After my rebirth, Miss Saint turned evil

"Let's go."

After Old Jed finished speaking, he left the alley directly.

Murphy knew where he was going.

After all, that was where he spent most of his time during the first two years after leaving the church.

He also imitated Old Jed and drank the wine in one gulp, then followed him out.

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The place Murphy and Old Jed went to was a pub also located in the slums.

The outside of the pub looks very shabby and it can be said that it is completely integrated with the surrounding slum environment.

If you don't look carefully, no one would have thought that there was a pub here.

This is the pub that Old Jed opened specifically for the "rats".

Compared to the wine in the tavern next to the Adventurer's Guild, the wine here is cheaper.

Of course, the quality is naturally worse.

However, because of its cheap prices, many ordinary people come here to drink.

They are not the "rats" under Old Jed, but just a group of ordinary people whose lives are not going as planned.

Most of them are low-level adventurers, such as D-level, E-level and so on.

There are also some ordinary people who open a shop at their doorstep and run a small business.

In short, the income of this group of people is barely enough to maintain their daily food and clothing, and is not even enough.

Although they don't have any extra money to spend on drinking, they have no choice but to drink.

After all, in a place like Lars, the pressure of the lower class can only be released through alcohol and cigarettes.

As for the tavern next to the Adventurer's Guild, only "respectable people" with higher incomes are willing to go in.

Because this group of ordinary people simply couldn't bear to go into that pub to drink more expensive wine.

That's why they all chose this place because the wine here is cheap.

Old Jed also accepted everyone and sold wine to everyone equally, even though he didn't make any money at all.

This pub was opened by Old Jed, but he never cared about it. He just asked a subordinate he trusted to look after the place for him.

This is also his only power in public. From the outside, it looks like a tavern selling low-quality wine.

But Murphy knew that there was a small yard behind the tavern.

That was where he used to go almost every day.

Because old Jed will be there, teaching them all his skills.

Seeing Old Jed walk into the tavern first, Murphy stopped sighing and followed him in.

After walking in, he stopped again and glanced at the people who were drinking in the store.

This group of lower-class people who started drinking low-quality alcohol in broad daylight had numbness and frustration on their faces.

Just like he was in the past.

I don't want to make the same mistake again, so I have to change.

Otherwise, it will just rot in a corner where no one cares.

Murphy no longer hesitated. He followed Old Jed's footsteps and walked straight to the backyard of the tavern.

Chapter 19 Exercises (3k)

Murphy followed Old Jed through the back door of the tavern and into a corridor.

The backyard of Old Jed's tavern is located differently from other backyards. It is not behind the tavern, but on the side and rear.

Therefore, if you continue walking along this corridor, you will directly leave the tavern, and people who go out will not be able to see the backyard at all.

However, there is a door on the wall on the left side of the corridor, and behind that door is a separate room.

That is the office where the "owner" of the tavern is located, and only by passing through this office can you successfully go to the backyard.

Old Jed walked straight in without even knocking on the door.

In the office, Holt, with thinning hair, was sitting at his desk reviewing this month's financial income report.

When he heard the door opening, he couldn't help but frown.

Because he had previously set rules for his "rats", asking them to knock on the door before entering a room, but now it seems that the rules were not set well.

"Who the hell doesn't knock——"

He raised his head and was about to scold the "rat" who walked in without knowing the rules, but he saw the squinted one eye of old Jed.

Then Holt stood up with a jerk.

"Ah! Boss, why are you here?!"

Old Jed didn't answer him, but just said lightly: "You have a bad temper."

Holt was a little nervous. He scratched his head, not knowing what to say.

Fortunately, Old Jed brushed it off lightly: "Forget it, remember to watch carefully next time."

"Okay, okay, please sit down, Boss."

Holt hurriedly left his seat and wanted to let old Jed sit, but the other shook his head at him.

"How's the harvest been lately?"

"Oh, it's the same as always. We sold so much wine, but we only made enough to cover the shipping costs. Boss, are you really not going to raise the price?"

"Those poor bastards can't leave us now because we're the only place they can afford to drink."

"So if we just raise the price a little bit, we can make a lot of money and we don't have to worry about them complaining."

Watching Holt's vivid speech, Old Jed just shook his head at Holt as he did in the past, and his answer to the other party had never changed.

"Can you guarantee that they won't run away if I raise the price? After all, if I didn't sell it so cheaply, how could so many people come?"

"If they really run away, you'll have to pay for the money I lost. How about that?"

"Besides, what fat can be scraped off these poor people? If you're really capable, then open your own shop and cut some fat off those aristocratic pigs."

Holt didn't actually care about Old Jed's "threat". He knew that what the other party said was a joke.

But he didn't say anything else, because he knew that he couldn't persuade the boss at all, and this time he was just saying it casually as usual.

