Gold is Justice

Chapter 55 The Toughest Contest

Well, Round Cheese became anxious all of a sudden, and immediately stepped forward to stop Airl who was about to turn around and leave in panic, and said in a panic: "Discussion! We can still discuss it, can't we? How about we discuss it again? Go ahead and discuss it?"

In his heart, Airl laughed out loud.

But on the surface, he continued to maintain a embarrassed expression: "But you see, I am usually busy with the guild, there are many things, so..."

dang dang-

Outside, there was a sudden knock on the door.

The mayor's wife went to open the door, and after a while, the chubby mayor's wife came to the office, looked at the mayor and said, "Honey, you have guests."

"guest?"

The mayor's wife stepped aside, and a bald man walked in.He was wearing a specially-made robe, and the back of the robe was carefully drawn with a pattern of gold coins supported by sea waves with silk thread.

"The tax collector, here we go to check the accounts. See you again this year, Mayor of Round Cheese. Are you ready for this year?"

Looking at this man who could be clearly identified as a tax officer, Ai Luo really had the urge to slap himself several times!

If you don't make a decision earlier, the result is that you won't get a single iron coin!

As he walked in, the middle-aged tax official seemed to be familiar with everything.

He glanced at Round Cheese, then walked over to the desk over there.

Arrow swore that this was the first time since he had met Round Cheese that he had seen such a frightened expression on the mayor's face.

The tax officer looked at the pile of ledgers in front of him, stretched out his hand and patted it lightly, but then withdrew his hand as if he had been burned, then turned his head, and looked at the round cheese with eyes that wished to kill someone.

"Haha, that...Master Tax Officer, why did you come so early this year? Isn't it usually around the end of October?"

Round Cheese had an interesting expression, but Airl was still in the pain of losing a silver coin just now.

The tax officer snorted, and said slowly: "Every time, your town's accounts are the messiest. I don't understand. Your town has such a small population. Why do you make the accounts so messy every year? Looks like a headache? So I might as well come here earlier this time and clear up your town first. After finishing your work here, my next journey will be much easier."

Having said that, when the tax official looked back at the books that were obviously arranged randomly on the table, he obviously had an expression of extreme pain.

Arrow knew that he should leave now.At the moment, he walked to the desk silently, hoping to put the ledger on the desk unobtrusively by virtue of his short stature.

Unfortunately, before he stretched out his hand, the tax officer stared at him directly.

"Ah you are……"

"Oh! This is the newly opened adventurer's guild in Pelican Town - the guild leader of Mermaid Song, Airo Garcia! President Airo, let me introduce you, this is our respected tax official !"

Ai Luo chuckled a little bit, and once again planned to stuff the ledger into the pile of ledgers in a low-key way.

"My lord tax collector, don't look at President Arrow's young age, but he is a talented graduate of the Old Tengshu Academy! Isn't that right? I'm also planning to entrust him to help me sort out these books, so that I can easily A lot!"

"Old Tengshu Academy?"

Apparently, the taxman cared more about Arrow's graduate school than sorting out the ledgers.

As soon as he heard the name, he immediately looked at Airl with a little respect.

It's a pity, the last thing Arrow wants now is attention. He just hopes that his little ledger can be quietly mixed into these messy ledgers, and then slip away quietly!

"Sure enough, the students of the old Tengshu Academy are amazing, so they can become the president of a guild at such a young age? Sigh, I want my son to take the exam too, but he can't pass the exam. Screened out 90.00% of nine people, right?"

The tax officer strode over, picked up the ledger that Ai Luo had just put down, then opened it and glanced at it, and said with even more admiration: "This is really well written! And the ledger looks very clear, and the format also looks very good. Comfortable. Mayor of Round Cheese, are you sure you will hand over your accounts this time to this old Tengshu Academy graduate?"

Round Cheese froze for a moment, and immediately looked at Airl with a look of pleading for help.

Airl is on pins and needles now, but he still has to keep calm on his face, just smiled and said: "I...do my best?"

Round cheese overjoyed!Immediately, he took out the two silver coins he had put in just now, and patted them into Airl's hands.Then, he looked relaxed as if he had finally solved the problem, and he looked carefree and relaxed.

And Ai Luo looked at the two silver coins in his hand, then looked at the account book as high as the mountain over there and the account book of his own guild in the hands of the tax official, and really began to regret why he was greedy for this money and stayed here with the mayor. bargain?If you put down the ledger earlier and just run away, nothing will happen, right?

