Seeing Johannes's hesitant appearance, Jasmine touched her nose in slight embarrassment. She coughed lightly to break the awkward atmosphere, trying to find words to salvage a bit of face for her title of Lord: "Ahem, you also know our financial situation. Currently, in this entire vast territory, we only have the grocery store located in Raymond territory that has a circulating monetary income pouring in. That money now has to be extracted to buy reserve materials in preparation for building a new, sturdier castle fortress. The cost is enormous, so I am afraid that the current ledger might not be able to immediately take out too many physical gold coins to buy coal."
Jasmine stating such a reason was already considered using extremely tactful words to save face. The harsh reality was not that she had difficulty taking out some gold coins to buy coal, but the tragic truth was that inside her purse right now, it was basically completely empty without a single gold coin left.
