Charlotte looked at the girl in front of him. He knew very well that if he let her stay, she would cause some trouble.
But if he drove her out, she would definitely not be able to survive.
"You can't use magic in front of people, so if you want to stay, you must take on more work." Charlotte said calmly.
"For example?"
"Clean upstairs and downstairs of the clinic every day, and keep the clinic clean and tidy."
"Okay." Vivian nodded readily. For a water magician, cleaning and hygiene are the simplest things.
"You also have to take on some of the work of refining potions."
Vivian was shocked: "Refine potions?"
"Yes, this is a job that can be done without being in front of people." Charlotte nodded.
He naturally couldn't use an intermediate magician just as a cleaner. The cows in the production team didn't dare to let her rest like this.
"But I have never been exposed to pharmacy and I am not good at refining potions." Vivian said apologetically.
The medical school has pharmacy, but she did not take it as an elective.
As a magic genius girl who has been admired since childhood, if she wastes time learning pharmacy, she will be questioned.
Charlotte said confidently: "It doesn't matter if you don't know it. As long as you are willing to learn, I promise that you will soon become a qualified pharmacist."
Vivian hesitated in her heart, but when she met Charlotte's eyes, she gritted her teeth and nodded: "I am willing to learn."
Compared to going out to rob people, refining potions should be easier to learn, right?
"If you encounter some emergencies, without exposing the fact that you can do magic, I need you to assist me in completing some operations, and you must not refuse." Charlotte made another request.
Vivian thought for a while and nodded.
These requests made by Charlotte were not excessive.
"Very good, then from now on, you are an employee of the clinic." Charlotte finally smiled and stretched out her right hand to Vivian, "I am Charlotte."
Vivian looked at the warm smile on Charlotte's face and was a little absent-minded. Her blue eyes were as clear as water, as if there was light shining on her.
"Charlotte?" Vivian felt that the name sounded familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a moment, so she reached out and shook hands with Charlotte gently.
The warm touch brought her back to her senses, and she finally found a place to stay in the abyss.
A mediocre small clinic.
A young boss.
Charlotte retracted her hand, looked at Vivian and continued: "The work content is what I just said. The monthly salary is 1,000 copper coins. If your performance is good enough, you will be transferred to a formal employee after one month, plus 200 copper coins.
In addition, there is an additional commission for refining potions, which is 1 copper coin per bottle."
"Okay." Vivian showed a little surprise on her face, which was better than she expected.
"Let me show you around the clinic first. The first floor is the work area, and the second floor is the living area." Charlotte's eyes fell on the white cat on the counter. "And this one, her name is Anna, the mascot of the clinic."
"Come on, Anna, smile."
"Meow--" The white cat gave Charlotte a warning cry, and its tail, which was erected high, trembled slightly.
"Very good, you see, she seems to like you very much." Charlotte said with satisfaction.
"Eh?" Vivian looked at Anna, who jumped back to the cabinet proudly, and did not feel any love.
Although the clinic was very clean, it was indeed very simple.
The existence of the operating room surprised Vivian a little. As a medical student, in the education she had always received, treatment and internal medicine were the orthodox.
The so-called surgical operation was something that only low-status barbers would do.
In the imperial capital, every year many low-level people are superstitious about the so-called bloodletting therapy, and the disease is not cured, but the person is gone.
Could her new boss be like a barber?
Vivian couldn't help but feel a little worried. It was terrible for her, a healing magician, to be an assistant to a swindler.
"This is the alchemy room. The potions are made here, and it will also be your work area in the future." Charlotte opened a door and said.
Vivian looked at the simple alchemy room. The most eye-catching thing was the big iron pot on the stove in the middle.
Those so-called potions with magical effects were boiled in that big iron pot?
This made her feel more and more that she might have entered a den of thieves.
Then Charlotte took her to visit the second floor. There were four rooms on the second floor. The largest room was Charlotte's bedroom, and the other three empty rooms were filled with miscellaneous items.
Charlotte asked Vivian to choose a room as a bedroom, and he planned to make the smallest room into a kitchen.
He had thought it through. Now that there was one more person in the clinic, he definitely couldn't eat that dark and hard black bread every day.
His body was very weak now, partly because of the sequelae of the destruction of the source of magic, and partly because of lack of nutrition.
Of course, dialectically speaking, it cannot be ruled out that it is related to some bad habits of the predecessor.
"The cleaning of the room is up to you. I'll go out and buy you some daily necessities." Charlotte said to Vivian, who couldn't hide her joy on her face.
