System vs Rebirth Chapter 121 Mending Their Relationship

"Still, why do you want to emphasize that you want them to be good to others?" Noel asked.

After the mining was over, they imdiately headed back to the village. On the way, Noel couldn't help but recall the argunt between Roel and Rick.

"That? I basically learned it from my late wife. She was good to others like paying their wages above other rchant groups, treating them like comrades, and so on… That action paid off. Her comrades are loyal and good to her. They don't hesitate to lay down their lives for her, knowing that their families would be fine even if they die here.

"I don't want soone to backstab them, so I ask them to be good to people. And she often did so community service by spending a portion of her inco to feed people or do sothing good. Eventually, the people love her.

"She once escaped an assassination attempt because soone in the slum snitched on them because he thought she was too good to die." Roel explained.

"Have you ever told your children about it?" Noel asked.

"I did, but I couldn't explain the reason because…" Roel let out a long sigh.

"They ran away?"

"Yes, we always got into an argunt because the rchant group couldn't expand that way." Roel nodded, feeling troubled as well. "That's certainly the truth, since my wife is not that big of a rchant as well."

"Hmm…" Noel fell silent. His family was also a rchant family, so he could understand why his wife did it. At the sa ti, the siblings' perspective was also correct since they couldn't grow their business without money if they spent a huge portion in it.

"What's wrong?"

"Ah, no. My family was a rchant as well, so I could understand you. But I never took part on it, so I can't really give you any advice."

"Really?" Roel was surprised that Noel started to open to him as well.

"Well, rchant is all about give and take, right? You have money, I have sothing to sell."

"Give and take…" Roel looked down, falling into deep thought. It seed he had realized sothing.

It was proven when Roel suddenly patted Noel's back two minutes later. "Hahahaha! So, that's how it is. It seems that I am too indebted to you now!"

"No, no. I just like what you taught earlier, so why not?" Noel humbly refused.

But that humble personality made Roel like Noel even more.

In the end, Noel accepted to stay for the night because Roel insisted. They even had a dinner together, which was appreciated by Rick and Rica.

However, to give so ti for Roel, Noel imdiately escaped to his room, leaving the family alone.

The atmosphere beca heavy as soon as Noel left since they all rembered the argunt they had earlier.

Rick and Roel looked at each other as if they wanted to blow up again while Rica didn't know how to stop them.

Unexpectedly, the first thing that ca out of their mouth was, "Sorry."

"Huh?" Even the two who said it were dumbfounded.

Rick imdiately explained himself. "I'm sorry that I shouldn't have talked to you that way. I know that you were concerned about us, so…"

"No, it was my fault. I should have talked to you better to avoid any misunderstanding." Roel sighed. "Anyway, if you don't mind, I want to say sothing about your rchant group. I hope that you can remain calm until I finish. If you want to rebuke my claims afterward, I'll listen to you."

Rick and Rica opened their mouths in shock. This was the first ti their father actually approached them this way as if they were talking as equals, not a father and his children.

Even Rick couldn't help but turn serious. "I understand. I won't comnt or argue with you before you finish."

"Thanks." Roel smiled and hurriedly explained. "You don't need to spend much on your escort anymore."

Rick obviously wanted to rebuke this statent because of how wrong it was. If they didn't spend much on their protection, they would die in their journey.

He was clenching his fists and his breathing beca rougher, but because he had promised him, he tried his hardest to remain calm.

And Roel's next statent was really sothing that changed his perspective of his father.

"I'll be helping you with your escort by providing them with good quality equipnt. You can think of it as a loan. They'll work for you for a period of ti to pay for this equipnt. You don't need to repay or anything… You can take it as buying people to protect you. I'd promised your mother."

Rick and Rica finally realized that their father always cared for them, but he never had a chance to explain himself because they always ended up in an argunt from the first sentence.

After listening to it, Rick said, "Actually, it's plausible but not very effective. You are a Master Blacksmith, so the equipnt is extrely valuable. In our rchant group, there is a contribution system. You basically do tasks for our rchant group to get this contribution points and exchange it with sothing valuable later. This way, we can spend less money on it. At the sa ti, when they're racking up points, we can gain their trust and loyalty slowly but surely."

Roel got an idea after listening to him as well. "There are many excess weapons in this place. They are from Apprentice or Veteran Blacksmith, so how about making so sort of levels with my equipnt being the highest?"

"Yes, that's certainly going to work. By the ti they receive this kind of weapon, they'll be loyal to us. And if possible, I can send them to your place to get the weapon. If we're the one bringing that weapon, many people will look at us and try to steal it."

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"Yes!" Rick was excited because for the first ti in his life, he could finally see eye to eye with his father. But he soon rose from his seat and lowered his head. "Father… I'm sorry for always arguing with you. I should always keep my calm…"

"I was just too overbearing. It's not your fault." Roel smiled.

Those three continued their discussion for a whole night at that ti. But it could be said that their relationship beca as good as it could.