Chapter 38 02.0038: "Exchange questions for food, how delicious!"

"I'd like some fried pork with chili peppers, miss."

The girl stood aside and took notes in a small notebook.

She had never seen such a handsome boy in Zhongchao. People who came here to eat needed to do physical labor to a certain extent.

The girl couldn't help but take a few more glances at the rare guest, and because she was distracted, even her handwriting was erratic.

"'Bean blood jelly'?" Horatio looked at the picture of a drink that looked like tofu pudding, his brows raised and lowered, with a strange expression.

"Sir, this is made according to our family's secret recipe. You can try it! It's delicious and comes in both salty and sweet flavors." The girl introduced with a warm smile.

"Why do you call this 'bean blood jelly'?"

"Because it's made of beans, it looks like blood jelly and is very elastic!" the girl explained vividly.

Horatio thought for a moment: [Well, compared to tofu brain, the name of bean blood jelly seems to be more acceptable to people. After all, the imperial people probably don't dare to order something called "brain".]
"Give me one, sweet one."

"As you wish, sir."

The girl noted down the dishes with a beaming look on her face, and then at her recommendation, Horatio ordered two more dishes that looked tempting.

"That's all." Horatio closed the menu.

"The total after tax is 380 yuan, sir."

“Eh?! Is the consumption tax so high?”

Horatio noticed that the prices had suddenly increased a lot. He looked at the four dishes he ordered and recalculated in his mind. He found that the consumption tax was 33% of the total price!

I was instantly shocked by the heavy taxes on this planet.

"As the galactic war escalates, the supply routes have been severely disrupted. Now everyone's life is difficult. If the chaebols want to live comfortably, they have to suck blood from the people below, so..."

The girl's face was full of helplessness and she shrugged.

If it weren't for the prosperous business in Abyss Port, which allowed most people on the planet to get a piece of the pie, the dissatisfied people would probably have rebelled long ago.

However, even if they rebel, it will not work because the Shangchao people are the vested interests and they constitute the main body of the planetary defense force.

The only people from Zhongchao who could join were the coastal defense infantry of the Imperial Navy.

These redcoats are responsible for the defense of the naval prison area.

The Naval Supervision District is a special area throughout the Abyss Harbor Hive City, dedicated to serving the Imperial Navy. It is a feature unique to military port planets like Abyss Harbor.

Functionally, it is divided into a series of complex and rich support systems, including industrial production areas, logistics reserve areas, gun and artillery areas, aviation base areas, naval sanatorium areas, etc.

These areas are guarded by the Gothic Sector Admiralty's planetary defense forces, including Imperial Naval Aviation, armed sailors, Imperial Naval officers, and coastal defense infantry on mothballed or resting warships.

No one would dare to rebel against the Imperial Navy, not even the slightest thought. After all, it was not the Imperial Navy that oppressed them. Although liberalism prevailed in the navy, the Imperial Navy was notoriously strict in terms of military discipline.

As the famous saying goes: "The noose on the square and the nine-tailed whip in the hands of the petty officers maintain the majesty of the Imperial Navy and the authority of the captain."

"Although I have money now, with so many taxes, I don't know how long I can last. This is Sima's guild alliance!" Horatio cursed in his heart.

He still needs to make some money first to make the transition. He is not the type of person who would live off others.

"Sir, your bill is now 300 dollars after tax. I'll give you a cocktail." The girl grabbed the bill, the words on the tax section were almost torn by Horatio, and she walked forward with a wry smile and suggested.

"Thank you," Horatio sighed and smiled back.

A glass of wine can really make you feel better. "You can sit at the bar first, sir." After handing the order to her father, the girl placed a small folding card on Horatio's seat, then opened the small door and walked into the bar.

Horatio stood up and sat down on the chair in front of the bar.

"What would you like to order, sir? Anything on the brand will do."

Horatio looked at the exquisite drink sign, which looked like it was drawn by the girl herself, and it was quite well drawn.

"One drink..." He examined the sign, picked out the drink, looked into the girl's eyes, and said with a smile: "Sweet martini, less ice, thank you."

"Okay, please wait a moment, sir."

While ordering, Horatio caught a glimpse of glasses, books and exercises behind the bar. One of the geometry problems had many traces of erasures, and even the written part only proved part of it by inference, far from the relationship between the two sides required to be proved in the question.

[You really are a student. No wonder you were wearing glasses sitting in the back just now. It turns out you were doing homework.]
Education is obviously a normal thing, but in this cold, dark and strange world, it seems so out of place.

Although Horatio had never liked books and homework since he was a child, at this moment, he felt a familiar warmth in his heart.

[I don’t know what the education system on this planet is like.]
"Don't you know how to do this?" Horatio asked, looking at his homework book.

The girl who was about to make the cocktail was stunned at first, and when she realized what Horatio was asking, her face turned red.

"Ah... that question is difficult. I couldn't answer it after trying many times. I plan to ask the teacher when I'm at school." The girl explained awkwardly.

She still maintained her charming smile, but she didn't think Horatio could understand what was written there, because the people who came here were usually not well-educated or educated, and even if they were well-dressed, they were basically nouveau riche.

Horatio was silent for a moment as he looked at the question.

"Why don't you try to prove it from its diagonal parallel lines?" Horatio looked at the girl and said with a smile, pointing to the opposite direction figure that the girl had been proving for a long time.

The girl opened her eyes wide, quickly put on her round-framed glasses, and instantly entered study mode: "But aren't there fewer conditions over there?"

"This is intentional by the person who set the question."

Horatio pointed at the diagram and said, "On the surface, this question gives you so many conditions, just to attract you to solve the problem from the place with more conditions. The conditions given to you by the questioner are not used at the beginning at all."

"Really?" The girl's eyes widened, and she began to prove it starting from the pattern with the least conditions as Horatio said.

"Of course, we still need to be careful here, this graphic..."

Horatio held the wine glass, pointed at the graphics and patiently instructed the girl.

"Ah!" The girl seemed very surprised: "Sir, how do you know so much? It's amazing!"

Then her face turned red because she had previously guessed that the young man was the dandy young master of a nouveau riche family in Zhongchao.

It turns out that he is not only well-dressed and handsome, but also educated!
[Isn’t it amazing? I’m a certified master of Guteras and a regular Coast Guard law enforcement officer. I survived those years, let alone this little high school math?]
Horatio raised the corners of his mouth proudly and smiled without saying anything.

Of course he wouldn't tell the girl this, but the way she looked at him had unconsciously changed from shyness at first to a sparkle of admiration and incredible surprise.

"Next time you write questions like this, be careful not to fall into the trap set by the question setter."

"Since you taught me how to do the exercises, I will treat you to a dish as a thank you!" The girl said excitedly as she crossed out the price of the most expensive dish on the bill.

"Let's put it this way. It's not easy for you to make money. So, you better not..."

Without waiting for Horatio to refuse, the girl Wink glanced at him and ran away.

[What a well-educated girl.] Horatio sat in a comfortable position, smiling helplessly.

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