Duke of Herrington

Chapter 96 God is a Ball!
After listening to Bruce's experiences and encounters, Father Martin broke into a cold sweat for him in his heart. It is difficult for even a god to survive in such a situation!
The ghost knows that only the bark can be eaten, and there are only a few people who leave Munich!And in the end, outside the village, the probability is one in a hundred thousand!Surviving under the swords of the soldiers, what a lucky person this is!
Martin wiped the sweat off his forehead, put his hands on his body, and said earnestly, "Boy, don't tell anyone about this. You can come to me after the famine is over, understand?"

To be summoned by the priest alone, in the past, it was a matter of glory to the ancestors, and the neighbors around would even come to give gifts to applaud!But now, Bruce couldn't be funny anymore, because the priest's expression was very serious, as if he had encountered some difficulty.

But it shouldn't be anything dangerous.

So Bruce nodded and replied directly: "No problem, Father, but can you tell me exactly what happened?"

The priest did not tell him the specific situation, but asked Bruce to confirm his name: "Is your name Bruce?"

"Yes, my lord priest!"

After getting an affirmative answer, the priest put his own medicine into the gourd, and it was a success!
He swore to take Bruce's hand, and expressed his opinion in an extremely cryptic way: "I can't tell you now, but I can say one thing in advance, that is, our world is a bit Something's not right!"

"Not quite right, which direction are you pointing?"

"Come find me later."

"Understood, my lord priest!"

Bruce didn't ask much, but felt that this mysterious priest was a bit wrong, but he still looked like a kind old man, without any threat.

One month later, in the northern Gobi, the factory was established!

Originally, this was a day worth celebrating, but accidents would always appear suddenly, catching everyone by surprise.

On this day, Chris came to Ted cautiously with a notebook and asked, "My lord, I have a small problem. I need you to look over it. I can't do anything about it. However, it shouldn't be a big problem, but I have to Let me ask what you mean first."

"Oh? What's the matter?" Ted put down the cup in his hand, calmly raised his head and looked at Chris, but his heart was in a mess.

Because Chris is a very proud person, even if it is a big trouble, as long as he can solve it, he will not use this kind of wording.

And this time, 'a small problem', could mean too much trouble to solve!Even if it didn't destroy the world, it would still hurt the bones.

Ted was ready for 'the newly built factory has collapsed' or 'the oil industry zone is gone'. He stretched out his hand tremblingly and drew several circles in the air, motioning Chris to speak out about the disaster.

"My lord, our newly built factory moved south a lot because of your order, and it was finally built on Baron Tomato's territory. We didn't find out until the construction was completed!"

"Huh? Is there anything else?" Ted was stunned. In his opinion, this matter is not a big deal. The Gobi was divided into two, occupied by Ted and Baron Tomato respectively, a little more and a little less There will be no difference, and no one will notice.
But Chris doesn't think so. He is familiar with all the laws of the empire, and he is very taboo about doing things on other people's sites: "My lord, we are now building factories on other people's sites!"

"Hey~" Ted reached out and made some worried gestures, and took out a map from the side and spread it on the table.

In addition, he took out a pen from nowhere and drew a circle on the map: "Chris, come and take a look! Look next door, has Baron Tomato been here?"

"My lord, according to the laws of the empire, we can't make decisions without authorization, and we can't engage in production or commercial activities in the territories of other nobles. Even if we want to do this, we must obtain the consent of the local nobles!"

Hearing these words made Ted completely sober. The age he is in now, but the dark age, is not a country under the scientific and democratic system, let alone a society where the people are the masters of the country.

I can mess around in my own territory, but it involves other people's territory.
Just pay attention!

Besides, even in a civilized society, you can't just grab other people's territory. If you do, you might get into a fight.

Thinking of this, Ted made a plan: "If you do this, plan your itinerary first. After winter, I will personally visit Baron Tomato and discuss whether I can buy this piece of land from him."

"Purchase?" Chris thought he was deaf. He pulled down the stool and crossed his hands on the table with a puzzled expression, as if he was thinking, "Is my lord suffering from some serious illness?" '

Thinking he wasn't clear enough, Ted repeated, "Of course, buy!"

