding of Ariel's worries, and are willing to select a qualified candidate to come to Song of the Mermaid as soon as possible to learn from the judges on the human side, and strive to be able to pass the test as soon as possible. This little Pelican City court was formed.

As for who the human judge is... "Choose a paladin. A paladin who represents justice, benevolence, kindness, bravery, humility, and justice is of course the best candidate. At present, our Pelican There are two groups of paladin candidates for the city."

Ariel opened her fingers pretending to be deep, and said while counting——

"The Holy See sent a lot of paladins to station in Pelican City. What is the name of the leading paladin? That guy? There are others..."

"Paladin? President, isn't there a paladin in our guild?"

At this moment, Cream immediately mentioned this sentence tactfully.

At that moment, Ariel immediately said with a sad face: "You mean Suta? Well... Suta is indeed a paladin, and she does have the character and ability required by a judge. However, a human judge It would be a bit..."

Of course, Round Cheese understood immediately, and quickly waved his hands and said, "Oh, President Ariel, you are so humble! I think Suta is okay! As long as she is recommended by President Ariel, she will definitely be fine." Problem!"

Now, Ariel could only smile and no longer refuse.

"So the next topic, shall we discuss it directly today? Or wait until tomorrow?"

Ariel looked at the document in her hand and said.

At this time, some staff members had already started delivering dinner, and in front of humans was a bowl of soup, a piece of toast, some vegetables, fried eggs and some bacon.In front of the flower fairy is honey.The vampires were very simple. The two vampires took out a blood sugar cube from their pockets and stuffed it into their mouths, chewed it twice and then swallowed it.

While eating, the mayor of Round Cheese said: "Do you want to continue the discussion today? Well...it's so late now..."

Ariel smiled, picked up the bread, took a bite and said: "So I want to ask everyone, if you think it's appropriate, let's go through it first, and by the way, it can be regarded as a transition for tomorrow's topic. If you can directly negotiate It would be better, and save too much trouble.”

The flower fairies looked at each other, Qiangwei nodded and said, "I have no objection. What about the blood race?"

After whispering to each other, Cyclops and Lianyin raised their heads vigorously and said, "We have no problem, let's talk about it first."

That being the case, don't waste the time of this dinner party.Ariel asked Cream, who was eating bread next to her, to take a document, opened it, and said——

"Actually, this topic can be regarded as the thing I want to discuss the most. It is about the distribution of interests in our Pelican City. Recently, the Sanguine has a cigarette production line, so I want to use this opportunity to share the benefits of this production line. All aspects are confirmed."

The chairman glanced at the document in his hand, and continued to say——

"Mr. One-Eyed, I want to charge a 30.00% agency fee, what do you think?"

Obviously, the price surprised Duyan a little. He quickly said a few words to Lianyin next to him. After Lianyin lowered his head and thought for a while, he also said: "This, the price, is expensive, no way."

Ariel smiled slightly and said, "Don't rush to say that the price is high, there is a reason for me to charge this agency fee. You see, let's not say that I help the vampires settle in human society, even if we mermaids Zhi Song needs to be responsible for mediating issues between your vampires and other races. Especially when the news of your settlement in Pelican City spreads, I believe more humans will know you and know you. At this time, we mermaids Song of Songs can act as your middleman."

After Lianyin listened to Cyclops' translation, his eyes rolled slightly, and then he muttered something to Cyclops.

One-eyed nodded and said, "Even so, it's still too high. Our cigarette output is not very stable, and the products we sell are actually not many. Miss Ariel, if you ask for such a high agency fee , then our business can't be done at all. And I think, since you can give Mochi a [-]% agency fee, why can't you give us the same agency fee?"

Ariel smiled and shook her head, and said, "Well, Mochi is my friend. So I charge this fee as a friendship price. If you think 30.00% is really unacceptable...how much are you willing to pay?"

The topic turned back to the blood race, but Cyclops was not in a hurry to bargain.After he discussed with Lianyin next to him for a while, his eyes turned away from Ariel and turned to Qiangwei next to him.

"Ms. Qiangwei, the leader of the noble flower fairies."

One Eye shouted at Qiangwei in a very polite tone——

"Regarding the issue of cigarettes, our Night Clan also has some things that we want to discuss with you Flower Fairy Clan. This is also the main reason why we came to this meeting. After discussing with you, I can reply to humans In terms of intermediary fees."

Qiangwei sat down, nodded slightly, and said, "Please tell me, Mr. One-Eyed."

After pondering for a while, Cyclops said, "If we make cigarettes now, we need a lot of raw materials, that is, a plant we call Nikitina. However, the amount of this plant currently seems to be in your forest. The output is not very large. And among the few output, there is a large amount of Nicotina that is highly poisonous."

