The carriage slowly entered Falling Rain Valley. Instead of inspecting the factories there as he usually did, Xu Yi went straight to Chief Slubi and Chief Monto.
The two dwarf chiefs had received advance notice from Xu Yi. When they saw him arrive with Stille, they immediately understood why he had come.
"President, I really don't think this is necessary." Sloopy took a document Stille handed him and read it for a while before frowning. "All of us dwarves trust you and the Xinfei Merchant Guild. Since we've already signed contracts with you, why go to all this trouble to sign new ones through Miss Stille?"
"Exactly. Isn't this a lot of trouble?" Chief Monto agreed from beside him. "We dwarves stand by our word. Since we trust you, President, we don't even need contracts. Why bother with so many procedures? They're making my head spin."
Xu Yi glanced at Chief Monto's head, which was a size larger than his own, and couldn't help chuckling. "I'm honored that you both trust me, and I'm very glad. If it were just the two of you working with me, we really could do without contracts. But you can't guarantee that all your fellow dwarves trust me as much as you do, can you? Even I can't guarantee that I won't change someday, or that my promises to you won't change along with me. Making sure all the paperwork is in order is really more about protecting the interests of the majority of your fellow dwarves."
"Xu Yi is right," Stille continued. "Besides the fact that verbal promises can't be relied on completely, there's another very important issue. Strictly speaking, the contracts you and many of your fellow dwarves previously signed with the Xinfei Merchant Guild don't comply with kingdom law, so they