king x king

Chapter 4 Adaptation

"One dollar."

"Gah?"

The young girl with the ponytail twirled her fingers like flying, without raising her head: "Print one piece for one yuan."

King Jin stood in Xiaowen's printing shop, bargaining: "But I have to print a lot, can't it be cheaper?"

"How much is a lot? 200 cents for more than 8 cards." The girl finally raised her head.

King Jin held a handwritten rental list, a little embarrassed.

He didn't expect that copying is so expensive in the city. In the high school in the town, the small shop in front of the school only costs 3 cents for a copy.

If one sheet costs one yuan, and 100 sheets are 100 yuan, he might as well spend more money to publish in the newspaper.

But having said that, he couldn't afford the price whether it was waiting for the newspaper or copying it.

Don't go to another store and ask.

"Do you want to fight?" The girl became impatient.

King Jin shook his head: "Let me see again..."

"—Not yet?" Rhodes, who was waiting outside the door, walked in. The signboard of the Wenyin shop was hung a little low, and Rhodes unconsciously leaned over, and took advantage of the opportunity to put it on King Jin's shoulder.

The eyes of the girl who was about to roll her eyes and the old and gloomy shop were instantly illuminated by the dazzling blond hair.

In this city, foreigners are quite conspicuous, especially foreigners like Rhodes.

Although Rhodes is wearing the highly recognizable traditional Chinese blue and white sportswear, his gorgeous appearance makes him look like a model for a nostalgic magazine cover.

King Jin is not short, but Rhodes is taller, so the clothes on him can only fold up the sleeves of the trouser legs, which doesn't fit him well, but it doesn't look like the rustic school uniform that King Jin has worn for several years.

King Jin was even sure that, not to mention the clothes, the girl in front of him must not have gone to Rhodes. The cheapest blue flip-flops that Rhodes was wearing were the favorite styles of middle-aged men in this city.

"Don't you want to buy something?" Rhodes leaned on King Jin's back, and pulled out the rental notice from behind.

"Ah...he, hello." The ponytail girl blushed immediately. "Is it printing..."

King Jin was suddenly blessed to his heart.

"Too expensive." He said calmly. "We don't have that much money."

"Really?" Rhodes looked at the girl sitting in front of the computer.

"Well, we don't have much money with us," King Jin said. "Let's go, let's look elsewhere."

Fifteen minutes later, King Jin walked out of the Printing Department with Rhodes, holding a stack of ink-scented rental bills.

"If your eyes are more sad, maybe you can sell at a lower price." King Jin analyzed.

In fact, King Jin was a little surprised that Rhodes understood his meaning so quickly just now—as soon as the words came out, Rhodes' eyes were disappointed as if he had just lost his most beloved girl, which made the ponytail girl want to give it to him for free. They copied it.

From this point of view, Rhodes is actually not so useless - King Jin changed the policy of keeping Rhodes low-key and low-key, and planned to bring him with him when shopping in the future.

However, although Rhodes was very cooperative, King Jin still felt that it was against the law for him to do such a thing of taking advantage of beauty.

But proceeding from the actual situation, King Jin also had to admit that this extra expenditure was necessary.

He doesn't need such a big house.

Even if one Rhode is added, the room will be much more.

If it can be rented out, it is a no-cost business, and it can somewhat subsidize the family.

But having said that, Rhodes, who now claims to be the king, refuses to leave. If there is a tenant who really lives in the house and let people know that there is a foreigner who wears strange clothes and speaks strangely, he will probably be scared away.

Therefore, the localization of Rhodes, who is always high in words and deeds, was also put on the agenda by King Jin.

"This is a dry cleaning shop." King Jin walked all the way, doing scientific research on Rhodes: "But we won't enter this kind of shop, so you don't need to know what it is for. Next door is a fruit shop..."

Haiyang Road is a residential road with a long history, and life is very convenient, and all the shops you need can be found nearby.

"that is……"

"I know." Rhodes tilted his head: "This is a bakery."

"...Yes." King Jin had to stop together. "What are you doing?"

"I miss the taste of butter and cheese." Rhode stared at the window of the pastry shop. "I don't mean to be rude, but I'm afraid I'm not used to your traditional bread—"

Nonsense, he is not used to it either.

King Jin kept a straight face and said nothing.

The so-called "traditional bread" is the steamed stuffed bun that King Jin brought back every morning, because it is the cheapest one to buy, and the taste is also...

In short, the King of Jin thinks that the stuffed buns are good buns.

But how could His Majesty the pampered king get used to it.

King Jin was silent for a while, but still walked towards the bakery.

Rhodes knowingly asked: "Want to buy?"

"Before the people in the store come out to watch." King Jin didn't look back.

Rhodes was like a star with his own flashlight. Just now they stopped for a while and immediately attracted the attention of the little girl in the pastry shop.

Now the money saved by copying is gone again, King Jin thought with regret.

Rhodes was in a good mood, smiling so much that the little girl in the store who was feeding her guinea pig buttered melon seeds put all the melon seeds into her mouth.

King Jin took advantage of Rhodes' hormones to a group of young girls, quickly picked two relatively cheap croissants, and was about to push Rhodes out of the door: "Let's go."

Rhodes looked back: "The pets in this country are really interesting."

King Jin looked up at him.

"So it turns out that mice can also be pets?"

"That's a guinea pig," said King King. "But most of them are cats and dogs. Nowadays, people are becoming more and more extravagant, and some people feed dogs with sausages."

