Chapter 205: Karn's Tale
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. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The two families were of equal status in Komura, so naturally the marriage between the two was decided smoothly, and Carlos, who was the heir to the viscount of Kahn's Fox Friends and Dogs, also came to Kahn's house during this period, of course, Carlos would not really come to help, he was just making a gesture close to the people.
And in Karn's house Carlos met Lorraine, this Carlos is very, but he is usually very good at disguise, whether in front of 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 little Carlos, who is usually very popular with everyone, naturally took the throne smoothly, and after he took the throne, he naturally didn't take care of it, 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 that he should keep filial piety for his son for three years, and for three years all entertainment activities were prohibited, and all celebrations should not be held, and such festive things as marriage were naturally within this ban, so that he had three years to wear down 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, 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 care of it for a while.
Three years passed quickly, and it was said that things that could not be done would make you infinitely interested, so Carlos had been obsessed with Lorraine, and seeing that Lorraine's wedding date was getting closer and closer, Carlos was finally ready to tear off his last disguise, and he wanted to exercise a very despicable privilege of his nobleman, which was 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 has been used less and less 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 demanded that Karn send the bride to the lord's mansion after the wedding, and come back tomorrow morning to fetch the bride, and if not, the Kahn family's grocery store would be nationalized and the Kahns would be expelled 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 all 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.
One day two months after the wedding, Lorraine suddenly retched while working, and went to the doctor to check, but found that she was already two months pregnant, and the couple felt that the world was spinning at that time, this child was obviously not Kahn's, Lorraine insisted on getting rid of this evil seed, but Karn stopped her, telling her that it must be a small life, and that he could not end his life casually, and that the child was innocent, they were still young, and they would have their own children in the future。
Ten months this child was born, that is, later Shabi, is a very cute boy, although Lorraine does not like this child, but Karn is as painful and loving as his own child, if it is not for the incident four years later, I believe that Kahn is still living with Lorraine in Antwerp, and Karn will not appear in Karlsruhe.
Two years later, Karn and Lorraine's real first child was born, another boy, and this time Lorraine held the child in her hand for fear of falling, and held it in her mouth for fear of melting, and 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 Carlos's eyes stayed on the spot after seeing Lorraine.
He recognized his friend's wife, and naturally thought about what he did on their wedding night, but he didn't feel guilty about the heinous things he had done, but wanted to renew his relationship with Lorraine.
And after Lorraine found Carlos, despite Bertier's crying, she ran back home, and when she got home, she told her husband about the scene on the street.
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.
However, in this world, things often just don't want to come, just come, Lorraine entered the house with the front foot, Carlos followed with the back foot, the two sides hypocritically greeted each other, Carlos shamelessly asked Karn to let Lorraine accompany him for another night, and at the same time promised Karn a position in the lord's mansion tonight, which was of course sternly rejected by Karn.
After that, Karn's job was inexplicably gone, and his father-in-law was found floating in a cove in the harbor one morning, and the sheriff concluded that he had fallen into the sea drunk, but Karn knew that his father-in-law was usually not a drinker.
The father-in-law died, and the title of tax officer naturally did not continue to fall on the father-in-law's house, and the newly appointed tax officer made it difficult for the Kahn family's goods, and the village gangsters also came out of the store twice in three days to find out what was right and wrong, and the Kahn family fell in just two years, at this time, Carlos came to the door again, and this time he didn't say a word to Karn at all, and directly snatched Lorraine into the house, and two days later, Lorraine came back.
When he returned, he was completely stupid, but this was not enough, Carlos instructed his subordinates to confiscate Kahn's shop, because Kahn's shop had not paid taxes for half a year, in fact, Karn's father had filed for bankruptcy half a year ago, and Carlos had been pressuring not to do it, and Karn still had to pay the taxes during this period.
This time, not only the shop was confiscated, but the Kahn family's house was also confiscated, and Karn's parents and Lorraine's mother clashed with the city lord's guard who came to seal the shop, and as a result, three innocent elderly people were killed in the street by the city lord's guard, and Karn's family of four was left in the street.
Karn, with the help of his neighbors, hastily buried his parents and mother-in-law, and wanted to return Shabi to Carlos, who was Carlos' son after all, but he was ridiculed and beaten out by the people of the city lord's mansion.
Cornered that night, Karn hid his two children and his stupid wife in an abandoned church outside the city, sneaked back to Antwerp, set a fire to the lord's residence, and then slipped out of the city before martial law enclosed it.
After that, Kahn did not even dare to inquire about the outcome of the fire, so he took his two children and his wife to the sea at the end of the Hengduan Mountains, crossed the Hengduan Mountains by boat into the Frankish Empire, and lived in Hamburg for several years, one to treat his wife's illness, and the other to give Berthier all his learning.