The Dean Has Arrived

Because tomorrow is the opening day of the celestial sphere competition, all the work she can do is almost done, and the rest are some heavy chores, which have nothing to do with her. In addition, Xi Wei also notified her in advance yesterday that she has something to do today Will not come to Golovito, so on the eve of the celestial ball competition, the girl had a short vacation instead.

But just like many people, I always look forward to having time to rest when I am obviously busy, but once I really rest, I don’t know what to do.

Sleep in? Alina has always had a clear schedule of work and rest, even if she wants to sleep in, the habits she has developed throughout the years make it impossible for her to fall asleep.

Shopping like a normal girl? Because I spent a lot of time shopping with Xi Wei and Sha Lan before, I am not interested in running into the crowd for the time being.

After thinking for a long time, the girl finally decided to go to the bookstore and read free knight novels for a day...

But not long after she left her room, she met Sharan on the road.

The blue-haired girl walking in the crowd didn't seem to notice Elina's gaze, holding a small parasol with lace fringe, walking aimlessly in the crowd.

I don't know if it was her illusion, but Elena always felt that the girl who was always full of energy when she was with them was a little gloomy and melancholy at this time.

After hesitating for a moment, Alina still called out to Shalan: "Miss Shalan!"

Shalan, who was originally a little absent-minded, was taken aback for a moment, and raised her head to look around, only to find Elena who was not far away from her.

"Ah, good afternoon." Although Shalan seemed a little surprised. However, he still greeted Alina in a low voice.

"What's on your mind?"

Elina kept her composure and came to Shalan very naturally, walking side by side with the girl, and asked in a nonchalant tone, "I always feel that you are not in a good mood today."

"It's nothing." Like an angry child, Shalan stubbornly rejected Alina's temptation, turning her face aside: "I don't feel lonely because uncle is not here."

"Uh..." Alina, who had been honed in the mall for a long time and was used to those slippery and cunning human spirits, was speechless. I didn't know what to say for a while.

At this time, a sentence that Xi Wei often said about Sha Lan in the past immediately came to her mind.

What a fool.

But it seemed a little too rude to the other party to think so.

The girl immediately expelled the word idiot from her mind, and tried to find other topics: "Miss Shalan, are you going to wander around the city?"

"By the way, are you familiar with this city?" As if reminded by Elina, Sharan stopped in her tracks. asked Alina.

Although she didn't know what Shalan meant, but because of the attitude of serving customers that she had developed in the past, Elena also stopped and replied seriously: "It should be quite familiar, after all, I also I have lived in this city for many years."

"In that case, do you know where you can make a lot of money in one day?" Hearing the rare silver-haired girl in casual clothes say this, Shalan immediately approached the girl with interest, and opened her almond-colored eyes wide. Watery looked at her.

Although Sharon didn't realize it, she had actually unconsciously activated the special spell-like ability 'charm' possessed by some vampires. Of course, as far as Shalan is concerned, her ability is still relatively weak...

"It's not so easy to make money...but how much money do you have now?"

Probably because of the effect of the charm, Alina, who should have been puzzled by this, actually began to seriously consider the question of 'making a lot of money in one day'.

Sharon rummaged through her pockets, and finally found only the inheritance left by Cage and the pocket money Xi Wei gave her—a total of five silver coins.

"It's not much, but it's enough." Alina nodded. While leading Shalan forward, he introduced to her: "There are many messy places in Golovito, and there are also many places where old items can be pawned and recycled, although most of the rare or valuable antiques will definitely be bought by the shopkeeper. Take it away, but..."

She and Shalan came to a somewhat dilapidated house, which was filled with various things like a garbage dump.

But Elena dismissed those antiques that looked old. I just concentrated on digging through the old books, and finally came out with a red cover. On the cover, there were some gilt texts that had begun to fade, and on the back page of the book, there were illegible cursive characters written with black paint.

Then she casually took a few more books and clamped them.

"Boss, how much are these books?" Alina asked loudly, shaking the books in his hand to the uncle who was lazily lying on the counter, the hair in the center of his head had fallen out and turned into a Mediterranean hairstyle.

The uncle with a pimple on his nose raised his eyelids to glance at the dirty-looking stack of books in Elena's hand, then lowered his eyelids, and said weakly, "You can take the thirty coppers. "

Unlike other antiques, unless they were magic books or something, they generally wouldn't sell for a lot of money, so the shopkeeper wasn't interested in checking the books in the girl's hands.

After paying the money to the shopkeeper, Elena led the bewildered Shalan out of the pawn shop and came to an alley with few pedestrians.

"What's wrong? What did you do?" Sharon, who hadn't figured out what happened from the beginning to the end, hurriedly asked Alina after leaving the pawn shop.

