"John Howlett is our loyal, brave, upright, fearless, and fair friend, and a fellow recipient of the Lord's grace. Today we send him off to the Lord's grace.……"
"Since Jesus suffered in the flesh, you should also have the same attitude as your weapon, because the sufferings you have suffered in the flesh have broken away from sin!"
"So John Howlett was cleansed of his original sin and would go to heaven under the guidance of God's will. Throughout his life, he showed the greatest kindness to his family, friends and everyone he interacted with.……"
The priest from the Edmonton Cathedral presided over the funeral, reciting the eulogy solemnly and compassionately. The crows that smelled the body landed on the nearby thorns and cawing without any eyes, which made the people who came to attend the funeral feel irritated.
James Howlett's eyes were red, as if he had just cried bitterly.
He was just over 6 years old, and his face was heavier than ever. He supported his mother Elizabeth Howlett and stood in the front. Through the veil, the widow's face was pale, and her expression was not sad but extremely miserable.
"My mother, you never seemed to love him, did you?"
"In your eyes, there is only worry about your future and guilt for the past, but no mourning for my nominal father who has passed away!"
James Howlett's voice was extremely weak, but hearing her son say this, Elizabeth Howlett was shocked all over, as if she was quite surprised that her thoughts were seen through by a young child.
His face, half shaded and half sunny under the slanting sunlight, seemed to mature in an instant, shedding the immaturity that should be present at this age, and for the first time, even his mother could not see through his thoughts.
The guests standing a little further away were not aware of such changes. They just watched a young child and a sad wife lose their father and husband, who they relied on, but were so strong when bidding farewell to their deceased relatives.
After the memorial service, James Howlett supported his mother and walked towards the coffin that had not yet been filled with soil. He put down the white chrysanthemums in his other hand, and forcefully pulled his mother to sprinkle the first handful of floating soil for his nominal father. After that, the guests came forward in turn according to their relationship and said their final goodbyes.
Lin Qiming and the two women walked over one after another, and said goodbye to John Howlett in the coffin according to local etiquette. When they passed by James Howlett, they said softly,
"Be patient and accept my condolences, child. You still have a grandfather who loves you, and we can rely on you!"
He has regarded the children who have accompanied him through life and death as his own relatives, and he is not stingy in giving sincere comfort. When old Mr. Howlett heard this, he nodded slightly with an expressionless face. After the last person left the coffin, he waved his hand and asked someone to put the coffin into the burial pit. He personally picked up a shovel and walked forward, and began to fill the soil silently.
His hair and beard are now completely white, as if he has aged 10 years in a short period of time. The kindness and kindness he once showed to his relatives and friends are gone, and the fierceness in his eyes has returned to the way it was when he first set foot in this colony.
"John, my child, even though you are not very ambitious, even though some dirty things between men and women have destroyed your mind, you have been drinking day and night to escape reality, and finally died of drunkenness the night before yesterday, but you are still my son, old Howlett."
"Thomas Logan, the culprit, is dead, but his bastard son, a monster, killed the guard and escaped. I will definitely find him in my lifetime and send him to hell to comfort your soul in heaven.
The old man kept talking to his son, filling the ground with a shovel.
Lin Qiming and the two girls waited on the side of the road for a while. James Howlett, who had seen his mother off, came over. He lowered his head and said in a lost tone:
"Sorry, Dr. Lin, I may not go to the clinic recently!"
"My grandfather is old, and he needs someone to support the Howlett family. Even though I am not his blood descendant, he still chose me to continue the family, so I am sorry that I broke my promise!"
The child looks mature, but his sincere and kind heart has not changed. At such a sad moment, he still came to apologize for not being able to fulfill his promise.
Lin Qiming patted his shoulder gently and said softly with great understanding.
"You don't need to apologize to me, kid. I told you that you can stay or go as you please. If you want to come back to Howlett Manor, just tell me."
"Take good care of your grandfather. The inheritance of power and wealth is not a natural process. Perhaps you will experience more blood and rain. When you encounter difficulties, don't forget that I can help you not too far from here!"
On his way to the wedding, he heard a lot about several surrounding manors wanting to take advantage of the old manor's loss of his son in his later years to make some changes to the boundaries of the grassland that had been demarcated. They may think that the old man in his sixties and seventies will never recover from the heavy blow he has experienced, like a vulture ready to tear a piece of flesh from the Howlett family.
