Chapter 143: Gordon's Past (Part II)
Just as I sighed, fourteen-year-old Gordon, young and full of dreams, although he suffered setbacks, but was not extinguished by the cruel reality of the flame burning in his heart, but, this age of hairy boys, thoughts and concepts are not mature enough and easy to be extreme, it is easy to turn into a dead end of thinking because of the influence of a little external factors, up to the big devil who is plotting to destroy the world everywhere, down to the school to smoke and tattoo with the same student children of the little ruffian, the reason why we ordinary people can't understand these people think they are cool and awesome to blow up the sky, in the final analysis, is because we are not enough middle two……
Unfortunately, at that time, Gordon was a typical representative of the second secondary school teenager who suffered a blow and drifted away on the right path, a proud teenager whose talent and efforts far surpassed that of other peers, but because he had no family background, he was treated extremely unfairly, and even blocked the smooth road of dreams and progress, which made people resentful and secretly unwilling at the same time, how could he not let the immature teenager yearn for the aristocratic class that enjoyed privileged treatment from birth?
Therefore, the little servant who worked hard to stay in the Alchemist Association is no longer the simple boy who devoted all his thoughts and enthusiasm to the study of alchemy and reaped happiness and satisfaction from it, he learned to flatter, learned to step on the highs and lows, and learned to use his alchemical talent to please the alchemist master and the apprentice master in the castle.
At this time, Gordon may not be able to tell whether he stayed here to get more opportunities to learn alchemy and not bury his talent, or whether he hoped to rely on his talent and flattery to gain the favor and support of nobles, so as to give himself the opportunity to become one of the upper classes, but the only thing that is certain is that his respectful bending and humble smile do not seem to win the goodwill of the nobles who have long been accustomed to the common people respecting him and alchemy, the little servant who can say a few flattering words to amuse the young masters, as for the rest, it is no different from the servants in the castle who cook, wash, wash and clean.
Twenty years have passed in a flash, and the young apprentice has become a successful alchemist, but Gordon is still just a little-known ordinary servant in the huge alchemist association, although Gordon has never given up the study of alchemy in the past twenty years, and is confident that he is no worse than any student who enrolled at the same time as him and has now become the backbone of the association, but ...... It's just that it's not worse than them, and his amazing talent that stood out from the crowd doesn't seem to make him much better than others.
Amazing talents, with their unique and amazing achievements in a certain field to stand out, so as to completely reverse the situation that changes fate, is not uncommon in any era, but this kind of inspirational drama needs a special condition, that is, you must far surpass your peers, in the unfair competition system, if you are just a little more outstanding than others, qualifications and even networking and other "hard conditions" If it's all a mess, then how can you expect others to give up other competitors and choose to promote you?
Gordon, who is still unable to move forward at the age of thirty-four, seems to feel desperate even for himself, but fate sometimes likes to play such and such jokes on people, and just when Gordon was already disheartened and unhappy, the door that had been closed in front of him for twenty years suddenly bloomed with a light that was about to open.
There was a nobleman who wanted to marry his only daughter to him! When he first heard the news, the old man was dizzy with happiness, and he couldn't believe that this kind of good thing could really fall on his head, not to mention, the current head of the Statham family, who enjoyed a high status in both the aristocratic circle and the Alchemist Association, extended an olive branch to himself, as long as he married his only daughter, even if he could not inherit the noble title of the old man's pole, with the support of the Statham family and his own ingenuity, he could also get the status of an alchemist that he had been seeking for twenty years!
Gordon almost didn't want to think about it, he had to agree to this marriage, and he didn't have the leisure and IQ to think about why the wealthy Wang family would fall in love with him, a poor boy, until the head of the Statham family said the price that Gordon had to pay for climbing this family business, and the old man woke up from the dream of marrying Bai Fumei to the pinnacle of life. And fell into hesitation and hesitation.
Speaking of which, the conditions put forward by the Statham family are also very simple, which is nothing more than asking Gordon to voluntarily sell himself as a servant, not to hold a wedding, not to invite guests, and not to announce the news of the marriage, this kind of behavior is called a secret marriage in modern times, and in the Middle Ages, it was called a secret lover.
That's right, Gordon is the little lover that the old man of the Statham family found for his daughter, and the reason why the old man of the Statham family did such an unreliable thing was not because he was deliberately cuckolding his son-in-law, but for the sake of his own family's incense.
Regardless of whether it is ancient or modern, there are always some people who have the idea of passing on their ancestry to the next generation, and always feel that only by passing on the ancestral Y chromosome of their own family from generation to generation can they be worthy of their ancestors who evolved from ancient generations, and the head of the Statham family just has this kind of plot, but unfortunately, the old Statham only has the life of his father-in-law, in the era of artificial insemination and genetic screening technology has not yet been developed, the old man can only retreat to the second, recruit a son-in-law and then pin his hope on his grandson.
However, it is also very troublesome to put this kind of thing on the aristocracy, and the right people are definitely not willing to give up their family name and family glory to other people's homes, and those who are small families must beware of them playing tricks to change their family property to their surnames after the old man kicks his legs, but fortunately, Europeans have always been more open to the relationship between men and women, so they provide a third solution, that is, secret lovers.
As the name suggests, the secret lover is the relationship between men and women who will never be open to the public, if you have a child, no one will know who the biological father of the child is, this kind of thing has been popular in the European aristocratic circle that advocates romantic feelings, countless unmarried and pregnant aristocratic ladies have given birth to children who can only follow their mother's surname, and no one will ask who the father of these children is for no reason.
And the old Statham went further, simply looking for Gordon, who had no concern and no background, to be his own servant and daughter's lover, the master-servant relationship at that time, the master could kill his own slave, and the old Statham could firmly control Gordon in his hands without worrying about him embezzling the family property.
"So, did you agree?" I asked Gordon, and the old man nodded slowly, "This is the only way for me to realize my dream of being an alchemist, and I naturally can't miss it." ”
So I sighed again: "It's really not easy, I didn't expect that at that time, you would already sell yourself for a job title......" (To be continued.) )