Villain Princess.

"Yes, Father." Lucy looked at her father helplessly.

"Alright, you may go now. There’ll be some people from Viscount Arn who will come here to discuss some things and I want you to follow me to see them," Count Celeste said.

"Viscount Arm?" Lucy racked her brain and remembered that this was a small viscount not far from her territory.

"It’s Arn, not arm," Count Celeste corrected his daughter. If they were to say the wrong name in front of the person in question, it would be a big problem if they were not happy about it.

Moreover, it was also not very polite.

"Ah right." Lucy grinned sheepishly. She had to remember the name correctly because if she said the wrong thing, she might provoke the other party.

"Okay, go back first."

"Yes, Father."

Count Celeste sighed and looked through the papers in front of him. This was the first time Count Arn come to see him and Count Celeste wonders what they were planning to do.

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Yellow Kingdom’s Capital, Duke White Residence

After receiving the budget and money from the Royal Family, Duke White ordered his Head Butler to go find some place where they could buy some food. They could even go to other kingdoms if it was necessary to obtain the food they needed. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

As for the price?

Duke White didn’t really understand and leave it to the Head Butler.

First, they approached various guilds in the White Family territory. Guilds were actually quite common in various kingdoms but most of them were only small guilds. Even if the Head Butler wanted to, they couldn’t provide the food needed to cover all the request from the Yellow Kingdom’s King.

That was until the Head Butler found about Era Group.

"There are a lot of food supplies from Era Guild?" Duke White asked in surprise. He had never heard about this guild before.

"Yes." The Head Butler nodded and showed the documents to Duke White. "Era Group is built around four years ago and had grown tremendously over the years. They have branch in almost every nobles’ territory in the entire Yellow Kingdom and it’s said that they’re very rich and acute in their business."

This time around, the Head Butler also found out that the Era Guild come from a graduate of the academy built in the White Family’s territory. It was said that he managed to earn money little by little and then slowly grew up to make such a big guild.

Unfortunately, this man had no interest to follow other people’s order.

Until now, it was said that he had rejected many nobles who come to offer him more funds. He seemed to be operating on his own.

Well, not exactly alone.

With so many branches, he also has a lot of people who were working under him.

"Is it possible to acquire the guild?" Duke White asked.

Duke White was now very lacking in money and if he could get this guild and made them work for him, then it was possible for him to get rich faster.

For a noble to run a guild was not that strange. Some other noble in other territory even made their own guild to earn more money since the money from the tax was far from enough for them. Besides, it was really difficult for ordinary people to make a guild on their own.

The operating cost for a guild is massive.

Without burning a lot of money in the early stage, it was really hard for them to grow.

On the other hand, the nobles had a lot of money. They only have to make sure that they invested in the right person so that they could earn even more later on. But even if they fail, it was usually nothing for them.

Right now, Duke White was really itching to earn more money. With such a big and tempting guild in front of him, how could he not want to?

The Head Butler looked at Duke White and said, "We don’t have enough money to acquire the guild, Master."

If the guild was nothing more than a small guild, then it would only cost a small amount of gold to acquire them. There was some rules and regulations and even if the price was not completely standardized, there was more or less bottom line that people could accept and couldn’t accept.

But for a well established guild to be acquired, the price would be very high.

For the current Duke White who had to carefully count his money, it was simply impossible for him to acquire this guild.

He might as well think of other ways to earn money.

"That’s..." Duke White opened his mouth and then closed it again.

It seemed that the current White Dukedom truly couldn’t afford that.

When Duke White thought about this, he felt a bit depressed.

It should have been an easy thing if this was in the past when he had a lot of money and so on. Yet, he ended up not having enough of anything.

Oh, Duke White really felt depressed right now.

The Head Butler looked at Duke White and sighed deeply but didn’t say anything else. He knew that trying to comfort Duke White would be useless.

If not for Duke White and Duchess Isabella being such a prodigal, then they would not have fallen on this situation. But as the servant, the Head Butler knew that he couldn’t talk bad about his master.

This made him felt even more depressed.

It was really hard to be a servant to unreliable master.

The Head Butler missed the previous Duke White and Aurora. They were far more reliable than the current Duke White. If the previous duke was still alive until he saw Aurora grew up, it was estimated that the duke white’s position would never fall on the current Duke White.

Instead, it would skip a generation and fell on Aurora right away.

If only it was allowed, the Head Butler really wished it could happen.