James Howlett obviously understood, raised his drooping head, and showed a fierce light in his eyes.
"Haha, Dr. Lin, I have killed a werewolf!"
"I will tell those wishful thinkers that the descendants of Howlett are not easy to mess with. If you dare to provoke us, you will pay the price of blood and fire!"
At this moment, he was like a wounded lone wolf. He looked easy to bully, but in fact he was the most ferocious beast.
Lin Qiming agreed with this and nodded slightly.
"Then we will leave first. You know my manor is under construction. If no one is watching, those slaves and supervisors will not work properly. They are just idiots who only care about food and not punishment!"
"If there is an enemy you cannot handle, don't be shy to speak up!"
After he finished speaking, he took the two women, untied the reins tied to the woods by the roadside, and got on the horse to start his journey home.
James Howlett stood there and watched them leave until old Mr. Howlett came over, put his hands on his shoulders and said in a tone full of approval:
"My dear grandson, you have been transformed after this trip. Now you look like the heir of the Howlett family!"
"Tonight I will take you and those old guys, let this land recall the fierce power of the blood pine, and tell those greedy bastards that I, old Howlett, am only old, not dead!"
The grandfather and grandson stood together, just like an old lion king teaching the young beast the experience of ruling the grassland. No one knew how much trouble the two would make.
After returning to the manor he was building, Lin Qiming and the two women inspected the busy and huge construction site.
He planned to build the Chinese-style villa he had seen before crossing, and he did not intend to build a majestic castle like the surrounding manor owners to demonstrate his authority and wealth.
Now there are more than 200 dark-skinned and strong slaves leveling the foundation. The slaves with brute force are shouting incomprehensible bird language, lifting stone mills to continuously compact the loose soil, and these slaves cost less than 100 pounds in total.
The reason why it only cost so little money was naturally that Lin Qiming bought slaves that slave traders could not sell. They were not used to the local climate and soil. The slaves looked sick and might die at any time, so the slave traders packed them up and sold them cheaply to avoid not making a penny after their death.
When he pulled back these half-dead slaves, the surrounding plantation owners were all laughing at him. But after a few days of Chinese medicine conditioning and overcoming the acclimatization, these slaves worked just as well as the slaves in their hands under the waving whip. Those previously sarcastic plantation owners almost dropped their eyes to the ground in shock.
Looking at the foundation of no less than 3,000 square meters that had been leveled, and the surrounding 5,000 acres of fertile and vast land that belonged to him, Lin Qiming couldn't help but feel proud.
This will be the origin of the Lin family's prosperity in the future. Starting from a small clinic and a small courtyard, earning such a large fortune is enough to comfort the spirits of his parents in heaven.
"Tiffana, these slaves will be under your management from now on, so the project needs to progress faster!"
"After the foundation of the villa is completed, I will invite a construction company from the city to build the main body. These slaves cannot sit idle either. The smart ones will learn some basic construction skills from the workers, and those who can only use brute force will be sent to cultivate farm land. In a word, as long as they don't die from the work, they will work themselves to death. They are as strong as animals and will not be easily exhausted to death."
Lin Qiming pointed to the nearly completed foundation and said to the group of slaves who looked not much smarter than gorillas.
He did not think that these unevolved apes were also human beings, so he used them without any regard for so-called morality and humanitarianism. As long as the manor and farm could be built, there was no need to feel it wasted even if they all died.
Tiffany nodded without hesitation. The little princess who was born in a large vampire clan knew how to use slaves best.
But Lin Xianyin could not bear to watch. Every time she came to the construction site of the manor, she hid aside to wipe the sweat off the horses and feed them, and she took the main approach of turning a blind eye.
The days passed by in a busy manner. During this period, a piece of news that shocked the entire province of Alberta spread like wildfire and reached the ears of all the manor owners on this land.
Old Mr. Howlett brought his The grandson of the Howlett family, on the night of his son's funeral, led more than 300 battle-hardened musketeers to sweep through the manor owners who coveted his land and wealth. They passed through five towns and burned down twelve manors overnight. The flames that shot up into the sky dyed more than half of the sky red.
Those manor owners were caught off guard, and even their families and guards were buried in the flames. According to statistics by the sheriffs afterwards, a total of more than 400 people died in this tragic revenge.
