Around nine o'clock in the morning, Nero and Camille arrived at the town of Calypso in Odysseus ahead of schedule. However, Archbishop Thoth, whom Nero had hoped would save him, had not yet arrived, so his fate was sealed.
First, he was forced to drink two large cups of chili water by three conscripted men, and then Duke Raeles forcibly took him away to entertain guests.
To be honest, Lu Ming's guests were relatively few for a noble wedding, numbering no more than seventy-odd at most. If it were Grand Duke Rael's wedding, there would be at least two thousand guests, if not three thousand.
However, since Lu Ming and several of the brides did not have any relatives, it was understandable that there were so few guests.
While Lu Ming was entertaining guests with two strong men, his brides were in their rooms getting ready. Their families, best friends, and Lu Ming's two daughters were all offering them advice.
For example, Sham's side is her mother, the two Lilies' side is Kanina, Yorshka's side is her best friend, Miral's side is her own daughter Amelia, and Philna and Mena's side are both her mother and sister.
Lying on Mena's big, soft bed, Mena's two younger sisters looked on with great envy as Mena put on her makeup.
"What's wrong with you two? You're looking at me with such envy." Mena saw her two younger sisters' envious eyes in the mirror and couldn't help but smile and ask.
"Sister, when do you think we'll be able to marry a lord with a title and land?"
Upon hearing this, Mena couldn't help but tease, "Why don't you just go and try to get it yourself?"
"You make it sound so easy for you, but where are we supposed to find someone like that?! Back in Agamemnon, those noble children would run away the moment they saw us, let alone fall in love or get engaged!"
"Many aristocratic marriages are decided by the parents. Why don't you ask your father for help?" Mena, who was almost finished with her makeup, turned around and asked.
At this moment, the mother, who was actually Mena, spoke.
"You think your father didn't try to find those two brats for you? But every time, the men were scared away by them. The moment they met, those two bit him, shamelessly saying they wanted to taste their future husbands. Are they looking for husbands or food?"
Upon hearing this, Mena couldn't help but laugh. She said, "Normally, what you two did would definitely scare people. But didn't it have any effect on Earl Lothric? He shouldn't have any prejudice against our race!"
“Count Lothric might not be afraid, but he's a blockhead. He has absolutely no sense of romance!”
Upon hearing this, the Mena sisters' mother scolded them, "What nonsense are you talking about! He is a nobleman, just like your father, an earl. You are not allowed to talk nonsense."
"Oh..." Mena's two younger sisters responded listlessly. After a while, they suddenly asked Mena, "Sister, have you ever drunk your brother-in-law's blood?"
"I've had it. What's wrong?"
Mena's answer startled her two younger sisters. They asked incredulously, "Isn't he angry? Don't his other fiancées care?"
After thinking for a moment, Mena said, "Apart from Sham setting a limit of no more than twice a week, he basically doesn't care about the others. And Lu Ming won't get angry either."
The two younger sisters exchanged a glance and exclaimed in unison, "We're so envious!!"
Meanwhile, the two Lilies were sitting in the same room putting on makeup. Kanina and Princess Ella were also offering their opinions.
However, compared to Mena's group, there wasn't as much conversation on their side as on the others'. After all, time was running out!
To distinguish between her two different selves, the current Lily has a small braid on the left side of her hair, while the future Lily has a braid on the right side.
But what's the point of all this, as Kanina and Princess Ella say? They still can't tell the difference!
"Although it's been almost a month, I'm still not used to Kanina suddenly becoming an older sister!" Ella, the noblewoman, gestured a couple of times on her flat chest, then glanced at Kanina's curvaceous figure and said indignantly.
"How can an 11-year-old have such thoughts?" Lily, whose makeup was almost finished, said irritably.
"She's just jealous. Ignore her." Kanina, who was drawing eyebrows on Lily's right braid, glanced disdainfully at Ella's flat chest and then smiled slightly.
"Hey! I'm a princess, you know!" Princess Ella shouted when she saw Kanina give her chest a disdainful look.
"So, Your Highness, what do you plan to do? You know, my figure is better than yours~!" Kanina, who was extremely close to Princess Ella, deliberately puffed out her chest and teased.
Princess Ella was furious. But just as she was about to explode, she heard Carmel knocking and calling out, "Miss Lily, time is almost up, please hurry."
"Understood." Lily and Zuo exchanged a glance, then replied in unison.
Meanwhile, Lu Ming and Lothric were greeting their guests and chatting with them briefly. However, almost all of these guests said they wanted to get Lu Ming completely drunk during the dinner! This was giving Lu Ming a headache. However, he wasn't afraid of actually being forced to drink; he was more worried about having to go to the bathroom frequently at night if he drank too much.
"Hey! Brother-in-law!" Just as Lu Ming, Lothric, and Nero were greeting the guests, Fernana and Sham's younger brothers, Zalak and Mush, each with a female companion, got off a carriage and greeted Lu Ming.
Before Lu Ming could respond, Nero asked in surprise, "Didn't you two ask for leave and not come?"
