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Chapter 11 Goldsmith Apprentice

Jady looked dullly at the broken house in the narrow alley in front of her. The collapsed courtyard wall was halfway through the house, and the beams were exposed. The windows had no glass or window frames, and they were blocked with some stones of different sizes. The door frame was crooked, and even if it was locked, the gap could penetrate into a half-old child.

At this moment, the door opened and a man floated out of it while walking on a space walk. The man seemed to be less than thirty years old, with two deep eye sockets, a rosacea nose, almost all the teeth in his mouth, a little hair on his head, and a golden light on his clothes. I don’t know what kind of oil stains left by meat, and a smell of alcohol came from a distance.

This person is Du Wei, the only elder of the Daji Temple in Batista City. Apart from floral diseases, angina pectoris, alcoholism and mild tuberculosis, he basically has no diseases and is a very healthy young man.

The half-elf Chi Yan smiled and greeted the drunkard in front of him: "Elder Du Wei, we meet again, you are drunk again today."

"Yeah! It's you, I remember you." Du Wei opened his hazy drunk eyes and recognized that the person in front of him was the customer who once paid two gold coins generously to inquire about the news. He smiled kindly: "Of course, alcohol is a good thing."

Jady frowned in disgust: "Are you the elder of the Dhaji God Cult? Are you always drunk?"

Du Wei smirked with drunken fist: "Of course, Chrysan, you're drunk. When you get drunk, I will feel that the whole world is being stepped on by me! Ah! What a happy feeling!"

He grabbed Jady's arm and squirted with a mouthful of wine and said, "Okay, tell me now, what news do you want to ask for? Don't underestimate me, I know a lot of news from all walks of life."

He leaned closer to Jady's ears, and the taste immediately became as terrifying as the dragon breath. Jady closed her mouth tightly, not even a trace of breath.

"The real news will always exist only in the upper and lower levels of society, just like a spinning tree, the ordinary citizens in the middle are the stupidest and most ignorant lambs. Uh, what do you want to ask about?"

"My name is Jady, Jady Saker. Have you heard of my name?" Jady said it quickly with just venting anger.

Du Wei was stunned, staggered and took a step back, reached out and grabbed the head with only a few hairs left, as if he was taking off a top hat, and then gave a slight 'elegant': "Hello, Mr. Jady, I'm glad to see you. What services can I provide for you."

He grinned and said, "I can do anything except sell my butts." Then he looked calm and said sacredly: "I am a serious person."

Randy and Chiyan frowned at the same time. Randy asked in surprise: "You haven't heard my name at all?"

Du Wei was stunned and screamed: "My goddess, are you the new tax officer in Hugo Lane? I am an unemployed vagrant, sir."

Jady was stunned and asked tentatively: "As the elder who serves the goddess, have you never received the goddess' oracle?"

Du Wei straightened his chest and said angrily: "How is this possible? I remember that when I was young, I followed my father to see the great goddess giving an imperial edict."

“So what’s the recent one?”

"Of course not recently. You should know that the goddess is very busy. Also, decades of time have passed in God's world for just a moment. If God appears frequently in the human world, is it still God?"

A trace of cunning gaze flashed in Jady's eyes. He breathed a sigh of relief and smiled happily: "Very good, actually I have nothing to do, I'm just passing by here. It's normal that you haven't heard my name. Now, goodbye!"

In the puzzled gaze of Elder Duwei, Jady turned around and walked out of the alley.

Chi Yan glanced at him and said, "Are you not going to take over here and revive the Dhaji God's Church? You are the messenger of God."

Jady pondered for a moment and came up with a high-sounding reason for his escape: "You have seen how bad the environment here is. I stay here, just let there be another alcoholic in Hugo Lane. I am the messenger of God. Of course I want to save them, but to save people, I should not have roots here."

Chi Yan thought for a while and agreed to his statement: "So, what are you planning to do now?"

"I want to find a job, live in Baptiste, and live like an ordinary citizen until I hear the goddess calling me." Jady felt that she had a bit of a potential as a charlatan.

You know, he has combined the wisdom of a human and a demon wolf, and has dealt with various monsters and accumulated a lot of ways of dealing with the world before he tempered it. This sentence is very smooth and has a bit of the taste of ascetic monks who have experienced the world.

The beautiful half-elf girl looked at him seriously, her green eyes stared at her for a while, and suddenly said, "Mr. Jady, if you don't mind, maybe I can introduce you to a job."

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Since Jady Saker left, Goddess Daji, who sensed a faint smell of old friends from him, has fallen into long memories. Her life is too long and she has experienced too many things. It will naturally take a long time to recall them one by one, so it was not until this moment that she woke up from the memories and remembered that she had not issued an oracle to her believers.

At this moment, the holy fire was automatically lit on all the altars of the Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji, a soft and beautiful light, and the command of the god Jedi to integrate and strengthen the entire Dhaji Dhaji was conveyed by the command of the oracle to integrate and strengthen the entire Dhaji Dhaji. He had just returned to his own residence after drinking, and immediately Du Wei, who received the oracle, ran out of the alley like crazy, but Jedi had disappeared.

