The old goths were more anxious about Merlin's marriage than anything else, and Merlin would be seventeen years old after the harvest festival this fall. It is really rare for the lord of Seventeen to marry if he has not yet made a marriage. And Merlin has not had a single illegitimate child so far.

It would barely keep Old Bill awake all night, as the population of Ashhearth was growing, and vast tracts of farmland had been cleared out of the valley. You can expect to harvest a lot of wheat next year. Both the church and the Arian school extended an olive branch like Merlin, something that Stirrico had not worked hard for years.

The Valley of the Ashfurnace is not large, but beyond the Black Mountain, to the north is the Great Wasteland, and the Sun King of Rome, David, has been working to expand the territory of the north, fighting the Vikings and Northlanders in the wasteland. If Merlin wanted to, he would immediately become the northern province of the Holy Empire. An outpost of the Empire facing the expansion of the Great Wasteland.

If Merlin doesn't want to, he can also set himself up as king, just like Stilicus, who has been in power for three hundred years. Merlin can also establish his own northern kingdom.

Everything indicates that a qualified heir will become imminent, and before that, Merlin needs a fiancée who is satisfactory to all parties.

Merlin was clearly not a proper gentleman, and in front of him were two new paintings, one of a somewhat immature, fashionably dressed little girl of Lyon, and the other of a melancholy little woman. There was a faint sadness between the eyebrows and eyes.

"You don't even know about the famous Lady Sana?" Leah sat in Merlin's arms wrapped in a thin blanket after Old Bill left, and she showed great interest in Merlin's two fiancées, "The governess that Master Stirico hired for you is too unqualified. ”

"Teacher Maria spends most of his time teaching Varins, and Merlin is nothing more than the unpopular Lord Prince of Mune. Merlin spread out two oil paintings on the table, these two paintings are clearly abstract in style, and Merlin can't help but miss the high-definition pictures of later generations. He felt that it was too hasty to decide who he would live with in the future based on only two oil paintings with which his eyebrows and eyes were not clear.

"The Vernes family was a silk merchant in the south, and almost all of them used Verne silk, from the Sun King of the Holy Empire to the Abbey of Michel in Hippo. They had mastered the secret recipe for weaving those brocades, and no one but them could weave such wonderful patterns. Leah picked up the painting of a woman with a melancholy expression, "Lady Sana married into the Verne family at the age of fourteen, and two years later, her husband died on the battlefield, and she is now only twenty-four years old, and she is famous, and I heard that Master Stiricus was interested in marrying her two years earlier, and I don't know why there was no movement after that. ”

"Who is the other one?" Merlin couldn't help but sigh in his heart, a woman like Mrs. Sana, if she was placed in the next generation, she would definitely be a domineering female president with both beauty and wisdom, how could such a woman have a melancholy face.

"Blena of Verne, this is a very cute little girl, when she was young, her face was round, she was very comfortable to squeeze, I heard that now she has grown taller, and she likes to wear beautiful dresses in Rome, if you marry her, you must be happy every day. Leah was caught up in memories of the past in front of Merlin, and for a moment her spirit was in a trance. The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, as if he remembered the pleasant past. She continued, "This is a very caring little girl who likes to raise all kinds of animals, which is a problem if you are in Ashhearth. ”

"How do you even know this?" Merlin asked with a grin, the night was already deep, the moon was setting in the western mountains, and it was dark outside the window.

"When Leah was young, she was the second lady of the Baggins family, although she was not as good as the silk merchants like the Ketana family, but she still had a good relationship with the Verne family, and she would receive invitations from the Verne family to the Autumn Harvest Festival ball every year. Leah's smile was a little reluctant.

"You're a jack of all trades!" Merlin blew out the lights and picked up the man in his arms, "Why don't you be the mistress of Ashhearth?"

"No, Merlin, you can't ...... that" It's not the first time Leah has rejected Merlin.

"Is it because of Parker?" Merlin Howe did not hide the anger in his heart.

"No, it has nothing to do with him, Leah swore in front of the Holy Father that she will never marry again in this life!" Leah's gasp was interrupted by Merlin's violent thump.

Leah's resistance was futile, and soon only moaning remained in the darkened bedroom. The crow in the bamboo forest outside the window was woken up, it was afraid to beat its wings, making a snapping sound, as if venting its dissatisfaction, it had been disturbed twice tonight, maybe this is not a good place to settle down, it's time to consider changing the nest.

Merlin wakes up with a terrible headache, and the reality is that just when you think you're strong enough to smash every boulder in front of you, the two paintings that Stirico puts in front of Merlin make it all feel like a lie.

The real protagonist should be Stilico, not Merlin who came through time, at least Merlin doesn't even have the right to marry whomever he wants.

Leah didn't know when she left, and there was only a faint fragrance left by Merlin's side. The second lady of the Baggins family saw better than everyone else, and she knew what the bottom line was with Merlin. A woman will only become cruel to herself when she is desperate for life. As long as she was willing to nod, Merlin might marry her despite Adrianople's objections.

There are not a few people like Parker who marry two wives, and if Merlin really wants to marry Leah, it will still be a problem in the eyes of the church, but Merlin believes that he can settle all this. Speaking of which, Merlin is too idealistic, and even a woman can understand that Merlin's marriage as a lord must be mixed with political factors.

The two families selected by Stilico had great influence in the South, and their status as Merlin's cousins was not low, but it was very important that Merlin's union with these families did not affect Varins' rule in Adrianople.

Outside the window, I don't know when it started to rain, Merlin pushed open the window, letting the wind and cold rain beat his chest, and the cold didn't make the boredom in his heart lessen. No matter how much unwillingness there is in his heart, in the eyes of Merlin's father, only the continuation of Selise's rule is the most important. The so-called happiness is nothing but a vassal that can be sacrificed at any time.