"But" Chris covered his head with a disbelief on his face. He took out a notebook from his satchel, quickly found a law in it, and read it carefully: "The imperial law clearly stipulates that no one can exchange money between nobles, or between nobles and commoners. Transfer in any form, or sell and buy land, and those who violate the order, the royal family has the right to confiscate all illegal gains, and can also take back all the land!"

In case Ted didn't understand, Chris turned to the next page and continued to explain: "My lord, it doesn't matter what you do in the north, because the people of the north are now answering your call, and they won't go anywhere else." Even if you declare independence, no one will know, because no one knows that your actions have touched their interests!"

"But it's different this time. You will touch the interests of other nobles, and they will join forces to attack you! I know our new weapons are very powerful, and we can defeat a hundred with one enemy, but we can't kill them like a butcher. All of them."

This analysis is very reasonable, and there is nothing wrong with it from the beginning to the end, but Chris overlooked one item.
That is, the decree in his hands is only a part of the law, which is different from the royal family law.

The "Royal Law" can only be obtained by those who have good relations with the royal family, and in this law, God has given some privileges to the royal family.

Especially in land sales!
Looking at Chris' puzzled eyes, Ted opened the drawer unhurriedly, took out a thick book from it, and handed it to him.

"Turn to page 233, line 23, read carefully"

Chris took the book suspiciously, turned to the specified number of pages, and put his finger under the text to check word by word, for fear of missing a word.

"In the "Imperial Law", it is not possible to sell land, but in the imperial family law, you can invite a member of the royal family, who must be the emperor or prince, as a witness, to come."

After reading this, Chris understood what Ted meant.

"My lord, you mean."

Ted nodded confidently, pointed in the direction of the prince's residence and joked: "Don't we have a ready-made prince here? Although he has no power, he is also a real prince! So buying land is not a problem! The problem is how to buy it. What to buy! It is not easy to impress a nobleman to sell his land."

In this way, it seems that these are not a problem, because the prince Steve is now his own, it seems that this matter is really not a problem.
"Understood, my lord, I'm going to prepare a suitable bargaining chip, but can you let me have a look at your "Royal Law"?"

Ted didn't hesitate at all, closed the book and put it in Chris's hand, and said by the way: "Every book of the royal family law is fixed, but this is the only book for Steve. You have to go back to the imperial capital to get it again."

In order for the plan to go ahead, it is necessary for Chris to understand all the laws of the empire and find suitable loopholes to maximize the benefits: "Don't worry, my lord, I will put it in the safe in the safe, and no one but me will Let anyone get it!"

"Of course I'm relieved!" Ted took out a bottle of Coke from his safe and handed it to Chris: "Our first batch of volunteers has been recruited, and the first training will be in the afternoon. You have to come with me to see see?"

"Of course, the operation of the city is on the right track and tends to be stable. I just have time!"

"See you later then?"

"No problem, my lord!"

Near noon, Ted was going to go out for a stroll, look at the surrounding city scene, and then go home for dinner!
But just as he passed the main hall, he noticed a sneaky couple walking into the city hall and heading directly to the marriage registration office.

"Huh? Why are these two people so familiar?" Ted seemed to have seen them before.

Familiar feeling, familiar voice, but just can't think of who they are?

In order to find out the truth of the matter, Ted took off his coat as if nothing had happened, and followed the two of them.
The young couple in front didn't notice that someone was following behind them, instead they talked and laughed, and the man stretched out his hand to touch the woman's belly from time to time.

The woman seems to be pregnant. Although the protruding belly is not obvious, the result can still be deduced from their movements.

A few months passed, and the marriage registration office of the city hall was no longer crowded. Only a few couples would come to register and report, so the two were quickly called by the staff to take pictures inside the office.

Due to the reduced workload and Ted’s purchase of a photo printer, the production of the marriage certificate is also very fast. Originally, it took three days to wait, but now it only takes half an hour.

After the young couple happily walked out of the office, Ted turned to the corridor and came to the marriage registration office through the back door.

Just when the staff wanted to continue calling the number, Ted quickly pulled the staff in front of him: "Wait a minute, I have something to ask you!"

