Chapter 89: The difference between Slaves and Helpers (2/2)
Ka Di and Lang Lang showed a happy face, Lang Lang hit his beard with a stick, very cheeky and said: “Can you prepare some kind of reddish particles for us?”
Yan Mo laughed, “ Yes. But, should we also talk about the issue of compensation?”
“Compensation?” Ka Di and Lang Lang apparently have not heard the word, but they understand the meaning of Yan Mo word.
”You said that you would love to repay me, and I am a very practical person. I don't like to wait for it. I hope that this reward will be honored as soon as possible.”
The two dwarfs looked at each other again. They thought that Yan Mo looked very good, and he thought that the other party would not ask for a pay from them so straightforwardly.
”But we have sent a lot of combs to you, a lot!” Lang Lang added with a grieving tone.
”Those combs? How much do you want, I can make people make a lot of them for you tomorrow, maybe not so good-looking, but absolutely durable, I can even make people use the corners and bones of the beast to make combs corners for you.”
“Can the horns and bones be made into a comb?” Lang Lang was surprised, then waved his hand. “Oh, this is not the point. Dear Priest Da Ren, before we came, you didn’t have a comb, you can’t take it from us. The things you take are yours.”
”Good, if that's the case, let's take a closer look.” Yan Mo picked up the slate that had been prepared on the table and gave the dwarf a stroke.
The dwarves touched their noses. The four guards around Yan Mo stared at them as if they were afraid of them dwarfs running away.
“First of all, the price of the stone house we provided, the one-night accommodation for the corner building cost an adult sheep, and the one night in the tower cost an adult cow. We have provided you with four turrets and one tower, one night for four sheep, you lived here for 16 days, that is sixty-four sheep and sixteen cows.”
Yan Mo painted the stick figure of the sheep and the cow on the slate, and wrote 64 under the sheep, under the cow he wrote 16.
”What! Why are there so many!” Lang Lang jumped up from his chair and screamed.
”Not much, you are two hundred and six people. I didn't calculate the accommodation fee for you. It is already very difficult for you to understand.” Yan Mo smiled.
”Come back,”
”Accommodation!” Lang Lang continued to scream.
”Of course. Accommodation is accommodation, food is another thing. You two hundred and six people in this 16 days have eaten more than 2,000 fat fish, the equivalent of four hundred adult sheep, and a lot of wild vegetables. . ”
”How could we eat so many ...... ”Lang Lang scratched his head.
”That's because you didn't pay attention to it. You have about eight people eating one sheep a day. The amount of food is actually not big.” Yan Mo added a picture of fish and vegetables on the slate, and the numbers are of course detailed.
“Because hunting, fishing, picking wild vegetables requires us to take risks, we also provide a lot of dry wood and clean water, oh, and the most precious salt. You think our hot soup and barbecue are delicious put nothing. It is delicious because we put the most precious thing in my tribe, red salt. These salt would cost an addition of 16 adult cows.”
Lang Lang opened his mouth and couldn’t say anything.
Ka Di looked down and didn't know what to think.
Yan Mo was still calculating. ”Those combs...they are as precious as you said, but can they heal your people? You came with nearly 90 injured people, five of them were seriously injured, there are people who were sick. We not only give you treatment, but I also prayed for you personally, so that your seriously injured people will recover in an instant, without letting them die. Just a comb is equal a good person, you have sent a total of sixty combs, then more than twenty people are going to count separately? This time we don’t want combs, we can calculate them according to food. We will only collect one sheep for the injured, and for five seriously injured ones will count one cow. This is already taking care of you.” The two dwarves looked at the slate on the table and the numbers and felt dumb.
”The most important thing is my lecture. You are not my tribe, but you came to listen to my course. It is the inheritance given to me by the ancestors. People who are not from the Jiu Yuan tribe cannot learn. You have come to my class and you should be very clear know how valuable is the knowledge I teach. One lesson, one cow, sixteen days, plus the number of people you listen equals a total of one thousand cows.”
Yan Mo looked at the two angry men's slightly angry eyes, faintly said: ”This price you definitely earned it, such valuable knowledge, I believe that as long as people understand their value, even with the wealth of the entire tribe to exchange these sixteen days. The course will be cost-effective. If it weren't for me thinking that you were very good, I would never agree to let you walk into my classroom.”
