"I can use the lingua franca, but it's poor, so I need someone who is familiar with the local situation. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Zhao Mai finished this sentence in a stumbling lingua franca, and continued to look at the guy in front of him named Ferdinand Green, nicknamed "Mad Mouse".

Outwardly, he is completely unrelated to creatures like rats. The face line is very hard, medium build, slightly muscular, and the skin is well maintained. Judging from his eyebrows and eyes, he is about the same age as Zhao Mai, and he belongs to that kind of older youth, with maturity and passion in his eyes at the same time.

If you can dress up well, he will definitely be an outstanding young man, but it's a pity that his current patched old clothes have ruined the overall image. But his lingua franca was clear, and he spoke slowly—or deliberately slowed down so that Zhao Mai could understand—which gave him a lot of points.

"I understand, you want to hire me as a servant to assist with all kinds of chores. "It's not my main job, but I can definitely do it," Green said. According to the agreed price of the guild, the full-day servant employment price in Nebo Town cannot be less than 5 silver coins per day. I can provide better service, so the quote is 8 silver coins per day. ”

Zhao Mai thought about it, and it didn't take much effort for him to understand what he meant, which was commendable. He found that Green was very gifted with language, knowing that certain words belonged to important parts of sentences, and he deliberately emphasized them. In this way, even if the rest of the parts cannot be understood in full, the whole sentence can be understood by connecting these main words. For this, it is also appropriate to pay more, anyway, all his money is taken from the dwarf illusionist.

"The first three days are considered a trial, and I am willing to pay 5 silver coins per day, and then increase it, how about this?"

"Of course, that's what the guilds allow. If you are in a hurry, please register with me at the guild so I can start serving. ”

Zhao Mai nodded in agreement and asked about the guild. "Mad Mouse" Green took considerable effort to explain the role of the guild to Zhao Mai in general.

The so-called guild is a place dedicated to matters related to civil contracts, which can provide drafting, review, notarization, custody and accountability, somewhat similar to the combination of civil courts, notary offices and law firms. Such a combination has the problem of a lack of detailed division of labor and too much power, but it is still a very progressive initiative for Greleon at this stage of development.

The business of the guild involved many aspects, and a group of people who specialized in the study of documents and writings determined the elements that should be used to regulate the contract. It is said that in the process they refer to many devil's soul contracts in order to be foolproof, although this is only a dream for now.

Due to the considerable number of illiterate people, they often suffer when it comes to signing contracts and documents. The existence of guilds changed this, and the regulated market led to a larger market. Coupled with Nebo's penchant for negotiation, the guild's business grew bigger and bigger. By using the fees collected for their services, the guild would be able to hire adventurers to recover from those who broke the contract.

"The guild is only concerned with whether the recovered gold can compensate for the interests of the injured, and does not care about the life or death of the defaulter. Green shrugged his shoulders and reminded Zhao Mai in a very serious tone: "It's easier to kill than to capture alive, and mercenaries like to work in the most efficient way, so the vast majority of defaulters can't survive." ”

"Isn't there a lord in the locality, he doesn't care?"

"If the defaulter remains in the country, they will generally go to the guild and explain why they are in default. As long as we discuss, there is always a solution. Green said, "Once you flee, you will leave the jurisdiction of the local lord, and the other lords don't care much about these things, after all, it is not their own people who die." ”

Zhao Mai understood. The autonomy of the local lords, coupled with a part of "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye", although it is still an orderly civilization, it is completely incomparable to the world that you are familiar with. Each place has its own rules, each place has its own institutions of violence, and judgments and punishments can come quickly and harshly.

Without a unified constitution and a judicial system with a clear division of labor, this is a world where security is not guaranteed. Villages and neighbors may be able to keep watch over each other and protect the most basic order, but when you leave the town, it is a world where the law of the jungle is used.

"If you don't have a certificate from another business firm in another country, and you don't have a guarantor in your country, you have to pay a fee to register your identity, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the value of the contract you want to sign. Green asked, "How many days are you going to hire me?"

"The maximum should not exceed ...... Two months. Zhao Mai thought for a moment and replied.

Through the clock on the car, he knew that there was a thirty-fold difference between Gregor and his own world. Here is a stable month and 30 days, which is equivalent to a day on Earth. He has been staying for almost half a month, and staying for another half a month to a month is almost the limit. I'm missing on Earth, and someone might look for me. He didn't want his family to worry too much.

His registered name was "Mike", and his local contacts were using the name of Carl the Jungle Ranger, much to Green's surprise, and his eyes widened. Seeing his expression, Zhao Mai asked, "What, is Ranger Carl famous?"

"He was rarely seen, but everyone knew him, he was a trusted man for both the local townspeople and the druid community, and he was the one who made the druids help Nepo when he was not yet ten years old. ”

Zhao Mai picked up the reserve grain and showed it to Green. "He gave me this dog and is now my good brother. ”

The reserve grain snorted at the right time, and then stuck out his tongue to sell cuteness. Green smiled, but his mind turned to something else.

After a few hours of contact, he found a lot of suspicious points. It's true that Mike, who came from outside the town, didn't fully grasp the lingua franca, but he wasn't uneducated. When a real hillbilly first arrives at the guild, he is overwhelmed by the complexity of the procedures and novel concepts, but Mike is at ease and can even point out some shortcomings.

It takes enough learning to go from chaos to order, but what kind of learning is there no lingua franca? This outsider has other mother tongues, and he stumbles to speak, sometimes with grammatical errors, but from this he can find something different in his mother tongue. Grimm himself is fluent in several languages and has not seen similar grammatical conventions.

Considering the overly obedient dog, and the fact that this person was related to Ranger Carl, Green immediately thought of the druid community. The mysterious Druid language has never been told, and maybe it's Mike's heel.

Things got interesting.

"Why are you registered as a merchant and not an adventurer?" Green asked, "The merchant pays a higher tax, which is inappropriate." ”

"Because I have something to sell, and if I want to open up a trade route if possible, I have to register as a merchant, right?"

"In fact, you can entrust other merchants to sell on your behalf, which is cheaper. ”

The clerk of the guild raised his eyes to look at the "mad rat", but did not pierce his words. Although Green is right, if taxes are taken into account, the cost of entrusting a merchant to sell on behalf of the merchant will be lower, but the profit may be even lower. However, the person named Mike in front of him is a smart person who has his own ideas, and he should have figured out the truth.