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After a serious illness, Xia Shi's body is now very weak. What's worse, the only food left in the family is a loaf of baked black bread.

Although Xiao En insisted on giving all the bread to his brother, how could Xia Shi have the heart to let such a young child go hungry, so he broke the bread in half with force, and the two brothers ate it mouthful with cold water. joyous.

After filling his stomach, Xia Shi found the storage room at home based on his memory. It was already empty, and there were even traces of rats running rampant. In a locked and heavy box, he found a broken bag with There are a few dull copper coins scattered here and there, and this is his only "property" now.

In order to see a doctor for his brother, Sean had secretly withdrawn all his savings from this "little treasury". In the end, the kind doctor reduced the consultation fee a little, leaving them a little money for food.

But now the remaining small change can't even support the two brothers' food for a day!

They have to find a way to make money!

Roman City, where Xia Shi is located, is a relatively prosperous city. His previous job was to help carry goods on the pier, but unfortunately he became unemployed due to being ill for a week.

This is a world with strict classes. The nobles can eat, drink and have fun with the inheritance passed down from their ancestors, enjoy the highest education, drink afternoon tea elegantly, and dress beautifully to go to the ball, while the common people can only live alone. I work hard every day, and suffer all kinds of stares and cold reception. As long as I miss work one day, my employer will yell at me and say that I don’t need to come back next time.

Xia Shi is now desperate to find a job to feed and clothe him, so he immediately thought of an old acquaintance of his, Uncle Winter, who has always taken care of him.

Uncle Winter and his parents who died early were old friends, and they often used a little money from their own savings to help the two brothers. Uncle Winter was a drunkard, and the most convenient place to find him was the tavern.

Xia Shi found the only tavern in the slum area, opened the door and walked in.

To be honest, the smell here is not very pleasant, the dark and small space is full of low-quality alcohol smell, there is a row of dead drunks on the bar counter, and there is even a faint smell of vomit around.

Xia Shi walked over holding his nose, and found Uncle Winter who was drunk and unconscious in a corner.

Uncle Winter's face was flushed red, and his eyes were distracted. Xia Shi knew that this uncle had always been a good drinker, so he tried to wake him up.

Uncle Winter raised his head slowly, rubbed his red nose, "Hey, Colin, your illness is really cured, come on, uncle treats you to drink the best wine here today!"

Xia Shi politely refused, and at the same time made a request to Uncle Winter that he wanted to find a new job.

Uncle Winter shook his head and stuttered a little, "Colin, to be honest, there are not many jobs suitable for you at present. You have just suffered a serious illness and can't do heavy physical work, but those who keep accounts and sort them out Such easy jobs, and employers are only willing to recruit those who are slightly literate."

Xia Shi nodded helplessly. Children who grew up in slums did not have the opportunity to go to school to read and write, and the writing in this world is not the same as that on Earth, so he can only be regarded as illiterate now.

"By the way, I suddenly remembered that three days ago, the Magic Association was recruiting experimenters to test their latest potion. The hiring fee was a full twelve copper coins! There are no strict requirements, regardless of gender. Young people with normal health can be selected, but..." Uncle Winter's eyebrows frowned suddenly, "Colin, you have to know that although those potion masters are also magicians certified by the Magic Association, they often There are rumors that some unruly potion masters will develop some evil potions, trying to cause turmoil in the mainland, so the reputation of potion masters has always been very bad, and everyone secretly said that this experimental work is a bit risky."

Xia Shi naturally knew Uncle Winter's concerns. He used to often hear that new drugs developed in hospitals would be tested by volunteers. Although there is generally no life-threatening danger, most people are not very willing to be experimenters—who knows Does your body happen to have an allergic reaction?

But this seems to be the best job he can get so far.

Survival is sometimes so helpless, the body can't do heavy physical work, and he is illiterate and illiterate. Now there are too few people who are willing to hire him.

Xia Shi nodded, "Uncle Winter, it's okay. Didn't Sophia, who lived next door to our house, apply for this job? She can do it as a little girl, and I won't lose to her."

Uncle Winter laughed loudly, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Well done, little man, how happy your parents would be if they saw you like this!"

Although he often takes care of Jixia and the two brothers, a young man with hands and feet should fight on his own, instead of being a rice bug who can only hide under the protection of others and curl up cowardly at home.

Xia Shi was thinking in his heart, he didn't want to stay in the slums for the rest of his life, he still had things to do, and since he took up Colin's body now, he had an obligation to take care of Xiao En , he wanted Sean to live a normal life without starving or freezing.

At the same time, he lamented the injustice of this world again in his heart. From the conversation with Uncle Winter just now, he realized how important knowledge is to the improvement of a person's status. Workers who sweat profusely on the construction site are paid more than twice as much as those who do manual work!

