Starting Today, I’ll Work as a City Lord

Chapter 157: Besiege the City Lord’s Mansion?

Clip-clop. Clip-clop. Clip-clop.

The rhythmic sound of horse hooves ran out.

Liu Feng looked out of the carriage window at the wheat left out drying in the sun and smiled. “People will settle down seeing so much wheat. There’s no need to panic when the family has a surplus of food.”

“Mhmm!” Tess nodded. She got right next to Liu Feng and looked out the window with him. Seeing all the wheat, Tess wanted to find a bag to pull all the wheat in it so she could carry them home.

“…” Mina’s eyes twitched as she looked at Tess. This dairy cow’s face is almost right on Young Master’s face.

“Hmm?” Mina looked down and saw Tess’s swaying tail. She grinned evilly, and she slowly reached out and grabbed Tess’s tail.

“Ying!” Tess’s body stiffened and her cheeks flushed. She shivered and sweated, and she collapsed onto Liu Feng.

“Hmm? Tess? What’s wrong?” Liu Feng asked when he felt someone in his arms. He looked at Tess, and her watery purple eyes stirred his heart a little.

“I’m… out of… strength…” Tess couldn’t muster up any strength due to the weird feeling coming from her tail.

Mina gritted her teeth. What the fuck. Did I just make a divine assist? I literally just sent Tess into Young Master’s embrace.

“Out of strength? Are you hungry?” Liu Feng was confused. Earlier that morning, Tess had gone to his room and tickled his toe with her tail to wake him up so he could make her the 8th fish feast meal in the past 3 days.

“N- no!” With a jolt, Tess hastily moved back and jerked her head to look at Mina. She narrowed her eyes and said “Mina! How dare you sneak attack me!”

“D- don’t come here,” Mina said, waving her hands. “It was an accident!”

“I don’t care! I’m getting my revenge!” With that, Tess lunged at Mina. Since they were in a carriage, there was nowhere for Mina to run, so Tess easily pinned her down with her 2 jugs.

“Mmm… let go… mmm! I can’t… breathe…” Mina said while being pinned down by Tess.

“Hehehe…” Tess lifted her right hand, wiggled her fingers, and started tickling Mina’s waist.

“Hahahaha… no… don’t…” Mina laughed and wriggled in place from the tickling, and it was as if she was a beautiful snake lady.

“Hahahaha… Young Master, save… save me…” Mina begged for help as tears formed in her eyes from her laughter.

“Geez!” Liu Feng smiled as he looked at Tess and Mina. Mina is usually the one bullying Anri, and now, Tess is the one bullying her. What lovely quarreling.

“Young Master… I… I can’t… anymore… You’re… about to… lose me…” Mina said in a weak voice as if she was on the verge of death and stretched out her hand.

“…” Liu Feng rolled his eyes and looked at Tess, who was twisting her ass as she tickled Mina. He was unable to control the sudden strength that appeared in his right arm, and then…

Slap!

“Ah!” Tess stopped and covered her ass with her hands. She looked at Liu Feng angrily and pouted.

“Cough cough… That’s enough. We’re nearly at the castle,” Liu Feng said, turning his head to look out the window with a straight face. “Huh? Why are there so many people surrounding the castle entrance?”

Looking at the people in fancy clothes surrounding the castle’s door, Liu Feng immediately deduced what was happening, and he beckoned Sinke to come over.

“My lord!” Sinke said as he rode his horse over.

“Go chase those merchants away and put out the word that I will be at the Drunken Night Restaurant tomorrow,” Liu Feng said, smiling.

“Understood!” Sinke signaled with his hands, and then along with No. 3 and No. 4, they rushed toward the merchants.

“You guys have some nerve! Are you trying to besiege the City Lord’s Mansion!” Sinke accused the merchants of a crime as soon as he got there.

Shwing! No. 3 and No. 4 cooperatively unsheathed their traverse blades and stared coldly at the merchants.

“No no! We just have something we would like to request to see Lady Anri for!” The merchants immediately got frightened and panically explained themselves, afraid that the 3 people would slaughter them. After all, there were times when knights were more ferocious than horse thieves.

“Lady Anri isn’t seeing guests today. Hurry up and disperse. Don’t block Lord City Lord’s path.” Sinke clamped the horse’s belly with his feet, and the horse took a few steps forward, scaring the merchants to back up a few steps.

“Lord City Lord has returned?”

“Then we request to see Lord City Lord! We have a big business to discuss with Lord City Lord!”

When the merchants heard that Liu Feng had returned, they all called to see Liu Feng, acting as if Liu Feng¹ would miss out on a lot of money if he didn’t see them.

“Scram!”

Shwing! Sinke unsheathed his traverse blade and stared at the merchants angrily. He waved his blade around, threatening to cut someone, and said, “Who do you think you are to be able to see Lord City Lord whenever you want? Hurry up and scram!”

“Yes yes!” The merchants immediately shut up, shrunk their necks, and moved back. They were frightened by Sinke, and they pretended to be pitiful. This was a trick that they used frequently.

Clip-clop. Clip-clop. Clip-clop.

The sounds of horse hooves ran out, and the merchants turned to look. They immediately recognized it to be Liu Feng’s carriage, and they were just about to call out to Liu Feng when Sinke shut them up with a glare.

Clip-clop. Clip-clop. Clip-clop.

The carriage moved past the merchants and into the City Lord’s Mansion, and the merchants could only sigh in dismay.

“Hmph! Next time you dare to make a fuss in front of the City Lord’s Mansion, I will arrest all of you!” Sinke threatened and walked into the City Lord’s Mansion with the others.

The merchants shivered. They could see from Sinke’s eyes that he was serious and wasn’t just making an empty threat.

“What do we do? It’ll be hard for us to buy large quantities of goods and make much money if the purchase restriction doesn’t get lifted.”

“Let’s just wait. We’ll get a chance eventually. Didn’t the city lord just come back? He’ll soon lift the purchase restriction once he realizes how much income we will provide him.”

“…”

Solo was among the merchants, and he smiled coldly as he listened to the merchants. Do these guys think Liu Feng is a fool or an idiot who only thinks about money? Just look at the wheat lying around the city being dried and anyone will understand. He’s a noble, and he only collects 30% of the wheat as taxes, which is the lowest tax rate in the whole kingdom. What kind of person has this kind heart? This generosity? What did these commoners do in their past lives to get so lucky to have a genius teenage noble as their city lord? I can’t wait to meet Baron Liu Feng. Maybe, I can have my daughter whom I love the most…

Translator’s Notes:

¹ Not sure if this is referring to the merchants or referring to Liu Feng.