Urban Sims

Chapter 41 Marriage
The warm spring blossoms in May.

A sunny day.

A grand wedding was held in the castle of Granling.

Under the auspices of Friar Robert of St. Marne's Abbey, Baron Downey, wearing a court tuxedo, and Alice, wearing a wreath, wearing a low-cut gown and a gorgeous dress with many bright flowers, walked through the arch flower Amidst the blessings of all the guests, they formed a couple.

Zhou Ming sincerely wishes his younger sister Alice, and hopes that she can live a happy life with harmony and beauty. He also hopes that his brother-in-law Donnie will live up to his most beloved sister and not care about her status as a commoner.

Yes, Alice's civilian status is almost the biggest obstacle to her legal marriage with Downey.

Because it is almost impossible for a noble baron like Downey to marry a commoner. Even if he does, if the nobles in other territories do not recognize it, the children born to this commoner woman will have their right to inherit the territory and title. If it is questioned, it may even be forcibly deprived by the upper-level nobles.

That is to say, even though Downey is currently marrying Alice, if the surrounding lords and Earl Lausitz do not get the recognition, the descendants of Alice and Downey may not have the right to inherit Granland.

In this world, only nobles and their descendants can be nobles.

Of course Zhou Ming would not allow this to happen. He asked people to bring a lot of money to "activities" in the Earl of Bame, which is a long way from Grande, and planned to buy money for Ai Li from a baron who was relatively short of money. Si "purchases" a noble status, as long as the baron declares that Alice is his own daughter, the reward of five thousand gold coins will belong to him.

Soon, there was such a money-obsessed baron who accepted the five thousand gold coins, fabricated an identity certificate for Alice, and sent a butler to attend the wedding.

Looking at the glamorous and charming wife in front of him, Downey was also very satisfied, as if he had reached the pinnacle of his life, with money, status, and beauties, all of them, so what regrets did he have?

Now, what he wants to do most is to rush into the bridal chamber and give birth to a few litters of babies.

Alice's marriage ended, and not long after, Zhou Ming also married a woman and started a family.

This woman's name is "Anna", and she is the eldest daughter of Defoe, the owner of the bakery in the town.

Anna has an average appearance, but she is gentle and considerate, good at housekeeping, and has a plump body, which is easy to bear children. Zhou Ming has identified this goal very early on, and decided to marry a wife in the future, so he will marry Anna!
Therefore, Zhou Ming often took the opportunity of going to the bakery to bake bread, and Zhou Ming taught Anna to make some exquisite pastries, and developed delicious cakes together. Good impression, with the idea of ​​being together.

But this idea was immediately suppressed by Anna's father, Boss Defoe, who firmly opposed her being with Zhou Ming!Claiming that he would never let his daughter marry an ordinary farmer!

As the owner of his bakery, his daughter must at least marry someone who is the head of the servants in the castle, and a farmer like Zhou Ming is not considered at all.

From the standpoint of a father, Zhou Ming can easily understand Boss Defoe's concept of marrying a daughter. When he plays the picture of "Zhang Ergou", he will give her a daughter whenever he wants to marry. Choose a husband with good family conditions. If the family conditions are not good, then it depends on the man. If the man is not good, then no matter how much the daughter likes the man, he will beat the mandarin ducks and break them up forcibly.

Therefore, Zhou Ming had to try his best to climb up, not to mention how high he had to climb, at least he had to reach the height that Defoe's boss valued, so that he could marry Anna.

However, due to the unforeseen events, Zhou Ming had no intention of thinking about his life-long affairs after so many things happened a while ago, until that day, Anna ran over with red eyes and told him that she was engaged, and her fiancé was the housekeeper Bunode A nephew of his, who now works as a servant in the castle, asked him what should he do?
What else can Zhou Ming do?Could it be possible to take her far away?
Fortunately, Baron Connor was seriously injured and sick in bed. At this juncture, none of the servants in the castle dared to go back to organize the wedding at this time. It was not until Zhou Ming led the group of thieves into the castle and controlled the situation in the castle. To Anna's so-called fiancé.

He is more than ten years older than Anna, with a shriveled and ugly appearance, a treacherous and wretched look, and he is also the hardcore buddy of the housekeeper Bunode.

Nothing to say, a pack of poison, take it away.

The remaining Boss Defoe had a better solution, and Zhou Ming didn't need to come to the door to say anything, the other party just bowed down and sent Anna over with a flattering smile, and asked him if he needed a personal maid.

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July.

A piece of good news came. After more than two months of marriage, Alice is happy, and will soon add a new member to the Burns family.

Zhou Ming prepared a gift, congratulated her, and increased the frequency of working with Anna after returning home. In August, Anna's belly still didn't move.

"Could it be that the injury on my right lung has affected part of my reproductive function?"

Zhou Ming felt a little uncomfortable. Every time he had activities with Anna, his lungs were always in severe pain, so he could only reduce the intensity, which affected the quality of the activities.

"No, I have to take good care of myself. Otherwise, when I get old, I won't have many descendants and no one will inherit my property. It will be a disaster!"

The "Sims" game is designed to be less humane. If all the wealth created by the game characters is not properly inherited, the system will judge it as "unstable property". If the game characters have no descendants , I'm sorry, even if you are rich, you only get points for the value of funeral objects in terms of property.

In order to put an end to this, Zhou Ming began to eat some food that nourishes blood, nourishes kidneys and strengthens Yang. After a period of nourishment, in September, Anna's belly finally started to move, and he was relieved for a long time. As long as the function is still there, you don't have to worry about not having any direct descendants to inherit your property.

In September, the autumn harvest day of the year has arrived. In the golden wheat fields of Granling, there are clusters of plump golden fruits. Great harvest.

Inside the castle chamber.

"My lord Baron, butler Ryan, with the help of the horse-drawn harvester, all the wheat fields in Grandland have been harvested within a week, and the grain harvest has been counted. The grain production in Qiangwei Town has increased the most, reaching 155% , and the other ten villages, the growth rates were 130%, 125%, 122%, ..., 107%. These 11 villages and towns combined together, the growth rate of the total agricultural output of Granville reached 127%, that is to say, This year's total grain production in Granville is 27% more than double that of last year!"

The tax officer held a report and reported excitedly.

"What about the taxation of the territory? How much has the taxation of the territory increased this year?" Downey, who was restless in the chief seat, asked excitedly and anxiously.

"It's an increase of 68%. This is a good calculation. After deducting some additional expenses, there must be 60%." Zhou Ming, who was sitting beside him, was thirsty and said plainly.

"Yes, Steward Ryan, the tax revenue of the territory this year has increased by 62% compared to last year! Because the increase is too much, the castle's granary can hardly hold this year's new grain." The tax official suggested that a new one should be built. granary.

Downey was still immersed in these astonishing growth figures and couldn't extricate himself. After a long time, he gave Zhou Ming a thumbs up and said, "Ryan, you are such a genius!"

(End of this chapter)