Chapter 13

Arrow waved his hand again and said with a smile, "no, no, no, not everything in the world can be solved by magic. Boss, I've tasted your cheese pie and bought it. One pie, two copper coins, full of material, strong taste and fragrant! If you eat alone, it may take four days to finish. "

Round cheese hands akimbo: "this is not? The best delicacy in Pelican town! "

"So, boss, I suggest you make the pie again and divide it into three levels: large, medium and small."

"The medium pie is still the same size as you originally made, and the price remains unchanged. It is still 2 copper coins."

"For the small pie, you only need to make one-third of the size of the medium pie. Then the price can be set as 1 copper 5 iron coins. If it is higher, 1 copper 6 iron and 1 copper 7 iron will do. "

"Finally, for this grade of pie, you can make it four to five times larger than the medium pie, and then set the price at 1 silver coin."

Round cheese was still recording with paper and pen in his hand, but after waiting for a long time, he found that arrow stopped here? He raised his record in great doubt: "that's it?"

Arrow smiled back, "that's it."

"This is nonsense! President arrow, I regard you as a member of our Pelican town. You can't fool me like that! "

Arrow quickly waved his hand and said with a smile, "boss, I said I wanted to pay back the money. If I fool you, won't I have to pay you back after the first quarter? Don't worry, as long as you strictly follow what I said and set the price, the sales will definitely go up. By the way, you don't have to bake too much for the large and small ones. Just make one or two every day, but when pricing, you must put them in the same position as the medium. "

Looking at ello's confident expression, round cheese is still a very distrustful expression.

But for the sake of ELO's impossibility of running away like this when he bought a house, the mayor agreed to the proposal. He just thought he had been cheated.

"After 90 days, if I don't earn two gold coins, you can do it!"

"Hahaha, don't worry!"

Having a good relationship, ello took cocoa out of the mayor's office.

Walking in the street, the fresh air of the town made ELO stretch. Cocoa walked with her, and the color in her eyes was really interesting.

"Why, do you think I'm perfunctory to the mayor?"

Looking at the question mark on the little girl's face, if you don't answer her, you can think about it all the time.

Cocoa nodded hard.

Arrow smiled and said, "then I ask you, if you were a customer and saw these three pies in front of you, what would you do?"

Coco: "do you still need to say? The small one is only one third as big as the medium one, and the price is almost the same as the medium one. The big one is four or five times as big, but it needs a silver coin! And such a big pie can't be eaten at all. It must be broken. "

Arrow shook his finger: "so, you'll choose the medium one, right?"

Coco: "isn't this the kind of specification that Mr. Mayor originally sold?"

Arrow: that's right. But coco, what I just asked you was' what would you do ', not' which would you buy '. In fact, you can buy none of these three pies and turn around and leave. However, once human beings are put into the choice, they often choose one of the choices provided to you, rather than choose none. "

"This is where human thoughts are more troublesome. We humans always want to take advantage, so when we put some options in front of us, we will instinctively choose the most suitable option for ourselves. But I never thought I could choose nothing. "

Stepping on the gravel road, arrow passed a fruit stall, popped up an iron coin for the boss, and put an apple in front of cocoa: "if there is only one thing in front of you, then the two concepts of 'accept' or 'don't accept' are in human mind."

Cocoa hesitated, but still lifted her robe and wiped the apple.

"However, if there are three or more choices in front of us, humans tend to choose from them and ignore the choice of 'not accepting'. Isn't it amazing? It was amazing when I first learned this concept. "

Cocoa chewed an apple, and the fresh and sweet liquid flowed down the corner of her mouth. She quickly raised her sleeve and wiped the corner of her mouth: "so... People who didn't come to buy pie in the past will involuntarily want to buy one after seeing one of these three choices?"

"Well said. Well, here comes the tool shop. "

Entering the shop and looking at the room full of tools, arrow said hello to the boss behind the counter: "boss long stick! How's business? "

"Business is OK. What's up today? Making weapons again? "

The long stick with a slightly short, bearded face raised its head from behind the counter, and its slightly bald head was covered with sawdust.

Cocoa was obviously afraid when she saw the fierce appearance of the long stick. She took a step back with the apple in her arms and stood at the door.

The girl's little spice girl mentality is really in conflict with her instinctive reaction of being afraid of everything.

Arrow ignored her and said with a smile, "have you finished what I asked you to make last time?"

The long stick nodded, turned to the back of the shop, looked for a while, and soon handed over a wooden box.

"Your request is really strange, but it's not difficult. A silver coin, thank you for your patronage. "

After paying the money, arrow walked out of the shop with the box. Seeing cocoa's puzzled eyes, ello smiled mysteriously: "go and show you when you go back."

In the evening, I returned to the guild and looked at the bulletin board. There was still no task on it

However, this is just the beginning.

"Brad, Buffy, coco, come here. And you, Napa, as the vice president of the guild, come here. "

The cat was lying on the counter, still ignoring arrow. After calling it three times, it flew over like a face and fell on the table.

Waiting for Qi, arrow opened the wooden box in his hand, took out two pieces of iron with hanging rope and handed them to Brad and coco.