Jady followed Chiyan back to the Golden Peak District and stopped in the wealthy area not far from the Golden Peak District. Here are prestigious shops, including goldsmiths, carpenters, the best wig makers and sack makers, the most exquisite producers of women's underwear and socks, shoe makers, riding boot merchants, eaves embroiderers and perfume merchants.

Most of the mythical figures who once sold bonds with baskets and eventually became financial tycoons lived nearby. The man Chi Yan found was a goldsmith named Deval Valentino, who was once an apprentice to the dwarf Ibek.

He learned the exquisite forging techniques of the dwarves and used them to create gold jewelry, which was loved by the nobles and eventually became a famous goldsmith in the Golden Peak District. Here, the goldsmith was a very respected profession because he also had the functions of a banker.

This business has been underway for about a hundred years, and it was originally started in Dijing. A successful goldsmith gave him a lot of gold to make gold jewelry. He also had to purchase some gold for spare, so he needed a solid underground vault that was not stolen by outstanding thieves. In this way, many merchants who came and went to and from time to time also entrusted them with large sums of gold for safety and paid a considerable storage fee.

The goldsmiths need to issue an exclusively marked receipt so that these customers can hold the receipt to collect gold. Gradually, when merchants and even nobles make transactions between them, they lazy to withdraw gold from the goldsmith, but directly transfer the receipt to the other party. Due to the credibility of these famous goldsmiths, these receipts have the same payment power as the physical gold, so that the goldsmith issuing currency in disguise.

Smart goldsmiths discovered this phenomenon. After they calculated a reasonable reserve, they began to issue receipts beyond the gold reserves without actual gold support for those who were eager to use money to pay, and repay the principal and interest at maturity. In this way, they became bankers.

However, most of these gold bankers' spheres of influence are limited to one city and one place, and can only be circulated within citizens who recognize their reputation and reputation, but this is enough to make them the best.

The half-elf girl introduced him to Senior Brother Devar and left in a hurry because Devar told her that Teacher Ibek was very worried after she slipped away and was looking for her all over the world.

Jady Saker stayed and became an apprentice at Deval Gold Shop, with a salary of 30 silver coins a month. The salary of 30 silver coins is not high in the goldsmith industry, but Deval is a well-behaved businessman. He would not pay him a reward that is inconsistent with his contribution just because this person was introduced by Chi Yan.

In Deval's creed, it is shameful to be a man who earns nothing or survives on the mercy of others.

Jady lived in the attic in the backyard of Devar's house. Devar's store was not very large, but the yard behind was not small, with a narrow lane, with a tightly guarded accounting office, processing office and vault on the left, and the residence of Devar's family on the right.

There is a large yard behind it, connected to the secluded back alley through the side door. The yard is a warehouse for placing miscellaneous items, a very old wooden house with a mess of rags on one floor. The underground stairs are the residences of the semi-human tiger Chris and his wife. The goldsmiths and merchants here often keep some semi-human beasts to guard the house. They are loyal and do not require much salary.

The half-human beast Chris is a tiger with golden fur, a descendant of orcs and wild animals. He has relatively simple wisdom, can walk upright and smoke pipes. It speaks human language and is a very deep baritone. Its wife is a real beast, a tiger.

The two tigers were very afraid of Jady. Although he was forcibly transformed into human form by divine power, he was a fierce monster after all, and he had an aura that made ordinary beasts extremely afraid.

His attic was very small, and it became even narrower after being divided into two parts. He could only put down a bed and a table, and there were boxes that would fall down at any time by the wall, but after cleaning it up, it finally looked like a small nest.

Especially the sun is very bright here. When I opened the window and looked out, the pointed round roofs were hidden with magnificent buildings, and the exotic charm was fascinating. Jady, who had just arrived in human society, had not tasted a richer life. Everything now is thousands of times stronger than his former grass nest cave, so he was very satisfied.

Jady, who officially became an apprentice of the Deval Goldsmithshop, was still unaware that the limited manpower of the Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dhaji Dha

When an apprentice has a lot of miscellaneous things to do, no one knows what kind of talent an apprentice has, so all the work needs to be done to settle accounts, smelting, carving, and pouring toilets. Deval once wanted to see it on the face of the flames and wanted to transfer him to serve as the security guard for transporting gold for important customers. This job is very simple and decent.

However, Jedi, who has integrated human wisdom, knows that as long as any society is civilized, the person standing at the top of society will always be a mental worker. He is unwilling to engage in such a promising career for temporary comfort. "Only by suffering can one become a superior person," he said to Deval.

Deval admired this philosophical saying, so he arranged for him to engage in gold smelting, casting, molding and studying accounting for gold vouchers. This is more promising. If this continues, one day he may become a good gold craftsman or accountant. If he is lucky, he may even open a shop by himself in decades.
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