Chapter 529 High Threshold
Guiyum returned to Barris City without any incident and met the landlord downstairs of the rented house.
This three-story building belongs to a baker. The landlord bakes and sells bread on the first floor. He lives on the top floor, and the second floor is rented out to outsiders like Guiyoum.
There is a toaster on the first floor. The house on the second floor is very hot in summer, but it can save a lot of firewood for heating in winter.
The landlord is twenty years old this year. His parents retired last year and returned to live with relatives in the countryside, so he officially inherited the family business.
It's just that he can't handle it alone, and the store is in urgent need of a landlady.
The landlady has basically made an appointment. The youngest daughter of the tailor's family in the next street is seventeen years old and is waiting for the landlord to propose.
The landlord was a thoughtful young man. He gave Guiyum a gold coin that he had saved through frugality and asked him to bring back something beautiful as a proposal when he went to the Principality of Wesson. gift.
Jiyoum’s backpack is very large. The innermost part is a leather box containing documents such as a power of attorney to sue, and the gifts he bought for the landlord are also in it.
“Hiss…” The landlord was startled when he opened the jewelry box, “Isn’t this expensive?”
The box contained a set of jewelry made of colored crystal glass, including necklaces, earrings, bracelets and hairpins. They were a bit dazzling under the noon sun and could not be bought with two or three gold coins in Barris City.
Guiyum said with a smile: "The gentleman I went to this time works in the glass factory of the Principality of Wesson. I bought it at the factory price, and I bought you a set with the extra money. Clothes, but you still owe me a few copper seeds."
He said and took out a blue blacksmith uniform and a pair of white cloth shoes, which are sold very cheaply in the Principality of Wesson.
The landlord's eyes widened. He had wanted a set of clothes and shoes like this for a long time, but he had never dared to spend it in order to save money for his wedding. Unexpectedly, Jiyoum bought it for him in just one trip. .
The few copper seeds he owed was not a big deal. I went back and gave him a few loaves of bread that had just been baked this morning. The price was much higher than the few copper seeds.
Guiyum returned to his room. There was only one bed and one cabinet. The low table on the bed was used for eating and writing. There was a popular briquette stove in the corner, and a blanket hung on the chimney that stretched out the window.
He put his backpack on the ground, put the bread on the low table, threw himself on the soft bed, and took a deep breath.
Before he left, he paid the tenant in the next room to clean him every ten days and open the windows for ventilation. After leaving for more than half a year, the room was still quite clean and there was no smell.
This bed was not made of wooden boards. Guiyum could not afford large wooden boards at the time. Instead, he found a few broken fishing nets and stacked them up and tied them to the bed frame. It was a bit elastic and soft when lying on it. Almost.
The nerves that were tense during the long journey suddenly relaxed, and soon there was the sound of snoring in the room.
The noise of the bread-buying customers downstairs woke Guiyoum up. He found that the sky was dim outside the window, and he slept until the next morning.
His body suddenly shivered, his hands quickly touched his body, and finally he breathed a sigh of relief.
Guillaume took off his clothes and wore a "travel vest" underneath. There was a palm-sized pocket on the vest with several buttons at the mouth, which contained the items that Frederick had funded him last year. of checks.
He had been resting in his room that day. At the same time, he went downstairs to get some plant ash, then went to a nearby well to fetch water, washed all his clothes, and squeezed out the water while baking bread downstairs. clothes spread on the floor.
The next day, Guiyoum returned to school and asked the school to cancel his leave.
It is very common these days for students who are halfway through their studies and have no money to ask for leave to work. The school leaders knew what they were going to do, so they held their noses and approved the leave according to the rules, but it was difficult for them to come back.
The school's senior management has made a decision. When Guiyum comes back, he will be asked to provide proof that he can pay the remaining tuition fees at once, otherwise he will be asked to get out.
Guillaume did not talk nonsense with them, and directly placed nine gold coins on the table. Most of them were florin gold coins from the Principality of Wesson, and a few were Rivre gold coins from the Kingdom of Gaul. These gold coins were funded by his senior brothers in his lawsuit, but they did not prevent him from showing them off and pretending they were his own money.
The school had no choice but to pinch their noses again and let him re-enroll.
This matter was just an unimportant trivial matter to Guiyum, and he didn't take it to heart. There were more important things waiting for him.
This afternoon, Guiyum brought the cowhide box to a tavern, which was their stronghold.
There were many students in the pub today, but the air was heavy and no one spoke. Many people drank beer or water in silence.
The arrival of Guiyum brought some smiles to everyone, but many people became dejected.
He asked a good friend: "Reno, what's wrong with everyone?"
"Alas..." Renault sighed, "The court has come up with a new trick. Suing a noble requires a huge deposit, if it is a false accusation."
Guiyum thought that this was indeed the case, and asked : "How much deposit do we need to pay for this case?"
Reno held out two fingers.
Guillaume said: "I have received a lot of funding here. I think it will be no problem for everyone to chip in two hundred livres."
Reno shook his head and said: "It's two hundred livres." Thousands of livres ”
Guiyum's eyes suddenly widened.
At the same time, in the Noble Court of Barris City, two judges, Count Feret and Sir Javert, were enjoying afternoon tea.
None of the judges in the noble court wanted to take on this case that offended a large number of nobles, so in the end they had no choice but to draw lots to decide the person in charge of the case.
There were fifteen judges in the court. When the lot was drawn, there were seven cards in the box with Count Ferret's name written on them. Who made his backstage almost run away with his family to Weissenburg to give Francois Silk cures diseases.
Sir Javert felt that he was the worst off, so he was assigned to Count Ferret as an assistant judge the day before the lot was drawn.
"This is a good method, sir!" Javel flattered the leader, "They can't prosecute this time, and they won't be able to prosecute similar cases in the future."
He and Feret are now the same. A grasshopper tied to a piece of grass will prosper and lose.
Feret smiled proudly, picked up the tea cup and took a slow sip of tea.
He knew that he had been cheated, but it was irreversible, and he kept thinking about ways to break the situation.
The easiest way to avoid offending the gentleman in this lawsuit is to prevent the students from suing. The students' weakness is that they have no money, so he starts with money.
Therefore, Ferret promoted a new bill in a short period of time. Civilians need to pay a high deposit to sue nobles. It is called the prohibition of false accusations. In fact, it sets a high security deposit for such cases that is prohibitively high for civilian plaintiffs. reach the threshold.
This bill is very effective. They heard that those students are very disappointed these days.
Ferret deliberately arranged the time when the bill was announced and came into effect, specifically selecting those students who had gone out to collect indictments. When they came back one after another, many people were caught off guard, and their morale plummeted.
(End of this chapter)