Volume 3 Chapter 32 - Immigration (1/2)

As the king and princess of the Lampuri Kingdom, all their decisions were naturally important matters for the Lampuri Kingdom.

But for the father and son pair of Afaylia and Archie, these important matters didn’t matter to them. The problem they cared about now was the life of their little family.

Actually in all fairness, Afaylia’s family were living better lives compared to before.

Although Afaylia still went hunting in the mountains, he was no longer using the prey hunted to exchange for money and was just doing it to provide them with a sumptuous meal.

That was because the current Afaylia family no longer needed to rely on his income from hunting.

Afaylia had three sons and two daughters, they were all working in factories in Banta City. Every one of them had salaries of over ten gold coins a month and they brought in a total monthly salary of over seventy gold coins.

This much money was something that their family couldn’t earn in a single year before.

With this increase in income, Afaylia’s family’s lives naturally became much better.

Not only did the prey Afaylia hunted become a good meal, their small shack had been dismantled and learning from the other families of the village, they had the Amrit Chamber of Commerce build a two story house out of brick that everyone approved of.

At the same time, their house was filled with household magic machines that improved their lives by several times over.

However, this good life had disappeared with the changing of Banta City’s City Lord.

Although they didn’t go back to the same situation from several years ago where they couldn’t feed themselves, with the agricultural promotion policies of the new City Lord, it mande many factories in Banta City move out or close down. In the end, of the five children that Afaylia had, three of them had lost their jobs and the remaining two had to go to the Falling Rain Valley that was several dozen kilometers away to find new jobs.

Now their family’s monthly income had turned from over seventy gold coins to a trivial twenty gold coins. It had greatly decreased and made their lives much harder.

Of course, that was still much higher compared to before, but now that everyone had a higher standard of living, going from seventy gold coins a month to twenty gold coins a month was without a doubt difficult.

The important thing was that Afaylia’s family’s income had increased in these two years, so he quickly took care of his second son’s marriage and married out his two daughters, turning one household into several households and increasing their burdens.

The even more important problem was that his youngest son Archie was turning eighteen this year. According to the traditions of the village, if he wasn’t married by the age of twenty, others would gossip behind his back.

This kid Archie had actually found a good girl in the village and their relationship wasn’t bad.

After Afaylia saw that girl, he was very satisfied and was planning to take care of their wedding this year or next year.

But the parents of the girl had given their condition. They wanted Archie to prepare a new house for them when they got married and they wanted the house to be filled with household magic machines, which had to be from the Frestech Brand.

This request couldn’t be considered excessive because as living conditions became better, the girls in Banta City had similar requests when they got married.

But the Newiqa Chamber of Commerce that Archie used to work for moved to Canberra City that was over a hundred kilometers away and Archie wasn’t willing to go, so he lost his job. How could he take out all the money to fulfill this condition?

Afaylia and Archie had calculated it, if they wanted to satisfy the request of the girl’s parents, they had to take out at least two hundred gold coins.

Although Afaylia’s family’s income in these two years were very good, they had spent quite a bit in improving their lives and didn’t save much.

So the wedding matter could only be delayed for now and Archie’s mood was getting worse with each day.

Seeing the silent Archie sitting in front of him, Afaylia remembered how his son used to be full of energy and always laughing. He gave a sigh in his heart before looking to the southwest, silently coming to a decision in his heart before saying, “Archie, staying like this isn’t a way, you should think of a way to solve this, right?”

Archie gave a bitter laugh as he helplessly said, “How do we solve it? Our family doesn’t have that much money.” He paused after saying this before a trace of pain appeared on his face and he continued, “How about we forget it? Leia’s parents insist on this high condition, so I might as well not marry her. There are many girls in this world, I can just find another one in the future.”