"Mr. President, have you run out of money?" Just after they entered Falling Rain Forest, Anise, who had been quietly leading the way, suddenly stopped and glanced back at Xu Yi. She rummaged around for a moment, then took out a handful of gold coins and held them out to him. "Here, this is all I have on me right now. Take it for now."
Xu Yi stared in surprise at the gold coins cradled in Anise's slender hands, then looked up at her earnest expression and asked in bewilderment, "What are you doing?"
"Didn't you just tell Chief Slubi that you had no money? I don't have any use for these gold coins right now anyway, so you can have them," Anise replied, as though it were perfectly obvious.
Xu Yi finally understood what she meant. Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, he pushed her hands back and said, "Anise, when I said I had no money, I didn't mean that I personally had no money. I meant that our Xinfei Merchant Guild had no money. Do you understand?"
"Huh? The guild has no money?" Anise's eyes widened in surprise. Then she looked down at the few dozen gold coins in her hands and shook her head. "Then this probably won't be enough. When we see the elder later, why don't you ask her to lend you some? Didn't she just receive the wages you paid our tribespeople last time? I think it was several thousand gold coins."
Looking at Anise's innocent expression, Xu Yi couldn't help finding it a little funny.
"Anise, it seems you still don't understand what I mean. When I say the guild has no money, I only mean that we temporarily lack liquid funds. In other words, if the guild urgently needed money