As the King and Queen of the Lampali Kingdom, the matters they consider and discuss are of course important matters closely related to the entire Lampali Kingdom.
But for Father Afariya and his son Archie, these major events have nothing to do with them. They are only concerned about one issue at the moment, and that is the life of their little family.
In fact, to be fair, the life of Daddy Afalia and his family is much better now than it was a few years ago.
Although Father Afariya still goes hunting in the mountains as before, he does not do it to use the prey to exchange for some money and supplement the family's income. Instead, he just wants to do it every time. Just improve your life and take advantage of the delicious food in the mountains for a tooth festival.
Because now Afalia's father and his family no longer need to rely on his hunting income to maintain their lives.
Afalia's three sons and two daughters all worked in factories run by various chambers of commerce in Bangta City. On average, each of them could get a monthly salary of more than ten gold coins per month. Added up The family's monthly income even exceeds seventy gold coins.
This much money was something that their family might not have been able to earn all year round in the past.
With the increase in income, life in Afalia's father's family has naturally become much better.
Not only did Afariya's father hunt the prey just for the tooth sacrifice, but the original small thatched house was now directly demolished. Following the example of other families in the village, it was built and launched by the Amli Chamber of Commerce, acquiring all the property in Bangta City. It is a brand-new two-story building with brick and concrete structure that is recognized by the public.
At the same time, a variety of household magic machines have been added to the home, making the whole life countless times more comfortable than before.
However, this good life suddenly disappeared with the change of city owner of Bangta City.
Although it will not suddenly return to the predicament of being able to barely make ends meet in the past few years, because the new city lord has implemented the policy of suppressing business and promoting agriculture, many chambers of commerce in Bangta City have either lost their factories or Move out or close down, resulting in three of Afalia's five children losing their jobs. The remaining two had to go to Luoyu Valley, dozens of kilometers away, to find jobs again.
Now their family's monthly income has suddenly changed from more than 70 gold coins before to just over 20 gold coins now, which has shrunk by more than half in an instant, making the whole family's life suddenly difficult.
Of course, this income is actually much higher than in previous years. But now people's living standards are much higher than before. It would undoubtedly be extremely difficult to suddenly drop from a monthly income of more than 70 gold coins to a living standard of more than 20 gold coins.
The key is that in the past two years, Afalia's father and his family have taken advantage of the huge increase in their income to find out about their second son's marriage. At the same time, they have also married off their two daughters, which means that they have suddenly transformed from one family to several. As a family, the burden is much heavier than before.
The more important issue is that the youngest son Yaqi is over eighteen years old this year, and according to the tradition in the countryside. If you are not married before the age of twenty, you will be gossiped about behind your back.
Yaqi, a boy, fell in love with a girl in the village on his own, and the two got along very well.
After meeting this girl, Afalia's father was very satisfied and originally planned to arrange a marriage for the two of them this year or next year.
But the girl's parents put forward conditions at this time. Archie is required to prepare a new house when he gets married, and to buy all kinds of household magic machines in the new house - all must be from the Xinfei brand.
Ordinarily, this request cannot be considered too excessive, because now everyone's life has improved, and the girls in Bangta City will have similar requirements when they get married.
However, the Newika Chamber of Commerce where Archie worked before moved directly to Canberra, which is more than 100 kilometers away from Bonta City, and Archie was unwilling to follow, causing him to lose his job. How could it be possible now? Spend such a large amount of money to meet these requirements.
Daddy Afariya and Archie made an estimate. If you want to meet the requirements of the girl's parents, you have to spend at least two hundred gold coins.
Although Afalia's father's family's income has improved a lot in the past two years, they have all used it to improve their family's life, but they don't have much savings.
So the marriage between Archie and the girl could only be temporarily suspended, and Archie's mood became lower and lower day by day.
Looking at the silent Archie sitting across from him, Dad Afalia remembered that he was always full of energy in the past. The youngest son, who was laughing and joking, let out a long sigh in his heart, glanced towards the southwest, secretly made up his mind, and said: "Yaqi, this is not the answer. You have to think about how to solve it?"
Archie smiled bitterly and said helplessly: "How to solve it? How can our family have so much money?" After speaking, he paused, a look of pain flashed across his face, and continued: "How about forget it, Leya and her parents If she insists on raising such high conditions, I won’t marry her at all. There are so many girls in the world, so I’ll just look for her later.”
