Chapter 243 Marriage

Lying on his side, his right arm was pillowed by Olivia's neck, and Leon's left arm was wrapped around him, resting relaxedly in front of the girl.

The left hand that had not yet regained control was allowed to be caressed by her lovingly.

Turning sideways and smelling the fragrance of Olivia's hair, Leon looked at the moonlight outside the window.

He was debating in his mind whether he should proceed with the final step of proposing now and decide on the wedding day.

But before Leon sought his lover's opinion, Olivia spoke first.

".Leon."

"Um?"

"Can you allow me to be more willful with you in the future?"

The girl gently held her lover's recovered arm, and carefully touched the healed skin traces with her slender fingers.

Leon tightened the embrace of his left arm, pressed against his lover's soft body, and almost laughed.

"You are so well-behaved that it makes me feel bad, but when have you ever been willful to me? It's better to say that I have always been willful to you, but I have always expected you to be more coquettish towards me."

Olivia sighed: "You still know that you have been bullying me, you bad guy."

She turned around, curled up in her lover's broad arms, and looked at him face to face.

"But that's not what I'm talking about. I regret listening to you so much this time." She put her arms around Leon's neck: "Looking at the danger you encountered, I shouldn't have stayed in Avalon.

I want to protect you. No matter whether you are going to come into contact with the great nobles of the kingdom in the future, please promise me that at least I will be near you and can rush to you at any time, okay? I promise that I can hide my identity and let me do whatever I want."

Looking at his lover's persistent eyes, Leon thought carefully.

Olivia has been able to change the characteristics of her eye color. Besides, unlike the identity of a rural girl with an abrupt origin in the past, now she has the protection of a distant relative of the Vilanian royal family designed by herself and others, and she has a reasonable origin. Heel, if he and Corvis are often present at the same time, the two of them have blond hair and golden eyes, pretending to be cousins ​​of the Arundel family in Villania, which is very convincing.

Not to be associated with the Drachmar family.

Compared to her, Corvis's extraordinary status as the prince of Villania from the Eastern Continent may attract the attention of the nobles more.

As long as you avoid too sensitive meeting situations, there is really no need to be so timid. Olivia is so good, and being so secretive all the time will make people suspicious. There is no way he can lock her in a small dark room. , anyway, after preparing so many means to cover up his life experience, showing up openly can also create the effect of darkness under the light.

"I promise you, I really can't predict when I will encounter such a crisis again. It would be irresponsible for you to go into danger alone, but how can you still be willful and need permission? Is this still called willful?" Leon lowered his head and asked. Go over and rub her little face.

"I'm used to it." Olivia muttered with red cheeks.

During the intimacy, Leon then expressed what he had just thought: "I actually have something that I need to ask for your opinion on."

Olivia kissed her lover's increasingly handsome face and listened, "Well, you tell me."

"How about we find a date to hold the wedding as early as possible?"

Leon explained: "If something unexpected happens to me this time, if you have become my legal wife, then I can at least try to leave everything in the barony to you to inherit. In this way, no matter for you or Uncle Brian, It can still avoid a lot of trouble and hidden dangers for everyone.”

Leon expressed his worries, but saw Olivia's eyebrows frowning slightly.

Hearing her lover's concerns based on her own death, Olivia thought for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, I will listen to you."

Leon saw the hesitation in the girl's eyes.

"What? Do you think it's too hasty?"

"No." The girl shook her head gently and pressed against the other person's chest: "I just feel that all of this seems to be a measure based on your death, which makes me feel uncomfortable."

Leon smiled and couldn't help but hug him tighter.

Olivia raised her head and looked directly into the other person's eyes.

"Miss Margarina said that she is willing to be with Mr. Larian forever until death, but I am even more greedy. Even if it is death, I don't want to be separated from you."

The girl closed her eyes, buried her head and leaned over, her voice gradually becoming inaudible. This confession made Leon's heart heavy.

If I really accidentally messed up, this little girl wouldn't do anything stupid, would she?

But he really couldn't escape the danger he was about to face. How to ensure that he would be so fatal every time? This gave Leon a headache.

