The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 10: The night beyond (part 2)
He calculated the causes and consequences in his heart, coughed twice, turned back to the room, closed the door, and smiled politely: "Well, sir, who are you?"
"Huh?" The old man was asleep again, and his saliva dragged the old man. "Oh, I am the old man, everyone calls me old man."
"Then this is Cherry Crossing?"
"Yes, my house."
"Then all the houses around are..."
"Then you need to say? The guests of the hospitable daddy."
"Then they live here to..."
"Enjoy the beef risotto on the 15th of every month."
"More?"
"Those who flee from the war, those who are forced to come by the people of Colombo, and those who wait for the ferry tickets must stay in stores, like this."
"So safe here?"
"Safety and safety, exchanges at equal prices, the host and the host have fun. "The old man rubs his fingers," Security is part of the room service and is included in the room rate."
Gu Tie raised an eyebrow (a bit awkward, apparently the gentleman's facial muscles were less exercised), looking at the blind old man, silently moved it horizontally by half a foot, and the old man's eye sockets turned like a searchlight.
Gu Tie took it. "Father, how many people are there to defend the town?"
"It's not a joke, the noble lords of Bazelal, the defeated soldiers of the war, the **** of Colombo, the wild monsters, someday will be troublesome, you say no, this young man."
"Then Cherry Du has a huge private guard."
"No, no, no, father alone. It costs too much money to raise soldiers." The old man said calmly.
Gu Tie resisted the urge to spit out, thinking that this is a game world, and he can't use common sense to think about a blind old man with no body.
He searched for the memory of the prophecy in his mind, forget it, and said calmly: "Father, I'm going to stay here until April 26th. Let's open a room. Would you like breakfast?" said He reached out and touched his pocket, but only touched his own thigh.
Gu Tie's face turned white. "...Is credit card okay?"
"Where is the currency of the credit card? If it is a gold coin, it is no problem by weight. The old man is not deceived." The old man touched a registration form with his left hand, and a quill pen with his right hand, stained with ink.
"...Well, daddy, there are dozens of gems in my bag, and crystals with engraved star arrays. It's about more than the cost of road rescue, right?"
"I saved you from the woods, not the road. I've counted it. From hearing the sound of you hitting the ground, to pulling you back, coming and going, the night road of fifteen miles just broke even. You see, you have to add money once you come, and you have to add money when you rush at night, it's fair, boy!"
You are a taxi! The night price is implemented, and there is still an empty fare!
Gu Tie cursed the old man viciously and smiled on his face: "Father, I don’t have any money, but I’m an astrologer. As long as I find the union office, I can pay the allowance. Besides, I can still Do something within his power for the town, such as..." He quickly searched for the job that this character could do, and found that after the young astrology apprentice left the astrology tower, he was a pale boy without the power to bind a chicken. One use.
"...For example, this!" Gu Tie looked around, his eyes lit up, and raised the staff used as a cane: "Look at it."
"Work can be exchanged for money, this is the universal rule of the world." The old man said readily, "I welcome such guests."
Gu Tie mobilized the memory of the star array, and felt the structure of the star array in the red crystal inlaid on the top of the staff with his heart. A complex image of the star array appeared in his sea of knowledge.
The memory told him that the so-called star array is a three-dimensional shape formed by using extremely fine mithril threads to arrange inside the crystal. He tried to gently flick the string that represents the activation, and the red light slowed down from the inside of the crystal. Slowly rise, the ocean overflows. Gu Tie carefully controlled the movement of the star array, feeling that the interstellar line emitted by the first house star "bear" passed through the underworld, and the scattered energy of the star array gathered in the crystal, rotating and gathering, emitting light.
The intense orange-yellow light of the illuminating star array filled the entire room. Gu Tie proudly raised his staff to pay tribute to the complicated and fun game astrology system.
Five minutes later, he released his right hand, and the light dimmed. "Father, how about this?"
"Huh?"
The old man raised his eye sockets without eyeballs.
Gu Tie hit the wall with his head.