Rhodes was thoughtful.

King Jin spent two days posting the rental notices as far as he could walk - he didn't want to pay for a bus ride for this.

Fortunately, King Jin was a rural boy with good physical strength and a habit of walking. Dozens of posters were posted in many places.

Rhodes also helped him post together.

King Jin sat on the sofa, watching Rhodes vigorously scrubbing his paste-stained fingers.

I don't know if his "localization" has worked, but he always feels that... Rhodes in the old-fashioned school uniform looks less and less like the self-talking one on the first night A haughty king.

It is not difficult for the King of Gold to imagine from Rhodes' words that his life in the world in the book must be noble and extravagant—he didn't even know that there were tableware in the world other than silverware. The plastic fork that came with instant noodles was stunned for a long time.

However, Rhodes adapted at an astonishing speed.

He's willing to take off his original clothes for King King clothes, willing to try on flip flops, and even if he hates the sauerkraut buns every morning, he'll have the grace to eat at least one and say he's not hungry.

"You're peeking at me again." Rhodes pointed out after washing his hands.

King Jin lowered his eyes: "Why didn't you stop in front of the bakery today?"

Rhodes sat down beside him: "So you have a budget to buy bread today?"

"No." King Jin immediately denied it. "I just thought..."

Rhodes seemed to know what King Jin was thinking.

"Hmm... Do you imagine me as an unreasonable and arrogant nobleman?" Rhodes said with a smile.

King Jin did not speak.

"I know you don't have a king here." Rhodes leaned on the back of the sofa and looked at his fingers, which were a little white because they had been washed for too long. "However, being king is not just about crowns and rights. In fact, I am many things to my subjects."

King Jin looked at him.

"To the hard-working old farmers, I am the son who is supported by them; to the soldiers who carry their swords to the battlefield, I am the brother who protects their homeland with them; to the children who love and trust me, I am A father who wants to make their future life happy."

Rhodes said: "Look, I'm not completely pampered... In Salimon, my country has always had the strongest cavalry, and the most courageous king. Every king must be prepared to be strong at all times." When the enemy comes, prepare for the conquest.”

"And life on the battlefield does not have clean sheets and toilets." Rhodes blinked.

"You don't look suitable for saying such things at all." King Jin turned his head.

"Which one is it? Father brother or toilet?"

King Jin: "..."

"What I said is the truth." Rhodes said. "Especially when marching, let alone the toilet..."

King Jin said with a straight face: "I'm not interested in this."

"Then what are you interested in?"

"...Have you really been on the battlefield?" King Jin asked.

"Haven't you seen it?" Rhodes asked back.

"what?"

"My fighting form." Rhodes approached King Jin, his light golden pupils turned golden brown. "On the first night. Forgot?"

King Jin was taken aback.

"You can really become a lion..." King Jin subconsciously said.

To be honest, except for that night, Rhodes has always maintained a human appearance, but occasionally King Jin would still look at him, recalling that horrible experience that night.

It felt as if his throat had been firmly grasped by that sharp claw.

"Only members of the royal family can transform." Rhodes said. "It's proof of lineage."

"That... what is it, how many countries are there?" King Jin couldn't help but move back a little: "Can all those kings turn into lions?"

"No, depending on the bloodline, the transformation forms of the royal families of various countries are also different-but most of the countries that can separate the continent are beast countries." Rhodes sat down casually.

King Kim thinks he understands.

According to Rhodes, the king will turn into an animal when he leads soldiers to fight, so countries that can only transform into herbivores must suffer.

However, although another form of Rhodes is a terrifying beast, at least as a human, Rhodes is usually very well-bred.

But after much deliberation, King Jin still made an agreement with Rhodes.

"In the Celestial Dynasty, large ferocious beasts will be killed if they appear casually." King Jin Science: "So you must not turn into a lion outside."

"—Not even at home." King Jin thought for a while and added.

Rhodes said it was understandable.

However, what King Jin didn't know was that His Majesty the King, who had traveled from another world, actually had the ability to transform in two stages.

The next afternoon.

"Clack-clack--" the little hen on the balcony was excited again.

King Jin knew that there were often pet noise disputes in the city, so he didn't even have time to put down the broom, so he ran across the living room: "Hush——"

"Clack-clack--" the hen ignored his reassurance.

King Jin opened the floor-to-ceiling windows.

A yellow long-haired Persian cat gracefully stood on the black balcony fence, staring at King Jin with a puff in its mouth.

King Jin: "?"

The big cat jumped down lightly and walked into the living room.

Only then did King Jin react, and quickly turned around to chase the cat away.

"Whose family do you belong to? Get out quickly."

The Persian cat spit out the puffs on the table, with its back raised high, looking very proud.

Then, when King Jin was about to pounce, "Persian Cat" said, "I'm full. Do you want this?"

The golden king thundered: "—— Rhodes?!"

"You're right. People in this country like cats very much. You don't need to spend money to buy them in the future. As soon as those little girls saw me, they offered me desserts." Rhodes sat on the table, light yellow Sweeping his tail triumphantly.

Golden King language dysfunction: "Cat...you...lion...you are the king..."

King Jin no longer knew that Rhodes could become a "Persian cat", or a king who could show off his cuteness and ask for dessert without any obstacles, which was more exciting.

"Your tone is exactly the same as my most staid minister. As I said, I am not only a king, but I am also willing to be a friend of the people."

The big cat showed a suspicious smile.

"And who can say no to free puffs and hot girls?"