Chapter 152 Country People Entering the City (Ⅱ)

The sound of leather boots came from far to near, and the burly patrolman stepped into the hotel lobby with his hands behind his back. Seeing that Joan was paying to open the room, his gloomy face softened.

"Good evening, Mr. Lestrade." The night hotel clerk greeted the patrolman with a broad smile.

The patrolman nodded as a greeting, and turned around to look at Joan carefully, as if he had some bad associations with his blindfold.

Joan was uncomfortable being stared at by the patrolman's sharp eyes, and couldn't help but raised his hand to touch the blindfold.

"Sir, please let me take the liberty to ask, did you just get off the boat?"

"No, Mr. Patrolman, I'm from Delin Town." Joan pulled the cloak awkwardly, "I'm a new student majoring in arcane arts at Leiden College, and I'm here to report to the school."

The patrolman smiled relievedly, took off his yarmulke cap that looked like a small iron pot, and bowed slightly to Joan.

"Sorry to bother you, Mr. Master, I wish you a good dream tonight!"

"Uh... I wish you a sweet dream too, honorable Mr. Patrolman."

"Oh, I'm not so lucky. I have to work the night shift tonight."

The patrolman walked out of the hotel complaining. Looking at his back, Joan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Three Jindujia hotel rooms for one night are actually not that luxurious. The only thing that satisfied Joan was that hot water was provided around the clock, so that he could take a comfortable hot bath before going to bed to wash away the dust and fatigue all over his body.

Joan lay on the bed and became more and more worried. From the expensive accommodation fee, we can get a glimpse of the crazy price of Leiden Port. I will live in such a high-consumption city for at least a year. How can I only have enough money with me? It seems that I still have to find a job in my spare time to make money to subsidize my living expenses.

Joan fell asleep with worries, and woke up on time at six o'clock the next morning. After I got dressed, I suddenly remembered that the check-out deadline was 9:00 am. Thinking about paying 3 gold coins, I only slept for five hours in total. I decided to make an exception and sleep an extra hour. Even if you can't sleep, you have to occupy the bed, as if this will make the expensive accommodation more cost-effective.

Joan dawdled on the bed for five minutes resentfully, and had to admit that her state of mind was ridiculous, that she couldn't fall asleep and wasted precious time in vain. I had to get up again, put on my clothes, and prepare for spells. After washing up, I walked into the hotel lobby, asked the clerk to check out and asked where I could get a cheap breakfast. When he learned that the accommodation fee included a breakfast, he couldn't help being very pleasantly surprised, so he drank a large cup of hot milk in the restaurant of the hotel, ate two sandwiches with fried eggs, burped, felt his round belly, satisfied out of the hotel door.

Walking on the streets of the city bathed in the morning light, Joan thought that today is the last day of March, and tomorrow is the official start of school. It is too early to go to school. Why not find out where you can find a part-time job while you still have a little free time.

Thinking of this, Joan walked slowly along the street, paying attention to the shops on the street. Turning the corner, the golden signboard of a leather goods store broke into his vision. Joan's eyes lit up, he opened the shop door and walked in, planning to talk to the shop owner about the business of cooperatively processing enchanted leather goods.

Perhaps because it was too early, there were no other customers in the store, and two young clerks were cleaning. Hearing the sound of the door opening, they all turned around and said "Welcome" with a routine smile. When they noticed that a young man in rustic clothes and blindfolds came in, their expressions changed in unison, and they seemed uninterested.

Even though it has been seen that Joan is not the kind of person who can afford high-end leather goods, the two shop assistants still smiled and came forward to greet him.

Qiao An thought to himself that the city is different from the countryside after all, and the guys in the shop are also very polite, they speak nicely, and they don't judge people by their appearance. However, he soon found that his joy was too early, when he revealed that he was not here to shop, but wanted to seek a job providing enchanting services to the leather goods shop-as he did with Longfellow in Durning Town. When the husband cooperated, the smiles on the faces of the two clerks disappeared immediately. Before he could finish speaking, one of the clerks opened the door, and the other "invited" him out in a semi-forced way. , and then closed the store door with a bang.

Qiao An rubbed his nose that was almost smashed by the store door, feeling very angry, resisting the urge to scold the two clerks for being inferior, turned around and left.

Joan tried her best to calm down the anger in her heart, and persuaded herself to open something. Layton Port is not a small place like Delin Town. People, just change it.

It's a pity that things were not as simple as he thought, and he didn't know what kind of bad luck happened. Joan wandered the streets all morning and walked into no less than ten shops. Intent, the other party immediately changed his face, and often kicked him out without bothering to say a word. Occasionally, he met someone who was more polite and asked him if he had a license to practice in this industry. Joan didn't know anything about "practice license" at all, so he had to leave in despair.

After wasting the whole morning like this, Qiao An not only failed to find a job, but was also pissed off. When passing by the central square of the commercial district, I sat by the pool of the fountain in the square to rest, untied my backpack, took out the dry food I brought from home, and ate a couple of bites. There was a group of pigeons walking around the fountain in the square. I don’t know if they were domesticated or wild, but they were not afraid of people at all. When they saw Joan eating dry bread, they walked over gracefully to eat the crumbs.

Looking at the pigeon, Qiao An couldn't help feeling a little sad in his heart. He felt that his life in this unfamiliar city was not as good as that of the pigeon.

Joann crumbled the remaining rusks, attracting more pigeons to peck at them. After sitting for a while, I felt that I couldn't just waste time like this, so I got up and left the square. The pigeons followed him for a while, convinced that he would not feed again, they flew away one after another resentfully.

Joan walked around the fountain square, and accidentally saw a familiar sign flashing by the side of the street. Turning around and taking a closer look, the signboard reads "Yangbo Firm", and there is a line of small characters next to it, which says "Far East Yangbo Chamber of Commerce Office in Port Leiden and General Commercial Agent".

"Yangbo Firm" is a branch of the "Far East Yangbo Chamber of Commerce" in Leiden Port.

Qiao An heard from her grandfather that Baiou Port, where the headquarters of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce is located, is the most important trading city in the Far Northeast Gulf region of the Old Continent. The current president of the Yangbo Chamber of Commerce, Ms. Liubov Yangbo, is also the lord of Baiou Harbor. It is conceivable how strong the background of this multinational chamber of commerce is.