Maybe the two of them can have a child quickly to avoid this little girl from making stupid mistakes in the future?

This thought came to mind, and he couldn't help but slide his left arm, and the back of his hand fell on Olivia's belly.

If she and her children were around, Olivia would definitely cheer up for each other's children, even if the worst happened.

The girl's face felt warm due to the warmth of Leon's hand on her belly, and her buried cheeks became as red as a fever.

She seemed to have misunderstood, and said shyly in a low voice: "Besides, I don't know how it is in your hometown. But in Orland, we have lived together like this for so long. Even if there is no wedding yet, I am already your wife." ”

Olivia raised her head and stared at her beloved lover with bright eyes: "If you want, you can possess me at any time."

Leon felt as if a volcano was boiling in his heart, and desire and love rushed into his mind.

But his still calm reason quickly suppressed this impulse and shook his head: "Now is not a good time."

Of course, the more critical reason is that he has not made any preparations. Not to mention other things, although the idea of ​​giving a girl a child is sound, getting Olivia pregnant now is definitely not a wise choice.

In the current natural disaster crisis, every force needs to fight against it. In such a situation, Olivia has to give birth to offspring, which is undoubtedly a heavy burden and drag for her.

Leon sighed with relief. After thinking about it carefully, he felt that he still underestimated the girl. With her strength, she should not be so fragile, not to mention Uncle Brian. Olivia is so sensible and will definitely not leave her behind. old father.

"You're right. It would be better to hold our wedding after the dispute is over. Without thinking about our future, we first thought that I would definitely die in the battle. Holding a ceremony with this kind of mood is really not perfect.

However, you just said that in Orland, even if there is no wedding, we are already considered husband and wife? "Leon didn't know if this was Olivia's love words or another custom of the Northern Kingdom that he didn't understand.

Olivia squeezed Leon's hand gently, feeling a little disappointed when she heard the other person's patience.

She put down her strange mood and explained: "If you insist on saying it, after living with you for so long, if we are civilians, we only need to notify the lord and record it, and we will be a recognized family.

Nowadays, as a noble, there is one more step than civilian marriage. We need to submit our marriage contract to the prince. There are two types, one is the 'full husband's rights contract' and the other is the 'non- husband's rights contract'. Of course, the wedding is also very complicated. It's an important thing, but as long as the paperwork is submitted, in fact, our relationship is already legally recognized as husband and wife. "

Since she established a relationship with her beloved, she has been very attentive to find out the details of important events in her life from her old father.

Is it so simple for Leon to raise his eyebrows? Why is it like going to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register in my previous life?

From what I learned from the memory of the original owner, at least in the Kingdom of Serian, the marriage between two people must go through a wedding ceremony, and be legally recognized only after being officiated and blessed by a priest from the Church of the Holy Sun.

Thinking of this, Leon suddenly realized that the Kingdom of Orland did not believe in the Holy Sun, so naturally there was no church to witness this link. In the Northern Kingdom, weddings probably symbolize more of a traditional custom celebration, although it is also necessary. It is rare, but does not seem to be a decisive procedure in determining whether a marriage is recognized.

"So in Orland, can we hold the wedding first and then submit the contract documents, or submit the contract documents first and then hold the wedding?" Leon asked quickly.

Olivia nodded: "It should be like this."

The problem of hesitation is easily solved.

Leon still wants to give his lover a perfect wedding, a grand ceremony with everyone's blessing.

But before that, it seems that the procedures for aristocratic marriage can be completed in advance with Earl Elliot.

Early the next morning, Leon specially found Filippo and several other knights who were doing morning exercises in the barracks.

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He learned about the traditions and norms of noble marriage in Orland from these knights from various local families.

The situation is indeed very different from what Olivia said. Of course, a wedding is indispensable for a marriage between members of the aristocracy, but the real judgment of whether it is recognized by the laws of the kingdom is still the contract document preserved between the wedding parties and the master.

The two marriage documents also created two forms of marriage.

The so-called "complete husband's rights contract" is relatively rare in aristocratic marriages, and more often occurs in the wealthy civilians of the kingdom.

