Chapter 32 Immigration
As the King of the Lampari Kingdom and Her Royal Highness, the matters that he considered and discussed were of course important matters closely related to the entire Lampari Kingdom.
But for Daddy Afaria and his son Archie, these big things have nothing to do with them, and they are currently only concerned with one issue, and that is the life of their own small family.
In fact, in all fairness, the life of Afalia's father and family is much better than it was a few years ago.
Although Daddy Afaria still goes hunting in the mountains as before, he is no longer trying to use the prey he hunts in exchange for some money to supplement his family's income, but every time he just wants to improve his life and use the delicious food in the mountains to make a tooth sacrifice.
Because now Afalia's father and his family are young, and they no longer need to rely on his hunting income to make a living.
Father Afaria's three sons and two daughters all worked in the factories run by various chambers of commerce in Bonta City, and each of them received an average monthly salary of more than ten gold coins per month, and the combined monthly income of the family even exceeded seventy gold coins.
There is so much money, but their family may not be able to earn it all year round.
With the increase in income, the life of Afalia's father's family naturally became much better.
Not only did Daddy Afaria hunt for the sake of tooth sacrifice, but the original small thatched hut was now directly overturned, and like other families in the village, a new two-story brick and concrete structure was built and approved by everyone in the city of Bangta.
At the same time, the family also added a variety of household magic machines. It makes the whole life countless times more comfortable than before.
Yet this good life. But with the change of the lord of Bonta City, he disappeared all at once.
Although it will not suddenly return to the predicament of the previous years when I could barely fill my stomach. However, because the new lord of the city implemented a policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture, many chambers of commerce in Bangta City either moved away or closed down their factories, and as a result, three of the five children of Father Afalia lost their jobs, and the remaining two went to the Falling Rain Valley dozens of kilometers away to find jobs again.
Now the monthly income of their whole family has suddenly changed from more than 70 gold coins to just over 20 gold coins now, which has shrunk by more than half in an instant, and suddenly made the life of the whole family difficult.
Of course, this income is actually much higher than in previous years. However, people's living standards are much higher than before, and it is undoubtedly extremely difficult to suddenly reduce the living standard from a monthly income of more than 70 gold coins to more than 20 gold coins.
The key is that in the past two years, Afaria's father's family has taken advantage of the large increase in income, and they have been busy understanding the marriage of their second son, and at the same time letting their two daughters get married, which is equivalent to changing from one family to several families at once, and the burden is much heavier than before.
More importantly, the youngest son, Archie, is over 18 years old this year, according to rural tradition. If you don't get married before the age of twenty, you're going to be gossiped about behind your back.
Archie, the boy, got along with a girl in the village on his own. The two get along very well.
After seeing this girl, Father Afaria was also very satisfied, and originally planned to marry the two this year or next year as planned.
However, the girl's parents put forward the condition at this time, that when Archie got married, he must prepare a new house, and also buy all kinds of household magic machinery in the new house - all of them must be new flying brands.
Supposedly, this requirement is not too much, because now everyone's life has changed for the better, and the girls in Bunta City will have similar requirements when they get married.
However, the Newica Chamber of Commerce where Archie worked before was directly relocated to Canberra City, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Bonta City, and Archie was unwilling to follow, which made him lose his job, and now how could he come up with such a large sum of money to meet these requirements.
Father Afaria and Archie estimated that if they wanted to meet the requirements of the girl's parents, they would have to come up with at least two hundred gold coins.
Although the income of Afalia's father and family has been much better in the past two years, they have also used it to improve the family's life, but they do not have much savings.
So the marriage between Archie and the girl could only be temporarily deadlocked, and Archie's mood became lower and lower day by day.
Looking at Archie, who was sitting silently opposite, Daddy Afalia remembered the little son who was always energetic and giggling before, sighed long in his heart, glanced in the southwest direction, secretly made up his mind, and said: "Archie, it's not a way to go on like this, you have to think about how to solve it?"