Brad looked at the piece of iron, frowned and said, "president, what's this? I can't read and understand... "

Arrow smiled and said, "from now on, this is the nameplate of your guild. It is engraved with your name, guild and profession. Brad, your nameplate says the names of you and buffy. It belongs to the song of the mermaid. Your profession is a soldier. "

"From now on, our guild needs further development. Everyone needs an identity authentication to show that we belong to the same guild. After seeing this nameplate, I hope you can remember that we are companions of the same guild and family members who can help and trust each other in times of crisis. "

Cocoa whispered: "I said we could cheat each other before..."

Leng Buding Ailuo's face came up to cocoa and smiled: "our magician, where are you, Jue de?"

"Yes! yes! whole family! Companion! "

The two guild members agreed, and arrow took out his guild nameplate and hung it around his neck. Finally, he took out a collar with a nameplate and approached Napa with a smile.

"Don't tell me you don't bring it? This is the logo of all members of our guild. The vice president has to set an example. "

Napa glanced at the collar and hummed, "well, well, you're great. You'll have no problem wearing this. "

"No, there's another problem."

Elronapa put on her collar and said with a smile, "vice president, didn't you say you were willing to teach me alchemy?"

Napa, don't overdo it: "why, but don't you learn?"

Arrow pulled cocoa, who was still wearing a nameplate, and gently pushed her in front of Napa: "but now we have a magician. Don't you teach her? "

Napa's expression was obviously wrinkled. Similarly, cocoa's expression is not so soft now.

The cat floated slowly in front of cocoa, looked at it up and down, and then turned to arrow: "are you sure? Teach her? Don't you learn it yourself? "

Arrow put his hands on Cocoa's shoulder, patted it gently, smiled sincerely and said, "there's no problem at all. I believe in our mermaid song members. If you teach her, I'll learn it. Unless our magician says he doesn't want to learn new knowledge. "

Before Napa could continue, ello quickly added, "Hey, you promised me. It's the same teaching. Won't you refuse? "

Napa was suspended in front of arrow. It obviously hesitated for a while. Then it finally nodded and sighed, "Okay, I see."

As for cocoa, the girl has been confused since just now. She looked at arrow and said nervously, "I... can I really learn alchemy? In school... In the guild... No one ever said I could learn alchemy... "

Arrow turned to her and said with a smile, "so, are you willing to learn?"

"Of course! I want to learn! " Cocoa nodded hard, "I must learn! Thank you, President... Thank you... Really thank you, president! I will study hard! "

With a promise, there will be expectations.

With hope, there will be a link between hope and each other.

Arrow is glad that his guild is on track step by step.

Having a magician who is proficient in alchemy is equivalent to saving a lot of purchase expenses for a guild.

Look at Cocoa's expression mixed with emotion and tension. Arrow knows that his investment is absolutely worth it!

Napa sighed. She fell back on ello's head, sat down on her hat, and said in her habitual lazy tone, "in that case, if you want to learn, learn.". I'll make a list later. I hope the president can prepare all the alchemical tools that need to be purchased. Hello, necromancer little girl, did you just say that you went to a magic school and entered a guild? I'll test you first to see how well you understand magic. Brad, get the pen and paper. "

Brad obediently moved a pen and paper. Buffy thought and said: "(goblin language) should Brad and I avoid first? You don't want to be overheard teaching alchemy? "

Napa looked bored and shook her little cat's paw: "(goblin language) it's all right, and it's not a profound knowledge. Besides, since your president trusts you, so do I. President, write down what I say and let the little girl have a test. "

Arrow translated Napa's trust and picked up a pen and paper. Napa said as she wrote.

After writing, arrow had to lament the subtlety of magic.

This subtlety is not because he understands it, but although he knows every word, every number and every formula symbol in his pen, he doesn't know what it means when combined.

Obviously, the "basic" knowledge in Napa's mouth is much higher than those magic books in the old rattan Tree Library!

But maybe it's because I can only understand the most superficial magic books in the library.

"Well, I'll give you two hours to do as much as you can. When I'm finished, I'll mark the papers and see how well I can teach you. "

Arrow put the paper and pen in front of cocoa and looked at her with a loving face. Although the child is a little rebellious, he is actually a good child in his heart.

Cocoa picked up the test paper and scanned the contents up and down. The eyebrows are obviously wrinkled. It seems that these problems must be very difficult.

Arrow nodded, clapped his hands and said, "all right, now let's spread out. Give our magician some freedom. "

But just then, cocoa, who was holding the test paper, timidly raised his hand and retracted his neck in the robe again.

"What's the matter?" Asked arrow.

"I... have a little problem... Brother president."

Looking at Cocoa's embarrassed expression now, ELO couldn't help tightening his heart.

Can't you do it together?

Is it because the cat deliberately asks some difficult questions and pretends to be "simple", or does Napa's magic knowledge have reached this level?

"What's the problem? Is it my handwriting that is not clear? "

Cocoa quickly shook her head. She raised the test paper, covered half of her face shyly and said timidly——

"That... That... The president's brother's words are very beautiful... Just... Just..."

"Just what?" Ello is in a hurry.

"Just..." just like summoning up the last courage, cocoa closed her eyes and said in a light voice almost equal to the sound of insects, "just... I can't read... I can't understand... That... I'm sorry..."

——On August 10, 1301, the nameplate of the guild was: - 1 silver coins. Apple: - 1 iron coin. Board expenses: - 1 copper and 7 iron coins. Balance: 84 gold 6 copper 3 iron——