The staff turned their heads, took off their hats excitedly, and said in surprise, "My lord! How are you, my lord! Would you like to have a cup of milk tea? There is a new milk tea shop next door, it's delicious!"

I thought the staff would say something about work, but no, she raised her drink and strongly recommended Ted to try it.

Ted stared at the sweet-looking, slightly chubby beauty in front of him with puzzled eyes, and confirmed again and again: "The milk tea shop? Are you talking about the one next door?"

"Yeah! It's opened by the moon elves. It's a very nice shop, and you can buy most drinks you can think of from there!"

"Cough cough" Ted coughed twice, signaling to the staff to calm down: "Let me talk about this later, let me ask you a question, who are the two people who registered just now?"

What happened half a minute ago is hard for such a young staff member to forget: "You mean, the pair between a pregnant moon elf woman and a human man?"

"That's right, that's the pair, can you tell me their names?"

"I'll look for Ha'er. Here, my lord, look."

[Male: Steve York, Female: Vadina Alexei Jasmine She]

"My god, what a long list of names!" Ted was stunned, he didn't expect the female sea queen to have such a long list of names! ?
The staff shrugged and said it was nothing, then pointed to the thick stack of papers on the right, took a sip of the milk tea, and said with a smile: "My lord, the names of the moon elves usually start with four paragraphs, which is not bad. , there is a moon elf male, his name has a total of 128 letters, and it took us a long time to enter it.”

Hearing this, Ted thought it was a negligence in the arrangement, so he pointed to the surrounding staff and asked, "Are there no moon elves working in the marriage registration office?"

"My lord, their number is too small, only more than 5000, and there are still many things waiting for them to do."

"That's it." Ted suddenly recalled the mission of 'saving the moon elves' he had been carrying on his back, but his strength was not enough, and he couldn't go over the snow-capped mountains to the east of the mainland to save them.

If you want to dig through the mountain, you need technical content, but flying over the mountain is much less difficult!
It's just that Thomas has just made a working truck, and there is still a certain distance from hand-crafted airplanes.

According to the most ideal state, it will take 2 years to build a small aircraft.

"Take your time. Go back and I'll urge Thomas"

"Ding!"

At the same time, after the photo was printed, Ted walked slowly forward, took off the photo, and put it in his hand to observe carefully.

"Hey, Steve is actually wearing casual clothes. It's really enough to wrong the prince. What kind of charm does Vadina have that fascinated him?"

Ted turned around and handed the photo to the staff, asking them to start making a marriage certificate.

"After completing the documents, are they going to come in and take pictures?"

"Yes sir!"

"Then call them in!"

After getting an accurate reply, Ted said some unnutritious terms like 'hard work will pay off', then pushed open the door of the photo studio next door, pulled a stool, sat on it, and waited for the two live treasures Come in.

With a "creak", the door was pushed open. Steve hugged Vadina happily, and whispered in her ear in the most gentle tone: "In the northern border, I am your husband. is yours!"

Vadina still had the lovely face of a young daughter-in-law. She put her hands on Steve's chest and asked in a low voice, "Have you figured out what our child's name is?"

Steve seemed to be very confident in himself. He put his hand on Vadina's stomach and said lovingly, "Don't worry, I don't know how many are there yet? How about we wait until the baby is born?"

"Cough cough!"

Just when they wanted to continue talking about tigers and wolves, Ted interrupted the two of them with a cough!
"My lord!" Vadina covered her mouth, turned sideways and buried her head in Steve's arms.

"Ted, why are you here?"

Ted didn't sneer, or make verbal sarcasm and ridicule at the two, but stood up with a smile and handed them the marriage certificate.

"I wish you a happy wedding! When are you going to hold the wedding?"

"This is us we are" Vadina lay on Steve's chest, unable to speak the next sentence.

"Come to my office and talk, how about it?" Ted knew that there were a lot of people talking at the moment, so he might as well let them wait a while before taking pictures, and talk to himself before coming back.

After saying this, he called the staff and told him to deal with the next couple who came to register first.

"Come with me!" Ted opened the back door, motioning for the two to leave behind him.

