Under Belen's suppression, Melina reluctantly asked the other party to help her count the belongings she could use now. She planned to pay back the money she owed Sonia and then pick up Mary at Sonia's place. Ya's commission will be accepted.
A perfect plan.
Beside the piles of sea corals and gems stacked together, Beren had already changed into a maid uniform and began to help Melina count them.
"Ruby, dull color, size...estimated at 7 gold lei."
"Sapphire...estimated at 12 gold lei."
Generally, the price of gemstones is only between 5 and 15 gold lei, while those with magic factors are around 50 to 100 gold lei. The higher the price, the more powerful the collections are. Therefore, in this world, if you have a love for gems, you might as well spend money to buy them. 1,000 gold lei can buy almost a bed.
"White coral, weak magic factor, weak luster... Estimated price is 2 gold lei."
"Ruby-colored coral...estimated at 6 gold lei."
The coral collection is not valuable, but the color is beautiful. It is a cheap product that many novice dragons use to fill their treasure troves. But what is interesting is that the corals that originally cost less than 1 gold lei will become more expensive if they stay in the dragon's lair for a long time. Because of the dragon factor contaminated with it, its value has skyrocketed, ranging from 1 gold lei to 10 gold lei per plant.
Finally, there is gold and various rare minerals.
In addition, Melina reluctantly took out 400 gold lei from her stomach in order to save some of her beautiful gems. Together, the estimated value is about 940 to 1050 gold lei. The value fluctuates by about 100 gold lei.
The color of the gemstones in Melina's lair suddenly decreased by nearly 40%, which made her feel a sense of crisis.
While watching Belen take out his pocket and put his collection in, Melina squatted next to her, holding an umbrella indoors, spinning the umbrella in a not-so-good mood. Sitting next to Su, Xiao Longniang flicked her tail, her expression also very depressed:
"...Groar."
It can only be said that it is natural for the dragon family members to feel depressed after seeing these radiant little things being taken away.
Melina let out a long sigh:
"It's really sad to see the gems disappear, these... sparkly little cuties... these..."
Belen showed no mercy:
"You deserve it. After making a lot of money, you will soon spend a lot of money. Those Clockwork Cat Villages will have benefits, but they are long-term benefits. You have to be prepared to get back your capital for more than a year. The potato business is a good business, and it can pay back its capital quickly, but it is also a medium-term investment, and it is impossible to support your luxurious life without a bottom line. "
"Luxury!?"
Melina was excited, "How can I be extravagant? If you look at my clothes, I bought them two years ago. In addition to disposable stockings, there are only 5 dragon scale silk stockings, and there are only 3 necklaces. I only have 2 rings, and I’m almost out of eye cream and lotion!”
"Ho! Mei Miao is very frugal!"
Su is the brainless Melina single pusher. You can call her filial, but she really feels that she is filial.
Turning his head to look at the two sisters dancing with their claws, Beren was quite speechless.
Belen rubbed his forehead and suddenly said:
"I am an idol, you probably remember?"
Before Melina could answer, Miss Su said bluntly:
"Ho! It's Jinwu Zangjiao's idol..."
Melina blocked Miss Su's mouth and looked at Belen sideways like an assassin wiping someone's neck:
"so?"
Belen twitched the corners of his mouth, revealing a rather disgusting smile:
"So I have seen many colleagues who lived a relatively frugal life before, but as soon as their income increased, they began to spend lavishly."
She added slowly:
"In addition to spending money on research, experiments, weapons, equipment, and toys, your personal quality of life has not been improved, but this is because Hamlet is just an explorer town. As this explorer town becomes more and more The more prosperous it becomes, it will eventually become an explorer city. If nothing else, Banshee Street is definitely the most prosperous area."
She changed the topic and asked sharply:
"If the beautiful succubi around you all wear nice clothes and buy expensive lotions, will you follow suit?"
"Hmm..." Melina covered her chest and thought for a while, not sure whether she would buy it out of jealousy (no doubt).
Belen put her hands on her hips and looked like a maid in the second dimension educating her good-for-nothing master in a maid outfit:
"There are not many good stores in this place now, but in the future, if famous brand stores such as Madame Allie Department Store come in, will you buy more? Will you buy more of the beautiful dragon scale silk socks that cost 2 lei per pair?" ?”
"Ugh!" Melina felt increasingly uncomfortable.
Am I such a person who can’t keep money? She was thinking and reluctantly retorted:
"I, I was never knocked down by temptation when I was in the capital..."
"When you were in the royal capital, you had no prospect of becoming an explorer. No matter how good the job was, the most you could get was a job worth one or two thousand gold lei. That's a lot of money, but it's not what you have now. I can earn it as long as I work hard." A few thousand gold lei' to spare. And you are wary of the days when you have no savings, especially when you are living on one salary."
