Gold Coins, Betrothal Gifts

"You're all talking nonsense. 🍧☠ 🐊♥" a burly man sneered. "I'm a member of the City Guard. I was there that night. Do you know more, or do I know more?"

The skinny guy immediately chuckled awkwardly, "Brother, I was just kidding."

"The Earl's mother and her two siblings weren't burned to death, they were killed in an explosion," the burly man said, convinced he was right. "Burned to death? Wouldn't they have cried for help? But none of our entire company heard a single cry for help from beginning to end. It must have been a sudden explosion that killed them all, giving them no chance to call for help."

Everyone else nodded, including the skinny man. Clearly, this explanation made perfect sense.

"Forget about Lady Weide, the real power in our Chier Prefecture City now rests on those two siblings." The burly man took a sip of wine and said loudly. The most dazzling figures in Chier County were none other than the siblings Jenny and Keane, who were not initially considered promising.

Inside the lord's castle.

"How can there be so many?" Keane stared in disbelief as he flipped through the gift list in his hand and looked at the gifts that filled almost the entire room.

As soon as Lady Weide died, many nobles immediately tried to curry favor with Keane, sending gifts, beautiful women, and powerful guards. These nobles knew that, given Keane's age, their families would likely be subject to Keane control for the next hundred years, so naturally they wanted to maintain good relations with him.

"Not many," Lambert said, shaking his head.

Jenny and Keane looked at Lambert in surprise, while Lin Feng sat to the side drinking tea.

"Grandpa Lambert, isn't that enough?" Jenny exclaimed.

Lambert shook his head and said, "Miss, Young Master, these gifts combined are probably only worth a few hundred thousand gold coins. A few hundred thousand gold coins? Hmph, Miss, Young Master, do you know how much wealth the First Madam has? I estimate it's over ten million gold coins!"

"Over ten million gold coins?" Jenny and Keane were both stunned.

They lived in the countryside and had never seen such immense wealth. Lambert, on the other hand, had always lived with their mother and had once lived in the lord's castle, so he was familiar with many things.

"That's normal. Managing millions of people for so many years, with the First Madam's greed, it would be strange if she didn't have ten million gold coins. It's just a pity that we haven't been able to find the First Madam's Magic Crystal Card. Even if we did find it, the Magic Crystal Card would probably have the First Madam's fingerprints on it, and we wouldn't be able to get the gold coins out." Lambert shook his head helplessly.

The rules of Four Kingdoms Bank are entirely in Four Kingdoms Bank's own interest.

Once a fingerprint is recorded on a Magic Crystal Card, that Magic Crystal Card can only be used by that one person. If an outsider takes it, it will be completely useless to them.

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Those who possess the Magic Crystal Card can go to the Four Kingdoms Bank to transfer their assets to others.

However, if the person who owns the Magic Crystal Card dies suddenly without transferring their assets, those assets will be swallowed up by the Four Kingdoms Bank. In reality, the Four Kingdoms Bank has no choice but to do so.

The total amount of gold coins in the Magic Crystal Card issued externally is actually more than ten times the gold coin storage of the Four Kingdoms Bank itself.

However, many super-rich people, who would actually withdraw 100 million gold coins from a bank? Even transporting them would be extremely difficult. This is one of the reasons why the Four Kingdoms Bank dared to issue so many Magic Crystal Card. And these Four Kingdoms Bank didn't dare to issue Magic Crystal Card indiscriminately, because it was under the unified management of the four kingdoms, and behind it were the War God O'Brien and the High Priest, the longest-lived human powerhouse; no one dared to act recklessly.

"Ten million gold coins, just like that, gone," Keane said painfully. He was truly heartbroken over this huge sum of money.

"Young master, being a city lord isn't just about accumulating wealth. You also need to pay the salaries of the City Guard, and there are other things that require money to upgrade the city," Lambert added.

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Keane was taken aback.

"Ah, becoming a city lord costs money?" Keane had no idea.

"That's why I said these hundreds of thousands of gold coins are nothing. Fortunately, the county town has a fixed treasury, and there should be quite a lot of money in it," Lambert said.

Keane covered his head. "Ah, being a city lord seems like a painful and complicated situation."

"Sister," Keane looked at Jenny expectantly, "You really have to help me."

Jenny nodded very honestly. "Keane, I will definitely help you." But this nod made Jenny's future days miserable.

At this moment, Keane, Jenny, and Lambert were unaware of this.

While they were worrying about money, Lin Feng, sitting next to them drinking tea, possessed the wealth accumulated by a royal family over thousands of years. This wealth was so astonishing that even their clan, the Jax Family, which had ruled the Northwest Province for over a thousand years, could hardly match it.

After all, no matter how much money they make, they can't compare to the wealth of the kingdom's royal family.

"Jenny, Keane," Lin Feng suddenly spoke up.

Jenny and Keane both looked at Lin Feng. Seeing Lin Feng smiling at them, Jenny blushed.

Ever since Keane publicly declared at that banquet that Lin Feng was Jenny's fiancé, many nobles in Chier Prefecture City actually believed it, and even many servants thought so, which naturally made Jenny blush.

Lin Feng smiled and waved his hand.

Four large wooden crates suddenly appeared on the floor of the hall. The crates were open, and inside were various works of art, precious Magic Core, and some rare and valuable items.

"What is this?" Jenny and Keane were dumbfounded.

"This is the property of the Huolmo family. I don't know the exact value of these four wooden chests, but I estimate it's over a million. And this..." Lin Feng took out eight Magic Crystal Card. "These are the Huolmo family's anonymous Magic Crystal Card, eight in total. Each one should have a fixed value of one million gold coins."

"This, this." Jenny, Keane, and even Lambert looked at Lin Feng in surprise.

"That adds up to nearly ten million gold coins. With that, you won't have to be so strapped for cash managing Chier Prefecture City," Lin Feng continued.

Jenny, Keane, and Lambert looked at the four wooden crates and the eight intricately patterned Magic Crystal Card, and for a moment they didn't know what to say.

"Brother Feng, you got these yourself, we can't accept them," Jenny said sincerely.

For Jenny, who used to agonize over even a single gold coin, ten million gold coins was a far cry from her wildest dreams. However, she felt that Lin Feng had already done so much for her and her siblings, to the point that she felt embarrassed. If she were to accept this enormous sum, she wouldn't know how to conduct herself.

Lin Feng laughed heartily, gave Keane a meaningful look, and then said to Jenny teasingly, "You're my fiancée, so consider this ten million gold coins my betrothal gift to you, haha."

Keane was stunned. He hadn't expected his older brother, Feng, to use his expedient plan to joke about his sister, and he felt somewhat at a loss.

As for Jenny, she had already buried her head in her chest, pretending to be an ostrich.

Only a hint of understanding flashed in Lambert's eyes.

"I'm not teasing you anymore. Starting tomorrow, I'll be teaching you cultivation. Don't be afraid of hardship!" Lin Feng laughed and left the hall.