Roddy has always been a very conscientious person. He doesn't have much ambition and likes a peaceful, free and lazy life - swear to the Almighty God, Roddy's biggest wish is just to pass the academy's swordsmanship test next month and become the lowest level swordsman... This is already When that damn daddy was alive, his biggest wish was for Roddy...
Of course, it would be great if God could give him a good-looking girl before his eighteenth birthday and let him end his embarrassing virgin life...
Unfortunately, Roddy knew that his wish might be difficult to realize... The facts were obvious. Although he was still very confident in his swordsmanship at the moment, he knew that his biggest problem was not passing the exam... but passing the test. The tuition required to continue the next stage of the course after the exam has not been paid at all... However, if he can get the top three in the swordsmanship assessment and eradicate the imperial education regulations, he can get a generous bonus, enough for him in the future All tuition at the college is paid.
But Rody's mind is still normal. He knows that the top three people every year are either the son of a certain count's family or the son of a certain general's family... Damn it, those people are not short of money at all, why do they come to fight with them? We kids from poor families are grabbing such a pitiful bonus? To those people, the top three titles are just titles used by nobles to show off to each other after games...
As for the issue of women, Rody didn't even dare to think too much about it. To be honest, he looks pretty good. He has a tall and straight figure that ordinary nobles do not have. From the appearance, he is still a standard man. Unfortunately, God seems to deliberately punish him, leaving a mark of life on his face - a black, A palm-sized birthmark covered the left half of his cheek, turning his face that was supposed to charm millions of girls into a veritable yin-yang face...
Roddy was completely frustrated by this. He already knew very well that if he wanted a woman to like him, unless that woman was blind or had a brain problem... For a blind woman or a woman with a brain problem, Roddy had no idea. What are you interested in...
Rody sat on the only bedside in the room and took off the only valuable thing in the room from the wall - the imperial standard samurai long sword - Rody bought this long sword for three silver coins. Come back. In fact, he is not qualified to use this long sword at the moment, because his swordsman assessment will not be held until next month. He will not be qualified to wear the weapon until he passes the assessment and obtains the title of swordsman. You know, in the empire, except for nobles, professional soldiers and people with various warrior titles, ordinary civilians are not qualified to carry any weapons!
Fortunately, he still has a student ID card from the Imperial Academy. With the student ID card, he is allowed to wear weapons within the Imperial Academy campus.
Rody picked up his only clean silk scarf and gently wiped the blade of the long sword. I recalled in my mind the sword moves and techniques taught by Teacher Shalu in this morning's swordsmanship class.
In fact, Teacher Shalu knew that his young students would take part in the Imperial Academy's annual swordsmanship test next month, so he conducted some special training these days. Rody is a student that Shahlu admires very much. Shahlu once said to Roddy in private that according to Rody's strength, it is almost certain to pass the assessment. His strength has long exceeded the standard of a first-class swordsman - fact According to Teacher Shalu, Roddy is the most outstanding student he has taught over the years, and he is a genius. Of course, although everyone knows that Roddy’s skills are indeed good, no one regards Teacher Shalu as a genius. Take those words seriously. After all, the old man himself has never taught a student above the third level swordsman in many years. What kind of genius can such a crappy teacher teach? The only trouble for Roddy to pass the exam is not to meet the Rock Instructor who always likes to go against Teacher Shalu. People in the academy know that the Rock Instructor and Teacher Shalu have never been on good terms. The origin of the matter seems to be due to several reasons. The admiration for a certain female teacher years ago. The two always find opportunities to cause each other some trouble - this time, Teacher Shalu's students took part in the assessment, and Instructor Rock is likely to be one of the referees in the assessment.
If we were to describe Rody's mood at the moment, it would be: depressed, depressed, still depressed!
After hanging up the long sword, Rody rummaged through the closet for a long time, and finally found a relatively clean and beautiful uniform of a samurai student and put it on. Decided to take a walk outside. He hesitated for a moment and didn't bring his long sword... Maybe he would go out for a walk outside the school, and maybe buy some cheap bread for tomorrow's food - he didn't want to go to the street with a weapon, and then Captured by patrolling soldiers and taken back to the police station!
Roddy walked out of his room, and the corridor was filled with a damp, musty smell. Although he has been tortured by this smell for almost two years, Roddy still can't adapt.
This is the cheapest student dormitory in the Imperial College. The price of living there for a year only costs five silver coins, but the environment is also horrifyingly bad.
