"What? You want to sell me a city?" Liu Feng widened his eyes and looked at the white-haired old man in front of him in disbelief.

"Yes, my friend, I will sell my territory and a city to you." Carter's old voice was full of sincerity.

"Let me think about it,"¹ Liu Feng said, frowning. He was a bit surprised. He did a lot of transactions, and this was one of the most outrageous ones.

A light flashed through Carter's eyes. "My friend, what are you worried about? Is it your status?"

Without waiting for Liu Feng to answer, Carter continued to speak. "Don't worry about your status, I'll also sell you a nobleman's title."

Liu Feng's eyes narrowed slightly. He was a bit tempted by the proposal, but he still cautiously said, "Carter, I don't really understand. Why would you sell your land, and even go as far as abandoning your nobleman's title?"

"I'm getting old!" Carter said, sighing. "I'm 70 years old, and I don't have much time left to live. My descendants don't live up to my expectations, so my best choice is to sell my territory and go to one of the big cities to develop."

Liu Feng didn't believe a single word that Carter said, but he still decided to ask, "What's the price?"

"One hundred gold coins for everything!" Carter grinned, showing his black teeth and demanding an exorbitant price."²

"Puuu..." Liu Feng spat out the water that he had just drank and glared at Carter with his eyes. "Old man Carter, why don't you just rob someone???"

He wasn't a newbie who just came to this world. After spending a month in this world, he knew the value of 100 gold coins.

Carter wiped the water on his face and said indifferently, "It's a territory, a city, and a nobleman's title of baron. 100 gold coins isn't expensive. In other places, the price would be several times greater... cough cough!"

Liu Feng smiled and looked at the somewhat awkward Carter. "You also know that that is in other places. 30 gold coins, that's all I have."

"That's too little..." Carter wanted to bargain a bit more, but seeing Liu Feng packing up his stuff, he quickly said, "Okay, just 30 gold coins, deal!"

Liu Feng glanced at Carter and said, "Carter, I suspect that 30 gold coins is still a bad loss for me."

"Ha ha ha... my friend, it's not a loss. Starting tomorrow, you'll be a baron, a baron with a territory." Carter said, smiling and showing his large black teeth.

"I don't have 30 gold coins, only goods that are worth 30 gold coins. If you're willing, then let's trade," Liu Feng said, sighing. He looked at the 2 large boxes behind him with his eyes full of reluctance.

"Of course, deal!" Carter said hurriedly.

After saying so, Carter immediately went to open the 2 boxes, but Liu Feng stopped him, and said, "Old man Carter, don't rush, you need to make me believe that what you said is true."

"Ha ha ha..." Carter showed his black teeth and waved his big hand. "No problem, you'll go to the territory with me right now. I will publicly announce you as the new city lord and pass you the title of a baron. You can move into the castle tonight."

"That works!"

A smile flashed across Liu Feng's eyes. He went to the horse carriage, carried the boxes onto the carriage, and drove the carriage to follow Carter.

He looked at the dozen³ of people in front of him. They dressed in simple clothes and behaved strangely. He felt a sense of disbelief⁴ every time he saw it.

Liu Feng was a transmigrator who can go back and forth between Earth and the Other World.⁵

One month ago, he stayed at home and was watching anime when he unexpectedly transmigrated to this world after being electrocuted.

He then discovered that he could traverse back and forth once a day, and he also had a storage space of two cubic meters. This was his golden finger.⁶

Except for his confusion at the beginning, Liu Feng quickly became a second-hand dealer between the two worlds. He brought ordinary things from Earth to this world to sell, which allowed him to accumulate a bit of wealth.

After one month of researching and prying for information, Liu Feng reached a conclusion.

This was a wonderful world, in the era of cold weapons. The level of civilization was similar to the level of civilization during Earth's seventh century, which is the time when slavery and feudalism existed.

And Carter was one of his old customers. Of course, wanting the old man to buy things generously from him was a false hope.

Liu Feng's impression of Carter was that he was a stingy nobleman. He found it hard to believe that Carter would sell his territory and nobleman's title.

Liu Feng had thought of the possibility that it was a trap, but the other party currently hadn't taken people to rob his goods.

Liu Feng didn't care about the rest. He urgently needed a place to live and a legal identity. As for the rest, he didn't believe that he would be able to take care of some other world natives.

"Being a noble doesn't seem like a bad idea," Liu Feng said to himself, raising the corners of his mouth. "It's not comfortable having to sleep out in the wild all the time."

He decided that he would buy the city as long as it wasn't too much of a fraud. With his ability to travel between two worlds, being a city lord in this world seemed like a pretty good idea.

..."Clip-clop, clip-clop, clip-clop."...

The sound of horseshoes rang continuously.

At the forefront of the group were Carter and his son Fez.

