Dusk Chronicles
Chapter 18
Hearing this, Zulia looked at him with an alert feeling. "What questions?"
“Do not worry, just a matter of mathematics.” Melyan laughed.
“One day, a young man went to a vegetable seller to buy garlic. ‘How much is a pound of garlic worth? ask the young man. ‘10 copper coins per pound,’ replied the vegetable seller. Then the young man picked up the garlic and said, ‘How about this, 8 copper coins per pound for garlic stalk, 2 copper coins for garlic leaf, a total of 10 copper coins, 10 copper coins, how?’ The greengrocer thought for a while and felt there was no problem, so he agreed. In the end, the young man spent 100 copper coins and left.
“How much does that vegetable trader lose?”
“Lugi? How could it lose?” Zulia looked surprised.
"Try thinking again."
"2 copper coins, 8 copper coins, a total of 10 copper coins. Garlic leaves and garlic stems are combined into whole garlic." Zulia counted with her finger.
"Have, already." Melyan could not bear it anymore, he glanced across the street, this scene was about to happen in real life.
"Now I will take you to solve this problem, please open the window and jump with me."
"Oh, hey, not to me if we're really going to buy garlic."
"Of course not, hurry up, don't be late."
"Oh."
In the vegetable store "Healthy Samuel", Samuel pulls the collar of a young man.
"Hey, did you steal in my shop yesterday?"
"You have no proof!"
"Fuck, you only spent one silver coin, but I lost at least 20 pounds of fresh garlic, you still dare to deny it?"
“That's none of my business, I just bought garlic leaves and garlic stems separately, is there a problem?” The young man looked helpless.
"You!" Samuel could not say.
He instinctively felt that something was wrong with it, but he did not know where it was wrong.
"You yourself are negligent, blaming me instead. If it's true that I stole your garlic, there's no way I'd come buy some more vegetables at your place?"
"What's? You still dare to come buy vegetables?"
“Of course, I came here sincerely, where can you treat customers like this?” The young man deliberately showed dissatisfaction in order for the seller to feel his actions were a bit excessive.
Samuel took off the young man's collar, and said nothing with a grim face.
The young man took out one silver coin and said with a smile, "For a businessman, a customer is a king, you should always smile, come on, like yesterday ...."
As if a heavy object had fallen to the ground, a voice from outside the shop interrupted the young man's words.
What followed was a dialogue in a slow voice.
"Let me down."
"Do you still dare to play mysterious with me again?"
"No, I promise you."
Samuel and the young man rushed out and found that the one who spoke was a man and a woman.
The man was handsome and skinny, dressed like a noble, and the woman was wearing a beautiful deep red tight skirt, like a figure coming out of a painting.
"Who are you two?" ask Samuel.
“Teacher Syaiful, the person who will help answer your question.” Melyan smiled.
"Answering a question" Samuel was stunned for a moment, then said in shock. "Do you know who stole 10 pounds of garlic?"
Melyan nodded and pointed at the young man.
"He stole it, but in an open and honest way."
“I know you did it, son!” Samuel grabbed the young man's collar again.
“Hei, don't be careless.” The young man shouted, “You slandered me, freak, where did you come from? And you too, you've been rude to your customers, you've instead teamed up with this freak to slander me."
Seeing this, Melyan said, "Young man, please calm down, you still have time to admit your mistake now."
"I didn't make a mistake, I bought it with money, and he agreed."
Hearing these words, Samuel let go of his hand furiously.
"Teacher Syaiful, can you tell me what's wrong?"
"It's very simple. For example, if there is no difference between garlic leaves and garlic stems, garlic is still garlic, you cut it into two parts by any comparison, and sell each piece in pounds, will the price change?"
"Of course not, it still remains 10 copper coins per pound" Samuel replied immediately.
"Aren't garlic leaves and garlic stems both garlic? Why does the price change when it is cut? Although a pound of garlic leaves and a pound of garlic stems are not taken from two pounds of garlic, but what is the difference with two pounds of garlic? Why only sell for a pound?"
After listening to this sentence, two of the four people became confused.
The young man felt that if he did not escape now, he would not be able to escape again, and when the two were thinking desperately, he fled.
But he seemed to have forgotten that there were still people watching him. Just as he lifted his foot, Melyan quietly extended a foot, and the young man who had just taken a step immediately bounced onto the ground firmly.
What Melyan did retracted Samuel's mind, he ignored the questions that were not yet understood, he stepped forward, and grabbed the young man's collar again.
“Wah, now I know that you did it. I don't blame you. My stupidity gives you that chance, but don't let me see you in Yese City in the future, don't fool others with your cleverness."
"I know."
"Go quickly!"
"Then let go of your hand, brother."
Samuel was stunned for a moment, then let go of his hand and saw the young man rise from the ground. Samuel looked a little annoyed, so he lifted his leg and kicked him.
"Go there."
Over here, Melyan tilted her head and looked at the dazed Zulia.
"You still don't understand it?"
Zulia shook her head sadly.
"It's really hard for you." Melyan sighed.
The person who wrote the strategy also seemed to say that the priests and druids in his team could not answer this question either, so he changed his role to temporary math teacher, instead, it seemed that today he could not escape that fate either.
"Forget it, Master Syaiful's class has already opened. Uncle Samuel, do you have a pen and paper?"
"Have."
After the math class ended, it was late at night, the moon was hanging high in the sky, and there was not a single person on the cold streets.
Melyan promised Samuel to accompany her to the market tomorrow morning to buy things, and then returned to the room with Zulia who suddenly knew the answer.
Melyan was thinking about where she should sleep tonight, while Zulia was still immersed in a sea of mathematics.
"Hey, don't think about it, take a quick shower and get some sleep."
“Hey, where are the plans you promised? Why did you promise Uncle Samuel to go to the market tomorrow morning? Isn't our mission to go to the suburbs to solve the Flower of Hatred problem?” ask Zulia.
Melyan patted her forehead. "Yes, because of your outstanding acting skills today, I was forced to tell you. But before that, are you sure not to take a shower and change clothes? It seems I heard the sound of a torn cloth when you jumped with me."
Zulia opened her mouth wide, touched the back of her butt carefully, and rushed into the bathroom with a flushed face.
Melyan deliberately turned her head back, and saw a gap in the tight skirt that originally wrapped her round buttocks.
After drying her hair, when Zulia came out wearing a nightgown, she forgot that there was still Melyan in the room.
“I'm getting sloppy,” he thought.
But this time Melyan still saw nothing, because he was so tired, he lay down on the sofa and fell asleep.
His physique was very weak, and lately he had also suffered a lot, moreover he did not sleep well last night. Thinking of this, two red hues appeared on Zulia's face.
He walked slowly, trying to wake her up, but he stopped after extending his hand.
Melyan curled up like a ball from the cold, her hair was a mess, but showed a triumphant smile.
Thinking of Melyan's arrogant face in the math class earlier, Zulia suddenly felt angry.
"The arrogant man." She muttered softly and helped Melyan tidy up the messy hair on her face.
Perhaps from feeling itchy, Melyan frowned a few times, rolled over and fell back into deep sleep with a few rants coming out of his mouth.
Zulia was curious about what Melyan had just said, so she tried to listen carefully.
"Stupid girl."
After a brief silence, Zulia stood up with a cold face, and once again enjoyed the entire large bed alone.
This time he kept his sword in the middle of the bed.