Belen's analysis is correct.
After hunting the sea dragon, Melina really fell into a situation where "the money is really good".
Seeing her expression, Beren finally nodded with satisfaction:
"It seems that you realize the big problem of your lack of consumption awareness, and also realize how important it is to have a healthy balance of payments. Shopping, spending time and drinking, this is not too much, for us banshees this is It’s just part of life, but it’s important to be financially healthy and not live in hospitality.”
Her expression was a little melancholy, as if she was thinking of someone else, and she shook her head slowly:
"One gold lei, five gold lei... It is indeed a small amount of money for us banshees, but as time goes by, debts pile up on top of debts, eventually forming a huge debt that will take decades to pay off. In the past ten years, I almost spent all my time paying off interest.”
"..." Melina's expression was a little weird, and then she realized what was scary and nodded frantically.
"Uh-huh!"
Miss Su was almost out of breath, so Melina quickly let go of her hand. Dragon Lady landed on the ground, took a deep breath, and suddenly changed from feeling uncomfortable to feeling very good. She also said, "Mei Miao smells so good!"
This is enough.
Melina felt weird before because:
It takes decades to pay off a debt, and the first ten years were spent on interest payments. Why does this sound more and more familiar to me? Isn’t this standard practice for emptying six wallets? I never expected that in other worlds, only those who are extremely desperate will receive this blessing. Generally speaking, the more honest people are, the easier it is for them to enjoy this blessing.
She said cautiously:
"I would have prevented myself from getting into this situation."
Beren was quite satisfied with her statement: "You'd better not fall into this trap. As a banshee with a promising future, you have to be more or less responsible for yourself..."
The professor is such a good person... Melina's eyes were shining.
Beren crossed his hands and said disgustedly:
"Don't look at me like this. I'm just investing. You will definitely have a bright future in the future. Maybe I can get the most money from you."
Generally speaking, people who say this will not make money from other people.
Humans are weird.
Usually words and deeds are not just trivial. Sometimes 'brothers forever' becomes 'we need to look forward', sometimes 'everyone should retire Jordan's jersey number 23' and then becomes 'my jersey is number 23'. , sometimes '4 is greater than 6'.
Humans are weird.
Only promises that are generally not kept will be made in words, and contracts that are generally not fulfilled will be put on paper.
…
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Sonia Mansion.
This huge mansion has almost been built, and the exterior walls have been completely built. It looks like a residential castle, or a residential house that looks like a castle. It has a three-dimensional middle courtyard and four residential towers. There is a two-story brick wall in the middle of the tower. The black Gothic-style building and the large number of flying buttresses are gorgeous and solemn.
But in the sunshine, it also shows a kind of warmth and freehand brushwork.
Melina noticed that there were a large number of clockwork cats living in the manor. They obtained Sonia's permission to live here. Most of them were facing the plots of Sonia, Melina and Maria. The working cat from the bathhouse run by Clockwork Cat came to live there in order to save himself from having to walk to work.
If nothing happens, Sonia can be seen honing her skills in her luxurious training room.
When Melina and Beren came today, Sonia was training a crossbow weapon technique.
The name is [Teleport Arrow], which is a technique that allows you to enchant a crossbow with a magic factor, so that after the crossbow hits the target, you can teleport to the hit location within a certain period of time. The focus is on how to make the enchanted crossbow leave a mark after hitting it, and how to make the enchanted crossbow lose its mark after hitting it.
If you don't do well...
"Ouch!"
Sonia let out a terrifying scream and shouted, 'Let's fight! '
Her body split into two halves due to the teleportation.
There was no bleeding because the magic factor was still protecting her for a certain period of time after the teleportation disorder.
But something will happen after a while.
The clockwork cats rushed up, meowing and meowing in a hurry, and pushed Sonia to her feet.
…
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In the study.
Sonia drank Coke and gasped:
"I have completely mastered the gameplay of the teleportation crossbow, all I need is the teleportation arrow!"
Belen complimented:
"Your efforts are admirable."
Why are you so polite to everyone? except me? ...Melina opened a small fan to cover the lower half of her face.
"Hahaha, so-so." Sonia put her hands on her hips. As a super lutein, she likes Xiaomei's. Professor Belen uses Xiaomei's meal replacement, which is also very good. So she was in a very good mood.
She straightened up, using a stern attitude towards outsiders that Melina rarely saw, and put her hands on the table with a slightly crazy smile on her face:
"Professor Belen, is there something you need to tell me? Or do you need to see me for any business?"
Professor Belen wore a bright fake smile:
"I'm here to take on some special commissions from Miss Maria, and to sort out the debts of my partner."
(End of chapter)