"I wasn't planning on coming. But then I got scared. Then I thought it was my sister and brother-in-law's big day, and they wouldn't do anything out of line, so I brought Vera along." Mushu scratched his head awkwardly, then looked at Lu Ming.
"Alright, alright, I'll protect you today. But let's make this clear: if anything happens in the future, I can't save you!" Looking at Mushu's pleading face, Lu Ming felt a headache coming on. But in the end, he still agreed to Mushu's request. However, with her entanglement with a girl from the Hatu family, a sworn enemy, Mushu's future was truly unpredictable.
Compared to Mshu's situation, Zalak's is much easier to handle. All that's needed is to persuade Firna and Firna's mother; old Ozmoz is unlikely to refuse.
So after exchanging only a few words, Lu Ming let the two troublesome guys take their girlfriends into the venue.
Then, Archbishop Thute, the officiant, arrived late. Nero immediately rushed over and hugged him tightly, looking at him with teary eyes. Archbishop Thute was completely bewildered, having no idea what was going on.
Later, after Lothric explained, he learned that Nero had incurred the wrath of the crowd by deserting his post and had been pepper-sprinkled by Count Helmphis, Count Lothric, and Grand Duke Rael. He had been Nero's lifeline, but he arrived too late, which was why Nero had suffered such misfortune. The fact that he was only holding him now and hadn't burst into tears was already a good thing.
With a helpless smile, Archbishop Tut shoved the nearly forty-year-old man aside and strode into the wedding venue.
Nero, who was ruthlessly pushed away, found himself in a situation where no one cared for him or loved him, and for a moment, he didn't know what to say.
However, as the officiant arrived, the guests gradually arrived as well.
Soon, the wedding began.
Lu Ming chose a meadow outside the town of Calypsope as his wedding venue. It was springtime, the season of blooming flowers, and the air was filled with their fragrance. Many of the unmarried female guests exclaimed, "How romantic!"
Outside the pristine white carpet, seven magnificent wedding carriages slowly approached, and one by one, beautiful brides in pure white wedding gowns stepped down from the carriages and arrived at the wedding venue.
Looking at these seven brides, each with a completely different temperament, a sense of pride and happiness welled up in Lu Ming's heart, bringing a blissful smile to his face.
Looking at the dashing Sham, the beautiful and gentle Lilies, the mischievous and adorable Yul Sica, the slightly naive Miral, the noble and elegant Philna, and the mysterious and alluring Mena, accompanied by bridesmaids Kanina, Amelia, Camilles, and others, they came to Lu Ming's side and in front of the officiant.
At this moment, everyone, from the guests to the brides' families, couldn't help but feel happy for the seven brides, after all, they had married a fairly good nobleman and found husbands who loved them.
At that moment, the band, which had been prepared in advance, began playing the music for the wedding. The officiant, Archbishop Tuth of Agamemnon Cathedral from the Church of Light, also spoke.
"Mr. Lu Ming, do you take these seven beautiful young women to be your wives? Regardless of their poverty, sickness, disability, or death?"
"Yes, I do." Lu Ming's answer was forceful, conveying his determination to marry Lily and the others.
This also made many of the brides' sisters envious, wondering why they didn't have a groom like him.
Looking at Philner and the others, there was a hint of jealousy in their eyes.
The husbands of the sisters who were already married were now in trouble.
However, as Mena and her family, they were genuinely happy for them.
After asking Lu Ming, Archbishop Tut looked at Lily and the others, especially Mena, the vampire bride.
Although he was deeply reluctant for Lu Ming to marry this vampire, as Lu Ming's appointed officiant, he wouldn't disrupt the wedding or embarrass Lu Ming. So he asked, "Lily Helas, Sham Hatu, Miral Sachi, Yorshka, Philna Ozmoz, Mena Vlad. Ladies, are you willing to marry this gentleman? To have and to hold from this day forward, in poverty, sickness, or disability, until death do you part?"
Before Philna and the others could answer, three of the guests suddenly stood up, startling Lu Ming.
Seeing the three men suddenly stand up, Lu Mingxin's heart skipped a beat. He was terrified that something like a wedding robbery might suddenly happen to him.
However, just as everyone was looking at the three people, the three who had suddenly stood up and interrupted the wedding gritted their teeth and forced themselves to sit back down.
They probably felt that the wedding was irreversible and that the person they loved would not leave with them, so they sat back down.
But Lu Ming remembered their faces and would never forget them.
'A vampire, a priest, and a nobleman. Are they the ones who secretly love Mena, Yorshka, and Philna? Too bad, they are destined to be my wives! And we truly love each other! I will never let you succeed!'
Just as Lu Ming frowned as he looked at the three men who had stood up, Archbishop Tut also noticed that one of them was from the Church of Light. He hurriedly turned to Miral and the others and asked, "Lily Heilas, Sham Hatu, Miral Sachi, Yorshka, Philna Ozmoz, and Mena Vlad, seven ladies, are you willing to marry this gentleman? Regardless of his poverty, sickness, or disability, until death do you part?"
Because of what happened before, Yu'er, Sika, and the others were afraid of a repeat of that, so they hurriedly answered in unison, "Yes, I'm willing!"
