"About a month to go!"

"How much is it?"

"Last year was 20 gold coins, this year should be up to 20 hardware coins!" Liu thought for a moment and said.

This question aroused Guan Yu's interest, and he went on to ask, "What do you mean by this sentence? Does the cost of protection go up every year?

"Almost. It's been about five or six years. At first it was only five gold coins. Now it's all up to twenty."

Guan Yu knows very well what 20 gold coins mean to a family like Liu Yishou. They have no income from work. They can only earn some money by...