Don't Mess with That Dragon-Chapter 718 - 105: Prestige

Oh no! A Fierce Beast! Widow Monia from the south side of the village went to collect food and really brought back a basket of black bread and a large bag of wheat!

This news,

immediately spread throughout the village, causing an immense uproar in the small community.

After that bountiful lunch, Monia, accompanied by her two young children, arrived at the castle gate. Despite her firm assurances to her elder son York, Monia felt a tinge of apprehension as she approached the entrance.

But just thinking about her family's situation, and recalling how she narrowly escaped Ghost Gate not long ago, courage welled up inside her once more. With her children in tow, she timidly stepped forward.

At the castle gate, the Village Chief continued sorting through the ledgers left behind by the former noble lord.

At this moment,

Upon sighting the malnourished, emaciated mother and her two children approaching, he had just lifted his head to say something, only to see Monia drop to her knees and start kowtowing incessantly, even pulling the two or three-year-old child to kneel on the ground:

"Merciful lord, spare me..."

In her distress, Monia's mind went blank, forgetting the words she had prepared and instinctively uttered the pleas she had used before.

In such remote places, when a noble lord passed by, the peasants were required to kneel along the road, only standing up after the noble left.

Even during the harvest festival, when the noble lord occasionally appeared in public, he would also require the peasants to kneel on the ground.

In this tense chaos, Monia instinctively lay prostrate on the ground as she used to.

This abrupt scene stunned the Village Chief momentarily.

Fortunately, the Village Chief quickly reacted, pulling Monia up from the ground. He then kindly asked a few questions, wrote some notes on paper produced by the Blue Dragon Kingdom, and recorded some information.

Then, he selected ten pieces of black bread from the table and placed them in Monia's wooden basin and added a large bag of wheat.

All along,

Monia's mind was muddled, after all, she was a widow of peasant origin, her inner strength faltering before those haughty lords, her mind nearly blank.

She vaguely remembered kneeling and kowtowing to the lord as usual, and the lord helping her up afterward, asking about the situation at home, and not knowing what she said in her confusion. That seemingly authoritative lord then wrote on the desk.

Then the lord said something about little York being a good child, how her family was the first to collect food, deserving great praise and reward.

Finally, as she stood there bewilderedly, the old lord filled the worn basin she had brought with black bread and even added a large bag of wheat. In her dazed gratitude, she returned home in a state of confusion.

Actually, a large bag of wheat and those ten pieces of black bread were not light.

But as the saying goes,

Give me a hundred pounds of bricks, I might not be able to carry it, but if it's a hundred pounds of cash, not only can I carry it, but I could run swiftly with it.

Experiencing such a dream-like scene, being hit with so much food,

Monia, with one large and one small child in tow, carried a wooden basin filled with black bread and wheat, her steps felt light and buoyant, passing through the village and returning home.

And this scene,

was witnessed by everyone in the village.

Immediately, the entire village was in an uproar.

Some saw the heap of wheat in Monia's house and the fragrant black bread, their eyes practically ablaze.

In such destitute places, bottom-level peasants might risk their lives for a single bean or a handful of wheat, much less for this "mountain" of food before them?

Thus,

no matter how terrifying the previous rumors were, regardless of how those noble lords once tarnished their name, all rumors ultimately succumbed to the reality of benefits.

Right then, some quick-witted villagers ran to the lord's castle,

kneeling before the newly arrived Village Chief of Blue Dragon Kingdom, kowtowing constantly.

No matter what,

kowtowing was appropriate.

Previously, when facing the noble lords, they also knelt and kowtowed.

After much effort, the newly arrived Village Chief registered the names and information of the first batch of people and distributed two pieces of black bread to each person.

This was much less than what Monia's family received.

It's perfectly normal,

as the newly arrived Village Chief showed compassion for little York and Monia's family and also rewarded them for being the first to collect food, establishing the Blue Dragon Kingdom's authority.

For their great contributions to the governance of Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Moreover, two pieces of black bread were already quite substantial for many bottom-level peasants, and exchanging them with the wealthy village millers would provide beans and some bark or wild vegetables, enough to eat for five days or more.

This,

was considered a windfall.

No one was unhappy,

and when the first batch of villagers and peasants came to collect food, the rest flooded in, forcing the Village Chief to deploy hidden militia from the castle to maintain order.

Then, while distributing food, he re-recorded the levels of the village's residents.

It took almost an entire day,

to finally get the village's affairs sorted out, and through the food distribution, initially established Blue Dragon Kingdom's authority in the village.

Two days later,

three days of celebrations for the village government's establishment and food distribution concluded perfectly.

During this period,

there were instances of cunning peasants trying to collect food a second time on the same day after receiving once, but the prepared Village Chief quickly recognized these sneaky fellows.

Despite various ups and downs, the Village Chief's purpose was perfectly achieved.

Through such clever tactics,

all villagers knew the lord atop had changed, the new lord was the village government, and the old lord's lands had been taken by the new lord, and now they farmed for the new lords.

And,

due to the free distribution of black bread and other food, the slander from former nobles against the Blue Dragon Kingdom Government among peasants disintegrated under the straightforward food tactic.

The original stubborn resistance from the villagers was easily dismantled.

After all, the people's eyes are sharp,

no matter how much the former noble lord slandered, it couldn't compete with the persuasion of a simple piece of black bread!