"Don't say stupid things!" Father Afalia scolded him immediately. "Leya is a good girl. The conditions proposed by her parents cannot be too high. After all, they also want Leya to live a good life in the future. Well, Archie, you'd better not stay in the village and go out. Go somewhere else, find a good job, make some money, and then come back and marry Leya.”
Yaqi was startled: "How can that be done? The eldest brother and the second brother have moved out, so I must stay and take care of you and mother."
Afalia's father glared: "Your mother and I have a lot of hands and feet, what do you need to take care of? Listen to me, leave here and find a good job. When you have money, when you come back, Leya's Your parents will feel free to leave Leiya to you."
Archie saw the look on Afalia's father's face and knew that this was a sign that his father had made up his mind. He knew that his rebuttal would only make him angry. He thought about it but smiled bitterly: "But Dad, I Where should I find a job? The Chamber of Commerce in Falling Rain Valley is already full. Even if I want to go now, I can’t find a suitable job. Besides, the salary of more than ten gold coins a month is not enough. I want to save two hundred. If you have more gold coins, it will take at least two years.”
"It's not possible in Falling Rain Valley, you have to go further." Father Afalia shook his head.
Archie was suddenly stunned: "Dad, you don't want me to work in the Black Rice Wasteland, do you? Although the salaries offered by those chambers of commerce are quite high, it is the territory of the orcs and is very dangerous."
"Of course I don't want you to go to such a dangerous place. I mean the place farther away is the Principality of Standing." Dad Afalia said.
Yaci was completely stunned this time, and after a while he said with an incredulous look on his face: "Dad, you actually agree with me to go to the Principality of Standing? A round trip there would take a week even if we all take a carriage at the fastest. If I If you go, it will be difficult to come back in the future. If something happens to you and mom, I won’t be able to catch up even if I want to come back.”
Dad Afariya chuckled: "Who said you were the only one to go? Tell you, your mother and I will also go this time. Didn't you see the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce in "Banta Daily" "As long as experienced farmers like us are willing to move to the land leased by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Principality of Standing, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will directly subsidize us with 100 gold coins. Employees of the Cantona Chamber of Commerce can not only keep the food they need every year by contracting farmland, but also receive an annual salary of one hundred gold coins from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Your mother and I can earn two dollars a year. One hundred gold coins.”
"What about me?" Archie asked. "What am I going to do?"
"I asked you to read more of the "Banta Daily" and you still didn't listen." Father Afariya glanced at his youngest son with disdain. "The Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will also open mines and build a fruit canning factory in the Principality of Standing. As long as you are willing to go, are you afraid that you will not be able to find a job?"
Archie thought about it carefully, couldn't help swallowing, and asked Dad Afariya with some difficulty: "But Dad... If this happens, wouldn't it mean that our family has moved away from here? Run away." To live in the Principality of Standing?”
"What are you worried about? Our house is still here, who dares to demolish it?" Dad Afariya glanced in the direction of Bonta City and snorted: "If it weren't for the new guy, he'd be damned City Lord, we didn’t have to move. But this damn guy makes it difficult for us, so why are we staying here?”
Archie stared at Dad Afalia blankly, as if he was meeting him for the first time.
For the first time, he discovered that his father, who was already over fifty this year, was more adventurous than himself, a young man who was less than twenty years old.
It takes so much courage and perseverance to leave Bangta City, where I have lived for decades, and start a new life in another country that is even thousands of kilometers away.
If it wasn't because he was worried about his marriage to Leya, I'm afraid my father wouldn't have made such a determination, right
Thinking of this, Yaqi couldn't help but feel heavy guilt in his heart, and then he remembered a very important question.
"But Dad, our family has moved to the Principality of Standing. What will happen to Leya? We are no longer here, and Leya's family may let her find someone else to marry."
Afalia's father chuckled: "What? Boy, you keep talking about Leya all the time, but you didn't even find out about such an important thing. Let me tell you, I talked to Leya's father yesterday , but his father told me that he had decided to go to the Principality of Standing to farm for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce and the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, and asked me if I wanted to go with him. "
Yaqi's eyes lit up: "Does it mean that their family is going to move there too?"
"Leya's father hasn't decided yet whether the whole family will move there, because Leya told her father that she wants to stay with you. Hey, kid, you actually don't want a girl who is so infatuated with you even if you say you want her. , really ignorant.”
"Ah?" Archie was stunned for a moment, looking at Alfariya's father with a hint of narrow-mindedness on his face, and in addition to sweetness, there was also a hint of shame and anger in his heart.
After doing this for a long time, he was basically fooled by his own father!