"Yeah." Vivian nodded repeatedly, but her stomach was calling out.
Gurgle--
Vivian blushed and lowered her eyes embarrassedly.
This can't be blamed on her. From yesterday to now, she has only eaten the bread that Charlotte gave her.
Because she didn't find a safe water source, she didn't even drink more water.
Charlotte sighed in her heart, "By the way, I'll buy you some food."
"Thank you, boss!" Vivian said gratefully.
She suddenly felt ashamed of her thoughts just now. Even if he was a liar, he was the only one willing to provide her with food.
An ordinary person who doesn't know magic must make more efforts to survive in the abyss.
Charlotte went downstairs and went out, while Vivian couldn't help but turn around in the room.
The room was very simple. The wooden floor had many potholes due to its age. The wall was made of rough stones. Although the gaps of various sizes were not transparent, there was still some air leakage.
The only furniture was a wooden bed against the wall, but it was missing a leg.
Because it had been idle before, everything was covered with a thick layer of dust.
Pushing open the wooden window, the gray skylight of the abyss did not make the room much brighter, but made her feel that the gray world seemed to be illuminated a little.
She had her own independent room, just like a drifting duckweed, finally taking root in the abyss.
From the sudden fall of her family, she fled all the way south, experienced many disasters, and watched her closest family die with her own eyes. Her panic-stricken heart finally found a place to stay.
No matter how simple it is, it is better than wandering outside.
"Clean up first and finish today's work!"
Although she was very hungry and a little weak, Vivian felt that she was full of energy!
…
Charlotte first went to the grocery store on Baka Street and bought a quilt, some toiletries, and a black wig, which cost 250 copper coins.
"Damn, a poorly made wig costs 180 copper coins." Charlotte came out of the grocery store, looked at the wig with threads in her hand, and cursed.
This was the one he carefully selected, and it was the one with the least flaws.
Then he went to the bakery and bought four black breads.
"The doctor has a good appetite these two days." Old lady Bella from the bakery handed the bread to Charlotte and said with a smile.
"I just hired a sweeper. You know, orcs have big appetites." Charlotte took the bread and said helplessly.
This old lady is the owner of the bakery. She has a big mouth and is the news manufacturing center of Baka Street.
"That must be a beautiful orc girl around 20 years old, right?" The old lady asked with a smile.
"You guessed it all." Charlotte was shocked.
"Haha, you have been very loyal for the past three years, I have seen it all." The old lady's eyes were almost narrowed into slits with laughter.
Charlotte was a little confused, this was a little different from what was recorded in the original body's diary.
"You have always liked girls around 20 years old, and your taste has never changed." The old lady added.
"You really understand me." Charlotte ran away with the bread, what kind of reputation is this.
Pushing open the door of the clinic, Charlotte was stunned for a moment.
He thought he had cleaned the clinic very clean these two days, at least it was completely different from the doghouse of the original body.
But he had just been out for a while, and the clinic was completely changed.
The marble floor was shiny, the walls, ceiling, and various furniture were spotless, and even the air seemed to have become a little fresher.
The counter was rearranged, and the glass jars and medicine bottles were neatly arranged in order from large to small, and even the empty bottles were placed symmetrically.
"What kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder is this?" Charlotte couldn't help but complain.
On the other side, Vivian, who was sitting behind the counter, was holding Anna. The little one stayed on her lap obediently, letting her rub her belly gently, and even made a purring sound.
"Ah, this? A white-eyed cat!"
Charlotte said she couldn't accept it, because he was obviously here first.
"Boss." Vivian stood up.
Anna was interrupted and rolled her eyes at Charlotte.
"The bedding is here, you eat some bread to fill your stomach first." Charlotte put the things on the counter and went to pour Vivian a glass of water.
Vivian's eyes lit up when she saw the bread. She had just used the cleaning magic to clean the upper and lower layers, and washed a little cat by the way, which made her feel completely emptied.
She didn't care about being a lady or not, took a big bite of bread, a big mouthful of water, and a black bread went into her stomach in a blink of an eye.
After eating one, Vivian glanced at Charlotte and looked at the remaining bread.
"Eat, the clinic is clean, you've worked hard." Charlotte smiled, very satisfied with Vivian's work attitude.
From today on, he can say goodbye to the tedious work of cleaning.
These thousand copper coins are really worth it!
With Charlotte's nod, Vivian picked up another piece of bread, but this time she didn't wolf it down, she ate it in small bites, savoring the comfort that the food brought to her hungry stomach.