Villain Princess.
Chapter 197: “…” (3)

Chapter 197: “...” (3)

Since he still worked for the White Family, the Head Butler could only help Duke White to do these things. Even if he felt that Duke White should do these things on his own, the Head Butler still chose to help.

Because he didn’t want to see the destruction of the White Family.

The Head Butler had been around when the previous Duke White, which is Aurora’s grandfather, built his territory. From the barren territory to the way it is right now. In Aurora’s hand, it thrived even more.

But in this Duke White’s hand...

*sigh*

There were a lot of problems appearing and the amount of money that Duke White could spend was basically 0.

Everything had to be spent for the sake of the daily necessities.

There were even some things that they have to lower the grades secretly. It would not match the status of a duke, but without doing these, they would not have enough money at all.

So they didn’t have any other choices.

Even now, Duke White had to run here and there to make up for the losses.

He was so busy that he felt he had no time to sleep.

At this moment, Duke White slowly understood why Aurora seemed to have no time for anything else. She didn’t even spend time with them.

Because she couldn’t.

With the situation in the White Dukedom, Aurora would have to work hard every single day to make sure the dukedom had enough money.

Money for him.

Money for Duchess Isabella.

Money for the territory.

And so on.

Duke White didn’t know how Aurora did it, but she managed it anyway. And when these were thrown to him, he couldn’t do anything but to lower his own expense and the people around him so that the territory could still run.

Duchess Isabella also heard about this matter and was dumbfounded. She has been staying in the mansion honestly for the time being, but it was clear that she was dissatisfied with this situation.

She wanted to party.

But there was no money to buy new dresses and jewelries again, so Duchess Isabella could only stay at home honestly.

Of course, there were still some dissatisfaction.

Duke White had to console her that this matter was only temporary and that the situation would turn better soon.

So Duchess Isabella reigned her temper.

Even though she still wanted to go out and party, she decided to wait until Duke White solved the problem. In the meantime, Duchess Isabella could spend this time with her second daughter instead.

And just when Duke White thought that he could mend everything, the order from the Royal Palace arrived.

"There’s going to be a war and I have to prepare the foods necessary?" Duke White repeated, his tone was full disbelief.

He never heard about the Yellow Kingdom going to war. And the biggest problem for Duke White was the fact that he had to prepare enough food for this war.

Looking at the reserve grains in the storage house, Duke White felt that the sky was falling.

There was not enough food!

The amount of food there was only barely enough for the supplies of the people in his territory. And that was without him considering whether the output this year would be enough or not.

Duke White had just barely solved the problem of lack of money for the remainder of the year and already considering whether he should sell more grains. But the amount was not much and the Head Butler strongly against it, so Duke White put down the idea.

It was said that they have already sold a lot of grains before in order to cover up the losses of money from him and Duchess Isabella’s spending.

He would have to wait until it was harvest time to see whether the food would be enough for the rest of the year.

After all, Duke White was not sure about it.

He hadn’t seen the situation on the fields for so many years and only Aurora knew about it.

"Would you like to go and check the territory?"

The Duke White finally thought that he should do his duties and go, but before he could make that decision, the Yellow Kingdom’s messenger came to his place with a shocking news.

But the Yellow Kingdom’s King asked him to prepare enough food for the soldiers too.

Duke White realized belatedly that the situation in the White Family’s territory seemed to have worsened...

Why...

Why did it have to be this very moment?

It was as if everything was designed to push the White Dukedom to the bottomless abyss.

At this moment, it was no longer a problem whether Duke White could maintain his dignity or not as a duke but whether he could keep his title or not!

"No, I can’t... I mean... I need to talk with the Yellow Kingdom’s King," Duke White said to the messenger.

The messenger looked at Duke White’s appearance and fell into silence.

To be honest, this was the fourth message he sent out and almost all nobles had the same reactions. It could be seen that the nobles were all unprepared for war and none of them had enough supplies in their territory.

If the war were to break out, it was estimated that the Yellow Kingdom would not have enough of anything to support this war.

Can they win the war?

The messenger suddenly doubted this greatly.

But he couldn’t possibly ask this question out loud.

He could only hope that these nobles had a way to solve their problems and responded to the kingdom’s request.

"I understand. I’ll tell his Majesty about your request."

"Thank you." Duke White forced a smile and then sent the messenger out. But after that, Duke White also fell down and felt that there were more problems here.

"Head Butler..."

"Yes, Master?" The Head Butler responded calmly as if he was no affected by the news just now.