Chapter 325: I'm sorry

For the Grand Duke of Fisabrun, it was very normal to make such a request, and the woman did have the right to ask the man to expel or exile his former concubines, so as not to hinder the inheritance of the newlyweds and the future family, and also to prevent the concubines born to the main wife from encountering hostility and harm from illegitimate children during the long period of growth. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

When he married the precious daughter of the third prince of the Krissian Empire, Antinac and Archduke Mellein, the third prince exiled his four former concubines, one of whom was the daughter of a minor nobleman, and gave birth to an illegitimate child for the third prince. She refused to leave, just because she gave birth to a son for the third prince. As a result, in order to ensure the success of the marriage with the Melain family, the old emperor ordered someone to pour her a cup of poisoned wine, and sent someone to send the illegitimate son who was only two years old, and his whereabouts were never known again......

The formal marriage of two aristocratic families not only means that they are a good match, but also comes from the interests of the family. For example, the first two demands made by the Grand Duke of Fisabrun were for the sake of his own family, and Lorist would have to pay almost two or three million goldfords to marry Princess Celevia. Only the last request is for Princess Celivia, hoping that she can live happily in the Norton family and avoid other women from being jealous of her.

Lorist was silent......

Grand Duke Fisabrun was very happy: "Come, bring some wine and food, I want to have a good drink with Locke." ”

"I'm sorry......," said Lorist, "Your Highness, I can't do it. ”

"Hmm...... What do you say?" the Grand Duke turned his head slowly, slowly, incredulously, his fingers pointing forward to summon the servants, but the stiff roots of the dead branches could not be recovered.

"Your Royal Highness, I can't fulfill your third request. Lorist looked up and looked at the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and said firmly.

Grand Duke Fisabrun stared at Lorlist's face tightly for a long time before he let out a hoarse laugh: "Hehe, hehe, Norton...... Earl...... Your Excellency, you, you're joking with me, aren't you?"

Lorist shook his head: "What I said is true, for me, when I take them as my concubines, they are my women, and I am their man, and the men of the Norton family have no habit of abandoning their own women." And I'm sure Celivia, she'll understand me too. ”

"Bang!" the Grand Duke of Fisabrun slapped the long table beside him fiercely, and the poor long table suddenly fell to the ground in all fours. The Grand Duke stood up, like a suppressed volcano: "It's her business whether Celevia understands or not, but this is my request, the request of the Fisabrun family, are you ready to refuse?"

Lorist also stood up and showed no weakness: "I care about Celevia, not the Fisabrun family, I have promised to meet the first two demands of your family, but I will never allow the Fisabrun family to reach into the Norton family to interfere in our family's internal affairs, you have no right to ask me to banish my woman!"

Grand Duke Fisabrun was so angry that he trembled: "You, you asked our family to marry Celevia, and refused to give up those women of yours, this, is this what you said about caring about Celevia?"

"Contradictory?" Lorist smiled, "I care about Celevia, that's why I married her, she will be the head mother of the Norton family, she will have everything she should have." But at the same time, she must also follow the traditions of the Norton family. If she wants to be my wife, she will have to learn to take care of my woman, which is her responsibility as the head mother of the Norton family. ”

Well, Lorist is brazen and clear that he wants to open a harmonious harem.

"You, you, you are shameless!" Grand Duke Fisabrun was so angry that he almost spurted a mouthful of blood on Lorlist's face, what did this take the Fisabrun family for? The most precious flower of our family is married to your Norton family and you have to learn to take care of your woman, this is the responsibility of being a housemother? How can this be reasonable! If this is going to spread out, where will the face of the Fisabrun family go? We are not those down-and-out aristocratic families! We are the Fisabrun family, the lion of the mighty Northeast Prairie!

Grand Duke Fisabrun glared at Lorliste angrily, his momentum continued to rise, and his right hand had already grasped the long sword hanging from his waist, as if he wanted to pull out the long sword and split Lorist in half.

Lorlist's hands seemed to hang down easily, but his feet were already in good position, ready to meet the thunderous blow of the Grand Duke of Fisabrun. If the vision and momentum can be substantialized, then the space between the Grand Duke of Fisabrun and Lorist will already be thunder and lightning, and sparks will be splashed everywhere.

"Lord Norton, banishing your concubines and your illegitimate children is the demand of our Fisabrun family, and it is also the condition that you must meet in order to marry Celevia, and it is also your chance to show Celevia your sincerity. If you can't, I'll think you're provoking the patience and tolerance of the Fisabrun family. As her grandfather, I will never allow her husband to have other women and children......"

