Very good, Round Cheese suddenly became anxious, and immediately stepped forward to stop Ai Luo who was about to leave with a panic look on his face, and said in a panic: "Discuss! We can still discuss it, right? How about we discuss it again?"

Continue, let’s discuss it?”

In his heart, Ai Luo already laughed out loud.

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

Dangdangdang——

Outside, there was a sudden knock on the door.

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

"guest?"

The mayor's wife gave way, and a man with a somewhat bald head walked in. He was wearing a special robe, with a pattern of waves holding up gold coins carefully painted on the back of the robe with silk thread.

"Tax officer, here to check the accounts. We meet again this year, Mayor Round Cheese. Are you ready for this year?"

Looking at this man who was clearly a tax collector, Ai Luo really had the urge to slap himself hard!

If you don't make the decision early, you will not get a single iron coin!

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

He glanced at the round cheese and then walked to the desk over there.

Arrow swore that this was the first time since he met Round Cheese that he saw the mayor showing such a frightened expression.

The tax official looked at the pile of account books in front of him, stretched out his hand and patted it gently, but then he pulled back as if he was burned, then turned his head and looked at the round cheese with a look that wanted to kill someone.

"Haha, um... Mr. Tax Officer, why did you come so early this year? Doesn't it usually arrive around the end of October?"

Round Cheese's expression was very interesting, but Arrow was still immersed in the pain of just losing a silver coin.

The tax official snorted and said slowly: "Every time, your town's accounts are the most messy. I don't understand, your town has such a small population, why you can make the accounts so messy every year.

Do you have a headache? So I might as well come earlier this time and clear up your town first. After finishing here, my next journey will be much easier."

Although he said this, when the tax official looked back at the account books that were obviously arranged randomly on the table, he obviously had a very painful expression.

Arrow knew that he should leave now. At that moment, he silently walked to the desk, hoping that with his short stature, he could place the account book on the desk inconspicuously.

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

"Ah you are……"

"Oh! This is the guild president of our newly opened adventurer guild in Pelican Town - Mermaid Song, Airo Garcia! President Airo, let me introduce to you, this is our respected tax collector.

!”

Ai Luo chuckled and once again planned to quietly insert the account book in his hand into the pile of accounts.

"Master Tax Officer, don't look at President Arrow's young age, but he is a top graduate of Lao Teng Shu College! Isn't that right? I am also planning to entrust him to help me sort out these account books, so that I can easily

That’s a lot!”

"Lao Teng Shu Academy?"

Apparently, the tax collector cared more about Arrow's graduation college than sorting out his books.

As soon as he heard the name, he looked at Ai Luo with a look of respect.

What a pity. The last thing Ai Luo wants right now is attention. He just hopes that his little account book can be quietly mixed in these messy accounts, and then slip away quietly!

"Sure enough, the students of Lao Teng Shu Academy are amazing. How can they become the president of a guild at such a young age? Alas, I also want my son to take the exam, but he can't pass it no matter what. Just the entrance exam I heard is...

Ninety-nine percent of the people have been screened out, right?"

The tax officer strode over, picked up the account book that Ai Luo had just put down, and then opened it and took a look, even more admiring: "The writing is really great! And the account looks very clear, and the format also looks very good.

Comfortable. Mayor Round Cheese, are you sure your accounts will be handled by this graduate of Lao Teng Shu College?"

Round Cheese was stunned for a moment, and immediately looked at Ai Luo with a look that looked like he was asking for help.

Ai Luo was on pins and needles now, but he still wanted to keep calm on his face, just smiled and said: "I... try my best?"

Round Cheese was overjoyed! He immediately took out the two silver coins he had just put in and patted them into Airo's hands. Then, he looked relaxed as if he had finally solved the problem, and looked as if nothing had happened and he was light-hearted.

.

And Ai Luo looked at the two silver coins in his hand, then looked at the account books as high as the mountain over there and the account books of his guild in the hands of the tax collector, and really began to regret why he wanted to covet this money and stay here with the mayor.

Bargaining? If you just put down the ledger and run away, nothing will happen, right?

