Chapter 629 Unwilling to Let Go

The basic administrative structure of Dawn Realm is the Royal City Council as the highest center of power. The speaker who holds the authority of the whole kingdom and the twelve elders and elders are the highest leaders of the country.

Under the Senate, the country's highest management organization, that is, various ministerial units, such as the Ministry of Magic such as the Ministry of Communication and Commuting (also referred to as the Ministry of Communications for short), was established. These departments are responsible for the specific implementation of the programs formulated by the kingdom.

The next ones are the city-level departments. For example, the city lord of Yuelu City belongs to the city-level leaders. The Lord of Yuelu City is under the supervision of the Official Review Department.

And the next is the deputy city-level leaders, such as the deputy city lord, for example, the director of the first magic affairs management department of Yuelu City belongs to this class.

And at the same level is the captain of the Moondew City patrol team, and the captain Tom who manages 3,000 patrol members under his command.

Of course, these people are unattainable existences for Arrizo. He is just a patrol member, and there is still a big gap from the real management class of this kingdom.

It's like the position of a small captain, although he absolutely needs a high school diploma to take up the position, but if he wants to get this position, he must make relative contributions.

There is no such thing as simply relying on seniority to rise to the top in Dawn Realm. This is a place where strength and merit speak for themselves. It is difficult for people without skills to make further progress in this society.

Do you want to say whether Arrizo wants to be promoted? This is definitely what I want. You must know that Arrizo's current salary is only ten pounds and fifteen shillings a month.

According to the basic currency exchange value, one pound can be exchanged for twenty shillings, and one shilling can be exchanged for one hundred pence. Arrizo's most common form of entertainment is to read the Dawn Monthly, which is published once a week and has about 120 pages of content, and the price is five shillings.

To put it simply, Arrizo spends one-twentieth of his monthly salary on reading. But reading books is inherently expensive. Dawn Weekly is the most approachable publication. Of course, if you don't care about timeliness, you can go to the second-hand bookstall to buy last year's publications. The price is only one-third of the original price.

In terms of food, the content of Arrizo’s usual meal is as follows: a serving of stewed black beans, a serving of multigrain bread, a small serving of smoked chicken, and a serving of vegetable soup. This cost about fifty pence.

Because the patrol team members exercise a lot, Arrizo has to eat four meals a day to ensure that he is not hungry. The day's expenses were two shillings. The monthly cost of food was close to sixty shillings. That's six pounds.

Including other daily expenses, as well as a monthly Suguang Monthly, Arrizo spends at least seven pounds and fifteen shillings a month. Only about three pounds or so can be saved each month.

Of course, this income is actually higher than that of most kingdom citizens. If you are a waiter or an ordinary worker, your monthly income will be about one to two pounds less. In that case, you can't eat meat for every meal like Arrizo.

Instead, maybe only one meal a day is meaty food.

In fact, in the civilian area where Arrizo lives, many people are very envious of Arrizo's work. Especially those boys, seeing Arrizo wearing a tight-fitting black artificial leather uniform, wearing a knife and gun, and carrying a bow and arrow, looking majestic.

There are even quite a few girl team members who wink at Arrizo, and there are many people who say goodbye to him. But Ari Zeque has been single until now.

This confuses many people. One has a good income and a stable job. Not to mention handsome, but at least tall and good-looking men, why don't they take wives?

Some people inferred that Arrizo wanted to climb up. If he climbed to the position of squad leader or even sub-leader, then he would not be a simple commoner girl when he married a wife in the future. It was the daughters of some wealthy merchants, or the daughters of some petty officials. This will help him in his future career.

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"I've saved about three hundred pounds this year, Penny. The money will be enough soon." Arrizo held a glass of unfiltered draft beer in his hand. The beer was a bit cloudy and not a good-looking transparent golden yellow. The bubbles are also not delicate, and there is nothing redeeming about this beer other than being cheap.

But there was a beautiful lady sitting opposite Arrizo who drank such a cheap beer. Her complexion is a healthy and beautiful wheat color, and she has a pair of beautiful green eyes, the translucent green is like the finest emerald.

The plump apple muscles and pear dimples when she smiles add to her charm. But now this beautiful lady frowned slightly, and there was a word between her brows: "Arrizo, I told you. You don't need to worry about me, you should have married a wife and had children long ago. Instead of I'm wasting my time here."

"I've said it a long time ago, Penny. You are the only woman I want to marry in this life, and I want you to be my wife." Arrizo said earnestly, staring into Penny's eyes.

But Penny avoided Arrizo's fiery eyes and said in a low tone: "Marry a prostitute? Is this really good?"

