"Alright! Sir Knight! What I'm trying to say is that these things are perhaps invaluable treasures for you, no, for any warrior, but they're not within my trading range! What I need is treasure! Treasure, do you understand? Gold and jewels, rare and precious items from heaven and earth, do you understand?"

  Li You Ran helplessly said to Airington, but Airington was unusually furious and said: "How! Do you think they're not precious enough? They can hold our lives on the battlefield."

  "Yes! You can save your life! But they are not worth much! No great nobles are interested in them! If there is no treasure! I think I should leave, good luck to you, Erlington Knight." Li You Ran made a gesture to leave, he didn't believe that a lord only had this little.

  "No, no, no! Wait a minute! Merchant! What's your name? I shouldn't call you merchant, that's too rude. Alright, actually I still have some treasures, those were originally for survival, but if I couldn't pay the tax, I guess I'd be done for, so follow me."

  As expected, Li You Ran was stopped, but Li You Ran just rolled his eyes, and it wasn't until now that he remembered to ask for the person's name, how slow-witted can he be.

  Following Ellington, he entered another room. This time, he saw what he wanted to see: some ornaments that looked like they were from this world and a small box. Ellington carefully opened it and found inside about a hundred gold coins.

  "That's all I have! What do you want? I need to see what provisions you can offer me, and if they're not satisfactory, I won't trade." said Elington.

  But Li You Ran didn't pay attention to the box from the moment he entered the room. The gold coins were attractive, but when he saw a huge gemstone on a headpiece, his eyes immediately sparkled with excitement. Of course, he quickly suppressed his greedy gaze, not wanting to let Elington know his true intentions, or else he would have to pay an even higher price to get what he wanted.

  "Oh! Of course! With gold coins, everything is easy to say! Let's take a look! This is the food I've prepared. If you need something else, feel free to ask, but don't expect it to be cheap." Li You Ran made an effort not to look at the pile of jewelry and instead focused on introducing her own food.

  Looking at the bread and sausage that Li You Ran took out, Ailington hesitated and said: "Is this bread and sausage?"

  "Of course! This is bread and sausage! I wonder if these two can meet the requirements?" Li You Ran asked with a smile.

  "Cough, cough! I need to try it out, don't know if it'll work." Ellington struggled to look calm. What is this?! White bread! That's the food that appeared at the banquet after winning the territorial war led by the Duke, and even the Viscount rarely got to eat it!

  Li You Ran opened the package and handed it to Ellington, who calmly accepted the bread and took a light bite. The fragrance from the bread and the creamy butter inside filled his mouth, and without even chewing, the bread melted away, followed by an unseen flow of saliva into his throat. This unprecedented experience left Ellington enchanted.

  He who has only eaten black bread, when did he try this kind of bread? At most, it's just letting people cook black bread into porridge, he usually eats roasted meat, the bread is too hard.

  Since the bread is so delicious, the sausage must have its own unique flavor too. However, Arlington didn't want to try it anymore. He could be sure that it would also be tasty. What he was worried about now was how much his little money could buy and whether it would be enough to pay the grain tax.

  "Not bad! I wonder how many you have! How much can I buy?" Ellington gave a somewhat insincere compliment.

  "It's fine as long as Sir Knight is pleased! I don't know how much tax you need to pay? If the amount is too large, this money might not be enough!"

  Li You Ran has turned into a sly merchant at this moment! He wants to drain Elington's family fortune.

  "How much tax is required? Oh! Damn it! It depends on the tax collector's meaning! I hate them the most, a bunch of vampires, only knowing how to drain our wallets and food." Ellington got a headache again, but had to call the tax collector.

  Before long, a man dressed even better than Erlinton walked over and said: "What's the matter! Have you received enough grain taxes? Hand it over to me, I'll leave immediately. This place is really too rotten, not even ** exists!"

  Li You Ran saw Arlington's fist clenched, but with a smile on his face said: "It's like this, Tax Officer! I found a merchant who is willing to sell me some food! Only don't know how much quantity you need."

  He wasn't afraid of the tax collector, but rather despised him! However, behind the tax collector was Viscount Viltor! So he had no choice but to lower his head, because disrespecting the tax collector who came to collect taxes would be a challenge to the viscount's dignity.

  "Oh! You're really lucky! Not much, your supplies have already offset a part of it, so this year you only need to pay 500 kilograms of grain again! By the way, after the spring begins, the viscount will launch a war! You must gather ten soldiers, two archers, one knight, and of course, the food is up to you to take care of."

