Starting Today, I’ll Work as a City Lord

Chapter 152: A Different Morning

“Heave ho. Heave ho… Use your strength, use your strength.”

“Hey! You guys over there, hurry up and come over to help move things. Do you want to starve?”

…

Liu Feng woke up and heard the lively clamor. He lazily lay on the bed, not wanting to move at all. In the past 2 days, because he was on a ship, he hadn’t done his usual morning workout routine.

They had also been up pretty late the previous night. The beastkins all cried like kids who had been abused and bullied. They all ran in front of Liu Feng and kneeled while eating their third bowl of rice porridge, shocking Mina and the soldiers.

“What amazing energy, working so early in the morning,” Liu Feng sighed, rolling over. He blinked, looking at the blue eyes staring back at him. Mina was there, lying on his bed and staring at him.

“Young Master, it’s already 10 in the morning,” Mina said, her face full of smiles. “Everyone has been up.”

“Mina,” Liu Feng said lightly.

“Hmm?” Mina raised her head slightly and asked, “What is it, Young Master?”

“I got a disease where I can’t get up without a kiss,” Liu Feng said, smiling.

“This…” Mina blushed, tightly gripped the bedsheets, and whispered, “Then if I give a kiss, will Young Master be cured?”

“Right!” Liu Feng said, nodding. Flirting with a cute and clumsy catgirl in the morning is a good start to a day.

“Then, then…” Mina closed her eyes and slowly lowered her head, with her long black hair falling down.

Liu Feng’s nose twitched, smelling the faint fragrance of the catgirl. Because of her embarrassment and nervousness, Mina’s eyebrows were slightly fluttering, and her cheeks were red.

Liu Feng couldn’t stand it anymore after seeing Mina like that, so he put his arm around Mina’s waist, and with a gentle force, he pulled her into his embrace.

“Ah!” Mina let out a squeal and was kissed by Liu Feng shortly after. This was the third time that they had kissed.

“Ying…” Mina’s eyes widened, her eyes watery. Liu Feng had grabbed one of her breasts.

Men tend to be more “active” in the morning. Just as Liu Feng was about to take it a step further…

“Mina? Mina? Where are you?” Tess’s voice rang out, accompanied by footsteps that were getting louder and louder. She was walking towards Liu Feng’s room.

“Young Master, Tess is here,” Mina said softly, blushing. “Next time…”

Liu Feng sighed and loosened his arm that was around Mina’s waist. They had indeed chosen a bad time.

Mina quickly gave Liu Feng a peck on the cheek while blushing before she got off the bed and sorted her clothes. She was halfway through sorting when she heard a voice from outside the room.

“Huh? Mina? Why are you taking so long to call Young Master?” Tess’s head poked through the door just in time to see Liu Feng sit up. She said, “Young Master, hurry up and get up.”

“Okay, okay,” Liu Feng said, covering his mouth and yawning. He snifted the smell left in his palm, reminding him of the soft feeling previously, which made him slightly intoxicated.

“Mina, why is your face so red?” Tess asked. “It wasn’t that red just a moment ago.”

“May- maybe it’s because it’s too hot.” Mina’s cheeks were slightly red, her blue eyes were darting around, and her tail was swinging from side to side. She could still feel the weird sensation she had felt on her chest.

“Really?” Tess looked at them. She felt like the atmosphere was a bit different than usual, as if something exciting had happened and she had missed it.

“Of course!” Mina pushed Tess toward the door and said, “Let’s go out, Young Master needs to change his clothes.”

“Okay,” Tess said. As she was leaving, she yelled, “Young Master, I’m hungry!”

Liu Feng slapped his forehead. She came just because she was hungry? He got off the bed and changed his clothes. Since Nicole hadn’t come along, he had to do many things by himself.

When Liu Feng came came out of the room, he saw Mina and Tess fishing. There was already a fish in a wooden barrel.

“Young Master, look look, the fish that Mina caught,” Tess shouted excitedly. She had never known that they could catch fish this way. This way is so much better than going into the water to catch fish.

“Amazing!” Liu Feng explained. He thought about how he had spent half an hour a few days ago to just catch one fish, but Mina had caught one in under 3 minutes. Sometimes the gaps between people was just that terrifying.

As if on cue, Mina pulled up another fish and threw it into the barrel, which made Tess exclaim in awe again.

Liu Feng shook his head in amusement. He look in the direction of the dock and saw the beastkins loading wheat onto the ship. Their eyes were no longer numb and lifeless but filled with anticipation and hope.

“It seems like they are taking the first step and trying to trust what I had said,” Liu Feng said. The beastkins are way too naive and innocent. A simple meal was enough to move them.

“Young Master, are there really delicious buns in West Sun City? And sweet lollipops?” Tess asked, having heard about them from Mina.

“Yes! We’ll be back in West Sun City around noon the day after tomorrow. I’ll have Mina show you around them,” Liu Feng said, smiling. He was also starting to miss West Sun City, and more specifically, the tsundere voice of Anri and the gentle voice of Nicole.

“Okay!” Tess said happily, running off to play with the fish in the barrels again. Perhaps her happiness was just that simple. All that was required to hear her laughs was properly feeding her and giving her new and exciting things to try and experiment with.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

Liu Feng turned his head upon hearing the sound of horse hooves. He saw Sinke, 3 other War Wolf members, 8 war horses, and a sackcloth on the warhorses.

Liu Feng immediately knew who was in the sackcloth. He gestured with his hands, and Xinke saluted from far away. Then War Wolf members left with the war horses and the sackcloth to board a different ship. Liu Feng currently didn’t have any time to deal with Omar.

“Young Master, the wheat will all be loaded in about half an hour. Should we depart early?” Niu Da asked.

“Let’s depart early then,” Liu Feng said, nodding. There weren’t any reasons for them to stay any longer. He thought about the commoners, and asked, “How many commoners in North Wind City are willing to go to West Sun City?”

“Young Master, about 500 people are willing to go to West Sun City. The others are waiting to see what happens,” Niu Da said helplessly. He had expected way more people to be willing to go to West Sun City after they saved North Wind City.

“That’s expected. 500 people being willing to go to West Sun City is already surprising to me. After all, they are leaving behind their hometown,” Liu Feng said calmly. In fact, he wanted these 500 people to be the seeds- the seeds of spreading. Once they lived good lives in West Sun City, they would spread the words to their relatives, family members, and their friends, attracting more and more people from North Wind City to come to West Sun City.

And this wouldn’t take long- it would at most take a month or 2. All of Liu Feng’s plans involved people being silently trapped without their knowledge.