It is rumored that less than 40 musketeers of the Howlett family died, and the young heir James Howlett personally killed more than 100 people, proving to everyone that he was more difficult to mess with than old Howlett. Lin Qiming learned the news from the musketeers of the Howlett family.
He was not surprised at all and entertained them. After treating the musketeers to a big summer hot pot, he stood calmly at the gate of the manor under construction and personally sent them off.
The surrounding manor owners, who had originally looked down on this rising star with an oriental face, learned that the Howlett family had an unusually close relationship with their neighbors, and hurriedly gave up their little thoughts and cordially invited Lin Qiming to participate in their various banquets, which well demonstrated the flexible bottom line of the Anglo-Saxons.
In the following days, with the overtime work of the construction company and the slaves, the Chinese-style villa gradually took shape, and the 5,000-acre farm slowly took shape.
After gradually integrating into the social circle of the manor owners, Lin Qiming also followed their business strategies, constantly expanding the planting area of grain crops, while selecting excellent stallions and cattle, and establishing his own livestock population to meet the needs of the manor. Request.
With the memory before the time travel, he lived like an ordinary manor owner on the surface, but secretly began to study new hybrid crop technology.
Today, there are only three people in the Lin family. After buying land and building manors, there is not much left of all the wealth. It is somewhat wishful thinking to step into the industrial industry to get rich. They can only establish their roots in the agricultural field to accumulate their own strength.
Once the new hybrid crop technology is developed, it will be possible to earn a lot of money just by relying on various grain transactions after the increase in production, laying a solid foundation for further development in the future.
During this period, James Howlett came several times. In addition to visiting his benefactor, he also found a reliable person to confide his troubles. For example, his mother insisted on converting to Catholicism and stayed in the chapel of the manor all day, and even his son could hardly see her once
, and the reprimand of the Howlett family by the Governor-General of Ghana, etc.
Lin Qiming did not comment on the affairs of the Howlett family, but he was quite curious about why the Governor-General of Ghana would personally reprimand a local tyrant. After listening to the details of the incident, he suddenly realized it.
"So the surrounding manor owners felt grief over the loss of the rabbit and jointly went to the governor to complain. Haha, they are really thick-skinned. They knew they couldn't win, so they went to tell tales!"
"According to the Governor's instructions to your grandfather, no one in Ghana can engage in open fighting in the future. This is also beneficial to the Howlett family. Although it limits your military advantage, it also warns those who covet your wealth."
"Thanks to your big fight, my manor can be built smoothly, and I don't have to worry about someone coming to disgust me and forcing me to start killing again!"
He had a long talk with James Howlett for most of the day, which solved the knot in the boy's heart, and the friendship between the two became deeper.
Soon, more than half a year passed, and the Chinese-style villa covering an area of more than 5,000 square meters was finally built.
On this day, Lin Qiming also led Tiffana and Lin Xianyin to move into the villa. Every day, he was either busy taking care of the hybrid crops in the experimental field, or staying at home with the two girls, living a happy life.
Because he and Xiao Qingmei were still young, they were not in a hurry to have children. Feeling that the villa was empty, he bought a group of maids after discussing with the two girls and lived a comfortable life as a manor owner.
Two years later, the hybrid crops that Lin Qiming had painstakingly researched bore abundant fruits. The yield per acre was 15% higher than that of ordinary crops of the same type. The output value of the 5,000-acre farm almost reached the same level as that of the 7,500-acre farm, which shocked the surrounding manor owners and made them envious.
Unfortunately, the Lin's Manor is no longer what it was two years ago. More than 100 fierce musketeers guard the manor, leaving no opportunity for anyone to take advantage of. Those who want to explore the secrets are ruthlessly turned away. Those who dare to sneak into the manor will be arrested the next day. Hanged outside the wall.
After many attempts and dozens of deaths, the surrounding manor owners finally gave up, knowing that their neighbor was a ruthless man who was no less cruel than Xue Song.
Summer passed and autumn came. Lin Qiming, who had just celebrated his birthday, announced that he would hold a traditional Daxia wedding at the manor in three days.
He wanted to give the two women who had always been by his side a status on this auspicious day. Lin Xianyin was naturally the legal wife, and Tiffany was the co-wife.
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