Fashen live room

Chapter 162
Emmanuel is a mage apprentice who lives in the fourth district of Nicaro and earns a living by teaching students various knowledge.

These people are just like the sorcerer apprentices in the third district of Cardenas. They have no hope of becoming black-robed sorcerers, so they concentrate on imparting knowledge in exchange for money so that they can live a better life.And because Nicaro is more prosperous than Cardenas, and has the relationship between the two mage schools of Mannheim and Nicaro Missionary School, the business of these mage apprentices is much better than those of Cardenas. Yes, there are more practitioners, and Emmanuel is one of them.

Emmanuel's fees are relatively fair, or cheap, among the mage apprentices in the fourth district, so his students are mainly the children of handicraftsmen.

Duke is one of them.

This 16-year-old boy with yellow hair and a pockmark on his left cheek is not from a wealthy family, and his main source of income is his father who is a blacksmith.

It is not easy for his father to provide for him to go to school here with Emmanuel. Obviously, he can no longer expect to be able to provide him with such luxuries as books, so looking at the book on the desk of his classmate Jeff, Duke's eyes are full of envy. Can't hide it.

This is the living room of Mr. Emmanuel's house, and it is also the place where they have classes.

These students from poor families cherish learning opportunities more than the children of wealthy businessmen, so even though there is still some time left before class, several students have already arrived.

"Did your father buy this for you?"

Duke asked, but his eyes did not leave the open book on the table in front of Jeff, and his feet subconsciously stepped over to get closer to Jeff.

It's clearer now.

This is indeed a book, and it is also a teaching book of the ancient language!

On the page that was opened, there was a pattern of an ancient saying, the shape was very regular and square, and there were many common language annotations beside it, explaining the meaning of this ancient saying in extreme detail.

These are not what surprised Duke the most. What surprised Duke the most is that the lingua franca used for annotations on this page is actually written in a standard way, without any trace of sloppy work, and every stroke is very clear, which is even more terrifying Surprisingly, every Common Language letter is almost the same size!
This looks very comfortable, and there is no need to worry about problems such as being unclear or misreading.

Although this book doesn't look very thick, only dozens of pages at most, but the copying is so fine, this book is obviously expensive, especially this is a book with ancient Chinese annotations, the price is even more unimaginable up.

So before Jeff could answer, Duke couldn't help but asked again, "This book must be expensive, right?"

Jeff glanced back at Duke, said "hmm", and said, "My father bought it for me." But he didn't say how much it cost.

Duke was very interested in the price, and kept guessing, "Let me guess how much this book costs, 30 silver nars? 32 silver nars? Or 35 silver nars?..."

Duke said, his face full of envy.

Originally, he and Jeff had similar grades in ancient Chinese, but now with this book, I believe Jeff will surpass him in learning ancient Chinese.

But Duke immediately thought of another point, and immediately looked excited, fixed his eyes on Jeff and asked, "Can you lend me this book to transcribe?"

Facing Duke's expectant eyes, Jeff hesitated for a while, looked left and right, finally poked his head over, put his mouth to Duke's ear, and said softly: "You can ask your father to go too Buy a copy, it's very cheap, only 5 silver nars a copy."

5 silver nars is not a figure that can be described as "very cheap" for Duke's family. After all, the old Duke earned about 20 silver nars a month as a blacksmith. In comparison, it can indeed be said to be very cheap.

No, it should be very cheap, beyond imagination, so unbelievably cheap that Duke was stunned, staring blankly at Jeff, feeling that the other party was lying to him.

"Five silver gnars? How is that possible?"

Jeff looked at Duke with disbelief, and looked at himself with an expression of "you don't want to borrow me to copy it", he was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "It's true, it really only costs 5 silver Gnars! At the end of Mander Street, there is a new shop called Nikaheim Bookstore, which sells books, and I also bought this book there, and it really only costs 5 silver nars!"

Seeing that Jeff even said the specific name and location of the store, Duke didn't look suspicious, but doubted the letter, but his heart was beating wildly.

Could it be that this book really only costs 5 silver nars? ...

Duke had been thinking about this all the time, so that today's class was rarely taken seriously. After class, he asked Jeff to lead the way, and the two ran to the bookstore that Jeff mentioned.

After arriving at the specific location, Duke almost completely believed Jeff's words, because he did see a shop with the sign of "Nikaheim Bookstore" hanging on the end of the street not far from the two of them.Of course, what convinced Duke even more was the scene in front of the store.

I saw that this "Nikaheim Bookstore" was full of people, people had already crowded outside, the streets were full, people were everywhere, causing traffic inconvenience, they now want to wear You can't even cross this street.

"Damn it, get out of the way!"

"Stop squeezing!"

"Ah! Who touched my ass!"

"Give way, I want to come out!"

……

The people outside wanted to squeeze in, and the people inside wanted to squeeze out. The scene became a mess, and shouts and noises filled the entire space. If you didn't get close, you would feel a buzzing headache.

People who didn't know came to see it, and thought that Jintalan was being distributed here.

"When I came yesterday, there were not so many people..."

Jeff was frightened by the sight in front of him, and took a step back involuntarily.

Duke looked at the scene in front of him, remained silent, and his eyes gradually lit up.

Judging from the situation, what Jeff said should be correct. There are indeed unbelievably cheap books for sale here, which is why so many people come here.

I shouldn’t be able to squeeze in today, but maybe I can explain the situation here to my father, and then ask my father for some silver Gnar. Come here early tomorrow morning, maybe you can buy super cheap old sayings like Jeff’s. Annotated books, I believe my father will agree.

The only thing I'm not sure about is whether this bookstore will have such cheap books for sale tomorrow. Maybe it will only be available for these two days, and it will be gone tomorrow. The sale is completely at a loss. I don't know how long this store can last.

Now these people at the door of the store should all think so, that's why they crowded here so desperately, because they are afraid that there will be no such special book when they come tomorrow.

After thinking about it for a while, Duke saw a man in green clothes struggling to get to the door of the store, and hung a sign on the top, which read, "All books are sold out today." , please come back tomorrow, the price will remain the same", and the man kept yelling the same words outside with all his strength, but everyone was lucky, and no one would move at all for a while, until the green clothes The man's voice was smoky, and everyone saw that no one was squeezing out with books, and finally dispersed.

(End of this chapter)