Chapter 271: Migration (I)
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"Hey, Suanna, hurry up! It's too late! ”
A noblewoman of about twenty-five years old, with a black sand on her head, a beautifully patterned silk on her body, her delicate jade hands crossed her waist, and an anxious look on her face, shouted softly into the room.
At first glance, she is the kind of lady of a rich family, who has never done much work since she was a child, and she even speaks softly.
"Got it, ma'am!" There was an old woman's tired voice in the room, and it seemed that she was also a little impatient.
"Rena, hurry up, time is running out, we still have to rush to Oxford City to assemble!"
On the other side, directing the servants to carry the valuable and time-honored antiques in the house, cautious, and focused all his attention on it, Leng Buding was startled by the woman's shout.
"Got it, Ronaldo!" The woman turned her head and replied softly to her husband's urging, her voice delicate and weak.
Brill frowned, noncommittal to his wife's words, and nodded, as if he knew.
He scratched his long, black and greasy hair, and as the various items were transferred to the carriage by the manservant, his mood became more and more irritable, and a burst of evil fire rose in his heart.
I looked at my freshly painted garden luxuriously, and my heart was full of reluctance.
Ronaldo never thought or hoped to leave his hometown, the place where his family had lived for hundreds of years, which was his roots and the center of their family's existence.
"Ahem! Ronaldo, what are you doing? Have you moved everything? ”
Just when he recalled the happy time when he was a child, a voice came from behind him, low and serious.
"Father, can't you just think of a way? No matter how much money we spend, we can't leave our hometown! ”
Turning back to his father, Sir John, Ronaldo asked pleadingly, expecting the pillar of the family to say something reassuring to him.
"Ronaldo, it's impossible, the circuit judges won't risk offending His Majesty the King and let us escape this disaster!"
Sir John shook his head with a wry smile, and he wanted to have a positive word about his son's question, but the truth was so cruel.
Since in Oxford City, he was arrested by Lord Marlowe. After Christopher's trial, the four major families not only shed a lot of blood, but also cut off several pieces of fat.
What's more, the four families have been asked to forcibly relocate to London, and today is the final deadline for leaving.
For them, the squires, what they relied on to resist the central government and control Fang County came from the fame and influence they had cultivated in the county over time.
It can be said that as soon as you leave the place where the family grew up, the prestige that has been cultivated for many years will begin to dissipate in just a few years, and after ten years, after the new generation grows up, the so-called family influence will no longer exist.
As for the side branches that are left behind, they will eat away at the land left behind, become a family again, and then follow the old path and begin to cultivate prestige to control the county where they are located.
Sir John's mind relived it, and he roughly remembered the scene after his family left Oxfordshire, and the land that was left behind was quickly swallowed up by the side branches.
As for the so-called law and ownership, when they left Oxfordshire, they completely lost their obligation to protect, and besides, how could they be able to take care of it all the time when they were so far away?
Therefore, the wise old man directly sold the land that belonged to the main branch in Oxfordshire to the side branches that remained, and it was better to give it up directly than to be gradually swallowed up.
So, with the exception of a dwelling and a thousand-acre estate, the rest of Sir John was sold.
In this way, he can not only have a huge amount of circulating funds when he goes to London, but also leave a trace of friendship with the side branches, and make some preparations for the future growth of the family.
The other three families were puzzled by Sir John's approach, even if the king cut off a few pieces of meat, but each family still retained at least tens of thousands of acres of land, which was a large amount of income, and if it was sold, the price would have to drop by at least three tiers, which was a big loss.
In the face of the puzzlement of the others, Sir John persuaded him a few words, then stopped saying a word, and silently began to prepare for the move.
Soon, in Sir John's thoughts, all the belongings had been fully moved onto the carriage in which it was transported.
The carriage would then take the goods to the Thames, and they, like the other three families, would board a merchant ship and, in a day's time, arrive in London.
"Father, you're fully ready!" Ronald came to Sir John's side and hesitated for a moment before speaking softly.
"Well—" Sir John came back to his senses, his eyes were dark, and he looked at his son with a mournful sigh, and exclaimed, "Go away, all this is God's arrangement, and we can't refuse it!" ”
Glancing fondly at the old house in which he had lived for generations, Sir John sighed heavily, and his whole face seemed to be ten years old, and he had lost his former spirit.
With the help of his servants, Sir managed to climb into the elaborately carved carriage and said no more.
"Alas—" Ronald looked at his father's increasingly old face, sighed, looked back at his concerned wife, and said softly, "Let's go too!" Time is running out! ”
"Yes!" Some weak ladies looked nostalgically at the place where they had lived for ten years not far away, and sighed softly, a little sad.
Then he nodded heavily, and with the help of the maid, he boarded another carriage.
"Gurgling, gurgling......" The wheels of the carriage walked in the uneven mud, crushing the grass of the place without hesitation.
More than a dozen large carriages, connected together, lined up in a long snake formation, slowly drove away from this nostalgic land.
Along the way, there are no superfluous proverbs, and if you listen carefully, you can still hear a few sobs, even if it is facing the rising sun, but the scene still has a sense of sadness.
After nearly four hours of driving, the carriage stopped, and Sir John awoke from his slumber, with a loud and annoying noise.
With the help of his servants, Sir John dismounted from the carriage and was greeted by large cargo ships with a displacement of 500 tons, shielding the vast Thames River.
"Your Excellency—" "Your Excellency! As soon as he got out of the carriage, the sound of greetings came, and Sir John consciously showed a smile on his face.