Chapter 8 Intermarriage(1/2)
The castle changed hands on the same day.
A castle worth 50,000 gold wit was bought by Shuyi for only one-fifth of the price.
The price of Mist Hidden Castle is never expensive.
On this day, the Dardanelles family officially entered the Mizuno Castle and became the new owner here.
But what happened next gave Xiu Yi a headache.
Originally, in his opinion, excluding the issue of the Alchemy Laboratory, the meaning of the existence of the Mist Hidden Castle is to live.
Even if it is a residence, it is enough to live in a person.
But obviously the ladies don't think so.
As a wealthy family, Christine is amazingly big.
The screen made of rare jade from the Flanger Empire is drawn from the Georgian Empire's mural carpets and velvet curtains, and a wardrobe made of fragrant wood. The most noble colors and various exquisite carvings are moved into the castle as decorations. To fill this big castle, there are a lot of decorations required. The large chandeliers do not use the most popular crystal lamps nowadays, but use a rare jade ball instead. This jade ball can emit light of various colors such as red, yellow, blue and green at night, without any energy consumption, but is also amazingly expensive. Christine carefully carved it with hundreds of such jade balls, and then inlaid them in various places.
Adding some auxiliary small lamps is enough to turn the entire castle into a colorful sea of lights at night.
Due to the carving of jade balls, these lights can even be found to produce various strange images in the air.
As for the bed, Christine moved the bed in her bedroom and opened it to Xiuyi's bedroom.
What this action means is self-evident.
This action once made Lilith quite annoyed, but I don’t know what Christine said to her, which made Lilith finally accept all this calmly.
In addition, Christine brought thirty servants from the Rose Manor.
In her words, "It would be better for those robbers you came out to be a guard. Look at that guy, he deserves to be a gardener? He is wasting flowers and plants. The only thing they can do is feed the horses."
Speaking of horses, Christine actually found four pure-blooded Giagra gray zebras. This type of gray zebra is now extremely rare. On the market, the value of four such horses is almost ten thousand Jinweits.
Shuyi calculated that the money to buy the castle was less than one-fifth of what Christine spent on decorating it.
Of course, such a huge investment made the castle suddenly one of the most magnificent and gorgeous residences in Winlington.
Every night, the Mist Hidden Castle is no longer vaguely mysterious, but is like the most prosperous city center. The bright light penetrates the fog and can be seen even if it is dozens of miles away.
As for Lilith, she cleaned up all the flowers and plants that the Jacobs family left in this castle.
Then they planted orchids of the eternal night, mandarin flowers that symbolize love, grass that symbolizes happiness, blood roses that symbolize bravery, and so on, and arranged the garden as beautiful as heaven.
When it comes to decorating your own house, any woman is beautiful. Even a man with smart and vocal rights or voice has no say in this issue.
For Soui, the only benefit is that Christine and Lilith gradually reached a certain unity during the negotiation process.
Today, it was the moment after spending so much energy and finally completed it.
Sitting on the big chair in the main hall, Xiu Yi said exhaustedly: "It's really hard for me to believe that you are doing this kind of thing. Even if I haven't done anything, I feel weak all over when I see it now, and you are still refreshed."
"People are always very energetic when doing what they like to do, just like your obsession with alchemy. If we give some special meaning to this thing we like to do, then we will be more motivated to work." Christine sat beside him and replied, with Lilith on the right hand of Shue.
"What's the special meaning?" Xiu Yi was a little puzzled.
"We hope you like this place, and hope you can nostalgate about the beauty and prosperity of this place. Maybe it can eliminate the hatred in your heart and stop taking risks. This castle once gave you too many shadows, but Winlington is not Purgatory Island after all. We don't want you to go back to the dark and terrifying hell in the past. If you buy it, you will face memories of the past every day, which will not be good for you. We cannot change the structure of this building, so we can only change its inner self."
This was Lilith telling Xiuyi that she knew that this day was the same as Purgatory Island Castle. At that time, she decided to make it different from Purgatory Island. For her, this might be the best way to dilute Xiuyi’s hatred.
