The student drooled as he spoke. He patted his empty pockets, thought for a moment, and then showed a look of regret. He sighed and said, "However, I don't think I can afford the lotus leaf beggar chicken made with so many precious spices. I can only think about it."
Merlin looked at the student. He was a typical student from a commoner family at the Arcane Academy. He was dressed simply and tried to keep his expenses at the academy to a minimum.
Is it because of poverty? It can be said that, but in fact, the students who enter the Arcane Academy are from good families, and are considered slightly wealthy among ordinary families. However, in the most prosperous capital of the arcane, even if they do not go out to spend money, the expenses in school are still a huge sum.
These students try their best to work and study, and students from different disciplines will work and study in the Arcane City based on the knowledge they have learned.
Seeing his lost look, Gene patted his shoulder and said, "Don't sigh every day. When Merlin makes that lotus leaf beggar chicken, I'll give you a share."
Although Gene is a student from an ordinary family, he is a senior in the third grade after all. He has earned a lot of money by working and studying in the past three years, and has also achieved some results in breeding monsters. Moreover, he is not a nobleman like Merlin. He goes to combat classes every day and has quite good grades. When he is free, he will follow the adventure group to hunt monsters for materials in exchange for money.
"Really? Thank you, Senior Gene. I'll go catch a chicken for Brother Merlin first." When the student heard that Gene was willing to give him a piece of lotus leaf beggar's chicken, the disappointed expression on his face disappeared instantly, and was replaced by joy and excitement.
This made Gene even more confused. How delicious must the lotus leaf beggar's chicken that Merlin made be to cause such a drastic change in his junior's attitude?
Soon, the two hundred chickens that Merlin wanted were grabbed, and dozens of students from the Beast Taming Academy came over, each holding three or four fat chickens.
If you want to raise chickens, you have to look at the Beast Taming Academy. It is quite difficult to find chickens of this quality outside. After all, many families can't even afford to feed themselves, so how can they have extra food for the chickens?
Merlin nodded in satisfaction and turned to ask Gene, "Senior Gene, how much are two hundred chickens?"
Gene fell into deep thought after hearing Merlin's words. To be honest, he didn't know how to set the price. After all, no one had ever come to the Beastmaster Academy to buy chickens before.
These chickens were raised by freshmen. Gene looked at these students. One of them stepped forward and said, "Senior Gene, the price of a chicken in our family is about 4-5 silver coins. For chickens like those raised by the Beastmaster Academy, the lord might give an extra silver coin."
After listening to this, Gene thought for a moment and said, "These chickens are all raised by you, but after all, you use the land and feed of the Beast Taming Academy..."
"How about this? One chicken is worth five silver coins. Two of them are for you to raise the chickens, and three are for the academy. What do you think?"
These freshmen did not expect to get two silver coins, and they all told Gene that they had taken too much. The chicks of these chickens were provided by the school, and the feed and the field were also provided by the college. They only fed and cared for them every day. Moreover, these chickens were free-range, and they did not do much to take care of them, so two silver coins were really too much.
Gene thought for a moment after hearing what the students said and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
"Brother Merlin, what do you think of this price? Two hundred chickens, five silver coins per chicken, a total of one thousand silver coins, which is one hundred gold coins."
Because the gold reserves in Aize Continent are huge, although they are valuable, they are not as exaggerated as those on Blue Star. The exchange rate of copper, gold and silver has always been 1:10.
Merlin knew that he was getting a bargain at this price, after all, these chickens were fat and strong. "Okay, I'll go with your price."
But it was only one hundred gold coins. Merlin didn't have that much money, so he said to Gene, "This price is very suitable, but I was in a hurry to go out and didn't take so many gold coins. It's not convenient to carry so many gold coins. How about this, you come to my dormitory tomorrow night and I will give you the gold coins."
Gene and the other students didn't think much about it and agreed with what Merlin said. As for suspecting that Merlin had no money, how was that possible? Merlin was a nobleman, how could a nobleman be without money?
These students don’t know what happened to the Leo family yet. After all, ordinary students are not qualified to know this news. However, as time goes by, with the deliberate efforts of some people, they will definitely know it.
Merlin looked at the chickens. How long would it take him to kill so many live chickens by himself? He couldn't waste time killing chickens, so he turned his attention to the freshmen of the Beast Taming Academy.
These students didn't expect to get such a windfall. They got a total of 200 silver coins, and each person got three or four, which was considered a windfall.
For these first-year students at the Arcane Academy who have no skills and no strength, it is quite difficult to earn some money to relieve the pressure on their families.
"I'm not very good at killing chickens. Do any of you know how to kill chickens? I want to hire you to help me kill chickens. I'll give you five copper coins for each chicken you kill. What do you think?"
After Merlin finished speaking, the students of the Beast Taming Academy were all stunned.
Gene also looked at Merlin with some surprise. When Merlin saw these people's reactions, his heart skipped a beat. What was going on? Did he offer too little?
Yes, five copper coins are five dollars. Five dollars is indeed a little too little to hire someone to kill a chicken and deal with the chicken feathers, internal organs, etc.
Gene then said, "Brother Merlin, killing chickens is an additional service for us. You don't have to pay extra. We will take care of it for you."
"Yes, yes, Brother Merlin, you don't need to pay extra."
"We'll take care of the chickens for you."
"I'll definitely make it clean for you!"
Merlin didn't expect that the chicken killing service was free, but he looked at these simple first-year students who were flashing with a hint of being easy to fool.
He suddenly felt as if he saw himself when he was a freshman on Blue Star, and said with some emotion, "Since I have already said that I will pay you, then pay me. Five copper coins are not much anyway, and I can't let you work for nothing, right?"
"You don't have to say anything. Just think of it as me hiring you to process these chickens. What I want are fully processed chickens, such as chicken heads, chicken necks, chicken legs, chicken feet, chicken livers, chicken hearts, chicken gizzards, etc. They must all be processed for me one by one. So hiring you for five copper coins is actually not expensive." Merlin stated his requirements.
When Gene heard that it was so troublesome, he thought it was normal for Merlin to pay for killing the chicken.
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