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Chapter 16 Convoy

ps: I got a double update on the fourth day. I feel very stressful. It takes six hours a day to complete it, which is quite difficult. ps: Thank you book friends for giving 100 starting points coins in your dream in your life.

In the human customs of the Yara world, marriage is a very troublesome thing, and marriage for people with a certain status is even more troublesome.

In the Yala custom, two men and women with equal status get married, the man needs to prepare a wedding venue in their hometown, while the woman needs to organize a wedding sending team of varying sizes. A large number of wedding organizers in the team who are more familiar with the woman will bring a large amount of gifts to the man's home. After these people arrive at the wedding location, they will be responsible for planning everything in the wedding with the man's people to avoid excessive differences in the wedding customs and taboos of the two parties and causing some unpleasant things.

Such customs once led to the trend of comparing weddings among the people. The number of people and the value of gifts of the brides continued to expand. At the most exaggerated period, an ordinary family's brides often required as many as a hundred people to hold a wedding. The man also had to organize more people to receive and cooperate, which brought too heavy burden to both families.

However, customs and habits are often automatically adjusted. When everyone compares for a while and finds that such behavior has no meaning except causing more and more trouble to everyone, the trend gradually fades away, and both families will do their best and will no longer blindly compare.

When the four of the adventure group arrived at the agreed meeting place - outside the east gate of the city - in the morning, they saw the first sight of the wedding delivery team. The team consisted of seventy or eighty people, and there were ten carriages in the total.

At the front is a gorgeously decorated carriage, made of heavy solid wood. The surface is painted with festive red paint, and the corners are carved with various exquisite golden patterns. The sides of the carriage are polished into six windows with transparent crystals, but the windows are one-way. People inside can clearly see the outside, but people outside cannot see the inside. The top of the carriage is carved into the shape of a dragon representing the guardian. The dragon's posture is elegant and steady, and its expression is lifelike. The carriage is very wide, and it seems that the space inside is enough for six people to sit side by side and sit in the stable magic array embedded in the cabin and the reverse application of gravity technology. It can make the carriage very comfortable to sit.

Because of the unique customs near the neutral place. Brides cannot meet relatives and friends on the way to get married. Eating and resting on the way are all taken care of by a close friend or a personal maid selected by the bride in advance. This custom represents the blessing that will not turn back once they get married. If anyone breaks this custom, it is equivalent to cursing the bride in person to divorce soon. Few people will be stupid enough to do this. In order to adapt to this custom, special wedding carriages near Rea often use this special one-way transparent crystal to make windows, so when you see this carriage, Catherine and his party understand that Freya should be inside.

Behind it is five six-wheeled small passenger carriages with a long body, with six rows of seats inside, two in each row. The middle is separated by an aisle. For passenger carriages, such 12-person carriages can only be considered small, such as the urban public carriages used within the Capital of Knowledge. Most of them are thirty-two-person or thirty-six-person carriages. Of course, the wedding team cannot use such large carriages, and the twelve-person specifications are enough. These multi-person carriages are prepared for the women's wedding organizers.

Finally, there are four freight carriages, and the carriage carriages are tightly covered with thick oil cloth, which is the gift given to the man. According to the rules, when the wedding team returns after the wedding, the man should also exchange gifts of similar value as a return gift at home, so theoretically when returning, except for the first bride's carriage, the rest of the vehicles will return with the same load.

After seeing the team from afar, the first feeling that the four members of the adventure team came to their hearts was surprise. The reason for surprise was not because the wedding sending team was too large, but because they were too small. As the daughter of a giant city lord, Freya's wedding sending team should be very large, and the departure ceremony of the team should be very spectacular. In Catherine's imagination, it was related to the face of the city lord Odin and Freya. The wedding sending team should have at least two or three hundred people. As the darling of the capital of knowledge, Freya, who is regarded as the princess, should have at least a large-scale farewell ceremony when she bid farewell to her singles, but these conjectures were all lost. Without the ceremony, without a huge team, everything was carried out quietly.

"This matter is getting weirder and weirder." Catherine jumped off the horse a few dozen meters away from the wedding party and muttered in a low voice: "Why do I always think there is something wrong with this wedding? The president must have concealed something. Could something really happen this time?"

