Unknown Knight

(Chapter 148 has been revised, please make do with it. There are too many things involved and I dare not write anything indiscriminately. Please forgive me for some vague parts.)

Since the beginning of winter, the territory as a whole has been relatively stable. With the experience and practice of last year's long winter, all preparations for winter have been done well, and there have been no major mistakes.

However, beneath this calmness, there were undercurrents surging. These undercurrents formed a vortex with Aix as the core, concentrating on him alone, causing him great distress.

The reason is simple. Aix, with a glorious image, has been eating foreign food for two or three years now. He has had several women, but he has not yet made a woman pregnant.

Aix even started to lose confidence in himself. Could it be that he had been single for too long in his original world, or studied too hard with his Japanese teacher, causing all his efforts to be reduced to ashes, thus damaging his foundation?

Or is he like a certain President of the United States, who is suave and charming, the most beautiful woman in the world, but all his efforts are in vain and all his shots are blanks?

This matter would be fine if it only troubled him, but now it has risen to a political issue. After all, he is now a lord of six or seven thousand people, and the hidden danger of having no heir is very serious. If something happens to him, the territory will lose its legal heir, and the ambitions of the chiefs and the happy lives of the people will be gone.

I don't know who first brought up the topic, but now the whole territory is paying close attention to this matter. Some people even added a sentence to their prayers: I hope the lord will give birth to a child soon so that our family can serve him for generations to come.

Aix recently discovered that no matter where he appeared, he would always meet young and beautiful girls. Some of them were admirers, while others were deliberately seeking personal gain. It really fulfilled the words of a certain corrupt official: "Power is a piece of fresh meat, and mosquitoes and flies will be attracted to it on their own initiative."

Not only that, the leaders took advantage of their close relationship with him to hunt him down, and asked him openly or covertly to take in a few more women, which made Aix feel fed up and hide everywhere.

Eventually this embarrassing pressure became unbearable for Aix, and he exploded at the last meeting of leaders before winter.

The reason was that the leaders actually brought up this matter in public during the meeting, and once again questioned Aix's lack of diligence in the matter of offspring, which made Aix so angry that he slammed the table and said angrily:

"Is this determined by diligence? Maybe some people just have trouble getting pregnant, like me!"

But a secret letter Bandak took out next made Aix speechless. It turned out that the lurking Cress had also heard the news and sent a letter to Bandak asking him to help find a solution.

The content of the letter talked about a past event. When the territory of Talboliya was captured, Kress had just become pregnant. However, Aix was not there at the time. She wanted to wait for Aix to come back and give him a surprise, but she ended up being attacked by the Nords.

After escaping from the territory, she had a miscarriage due to lack of preparation, the hardship of fleeing and lack of nutrition. She had no choice but to come to her uncle's house in Aslum to recuperate, accompanied by Ran Ying.

The content of the letter made Axe's throat stagnate. He was very worried about Cress who was lurking outside, and he was unable to make any excuses.

Eldest sister Catherine took the opportunity to point out that interracial marriages might indeed make it difficult to conceive, and suggested that Aix try marrying a girl from his own race. Atiman and the others immediately nodded in agreement, and suggested that Ran Hu's sister Ran Ying was just sixteen years old, which was a good age for marriage.

Aix was immediately unhappy and was about to scold these shameless old men who were worrying about nothing, but when he saw Ran Hu's embarrassed and gloomy face, he swallowed his words back.

This man is a staunch confidant of his tribe, a strong and capable man, and has done great things for him. He cannot let his people down, but he feels a psychological burden to let him marry a girl who just turned sixteen, so he can only say:

"I saw it in a medical book before. It said that it's bad for a girl's health to marry too early. It can also cause difficult labor. How about waiting two years?"

Of course, no one in Atiman believed this. Early marriage was common in that era, and there were many girls who had breastfed one or two children by the age of sixteen. It was estimated that Ran Hu did not let his sister get married too early, and he wanted to get closer to Aix.

But seeing that Aix looked embarrassed, Atiman and his companions were afraid of angering his reckless nature, so they took the opportunity to say that it was okay to let Ran Ying serve him first and wait for two years before making any decision. They could also take the opportunity to cultivate feelings.

Some of these guys are smart and have seen through the nature of the big pig's hoof of Aix. With the meat right in front of their mouths, how can the wolves resist eating it?

What else could Aix say? He could only bow his head and agree.

Not only that, several elders of Amanti, seeing that Aix was easy to talk to, shamelessly interfered in his family affairs. They also took the opportunity to suggest that Aix should also take Lady Katia into consideration, after all, it involved the grand plan of unifying the city of Kudan.

Aix was so confused by what he heard that he could not stand it any longer. He stood up angrily and said:

"Okay, okay, it's all up to you!"

Then he slammed the door and left without looking back.

Speaking of Aix's nominal wife, Katia, nothing has happened between the two since they got married.

At first, she had always been prejudiced and believed that Aix was a lower-class person who accidentally made his fortune through risk-taking, conspiracy, and profit-seeking business. Deep down, she looked down on people like Aix.

But after arriving in the territory, she slowly discovered that the territory was extraordinary. Not only was life rich and the economy prosperous, but the mental outlook of the people here was also very different from that of other places.

The people in other places are dull and lifeless, like walking corpses, without any vitality or energy, while the people here are just the opposite. They are not only positive and full of energy, but also have beautiful visions for tomorrow's life.

You have to know that even though she considered herself to be of noble status, she could not see any hope and dared not look forward to tomorrow. She always believed that she was just a political victim and that this was her fate that she could not escape.

I never thought that as a noble, my mental state is not as good as that of ordinary people in the territory, and I am not as happy as them.

As she got to know him better, Lady Katia felt more and more that her husband was an extraordinary man. His entire territory had been built from scratch, and its current size was almost catching up with the population of a city.

Moreover, this rapid development and expansion was not based on plundering the people in the territory. She later learned that the territory actually imposed a tithe tax on the people in the territory.

This tax rate is simply like giving arable land to the people to cultivate. Even so, the entire territory has never encountered financial difficulties, and the people's food, clothing and daily necessities have not been reduced at all. This can only show that Aix has a good way of making money and superb ability in government affairs.

Not only that, from her observation, Aix did not worry about all the complicated affairs as she imagined, but instead divided the affairs, big and small, among the leaders and arranged everything clearly.

On the contrary, he himself led a very leisurely and comfortable life. He would either go to the Technical Research Institute to drink tea, or go to the Biological Research Institute to chat with James, or go to the Military Research Institute to observe drills and practice sparring with the leaders who had time.

He had an aristocratic leisure and a dignified demeanor that showed everything was under control, which invisibly increased Aix's charm in her eyes.

Mrs. Katia felt that this nominal husband was very different from other men and attracted her deeply, making her fall in love with Axe unconsciously.