Yaqi smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "How to solve it? After a pause, a look of pain flashed across his face, and he continued: "Forget it, Leia's parents have to put forward such high conditions, and I won't marry her if it's a big deal." Anyway, there are so many girls in this world, I'll look for them later. â
"Don't say stupid things!" Father Alfaria immediately rebuked him. "Leia is a good girl, and the conditions proposed by her parents can't be said to be very high, after all, they are also so that Leia can live a good life in the future. Well, Archie, you better not stay in the village, go out, go somewhere else, get a good job, earn some money, and then come back and marry LÊa. â
Yaqi was stunned: "Then what's the matter? The eldest brother and second brother have moved out, and I must stay to take care of you and my mother." â
Daddy Afaria's eyes widened: "I have hands and feet with your mother, what do you want you to take care of?" Listen to me, get out of here and find a good job." When you have money, Leia's parents will be relieved to hand over Leia to you when you come back. â
Seeing the look on Daddy Afalia's face, Archie knew that this was a sign that Daddy had made up his mind, and knew that his rebuttal would only make him angry, so after thinking about it, he smiled bitterly: "But Daddy, where should I find a job? Now that the chambers of commerce in the Falling Rain Valley are full, I can't find a suitable job even if I want to go now, right? Besides, a salary of more than ten gold coins a month is not enough, and it will take at least two years to save more than two hundred gold coins." â
"No, you have to go further afield. Daddy Affalia shook his head.
Yaqi was stunned for a moment: "Dad, don't you want me to go to work in the Black Rice Wasteland, right?" Although the salaries offered by those chambers of commerce are quite high, it is the territory of the orc clan, which is very dangerous. â
"Of course I don't want you to go to such a dangerous place, I mean a little further away, it's the Duchy of Stantin. Daddy Affalia said.
Yaji was completely stunned this time, and after a while, he said with an incredulous face: "Dad, you actually agree to let me go to the Duchy of Stantin? If I go, it will be difficult for me to come back in the future. If something happens to you and your mother, I can't even make it back in time. â
Daddy Afaria smiled: "Who said that you should only go alone? Didn't you see the joint recruitment notice issued by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce in the "Bonta Daily"? As long as we are old farmers with rich farming experience are willing to move to the land leased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Duchy of Statein, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will directly subsidize us with 100 gold coins. Then you can work as an employee of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, contract to plant farmland, not only can you keep the food you need every year, but also receive an annual salary of 100 gold coins from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Just me and your mother can earn 200 gold coins a year. â
"What about me?" Archie asked rhetorically. "What am I going to do?"
"If you want to read more of the Bonta Daily, you still haven't listened. Father Afaria glanced disdainfully at his youngest son. "The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will also open mines and set up fruit canning factories in the Duchy of Stantin, as long as you are willing to go, you are afraid that you will not be able to find a job?"
Archie thought about it carefully, couldn't help but swallow and spit, and asked Daddy Afaria with some difficulty, "But Daddy...... Wouldn't our family have moved away from here?"
"What are you worried about? Our house is still here, who would dare to tear it down?" Father Afaria glanced in the direction of Bangta City and snorted coldly: "If it weren't for this new damn city lord, we wouldn't have moved." But this damn guy can't get us by, what are we going to stay here for?"
Archie looked at Daddy Afaria in a daze, as if he had met him for the first time.
For the first time, he realized that his father, who was in his fifties this year, was more adventurous than himself, a young man who was not yet twenty years old.
It takes courage and perseverance to leave the city of Bonta, where you have lived for decades, and to start living again in another country that is even nearly a thousand kilometers away.
If it weren't for the fact that he was worried about his marriage to Leia, I'm afraid my father wouldn't have made such a determination, right?
Thinking of this, Archie couldn't help but feel a deep sense of guilt in his heart, and then he remembered a very important question.
"But Daddy, our family has moved to the Duchy of Stantin, so what about Lhea? We're not here anymore, and LÊa and their family may let her find someone else to marry. â
Father Alfaria smiled: "What's the matter, boy, you still talk about Leia all day long, but you don't even know about such an important matter." Sue you, I talked to Leia's dad yesterday, but his dad told me that he had decided to go to the Duchy of Stantin to farm for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, and asked me if I wanted to go together. â
Archie's eyes lit up: "Could it be that their family is also going to move over?"
"Leia and her dad haven't decided if they're all moving in, because Leia told her dad that she's going to stay with you. Hey, boy, for such an infatuated girl as you, you actually said you wouldn't want it, I really don't know what to do. â
"Huh?" Archie froze for a moment, looking at Daddy Afaria with a hint of narrowness on his face, and in addition to sweetness, there was also a trace of shame and anger in his heart.
After doing it for a long time, he was simply tricked by his own father! (To be continued......)