The Young Urban Doctor-Chapter 531 - - Outsmarted

Chapter 531 -531: Outsmarted

No matter how he looked at it, Luo Ziling didn’t want Chen Xiaoxiao to find out that he was with Yang Qingyin.

So when he saw Chen Xiaoxiao, dressed up beautifully, appearing at the training venue, his first reaction was to stay far away from her.

“Heh,” Yang Qingyin said with a laugh when she saw Chen Xiaoxiao, “Your confidante has arrived.”

“What are you talking about?” Luo Ziling was a bit annoyed and slightly angry, “She’s actively pursuing your brother, what does this have to do with me?”

“Hasn’t she been hanging out with you a lot lately?” Yang Qingyin teased Luo Ziling with a playful look, “Maybe she’s fallen out of love and is thinking of changing her pursuit target.”

“Please don’t say that,” Luo Ziling hid himself behind a chair, trying to stay out of sight as much as possible, “I certainly wouldn’t compete with your brother over a girl.”

That comment earned Luo Ziling another pinch from Yang Qingyin.

This time Yang Qingyin pinched a bit of flesh on the back of Luo Ziling’s hand and even caught it with her fingernail, causing Luo Ziling nearly to cry out in pain.

With a “smack,” Luo Ziling swatted away Yang Qingyin’s naughty hand and said annoyedly, “What’s the matter with you? Do you have a habit of abusing people? In a few days, I’m certain to be covered in bruises.”

“I just have this hobby, I like to pinch you, what are you going to do about it?” Yang Qingyin didn’t care in the slightest, with a domineering attitude, “If you can, cover your whole body up.”

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“My lord, with the increased profits from Fresh Flower Brew, do you think it might be possible to repay part of what we owe, while keeping some funds for the territory’s expenses?” Goltai suggested.

Liszt rubbed his forehead, “I would like to do that too, but Tulip Castle is also facing a Gold Coin crisis. My brother is about to get married and needs a considerable amount of Gold Coins for the wedding. My father has already decided to levy an extra tax to tide over this difficulty.”

Tulip Castle was his support.

But Tulip Castle couldn’t endlessly cater to his demands, especially when faced with Levis’s upcoming wedding—a noble’s wedding was definitely an event of overwhelming extravagance, requiring a large expenditure of Gold Coins. Therefore, it was customary for kingdoms to impose a special “wedding tax.”

The Landlord or the landlord’s daughter, son was getting married.

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But what to do if there was no money?

Of course, it was to levy taxes, shifting the financial pressure of the landlord’s marriage onto the subjects of the land, whether the subjects complained or accepted it with good grace was not important.

Now Tulip Castle had to rely on the wedding tax to raise funds, and Liszt really felt embarrassed to borrow money from Tulip Castle again.

He could only find a way by himself.

“The Thorn Ironwood, though fast-growing, couldn’t keep up with the rate of logging; the Rubber Bug, however adept at repairing Rubber Trees, couldn’t allow for rubber to be harvested in large quantities; Fresh Flower Soap, though popular, was limited by the supply of ingredients like animal pancreas; Fresh Flower Brew, though it could capture the market, still needed time to be distributed.”

Essentially, the products of the land could be quickly converted into cash, yet still couldn’t fill the financial void for the development of Black Horse Island.

So, after much distress, Liszt still had to sell his family’s assets. He sent away Goltai and Isaiah and hid in the study to take inventory of his assets that could be liquidated.

Mithril, Jade, Crystal, there wasn’t much left.

He really didn’t want to sell them.

His gaze finally settled on three gemstones, one being the Crimson Blood Sword embedded with a Ruby, another a Sapphire Magic Ring, and the last being a Pink Gemstone seized during the battle at Iron Hoof Island.

“I no longer need to use the Crimson Blood Sword, and Li Vera has long coveted it. She certainly wouldn’t be willing to pay one thousand five hundred Gold Coins, so just sell it to her at half price, eight hundred Gold Coins should do, she should be able to afford that; the Sapphire Magic Ring, as Curtis Truth’s Life Box, I don’t know if it holds any secrets, so let’s not sell it for now; the Pink Gemstone can be sold.”

But then he had another thought.