As the saying goes, the sky is the limit.
At a time when Linde had already begun to consider with Laurie whether or not to just fall into the weeds, a messenger who had traveled all the way from the king's capital found Linde.
The messenger descended from a magnificent carriage studded with sapphires, and the two-headed lion coat of arms on the carriage representing the royal family caused Lind to kneel and salute according to etiquette.
But the blue-robed emissary hurried forward to help Linde, and at the same time cordially took Linde's hand and began to talk.
“Viscount Linde Rolle, I've searched so hard for you, ever since I heard that your territory was overrun, I didn't dare to stop for a moment before I found you here, luckily the goddess blessed me and you're fine.”
The messenger's enthusiastic attitude made Lind a little puzzled, could it be that Self was some sort of illegitimate child of a royal family that had strayed away? The original owner's memories didn't say anything about this, right? Why is the messenger from the king's capital so enthusiastic.
“Your Excellency the emissary, might as well say what you have to say, I still have to bring my people to find a place where they can settle down.”
The emissary from the royal capital clapped his hands together and said directly, “Ouch, isn't this a coincidence? Your Excellency the Viscount, I came on this trip to deliver your territory.”
Lin De's heart was stunned as he listened, could it be that Self was really the bastard son of the royal family? It couldn't be?
Then Linde saw the royal family's messenger pull out a scroll from his arms and said to Linde, “Your Excellency the Viscount, I have good news here, guess what it is?”
“Is it that I suddenly have a father I've never met?”
The messenger shook his head with a smile on his face.
“Is it that I have a knighthood to inherit in the royal capital?”
The messenger still shook his head with a professional smile on his face.
“Then?”
Linde suddenly had a foreboding feeling.
“Congratulations, Viscount Linde Rolle, after the unanimous decision of the Holy Maiden-sama and Archduke Lars, you will be the granddaughter-in-law of the Lars family.”
The messenger then slowly opened the scroll in his hand, which was actually a scroll of marriage.
And on it, Linde's fiancée was clearly written as Reina Lars.
“What? I'm marrying Reina? Really?”
Linde almost gushed out a mouthful of old blood, and the unlucky border noble at the end of the game was actually Self?
The royal capital messenger on the side was still comforting Linde and said, “Don't be nervous, dizziness is normal, take a deep breath.”
I call you old wood!
Although Lin De wanted to say this, he still showed a smile that was even worse than crying and asked, “Mr. Messenger, is this marriage something we have to break up?”
It's not that this Rena Lars is shockingly ugly, to be chosen as the prince's consort, her face value is certainly not to speak of, it's just that in the game's day-after talk, it was talked about that Rena Lars, because of her dissatisfaction with the royal family, forcibly dragged her unlucky husband to rebel, and finally ended up with a whole family decapitated.
To the current Linde, it was basically no different from being sentenced to death.
The messenger's expression suddenly became serious, and he spoke to Linde in a threatening tone, “Viscount Linde, that's Grand Duke Lars' granddaughter, have you thought about the consequences of refusing?”
In fact, the messenger was also a bit nervous, Reina's reputation in the king's capital had already stank to death, shrew, jealous woman, all of them were still only scolded lightly, the most common name was the shame of the nobles, just this title alone had directly sentenced Reina's reputation amongst the nobles to death.
After the judgment of marrying down came out, the nobles of the royal capital basically had the attitude of avoiding it.
And the nobles in the North are also avoiding as far as they can, and even those young people of the North who are of the right age have a marriage contract overnight, because the number of noble ladies is just not enough, and there are even quite a few male-male elopements.
The situation in the North now was complicated, and the attitude of the North nobles towards Reina was even more extreme than that of the nobles in the king's capital.
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So the messenger was also anxious inside to fulfill his mission, and it was not easy to find an ingrate who was willing to take over.
But Linde's attitude made the messenger from the royal capital suspect that this nobleman who fled from the border had also heard a little bit of the wind, which made the messenger even more anxious.
Looking at those probing and looking this way not far behind Linde, the messenger suddenly had a plan, pointing to the treaty on the marriage certificate and shouted, “Lord Viscount, you have to think clearly, if you refuse, the new territory gifted by Grand Duke Ralls can all be lost, you and your people will have to keep wandering around like this.”
“Lord Viscount, you also don't want your lords to continue to starve and wander, right?”
Although he was tempted to advise this emissary, who was probably from an island nation, to show some restraint, Linde took a closer look at the treaty on the marriage contract.
On the treaty, the Grand Duke of Lars did clearly state that he would gift his granddaughter-in-law a large piece of territory, although it was uncultivated wasteland, it was also fertile land with abundant water and grass.
Were they really given to Linde? Not really, because Grand Duke Lars specially marked that although Linde is the nominal lord, the gifted territory will be jointly managed by Linde and Reina.
A good joint management, Linde inwardly despised, the treaty says is joint management, but Reina Lars, the granddaughter of the Archduke's own granddaughter to take an outsider son-in-law is not simple? This is just a disguised way to give land to her granddaughter through the treaty.
However, all the lords behind Linde are looking at Linde with eager eyes, as long as their own lord nodded, then all of them will be able to settle down in the new territory, not to mention that it is the Grand Duke of Lars, in the hearts of the common people in the North, that is bigger than the emperor of the aristocrats, the emperor is not good to control the things in the North, but the Grand Duke of Lars can be controlled, so what reason for their own lords and masters to refuse it?
Linde knew that he had been morally kidnapped, but after taking a deep breath, Linde still solemnly said, “Alright, Mr. Emissary, I will sign the marriage contract, but I still have one more request, we are about to run out of food, I hope that you can provide enough food to allow my lords to follow me to reach the new territory without any problems.”
“No problem, of course.”
The messenger excitedly slipped the marriage certificate to Linde.
“These knights will also escort you and your lords until you reach the new territory gifted by Archduke Lars.”
Linde's request was no matter to the messenger at all, a meal from any random noble receiving him along the way would be enough to make these lords behind Linde eat until they vomited.
The messenger was also glad that his guess was right, the nobles who could bring their own people to run away with them must have a high moral standard, and this kind of nobles are the best to deal with.
When he heard the people behind him and the border army started to cheer, Lin De suddenly felt that marrying Rena Lars was not a big deal, at least he had solved the current crisis, although this was almost like selling himself.
Then Linde carefully began to read the marriage contract.
“What? I'm not even a flunky yet?”
Linde saw the bottom of the wedding book, after the marriage Reina actually want to change her surname, from now on and Lars family no longer have anything to do with, no wonder later in the conversation Reina rebel Lars family no reaction.
“Of course, His Excellency the Viscount, what are you thinking? This is a marriage, not a recruitment.”
The messenger gave a puzzled look at Linde, although flunkies were very common in this world, after all, women also had the right to inheritance, but there weren't many people who actively wanted to be a flunky.
Lin De helplessly closed the marriage certificate, well, it seems that since I can't be in the Lars family from now on shouting: “No good, the Lars family's son-in-law devoured the master.” He smiled crookedly.
Although nominally not a son-in-law, but according to the treaty, Linde married Rena after the actual status and son-in-law and son-in-law not much difference, have to say, Lars Grand Duke inadvertently solved the son-in-law devouring the master of the ancient novels of the difficult problem.