Not only that, he also found that knights and magicians with high status in this world need to master a certain degree of cultural knowledge. After all, most of these people's daily work contacts are upper-class nobles, and they even have to come into contact with Books, so children from the slums like them have almost no chance to become noble magicians or heroic knights.

The only chance for ordinary people to be promoted to the upper class is to acquire knowledge and become an elite in the industry, but some children from poor families have lost the opportunity to compete since birth, because even if they go to the cheapest school, the tuition fees alone are enough to make ordinary people It hurts for a while, not to mention the three-year closed boarding system. During this period, the family will lose a labor force that can make money!Another kind of private teaching class is not so strict. You only need to go to class twice a week, but the cost is frighteningly high. You need to pay four silver coins a month. One silver coin is equivalent to one hundred copper coins. The average daily income of a person is about ten copper coins, which is equivalent to not eating or drinking for more than a month, and it is only enough to pay the tuition once!

But Xia Shi is optimistic about this. He is a person who has gone through nine years of compulsory education. He is not ignorant of knowledge, and he still has Colin's language memory in his mind. He can speak and listen, It’s just that he is illiterate. It may take other people two or three years to learn, but the time he spends will be several times shorter. Compared with the closed teaching in schools, the teaching methods of private teachers are more free and streamlined , but the tuition fees are more expensive.

But this is the so-called investment. If he can master the knowledge of this world by paying only some tuition fees, then he can find an easier job and get rid of poverty.

So the most important thing right now is to save money.

He still has three pitiful copper coins left in his pocket. The Magic Association is a high-rise building in the center of Roman City. The interview time for the experiment is 02:30 pm, and it is now close to noon. The most remote place in Roman City, it takes at least an hour for him to walk to the Magic Association from here, and he is not sure that his body, which has just recovered from a serious illness, can last for so long without rest, so he spent a copper coin to let the delivery His apprentice took him to the center of the city.

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The noble magic association has never welcomed poor people dressed in shabby clothes.

However, the guard at the gate suddenly remembered that there seemed to be an experiment on new potion reagents in the Association today, and the people who came to participate in the experiment were naturally poor and humble poor, so he reluctantly checked the boy who came in from top to bottom. He repeated it, as if he was afraid that this poor poor man would steal his belongings after entering, and he even gave the young man a vigilant look, "Remember to keep your hands and feet clean after entering!"

Xia Shi nodded silently, pretending to be polite.

At this time, a middle-aged fat man in his thirties, dressed gorgeously, came out of a room on the ground floor. When he saw Xia Shi standing outside the door, the fat man's eyes lit up, just like an anatomist saw Like an animal corpse, "Hey, lovely young man, you are finally here, Winter mentioned you to me, come in and prepare for the experiment!"

The interior of the Magic Association is quite quaint. It is said that it has a history of hundreds of years. Magicians can be regarded as a very noble profession in the whole continent, because the number is extremely rare, and the empire they are in is only a few hundred formals. Magicians, most of them are junior magicians, because they pay more attention to spiritual power, so their physiques are relatively fragile. They always wear elegant robes, speak softly, and behave politely. They are the dreams of many noble girls on the mainland. lover.

Xia Shi had fantasized about such a naturally high-status profession when he just woke up, but his current family situation is too poor, and the cost of training a magician can even bankrupt an ordinary family!

It's really hard mode from the beginning.

Xia Shi laughed at himself bitterly. After he followed the middle-aged fat man into a hall, he happened to see a few boys and girls about his age standing there, all dressed in the configuration of poor families. These people should be "companions" who conduct experiments like themselves.

"Okay, you don't have to worry." The middle-aged fat man came over with a few tubes of potions with a smile, "The new potions researched this time are all healing potions, which are basically harmless to the human body. I increased the potion a few days ago. The proportion of one of the medicinal materials is to allow this medicine to exert a faster healing speed."

As he said that, he first handed one of the light blue potions to the little girl who was closest, "Mina, right? Come and try this 15% bottle."

"John, come and try this bottle of 16%."

"Hey, Sophia, my good boy, we are already acquaintances, and I will treat you to a delicious cake later."

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"Colin, you are the luckiest person present. Look, this bottle has a full 20% weight."

Xia Shi reached out to take it, and found that the bottle of potion he was holding was indeed a little darker than the people next to him, and it had changed a little to purple blue.

It's a very easy job, as long as you drink a bottle of 20% healing potion, you can get twelve copper coins, but you need to take some small risks.

How could he refuse such a good thing.

Xia Shi raised his head and drank the bottle of purple-blue potion.

In the next second, there was a sudden sharp pain in his abdomen, which made him change his face uncontrollably!