In a contract with complete marital rights, the wife's status is completely inferior to that of her husband. To put it nicely, she is almost equivalent to her husband's "daughter". To put it poorly, the husband has complete and complete parental power.

Of course, although there are few real contract documents among ordinary people at the lower levels of society, because few people at the bottom are literate, in real life, most people maintain this form of marriage in disguise, and the status of women is even more important. Being low is the objective reality of this era.

However, the majority of Orland noble marriages adopt "non-conjugal contracts".

In this kind of contract, although the husband's power is still at a higher level, both husband and wife have clear negotiation terms in the document on issues such as property distribution, inheritance rights, and post-marital conditions.

This is not because the nobles have a higher sense of morality, but it is also based on practical factors.

Aristocratic marriage often represents the union of two families. The wife symbolizes the political and military power of the family behind her. The husband must naturally give his wife corresponding status and respect.

In the Northern Kingdom, in most cases, the lord's wife is also his ally. The status of the specific ally depends on the strength of the family behind the wife.

He was quite interested in learning the tradition of noble marriage in Orland. Leon expressed his gratitude to the sons of nobles, then took Olivia and hurried to the study room, intending to immediately try to draft a contract document establishing a marriage relationship.

Originally, according to Filippo, this step in aristocratic marriages was no less solemn than a wedding.

It is usually held after the engagement ceremony. Family members and parents of both parties need to sit together for consultation and discussion.

But Leon's own blood relatives are all on earth, the original owner's parents have long been killed, and Olivia only has Brian as her "relative", so this is much simpler.

The two of them decided on their own and let Brian take a look. If there is no problem, they can write a letter and send it to Earl Earl Liver for registration.

Neither Leon nor Olivia had experience writing this thing. Fortunately, for the two of them, it was more of a symbol. After all, they didn't need the items in it to stabilize their relationship, and it didn't matter if there were omissions.

Moreover, what Leon really needed was only the legal effect of one of the items, that is, to designate his wife Olivia as the heir of his title, territory, and property.

As for the others, according to the customs of the kingdom, it would be fine as long as the meaning was appropriate.

Olivia sat on the left and helped Leon press the paper.

But she could see the other party's feather pen on the manuscript paper, and the content of the items left more and more like writing love poems. She blushed and raised her hand to poke Leon's lower back.

"This contract document may still need to be reviewed by Earl Elliver."

"So what? There is no regulation on how it should be written, right?"

Leon paused with his pen tip, looked up at the girl blankly, and then looked down. Well, it was a bit corny, but there was no strict template anyway, not to mention that it was a token of witnessing their marriage, how could he not inject love into it.

Seeing Leon start to write poems on paper again, Olivia quickly grabbed the pen and ink.

"No, I'm afraid that Lord Elliver will laugh to death if I write so many embarrassing words. I'd better let me do it."

Seeing the girl rewriting seriously, Leon shrugged and had to let her go.

Suddenly, the door of the study was pushed open and Azerien walked in.

Leon looked at him, but before he spoke, he heard Azerien take the lead: "I discussed with Raya and wanted to hold the wedding in advance, not waiting for the Ascension Festival. If it's convenient, I plan to start preparing in the next few days."

Olivia raised her head and looked over with a little surprise.

Leon sighed, they are really brothers. They just returned to Avalon one night, and the two of them went home to discuss this with their wives.

"I have no objection. It's just right. I also think Avalon needs a celebration." Leon nodded.

Whether considering the end of the southern expedition or before other turmoil comes, now is the best time to relax the tense nerves.

As for the fact that the other party and Miss Raya made different decisions from himself and Olivia, Leon can probably think of the reason.

After all, the weak Miss Raya can't follow her lover to the battlefield like Olivia.

And waiting for the news of her lover after the expedition in fear in the rear, even the strong Golden Lion Knight can't stand it, let alone the painter lady.

Azerien knows the inside story of the disaster in the east. No one can guarantee what kind of turmoil and changes will happen in the situation on the continent after waiting for more than a month.

The mentality of the two people eager to complete the wedding can be imagined.