Elena threw all the torn books in her hand except the red book into the trash can, and then shook Shalan. The red book in her hand could be sold for about one to ten gold coins. "

Shalan blinked her eyes, with a puzzled look on her face: "Can such a broken book be worth so much money?"

"This is a magic book written in secret language. Many great magicians or great alchemists don't like to make some of their experimental results and magic theories accessible to everyone, so they often use some special magic after recording Encrypt it, although even some appraisers can't tell it apart. But as long as it can be deciphered, its value will immediately increase hundreds of times." Elena patiently explained to Sharan: "This kind of Although the total number of books is not large, the accumulation of books in many pawnshops in Golovito over the years can make many libraries sigh. As long as you look carefully, you are likely to find such books. This is what many appraisers call Taobao.”

"Oh, so it's like this!" The expression on Shalan's face immediately became very clear, and she patted her flat chest. He said confidently: "Wait here for me!" After speaking, he ran away holding an umbrella and disappeared from Elena's sight.

Not long after, she walked back with some difficulty holding a large stack of books.

"Look at how much these books are worth!" Put the large stack of books on the ground. Sharon couldn't wait to look at Alina.

Elena could only smile wryly and knelt down to flip through those dusty books that were quite old, acting as a temporary appraiser to help Shalan appraise the value of these books.

Fortunately, there are not many pedestrians in this alley. Otherwise, the way the two girls stare at a pile of tattered ancient books will definitely attract a lot of curious eyes.

After a long time, Elena closed the last book. She rubbed her forehead, and met Shalan's expectant eyes with some embarrassment.

"Erina, how much are these worth?"

"Uh... about fifty coppers." After thinking about it for a while, Alina decided to tell the truth.

"How could it be?! I obviously spent five silver coins to buy these books!" Shalan's eyes widened in disbelief, and she made an unbelievable voice.

"That's all, not only there are no magic books, there are no books with collection value..."

Alina flipped through some of the books whose title pages were missing: "Although I don't deny that I might be mistaken sometimes, the chance of making mistakes in this kind of relatively easy identification is not high."

"Woo. Why is this..." Shalan suddenly became depressed.

This is normal... Alina thought to herself.

Just now, she wanted to teach Shalan some tricks to identify magic books, but before she could say anything, the blue-haired girl rushed out by herself. If she could really find the magic book, it would be unscientific...

All in all, the two had no choice but to sell the pile of books to a pawn shop in exchange for three silver coins. Keep thinking about ways to make money.

"Speaking of which, Miss Shalan, you live in the Catherine Hotel, right?" Alina suddenly remembered that when Xi Wei and her sent Shalan back together, it seemed to be the Catherine Hotel.

"That's right." Sharan nodded, affirming Elina's words.

"Then there's no problem." Alina said and took Shalan to the Catherine Hotel.

To be exact, it is the underground casino of the Catherine Hotel.

As a guest of the hotel, Shalan can naturally enter the underground casino, and Elena is considered well-known in the Luo Lan Chamber of Commerce, so she will not be blocked.

Because of the celestial sphere competition, the casino, which should have been a little deserted during the daytime, was also very lively at this time. As soon as they stepped into this place, the girls' ears were filled with the cheers of the winners, the cries of the losers, and the sound of dice, roulette or rolling or turning.

"If it's here, even if you don't have skills, you can win a lot of money by relying on luck." After exchanging three silver chips, Elena demonstrated to Shalan.

Although Elena is not good at this, when working for the chamber of commerce, it is inevitable that she will encounter all kinds of entertainment, and there are also such situations of meeting at the gambling table, so she still has some experience with gambling girls of.

Stud (here refers to similar games, the same below), blackjack, landlords, dice, Russian roulette...

After Alina and Shalan went around the casino, Alina's initial three silver chips had now become two gold chips and twelve silver chips.

She is not the kind of big gambler who puts all her chips on as soon as she goes up, but she will use some chips to test first, and wait until she is familiar with it and has the confidence to win, then suddenly puts all her chips to make a fortune, and then immediately changes Other ways to gamble.

"Well, it's very simple, right?" After winning another round, Elena turned around and said to Sharan, "Although I rely on a little bit of technology, the proportion of luck and observation in this kind of thing A little higher."

Seeing Sha Lan who was still silent, Elena thought that the girl was afraid of losing all her money. So I cheered her up again: "Don't be afraid of losing money. If you lose, the big deal is that I will lend it to you. Anyway, as long as you know the way, it is not difficult to make money. If you are still afraid, I can guide you later How to do it."

"Let's go back."

After a moment of silence, Sharon spoke in a low voice.

"Why don't you try it? Russian roulette black and white has a 50% chance of doubling your chips?" Elena asked.

