285. Tracy's dowry
In the province of Sloyth, although the gap between men and women is narrowing year by year, the imbalance in the population is still an indisputable fact.
There are two main reasons for the loss of males in the northern province, one is that the barbarians cross the Benma River to Beijing to hunt slaves every winter, and they only capture imperial men, and the other is because of the recruitment system of the Grimm Empire, every imperial male has to serve in the military, and every year the Grimm Empire faces some wars, which will also lead to a large part of the attrition.
As a result, there is a large disparity between men and women in Sloit, and girls in northern provinces who attend the coming-of-age ceremony will face an embarrassing situation of difficulty in marrying.
Every soldier who has been officially discharged from the battlefield is very sought-after in the city of El, and they usually give preference to young girls who are good-looking, docile and have a good dowry to marry.
Tracy not only doesn't have any advantages in appearance, but is also a hot-tempered girl.
That's why Ryan and Fanny adopted me in the first place, and they planned to marry Tracy after I finished my military service, so that not only would I save a lot of money on my dowry, but also get to know me some depth, at least to make sure I wouldn't bully Tracy in my day-to-day life.
It's a pity that these plans of Ryan and Fanny are some shackles that restrict her freedom for Tracy, who is a little rebellious, so Tracy is very resistant to these arrangements of Fanny and Ryant, and Tracy clearly tells Fanny and Ryan with actions that she will not marry me.
It wasn't until Arendt and Tracy confirmed their relationship that Fanny was relieved and stopped marrying Tracy and me.
However, another problem immediately came to the fore, and that was to prepare some dowry for Tracy.
Arendt's father is also a prestigious second-class viscount in Eyre, and their family has a pretty good manor in the wealthy area of Eyre, and Arendt is also very good in all aspects among the younger generations of their family, especially the experience of joining the army in the North Wind Legion, which made him draw a strong stroke on his life resume.
When Arendt returned from the Borean Legion, it is said that many nobles in El City wanted to marry their daughters to him, but Arendt was the kind of person who took his relationship more seriously, and when there were countless other options, he still chose Tracy, at least this wedding was the wedding of him and Tracy.
To outsiders, Arendt's family conditions are significantly better than Tracy's, although Tracy also has a younger brother who is a magician, but this does not make others look up to Tracy because of this.
After the two cheap cousins learned the identities of Helena and Becky, they finally realized that the well-behaved girl who had been standing next to them was Cindy, the daughter of Uncle Ryant, so the two began to pester Cindy without changing their faces, and Cindy was reluctantly dealing with the two cousins of Aunt Basha's family.
I walked into the house with Helena and Becky behind the group, and at this time Fanny was introducing Aunt Barsha to Win Li, who was wearing a pure white robe, this magic robe looked like a plain dress no matter how it looked, so Aunt Barsha's family naturally thought of Win Li as a bridesmaid at Tracy's wedding.
When Aunt Basha heard that Ying Li had already married me, she interrupted Fanny directly, regardless of whether Fanny had finished her sentence or not, and criticized Fanny bitterly, complaining that Fanny had let me marry so easily.
Aunt Basha's words are to say, no matter what, I am also a magician nobleman, although I will also serve in the military in the future, but in the northern province I have never heard of a young magician who died during his military service, a hot young magician like me, it is more prudent to hold a wedding, and at the worst, I must collect a rich dowry, and then marry Tracy decently, so as not to make Tracy too shabby at the wedding, so that Arendt's family looks down on Tracy because of this.
It's just that Aunt Basha didn't realize at this time, when she said these words, Ryan and Fanny showed an embarrassed but polite smile, if they defended at this time, Aunt Basha's family would probably not be able to get off the stage.
But as Prince James's favorite daughter, the princess of the royal family of Angelboy, a second-class viscountess said these words to a large extent to slander a member of the royal family, if this matter is exposed, then Aunt Barsha's family will definitely become uncomfortable because of the verbal offend of an imperial princess, and their family will not be able to smile again at Tracy's wedding.
Ryan thought about it for a moment, and suddenly took a step forward, wanting to tell Aunt Basha about Win Li's identity.