Lang Lang and Ka Di did not refute Yan Mo's words because they also know the value of the knowledge, though it was only sixteen days, but they really learned a lot and were greatly inspired. If they can, they even want to continue learning, but...
Yan Mo erected the slate. ”After calculation, you now owe us 1037 cows, 490 sheep, 2420 fat fish, 3135 wild vegetables. How are you going to pay these? We don't accept combs and other things we don't need.”
Lang Lang and Ka Di were completely dumb. This is the good person they thought! They thought that these big fools were very warm and hospitable, and they were very good at being kind. They were afraid to leave for a long time. These people disliked them and fed them more, and asked them to repay them accordingly. As a result, people already remembered the accounts.
Lang Lang and Ka Di didn't know the word accounting before, but now they don't even want to say the word, but they have a deep understanding of what it means.
”Our Leader said, you can use slaves to work...”
Yan Mo said nothing, the two dwarves screamed together, Lang Lang stood in a chair and shouted: ”We can't make our people turn into you slave! No! Do you want to go to war? Come on, we are not afraid of you!”
The four guards saw Lang Lang’s move, and immediately pointed the spear to him and stared at them with vigilance.
Ka Di also wants to express something, but after hearing Lang Lang shouting that he wants to go to war, she suddenly turned to look at him.
”War? Yes. But before the war, you still need to pay off the debt first. I believe that the smart, hardworking, kind and sincere MoMo are different from the monsters that attacked you. You will never be as shamelessly greedy as those monsters.”
Going to war? The four guards couldn't understand the words shouted by the dwarves, but they could understand the words from Priest Da Ren. When the dwarfs said that they were going to fight, one of the guards immediately nodded to the other three and quickly ran away. He was going to tell the leader the things that happened.
Shortly after the guard left, a team of patrolling warriors who got the news rushed to protect Priest Da Ren and surrounded the two dwarves.
Fortunately, this is in the tower, no one else sees it, otherwise...
Lang Lang still wants to argue for war but Ka Di slappee her Tribe Chief's with a fist and yelled: ”You shut the hell up!”
Ka Di turned and calmed down her emotions and gave a tribute to Yan Mo. ”Respected Priest Da Ren, I think if you need only a slave, you will not agree to let us walk into your classroom, and you will not be so kind to us so please tell me, what do you want us to pay the MoMo debt? We can't get you the cows and sheep you calculated.”
Yan Mo also gave her a calm look “Respected Ancestral Witch Da Ren, Your calmness and wisdom have always left me admiring you. But I think you misunderstood, I don't want to make The MoMo Clan do anything, I don't need your rewards, I just treat your staying here as a transaction, so more simple. Now that my tribe has provided what you need, then you only need to pay for the transaction at our price. I can assure you that the price of the transaction I submitted is absolutely fair, and you only need to calculate it carefully to arrive at the same conclusion.”
Ka Di knew that Yan Mo was telling the truth, those numbers of cattle and sheep fish dish looks horrible, but as long as calculated according to the arithmetic able Priest, you will find he did not increase the amount and made it unreasonable. The reason that there will be so much pay is because they have too many people and they eat more.
Ka Di bitterly said: ”You should have had explain your trading price at the beginning.” Then we would have eaten less, and we will not rush to listen to others lessons.
”Because you said you want to repay, I thought you were mentally prepared. If you really can't provide so much food, you can exchange it with other equivalents.”
”We have...nothing.”
”Yes, that's too. It is bothering, but please rest assured that the Jiu Yuan tribe follows the gods of the ancestors, we will not let the tribes become slaves.”
She heard that the Jiu Yuan tribe will not have slaves, and Lang Lang and Ka Di were obviously relieved.
Yan Mo put down the slate and smiled: ”If your tribes can't pay equal trade items when they trade, then they can also choose to be a helpers. Helpers are the ones helping the trading partners to do something to pay off debts, such as helping the other party make animal skin or stone, or help the other party to go hunting, look after children, barbecue, make tents, etc.”
Ka Di frowned, Lang Lang yelled in anger: “What is the difference between letting us be helpers and be slaves?”
“Of course....There is a difference.” Yan Mo signaled the patrol and the guards to take up the weapons. “The slaves will never be free unless they have permission from the owner. They will never eat enough, they will not wear warm clothes, they will have to work every day. But the helpers only help the debtors. Usually, they are free. They can work as long as they are able to work, and when the work is completed, the debt will be over.”
The dwarves were immersed in contemplation.