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

Ai Luo put a smile on his face again and walked forward and said: "Master Tax Officer, since I will sort out these bills, then I would like to ask you to go to Honglu Town and Kingfisher Town next door to check the taxes first? You

Come back in a few days and I will sort out the bills of our town and give them to you."

"No, no, no, no need."

The tax officer said with a relaxed smile——

"This is just the right time. Since President Arrow has sorted out Pelican Town's taxes, I will check the income of Mermaid Song during this period. Once I sort it out, I can rest for a day or two and it should be fine.

Have you received the complete report from President Arrow?"

Separate tax calculation?

This doesn't seem right?

Ai Luo became nervous and asked quickly: "Why...does it work like this? Hasn't the tax been sorted out and then paid together with the taxes in the entire city? I remember that this was how it was done before...

"

The tax official nodded, with a slightly annoyed expression on his face, and said, "Yes, in the past, the Adventurer's Guild's taxes could indeed be counted as being paid directly by the entire town. But starting this year, it's different."

"The empire just issued a new decree last month, requiring that in the future tax payment verification, the income of the Adventurer's Guild and the income of the town must be separated and cannot be settled together. It seems to be to prevent the Adventurer's Guild from evading taxes and engaging in black market transactions.

, activities such as money laundering.”

With a buzzing sound, Airl's head felt as if someone had hit him hard with a stick.

The tax official turned his anger into a smile and said cheerfully: "But I believe that it is absolutely impossible for a top student from Lao Tengshu College to do such a thing, right?"

Looking at the tax official's sincere and envious smile, Ai Luo could barely smile just a little bit from the corner of his mouth.

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

All along, their president has always been very energetic in front of everyone, in control of the overall situation, confident about many things, and confident of victory.

But now, the president is like a student who made a mistake, sitting very reservedly on the seat in the rest area in the corner of the guild. On the table are a lot of accounts and commissions from previous tasks.

The bald middle-aged man was checking these things with the account book one by one.

Because of the "extremely weak" aura displayed by her president, even Coco didn't dare to go out. She huddled behind the stairs, secretly poked her head out and looked over there, and said softly: "Deputy

President, who is that person? Why does the President brother seem to be unable to hold his head up in front of this person?"

Brad touched his chin and said as if he was thinking: "Is that the president's father? Well, thinking about it carefully, I haven't seen the president's father. The president would be so reserved.

, this person must be the president’s father, right?”

However, Cream gently pushed Brad's stomach with his elbow and sneered: "What dad? You're overthinking it. If you ask me, this person must be the president's teacher! Didn't you see this in him?

The material of this dress? It’s so silky, so soft, it’s a very high-quality material! And the way the waves on the back hold up the gold coins, this must be the president’s teacher from the Economics Department! Now he’s here to pass on his experience!”

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

Cream: "Does that need to be said? 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 any more, so she yawned, floated over and said, "Don't bother yourself, just go to work. If you don't have any tasks, go to the back to practice. When you need to practice strength, you should practice strength. When you should practice magic, you should practice magic.

No matter how fast you train, why do you like to sit here and gossip so much?"

Over there, Ai Luo felt smoke rising from his throat! Seeing how carefully the tax official was checking, he still suppressed the fear in his heart and said with a smile: "Excuse me... why are new laws suddenly issued this year?

?Wouldn’t this increase the workload of all tax officials?”

"Who says it's not the case?" The tax officer put down the account book and power of attorney in his hand, rubbed his shoulders and said, "There are only a few tax officers. We have to travel across the country within a quarter to calculate all the taxes.

It’s already very difficult to know clearly, and now here comes this method that requires separate tax calculation for guilds. Sigh... I can only say that our royal family is very far-sighted. Oops, my mouth is dry just talking about it."

"Dad! Please drink tea!"

As soon as the tax officer finished speaking, Coco rushed over with a teacup in hand and stiffly placed the tea in front of the tax officer.

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

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

When the tax official was confused, Ai Luo glared at his necromancer and whispered: "Who asked you to come out? Get down! Don't make trouble!"

Cocoa couldn't help but feel aggrieved when she was suddenly glared hard by Ai Luo. She wanted to argue something, but after meeting Ai Luo's eyes again, she still suppressed it. She could only walk towards the others with an aggrieved look on her face. She stood there.
Chapter completed!