When the three came to the office, Ted stretched out his hand to signal the two to sit down: "Sit down!"

Just as he sat down, Steve put his hands on the table angrily, pointed at Ted and asked, "Ted, are you trying to humiliate us? You know we're having an affair! It's already a wandering off to get a marriage certificate." On the verge of being discovered! You said to hold a wedding, what do you want to do!"

These two live treasures were able to register their marriage, thanks to the difference between the northern border and the rest of the empire!Because religious marriages are not recognized here!As long as you don't register, it doesn't matter.

Ted still entertained guests as usual, took out drinks and cups, and then pointed to his serious face and said seriously: "Do you think I'm humiliating you?".
Hearing Ted's serious tone, Vadina poked her head out again, looked at the lord in front of her, and tried to ask, "Is it really possible? I said hold a wedding?"

As an ambitious and thoughtful lord, Ted has already memorized the information of important people. He first nodded to Vadina, then turned to look at Steve.

"Steve, your wife won't live for three years, you just have to endure for three years! After that, you can hold a wedding! There is one more sentence that I don't know if I should say it or not, let me just say it!"

It's better to tell the truth than to be secretive, so that the prince can prepare for the future.

It was still the magical cabinet beside him. Ted reached out and took out a document and put it on the table, pointing to the data on it and explaining slowly: "Steve, your wife comes from an earl's family in the middle of the country. The last daughter of their family, and the parents of this daughter are the earl and the earl's sister, and they are twins!"

In Steve's view, these things couldn't be more common. In order to maintain the purity of the bloodline, intermarriage between brothers and sisters is a very common thing.

So he frowned and asked puzzledly: "What can this explain? This is just a very common thing, in order to ensure the purity of blood! This is very necessary!"

Telling this to the prince now is tantamount to playing the piano to a cow. Ted simply skipped this step and talked directly with the data: "It's too early to explain the principle to you, then I will tell you the family history of this earl."

"Look here, none of their life expectancy exceeds 30 years old, and your wife should be 28 years old this year. According to the list above, she can live up to 30 years and 8 months!"

"One more thing, that is your son. Judging from the report carried by your guards, as well as your son's portrait and medical history, the situation is not optimistic!"

While talking, Steve realized that something was wrong. He interrupted Ted in time and asked, "Wait a minute, you said my guard? What do you mean?"

Ted rolled his eyes, he had long forgotten about this matter, and Steve was also intoxicated by Vadina's gentleness every day, and he didn't even check what his guards were doing
"Ah, I forgot if you didn't tell me, I should have told you about this a long time ago! You said that all the people who came with you were your people"

"But according to our statistics, besides you and Da Vinci, there are 91 people in your entourage, of which 68 are your brothers' eyeliners, and 3 are spies placed by the church. That is to say, you There are only 20 of my own people."

The words of "this" made Steve break out in a cold sweat. Originally, he just wanted to make a promise to Vadina and give Aquaman a home, but he didn't expect to have so many "windfalls"!
With her delicate mind and intuition, Vadina immediately noticed Steve's strangeness. She took out a handkerchief, sat in his arms, and gently wiped off his cold sweat.

"Can you tell me how these guards were discovered by you?"

After Ted's multiple screenings, he found a lot of loyal and smart eyeliners. They are everywhere, scattered in every corner of the city. They may be employees of milk tea shops, guards guarding the city, or some elders An old lady sitting in a chair.

"I won't hide it, because your people are wandering around in my territory, drawing maps, and sneaking around outside the newly built factory. I'm not a fool for such obvious actions, so it's hard not to catch them!"

This kind of espionage, put it somewhere else, no one cares, but in the North. These people will not be tolerated, because no one wants the secrets of the North to be revealed!

If there is a conflict with the interests of other nobles, then there will be big troubles!
Hearing this, Steve was momentarily at a loss for words: "This"

Ted is not a person who does not distinguish between right and wrong, so he interrupted Steve in time: "I don't blame you, because it's not your fault, and there is one more thing, that is, your bodyguards were all replaced by me. Man, they will follow you back to the palace and protect you in the light and in the dark! Just use this!"

