Dadada, da-

More than three hours passed, just as Liang En's mouth was dry, a sound of horses' hooves saved him, and a panting Li Zhutou walked in from outside the door, and then opened a package he was carrying.

Inside the package was a dirty piece of leather, tattered around the edges, with some words faintly visible on it, and in the center of the leather was a flattened gold ring.

"The ring we found in the iron box where the captain's jewels were hidden in the aft cabin, along with a large pile of gold and silver coins and a small number of jewels."

When Dong Xiancheng picked up the flattened gold ring, Li Zhutou immediately stepped forward to explain.

"So the officers of the Senhe Office judged that the box might contain the owner's original money, but most of it should have been looted from the time they committed piracy."

"Because only then will they choose to pry the stones off the original jewelry and put them together, and then compress all the gold and silver to reduce the storage space."

"I see." Dong Xiancheng nodded. "Luckily, the ship is not suitable for lighting a furnace, so the ring can be roughly retained in case of deformation and used to confirm identity."

After confirming the situation of the seal ring, Dong Xiancheng put down the ring and picked up the national letter, but at the same time, a stench like fermented garbage began to linger on everyone's noses.

"What's that smell?" After gently waving his hand and casting a purification spell on the piece of parchment, Dong Xiancheng asked with a frown.

"Because...... Because this thing is a nice piece of leather, it was used by pirates to strengthen the crotch of their pants after being taken by pirates. Li Zhutou lowered his head and said.

"When we looked for it, we almost thought it had been thrown away by a pirate, but we managed to find it on a pirate's pants after using soul searching."

"Okay, Liang Gongzi, can you understand what is written on this?" After figuring out why this national letter had a strange smell, Dong Xiancheng handed over the kraft paper.

"Please show me." Liang En picked up the brown paper as he spoke, and then began to check the text on it.

The document was written in two languages, one of which was Latin, and the other of which Liang could roughly tell to be French, both of which belonged to the common diplomatic language of Europe at this time.

Although the French language is indecipherable, the Latin Ryan is sure that it was indeed a diplomatic letter from the city-state of Florence, and that the content was to establish commercial relations with the East.

However, in the letter, the other party also made it clear that because of the collapse of the Mongol Empire, the original peace under Mongol rule has disappeared, so it is necessary to find a safe passage.

According to their proposals, the Great Song could choose the northern route through the entire northern steppe, then through the Slavic territory through the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, and finally reach Florence.

In addition to the content of the national letter, the waiter also specifically stated that the Medici family hoped to establish stable ties with the Great Song Dynasty, and at the same time hinted that more benefits could be provided.

"This group of people is absolutely whimsical." After listening to Liang En's words and translate the waiter's words, Dong Xiancheng shook his head helplessly. "Although the strength of our Great Song Dynasty can prevent the Northern Yuan from going south, it is impossible to maintain such a trade route on the grassland."

"That Medici family idea is even more wishful thinking, the dignified Celestial Empire will never make any secret pact with such a guy who is not rightly named and does not go along with his words."

"The most important thing is that the other party's country is too small, and it is not worth it to change the national focus for such a small country - hey, anyway, this is what those Gonggong princes in the temple of Jidu should care about, all I have to do is report."

Speaking of this, Dong Xiancheng shook his head, and then neatly wrote down what he had just recorded and put it into an envelope, and then looked at Liang En.

"Thanks to your help, Liang Gongzi, if it weren't for your help, this matter would be in trouble today. But we may have to trouble you a few more times these days. ”

"It's okay, I've been staying in the city for a while recently, so you can send someone to find me then."

Liang En naturally agreed to the county's request, after all, if he wants to live here for a long time, it is definitely not a bad thing to deal with the lawsuit.

"Don't worry, we won't let you work in vain." After hearing Liang En's neat and simple agreement, Dong Xiancheng smiled and touched his beard.

"I heard that you want to do some maritime trade business after you come back, but you haven't been able to find it? When the time comes, I will introduce you to Wu Yuanwai who is doing this, and help you pull the strings. ”

"Then thank you, Dong County." After hearing what the county Cheng said, Liang En stood up and made a serious gesture, and his face also showed an expression of gratitude.

In the following week, Liang En began to live a life of running between the house and the yamen, but fortunately, although his house was not on the main street, it was also in the center of the city, and running on both sides would not delay anything.

Because of his role as an interpreter, Liang En has met a lot of people during this time, in addition to the county magistrate and magistrate of this county, there are also Fukuyama Qianhu and Gusu Tongju.

At the same time, in order to cope with this temporary job, he had to choose to consume the last two drops of his remaining luck essence and learn calligraphy and Arabic.

After consuming so much Qi Luck Essence and learning a series of skills, Liang En also mastered some of the relationship between Qi Luck Essence and skills.

One of the most important relationships is that the amount of Qi Essence consumed when learning a skill is directly proportional to the degree of change to the real world after learning.

For example, learning a language or all kinds of purely knowledge-based skills are the least consumed. It only takes one point to increase this skill to its apex.

But when it comes to the skill of calligraphy, because he needs to change his body, he can only improve his calligraphy level to a relatively high level of enthusiasts after consuming a little qi luck essence.

As for cultivating the truth or learning martial arts, the essence of qi luck consumed is massive, and it may take a few points to barely reach the entry level.

After a busy week, the matter finally came to an end: the Jinyi guards sent from nearby Jianye took the envoys and pirates with them, as well as all the materials at the same time.

And when these things came to an end, Dong Xiancheng also fulfilled his previous promise to introduce Liang En to the merchants in the county, and then successfully negotiated the matter about the guild.

From now on, even if Liang En is a member of the local maritime guild, the frankincense, final medicine, blood exhaustion and other spices he obtains can be sold on a large scale in the future.

It's just that according to the rules, in addition to retail, if he wants to wholesale on a large scale, he can only sell it to a few designated wholesalers of incense, and cannot sell it to other wholesalers.

Of course, the rules are also mutual, for example, after joining the guild, no merchant can inquire about the origin of other merchants' goods or secret recipes, etc.

For Liang En, these rules were in the right place, because his goal was to practice and earn money without being noticed, and the guild's rules were just enough to satisfy his idea.