The Grand Duke of Fisabrun finally held back his anger and spoke again after a long silence.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness, but I said I couldn't. It's not a question of whether I can marry your family, it's about being a man's most fundamental responsibility, banishing his own women and children, it's a man's shame. I would never do that. ”

Grand Duke Fisabrun suddenly dissipated his momentum, sat back in his chair with some discouragement, and waved his hand: "Lord Earl Norton, you go back." I hope that when you return, you will give careful consideration to these three requests that I have made. Only if you do that I will agree to marry Celivia to you. ”

Lorist took three steps back, made a half-bow to his chest, and was about to turn to leave, when he stopped again: "Your Highness, please also think carefully, if I give up my women and children in order to marry Celevia, then who can guarantee that I will give up Celevia for other women in the future......?"

Before he finished speaking, the Grand Duke of Fisabrun was already furious, grabbed some ornaments on the desk next to him and threw them at Lorliste: "Get out!

Lorist Heads Rat......

Running out of the Rose Palace and seeing El and the others standing at the door waiting, Lorist was suddenly stunned, stood still, and touched his chin with his hand: "No, how could that old man in Fisabrun not draw his sword and cut me? Even if I end up with a hot brain and saying the wrong thing to make him angry, I just smash things, not draw my sword, doesn't it mean that this old man has always been short-temper......ed?

However, at this time, El and a dozen or so guards had already met him with their mounts, and Lorist could only return to the hotel with a full stomach.

Earl Kenmeth was sitting in the hall of the hotel waiting for Lorlist's arrival, and as soon as he saw Lorist enter the door, he jumped up and grabbed Lorlist's arm: "Is the Grand Duke of Fisabrun looking for you for Princess Celevia's relatives?"

Lorist nodded.

"Is it done?"

Lorist shook his head and shrugged again: "I don't think so, because I didn't agree to his three requests." ”

Count Kenmeth was stunned: "Three requests, what did he ask for?"

"First, the Grand Duke asked our family to assist him in setting up ten workshops in Makinohara, and to make the Fisabrun family territory self-sufficient in daily necessities within two years......," Lorist recalled.

Count Kenmath jumped up again: "No, absolutely not, this is almost cutting off the roots of our Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce! Locke, you don't know that what is most needed on the grassland is daily necessities, although the profit in this area is small, the trading volume is huge, and the Snow Salt Chamber of Commerce has now monopolized the market for daily necessities in Makinohara Province and Donghuang Province, and two-thirds of the annual dividend profit is from here." The goods that come in from other places are not as good as our quality, and the second is not as good as our price, and they have long been extinct. Isn't the Grand Duke of Fisabrun now occupying the Great and Small Jinchuan? There is gold there, and I want to raise the price a little more and squeeze more oil and water......

Count Kenmeth suddenly deflated: "It's better to marry Duke Celevia, let's talk about this aspect, the old fox of Grand Duke Fisabrun obviously doesn't want us to make money from his family territory, or he himself also sees the profits from the trading of daily necessities, so he asks you to help them open so many workshops...... It doesn't matter, without the profit in this area, I can think of other ways to increase the profit of other goods......"

"The second request is that he have our family provide him with 10,000 sets of the standard equipment worn by the guards around me......" Lorist continued.

Count Kenmax blew up again: "It's too much, this old immortal is insatiable......"

The standard armor of the 3,000-strong guard battalion around Lorist was indeed different from the armor of the family's armed soldiers. Although the family armed soldiers are equipped with stainless steel armor, their defense is still slightly worse than the standard armor equipped by the guard battalion, the same style, but the color is different, the standard equipment of the family armed soldiers is lead gray, while the guard battalion is equipped with blue-gray, which is also the color of the unique standard equipment of the guards around Lorlist.

Earl Kenmeth, Baron Philim and Baron Saheen all thought that the Norton family was armed with the same fine iron armor as them, after all, they couldn't tell the difference between the two metals by looking at the color, and they didn't have much contact with the Norton family's armed soldiers. However, they knew that the equipment of the guard battalion had the best defensive strength, and Lorist said the same to them, such a set of equipment was worth about the cost of one hundred and eighty gold forts, and the family only made about three thousand sets, and then made and gave them two sets according to the style they had chosen.