"This is not the money I want." Sharan shook her head. Rejecting Elina's invitation: "I just want to buy something with my own money. I'm not interested in this kind of money from unknown sources."

Although Sharan had also been to the casino before and lost a lot of money, in fact, the girl didn't have much feeling for money at that time. It's just that gambling is fun.

Elena looked at Shalan with probing eyes, and Sharan looked back at Elina with clear eyes without any hesitation.

The two stared at each other as if there was no one in the noisy environment around them.

After a while, Elena burst out laughing.

Sharon frowned delicately for no reason.

Alina took Sharan's hand. He pulled the reluctant blue-haired girl out of the casino and out of the Catherine Hotel.

At this time, Elena said without looking back: "Right now, Luo Lan's auction house is recruiting temporary workers."

"What, what?" Because she was a little resistant to Elina's actions, Sharon couldn't hear her clearly when she spoke.

"The Luo Lan Chamber of Commerce is recruiting temporary handymen. The hourly salary is as high as five silver coins, but the amount of work to be done is scary." Elina repeated: "Six hours of high-intensity work can In exchange for thirty silver coins."

"Hmm..." Shalan hesitated as she looked at the silver-haired girl who was pulling her.

"Although thirty silver coins is not too much, and there is no way to buy too luxurious things, but a well-made tie, a delicate and durable quill, and a beautiful staff cover are also good gifts. Isn't it?"

Elena turned her head and gave the blue-haired girl a big smile.

"Why, why do you know!?" Shalan's cheeks turned red all of a sudden—as a high-level vampire, the blood volume in her body is still higher than that of many vampires—stutteringly asked: "I obviously didn't say You should give uncle a present!"

"Because your expression is too obvious." Alina suddenly felt that this unfamiliar girl's mood of trying to do something for others was really cute: "There is no way to hide your thoughts at all. "

"Ahh..." Shalan was so shy that she wanted to use blood magic to make a hole in the ground and get in.

"So, do you want to do it? A temporary handyman for the Luo Lan Chamber of Commerce?" Elena asked Sharan seriously.

She was still holding Shalan's hand, and the blue-haired girl's shy look made Elena no doubt that if she let go. Sharon would run away in a flash.

Although she was still very shy, Shalan still raised her face this time, trying her best to make her expression serious: "Do it! No, please let me do it!"

Perhaps because she was too excited, her voice was extraordinarily loud, which attracted the attention of many people around her.

After discovering this, the momentum of the girl who brought it up with great difficulty immediately shrank again...

-- six hours later --

"Today is really troublesome for you." Shalan walked in the street that was just lit up. Thank you Alina who is beside her.

Just like what Elina said, the rest of the chores of the Celestial Conference are very heavy. Originally, the chamber of commerce seems to be planning to hire a few more temporary workers to do it together. The so-called five silver coins per hour refers to the salary of those temporary workers. Sum. It's just because of the relationship proposed by Elena that in the end Shalan was alone in charge, and of course all the rewards were given to Shalan.

But even with the pure blood of the vampire royal family, the physical strength and endurance far exceed most human beings, but the remaining work is too complicated, and Shalan doesn't know how to clone herself. It's also hard to get everything done in six hours.

At this time, Alina, who was still on vacation, also changed into work clothes and began to help her. It is precisely because of the help of Elena, who is a second-turn magic swordsman and whose physical fitness is much better than ordinary people, that Shalan finally completed the work within the time limit without any risk, and received a generous reward .

"It's okay. Anyway, I don't know what to do today. It would be nice if I can exercise enough." Alina moved her sore arms while drinking the juice bought from the stall, interested Ask Sharan, "Compared to this, what gift do you plan to buy for Mr. Edric?"

Every girl hides a heart of gossip, even Elena is no exception to this sentence.

"What do you think of this?" Shalan picked up a string of silver bracelets from a roadside stall. The main body of the bracelet is a blue orb. Although I don't know what the material is, it looks crystal clear and very beautiful.

"Uh, this kind of thing is more suitable for girls to wear?" Elena looked at Sha Lan who couldn't put it down, and said hesitantly.

"That's right." Sharon put down the bracelet regretfully, and her shoulders drooped.

Seeing the other party's disappointed look, Elena still couldn't help but encourage her: "Actually, bracelets and earrings are different, and there is no rule that they must be worn by men or women, so it shouldn't be a problem to buy those. .”

"Really! Boss, help me wrap this up!" So Shalan picked up a pink, more feminine bracelet and said to the stall owner.

Mr. Eric Decker, I'm sorry for you.

Alina secretly apologized to Xi Wei in her heart, and began to look forward to Xi Wei's expression when she received this gift... (to be continued)

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