After all, I don’t know how many times I have said this before, but Old Jed’s answer is always the same and has never changed.

Boss! You're clearly the biggest villain in this Lars! Yet you're unwilling to bully even ordinary people! How can you still be considered a villain if you're like that?

Holt, who called himself "the most evil person besides old Jed" in the frontier Lars, was mocking him crazily in his heart.

Of course, he only dared to think about it in his heart. After all, there was no way he could say these words out loud.

He didn't like Old Jed's decision because it really caused them to lose a lot of benefits.

However, he did not feel any resentment in his heart. Instead, he felt that Old Jed was their real boss.

It should be said that all the brothers under Old Jed would think so.

Although Old Jed was indeed called a "man of evil virtues" by everyone, only those nobles thought so.

In the eyes of poor ordinary people, Old Jed is actually the last safe haven, and they would say that he is a villain just to laugh at those nobles.

After all, even Old Jed himself would refer to himself as "the villain".

So, if Old Jed really decided to plunder the poor, could he still be considered the boss of this group of "rats"?

And if the boss is like this, will these "rats" continue to follow him?

That is of course impossible, even though they call themselves bad guys and rats.

But what they follow is never "evil", but Old Jed himself.

Therefore, although he could say things that were detrimental to the poor, Old Jed could not.

Because he is the nightmare of the nobles and the savior of the poor.

Besides, although Old Jed forbade them to attack ordinary people, he never said that they were not allowed to steal things from the fat pig nobles in the city.

They patronized that group of nobles quite often, and some of those with better skills even went to the royal capital to do business.

That's true. If that weren't the case, how could Old Jed possibly support these rats under his command by relying solely on the little money he earned from introducing commissions to adventurers?

In fact, it is for this reason that Old Jed is called a "man of evil virtues" by the nobles.

Thinking of this, Holt turned his head and looked at Murphy who was standing behind Old Jed.

He didn't like Murphy.

Because Murphy is the boss's only apprentice and has learned a lot of thief's techniques, but he is never willing to use them.

It would be fine if he just didn't want to take action against ordinary people, but Murphy was unwilling to take action even against nobles.

Therefore, Holt felt that he had wasted the boss's teachings and was an ungrateful person who only knew how to ask for things from them.

If the boss hadn't insisted on keeping him, and if my daughter hadn't also had a good impression of him, I would have given him away long ago...

"Hmph, forget it. There's no way I'd like him anyway!"

Although he thought so in his heart, Holt would definitely not say it out loud.

On the contrary, he had to say hello to Murphy.

After all, under the current circumstances, he will definitely be the successor of Old Jed.

"Boy, you finally decided to come back?"

Although Holt noticed him as soon as he entered the door, and it was indeed a little late to greet him now, he had reasons to excuse himself.

After all, it is definitely more important to say hello to the boss than to talk to the kid who has not yet fully grown up.

"Well, long time no see, Uncle Holt."

Murphy responded to Holt lightly.

Of course he knew Holt, or rather, he knew all the high-ranking rats under Old Jed.

He also knew that the other party didn't seem to like him very much, but so what? He and him didn't have much to do with each other anyway.

Murphy knew that Holt was actually the trusted subordinate of old Jed, and the one who helped him keep an eye on the tavern.

Murphy even knows why Holt follows old Jed.

After the war, many poor people without jobs and savings appeared in Lars, a border town that was in ruins due to the war.

Because they had no money and could not find a job, and the nobles at that time were still selling grain at high prices behind their backs.

Therefore, if they don’t think of ways to make money, they will starve to death. Those who are unwilling to die in such a humble way eventually choose to become "criminals."

Holt is also one of them, but unlike ordinary refugees, he has his own family.

He has a loving wife and a lovely daughter.

So for their sake, Holt, who couldn't find a job at the time, chose to gather a group of friends who were also struggling to make ends meet, and then became "criminals" together.

As for what happened afterwards, Murphy was not very clear. After all, these were just things he heard after drinking with the "rats".

However, although he didn't know what happened next, it was not difficult to guess.

It was probably that this group of people stole something they shouldn't have stolen and were caught by the nobles. Then, when they were about to be killed by the nobles, Old Jed rescued them.

Therefore, they all chose to follow Old Jed and work under him.

Old Jed also took advantage of the opportunity to gather a large group of people and became the underground king of Lars.

"Sharon missed you quite a bit. She's in the backyard right now."

Holt spoke to Murphy again, and the Sharon he was talking about was actually his daughter.

"I see."

Murphy nodded at Holt in response.

At this time, Old Jed, who was standing aside, spoke up: "Let's not talk about it for now. The brat and I have to go to the back now."

"Okay, boss, I'll help you open the door."