"I heard you," Ye Lang replied. His expression and tone did not change.
"Then why do we still need to enter the city?" The minor official snorted.
"Does entering the city have anything to do with what you said?" Ye Lang asked curiously.
Yes, was it related?
Everyone was thinking about this question. Speaking of which, it didn't seem to have any relation. Who was this person? Did he have the right to say such a thing?
Who did he think he was? A city lord? Or an emperor?
"Of course it's related. I'm from here …" The minor official was stuck.
"Who are you from here? Head chef? "Ye Lang asked. The leader who distributed the congee was probably the head chef or something like that.
"Who's the head chef? I, I'm the grain officer here …" The minor official finally said his official name. However, this made him feel ashamed. He looked at Ye Lang with a hint of anger.
"So it's the grain officer. My apologies." Ye Lang gave him some face. However, this face only lasted for a while before it was quickly broken.
"But I don't understand. Why does a grain officer care about what we do in the city? Do you have the right to do so?" Ye Lang calmly asked. This question didn't have any intention of looking down on him. It was just a simple question.
However, in the ears of others, it sounded different. They thought that Ye Lang was looking down on him and wanted to embarrass him.
At this time, the people nearby couldn't help but secretly laugh, including the people from the small city. They all seemed to dislike this grain officer.
"I don't have the right. Why wouldn't I have the right? Do you know who my brother-in-law is?" In this kind of situation, they would usually bring up their backer, even though this was a very lowly method.
As expected, a dog relying on its master's power.
The people from the small city cursed in disdain. They could tolerate this grain officer not because they were afraid of running out of food. This grain officer didn't have the right to embezzle their food. The only reason they could tolerate him was because the backer of this grain officer was his brother-in-law.
"I don't know." Ye Lang shook his head. "But does this matter? Can you represent your brother-in-law? "
"Of course." The grain officer wasn't very sure. It was obvious that he couldn't.
At this time, Ye Lang said, "Oh, so it's like that. Then tell me who your brother-in-law is."
Hey, you don't believe him, do you?
Everyone present wiped the sweat off Ye Lang's forehead. You can even believe this?
"My brother-in-law. He's the commander of the Knights here." The little grain officer said arrogantly.
"Oh, isn't the leader of the Knights the City Lord?" Ye Lang asked.
"No!"
"Then why are you so arrogant?" Ye Lang asked with a smile.
Everyone was stunned …
"Of course I … ah … what did you just say?" Seeing how calm Ye Lang's smile was, the officer didn't react for a moment and thought that Ye Lang was praising him.
At this time, after the people nearby recovered, they said in unison, "Then why are you so arrogant?"
At this time, the Grain Officer's face had already turned scarlet red, like a dynamite that was about to explode at any time. His anger from embarrassment seemed to have reached a critical point.
"It's not like he's the City Lord. What right does he have to restrict us from entering? Even if he's the City Lord, he still has to open the city gates for me. Moreover, you're not tactful enough. Get lost." Ye Lang said softly.
The grain officer jumped up and shouted in a flustered and exasperated manner, "A lowly commoner like you dares to tell me to get lost? Let me tell you, don't even think about entering this year. You don't have the qualifications."
"Lowly commoner? Just these words of yours are enough to send you to prison. But I won't bother with a little grain officer like you. What qualifications do you need to enter a small city like yours? "Ye Lang looked at the grain officer with some disdain.
In Ye Lang's words, there was actually one thing that the grain officer should pay attention to. If the grain officer was disrespectful to him, there might be a lawsuit.
There was a common law in the continent that if a noble was insulted, they would be punished. That was because they were nobles, and nobles should be noble. But if a noble insulted someone else, they would also be punished accordingly. Similarly, because they were nobles, they should maintain their nobility.
Of course, this law had already been trampled by a few powerful nobles. Very few people would pay attention to it. But if a commoner insulted a noble, then he would still be at a disadvantage. And if a low ranking noble insulted a high ranking noble, then his death would be even more miserable than a commoner's.
That was because if it was a commoner, the nobles would only teach him a lesson. After all, they didn't want to lower themselves to the same level as a commoner. That would be beneath their status. But between nobles, that was a place of conflict, so they wouldn't let it go so easily.
This grain officer should be a small noble, but his status definitely wasn't higher than Ye Lang's. It seemed that Ye Lang also had some sort of noble title. Even he himself wasn't sure about this, but in any case, it had always been there.
Although the Ye family had left the Soaring Sky Empire, their status as nobles was still recognized by all the countries. And in order to express goodwill to the Ye family, let alone offending Ye Lang, even if the thirteenth young master didn't like him, they would still be erased.
At this time, the grain officer and the others didn't care about this. They only cared about Ye Lang's tone. He said that this small city was just a small town. If it wasn't because he was arrogant, then it meant that his identity wasn't simple.
And at this time, the grain officer naturally believed the former a bit more. He felt that Ye Lang was the type to talk big.
"Hmph, your tone isn't small. But I don't know if you have the qualifications." The grain officer snorted. He didn't seem to be entangled with Ye Lang's status, as if he was afraid of touching a part of him that couldn't be offended.
"Then what qualifications do I need?" Ye Lang indifferently asked.
"At the very least, you need to be able to pay the entrance fee. That's the most basic requirement. If you have an Empire's status, it'll be ten copper coins. If you don't, it'll be one silver coin. "The grain officer forced himself to speak. Right now, he felt that Ye Lang's status wasn't simple. That kind of temperament wasn't something that these refugees had.
"And you thought it was a big deal? Isn't it just the entrance fee? Do you all have an Empire's status?" Ye Lang asked the refugees beside him.
At this time, if it was in the past, Ye Lang would have thrown a bag of gold coins at them. But now, he didn't want to. This time, he wouldn't give a single coin more.
This wasn't because he had suddenly realized that he didn't want to squander anymore. It was because he now understood that his money needed to be used where it needed to be used. Squandering could wait. Yes, it should be said that it had to wait.
When he found out that there were hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing, Ye Lang already knew that he could ruthlessly squander once. He might even squander all of his family's assets …
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