After speaking, Ted took out a weapon from the mysterious cabinet next to him in order to give Steve confidence.
Compared with the small and exquisite Colt m1911 before, or the thick and heavy Garland M1, this one in Ted's hand is of moderate size. For strong people, it can be operated not only with one hand, but also with both hands. Operation, if you wear a windbreaker, you can even hide 2 of them in the clothes!
Just looking at the big baby in front of him, Steve sank. He pointed to the gleaming weapon in front of him and asked in a low voice, "Can you give me one?"

Ted didn't hold back, or set the price on the ground, he put the weapon on the table with a smile: "You can use all my weapons, but, if you want to use this Tommy submachine gun, you have to pass the test first!"

"take an exam?"

"Yes, including the written test and the psychological test, and the weapon test at the end!"

"No problem! I know the power of this thing, I will study hard! But can you explain why this weapon has such a big round thing?"

Ted took the weapon, smiled and removed the drum, and took out a pistol magazine and clip.

"These two, you should be familiar with, one is a 7-round magazine and an 8-round clip, and my new weapon has a 20-round magazine and a thirty-round magazine!"

While explaining, Ted took out the magazine from under the table, and then took out a few drums.

"In addition, there are 50 rounds and 50 rounds of drums! As long as you hold down the trigger and don't let go, you can fire [-] rounds and [-] rounds of bullets!"

After hearing this explanation, Steve widened his eyes and asked, "You mean, this thing can fire 100 rounds in a row?"

"Of course! There is an old saying in our northern border, God created inequality, but the guns in the northern border make everyone equal!"

This sentence originally came from an advertisement of Colt Company, but Ted changed it and used it as an old saying in the north, which seems to be very good.

When Ted used 'God' to make fun of himself again, Steve couldn't help but swear: "Blyat! Mr. Earl, I don't believe in God anymore, I love my wife, Ms. Vadina , please don’t use God to sow discord between us! He’s a poor man!”

These serious remarks made Ted feel uncomfortable. He tried his best to make Steve no longer believe in gods, but it was only a little bit effective, and Vadina just used her personal strengths to cure Steve. Submissively: "Okay then, come with us in the afternoon and train together."

"As for the wedding mentioned earlier, Steve, you'd better wait for two years. Even if you slap me, I still have to tell you the truth. Your son and his mother will only live for two and a half years at most. These two years, treat them well, don't leave any regrets, after two years, I will hold a wedding for you that everyone will never forget!"

What Ted said, even wild boars running wild in the vegetable field can't be pulled back, so Steve spread his palms and responded with a smile: "Then I'll wait?"

"No problem!" After saying this, Ted glanced at his watch and asked tentatively, "Have you had lunch? If you haven't eaten, come to my house to eat? How about it?"

"Okay, let's go!" Steve took Vadina's little hand and hugged her, followed by a passionate kiss.

As a qualified lord, Ted had to remind the two of them: "By the way, Vadina, is this your first pregnancy?"

This sensitive question made Vadina quickly blush. He took Steve's hand and said shyly, "Why are you asking me this? This is a very personal question, okay?"

In fact, in the hundreds of years before Wazina had a child for the first time, she was just playing around and not serious. She didn't know what to pay attention to next.

Looking at her expression, Ted knew everything. He shook his head, and said earnestly with that serious look again: "I just want to remind you that after three months of pregnancy, it is best to bear it. If you If you want the child to survive, just pay attention!"

Vadina thought it was a matter of life and death, and she was so frightened that her eyes widened and she waited for the trial: "I thought it was something. I was shocked!"

As for what Ted said, she had asked the elders a long time ago, and after she knew what Ted meant, she shook her head and sighed: "My lord, you underestimate me."

As she spoke, she picked up the Coke glass in front of her, and deftly rolled a piece of ice out of it with her tongue, put it in her mouth and ate it.

Ted could only change the subject in embarrassment: "Okay! If I didn't say it, then come with me and try my wife's craftsmanship! If I remember correctly, I will eat claypot rice and shrimp dumplings today"

　Put 7000 directly, too lazy to divide chapters
　　
　
(End of this chapter)