  The words of the tax collector made Erlington nervous! He was a rural knight, with only a small village as his fief, and at most twenty households! Asking him to send ten soldiers wasn't taking his life?!

  "What! I don't even have ten soldiers!" Erlinton was indignant! In order to let his people suffer less, he had even mortgaged the donkey that pulled his mill, how could they still ask him to provide military service?

  "None? Hehe! That's not impossible either! You can pay more grain! As long as you pay two thousand catties, your military service will be exempted and even you can rest. How about it? Do you have that much?" The tax collector chuckled to himself.

  He came with a mission, to collect as much grain as possible, and indeed next year they will need to launch a war! Is it that they lack the military strength of the rural knights like Airington? No! Although the empire has only been established for 200 years, its standing army has already reached a terrifying three million, which is enough for the empire! However, such a large army requires massive grain supplies, so the small lords of the knights are in trouble, and the great nobles of the empire cannot be provoked! The small nobles are different! Don't give? Then strip them of their titles, killing monkeys won't work, but killing chickens is okay!

  Poor Ellington is that poor chicken, Viscount is operating on him, with food everything goes well! You don't want to fight, it's all okay! No food! Go to the front line, life and death are destined!

  Elington was helpless and could only stare at Li You Ran, who smiled and said "Two thousand catties? Just one ton! It's a good buy, but how much can be knocked out of it?"

  "Two thousand catties! It's not like I don't have it! But what will the young master exchange for it? That little bit of gold coin is far from enough." Li You Ran laughed to himself, a heaven-sent opportunity! It serves me right that I'm going to make some money! Two thousand catties of grain would be worth many times more than those gold coins, let alone his own target wasn't the gold coins anyway.

  "You scoundrel! Can't 120 gold coins even buy 2,000 pounds of grain? Are you insulting my intelligence?" Ellington was furious. If it weren't for the urgent need to pay taxes, how could he possibly use his hard-earned gold coins to buy grain? This was the most foolish decision.

  "No, no, no! Sir Knight! You must know that in business, it's all about supply and demand! What? Can't understand? Alright! It means what you lack is the most precious. If you lose your territory and life, nothing else matters. And I'm a merchant, I care about profit, don't I?" Li You explained leisurely.

  "Alright! What do you need? I'll give it all to you. When are you going to give me the grain I need?" Ellington was getting annoyed, he couldn't be bothered with this anymore.

  "Food is always available, do I need it! The previous room and this current room! How's that?" Li You Ran wants everything with a big mouth open. This is also to cover up one's own purpose.

  "What? You greedy earth spirit! I'll kill you!" Ellington was enraged! He reached out to draw his sword.

  "I advise you to calm down, if this merchant is gone, I'm afraid you won't even be able to reach the front line before being beheaded by the viscount on charges of tax evasion." The nearby tax officer said in a cold and gloomy tone.

  No way! He really dislikes this place! But there's no other way, unless Ellington says he doesn't have it! Or pays the grain tax, otherwise he won't be able to go either. Now he sincerely hopes that this merchant can help Ellington, so he can complete his task and return home.

  Elington suddenly raised his hand, put it down and said: "Alright! Take them all away! When I see the grain, you'll get them." Elington's tone was calm! But Li You Ran felt a hint of murderous intent! It seemed that Elington was planning to do something.

  Li You Ran coldly laughed and thought to herself that she needed to intimidate them, otherwise they wouldn't quietly make the transaction.

  "No problem! I'll go get it in a moment." Then, with a silent vow to return, he vanished into a beam of light before the eyes of Arlington and the tax collector.

  This situation confused Arlington and the tax collector, then Arlington said to the tax collector: "Do you see clearly? Is this a wizard?"

  "He's not only a wizard, but a powerful one, and one with a huge family clan. I'm telling you, it's better for you to be smart if you want to do something. I think the Viscount would be delighted to show his friendship in front of the wizard. As a tax collector, he naturally knew what kind of character knights like Erlington were. They might be knights, loving and protecting their people, but that didn't include merchants. In their eyes, merchants were dirty, greedy, and only cared about profit. Even if they killed them, it wouldn't matter."

  But the one in front of him was not like that, this was a Taoist priest. Although he didn't know why the Taoist priest would become a merchant, it was certain that he was a Taoist priest. Who on the mainland dared to provoke a Taoist priest? He was tired of living!