Du Yuqi listened to Count Ratness's narration with a strange expression on his face, and even showed contempt at the end. He couldn't help but frowned and looked at Count Ratness. He had only heard about the corruption and cruelty of the nobles before, but he didn't expect to hear it from the old man's own mouth at this time. Only then did he know that the civilians on the continent of Arad had such a difficult life.

The story told by Count Ratnes is about the most notorious sexual rights of the nobles. To put it simply, the sexual intercourse of all unmarried women in the noble territory is the sacred and inviolable right of the lord, and the groom can only take a back seat. If he does not want his wife's virginity to be taken away, he can either marry an ugly wife or a woman with body odor or bad breath, so that the lord will give up the woman voluntarily, or he can pay money to redeem her.

Although Count Ratnes was also lustful, he was in his seventies after all, and it was difficult for him to deal with his family. He had not exercised his sexual power for a long time. Even if he occasionally said publicly that he wanted to exercise it, it was just a deliberate intimidation. He knew that the groom was rich and wanted to make some money.

However, a year ago, when he returned from hunting and walked to a town near the city of Chatli, he suddenly discovered that a family was holding a wedding.

While hunting, Count Ratness drank more than half a bowl of deer blood and ate hot food such as roasted venison. Although the bride was of average appearance, her breasts were very plump and she wore a tight wedding dress, which immediately attracted the attention of the old man Count Ratness. He didn't know why, but he felt a long-lost heat coming out of his dantian, and his appetite was aroused. He stayed here that night and sneaked over in the middle of the night to exercise his ** rights.

This incident was not a big deal at first, because Count Ratnes gave them a generous reward afterwards. Even the bride and groom, although helpless, had to endure it and consider themselves unlucky. Even Count Ratnes himself had forgotten about it.

Unexpectedly, two or three months ago, when Count Ratnes came back from hunting again, he habitually had dinner at the "Windmill and Millstone" tavern in the north of the city, and met the bride again.

At this time, Count Ratness no longer had any feelings for the bride. Instead, he wondered why he was so impulsive to have sex with her. However, the baby boy Paul in the bride's arms attracted him, because although the baby was young, he looked 80% similar to Count Ratness himself when he was young, even the mole on his nose was exactly the same!

It was obvious that there was no need for any identification to know that the baby was Count Ratnes's illegitimate son.

Why did the family want to raise the child even though they knew it was a bastard? It was because the bride and groom came from ordinary families, and when they saw that Count Ratnes was very generous, they naturally wanted to make a fortune.

As the saying goes, even a tiger will not eat its own cubs. Although Count Ratnes is cunning and cruel, he cannot ignore his own son.

However, he already had three grown-up sons, the oldest of whom was already over fifty years old. The three sons had already been arguing over the issue of inheritance rights, and they were all as fierce as wolves and tigers. If they knew that an illegitimate brother had suddenly appeared, they would definitely unite without saying a word to kill the younger one first.

Therefore, Count Ratnes did not tell anyone about this matter. He took his closest servant one night and secretly went to the illegitimate son's home. He gave them a huge fortune for ordinary people, explained the situation to them, and asked them to move out quickly and find a place to live a good life for the rest of their lives.

The family secretly investigated and found out that everything Count Ratnes said was true, so they listened to him and prepared to leave. However, it was hard to leave one's hometown, and it was always difficult to make the decision to leave one's hometown. At the same time, the family was not in dire straits. After all, they had a house and a few acres of land and could make ends meet. When selling the house and land, they were unwilling to sell them at a low price and always wanted to get a good price, so they delayed.

Not long after Count Ratnes gave the money, he accidentally caught pneumonia. He was in his seventies and had been seriously injured many times on the battlefield in his early years, which damaged his vitality and made him very weak. Therefore, the disease came on very quickly. He had tried every possible way, but he could only survive until now.

At present, all the male members of the Ratness family have been captured. There is only one person left who has the blood of the Ratness family and has the right to inherit the title of earl, and that person is the most inconspicuous illegitimate son Paul. Earl Ratness did not expect that his momentary impulse would become the last glimmer of hope to continue the family bloodline!

After Count Ratnes said this, Du Yuqi knew that it must be related to his illegitimate son, and he was naturally relieved, because this was not a difficult thing after all. However, he suddenly remembered something and frowned:

"I can protect your illegitimate child, but I cannot guarantee that he can inherit the title smoothly. You have to understand this. Although I come from another world, I also know that there are irreconcilable contradictions between a noble like you and the king. If I can take back your territory and make it a land directly under the king's jurisdiction, that is what the king wants most! I can't compete with the king of Delos!"

When Count Ratnes heard Du Yuqi agreed to this, he smiled weakly:

"It doesn't matter. At the beginning of the founding of the empire, my ancestors paid with blood and sacrificed their lives for the establishment of the country, which gave us the current high royal power. Even though the king is high above, even though there may be internal strife and even blood feuds among the nobles, when it comes to the demise of a certain family, all the nobles will directly unite and fight against the outside world. This aspect is a forbidden zone that even the king dare not touch, because once his actions are misunderstood as taking some measures to reclaim the nobles' fiefdoms, what awaits him is a civil war initiated by all the nobles!"