Chapter 42 Marriage
May in spring.
A sunny day.
The castle in Granling held a grand wedding.
Under the auspices of Monaster Robert of St. Marne, Baron Donnie, wearing a court tuxedo, and Alice, wearing a garland and a low-cut dress with many bright flowers, walked through the arched flower door together, and formed a couple amid the blessings of the guests.
Zhou Ming sincerely wishes her sister Alice, hoping that she can be harmonious and happy for a lifetime, and hopes that her brother-in-law Donnie will live up to his beloved sister, and does not care about her civilian identity.
Yes, Alice's civilian status is almost the biggest obstacle to her legal marriage with Donny.
Because it is almost impossible to marry a noble baron like Donnie. Even if the nobles in other territories do not recognize it, the children born to this common woman will be questioned and their territorial and title inheritance rights may even be forcibly deprived by the previous aristocrats.
In other words, even if Donny Min married Alice, if he did not get the recognition of the surrounding lords and Earl Lauzits, Alice and Donny's descendants may not have the right to inherit the Glen.
In this world, only the descendants of nobles and nobles can also be a noble.
Of course, Zhou Ming would not allow this situation to happen. He asked someone to take a lot of money to Count Barme, who was a long way from Glen, to "activate" and prepare to "buy" an aristocratic identity for Alice from a baron who was short of money. As long as the baron declares that Alice is his biological daughter, the reward of 5,000 gold coins belongs to him.
Soon, a baron who was obsessed with money accepted the five thousand gold coins, made up an identity certificate for Alice, and sent a housekeeper to attend the wedding.
Looking at the bright and charming wife in front of him, Donnie was also very satisfied, as if he had reached the peak of his life. With all his money, status, and beauty, what regrets did he have?
Now, what he wants to do most is to enter the bridal chamber and give birth to a few nests of babies.
Alice's marriage ended, and not long after, Zhou Ming also married a woman and started a family.
The woman is named "Anna". She is the eldest daughter of Difu, the owner of the bakery in the town. She is 18 years old this year. She is a childhood sweetheart who has been playing with Zhou Ming since childhood.
Anna looks average, but she is gentle and considerate, good at managing the family, and has a plump figure and is easy to raise. Zhou Ming decided to marry Anna very early on and decided to marry her wife in the future!
Therefore, by taking advantage of the opportunity to bake bread in the bakery, Zhou Ming taught Anna step by step to make some exquisite pastries and developed delicious cakes together. During this process of grinding her hands, Anna gradually developed a good impression of Zhou Ming and had the idea of staying with her.
But this idea was immediately broken up by Anna's father, Boss Difu, and firmly opposed her being with Zhou Ming! He claimed that he would never let his daughter marry an ordinary farmer!
As his bakery owner, his daughter would at least marry a person who was a servant leader in the castle, and no farmer like Zhou Ming would consider it.
From the perspective of a father, Zhou Ming easily understands Boss Difu's concept of marrying a daughter. When he plays the picture of "Zhang Ergou", whenever his daughter wants to get married, he will choose a husband with a good family condition for her. If the family condition is not good, it depends on the person. If the person is not good, then no matter how much his daughter likes that man, he will break up and break up forcibly.
Therefore, Zhou Ming had to try his best to climb up. Not to mention how high he wanted, he had to reach the height that Boss Difu looked up, so that he could marry Anna.
However, there were unexpected events in the world. Zhou Ming had no intention of considering his lifelong affairs some time ago. Until that day, Anna ran over with red eyes and told him that she was engaged, her fiancé was a nephew of the housekeeper Bunod, and now she was a servant leader in the castle. She asked him what to do?
What else can Zhou Ming do? Could it be that he could take her far away?
Fortunately, Baron Conner was seriously injured and ill in bed. At this critical moment, none of the servants in the castle dared to go back to handle the wedding at this time. It was not until Zhou Ming brought the thieves into the castle and controlled the situation in the castle that he met Anna's so-called fiancé.
He is more than ten years older than Anna, with a shabby appearance and a treacherous and despicable appearance. He is also a hard-core friend of the housekeeper Bunod.
There is nothing to say, take it away with a pack of poison.
The remaining boss Difu was better solved. Zhou Ming didn't have to come to the door to say anything. The other party just smiled and sent Anna over and asked if he was missing a maid who was close to him.
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July.
A good news came. More than two months after marriage, Alice was happy and soon added a new member to the Burns family.
Zhou Ming prepared a gift and congratulated her. After returning home, he also increased the frequency of working with Anna. By August, Anna's belly was still not moving.
"Did the injury on my right lung affect part of my fertility function?"
Zhou Ming felt something was not very good. Every time he was having activities with Anna, his lungs were always painful, and he could only reduce the intensity, which affected the quality of the activity.
"No, I have to take good care of myself, otherwise when I get old, my descendants will not be able to leave behind many of them and no one will inherit my property, that would be miserable!"
The Sims game is designed in this way that is not very humane. If all the wealth created by the game characters is not stable and properly inherited, the system will judge it as "unstable property". If the game characters have no descendants, then sorry, even if you are rich enough to compete with the country, the property scores will only have poor value points for the funeral items.
In order to eliminate this, Zhou Ming began to eat some foods that nourish blood, kidney and strengthen yang. After a period of supplementation, in September, Anna's belly finally moved, and then she breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, her body function was still there. Now there is no need to worry that there is no direct descendant to inherit his property.
In September, the day of autumn harvest is also here. The golden wheat fields of Glen are filled with bunches of full golden fruits, which makes the ears lower their heads heavily. The breeze blows, indicating an unprecedented bounty.
Inside the Castle Council Hall.
"Baron, Housekeeper Ryan, with the help of the horse-rad harvester, the wheat fields in Granling have been harvested in one week, and the grain harvest has also been counted. The grain output in Rose Town has increased the largest, reaching 155%. The other ten villages have growth rates of 130%, 125%, 122%,..., 107%. Together, the total agricultural output of Granling has increased by 127%. In other words, the total grain output of Granling this year is doubled by 27% than last year!"
The tax officer took a report and reported excitedly.
"What about the territorial taxation? How much has the territorial taxation increased this year?" Donny, who couldn't stand on the main seat, asked excitedly and anxiously.
"It's an increase of 68%, which is easy to calculate. If you deduct some additional expenses, 60% will definitely be there." Zhou Ming, who was sitting beside him, drooled thirsty and said lightly.
"Yes, butler Ryan, the tax revenue of the territory this year has increased by 62% compared to last year! Because there has been too much increase, the castle's granary will soon be unable to contain the new grain this year." The tax officer promptly suggested that a new granary should be built.
Chapter completed!