"Does it matter?" Arrizo said indifferently: "I like you just because I like you, and it has nothing to do with your identity. This will not become an obstacle to our relationship."

Penny smiled weakly, because there is indeed a huge obstacle between her and Arrizo, which is real. Her father was originally a small grain merchant, but went bankrupt five years ago. And owed thousands of pounds in debt.

The cowardly father chose to die, but his death could not prevent the creditor from demanding debts. And such a debt can only fall on Penny.

Penny, who has no ability to resist, was forced to work in the Phoenix to pay off his debts. Until today, Penny has paid off most of the debts, and she can be free with five hundred pounds of debt left.

If Arrizo was really willing to pay three hundred pounds, she would actually be able to get out of this damn place in a few months.

But Penny was helpless, because she knew that she couldn't get away before her last value was drained.

She knew Arrizo many years ago. She was a playmate on the street when she was a child, and the relationship between the two has always been very good. When her family was in good condition, Ai Ruize once came to ask for a kiss. But his snobbish father looked down on Arrizo, who was an ordinary patrol member.

At that time, Penny's father was thinking about growing his business in the future and becoming a big grain merchant. So go around and meet big people who he finds useful. He wants to use the beautiful Penny as his promotion.

But when his father owed a huge sum of money and his family was ruined, the only thing he still remembered was his childhood playmate, Ai Ruize. And the so-called big shots that the snobbish father got acquainted with back then were just watching from the sidelines when their own family was broken down, watching their own family's destruction as if they were watching a play.

Thinking of this, Penny turned his head to look at Arrizo. This man is not handsome, he can only be said to be good-looking. Because of his long-term work in the patrol team, his edges and corners are almost smoothed, so he doesn't have any outstanding temperament.

Arrizo is like the most ordinary member of the crowd, but for Penny, perhaps this man is the only person who can make her feel warm in this indifferent world.

So Penny looked at Arrizo's eyes with some tenderness, she reached out and grabbed Arrizo's hand and said, "Arrizo, there are some things we are powerless to resist. The big boss behind the fire phoenix is ​​you I know. If they don't want to, then I can't get out of this."

"It's not about money, Arrizo. It's a problem that even money can't solve. You and I are just civilians, not officials, not nobles, and have no influence. There are many things in this world that we cannot decide."

Penny's eyes were a little red and he said: "So let it go. Three hundred pounds, you can give a bride price to the daughter of a very good family. You have your life, so let it go."

Arrizo squeezed the handle of the wine glass tightly, and his veins bulged. He is just a patrol member, and now he is just an acting squad leader. In this vast dawn territory, he doesn't even count as a fart, even in the Yuelu City with a population of 350,000, he has no strength to speak of.

Arrizo just didn't want to consider the worst of all his plans. But today, Penny shattered Arrizo's last fantasy.

Arrizo didn't know how he got out of Penny's room, but he remembered a guy he met on the way out.

One of the guys who once courted Penny was the young master of a large drapery shop in the XC district. A man with a lot of makeup, Penny looked down on him back then, and Arrizo also looked down on this guy. Back then, he often suffered in front of Penny and Arrizo.

And this second generation ancestor is obviously a guy who holds vengeance, he took a look at Arrizo and felt a little familiar, and then quickly remembered something.

"Hey! Isn't this our Captain Arrizo?" The Second Generation Ancestor smiled sarcastically, he didn't care about an acting team leader.

"Why, come to Lie Huo Fenghuang to find a good friend too? It's okay to say it." The Second Generation Ancestor deliberately stopped in front of Ai Ruize, blocking his way: "Look, I'm here to find my old good friend too, remember that Penny?"

"It's the one who looked down on me back then. I remember how many times you helped her in the fight?" Hearing what the second generation ancestor said, Ai Ruize looked at him with an unkind expression.

But the second generation ancestor continued to say indifferently: "You see, she can't refuse me now. Back then, I wanted to take her home as my wife. As for now, ha ha." The second generation ancestor smiled slyly Voice.

"Now as long as you have money, you can be a groom every day. Do you think this world is interesting? Hahahaha!" The second generation ancestor smiled happily, looking at Ai Ruize's livid face, he felt a kind of revenge a feeling of.

Looking at Arrizo's tightly clenched fist, the fingertips of which were turning white, the second generation ancestor continued: "What? You also came to find Penny? I remember that you always liked to follow this bitch back then. I will be a servant later on. I didn’t get her when I wanted to marry her back then. It doesn’t matter, now you can be the bridegroom as long as you pay!”

"Oh, by the way, you shouldn't be able to afford the money. Penny costs twenty pounds a night. How much can you earn a month? Probably not enough. How about it, we still have a chance, or else I'll invite you You once, let's be the groom together tonight?" The second ancestor's words made Arrizo's anger reach its peak.