But since this is the case now, there is no choice but to bite the bullet.

Airl kept his smile on his face again, stepped forward and said, "My lord tax officer, since I will sort out these bills, why don't you go to Honglu Town and Kingfisher Town next door to check taxes first? You Come back in a few days, and I'll sort out our town's bills and give them to you."

"No, no, no."

The tax officer said with a relaxed smile——

"This is just right. Since Chairman Airl is sorting out the taxes of Pelican Town, then I will check the income of Mermaid Song during this period. After I finish sorting it out, I should rest for a day or two. Get the full report from President Arrow."

Taxed separately?

This doesn't seem right?

Ai Luo became nervous, and quickly asked: "Why... do you do it this way? Hasn't the tax been collected and paid together with the tax in the whole city? I remember that it was done like this before... "

The tax officer nodded, with a slightly annoyed expression on his face, and said, "That's right. In the past, the adventurer's guild's taxes could indeed be counted and paid directly in the entire town. But this year it's different."

"Last month, the empire just promulgated a new decree. If it is required to pay taxes in the future, it must separate the income of the adventurer's guild from the income of the town, and it cannot be settled in a unified way. It seems to prevent the adventurer's guild from tax evasion and black market transactions. , money laundering and the like.”

With a buzzing sound, Arrow's head felt like someone had slapped him hard with a stick.

The tax officer turned his anger into a smile, and said cheerfully: "But I believe that it is absolutely impossible for a high-achieving student from the Old Tengshu Academy to do such a thing, right?"

Looking at the sincere and envious smile of the tax official, Airl could barely send a little smile from the corner of his mouth.

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The members of Mermaid Song discovered a very wonderful thing today.

For a long time, their president has always been very energetic in front of everyone, controlling the overall situation, and has a confident expression on many things, with an expression of victory.

But now, the president is like a student who has made a mistake, sitting very cautiously on the seat in the rest area in the corner of the guild.There are a lot of accounts and power of attorney for previous tasks on the table, and the somewhat bald middle-aged man is holding these things and checking the accounts one by one.

Because of the "extremely weak" aura displayed by his own president, even Ke Ke didn't dare to go out.She shrank behind the stairs, peeked out her head and glanced over there, and said softly, "Vice President, who is that person...why is it that Brother President doesn't seem to be able to hold his head up in front of this person at all?" How does it look?"

Brad stroked his chin and said as if he was thinking: "Is that the president's father? Well, thinking about it carefully, it seems that I have never seen the president's father. The president will be so reserved. , this person must be the president's father, right?"

Cream, however, lightly pushed Brad's stomach with his elbow, and said with a sneer, "What father? You think too much. Let me see, this man must be the president's teacher! Didn't you see this on him? The material of this dress? It’s so silky and smooth, it’s a very high-quality material! And the appearance of the sea waves holding up the gold coins behind it must be the teacher of the chairman’s economics department! Now it’s time to impart experience!”

Buffy pricked up her ears: "Then, we, do, what?"

Cream: "Does that matter? We must show absolute respect. Let this teacher know that his students are managing the entire guild very well!"

Brad frowned: "I still think it might be Dad..."

Napa couldn't listen anymore, it yawned, floated over and said: "Don't worry about it, go to work. If you don't have a task, go to the back to practice. You should practice strength, you should practice magic, you should practice magic. The speed of exercise is the speed of exercise, why do you like to shrink here and gossip so much?"

Over there, Airl felt smoke coming from his throat!Seeing how the tax official was checking it carefully, he still suppressed the fear in his heart and said with a smile: "Excuse me...why did you suddenly promulgate a new law this year? Wouldn't this add to the burden of tax officials? Is it a workload?"

"Who says it's not?" The tax officer put down the books and power of attorney in his hand, rubbed his shoulders and said, "There are only a few tax officers, and we have to travel all over the country in one quarter to calculate all the taxes. It is not easy to be clear, and now there is this method that needs to be calculated separately for the guild. Sigh... I can only say that our royal family is very far-sighted. Oh, my mouth is dry."

"Father! Please drink tea!" The tax official just finished speaking, Ke Ke suddenly rushed over with a teacup, and put the tea in front of the tax official stiffly.

Just because he was too nervous, this title made Airl feel very embarrassed.

"Uh...uh? What did you call me?"

When the tax officer was confused, Airl glared at his necromancer, and whispered, "Who told you to come out? Get down! Don't make trouble for nothing!"

