After a day of hard work, the City Lord's Mansion looked brand new inside and out, and the streets outside the City Lord's Mansion were also cleaned by the hardworking residents of Achenkant City, without even a pile of snow left on the ground.
Lina and a few other women like him were doing the final finishing work. They were going to transport the garbage out of the City Lord's Mansion one by one, one truck at a time. After doing this, they could return to the City Lord's Mansion to collect their wages.
"If you ask me, the city lord is a really kind-hearted person. He pays us for such a small amount of work. When I think about getting 20 copper coins for a day's work, I feel so relieved." One of the tall and thin women patted her arms happily.
"Who isn't?" Lina glanced at her. She was very strong, so it was very easy for her to move the pile of garbage in the garbage bag to the car.
"When I first saw the City Lord, I knew he was a very kind person."
"She is another approachable magician. Even the high priest said that she is favored by the God of Light." Lina recalled the time when she first met Jiang Jin. Her eyes shone brightly. At this moment, she forgot the past when she thought Jiang Jin was an ominous person.
Several women chatted and laughed, praising Jiang Jin as being just like a fairy in heaven.
When Lina and others were about to walk out of the city gate and push the cart out, Lina suddenly saw Yager giving instructions to several maids beside her. Several women immediately tilted their bodies and pricked up their ears to listen in their direction.
People always have a gossipy mentality to some extent, especially women of Lina's age, who are extremely sensitive to certain gossips.
"What did you hear? What did you hear?!" The woman with poor hearing in another ear hurriedly asked her companions around her.
"Don't be anxious. Why should I be anxious? I seem to have heard the words 'spring plowing'." Lina frowned and took two more steps towards Yager. Unfortunately, her movements were too big and Yager soon discovered her presence.
Yager didn't say anything, but just glanced at them coldly, which made the women look a little embarrassed. They looked around, pretending that they didn't mean it, and pushed the cart out in a hurry.
After running quite a distance from the City Lord's Mansion, they patted their chests and said terrifiedly, "It's really terrifying. Did you see her expression just now? Oh, this woman is really scary."
As soon as the tall and thin woman finished speaking, Lina slapped her head hard. Linna cursed her loudly: "How dare you say that to everyone, Meilu? If Ya Ge hears it, will you still want your money?!"
Meilu looked embarrassed and didn't dare to say anything bad about Yager anymore.
They chatted for a long time, finally returning to the topic that Yager had just mentioned. Lina touched her round chin and said uncertainly, "I think I heard them talking about spring plowing."
"It seems like he said something like, the city lord has changed the tax rate for spring plowing." Lina's words were like a huge uproar in everyone's calm hearts.
"This... this, can this be true?!" Meilu was a little bit unbelievable. After all, leasing the land could make the City Lord's Mansion a lot of money.
Moreover, the City Lord's Mansion has never changed this way of signing the contract over the years, and they have almost become accustomed to it. They did not expect Jiang Jin to make further changes to the contract.
Lin Linna stretched out her chubby hands and clapped them hard. Meilu shouted at her from behind, "Don't you know who our City Lord is? He can be said to be the God of Light descended to earth. Whether these things are true or not, we will know tomorrow."
But these women were all big mouths, and after spreading the word, almost everyone in Alicante knew that Jiang Jin had adjusted the contract and tax rate for leasing land.
Everyone was eagerly looking forward to it. Except for Jiang Jin who slept soundly at night, no one else could sleep. Everyone kept a light on, hoping to be the first to get the latest news tomorrow.
That morning, Balke was arranging the patrols of the knights in the city lord's mansion and the allocation of personnel to guard the gates.
Before he could finish his words, he saw a group of villagers standing in front of the city lord's mansion.
Balke scratched his head and thought for a while. There has been no recruitment recently. What are these people doing here?
Lina stood at the front. She waved at Balk and called out to him softly, "Balk! Balk!? Is there any news from the Tiancheng Lord's Mansion?"
"What's the news, Aunt Lina? What are you waiting for here?"
Balke really didn't know what news would come out of the City Lord's Mansion.
He had little contact with the affairs of the City Lord's Mansion. Just managing the members of the Archankant Knights took up most of his time and effort.
Oops, I asked the wrong person. Lina slapped her thigh, but still said to him kindly: "You don't know, I heard that the city lord adjusted the land tax rate. Aren't we waiting for news here?"
"Oh, so that's how it is. So you were all waiting for this." Balke finally showed a smile of understanding on his face.
"This is a great thing. The city lord is kind-hearted and will definitely not let us take away too much food. Then everyone will have land to cultivate. Isn't this a great thing?" Balk showed a longing look on his face.
Lina rolled her eyes. She really didn't want to talk to such a naive and foolish boy, but she was still a little angry. She slapped Balk's shoulder and said to him angrily, "Hey, you stupid boy, there are only so many farmlands in the whole city of Arunkant! If we don't grab them, and they are all taken away by others, what will we have to farm?"
Lina was so imposing this morning that even the fierce Balke was a little overwhelmed.
"Yes, yes, yes, Aunt, you are right. Aunt, you hit the nail on the head! I didn't expect this." Balk couldn't stand Lina's attack and could only apologize repeatedly. Just as the two were talking, Yager came out of the city lord's mansion with two maids.
As soon as Yager walked to the door, he saw a large group of residents of Achenkant City standing outside. Then he looked at Lina and others standing in the front and wondered what they didn't understand.
Yager sighed and said to the maid behind him: "Come on, don't go to the city gate, take out the notice that has been prepared long ago."
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