Chapter 192: Karn's Story
The judge picked up the last file on the bench, and there was only one charge against Kahn, who was suspected of usurping the throne by colluding with outsiders to prevent the return of the family's legitimate heir.
Kahn quietly listened to the accusations against him, and when the clerk finished reading the accusations against him, Kahn did not hesitate at all, did not even defend himself, and directly admitted that the judge and everyone in the court looked at Kahn in surprise, no one thought that he would admit it so simply, everyone thought that he would struggle a few times, but since he confessed, the judge naturally had nothing to say, and directly asked the clerk to present the transcript to Kahn, Kahn looked at it, there was no discrepancy, and directly took the pen and signed.
Shabi was dumbfounded when he looked at it from the sidelines, and he hurriedly shouted, "Father, you can't sign it!"
"Quack, quack, quack~~" A poignant laugh suddenly erupted from Karn's throat, sending shivers down the spine of everyone present.
Karn jerked his head up and looked at Shabbi, a hideous and distorted sickly look appeared on his face, and he roared at Shabbi: "Who are you calling father? I am not your father, you are just a little bastard inadvertently sown by nobles, you are not my son at all, you should have died a long time ago, it is because of your biological father that my family was ruined, and my beloved wife has been stupid for many years, do you know why I connived at you? Only in this way will you continue to do those things that people and gods are angry about!"
Do you know why I want this position of city lord? Because if I take the position of city lord, I can kill you with my own hands, and I will not be held accountable for any crime, and the people will praise me for my righteousness and kill my relatives! Then I will send you on your way with my own hands!
In that way, I can feel happy! I can't take revenge on your own son, because he is a nobleman, and I can't touch him, but you! I can be at the mercy of will, and only by driving you to a dead end can I avenge my family!"
Shabby was completely dumbfounded, sitting on the ground with his legs limped and his ass at a loss, looking at Karn's distorted face, unconsciously moving back, trying to get as far away as Karn could be.
Karn did not stop his narrative, Karn originally lived in the Angsa Empire, ran a grocery store in a small fishing village near the port of Antwerp, and it was very successful, this grocery was not a grocery in the ordinary sense, this was a grocery store dealing in luxury goods, and it was a wealthy family in the local area, as for why it was opened in a fishing village, it should be said that it was more of a port, but it was not fully developed.
The common people present did not feel anything, but those with a little background could hear that Karn's family must have been engaged in smuggling, otherwise, for a rich family, the nobles should not have done anything out of the ordinary.
The family's goods were shipped by sea, and they opened a head office in this small port village, but the real distribution place was not here, and they laundered the goods through the local nobles and dumped them into the interior of the Angsa Empire.
Karn's father was not satisfied with living this rich life, he hoped that his son could go further, so he sent his son to Antwerp, the capital of the viscount, and became the financial cashier of the viscount, and Karn consciously approached the viscount's son Carlos there, and gradually gained Carlos's trust and became Carlos's confidant, and this also laid the foundation for his later affairs, who would really be friends with the son of a smuggler?
He could have lived in his capacity without a fight, and if it was possible, after Carlos inherited the viscountdom, he would have become the steward of the viscountdom, as he is now, but he mistook this Carlos, and a disaster began to spread on his wedding night.
Kahn has a childhood sweetheart, named Lorraine, 17 years old has been out like a flower, she is also from a commoner, the family is not bad, her father is a tax officer in the fishing port, the two families are very close, Kahn often helps in his own store when he is resting, although the small shop in the fishing port usually has no business, and the little girl often comes to the grocery store to help when Kahn is at home, and makes a cameo appearance as a salesman.
The two families are of equal status in Komura, so naturally the marriage between the two was settled smoothly, and Carlos, the heir to the viscount of Karn's Fox Friends Dog Party, also came to Karn's house during this period, of course, Carlos would not really come to help, he was just a gesture close to the people.
And Carlos met Lorraine at Karn's house, this Carlos is very, but he is usually very good at disguise, whether in front of the old Carlos or in front of the people, he appears as a qualified heir, which makes him earn a good reputation in the territory, this time is no exception, Karn and Lorraine are grateful to Karnes, but they didn't expect Carlos to covet Lorraine's beauty.
Originally, this matter was easy to solve, the two got married immediately, Carlos's mind was a little lighter, and after a few years, Carlos saw a more beautiful woman, so naturally he didn't think about Lorraine anymore, after all, he was not a lord, and some things still had to be done with his own face, but he still had a few brothers waiting in line for him to make a mistake.
Unexpectedly, old Carlos actually "died young" at this time, this usually very popular little Carlos naturally ascended to the throne smoothly, and after he took the throne, he naturally didn't care, but he couldn't show his true face so early, so he had to endure it.
Lorraine's matter Carlos naturally made him extremely concerned, but what if the girl got married immediately? It doesn't matter, he is the lord, and he has the final say in the territory, but at this time he still wants the girl to take the initiative to send it to the door, and he still wants to stand up in this archway, after all, he has just come to power, and he can't do too much.
