I'm not a lord

Chapter 59 You Want to Have a Child

At the dinner party at the castle, Leon got drunk.

In fact, the alcohol content of ale and mead is not high.

But it is not the wine that makes people drunk, it is people who make themselves drunk.

His younger sister Leah is the daughter of his father and his second wife.

There is a nearly twenty-year age difference between the brother and sister.

Leah lost her parents when she was only five years old.

It was Leon who took on the burden of the family and clan, maintaining the business and network left by his father while also taking care of and raising his younger sister.

The eldest brother is like a father. He is both Leah's brother and Leah's father.

Leon's eyes were hazy with drunkenness, and he looked at the lively yet somewhat unreal scene at the banquet, his thoughts drifting further and further away.

He still remembered that whenever he returned home from business, Leah would always follow him like a little tail and call him "Brother, brother" in a crisp voice.

He spent a lot of money to provide Leah with a good life and invited the best teachers from the court.

All of this was done to train Leah to be an excellent court mistress.

It's about making money, being a mistress, it's not shameful.

Leon wanted to improve so badly.

The "Saltfield" family monopolizes the salt trade in the entire North, but doesn't it still have to helplessly send women and money to the king, duke and other dignitaries?
The Saltworks family has been doing this for over a hundred years, and every King of the North has a mistress from this family in his court.

The combination of bloodlines from generation to generation created an unbreakable alliance between the two sides until the current King of the North died out.

Moreover, becoming the mistress of a great nobleman is much better than marrying a small and marginal nobleman or other businessman.

In the nearly two hundred years since its founding, the middle and lower levels of the Northern Kingdom have been constantly changing, but the top is always occupied by a small group of noble surnames.

Leah can understand her brother Leon's good intentions, and knows that this is the only way for the family to rise, so she is willing to contribute to the family's progress.

But there is no room.

The Northern Kingdom only has so many resources, and the front row is already full of people. Even if you want to give your sister away, they won’t accept her.

There are only a few chairs in the Three Rivers City Council, and Leon has no seat for the time being.

At his peak, he would be able to control the underground market in Sanhe City and serve as a hidden glove for the bigwigs in the city council.

I'm unwilling, but what can I do?

Now, his chance has come.

With the king's extinction and the emergence of various ambitious figures, the Northern Kingdom is bound to fall into unprecedented chaos.

Not only will the middle and lower class nobles and merchants face large-scale replacements, but even the few surnames at the top will not escape the reshuffle.

At this time, Leon received an invitation from a bandit leader, inviting him to do something big that would change the world.

The ambition hidden in his heart surged again, and he vowed to leave a significant mark in this era that was about to go crazy.

But Leon still felt a pang of pain in his heart when he thought that the little girl who called him 'brother' was about to become someone else's mistress.

Just then, Lynn noticed the quiet corner.

He walked over to Leon, holding the wine glass, and pulled him up.
"Get up, keep dancing, keep drinking!"

A mistress’s marriage is certainly not as good as a formal wedding, but this banquet has gathered all the important figures in the White Bear Territory.

Lin En didn't want to leave a shadow in the hearts of his allies.

But he didn't expect Leon to hug his arm in return, and said as if drunk or sober: "Sir, my sister is in your care, please don't hurt her."

".I'll try."

Lynn's answer was brief and powerful.

Leon then went a step further, pressing his chin directly on Lin's shoulder, breathing out the strong smell of alcohol in his ear, and whispered:

"Although I don't know your real name, I know what you want to do. You want to sabotage, destroy, and subvert. You are definitely not a bandit or a mercenary. You must have a crazy plan in your mind that is beyond anyone's imagination, right?" Leon couldn't see through Lynn, nor could he guess the specific content of his plan.

But his years of business experience told him that Lin En's ultimate goal could never be limited to the White Bear Territory.

Smuggling asphalt and salt, importing large quantities of iron ore, secretly contacting refugees, and sheltering escaped serfs
Is this something a normal bandit leader would do?

These seemingly absurd actions do not seem to be aimed at protecting the seized territory.

All of this inevitably leads to an extremely crazy goal.

But Leon figured it out and was willing to follow this madman and go crazy.

Besides, he had no choice.

If the current White Bear Territory is a runaway carriage without a driver, then Leon is a wheel on the carriage.

"maybe."

Lynn didn't comment, but he didn't pull his arm away either.

"No matter what you pursue, I will do my best to help you achieve your goal, but I have a small request." Leon held her hand tighter.

"I'm listening."

"Sir, you must not be like that heirless person. I think you should have a child with my sister as soon as possible, preferably a boy."

Leon's request seemed simple at first glance, and in fact it was not difficult.

Isn’t it just giving birth to a baby?

As long as Leah is in good health, it will happen sooner or later.

"it is good."

Lynn agreed on the spot, he could understand Leon's intention.

On the continent of Diewas, illegitimate children are not without inheritance rights.

If a noble has no formal and legitimate offspring, then there is indeed a chance that an illegitimate child will inherit his father's status and property.

When the late King in the North was still on the throne, the powerful vassals of the crown lands were willing to acknowledge his illegitimate son.

A legal provision was even added to the code for this purpose.

That is, under "special circumstances", illegitimate children can have the same inheritance rights as legitimate children.

As long as he could have a son, no matter who he was born to, his vassals would hold their noses and help him ascend the throne.

Even if the throne is inherited by an illegitimate child of single digit legitimacy, it is better than a horrific war that affects the entire Northern Kingdom.

But the problem was that he had more than a dozen mistresses in succession, including some pretty widows who had given birth to boys, but he couldn't even have a son.

The insulting title of 'the one without descendants' will be forever engraved on his pillar of shame.

For a small, emerging group like the White Bear Territory, having an heir is actually very important.

Even if Lin En died before completing his business, the forces gathered around him would not disperse in an instant.

Leon finally got drunk to his satisfaction.

When the song ended and everyone left, Lin En walked out of the living room, slightly tipsy, and walked up the stone stairs to the second floor.

He couldn't keep Leah waiting too long.

But just at the corner of the stairs, he saw Yagna.

The dim, flickering candlelight lengthened the girl's plump figure, casting a long, drifting silhouette on the mottled wall.

"My Lord, is she your wife?"

There was a distinct bitterness in Yagna's trembling voice.

She had already met Leah, a girl completely different from her.

(End of this chapter)