Chapter 3245: Shopping on East Street
After learning about this situation, Jasmine was inevitably disappointed. She was thinking that she could learn magic knowledge today, but she didn't expect to have to wait for another day!
But it's good this way, just in time to accompany her mother at home, but Mrs. Mary said before that if there is no class today, she will take Jasmine to buy clothes.
Now the school has issued new clothes, Jasmine seems to like it very much, and has been holding it in her arms since she got it, but she can also buy some other things.
Mary's husband came back suddenly last night, of course, not only to transfer money to her to activate the digital account on her ID card, but also to bring other tasks back-
Let her use more digital blue gold coins recently. This is a task assigned by the superiors, and even a sum of money was provided for this, which is only valid for one month.
Anyway, it has to be used, so why not buy some clothes, shoes and socks for her daughter.
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After leaving school, Mrs. Mary wanted to take the school uniform from her daughter, but Jasmine was unwilling to let go. Considering that there were only two sets of clothes, Mrs. Mary did not insist and let her daughter hold it herself.
Soon, the two passed the canteen where Madam Mary usually worked at noon, and then passed the security office of the territory, and then arrived at the most lively East Street in Linshui Town.
The name "East Street" is actually a small commercial district consisting of five streets, two horizontal and three vertical. The "East Second Street" mentioned by the staff at the school registration office before is the middle one of the three verticals.
Madam Mary rarely has the opportunity to come here, and today she feels more restrained with her daughter. Instead, her daughter Jasmine, who looks completely fearless, pulls her to look here and there.
But compared to her daughter who only cares about the goods themselves, Madam Mary pays more attention to finding the digital payment logo mentioned by her husband, because only in those shops with logos can digital balance payment be used.
The logo is very simple, similar to the logo on the ID card, and it is also a square box emitting a hazy glow, but the difference is that the square box of the ID card can display the specific balance number, while the square box of the shop will prominently write that it supports digital payment.
Soon, Mrs. Mary found a store with a digital payment logo, which was a ready-to-wear store. Although her daughter had just received her school uniform, she slowed down in front of the store with the idea of buying a few more.
Although children are often regarded as ignorant, they often have keen perceptions that adults may not have. As soon as Mrs. Mary slowed down, Jasmine realized that her mother might want to buy something for her in this store, so she freed one hand to pull the corner of Mrs. Mary's clothes and whispered:
"I have school uniforms, don't buy any more clothes."
"You, child, how can two sets of school uniforms be enough? Buy two more sets to change during holidays." Mrs. Mary's tone was soft, but also revealed a firm attitude.
Even Jasmine could feel this attitude, so she stopped persuading. After all, what her mother said made sense. The school uniform was so beautiful that it must not be worn when not in school. What if it was worn out!
After that, they went into the store to pick clothes and bargain. Jasmine didn't say which one she wanted to buy. She only nodded modestly when Mrs. Mary asked her with the clothes in her hand. She even deliberately showed the school uniform in her arms to facilitate her mother's bargaining.
In the end, the two sets of well-made clothes were bargained down to "2 yuan and 5 jiao". Jasmine was not very familiar with this way of naming money. She only knew that 1 yuan was equal to a blue gold coin.
As for "jiao", she was more familiar with it. Occasionally, her mother would give her a coin with sharp edges as pocket money, and one coin could buy a handful of candy from the community candy grandfather.
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When paying, Mrs. Mary took out her ID card, and the shop apprentice took out a receipt card from behind the counter at the boss's reminder, which was similar to the ID card but without specific identity information.
There was also a glowing box on it. Both Mrs. Mary and the apprentice pretended to be proficient and completed the payment. Of course, only two yuan and 5 jiao were paid in cash.
At present, the balance of digital blue gold coins only supports payments in "yuan". For smaller units, either the buyer pays extra cash or the merchant gives change.
If the price can be reduced to no "corner", it is indeed very convenient. If you have to pay extra cash, it may not be much more convenient than before, but it is safer at most.
No need to worry about being stolen by pickpockets like in the past.
Now the cash is turned into the digital balance on the ID card. Even if the ID card is stolen by a pickpocket, the money inside will definitely not be less.
In fact, there will be no pickpockets stealing ID cards now, unless they are pure novices who have just entered the industry and have no old thieves. Old hands know that ID cards cannot be stolen, and they will be caught if they are stolen.
When the second-generation ID cards were first popularized, some thieves who didn't know what they were wanted to steal ID cards and melt them into materials to sell to other places. As a result, before they could light the fire, they were surrounded by security guards who received the alarm information of the loss.
Needless to say, stealing and misusing ID cards is not a minor crime in Daxialing. Generally, they will be punished with more than one year of detention, plus a fine.
The latter is a characteristic of Netheril, and the Great Xia Territory has not completely abolished it.
All punishments in the territory are basically based on detention + fines. If someone is injured, flogging will be added. If someone is intentionally injured and killed, the person must pay with his life.
Generally speaking, if there is no money to pay the fine, the detention time will be extended or the number of floggings will be increased.
Detention seems to be just deprivation of freedom and forced labor, but the deterrent power is no less than the death penalty. The death row prisoners have long been aware of being killed, and the Great Xia Territory will only have a public trial at most, and will not torture the prisoners before death. The death penalty is equivalent to a matter of a moment, but the actual feeling of detention is similar to that of slavery.
Anyone who has enjoyed the normal life of the Great Xia Territory will not want to be a slave again. Even those who are willing to take risks to commit crimes are just lucky.
No one has ever said that they commit crimes because they want to be detained. If they really have such a heart, they don’t need to commit crimes at all. They just add burdens to themselves, and they can also make money!
There is no salary for detention!
If you steal or use other people’s ID cards, you will be sentenced to one year if you are caught. In contrast, if you only steal money, you have to steal about 500 gold coins to be sentenced to one year.
Moreover, if you only steal money, the cumulative theft proficiency will only be calculated during sentencing. If you steal one gold coin a hundred times and get caught every time, the actual sentence for the hundredth time will not exceed one year. Of course, if you can't pay the fine, it will probably exceed it.
For stealing or misusing someone else's ID card, the second time starts at three years, and the third time starts directly at ten years.
So even if you only consider the cost-effectiveness, no thief will be willing to steal someone else's ID card, unless they really miss the slave life.
If no one steals ID cards, then the crimes derived from ID cards can be almost eliminated. There may be other new types of crimes in the future, but the law and investigative methods are by no means static.