The Greece Antagonist-Chapter 827 - 24 Your Daughter is in My Hands
Chapter 827: Chapter 24 Your Daughter is in My Hands! Chapter 827: Chapter 24 Your Daughter is in My Hands! Half an hour later, inside the cabin.
Hela and Heluo each covered their red and swollen little bottoms, standing side by side miserably, like two reprimanded primary school students.
Luo En sat on the chair, tapping the rattan whip in his hand while asking coldly,
“Spill it, whose idea was it?”
“Heluo!”
Hela raised her hand and pointed decisively at the culprit beside her.
Betrayed by her ally, Heluo couldn’t help but get annoyed and scolded,
“You just sold me out? No loyalty!”
“The teacher asked me, of course, I have to tell.”
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Hela’s straightforward reply was as if it was the most natural thing in the world.
Hearing this extremely bootlicking comment, Heluo uncertainly touched her wolf ears, a murmur of doubt arising in her mind.
Really, who here is the canine?
Besides, this is my home, that’s my dad, if anyone should be bootlicking, it should be me first!
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“Hela was the one who moved her hand!”
Heluo didn’t hesitate to snitch as well, proactively confessing Hela’s crime while not forgetting to exonerate herself,
“It’s all because she wanted to find a Dwarf to forge a sword, we just helped out of kindness!”
“Is this how you help? Kidnapping someone’s daughter to lock her in a cellar, then forcing her to work for you?”
Luo En rebuked her with a dark face, again tempted to grab the “Filial Piety Whip” nearby.
Seeing this, Heluo quickly raised her voice in defense,
“Would we be that stupid? Just pay some money to redeem his daughter!”
Luo En got angry, “Isn’t that just kidnapping? Using the Dwarf’s money to pay for the sword forging, you’ve really outdone yourself, Heluo!”
Seeing the rattan whip in her father’s hand poised to strike again, Heluo immediately hid behind Hela, dodging while defending herself,
“A trade, it was a legitimate trade! We didn’t do anything bad!”
“You abducted someone over here and call it a legitimate trade?”
“Yeah, we said we’d treat them, didn’t say we’d pay! She stays here, eats our food, drinks ours, is it wrong to charge?”
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Struck with this confidently posed counter-question, Luo En was momentarily left speechless, lost in deep thought.
That actually makes sense…
No way!
Luo En furiously chastised Heluo for her twisted logic,
“You’re luring an underage Dwarf girl!”
“She’s thirty years old, older than me and Hela combined. She came willingly, how is that our fault?”
“What about the coercion in buying and selling?”
“Who told you not to give us money!”
Heluo, feeling even more aggrieved, recounted her experience full of resentment.
“You have no idea, those Dwarven craftsmen might be small in stature, but they sure have big appetites. Just forging two swords, and they’re already charging an arm and a leg!”
Luo En’s anger subsided a bit, and he hummed inquiringly,
“How much?”
“Twenty…”
“Twenty Gold Coins and you find it expensive? How’s that expensive?”
Luo En raised his voice, glaring at Heluo,
“If you drank less Honey Wine and bought fewer apples, wouldn’t you have enough?”
Heluo’s face darkened, and she added irritably,
“Not per, per cartload!”
…
In the silence, Luo En’s facial muscles twitched, and he then answered with feigned composure,
“That’s not much, can save up for it.”
“You’re paying?”
…
Luo En coughed dryly, his gaze shifting,
“Where were we? Oh right, your new friend is called Eden, right?”
“Stop playing dumb!”
Heluo looked contemptuously at her father, huffing with full resentment,
“Every year, the Harvest Festival’s donations from the village are embezzled by you, and we haven’t seen a single hair of it!”
“Nonsense! Haven’t I given you pocket money?”
Luo En retorted, his eyes wide and his neck stiff.
Hearing this, Heluo grew even angrier.
“Just a few mosquito legs, not even enough to buy apples and Honey Wine monthly, you find all sorts of reasons to deduct, what should I use to pay for Hela’s sword?”
Faced with his foster daughter’s accusations, Luo En coughed guiltily,
“Well, there’s nothing I can do, the humans of Midgard are just getting started, and compared to other races of the Nine Great Kingdoms, there’s a big civilization gap, money is needed everywhere, those donations have merely passed through my hands, not into my own pocket.”
“So, I’m taking your worries on myself, figuring out a way on my own to get the forging fee for Hela’s sword. In the end, one of you snitches on me, and the other one picks up the whip and beats me, no good deed goes unpunished…”
Heluo looked plaintively at the two before her, her expression one of seemingly heartbroken sorrow. However, despite waiting, no tears came.
Luo En paused for a moment and then reminded in a low voice,
“You can use fishy herb to make some eyedrops to carry around, try that next time.”
Hearing this brilliant idea, Heluo immediately lowered her arms, excitedly noted it in her little book.
Hela glanced at it and saw that it was packed with myriad notes.
Almost all of them were essence teachings directly from the God of Tricks…
Alright, now she understood why the father and daughter were so alike.
Then, Hela withdrew her gaze, furrowing her eyebrows to get the slightly derailed conversation back on track,
“So, what to do with Eden now? Send him back?”
“Send back? Let his dear dad ransom him! Paying for meals, repaying debts, that is the natural order of things, Odin himself would have to obey!”
Luo En declared righteously.
Immediately, Heluo’s face beamed with joy, flipping through her ledger, she started calculating Eden’s expenses during his stay.
One top-tier bed, eight hundred Gold Coins;
Two dishes of specialty dried fruits, seven hundred Gold Coins;
One jar of nectar, two hundred Gold Coins;
A variety of Magic Beast jerky offerings, three thousand Gold Coins…
Hela caught a glimpse, and her young heart was profoundly shocked.
That’s sheer extortion!
In a human market, all these items together might not even sell for a hundred Gold Coins.
