Sword and Magic and Taxi

　　 "I can use lingua franca, but it is very poor, so I need someone who is familiar with the local situation."

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

　　 From the outside, he has no contact with creatures such as mice. The facial line is very hard, of medium build, slightly muscled, and the skin is well maintained. Judging from his eyebrows, he was about the same age as Zhao Mai, who belonged to the kind of older youth, with both mature and passion in his eyes.

　　 If he can dress up well, he is definitely an outstanding young man, but it is a pity that his current patched old clothes destroys the overall image. However, his lingua franca is very clear and his speaking speed is also very slow-or deliberately slowed down so that Zhao Mai can understand-this provides him with a lot of extra points.

"I understand, you want to hire me as a servant to help with all kinds of chores." Green said: "Although this is not my main business, I can definitely do it. According to the guild's agreed price, Nebo The full-day servant hire price in the town cannot be less than 5 silver coins per day. I can provide better service, so the price is 8 silver coins per day."

　　 Zhao Mai thought for a while, and he didn't have much effort to understand what he meant, which is very valuable. He found that Green is very talented in language, knowing that certain words belong to an important part of a sentence, and he deliberately emphasized it. In this way, even if the remaining part is not fully understood, the whole sentence can be understood by concatenating these main words. Just for this, it should be paid more, anyway, all his money is taken from the dwarf illusionist.

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

　　 "Of course, this is allowed by the guild. If you are not in a hurry, please register with me at the guild so that I can start the service."

　　 Zhao Mai nodded and asked about the guild. It took a lot of effort for Junkrat Green to clarify the role of the guild to Zhao Mai.

　　 The so-called guild is a place that specializes in handling matters related to private contracts. It can provide drafting, review, notarization, custody and accountability work, which is a bit similar to a combination of a civil court, a notary office and a law firm. Such a combination has the problems of insufficient division of labor and excessive power, but it is still a very progressive initiative for Glarion's current stage of development.

　　The business of the guild involves all aspects. A group of people who specialize in the study of documents and characters have determined the elements that should be used to regulate the contract. It is said that in this process they have referred to the soul contracts of many demons in order to achieve a foolproof degree, although this is still a dream at present.

　　Because there are quite a few illiterate people, they often suffer losses when signing contracts and documents. The existence of guilds has changed this status quo, and a regulated market has brought a bigger market. Coupled with the atmosphere of Nebo Town, which likes to negotiate, the guild's business is getting bigger. Using the service fees collected, the guild has the ability to hire risk-takers to recover those who broke the contract.

"The guild only cares about whether the recovered gold coins can make up for the interests of the injured, and does not care about the life and death of the defaulter." Green shrugged and reminded Zhao Mai in a very serious tone: "It is easier to kill than to catch alive. Mercenaries like to work in the most efficient way, so most defaulters will not survive."

　　 "Is there no lord here, he doesn't care?"

"If the defaulter stays in the local area, he will usually go to the guild to explain why he breached the contract. As long as we discuss it, there will always be a solution." Green said: "Once you escape, you will leave the jurisdiction of the local lord, and other lords will also I don’t care much about these things, after all, it’s not my own people who die."

　　 Zhao Mai understands. The autonomy of local lords plus a part of "a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye" is still an orderly civilization, but it cannot be compared with the world that one is familiar with. Every place has its own rules, and every place has its own violent organization, and judgments and punishments may come quickly and ruthlessly.

　　 There is no unified constitution, no clear division of labor, and a judicial system. This is a world without security. Perhaps the village and the neighbors can watch each other and protect the most basic order, but after leaving the town, it is a world that uses the law of the jungle.

"If you don't have a certificate from another business bank in other places and there is no guarantor locally, you will have to pay some fees if you want to register your identity, which is equivalent to one tenth of the value of the contract you want to sign." Green asked: "The longest you How many days do you want to hire me?"

　　 "The longest should not exceed... two months." Zhao Mai thought for a while and replied.

　　 Through the clock on the car, he knew that there was a thirty-fold gap between Glarion and his own world in the flow of time. This is a stable month and thirty days, which is equivalent to a day on earth. He has been there for almost half a month, and staying for another half month to one month is almost the limit. Being on the earth is equivalent to missing, maybe someone will look for it. He didn't want his family to worry too much.

　　 The name he used to register his identity was "Mike", and his local contact used the name of the jungle ranger Carl, which surprised Green and couldn't help but stare. Seeing his expression, Zhao Mai asked: "Why, is Ranger Karl famous?"

"Although he rarely sees him, everyone knows him. He is a trusted person by the local townspeople and the druid community. It was he who helped the druids help Nepo Town back then, and he still Less than ten years old."

　　 Zhao Mai picked up the grain reserves and showed it to Green. "This dog was given to me by him and is now my good brother."

　　 The reserve grain barked in good time, and then stuck out his tongue to sell cute. Green smiled, but other thoughts turned in his heart.

　　 Several hours of contact, UU reading www. uukanshu. com, he found a lot of doubts. This Mike from outside the town does not fully master the lingua franca, but he is not without education. When a real hillbilly came to the guild for the first time, he would be frightened and overwhelmed by the complicated procedures and novel concepts here, but Mike looked like he was at ease and even pointed out the shortcomings in some places. .

　　 It takes enough learning to go from chaos to order, but what kind of learning does not have lingua franca? This outsider has other mother tongues. He stumbling and speaking sometimes makes grammatical errors, but he can find out the difference in his mother tongue. Green himself is proficient in multiple languages ​​and has never seen similar grammatical habits.

　　 Considering the overly obedient dog, and the person being related to the ranger Karl, Green immediately thought of the Druid community. The mysterious Druidic language has not been spread, maybe this is Mike's heel.

　　 Things got interesting.

　　 "Why are you registered as a businessman, not an adventurer?" Green asked: "The merchant pays higher taxes, which is inappropriate."

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

　　 "In fact, you can entrust other merchants to sell, so that the cost is lower."

　　 The guild's clerks raised their eyes to look at "Junr Rat", but did not expose him. Although Green is right, if the tax is taken into account, the commissioning merchants will sell on behalf of the cost will be lower, but the profit may be reduced even more. However, the person in front of him named Mike is a clever man with his own ideas, and he should also want to understand the truth.

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