Seeing that the three men did not return, Archbishop Tut said, "Then please exchange rings."
Grand Duke Raelus, the best man, walked up to Lu Ming with a box containing seven rings, while Camille, the bridesmaid, walked up to Lily with a ring.
Upon seeing this, everyone knew who the lord of Odysseus's territory, Viscount Lu Ming's, legal wife was.
“Even though he got control of the territory, he still didn’t get the position of the principal wife… That’s impossible! Could it be that he found out about our argument yesterday? Is that why he gave up on Sham and chose Lily Helas?” Sham’s mother muttered to herself as soon as she saw the bridesmaid holding the ring next to Lily.
In her view, no matter how much Lu Ming trusted her, his daughter should be his legal wife. But now she was surprised to find that it was Lily Helas, the daughter of a commoner. Suddenly, she looked at the Vlad family sitting on the other side and immediately understood why Count Vlad, who was an earl but had no power whatsoever, had been arguing with her and the Ozmoz family.
"So that's how it is. You knew your daughter couldn't be the legal wife, so you ganged up on me to cause my son-in-law's dissatisfaction and make him suspicious of Sham? Too bad you don't know, my son-in-law can't take back this management right! Everything you've done has only deprived Sham's future children of their inheritance rights to this territory. Do you think the Hatu family cares about this small territory?" Sham's mother, watching Lu Ming exchange rings with his wives with a cold smile, offered her blessings to her daughter while secretly harboring resentment towards Count Vlad for choosing the wrong side.
However, now that they're relatives, she won't harm the Vlad and Ozmoz families. But if they make any mistakes or oversights in the future, they can't blame her for not reminding them.
Finally, at Archbishop Tut's suggestion, Lu Ming kissed each of his seven brides one by one. Finally, amidst the blessings of family and friends, he smiled happily... (To be continued.)
Chapter Thirty-Two - Wedding Three
In the evening, at the lord's manor in Calypso of Odysseus, the wedding banquet for Lu Ming, Lily, and others began.
Because of the large number of people, in addition to the young cook Wang Na, ten chefs from the town were recruited to help. With everyone working together, the banquet for more than seventy people was prepared very well.
After everyone was seated, Lu Ming and his seven wives began the toasting ceremony. However, unlike a traditional Chinese wedding, there was no drinking involved. The toasts were simply to thank the brides' parents for giving their beloved daughter to them in marriage.
In addition, since Lily, the wife, did not have any family members present, the first person Lu Ming and the others toasted was Sham's mother.
This action clearly conveyed to the guests and everyone present that Sham's position in the Hatu family remained unshakeable. This caused some regret among Vlad and Ozmoz, who had plotted to remove Sham from his position as the principal wife. Especially old Ozmoz, who hadn't initially intended to do it. But for the sake of the family's interests, he ultimately did it anyway.
So when Lu Ming brought his wife over to toast him, he always looked a little embarrassed because of his guilt.
Count Vlad, however, did not share this concern. He was more worried that his actions might provoke Sham's wanton retaliation, thus preventing his daughter from gaining much benefit in Odysseus's territory and being unable to help the family. If that were the case, he might have to find a way to completely unite with the Ozmoz family.
After Count Vlad drank a glass of wine with a mixture of joy and apprehension, Lu Ming and the others turned to Archbishop Tut, who was serving as the officiant and also representing You'er Sica's elders.
"Thank you so much for being here to witness our marriage and for giving Yul Sica to me. I salute you!"
Looking at the groom, Archbishop Tut smiled and nodded, then drank a glass of fruit wine, a specialty of Odysseus. He continued, "From now on, you must live a good life."
"Yes!"
After the bride and groom toasted the elders, the guests began to eat the dishes on the table.
Meanwhile, the group of friends began their efforts to get the groom drunk.
In the morning, Nero, who had been given two bottles of pepper spray, approached Lu Ming with several bottles of tequila and other strong liquor, saying, "It's your wedding day, how can you not drink? Come on, I've agreed to bring a few bottles of good wine from my lord's manor! We'll drink until we drop!"
Just as Lu Ming was about to decline, Hemfies and Carmels arrived with their drinks. Their expression suggested that he wasn't leaving until he finished them!
Helpless, Lu Ming had no choice but to drink with these three bastards. However, before they could even start, Grand Duke Rael and Earl of Lothric arrived.
"I'm getting married today, so you lot better behave yourselves." Seeing that these bastards had no intention of letting him off the hook, Lu Ming smiled on the surface but gritted his teeth and whispered.
"Don't worry! There are only two outcomes today. One, we'll drink you out of the water. Two, you'll drink us out of the water." Count Nero chuckled and held up two fingers.
"Isn't there any other choice?" Lu Ming asked through gritted teeth in a low, menacing voice.
“No!” Grand Duke Raels said with a slight smile.
"Sigh~! Alright!" With a slight sigh, Lu Ming picked up a bottle of tequila and poured himself and these bastards a full glass, then said, "Today, I'll drink you guys under the table!"
After saying this, he clinked glasses with Nero and the others, and then drank it all in one gulp.
Then, the eleven-year-old Grand Duke Rael lost consciousness.
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