Christine also said: "Of course, that's the best result, but I don't think it's useful to you. At most, it's just to make you look at the building with a normal mind. But we also gave this castle another meaning."
"Another meaning?" Xiu Yi was a little curious.
"Yes, haven't you always wanted to get the Dardanelles into the upper class of the empire?"
"Yes."
"So do you know how far you are from the real upper class?"
Xiuyi shook his head. His understanding of the upper class nobles was actually still at the etiquette norms that Xiuyi learned at the Harden family earlier, as well as some words and deeds.
But when it comes to real aristocrats and upper class, his knowledge is still limited. But Barkler is clearer because of his background, but this person is obviously not good at summarizing. He may have been a person in the circle, but he cannot use words to express the difference between upper class and ordinary families.
Christine then said: "We all know that a family needs a lot of effort to become a real aristocrat. However, if they want to become an upper class aristocrat, they must first understand what aristocrat is. Aristocrats are actually an inevitable result of the hereditary system of titles. With the increasing of new titles and the continuous hereditary of the old titles, a noble community gradually formed. Among these communities, there are old nobles with a long history and new nobles, which are the upper class aristocrats formed by their combination. The marriage between nobles and nobles is not the law, but it is more reliable than the law. The aristocrats formed the aristocrats.
One of the most important bonds in society is bloodline. Today it is hard for us to clearly state that among the big families in the upper class, there are several families that have no connection with each other. All families, to some extent, can even be said to be the same family. Although some people are down and some people have risen, the bond that maintains this formation always exists. This is the power of bloodline. Xiuyi, you are very smart and capable, but you can never solve some problems. For example, the Dardanelles family does not belong to any aristocratic family in terms of bloodline. You have no even the most distant connection with them."
Xiu Yi was slightly silent, and he nodded: "You are right, Christine, I can't solve this problem, so do you have a way?"
"In any country, if a family wants to become an upper class noble, they must have something - official recognition. The so-called official recognition is a clear title or a grant of office, and even a territory. This is the origin of the title and the nobles of office. But since you are not interested in obtaining titles from the Lance Empire, then if you want the Dardanelles family to become a member of the upper class, your only way is to become another special aristocratic vassal aristocrat in addition to these three aristocrats."
"Villagers?"
"Yes. You must know that in the long river of history, no family can prosper for a long time. There are always some families who will gradually decline. They only have the great glory left by their ancestors, but cannot turn it into edible rice and food and property that can be spent. Some nobles will gradually decline. Although they still retain the airs of the upper class, they are no different from ordinary civilians in their hearts. Perhaps the only thing that can comfort them is that they have a family badge that can be used for boasting, and in addition, they are a small remaining family territory, with nothing but nothing. On the contrary, they are another type of people, such as the Dardanelles family. They are rich but lack the way to enter the upper class, and they urgently need guides to enter the upper class. In this case, once these two types of people meet, they often have a transaction."
Xiu Yi understood: "Intermarriage?"
"That's right." Christine smiled sweetly: "This is the origin of the vassal aristocracy, and it is also the best way for most non-fair nobles to eventually enter the upper class. Choose a down-and-out aristocracy, intermarry with them, give birth to a child and a half daughter, and then take this opportunity to enter the upper class naturally."
"So that's the case, so what does this have to do with the castle?"
"No family does not have a prominent manor of their own. The only way for the Dardanelles family to enter the upper class is to find a down-and-out noble family and complete intermarriage. Before intermarriage, you need to have enough means to prove your strength, and there is nothing more attractive to others than buying a luxury villa. If your work is big enough, you can let all Winlington know the existence of the Dardanelles family. Winlington has rich families, and there is also no shortage of down-and-out little nobles. Those who have daughters
The down-and-out nobles are looking for families to rely on, working hard to continue to maintain their decent life. And the Dardanelles, the nouveau riche existence, will undoubtedly become a fatty meat for many people as long as you want. You buy the Mist Hidden Castle too cheaply, which does not reflect the value of the Dardanelles family. Many people will think that the Dardanelles family wants to make a difference in the Winlington family, but they are greedy for cheapness and choose a castle in danger of death. They will look down on you."
"so……"
"So we have to prove our financial resources in another way."