This was all thanks to the empire's great sage Dandong Sage two hundred years ago. That great scholar launched a series of reforms within the empire, which greatly increased the empire's national power. In his later years, he persuaded the empire to His Majesty the Emperor allowed civilians to study in the Imperial Academy. And he personally served as the president of Imperial College. Despite strong protests from the nobles, he still set aside a piece of land in the Imperial College to accommodate civilian students. The building where Rody lives now was built specifically for civilian students when Dandong was the principal. residential area for civilian students.
In all honesty, this building is quite good. It can accommodate two hundred civilian students, and everyone can live in a single room - although this single room is too small, not much bigger than a pigeon cage. It's just that after Dandong died, the principals of the empire were all from noble backgrounds. It was an extra favor that those gentlemen did not completely drive the civilian students out of the Imperial Academy - of course, out of respect for the will of the fifth emperor of the empire. However, these noble lords did not spend another copper plate on the repair of this building - this has been the case for two hundred years!
Rody carefully walked down the stairs slowly, taking every step with care. God knows whether those wooden floors can still bear their own weight after two hundred years of corrosion. He didn't want to be the first swordsman to fall down the stairs and die in the centuries-old history of the empire.
Although there were frightening creaking sounds underfoot from time to time, the stairs finally came to an end. Rody opened the door hopefully and walked out of the building.
The weather looks good tonight, and there's actually a moon in the sky! He walked past the alley, walked to another building where civilian students also lived, and shouted to the one on the second floor: "Star!!!!"
Before he could shout a second time, a window on the second floor opened with a bang, revealing a head with long hair.
"Rody! Idiot, keep your voice down!" Star looked a little panicked, looked around, then fully opened the window, stretched his whole body, and jumped from the second floor window.
His body was very dexterous. When he landed, he cleverly rolled on the spot to slow down the impact. Then he stood up easily, patted the dust on his body, showed his face and smiled at Rody: "Okay, I Mr. Swordsman, let’s go.”
Rody frowned and looked at him: "You climbed into the window again? Aren't you afraid of being seen? You know, even though it's night, you still have to be careful!"
If Rody is a civilian student who lives in difficulty, then Star is a veritable poor man.
He can't even pay the rent of five silver coins a year. Since last month, Star has been kicked out of the residential area by the school. If he hadn't paid the tuition for a year, he might not even be able to keep his status as a student. .
But people like Star won't keep to themselves. The school security team had just watched him move out, but he secretly moved back to the room on his own.
Anyway, there have been very few civilian students in Imperial College in recent years. Even if he moved out of Star's house, no one would live in it. Moreover, the bad environment here, as well as the smell of dilapidated buildings that have corroded for hundreds of years, make the school's security team absolutely not come here to check unless there is anything. So Star blatantly lived in vain!
Star patted Roddy on the shoulder. He was a short stature, a full head shorter than Roddy. But he has a face that Roddy envies very much. That handsome face is enough for Star to be in front of girls. According to Star himself, he said goodbye to his embarrassing virginity three years ago. identity.
If Star's identity as a warlock has never made Roddy envious, this one made Roddy's eyes red with envy!
Facing his best friend, Rody sighed: "Okay, where are we going?"
Star rolled his eyes and whispered in a very mysterious tone: "Rody, do you want to make some money? I just have a way now!"
make money
Roddy's eyes lit up immediately! What he needs most now is money! There is no money. Even if he passes the swordsmanship test next month and becomes a real swordsman, he will not have enough money to pay for the next year's tuition.
"Make money? What can you do??" Rody looked at his good friend with wide eyes.
Star laughed softly and said: "This method is a bit risky, but I have tried it, and to tell you frankly, my tuition for next year has been settled. I was still worried at first, because I felt that this method was not suitable for you, but Seeing as you’ve been going crazy worrying about money lately, I’d better get you to do it together.”
Roddy immediately showed a vigilant look on his face. He was very aware of his good friend's lawless personality. Judging from his tone, this way of making money was obviously not an aboveboard way.
"Don't look at me like that! Roddy!" Star pushed Roddy and pulled him into a remote path inside the college. He looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he whispered: "I recently met There are a few people, they are all doing some special business, and now they just need a few people... temporarily, they will get the money when they are done, and then they will go their own ways! Of course, I need to take a little risk. I tried it, I only did it once, and it was enough to earn me a year’s tuition!”
"Is... is it an illegal business?" Rody said the word "illegal" with difficulty.
Star rolled his eyes with a "nonsense" expression.
"Okay!" Rody sighed: "Take me to see it first!"
As Rody nodded slowly, he didn't know that this nod was the beginning of an endless and colorful legend in his life!
What Roddy didn't expect was that his two biggest wishes at this moment - whether it was about money or women, the situation had changed a lot after tonight...