"It's hard to say." Panis jumped directly to Catherine from the moment he squinted his eyes and looked up. His eyes crossed a hundred meters away and landed on a small black shadow at the top of the East Gate. That was Odin. As a close relative who shouldn't appear today, Odin couldn't help but sneak up from afar to see her off: "What's the idea of ​​this guy? But there shouldn't be too dangerous. Otherwise, with the extent to which that guy pampers his daughter, he will definitely escort him in person at all costs."

"Forget it, it's useless to think so much." Catherine shook her head, as if she wanted to get rid of the questions in her mind: "Let's go over and meet up, no matter what weirdness is, she always has to face it."

"Yes, it's useless to guess here for a hundred years." Lina also turned over and took Vivian down, turned around and hugged her, tidied up the priest's robe, straightened the hammer and the Dharma books one by one, and then led the horse to the convoy: "It doesn't matter whether there is a weirdness or not. We are just friends and former partners to help Freya fulfill their wishes. As long as this goal is achieved, what does it have to do with us? Sister, you just have too many concerns, so are Panis, you think so much? When encountering problems and solving problems, these two steps are enough."

Panis and Catherine smiled helplessly, and chased each other, and soon walked to the convoy.

"So it's Captain Aerland." Seeing a middle-aged city guard team member walking around the convoy, Catherine waved: "Why are you here too?"

"Ah, Miss Catherine, you are here." A smile appeared on Aerland, who was in his forties, on his rough face: "This time I will lead the team to send our little princess to Free City."

"You lead the team?" Catherine asked in surprise: "You haven't led the team personally for a long time, why did you invite you out this time?"

"There is no way, the little bastards under him are more unreliable than the other ones, and they cannot let them affect the little princess' mood." Aerlan said with a grin and said, "I'm not at ease to entrust Miss Freya to those guys, so I can only lead the team myself."

"Come on, I'll introduce you to you. You know Lina and Vivian. This is Panis, our new teammate." Catherine said to Panis again: "Penis, this is Captain Aerland and one of the three leaders of the City Guard."

"A warrior of the golden rank." Panis held Aerland's stretched out hand: "I didn't expect there were such hidden figures in the city guards."

"I have a good eye." Aerland praised with a thumbs up: "You can tell my strength at a glance. I am worthy of being Miss Catherine's teammate. But I am not a hidden figure, I am just an old guy who is almost unable to hold the sword."

As one of the captains of the guard team, Aerland has a good status, but he is rough and generous, and can easily bring good feelings to the people around him. After a simple exchange, Panis had to admit that this person is very likable and the cooperation along the way should be very pleasant.

"Arlan, have you noticed something wrong with this escort mission?" Catherine asked directly: "Does the president have any instructions?"

"No, it feels like a very normal wedding trip." Airland scratched his short hair on his head: "The Lord of the City is just telling us that everything is followed by your command on this trip."

Catherine and Penis exchanged glances again, pondered for a moment before asking, "Then why are there so few people and there is no farewell ceremony?"

"Oh, Lord Lord may have forgotten to tell you." Aerland said: "Miss Freya asked everything to be simple. Lord Lord Lord also thought it would be better to be simpler, so there were less than eighty people. By the way, Lord Lord Lord once said, "It's better to have fewer people, smaller goals, and it's not easy to be targeted. Well, Miss Catherine, do you mean that someone is going to attack our convoy this time?"

"That's not." After a moment of consideration, Catherine chose to hide it: "It's just that the journey is far and there are more money and property, so it's better to be careful. What about the farewell ceremony? There's no?"

"Do you know the position of the little princess in everyone's hearts?" Airland smiled: "Originally everyone planned to prepare a grand farewell ceremony for the little princess, but the city lord said he was worried about the New Year celebration that affected the city residents and strictly ordered us to keep it secret, so this time he set out secretly and did not even report it in the newspaper."

"It turns out that the president is still thoughtful." Although Catherine said this, her doubts in her heart not only did not decrease, but became stronger and stronger. She couldn't help but remind: "However, Captain Aerland, we'd better be careful this time. I heard that several thieves have passed through Rea recently, and they might encounter them."

"Don't worry, I have reminded the group of little guys I brought, they will definitely cheer up." Aerlan patted his chest: "It's wrapped up on us. This time I brought thirty people, all of whom were carefully selected elites, and they can definitely ensure the safety of the little princess. Moreover, there are four of you as your backing, so no one is afraid of coming."

"Okay, as long as you have confidence," Catherine nodded and asked, "Where is Freya? In the car?"

"Well, the little princess is in the car." Aerland said: "You go and have a look. I heard you are coming too. The little princess is very happy."
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