Urban Sims

As early as when the demon thief Biro took the thief Jero and the snake girl together to chat and plot in private, Zhou Ming knew that in the face of huge interests, even the pure and kind-hearted Madonna might degenerate into a devil in hell.

What are the benefits and promises made by the demon thief Biro to the thief Jero and the others? Zhou Ming is not sure, but as an ordinary mercenary, even if he has some gold coins and subordinates, if he wants to develop this new continent, even if he is given another hundred years by the demon thief Biro, he may not be able to do anything great. He felt good about himself and thought he could really dominate this continent.

Zhou Ming was different. He pulled the thief Jero in front of him and said to the thief Jero: After returning to Glenland, in addition to a reward of 100,000 gold coins, he will be promoted to a legendary mercenary, and he will also be given the title of vice president of the mercenary union. positions - these are the most valuable things that Zhou Ming can bring out right away.

There is also a promise - when he becomes a duke or a king, he will grant the thief Jero the title and territory of an earl.

Regarding this promise, the thief Jero can doubt whether Zhou Ming can fulfill it, but compared to the promise made by his cousin the thief Biro: after killing the snake girl, the continent will be half of their brothers, so the probability of it being fulfilled is higher.

But Biro is his cousin...not the biological brother he has played with since childhood. This cousin is not as important as the snake girl in his heart.

As for the snake girl... Zhou Ming, who had already figured it out long after this woman saved his life, had an affair with this woman who was rumored to be like a snake and a scorpion, but who was actually just a kind heart. The women in the protective shell, after telling each other about the past, embraced and lingered together.

Two days ago, she ran over shyly and said that she seemed to have...

…

Mid-November.

Zhou Ming and his group traveled quickly from the Copper Mountain Kingdom, passed through the war-torn Iron Castle Kingdom, and returned to Granland in a hurry.

A sensational news spread quickly.

"Edward Knights are back, and they have completed their mission to explore the new world!"

"The Devil's Mountain was turned over by them, how did they do it?"

"What's behind the Ural Snow Mountain? Is there really a man-eating devil?"

"Who can ask Cavalier Edward how he crossed the Ural Snow Mountain, and can he tell us how to do so?"

"..."

Discussions resounding in the mercenary unions, taverns, and dusty places made the new world behind the Ural Snow Mountains the hottest topic this winter.

Zhou Ming returned to the castle. As soon as he entered the castle, what greeted him was not the happy smiling faces of the servants and the joy and excitement of relatives and friends, but an indescribable weird atmosphere.

Zhou Ming didn't pay attention and went straight to his wife Fanny's room. He saw Fanny nursing a child. With a somewhat reluctant expression, she hugged the one-year-old child.

He unzipped his pants and looked at the parts underneath.

No.

Still a daughter.

"Woo~"

At this time, there was a burst of crying, and Zhou Ming, who had a stiff expression, turned his head to look, and saw his wife covering her face with a silk scarf, and began to cry.

"It's okay. It's the same for boys and girls. I especially like girls."

After kissing his youngest daughter twice on the face, Zhou Ming patted Fanny on the shoulder and comforted her.

"Dear Edward, it's useless for me. I've already given birth to three daughters for you, and I haven't even given birth to an heir for you. Will you still love me? Love me like you did before?"

Fanny's tears were like a flood that burst a dam, and her trembling voice contained some self-blame and some fear.

"Love love love, of course I love you. You are my favorite wife and the person I cherish most. If there is no boy, we can have another one..."

Putting his little daughter aside, Zhou Ming hugged his wife, put her in his arms and kissed her.

After all the clouds and rain, Zhou Ming felt quite irritable while caressing his wife who still looked beautiful in his arms.

Zhou Ming is not a sexist. It is the same to him whether he is a boy or a girl. As long as it is his child, he will treat it equally.

But the world here doesn’t see it that way.

The aristocrats of this world generally regard boys as the heirs of the family, and attach great importance to their training, regardless of the cost.

Girls are generally regarded as a tool for family marriage, and of course they will be cultivated, but the requirements are not as high as boys, as long as they are well-educated and sensible.

Therefore, if any nobleman with a title and territory does not have a boy among his descendants, the title and territory of this nobleman will be inherited by the person with the closest blood relationship according to the kinship relationship. According to the inheritance order of the inheritance law, the eldest son takes priority, and the second son takes precedence. Substitute, in the case of extinct heirs, a replacement can be chosen from a branch of the family, such as a cousin, etc., who can be designated as the heir to the title in the will.

In the current Burns family, Zhou Ming is of course the eldest son with an unshakable status. After his father, Baron Connor, left, the ownership of the title and territory belongs to him alone.

but……

If his wife Fanny has not given birth to a boy for him, his younger brother Donnie will still be the second-in-line heir to the territory in the family. Once Zhou Ming leaves, if there is no legitimate male heir left (illegitimate children have no inheritance rights) ), everything in the entire Glenland will be inherited by his younger brother Donnie, even if Fanny gave him ten or eight daughters, it will be of no use.

Not only that, but the damn system in Zhou Ming's head, in terms of calculating the number of descendants of game characters, only female descendants of the direct line are included in the statistics. Female descendants of non-direct line, such as granddaughters and great-granddaughters, are not counted in the number of offspring.

"I just returned to the castle, and the servants looked at me strangely. I met Donnie on the road and saw his evasive eyes, showing a guilty conscience..."

hehe.

Zhou Ming, who had figured out some problems, sneered in his heart. It seemed that in less than two years since he traveled outside, some monsters and ghosts in the castle couldn't help but jump up and down.

the next day.

Training ground behind the castle.

"Eric, who put the palm print on your face? Who was so bold as to do this to you during my absence?"

Eric, the second son of Baron Romond, came to Glenland Castle four years ago and became Zhou Ming's knight squire. The master and apprentice only really got along for more than two years. Zhou Ming liked the child's personality very much. Hardworking and tenacious, as well as smart and eager to learn, although this child's future achievements will not surpass his own, there will be no problem in surpassing those knights with ordinary qualifications by a large margin.

But today, Zhou Ming, who was about to test whether Eric's skills had deteriorated during his absence, became furious when he saw the clear five-finger red mark on his face.

"Tell me, who did it!" Seeing Eric's silence, Zhou Ming asked.

"Yes...it's Master Downey..."

Eric had no choice but to tell the whole story. It turned out that when Zhou Ming went out to explore, he didn't come back for only a year, and Donnie spread the word among the servants that "people who went to Devil's Mountain" "I can't even come back" news made people in the castle panic.

Not only that, Downey's idea actually hit Zhou Ming's personal maid Alice, and asked to transfer Alice to him as a maid. However, without his father's approval, he harassed her over and over again.

A few days ago, after seeing Donnie pulling on Alice's clothes and doing increasingly bold things, 15-year-old Eric stepped forward and said a few words, and protected Alice from the room. As a result, Donnie got angry and slapped him hard.

"Donnie, Donnie, no matter whether it was the last life or this life, you probably can't change your habit of eating shit! Well, I'll send you to the place with the most shit and eat as much as you like!"

A week later, with a letter of recommendation from an earl, Danny was suddenly invited to study at the Royal Capital Bachelor's Academy. He threw his hands and stamped his feet, rolled around, hugged his mother, Lady Madeleine, and cried loudly. Two knights could not stop him from carrying him. The carriage finally left Glenland, who was unwilling to leave at all, amid a burst of shrill cries...