"Chirp, chirp..."
The birds chirped joyfully. It was a sunny morning after the rain, and the air was much fresher.
Liu Feng slowly opened his eyes, his sleepy eyes scanning the surroundings drowsily. Sleeping on a rainy day was so refreshing.
"Creak..."
The door was pushed open, and Nicole entered with a servant carrying water. The other servants left, leaving only Nicole.
"Good morning, Young Master!" Nicole greeted with a bow.
"Good morning, little Nicole." Liu Feng yawned as he got up and walked to the washbasin. Before he could even move, a towel gently wiped his face.
Liu Feng had completely fallen into a routine. He used to wash his own face, but now he relied entirely on Nicole to do it for him. According to Nicole, the Young Master was a true nobleman, and such trivial matters shouldn't be his concern. She would handle everything.
Liu Feng wanted to argue, but Nicole's tearful expression, like a forsaken kitten, made it seem as if even asking a nobleman to handle such tasks was a failure on their part as servants.
Every time Liu Feng thought about this, he wanted to say that in this world, nobles only enjoyed themselves, were on the path to enjoyment, and then found every possible way to enjoy themselves further. He had to adapt to the local customs.
"How are they preparing?" Liu Feng asked lazily.
Nicole knew the Young Master was referring to Mina and Anli. She replied softly, "They left the city last night, and Mina only returned around four in the morning."
"Oh? Anli didn't come back with her?" Liu Feng raised an eyebrow, surprised.
"No, Anli seemed to want to enter the city with her companions." Nicole spoke while quickly tidying up Liu Feng's clothes.
"Alright, let's witness it together." Liu Feng stretched and walked towards the dining hall. After breakfast, today's changes would begin.
An hour had passed when Liu Feng finished breakfast and arrived at the square outside the castle.
A platform had been set up overnight in the square, albeit crudely, with a gallows.
In front of the gallows, there was another platform, originally used by the Lord for speeches and declarations.
At this moment, nearly three thousand commoners had gathered in the square. Those who had been outside the city had also entered in the past few days.
The commoners were chatting eagerly, waiting for Liu Feng's speech. They no longer needed the City Lord to send people to drive them to listen to the speech as before.
As soon as Liu Feng's announcement was made, they came spontaneously to listen to the speech. With such a good City Lord, they couldn't help but adore him.
When Liu Feng ascended the platform, it was already around ten o'clock in the morning. He looked down at the crowd, with heads bobbing and various colors of hair and eyes, making him slightly nervous.
After being in this world for over a month, Liu Feng found that he was the only one with black hair and black eyes. Others either had black hair with green eyes, yellow hair with black eyes...
Mina stood beside Liu Feng, with slender fingers under her sleeves holding several military knives. Her sharp eyes scanned the surroundings, ready to throw a knife at any behavior that harmed the Young Master.
Even though the area was already guarded by the Wolf Warriors Special Forces, Mina couldn't relax. The Young Master was her and Anli's hope.
Liu Feng raised his hand and made a gesture, and the chatting commoners below quieted down, waiting obediently to listen.
"My subjects, I am your Lord, Baron Liu Feng, the City Lord of West Sun City. I have gathered you all here today to announce three things."
Liu Feng was a bit nervous at first, but once he started, he quickly got into the groove.
"You should all know what happened a few days ago. Those unscrupulous grain merchants raised the price of wheat by several copper coins before the autumn harvest, recklessly reaping your copper coins."
"Even if it meant you would starve, those unscrupulous grain merchants continued to raise the price of wheat. They cared only about their copper coin income and didn't care about your lives."
Saying this, Liu Feng looked at the hateful expressions of the subjects below and knew that the atmosphere he wanted had been achieved.
"As you all know, to change West Sun City, I recruited you to help me work. Since the City Lord's Mansion didn't have much copper, only some remaining wheat, I had to give you wheat as wages."
Upon hearing this, many commoners cheered.
"The Lord is a good nobleman!"
"We like a City Lord like you."
"Baron Liu Feng, you can trust us with the work. Whoever lazes around should be beaten."
Looking at the excited commoners, Liu Feng knew it was time for the main course. He waved his hand to calm everyone down and said in a low voice, "Because you can receive wheat as wages from me, those unscrupulous grain merchants can't sell their high-priced wheat. They blame everything on me."
"Even those heartless grain merchants tried to murder a nobleman, causing you to lose your jobs, so you would have to buy high-priced wheat from them—12 copper coins per kilogram of rough wheat."
A burst of exclamations arose from the crowd. The impression of high-priced wheat was too deep. 12 copper coins per kilogram of wheat—not many families could afford to eat it for long.
"What? They dared to murder a nobleman, and such a good nobleman as the City Lord???"
"Outrageous! Those heartless grain merchants dared to murder Baron Liu Feng. It's too outrageous!"
"Lord, hang those grain merchants to death! Punish them! Dig out their black hearts and let wild dogs devour them. In their next life, they should be dog shit."
"Right! Hang them!"
"Hang them!!!"
The commoners shouted in unison. Noah Ben beside them gestured, and immediately, six grain merchants in black sacks were brought to the gallows.
Liu Feng intended to establish his authority as the City Lord through public execution.
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