Chapter 42: Marriage
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A sunny day.
The castle of the Grand Collar hosted a grand wedding.
Under the auspices of Brother Robert of St. Marne's Abbey, Baron Donnie, dressed in a court tuxedo, and Alice, wearing a garland and a low-cut gown with many bright flowers on her head, passed through the arched flower gate and formed a couple to the blessings of the guests.
Zhou Ming sincerely wishes his sister Alice, hoping that she can live a happy life with Meimei and Meimei, and also hopes that his brother-in-law Donnie will live up to his most beloved sister and not care about her civilian status.
Yes, Alice's civilian status is almost the biggest obstacle to her legal marriage with Donnie.
Because, it is almost impossible for a noble baron like Donnie to marry a commoner, and even if he marries, if the nobles of other territories do not recognize it, the children born to this commoner woman will be questioned about their inheritance of the territory and title, and may even be forcibly deprived by the nobles of the upper class.
In other words, even if Downey is marrying Alice, if it is not recognized by the surrounding lords and Count Lausitz, the descendants of Alice and Downey may not have the inheritance of the Gran Domain.
In this world, only nobles and the descendants of nobles can also be nobles.
Of course, Zhou Ming would not allow this to happen, he asked people to take a lot of money to go to the county of Bamei, which is a long way away from the Grand Territory, to "move", and prepare to "buy" a noble status for Alice from a baron who is relatively short of money, as long as this baron declares that Alice is his biological daughter, the reward of five thousand gold coins will belong to him.
Soon, a wealthy baron took the five thousand gold coins, fabricated a certificate of identity for Alice, and sent a butler to attend the wedding.
Looking at the bright and moving wife in front of him, Donnie was also very satisfied, as if he had reached the pinnacle of his life, money, status, and beauty, all of them, what regrets did he have?
Now, what he wants to do most is to hurry into the cave room and give birth to a few litters of baby babies for him.
Alice's marriage came to an end, and not long after, Zhou Ming also married a woman and formed a family.
This woman's name is "Anna", the eldest daughter of the town's bakery owner Defo, 18 years old this year, and she is a childhood sweetheart who has played with Zhou Ming since childhood.
Anna looks average, but she is gentle and considerate, good at housekeeping, and plump, easy to give birth to, Zhou Ming recognized this goal very early on, and decided to marry a wife in the future, so he will marry Anna!
So, often taking the opportunity to go to the bakery to bake bread, Zhou Ming taught Anna to make some exquisite pastries, and developed delicious cakes together.
But this kind of idea was immediately beaten down by Anna's father, Boss Defoe, and resolutely opposed her being with Zhou Ming!
In his capacity as a bakery, his daughter would marry at least a figure who was the head of the servants in the castle, and a farmer like Zhou Ming would not be considered.
Standing in the position of a father, Zhou Ming easily understands Boss Difu's concept of marrying a daughter, when he plays the picture of "Zhang Ergou", but whenever his daughter wants to get married, he will also choose a husband for her whose family conditions are okay, if the family conditions are not good, then it depends on the person, if the person is not good, then no matter how much his daughter likes the man, he will beat the mandarin duck and forcibly break up.
Therefore, Zhou Ming must do everything he can to climb up, not to mention how high he wants to climb, at least he must reach the height that Boss Defu can afford, so that he can marry Anna.
However, there are unforeseen circumstances, so many things happened some time ago, Zhou Ming had no intention of thinking about his life's major events, until that day, Anna ran over to him with red eyes and told him that she was engaged, and her fiancé was a nephew of the housekeeper Bunod, and now he was a servant leader in the castle, and asked him what to do?
What else can Zhou Ming do? Is it possible to take her away and fly high?
Fortunately, Baron Connor was seriously injured and bedridden in the back, and at this juncture, none of the servants in the castle dared to go back to do the happy event at this time, until Zhou Ming entered the castle with the group of thieves and controlled the situation in the castle, and then he saw Anna's so-called fiancé.
He is more than ten years older than Anna, has a shriveled and ugly appearance, looks treacherous and obscene, and is still a hardcore friend of the butler Bunod.
There's nothing to say, a pack of poison, take it away.
The rest of the boss Defu solved it better, and he didn't need Zhou Ming to come to the door to say, so the other party sent Anna over with a sneer, and asked him if he lacked a maid who was waiting for him.
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July.
A good news came that after more than two months of marriage, Alice was happy and would soon add a new member to the Burns family.
Zhou Ming prepared a gift, congratulated her, and increased the frequency of working with Anna after returning home, but in August, Anna's belly still didn't move.
"Could it be that the injury on my right lung has affected part of my fertility?"
Zhou Ming felt that something was not good, every time he and Anna were engaged in activities, his lungs were always in severe pain, and he could only reduce the intensity of the activity, which affected the quality of the activity.
"No, I have to take care of it, otherwise when I get old, I won't be able to leave a few descendants, and no one will inherit my property, so it will be miserable!"
The Sims game, is this point of design is not very humane, all the wealth created by the game character, if not a stable and proper inheritance, the system will judge it as "unstable property", if the game character does not have a descendant, then sorry, even if you are rich, the property score, there is only a pitiful funeral goods value points.
In order to put an end to this, Zhou Ming began to eat some foods that nourish blood and kidney ~ yang, after a period of tonic, in September, Anna's belly finally moved, and then he breathed a long sigh of relief, fortunately, the body function is still on the line, so there is no need to worry about no direct descendants inheriting their property.
In September, the autumn harvest of the year has arrived, and the golden wheat fields of the Grant Collars are full of bunches of plump golden fruits, which weigh down the ears of wheat and bow their heads, and the breeze blows, heralding an unprecedented harvest year.
Inside the castle chamber.
"Lord Baron, Steward Lane, with the help of the horse-drawn harvester, all the wheat fields of the Gran Collar have been harvested within a week, and the grain harvest has also been counted, and the grain production in Rose Town has increased the most, reaching 155%, and the other ten villages, the growth rate is 130%, 125%, and 122% respectively,...... , 107%, these 11 villages and towns combined, the increase in the total agricultural output of the Grand Collar has reached 127%, that is to say, the total grain output of the Grand Collar this year is more than 27% more than double that of last year!"
The tax collector took a report and reported excitedly.
"What about the territory taxes, how much has the territory taxes increased this year?" Donnie, who couldn't sit still on the main seat, asked excitedly and anxiously.
"That's a 68 per cent increase, that's a good calculation, and after deducting some extra expenses, 60 per cent is definitely there. Zhou Ming, who was sitting on the side, was thirsty and said lightly.
"Yes, Steward Ryan, this year's revenue in the territory has increased by 62% compared to last year! "The tax collector duly suggested that a new granary should be built.
Donnie was still immersed in these amazing growth figures and couldn't extricate himself, and after a long time, he gave Zhou Ming a thumbs up and said, "Ryan, you're such a genius!"