He could only squeeze out a sentence from his teeth: "Get lost!"

Looking at Arrizo's eyes that wanted to kill someone, the Second Generation Ancestor was not afraid at all. Because he also brought two bodyguards with him. Those who are strong and strong are much better than Arrizo in terms of hand skills.

The Second Generation Ancestor was not out of his wits either, he saw clearly that Arrizo was not carrying a musket. This kind of Arrizo is not much of a threat. That's why he dared to provoke the opponent unscrupulously.

And after Ai Ruize said the words to let him go, the second generation ancestor immediately put away his pretended smile, and he snorted: "I don't know how to praise. Since you don't want to be a groom, then today I will be more Give me some money and let my two brothers spend the groom's life!"

"Thank you, young master!" The two strong men who had been following the second generation ancestor immediately returned with a smile. A beauty like Penny is expensive, and they are reluctant to spend this money.

The second generation ancestor snorted and walked past Ai Ruize, and said in a low voice as he walked, "I'm not happy? You clenched your fists so tightly, you want to kill me? Come on, kill me!" .Can you kill me? Trash!"

Ai Ruize watched the second generation ancestor lead two bodyguards into the gate of Blazing Phoenix, a heart-piercing pain hit his whole body. It seemed that every capillary in the body was going to explode, every nerve was stimulated by electric current, and every pore was oozing blood.

He went out with only a short knife, and now he was holding the handle of the knife with his right hand, calculating how to kill the second generation ancestor with one knife.

But as if there was an induction, the two bodyguards beside the second generation ancestor turned around at the same time to face Arrizo's direction.

And their hands were placed on their waists, and each of them carried two short knives. Looking at the calluses on their tiger's mouth, it is obvious that they are veterans with knives.

The two bald men looked at Arrizo with a smile. They were not afraid of Arrizo's attack, as long as Arriize dared to draw his knife, they could chop him up. Because people like myself are just self-defense. You don't even have to go to court.

The Second Generation Ancestor was standing behind the two bodyguards, looking like he was enjoying the show. He said so much before just to arouse Arrizo's anger. Then let him lose his mind and do it, so that it doesn't matter if he kills him himself.

The second generation ancestor was not an idiot, otherwise his father would not have entrusted him with the management of a cloth shop with an annual revenue of 8,000 pounds.

The confrontation between the four aroused the onlookers of the passers-by. Arrizo had half drawn the dagger, and he was dressed roughly, as if he were a wild wolf about to attack.

And at this moment, a girl rushed out of Blazing Phoenix, and the girl was Penny. After taking a look at the situation at the scene, she immediately ran to the second generation ancestor's side, and said something to him with a low eyebrow.

The second generation ancestor ignored him, and Penny continued to persuade him gently. In the end, the second generation ancestor seemed to let go and said something, and a hesitant look flashed across Penny's face. But after taking a last look at Arrizo, Penny still nodded to the Second Generation Ancestor, as if agreeing to something.

The battle still didn't happen in the end, ten security guards from Raging Fire Phoenix came and restrained Arrizo. Arrizo could only see Penny's disappearing figure in the gap between the crowd.

And the mouth shape she turned back to herself: Let go, none of us can fight.

When everyone dispersed, when six or seven security guards threw Arrizo into the back alley like a dead dog, when Arrizo lay on the icy road as if his heart was ashes.

That ghostly voice appeared again: "Are you willing?" It was that person! It's the gray hooded man!

"Compared with the price, are you really willing to accept what you are accepting now?" The man in the gray hood suddenly appeared from the air, standing in front of Arrizo like something out of nothing. Looking down at Arrizo who was lying on the road. At the same time, he also looked at the scars that Arrizo was beaten by the security guards of Lie Huo Fenghuang.

"That girl is good, but she can protect you once, but she can't protect you every time. If you have to fight for everything in this world, why do you get such a girl?" The voice of the hooded man was calm, not ridicule.

Arrizo lay on the cold floor and looked at the faceless hooded man, his tone was colder than the stone road in winter: "So I still have to sell my soul to the devil in the end?"

"Please don't compare me with those birdmen with bat wings. At least you can get what you pay for with me. So, tell me your answer." The hooded man continued to ask calmly.

Arrizo got up from the icy road in severe pain, and there was a fire burning in his eyes, a flame called unwillingness burning blazingly: "Then I agree to your conditions, but please also Keep your promise."

"Of course, Mr. Arrizo. Go to a lively bar for a drink first. I can give you a small gift later." The hooded man said with a smile.

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