He was suddenly stared at by Ai Luo, which made Ke Ke feel aggrieved.She wanted to argue something, but after meeting Ai Luo's eyes again, she still held back her stomach, and could only walk towards others with an aggrieved face.After standing in front of Napa, the little girl's tears finally rolled down without disappointment.

Chapter 56 An Embarrassing Decree

Ai Luo didn't have time to deal with this little girl's emotions. The guild leader put on a smile again and said: "The members of our guild are not sensible, please don't mind the tax officer. Speaking of which, when you are so busy It is really troublesome to promulgate this law. Why did such a law come out suddenly?"

The tax officer took a sip of water, looked at the account book in his hand, and said, "Although I don't know the exact thing, I heard that it was due to some adventurer's guilds messing around. The guild was operating well, but some guild leaders started to They tried their best to evade taxes, laundered money, and even engaged in smuggling activities. You said, facing such a guild, how could the empire not think of a way to rectify it?"

Airl's body twitched involuntarily. It was clearly autumn and the temperature in the guild was very suitable, but he started to sweat profusely on his forehead as if he was under a hot day.

The tax officer looked up at Airl, and said curiously, "Huh? President Airl, what's wrong with you? Is it hot?"

"Ah, it's okay! I'm more prone to heat and sweat."

Airl quickly waved his hand and fanned the fan, and continued: "So, this bill is quite interesting, in order to minimize the crime problems of those guilds..."

The tax officer continued to lower his head to check these books: "It is indeed very effective, and as soon as this decree came out, a large number of guilds filed for bankruptcy immediately, and the speed was even faster than we went to check! Many guilds even Received the decree today, dismissed all guild members tomorrow, and closed their doors and packed up and ran away the day after tomorrow. From what I have heard and known, there are about five or six of them.”

Having said that, the tax official suddenly raised his head to look at Ai Luo in front of him, his eyes became sharp involuntarily: "Speaking of which...President Ai Luo, there shouldn't be any problems in this regard, right?"

Airl twitched again, quickly shook his head with a smile and said, "How?! How is this possible?! Hahaha, how could I do such a thing?"

The tax officer also laughed immediately, nodded and said: "Of course, how could the students of the Old Tengshu Academy do such a thing? I am completely, absolutely at ease with President Ai Luo! And my review this time It's just a formality, please rest assured, I will check it out soon!"

It's really scary!

Facts have proved that as long as there are criminals, they will involuntarily break out in cold sweat when facing these pickets.

Ai Luo couldn't help thinking, what if he was suddenly found out this time, and the stolen money and his money laundering were found out?This is not something that can end with a simple joke.

If it doesn't work out, my guild career will really come to an end!

Arrow clutched his chest and took two big gulps of air to calm himself down.I just hope that I can try my best to moderate my expressions and movements, and not look too exaggerated.

"President, are you uncomfortable today? Why do you look so stiff?"

To the tax collector, it was not surprising that Arrow, who had just met today, behaved well.But Brad on the side walked over with great kindness, looking at his president with a worried expression——

"May I pour you a glass of water?"

"(softly) leave me alone!"

Brad was kind, but Arrow wanted to kick him away.

After blasting Brad away, he turned his head again, but when he saw that the tax officer was looking at him now, he couldn't help but stiffen again.

"Are you... not feeling well today?"

The tax collector put down his pen and ledger, and looked at Airl with concern.

"No, no, no! No discomfort! Everything is fine! Very comfortable!"

Ai Luo laughed a little, but he suddenly found that his voice began to tremble.

"Oh..." the tax officer looked down at the account book in his hand again, but only a second later, he raised his head again and looked at Airl with a serious face, "President Airl, do you have something to do?" Hiding it from me? Or... is there something ulterior in your account book?"

"Hahaha! My lord tax official, you really caught my eye."

For the shortcomings created by the pig teammates, Ai Luo can only make up for it with his acting skills as much as possible.He spread his hands and said helplessly——

"I do have some things to worry about, and you know that too."

"I know too?" The tax official put down his pen, hesitantly.Arrow nodded: "Yes, it's the job of the mayor of the round cheese that I just took over. As you can imagine, it's quite a rush to sort out so many bills in just seven days But I am now...hehe, I am really sorry, I am accompanying you to verify our guild's account books, I just think that time is passing, and there are fewer working hours, so I feel a little anxious..."