"...I mean, I can provide lighting. Daddy, you see, the night of Cherry Du is as dark as the bottom of the pot. It is inconvenient and unsentimental. Going out in the dark to fall in love or go to the tub Wrestling is a trivial matter. How bad is stepping on wild shit? Every night, I will stand on your roof on duty, illuminating the town brightly, civilized and sanitary, and enter the electrification age ahead of schedule. How?"
The old man slapped his lips and said: "I don't understand too much, but it seems to make sense."
"It's more than justified, it's a loss of money, a good opportunity to make money." Gu Tie said with a smile.
"Well, here I have a magician who is responsible for lighting fires, a steam puppet master who is responsible for sailing ships, and a Bachelor of Mathematics and Science who is responsible for building houses, but there is no astrologer who is responsible for lighting."
The old man thought for a while, threw the form in his hand, touched a new one, brushed a line of words, and handed it to Gu Tie, "A-level guest room, No. a52 in the second row of the southeast district. Breakfast, the lease period is from now until June 15th, and the work content is to provide lighting for Cherry Du for four hours after sunset every day during the rental period.——Muwa, the protector of Cherry Du, "Daddy".
Gu Tie was a little touched holding the paper and pen, how long has it been since he took the pen to write? A-level rooms, not bad. He saw that there was nothing wrong, and signed "Gu Tie" with a quill pen. Suddenly, he obliterated the name and rewritten a line. "D. Jonah II. Apprentice of Astrology".
"Signed?" The old man seemed to smile.
"Yes."
"Don't read the additional terms?"
"What?"
Gu Tie picked up the form and turned it over, with forty or fifty lines of fine print densely printed on the back.
"Additional clause 1, Guest 00 room level description: room level a: anonymous; room level m: medium; room level g: guest; room level v: VIP. "
"Uh, daddy, the A-level guest room is..."
"It's the kind that I don't bother to remember the name of the guest. There are details later." Dad replied.
Gu Tie looked down with a cold sweat.
"Additional Clause 7, the rights and obligations of room class a:
1, A-level guest room, the daily room rate per person is 30 Saint Boren silver coins, or equivalent other currencies, or equivalent labor, 10% off monthly rent, 20% off annual rent; 12 o’clock noon on the second day of daily rent Check out, check out at 12 noon on the first day of the second month of the month rent, an extra half-day room fee will be charged if it is out of date;
2, As a class-a guest, enjoy 24-hour class-a security guarantee in the whole town of Yingtaodu (with the outermost pit 1 to 6 of Yinghuadu as the boundary) during the valid stay period;
3, The basic physiological characteristics of a-level guests (that is, the heartbeat) are protected by the protector of the cherry crossing, and any means to stop the heartbeat of the occupants of the a-level guest room (or cause their heartbeat to stop within 72 hours) are considered It is a direct challenge to the protector of Cherry Crossing;
4, A-level rooms have six people in each room. The staying of unregistered guests is regarded as a direct challenge to the protector of Cherry Crossing; guests can apply for room transfer to fill the room vacancies caused by departure and death, but It cannot be moved to a vacant room. The vacant room can only be opened by the first registrant without a bed vacancy. After all the occupants of the room die or the lease expires, the room will be taken back by the protector;
5, A-class guest room occupants died of natural causes (including death 72 hours after suffering indirect fatal injuries), died after going out of the protection scope of Cherry Crossing, and died due to injury after the expiration of the lease. The protector is not responsible ;
6, Under special circumstances (see additional clause 40), the rights and interests of the tenants are not protected;
Gu Tie finished reading dizzyly, and asked: "That is, I want to live in a six-person room, and as long as others don't kill me, what do I want to do?"
"You are very smart, guest. Finally I recommend you to take a look at 55."
The only result of "Additional Clause 55, "Direct Challenge to the Protector of Cherry Crossing":
Dead! (Red extra large font)"
Gu Tie stood in the middle of the hut, dragging a broken leg, looking at the blind and smiling old man, with mixed feelings.