Lord of Arcane

Chapter 3244: First Experience with Digital Blue Gold Coin
In fact, Mary was overthinking about welfare. In reality, the Government Affairs Department deliberately spread such rumors in order to encourage the residents of Linshui Community to send their children to school on their own initiative.

The current citizens of Daxia are very happy to send their children to learn magic, especially when there is no tuition fee. But if they cannot learn magic, then in the minds of most people, recognizing words is enough.

Don't think too much about the rest.

Although this idea is gradually changing, because learning itself is a process of broadening horizons, and people are curious about the unknown, the change of concepts cannot be accomplished overnight.

Even now, there are still parents in Linshui community who want to keep their children by their side to do housework or to learn a craft as apprentices. That is why the Government Affairs Department deliberately spread the rumor that students from Linshui Primary School can directly enter Linshui Junior High School.

In fact, there are similar rumors in the new villages outside Linshui Town. In Xiaduo’s plan, primary school students can directly go to junior high school, but there are not enough resources now, and it is impossible to directly announce that all children of school age will have access to education.

For Mary and her husband, their daughter is everything to them. Even if there were no rumors of direct admission to junior high school, they would still send Jasmine to school. After all, going to school is a sure way to make progress.

Otherwise, we can only wait until Jasmine is sixteen years old and participate in the summer recruitment of new members in the Tower of Time during the melting snow. However, the territory is developing so fast, who knows what changes will be made to the recruitment rules by then?

Therefore, any parent who truly cares about the good of their children and has foresight will send their children to school as early as possible. Only short-sighted parents will think that they can make a lot of money by having their children do a few more days of work at home.

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Linshui Primary School.

It is only separated from the Linshui community where Jasmine lives by a road. Of course, this is the shortest distance. Jasmine's home is still some distance away from the school, but she doesn't feel it is far at all.

Because when she was younger, she dared to go to the scrapyard alone to collect firewood. Now, this short distance only made her sweat a little.

"Mom, hurry up!"

The energy of a young child who has great expectations of going to school is very terrifying, and as an adult, Mrs. Mary also felt that she could not keep up with her daughter's pace.

"Walk slowly, it's still early!" Mrs. Mary called to her daughter from behind.

But Jasmine's agile steps showed no intention of stopping. She just moved forward and then backward, like a lively little butterfly flying up and down around her mother.

Soon, the two of them arrived near the school, and only then did they see other children and their parents. At this time, Mrs. Mary finally had time to say:

"See, I told you it was still early!"

Considering the large number of people and also worried about bumping into the school teachers, Mrs. Mary didn't dare let Jasmine run around this time. Instead, she just held her daughter's hand and went to the registration office according to the instructions on the school signs.

She would greet familiar neighbors on the way and call them "uncle, aunt, brother, sister" very politely. Of course, she was also often called sister by younger children.

However, the age limit for primary school admission is between 10 and 15 years old. Jasmine is only 11 years old this year, and there are very few children who call her sister. This makes Jasmine a little unhappy, but when she thinks that she will have more brothers and sisters in a few years, she becomes happy again.

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Registration place.

"You are Jasmine's parent, right? Show me your ID card."

After Jasmine presented her ID card, Mrs. Mary was also asked to provide her ID card. This is a necessary step, not only to confirm the identity of the parents, but also to enrich the usage scenarios of the ID card.

Mrs. Mary learned these details from a community notice a few days ago. She quickly took out her ID card and showed it to the staff at the registration office instead of handing it to them.

This is not a detail of the community notification, but one of the contents regularly publicized in communities and factories where public security is located. That is, you do not need to hand over your ID card in any occasion or in front of anyone, you only need to show key information.

At the same time, any behavior that requires an ID card, including that of security guards, is illegal. If you find or encounter it, you can report it and there will be rewards for reporting.

The staff at the registration office had obviously heard about the relevant publicity. Even though it would be more convenient to take Mary's ID card and copy the information on it, he did not reach out to take it.

Instead, write a paragraph, look up, then write the next paragraph, and finally double-check to see if there are any errors.

When he saw the small square on Mary's ID card that glowed even in broad daylight, he couldn't help but wonder, "Isn't this a digital account that was only tested within the military? How do you have it too?"

This was not the first time that the virtual balance on the ID card had been tested, but it was mostly done within the military before. Mrs. Mary did not look like a soldier, so the staff member was very surprised.

"My husband is in the territory guard. He came back last night and transferred some money to me, which activated this function. I really don't know what it was like before." Mary said truthfully. There was nothing to hide.

At least her husband didn't let him hide it.

But upon hearing this, the staff member in charge of registration immediately shouted in annoyance, "I understand, I understand everything, I was wondering why that guy suddenly avoided me recently!"

Noticing the strange looks from Mary and others around, the staff member quickly explained: “The guy I’m talking about is not Madam Mary’s husband, but a clerk in the Government Affairs Office.

"My family runs a clothing store on East Second Street. When the ID card digital account was tested before, my store was selected as a test merchant, but now it seems that another round of testing has started, and I haven't received any news."

At this point, the staff member's face suddenly fell. He spread his hands and said helplessly: "I'm afraid my store can't keep up with this test. The clerk I know may be avoiding me because he is afraid that I will ask about this!"

This is really a sad story. People around him did not understand the significance of testing merchants, but this staff member himself was very clear about it. During the previous round of testing, his store's turnover at least doubled.

Not only did they gain a group of specific customers, but these extra customers also attracted other customers. If you add up the total, his family probably earned nearly two thousand extra gold coins in that one-month test.

This is no small amount!

Perhaps this is the real reason why his company failed to be selected into the list of test merchants this time!

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After the little episode, Jasmine successfully completed the enrollment registration and received two very nice sets of clothes called "school uniforms", and then was told she could go home.

"There are quite a lot of people here today. We need to register everyone before we can divide them into classes. You can come back tomorrow. We should be able to start classes tomorrow."