"How is that possible..." Alan's expression was a little surprised.
"Don't rush to refuse, listen to me. This kind of student loan will have a very high interest rate when it is repaid!"
Without waiting for the girl with a strong sense of self-esteem to refuse, Jia Lan said in a persuasive manner: "And I can lend you tuition without interest, as long as you return the principal to me after graduation... Are you willing to pay high interest to the college, or are you willing to accept my interest-free loan? Moreover, as one of the "investors" of [Lemli Pharmacy Workshop], you can also enjoy dividends! Don't worry about not being able to pay it back."
"But you have already paid me back the money!" Alan said shyly: "No need to give me dividends! I didn't help much, and you taught me a lot of pharmaceutical skills... If you hadn't let me work in [Lemli Pharmacy Workshop], I might not be able to get enough tuition..."
Perhaps thinking of the huge interest mentioned by Jia Lan, the girl hesitated for a moment and said awkwardly: "Then... Jia Lan, please lend me 300 gold talans first! When the college is closed on weekends, I will go to [Lemli Potion Workshop] and work hard... In addition, I will find a few more part-time jobs and should be able to pay you back at the end of the semester!"
This innocent girl's estimate of the cost of studying at [Komo University] is really too low!
Jia Lan, who once served as an assistant lecturer, knows that although the tuition fee for one academic year at [Komo University] is "only" 200 gold talans.
But in fact, this part of the cost is only the most insignificant part of the entire learning process.
The real big part is "tuition and miscellaneous fees" such as book fees, experiment fees, material fees, and lecture fees.
Take "book fees" for example. Although the cost of basic learning materials is included in the tuition, some precious arcane books, spell materials, and especially the experience manuscripts of some high-level mages, are impossible to be open to students for free!
In Jia Lan's original era, not to mention buying a spell book directly, the price of copying a 0th-level arcane book by yourself would not be less than 50 gold coins, not to mention higher-level ones.
Jia Lan is not sure how much it costs to copy books in this era.
But he has become the new librarian. From the "Administrator's Manual", he learned that [Komo University Library] also provides this service.
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Considering the price and consumption level of this era, the price must not be too low.
Books, which symbolize "knowledge", are an expensive luxury. And writing paper and ink are also luxury goods in this era.
A piece of Alsophila sylvatica paper with a size of only one square meter is worth as much as 4 silver jims. However, it is surprising that such expensive paper can only be cut into 35 standard pages of paper.
In other words, if you want to bind a standard 100-page book, you will need to spend at least 1 gold talan and 2 silver jims.
Even if you choose parchment, which is half the price, the price is still high and it is not something that ordinary people can easily afford.
And the sea ink used for writing, a kind of squid super thick ink that is not easy to fade, even in the city of Kolan, located on the seaside, as one of the production places, a small bottle of 30 grams will not cost less than 8 gold talans.
To copy a standard 100-page book, at least one or two small bottles are needed, and such a cost is even more staggering.
This is just the cost price of making a book.
No wonder some people sigh: "Knowledge is the patent of the nobility", and some people bluntly say: "In the world of magic, please leave, mortals (poor people)!"
In this context, the 300 gold Talans that Alan "borrowed" from Jia Lan were not enough to last until the end of the semester, and even the cost of copying a few more books was not enough, not to mention the almost unlimited experimental costs and material costs.
Frequent experiments are indispensable to deeply understand the mysteries of magic.
It is impossible to really get in touch with the core content of magic with only written theoretical knowledge.
The materials consumed for an experiment range from hundreds to thousands or even tens of thousands, and there is no way to talk about the cap.
It can be said that the experience of a spellcaster is completely accumulated by a large amount of gold coins.
The 300 gold Talans that Alan borrowed are far from meeting such needs.
However, Jia Lan did not tell the girl about these cruel realities, but just smiled and said: "300 gold talans? Of course! But the dividends from the pharmacy workshop still have to be paid to you, and this part of the loan will be deducted from your dividends! In addition, after school starts, you don't have to go to the pharmacy workshop, Alan..."
"Huh? Why? Is there something I did wrong?" The girl clasped her hands nervously, her eyes full of pleading, "I will work hard! I will also seriously learn pharmaceutical skills!"
For Alan, compared to working in pubs, restaurants and other places, the salary of the pharmacy workshop is much higher, and she can also be exposed to knowledge and skills related to the "Pharmacy" subject she applied for.
"Don't worry, it's not because you didn't do well that we won't let you go!" Jia Lan explained with a smile, "It's just that after school starts, the study tasks will be very heavy, and working part-time may affect your studies. You don't want to pay the college 50% of the tuition fee for "education resource occupation fee" because you don't have enough credits in the next school year, right?"
Alan was a little entangled when he heard this: "But...but..."
Jia Lan smiled and said: "If you plan to find a part-time job, I can recommend one to you. I have already found a part-time job in the college library, and the salary is very high! And there, you can also get in touch with more books and knowledge, which will be of great help to your study."