Now Fisabrun is asking for 10,000 sets in public. Count Kenmax was indignant: "Is this old immortal crazy? This 10,000 sets is almost 2 million gold merit, is he selling Princess Celevia? The wedding of the third prince and the daughter of the Grand Duke of Melain only cost 2 million gold coins, and that is still the head of the old man of the empire, which is only 780,000 gold fords. How could he say that he wanted you to pay such a big price to marry Princess Celevia, so you refused, didn't you?"

Lorist replied: "I have agreed to both requests. ”

"Uh......" Count Kenmax was choked, and it took a long time to get his breath down: "Sex, okay, okay, your Norton family is only arrogant, and you can agree to such unreasonable requests." Isn't the third request even more ridiculous?"

"No, his third request is for me to exile my concubines and their children, so that I can get his consent to marry the two families......"

Count Kenmeth was silent, and after a while, he patted Lorist on the back: "I really want to say that you are a fool and a fool, and you have agreed to such difficult and unreasonable requests, but this is the simplest reasonable request in the eyes of others, but you have refused." I don't know what to say about you, but I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in my heart, and I think Philim and Shaheen felt the same way when they heard it, and we would never worry about the covenant between the four of us being torn apart by the growing Norton family......"

Lorist smiled bitterly: "But now I don't know how to explain to Princess Celivia. ”

Count Kenmax also smiled: "Locke, all I can say is that the festival is good, we will always watch the excitement in the back, and applaud and cheer for you......"

"Oh my day, is this what you have done for me as my allies? ”

"No, you are the leader of our four alliances, and it was you, as one of the main alliances, who proposed the alliance of the four families, so if we don't withdraw, you can't cancel the contract, unless you want to lose the face of the Norton family and give up the glory of nobility. Earl Kenmath said solemnly.

"How can there be such a thing, I don't believe that I can't break the covenant......"

"Report to your lordship, there is a messenger from the Grand Duke of Fisabrun outside, asking for an audience. A guard came in and interrupted their laughter.

"Huh, please let him in. "Lorist wondered what had happened when he had just returned, and the Grand Duke of Fisabrun had sent another messenger.

The messenger was just an ordinary guard, not a nobleman: "Lord Earl, I have come to report on the order of the Grand Duke that because the Grand Duke is unwell, the banquet scheduled for tomorrow to celebrate the success of the knight tournament will be cancelled, please understand." ”

Count Kenmeth was dumbfounded: "No, no matter where the knight tournament is held, a grand banquet will be held after the end of the tournament to entertain all the knights and nobles participating in the competition, this is a tradition, how can the Grand Duke say that it will be canceled?"

Lorist sneered: "The Grand Duke of Fisabrun is too small, you look at the knight tournament he held this time, not to mention the archery and swordsmanship competitions, the first place was won by our Norton family." Immediately against the Tiger Ross to win the championship, Baron Philim second, Baron Saheen fifth, El seventh, and none of the rest are members of the Fisabrun family, except for the successful holding of this conference, the Fisabrun family does not have a knight to take a shot, what does he have to celebrate?

If he successfully marries our Norton family, he can still make a lot of publicity, and now that I have rejected his request, how can he be willing to watch us knights who have won the victory show off their power at the banquet, showing off the power of our four great families in the Northland? So simply canceling this banquet can save a lot of money...... I now understand why he didn't draw his sword and fell out with me when I refused his request, hehe, it turns out that he is still thinking about the agreement signed by our family and him for the supply of standard equipment, for fear that I will cut off his arms supply......"

"Will you break this arms deal?" asked Earl Kenmeth.

"No, it won't. Lorist shook his head: "This is the agreement signed before, and we will follow the agreement." Because it's about the integrity of the Norton family, it's not based on my personal preferences.

Alright, let's pack up in the evening and leave here tomorrow morning. We had no less than one banquet, but when we returned to the Northland, we celebrated on our own. I believe that as soon as the news that the Grand Duke is not going to hold a banquet spreads, everyone will be disappointed, and maybe there will be a little riot. Believe it or not, the Grand Duke will send troops into the city tomorrow to drive out those wandering knights, and it is better for us to leave as soon as possible. ”

Early the next morning, Lorist and the others left the royal city of Windbrie, and the journey was a little slow because of the nearly 200 members of the Ponavat knight family who took refuge with Baron Philim. After converging the multi-legged corps led by Yuri, and walking for another six days, the Northland was in sight, and the Hendry Rope Bridge could be crossed tomorrow.

A wisp of smoke rose in the distance, and three fast horses arrived, and when they saw Lorist's three riders jumping off their horses: "Knight Schrader has ordered us to report to your lordship that Princess Celivia came to the Rock Castle five days ago. ”

...... (To be continued.) )