"What if I go with you to deliver these things and they find out that I was one of the previous cargoes and want to keep me?" Mary asked curiously.
"You can cover your face, like I do," Murray replied.
After a while, Meili asked again: "What if I run away and one of the goods is missing? They can't match them and might even seize our goods. What should I do?"
Murray pointed to the Warcraft armor and some valuable items from the Warcraft tied to the back of the car and said, "Use that instead."
Meili heard from the mercenaries that the monster could be sold for a lot of money, and it was indeed worth her, but the monster was killed by Muri. If he gave it to her as compensation, wouldn't it be the same as exchanging his things for her
If so, how should she repay his kindness
"Muri, even if you complete this escort mission, the Earl's family and the auction house that hired the Golden Lion Mercenaries will not honestly give you the commission."
The money for the job was paid in three installments. After completing the mission, one could get a portion at the destination, and the rest could only be obtained by returning to the auction house in Fields Holy City. She had heard the mercenaries complain several times that those people were not paying properly.
"With you alone in the mercenary group, the auction house will most likely default on their debt or cheat you. Sometimes people are unreasonable." Mary was worried that he couldn't get the commission.
Unexpectedly, Murray still sat there calmly with his arms folded, and said coolly: "Only if you talk to me reasonably can you avoid death."
Meili: “…” Thinking of every corpse on this road.
She shouldn't always worry about Muri being bullied just because his voice was so tender. In fact, no one could bully him as long as he didn't want to.
Mary was no longer worried about this or that. She was much more relaxed than in the past few days. Even though she was wearing a hat and a cape and only her eyes could be seen, Murray could tell that she was very happy.
A mercenary once said that this woman's eyes were like green grass leaves, or emerald green, but he felt that these eyes were more like the color of polar glaciers, showing dark green and light green with the change of seasons.
"Are you happy?"
"Well, it's all thanks to you. You made me happy. I feel like I can start a new life."
Seeing her staring at him, Murray felt his hair stand on end again. He leaned back slightly involuntarily and ended the topic.
Moreover, he felt that he hadn't done anything, she just suddenly became happy on her own.
The monotonous journey of the two people changed at noon that day. They met a caravan for the first time. It was a large caravan with its own team of guards. They were resting under a rare shade to avoid the scorching sun.
Except for the bandits who suddenly jumped out, Meili hadn't seen normal people for a long time. She was a little curious about this caravan, so she hesitantly asked Murray if he wanted to go over and rest.
Murray looked at her and nodded.
The arrival of the two-man mercenary group attracted everyone's attention.
Two people, carrying two full carts of goods and even Warcraft armor, walked swaggeringly on this road known as the "Robber Road". This scene was truly unprecedented.
What can two people do? They might just get robbed and killed by some robbers.
They were so lucky to be able to get here.
When the caravan members saw them coming, they did not drive them away, but allowed them to occupy the shade.
The caravan owner, who was coveting the Warcraft Armor, gave a few instructions to his subordinate, asking him to go over and get some information.
Mary was looking at the caravan's cart, wondering what they would sell, when she saw a man approaching.
He walked directly to Muri and asked with a smile: "We are a caravan heading to Oak City. Where are you from?"
Murray didn't say anything, so Meili guessed that he didn't want to expose his lovely voice in front of strangers again, so she simply replied for him: "Fields Holy City."
When the man heard the woman's voice, he finally turned his head and looked at her. His polite smile faded, and he was just surprised. "Oh, that's not close. I'm afraid you two have encountered a lot of trouble along the way. If you want, you can follow our caravan."
When he saw the fresh bloodstains beside the cart, he thought that they must have encountered robbers. The rest of the people were killed, and only these two escaped. They must be scared now, so they joined their caravan. It was a good opportunity for him to make a fortune.
When he thought of this, he became more polite. "We are a caravan doing business. We can't protect you for nothing. Why don't you use the magic armor on your car in exchange for our protection?"
Meili went to see Murray, and when he shook his head, she replied, "That one won't change."
Unexpectedly, they were so direct. The man was a little unhappy. "Think carefully. Apart from us, there is no other caravan willing to accept and protect two people of unknown origin. No matter how precious these armors are, they are useless if you can't get to the city alive. You might as well give them to us to save your lives."
Mary continued to look at Murray and found that his movements had not changed. She thought that he was probably tired of listening to this and probably closed his eyes and started to rest.
She had to deal with it herself, "We don't want to exchange for that monster armor. I don't know what your caravan is selling. Do you have any candy in exchange?"
The man looked strange, "You want to exchange it for candy?"
Catching the word "sugar", Murray's round ears in his hood moved.
But the man did not answer immediately. He turned around and went back to the caravan.