Ying Li took a step forward and stopped Rryant, she grabbed Rryant's arm with both hands, with a faint smile on her face, and winked at each other, the look in her eyes was clearly telling Rryant not to break this matter, so as not to disturb Tracy's wedding.
Ying Li has learned the most orthodox court etiquette since he was a child, and he lifted his skirt with both hands to salute Aunt Basha, so that Aunt Basha could see that she was a noble lady, and then turned his head to look at me, and then said to Aunt Basha without humility or arrogance: "Auntie, you don't have to worry, we will have prepared a dowry for Tracy!"
At this time, Tracy happened to be wearing a double-headed flame snake lizard demon pattern structure leather armor and walked down from the stairs heroically, the tailor-made leather armor was particularly close to her body, her body was covered with complex magic runes, and the clear lava texture on the breastplate leather seemed to be really volcanic lava flowing in it, and a faint magic glow wrapped Tracy.
At the moment, Tracy has not been able to exert any of the magic attributes of this 'Demon Serpent's Fang' magic pattern set, but it is no problem to wear this magic pattern structure.
"Auntie, what are you talking about?" Tracy ran down from the upper floors with an excited look on her face, and hugged Aunt Barsha at once.
Perhaps seeing the elated appearance of the bride Tracy, Aunt Barsha finally stopped counting Leant and Fanny, hugged her niece and boasted affectionately: "Look, our Tracy is the best, beautiful, obedient, and sensible!"
"Haha, auntie, do you think I look beautiful in this leather armor?" Tracy reached out and tapped on the breastplate, and the glow of magic rippled slightly, spreading out a halo of light, which looked magical.
Aunt Basha didn't see anything special about her niece's armor, but she didn't hesitate to boast about her niece, saying, "Of course, our Tracy is beautiful no matter what she wears!"
Aunt Basha's ignorance does not mean that Uncle Horace, who is the chief knight of the Knights of the Guard Battalion of Ravenham, does not know the goods, and Uncle Horace is also an old knight who has seen some of the world, so he recognized at a glance that this is a genuine magic pattern structure, and he originally sat on the sofa in the living room like Tarzan.
At this time, he stood up directly, stared at the magic pattern structure on Tracy's body, and asked Tracy with some uncertainty: "This set of leather armor...... It's all magic patterns, and this is a set of magic patterns?"
Tracy saw that someone finally recognized that she was wearing a beautiful set of magic pattern clothes, and it was not in vain that she took great pains to wear this light leather armor at the wedding, and nodded desperately to Uncle Horace, and her face was naturally very proud.
However, Uncle Horace said something that immediately made Tracy pull his face.
Uncle Horace said to Tracy, "How can you have a whole set of magic pattern constructs? Speaking of which, if you want to save such a large sum of money with Ryant's salary at Stans College, I am afraid he will not be able to save it in his life." ”
Tracy was the kind of person whose joy and sorrow would be shown on her face, and she pouted angrily, and although she was very dissatisfied with the way Uncle Horace spoke, she replied, "Ah! This magic pattern is a wedding gift from Jijia and Yingli, and it is my dowry!"
It's Tracy's dowry!
"Hiss......"
Although Aunt Basha's family couldn't distinguish the magic pattern structure at first glance, they were very clear about the value of a set of magic pattern structures, and every minor nobleman hoped to inherit the property of a set of magic pattern structures.
In fact, Uncle Horace's family has a magic pattern structure, as the knight chief of the Knights of the Guard Battalion, this magic pattern structure is usually worn on Uncle Horace's body, but the uncomfortable thing is that Aunt Barsha now has two sons, and whoever inherits Uncle Horace's magic pattern in the future is very unfair to the other one.
This is also the thing that bothers Aunt Basha's family the most at the moment.
They never imagined that Tracy's dowry would have a delicate new set of magic pattern in it, so no matter who married Tracy, this wedding would be a sure success.
"But what can this magic pattern build be used for, not only is it tailored to Tracy's figure, but it is also a women's magic pattern structure, whose girl will become a costume knight!" Aunt Basha's cousin stood aside and saw Tracy wearing a magic pattern costume, and said in a sour tone.
