Volume 5 Chapter 35 - Ambassador’s motorcade (1/2)

Once the busiest time of noon was over, Mawor had finished tidying up and found that there weren’t many guests coming. After thinking about it, he closed the tavern’s front door and decided to take the afternoon off.

After leaving the tavern, he headed to the Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s construction site that wasn’t far to the southeast of the town.

His little sister had been worried about his nephew and had asked him several times to ask about the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to see if his nephew could join their company. Old man Mawor would naturally do his best.

When he came to the construction site, he found that everyone had been let off as those three had said. Other than a few remaining workers, all the other workers had disappeared without a trace.

Looking up at the sun above him, old man Mawor guessed that these workers were taking their break to have a nap. Looking around, he found that there were still a few workers who were on duty.

Old man Mawor came over and took out the wine and food that he had prepared from his chest. He planned on getting closer to the other side and asking about the situation, but he was firmly rejected by them.

“I’m sorry, according to the rules, we can’t drink while working. We all live by these rules.” The dark skinned worker seemed to be the leader of these workers. Since he wasn’t willing to accept it, the others didn’t say a word.

“This…..I specially brought it here, it isn’t good to have me bring it back……”

The black skinned worker laughed, “This old man, if you want to ask about something, you can just go look for our manager. There……” The black skinned worker pointed in another direction, “Do you see him, that is our manager. You can just ask him, you’ll get a more clear answer if you ask him compared to us.”

Old man Mawor looked in the direction he was pointing in and found that there was a man wearing the same uniform standing in the distance. He seemed to be looking in the distance at the road, as if he was waiting for something.

“He is your manager?” Old man Mawor hesitated a bit before gritting his teeth and walking towards the manager.

When he came close, old man Mawor found that this man really was different from the other workers.

Although he was wearing the same uniform, his uniform was clearly much cleaner. His face wasn’t as stained as the others, so it could be see that he didn’t work at the construction site.

Hearing the sounds of old man Mawor approaching, the man turned to look at old man Mawor. He then looked at the wine in old man Mawor’s hand and slightly knit his brows.

“This old man, do you need something?”

Although this man who was the manager had a strict tone, his voice was gentle and polite which made old man Mawor much more relieved.

After talking to him for a bit, old man Mawor explained the reason he came here.

The manager named Gnar gave the same answer as the three workers in the restaurant, but the timing was more detailed.

According to what he said, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce would need at least a month before they could consider hiring local workers, so he hoped that old man Mawor could wait patiently.

“Relax, as long as your nephew has a good physique, good strength, and there’s no problem with him as a person, we will hire him. As for the problem of technique, he can be slowly taught.”

Manager Gnar’s response made old man Mawor more assured.

When he was leaving, old man Mawor couldn’t help asking in a curious voice, “Can I ask…..who is the important person coming by today? You actually stopped working and you’re patiently waiting for him to pass.”

Manager Gnar revealed a faint smile and shook his head, “I’m sorry, this is related to some secrets, so it isn’t convenient to reveal.”

“Oh……” Old man Mawor could only helplessly shake his head before leaving.

Watching old man Mawor leave with the bottle of wine and package of beef in his hands, manager Gnar couldn’t help shaking his head with a smile.

Although he didn’t think that ambassador Hakanin passing wasn’t something that needed to be kept a secret, to be more discrete, he couldn’t give this information to a random bystander.

As for the question old man Mawor asked about recruiting workers, manager Gnar was actually more anxious than him.

After paving roads in the Norton Duchy for over three months now, they had only laid down fifty kilometers of road. Their efficiency was without a doubt low.

The reason for their low efficiency, other than this being the Norton Duchy and that they needed time to transport the materials needed, the main issue was a lack of workers.

Since the economic boom of the Lampuri Kingdom, the surrounding countries were all building roads and knew that roads were important for the development of a country. So the Amrit Chamber of Commerce received countless orders for roads from the surrounding countries, causing the Amrit Chamber of Commerce to be busy year round.

And because the Norton Duchy had just started cooperating with the Amrit Chamber of Commerce, the construction team sent her wasn’t big. There were less than a hundred workers here, so naturally there would be problems.