He ordered to keep filial piety for his son for three years, and for three years all entertainment activities were forbidden, and all celebrations were not allowed, and such a festive thing as marriage was naturally within this ban, so that he had three years to dissipate Lorraine's will little by little.
Three years can change a lot of things, for example, it can turn a beloved heir to a lord into a heinous villain. At the same time, there are many things that cannot be changed, such as Lorraine's feelings for Karn.
In the past three years, Carlos tried every means to seduce Lorraine, but to no avail, but aroused the vigilance of the little girl, and she talked about it to her last fiancé many times, but unfortunately Karn thought that this Carlos lord was his former friend Carlos, and he did not take it for a while.
Three years passed quickly, and it was said that things that could not be done would make people have infinite interest, so Carlos has always been obsessed with Lorraine, seeing that Lorraine's wedding date is getting closer and closer, Carlos is finally ready to tear off his last disguise, he wants to exercise a very despicable privilege of himself as a nobleman, which is the right of the first night.
This right itself is a bad habit handed down in the barbaric era, when the survival rate of babies is very low, and the leader of a tribe is often the strongest person in the tribe, so, for the development of the tribe, there is this first night right, this power is more aimed at the kind of groom thin family, and the groom is strong, the tribal leader will basically not exercise this power, the groom itself is strong, it is easier to give birth to strong offspring.
With the development of society, this privilege was less and less used by the aristocracy, and it can be said that it has disappeared in modern times, but I don't know whether it has been forgotten or for some reason, this privilege has not been canceled, so Carlos intends to exercise this power.
Just as Karn and Lorraine's wedding was at its most lively, the lord's messenger suddenly burst in, first pretending to congratulate the bride and groom, and at first the couple The noble friend was still full of gratitude, and was moved that the lord could still think of their little couple in his busy schedule, and sent someone to congratulate him.
But it didn't sound like that, it turned out that what the lord really meant was that he was going to exercise a privilege over the commoners under his rule, the right of the first night, and the messenger asked Karn to send the bride to the lord's residence after the wedding, and come back tomorrow morning to fetch the bride, if not, to nationalize the Kahn family's grocery store and expel the Kahn family from Antwerp.
It turned out that a lively and extraordinary wedding ended hastily in a gloomy mist, and Karn, of course, could not and did not dare to do the woman he loved, so he angrily drew his sword and killed the lord's mansion, directly creating the hero of Liangshan who opposed the current system.
Karn held back his shame and sent Lorraine to the Lord's Mansion, where he sat in front of the Lord's Mansion for the night, unable to figure out how his friend had done such a thing to him.
The next morning, Lorraine was sent out of the house, and the husband and wife helped each other back home, Lorraine did not let Karn touch her body for two weeks, and only after two weeks did she slowly come out of the psychological shadow under Karn's gentle care, and only began to reluctantly accept Karn, and the first time the two really lived as husband and wife, it was a month later.
An unexpected thing hit this unfortunate little family again, one day two months after the wedding, Lorraine suddenly retched while working, went to the doctor to check, found that she was already two months pregnant, the couple felt that the world was spinning at that time, this child was obviously not Karn's, Lorraine insisted on killing this evil seed, but Karn stopped her, telling her that it must be a small life, and his life should not be ended casually, and the child is innocent, they are still young, and they will have their own children in the future.
Ten months later, this child was born, which was later Shabi, a very cute boy, although Lorraine did not like this child, but Karn was as painful and loving as his own child, if it was not for the incident four years later, I believe that Kahn would still live with Lorraine in Antwerp, and Karn would not be in Karlsruhe.
Two years later, Karn and Lorraine's first child was born, another boy, and this time Lorraine held the child in her hands for fear of falling, and held it in her mouth for fear of melting, so she didn't even give Karn a hug.
It was the happiest time for Karn and his wife, and seeing his wife's mood slowly recover, Karn's joy was evident on his face and sweetness in his heart, and they named the second child Bertier.
When Bertier was two years old, one day the little guy was arguing to play on the street, Lorraine was noisy and couldn't do it, so she had to take him to the street to play, but she ran into Carlos patrolling the street, and it was so coincidental that Carlos saw it, at this time Lorraine had already taken off the youth of a girl, and revealed a young woman's charm, which was even more fascinating, and as a result, Carlos's eyes stayed on the spot after seeing Lorraine.
He recognized this woman as his friend's wife, and naturally thought about what he had done on their wedding night, but he did not feel guilty about the heinous things he had done, and in the past few years, the Kahn family's smuggling business has become more prosperous, why? Naturally, it was the credit of his Carlos, for which the Kahn family would have to thank him, so he wanted to renew his relationship with Lorraine.
And after Lorraine found Carlos, despite Bertier's crying, she ran home, and when she got home, she told her husband about the scene on the street, and in the past few years, although Karn was still cashier in the lord's mansion, but because of his wife's matter, he was no longer in contact with Carlos, and without Carlos as a backstage, his natural status plummeted, if it wasn't for a good business, he wanted to take his wife away and fly away.
He listened to what his wife said, and only felt that his wife might be a little nervous, but anyway, he didn't take the initiative to answer Carlos.