"It's a pity that such a beautiful magic pattern is actually drawn on a woman's flame snake lizard skin armor. The two cheap cousins also smacked their tongues on the side.
Their eyes were almost on Tracy's body, their hands clenched into fists, trying to restrain themselves from reaching out.
But then Tracy said something that left Aunt Basha's family completely speechless.
Tracy looked down at his own set of demonic pattern structures, and said as a matter of course: "This double-headed flame snake lizard skin armor is what I wear, of course it is a women's one, and the one given to Arendt is a men's place!"
“......”
When did a complete set of demonic pattern outfits become so worthless?
At this time, Aunt Barsha and Uncle Horace took another look at Ying Li, who was still standing beside Ryan with a smile.
"Alright, I guess Arendt's magic caravan is already on the way, Tracy, hurry up and get ready!" Fanny clapped her hands and instructed Tracy, who was surrounded by everyone.
Tracy walked over to me, stretched out his hand and said, "Giga, what about the necklace you said you were going to give me?"
Reluctantly, I pulled out a beautiful jewelry box from my magic fanny pack, handed it to Tracy, and told her, "Although I asked the jeweler to make it, I suggest you put it in the jewelry box instead of wearing it." ”
"Let me see what it looks like, you said a long time ago that you were going to make me a necklace out of the stones of a barbarian, isn't it too ugly to let me wear it?" Tracy didn't finish his words before he lifted the lid of the jewelry box, and I didn't even have time to stop it.
The lid of the square gold-painted flat wooden box was directly lifted by Tracy, and the next moment, the surroundings suddenly darkened, as if the light of the entire room had been sucked into the wooden box.
Tracy held the wooden box in one hand, looking at the necklace in the box with some dumbfounded, she never thought that the jewels on the necklace would be so gorgeous. A string of dark blue and magic gems as bright as the starry sky lay in a gold-painted box, and the stars of Elune, the size of a pigeon's egg, radiated a deep magical light.
Ying Li walked over, reached out and held the 'Star of Elune' necklace in the box, and helped Tracy put it on her neck, thirteen shining stars of Elune formed a 'U' shape in front of her chest, Tracy lowered her head and stroked the necklace on her neck with her hand, her fingers turned dark blue after her hand touched the Star of Elune.
"These are the gems of the Barbarian?" Tracy asked me looking up, her eyes filled with questions.
"That's right, the jewelers of the Grimm Empire call them the 'Stars of Elune,' and they are said to have been given to us by the Moonlight, a magical gem that is only found in the snow tundra. ”
Tracy asked Ying Li next to him, "Are they valuable?"
Ying Li smiled lightly and said to Tracy, "It's okay!"
The Star of Elune, which is highly sought after by the ladies of the imperial capital, is just a sentence of 'It's okay!'
Now that the second wedding gift has been taken out, I simply took the third wedding gift out of my magic belt, which was a medium-sized magic sealing box, about two feet long, about a foot wide, and one and a half feet high.
"What's in this box?" Tracy asked me, she probably knew I had a lot of magic crystals in my hands, so she casually asked me, "Is it a magic crystal?"
I shook my head.
"Gold coins, then?"
I shook my head again, but still didn't say what was inside.
Tracy couldn't help but want to open the magic box, but I stepped on it and said to Tracy: "This is a box of loot, but don't open it at this time." Remember to tell Arendt to take the Sealed Chest to the City Hall Logistics Department as soon as possible to exchange merit, and I'll ask Ruka to help you move to Arendt's magic caravan later. ”
When another guest arrived, Tracy took off the 'Star of Elune' necklace, put it in a gold-painted wooden box, re-fastened the lid, and said to me, "Okay, listen to you." ”
Aunt Basha's family had fallen completely silent, and Cousin Basha did not hide the envy in her eyes, her eyes fell on the necklace box in Tracy's hand, and she watched Tracy put it in her waist bag with a big grin.
Uncle Horace stood by and looked at me again.
Speaking of which, I gave Tracy three wedding gifts, the first being two magical pattern frames, the second being a necklace with the Star of Elune, and the third being a box full of the Barbarian's left ear...... 8)