From afar, Mary saw him standing beside the most exquisite and sturdy carriage and talking to the people inside. After a while, a woman in a red veil got out of the carriage and walked towards them gracefully.
Mary wrapped her face in a cloth to cover herself, making herself inconspicuous, but this beautiful woman wrapped in a veil looked even more attractive with her face vaguely visible.
As soon as she came over, she went straight to Murray, "You want to exchange for candy? Candy is not cheap. Here, this piece costs one silver coin plus sixty copper coins. This is the best white snow candy."
Looking at the candies she took out of the small bag, Mary asked, "Is there any cheaper candy?" She was used to being the boss of the household and was very careful with her budget, so she would ask for details before buying anything.
The woman glanced at her critically, and her tone suddenly changed, "That's it, love or not."
Murray had already taken out a bag of gold coins - those he had found on the corpses before, most of which were contributions from the robbers.
The woman smiled when she saw it. "You are so generous. Do you want all the candies in this bag? Let me count them. There are thirty-six pieces of candy. If you buy more, I will charge you less. It will be six gold coins in total."
Seeing the man nodded, she smiled, quickly took six gold coins from her bag and was about to leave.
Meili stopped her and said, "Wait, one piece of candy is one silver coin plus sixty copper coins. Thirty-six pieces of candy should be fifty-seven silver coins plus sixty copper coins. You should only charge us five gold coins, seven silver coins and sixty copper coins. You took six gold coins, so you should give us two silver coins and forty copper coins."
The woman didn't expect that she could calculate so clearly. She looked at her in surprise, cursed her softly, but finally counted the silver and copper coins from her pocket and threw them to her, then walked away with a disdainful look on her face.
Meili put the coins back into Murray's purse. It's not easy to make money, so of course you have to count it.
She looked at Murray and said, "Although you have a lot of money, you may not care about this, but I think it's better not to let others take advantage of you. If others know they can take advantage of you, they will always take advantage of you."
This is her experience.
Looking at the way Murray buys things, you can guess that he may have been taken advantage of many times in the past.
She couldn't see the little bear face of Muri hidden under the hood. He was looking at her now, his eyes full of awe and surprise. When she blurted out how much she should charge, Muri was stunned.
He had bought things from people before, but because he never spoke and only gestured with his hands, he had no idea how much the other person said, and he always let the other person take the money... He always used up the money very quickly.
"I... don't know how to calculate it." Little Bear's voice was muffled.
It took Mary a while to realize that he was not generous with money, but he just didn't know how to calculate.
She should have been able to guess that he might not understand these things without anyone teaching him, and it seemed like he had just come out of a deserted place not long ago.
She couldn't help but feel pity for this tall brother, so she moved closer, looked up at him, smiled and said, "Then I'll teach you, okay?"
She told him: "One gold coin is equal to ten silver coins, one silver coin is equal to one hundred copper coins, one piece of candy is one silver coin plus sixty copper coins, and two pieces of candy are three silver coins and twenty copper coins. Can you calculate this?"
After a long time, Murray's head, covered with a skull cap, shook slightly and then dropped.
Mary also saw his big palms resting on his knees, flexing and stretching unconsciously, grabbing the clothes on his knees.
She understood that he couldn't calculate it.
"It's okay, we can keep it simple."
Meili recalled the prices the mercenaries had mentioned and used them as an example to give to Murray. "Look, a glass of beer costs 20 copper coins. How many copper coins are two glasses of beer worth?"
Murray still looked at her without saying anything. Although she couldn't see his eyes, Meili felt that his eyes must be very helpless.
She had no choice but to pat Murray's arm soothingly and said, "It's okay, it's too difficult. Let's learn slowly and start with the simpler ones."
She stretched out her two hands. "Look, if a finger is one copper coin, and a piece of meat is five copper coins, how many copper coins are two pieces of meat?"
Under such low-level teaching, Murray finally learned to count within four hands, because there were only four hands between the two of them, and he would not be able to count more than that.
She lent him her hands to learn how to count. Seeing him sitting there, pointing at her thin fingers with his big fingers and counting over and over again, Mary wanted to laugh very much. But she was afraid that laughing would make the little boy angry, so she had to hold it back.
We have to think of a way to make him study hard, otherwise what should we do if he gets cheated again in the future? It's really worrying.
It was too hard to calculate. Murray held out his palms and wrinkled his nose.
He lost his grandfather when he was still a cub who couldn't hunt. Later, he was extremely hungry and went out to look for food. He was injured many times, so he learned to hunt naturally. But this is much more difficult than hunting.
He wanted to say he didn't want to learn this, but when he saw Mary's expectant and tender eyes, he immediately felt a tingling sensation on his back and turned his head to continue looking at his fingers.