"Lord Father, how long do you think that kid can persist before he resells the territory and the city?" Fez asked with a cold smile.

Carter's eyes flashed with slyness, looking at the desolate mountains in the distance. "This kid is a bit capable, but he probably won't be able to stay there next spring."

"He he he..." Fez laughed coldly, turned his head, and glanced behind him. "Lord father, as long as these kinds of idiots keep coming we'll quickly be able to gather enough money to leave this place and buy a high nobleman status.

Carter's eyes narrowed and his wrinkles furrowed. He said coldly, "Not everyone can be the city lord of this place. If they are hungry enough, those beasts can even swallow people."

"Ptui!¹ Those damn bastards! If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have to sell our territory and city." Fez's face had a savage expression like he was an evil wolf that devoured people.

"But..." Fez regained his calmness in the next second and smiled coldly. "But it's thanks to those beasts that we have so much extra income. Otherwise, does he really think that 30 gold coins can purchase everything?"

"Ha ha ha..." Carter burst into laughter. Carter clamped the horse's belly with his feet, raising the horse's speed and increasing the group's traveling speed.

………………

Two hours later, the group appeared in a city.

Liu Feng couldn't help but smile as he looked at the wheat fields around him. He was an orphan on Earth and had also planted fields² before. Seeing this gave him a sense of nostalgia.³

"How is it? This territory is pretty nice, isn't it?" Without Liu Feng realizing, Carter had appeared beside him.

Liu Feng smiled. Compared to the situation on Earth, this place isn't actually that good.

"Let's go! Let's go into the city first. After today, this territory will be yours," Carter said, smiling.

"En!"⁴ Liu Feng nodded and followed behind, observing the situation around him from time to time. He found that this territory was governed poorly and the residents were very poor.

Liu Feng reached a conclusion in his mind. "This Carter doesn't seem like a good person."

After traveling for a dozen more minutes, they arrived at the city. There was a rammed earth wall⁵ with a height of about 3 meters.

Above the city gate hung a wooden board with large words engraved on it: Xi Yang City!

Liu Feng estimated the size of the territory to be about the same as the size of a town on Earth.

The inside of Xi Yang city was so disorganized that Liu Feng thought he had entered a pigsty. But seeing how Carter and the others weren't acting unusually, Liu Feng realized that it was probably normal in this world.

In the middle was a street with a width of about five or six meters. On both sides of it are houses made of wood and stone. They were so crooked that it seemed like a stronger wind could blow them down.

Liu Feng could feel that people were looking at him from inside the houses. The people on the sides of the road with lifeless eyes⁶ made his brows furrow.

Carter saw Liu Feng's expression and smile lightly. "My friend, they're just a bunch of lowly commoners⁷. If you're unsatisfied, you can kick them out."

"It seems like life in this territory isn't that good." Liu Feng didn't give Carter an answer.

Carter smiled, rode his horse forward, came to a castle made of stone bricks, and said, "My friend, this is where you will live: a tall, safe, and comfortable castle."

Indeed, this castle was the most satisfying place Liu Feng had seen during the whole trip. Even the castle wall was higher than the city wall, standing at about 5 meters tall.

People can even stand on top of the wall, which means that the castle can actually be used as a war fortress.

Liu Feng glanced at Carter. Living in this type of castle indicated that the other party didn't have a sense of security. It seemed that this place wasn't very safe.

After entering the castle, which is also the city lord's mansion, they sat down in the living room. Carter made people get out two items.

"This is the baron nobility medal and the proof of the status of a noble."

Carter handed an exquisite bronze medal the size of a baby's palm to Liu Feng. The medal had one word engraved on it: Baron.

"This is a noble inheritance document. As long as you sign your name on it, you will be Baron Liu Feng from now on, a noble." Carter passed him an exquisitely made sheepskin.

Liu Feng couldn't help but frown when as he looked at the contents of the document. It represented a baron nobility's proof and history. The blank space at the bottom had 4 or 5 names signed, with the most being Carter's name.

Carter, who had been paying attention to Liu Feng's expression the whole time, said in distress, "This isn't my first time selling my territory, but the previous buyers all felt this place was too boring after they brought it and asked me to buy it back again. That's why there are so many signatures."

"Oh!" Liu Feng was surprised. He raised the corners of his mouth and revealed an intriguing smile.

The expression made Carter's heart tense. He suspected that Liu Feng might have found out about something, and he quickly said, "Alright, my friend, quickly sign your name, and this territory will be yours."

Liu Feng took out a fountain pen from his pocket, signed his name on the sheepskin, and left his thumbprint on it. Carter then also put his own thumbprint on top of the name.

"Ha ha ha... Baron Liu Feng, congratulations, from now on, you are a noble." Carter said, laughing.