"But this is equivalent to announcing that I went to the fourth floor of the tower."
"So that brings a clear benefit. One: You may not live for a year. Two: The girls will be widows, a widow like me."
“No one would want to marry me.”
"If there is a girl who really likes you and you don't have any disgust towards her, you can also make a promise to her, such as never going to the tower for many years." Christine said with a smile.
"Do you want to use the Dardanelles family's future entry into the upper class as bait to confuse me?" Xiuyi heard what Christine said. After all, Christine still doesn't want to enter the tower himself.
For this reason, she even spared nostalgia and Lilith all over Xiuyi, plus a vague aristocratic girl.
Christine took Xiuyi's hand: "Even if it's right, Xiuyi, I just don't want you to take risks, I can give everything for it."
"I can only promise you that I won't take risks easily...at least before I finish what I should do." Xiuyi answered very seriously.
—In the small hall, Barkler and Shuyi were talking.
"So, Christine means you marry the daughter of a certain nobleman, achieve the purpose of intermarriage, and then help the Dardanelles family to successfully enter the top leaders of the empire?" Barkler was a little unbelievable.
Although Xiu Yi was only sixteen years old, he had indeed reached the legal age for marriage.
Shuyi replied: "To be honest, I don't want to use this method to achieve my goal, but I can't refuse Christine's kindness immediately. The most important thing is that I have another opinion on this issue."
“What do you think?”
"Kristen thought things too badly, read on mobile phone
m) In fact, Siser Dardanell is an alchemist, and living in the Mizuho Castle may scare some girls away, but may also make some girls with ulterior motives eager to marry me. I don’t think I can make every girl fall in love with me. All I need is a transactional marriage rather than a passionate love. For many girls of down-and-out nobles, marrying me may be a helpless decision, and being a widow may not be a better choice... In some cases, their future is free."
"You see people's hearts very dark, Xiuyi, this is not good."
"Just explaining the facts, Brian, although I am young, I see people better than you. Even beggars will love them. Being a widow is nothing. This is the case with the huge assets that I will get. Therefore, even if I openly claim that I will enter the tower within half a year, it will also attract a group of girls to marry me."
"Then you mean..."
"There is no better way than this. Find a woman I don't like so much or I like me so much as my wife. We can give her and her family a sum of money in exchange for a legal identity. As for my life or death, the other party doesn't have to care about it. Of course, this is a period of time. After the time passes, the two parties terminate the engagement."
“Bloodliness requires children to enjoy and inherit.”
"We won't have children, because all we need is to take this opportunity to enter the upper class, not to become true nobles of blood. This is the biggest difference between us and other vassal nobles."
"How do you find such a woman?"
"We need a talent show..." Xiu Yi said carefully: "The castle has been bought, and Hodding is contacting the shop. Since the Dardanelles family is going to show their strength in Winlington, there are some things that should be done. Do you still remember the way the nobles communicated?"
Barkler smiled and said, "Do you mean a dance party?"
"Yes, the most suitable place to meet girls. Then, just hold a dance party in the castle. With Christine there, I believe there will be many people to support this venue, including some people we may not welcome."
"I will tell Hodding to do this." Barkler nodded in agreement.
Barkler went out, and only Xiuyi was left in the room.
Xiu Yi didn't care too much about intermarrying with the nobles. Everyone took what they wanted, so let the others worry.
What he needs to pay most attention to now is the castle itself, another Electra laboratory that is in front of him but cannot be reached.
He believed that as long as he passed this level, what awaited him would be another amazing invention of Electra.
So how can we uncover the secrets inside this castle?
Xiu Yi fell into deep thoughts.
The sale of Mist Hidden Castle caused a big and small sensation in Winlington.
The sensation was not only because of the fame of the Mist Hidden Castle itself, but also because of the people who bought it.
The residents of Winlington soon learned that the Misty Castle was bought by a newly-promoted nouveau riche family, and among the families that bought it, a young heir was actually an alchemist.
It has been ten years since the alchemist has entered this castle.
This may mean that he will die soon, and people have speculated that when will this young man endure it before exploring
To be continued...