"So, I want to ask, can you flower fairies control the toxins of these Nicotina? Or, can you increase the yield of this plant?" The leader of the flower fairies thought for a while and said. : "You mean, you want us to increase the yield of this kind of tobacco leaves, and then reduce the toxicity in the tobacco leaves?"

One-eyed nodded again: "Yes. I don't know if you can do this step."

Qiangwei exhaled slowly, with a cool smile on her face, and said slowly: "This requires improvement of this nightshade plant...but the improvement you requested is not directly changing it to another plant, Rather, the toxicity in it needs to be finely tuned, while still being grown in large numbers."

"We flower fairies can indeed make plants change in the way we want, but this change is not so much a fine adjustment as it is an extensive action like Mother Nature. To put it more simply, you want It is easy for us to let us make an open space full of flowers or grow various kinds of plants. But you ask us to let us make an open space grow a certain type of plant with a certain quality and a certain quality. It's a little beyond our magical habits."

There was a slight disappointment on his one-eyed face.

"But if you blood races want it, I can give you some of the nightshade seeds and let you plant them yourself. What do you think?"

"Planting?"

For these blood races, the word "planting" is simply an unprecedented and strange vocabulary.

After all, from birth to now, almost all blood races have regarded themselves as hunters. It is really absurd for them to experience working in the farmland and then planting something.

"Hmm... I'm not sure we can grow Nikitina well. Our people are not trained to farm..."

Seeing that the blood race was hesitant, Qiangwei still had that cold smile and said slowly: "It doesn't matter, you don't know how, we flower fairies can teach you. As long as you are willing to pay a little tuition, you Then you will understand that farming is actually not that difficult.”

Suddenly, Cyclops froze: "Are you asking for money? Is this also asking for money?"

Compared to the one-eyed surprise, the flower goblins on the opposite side were very calm and calm, and nodded slightly as if they were used to it: "Of course money is needed, and knowledge is also a resource. If you want to get it, then It needs to be purchased with money. But please rest assured, for the sake of the citizens of Pelican City, I will give you a discounted price."

Another discounted price?

Why are they all discounted prices?

And why does this preferential price sound so familiar?

One-eyed look away, and Lianyin next to you look at me and I look at you.Afterwards, their gazes all silently turned to Ariel who was eating over there.

Ariel saw that the eyes of these two blood races were all looking at her, and for a moment thought that they wanted her to help bargain the price.At that moment, she put down the knife and fork in her hand, wiped her mouth with a napkin, and said, "Ms. Qiangwei, what is your current production of tobacco leaves?"

Qiangwei was very calm, and continued to say in that calm voice: "I don't know the exact number, those tobacco leaves are just plants that we plant casually, just like other plants, they just stay there. I Before this, I didn’t know that you humans and blood races would like this kind of thing so much.”

Ariel curled her lips and said with a smile: "Then since you planted it casually, and you can't control the toxin and quality of these eggplant leaves well, how can you teach two friends of the blood race to grow eggplant leaves?" ?”

Seeing the suspicious smile on Ariel's face, Qiangwei exhaled slightly, the smile still on her face.Obviously, she wasn't angry, but just troubled that she had to explain more now.

"The planting of the tobacco leaves is not much trouble. As long as there is enough sunlight and enough water, they will grow naturally. It's just that you also said that you have requirements for the quality of the tobacco leaves."

"If this is the case, then it is necessary to understand these tobacco leaves in depth and meticulously. My people need to talk to these plants, and then apply some different magic to their roots, stems, leaves and other parts one by one, and make fine-tuning again and again. In this way, Perhaps it will be able to produce a large number of tobacco leaves that echo your request."

"It's just that if this is the case, our tribe will spend a lot of time on this. Until these tobacco leaves produce seeds, and then plant these flower seeds, and confirm that the quality of the new generation of tobacco leaves produced is still so good , or higher. Only in this way can the third batch of flower seeds be used as official eggplant seeds and handed over to these blood races."

"During this process, we flower fairies have spent a lot of hard work. I think, from this perspective, it's not too much for us to ask for a little fee."

Ariel pursed her lips and thought about it, then continued: "So how long will it take?"

Qiangwei finally frowned now, she bit her lower lip lightly, and said, "It will take at least a month."

Ariel exhaled: "One month...but we have already run out of production, so we won't be able to sell cigarettes for the next month?"

Hearing that the raw materials were out of stock, Cyclops and Lianyin, who are manufacturers, also looked ugly.

And if these manufacturers can't ship, then Ariel, the guild that controls the sales side, probably won't make any money...

"Of course, it will take at least a month. Therefore, my clan started to develop improved tobacco leaves as early as when you asked these blood clans to sell cigarettes, Mrs. Ariel. Fortunately, I finally cultivated stable and qualified flower seeds yesterday, which can be fixed Shipped."