In the last week of March, the Château de la Valle welcomed its first guests to the wedding, who were the relatives and close friends of Baron Galvin, from Sapburg.

Three days ago, Art personally took a group of relatives such as Odo, Angus, and Ron to Sapu Fort to welcome Miss Lottie to complete the wedding ceremony in the valley, after all, Baron Galwin was a nobleman with considerable wealth and status, and there were more than 80 relatives and friends who accompanied Baron Galvin to attend the wedding in Wooden Fort in the valley, as well as nobles and squires of the territory (including 20 elite guards).

Baron Galwin was accompanied by ten carriages laden with gifts (six of which were dowry), and Baron Galvin's travels to the valley by way of Provence in the south, through a border outpost. In order to ensure the safety of the wedding team, Yat sent two squadrons of soldiers to escort them.

At this moment, the flat open space for military training outside the wooden castle was full of tents for guests to rest, due to the limited premises of the wooden castle, except for Baron Galvin's family who lived in the newly built lord's mansion, the rest of the distinguished guests were arranged into the carefully cleaned houses in the wooden fort, and the people who originally lived in the wooden castle were arranged to live temporarily in the valley; Except for a squadron to maintain law and order, the rest of the army was temporarily transferred to Beiguan and stationed, and the vacant training ground was turned into a camp for distinguished guests, servants or escort attachés. Of course, there are also many visitors who have their own tents, so Art has also set aside an open space for the guests to set up their tents, and there are also army soldiers and soldiers in the valley around the camp.

Since March, Art has been busy, and he has to keep up with the army's defense and patrols to ensure that the guests who come to the wedding are not disturbed by bandits along the way, and at the same time he has to prepare for the wedding.

Art dragged into his lord's mansion with heavy steps, but during this time the lord's mansion was inhabited by Baron Galvin's family, Miss Lottie lived in the lord's bedroom on the second floor in advance, Baron Galwin and his wife were arranged into the noble room on the second floor, and Art himself still lived in the military tent outside the fort. The Baron Galvin's family, who lived in the mansion, did not dislike the simplicity of the mansion in the slightest, because although the mansion that Art personally participated in the design and construction of was not as luxurious as the Baron Sapbourg's mansion, the windows here were bright and clean, the decoration was simple, and there was a sense of leisure and comfort everywhere, so the Galvins family who lived in it were also quite useful.

Going down the wooden ladder to the second floor, Lottie's personal maid Ollie was carrying a tray of food downstairs, and when she saw Art going upstairs, she quickly stepped aside, curtsied, and said with a smile: "Master Art, my young lady also asked me to send these foods to your account, I didn't think you would come by yourself."

"Ollie, you put the food back in Miss Lottie's bedroom, and I'll visit you in person. Is Lord Galvin in the office? ”

Ollie nodded.

Art went up the stairs and knocked on the door and entered the small office on the second floor, where Baron and Mrs. Galvin, who had eaten lunch brought by the servants, were resting.

"Good day Lord Galvin, good day Baroness!" Art gently pushed open the door and stepped inside.

The Baroness stood up and walked around the table in the office room, gently pulling Art to sit down.

"Art, we're planning to send someone to you in a moment. In two days, you and Lottie will be married, and my lord and I are going to tell you about Lottie's dowry. The Baroness said with a pleasant face, then took a piece of parchment in front of Baron Galvin and handed it to Art.

"We have such a daughter as Lottie, we are very happy to see her marry someone who likes it, although you are a little humble here, but I have also seen it in the past few days, the people of your territory respect you very much, and it is said that you also built this wooden fort single-handedly, I think it is worth it for Lottie to marry someone like you."

"Although we are just a side branch of the Yuge family that no one cares about, but over the years, my lord has earned a lot of money through his blood and sweat. In addition to the six carts of ironware, raw silk and satin, leather clothing, and valuables that we brought with us as Lottie's dowry, we will negotiate to give you another hundred thousand pfennighs of silver and three southern shops in Lusesin and Kodor (the capital of the province of the West) as a dowry, and you will also accept the gifts brought by the relatives and friends of Sapsburgh and the noble squire. In addition, one of Lottie's personal maids and two handyman cooks also came along, so that Lottie was no longer with us in the future, and we could rest assured that we would have a familiar personal servant to take care of us. Before, my lord and I originally intended to give you a manor in Sapbourg as a dowry, but we thought about it carefully, we can't cede Felix's future territory to you, and I don't want to bury hidden dangers for you and Felix. ”

Art looked at the dense list of gifts on the parchment, and sighed to himself that the nobles had made a mistake, and although he had not been able to get a piece of fertile land in Sapsburg, a hundred thousand fennigh coins and three lucrative shops were worth more.

Art is not a clear stream, and he has to admit that he married Lottie because he coveted Baron Galvin's wealth, but this is understandable. The more expensive the dowry given by his father-in-law and mother-in-law, the higher Lottie's status in the wooden castle in the future, but Art did like the gentle, skillful and capable Miss Lottie, otherwise he would not have married Lottie just for a rich dowry.

Seeing that the Baron was going to ramble on and on, Baron Galvin interrupted the lady softly and said, "Art, I am very optimistic about you, it took you less than two years to become a nobleman, but no matter how much you want to achieve in the future, you must not disappoint my daughter's heart for you." And in the future, you should also pay great attention to marching and fighting, and don't let the woman behind you worry about your life. ”

"Also, as a budding star, you have to remember to keep a low profile and don't get into trouble. Some time ago, I heard that you and Tinietz's Dean family had a mustard, you have to be careful, the Dean family has deep roots, so don't provoke it. If you want to continue to operate the southern goods trade, I can draw a few lines of the Sapsi Line and leave it to you to operate......"

"Yes, yes, you must not provoke the Dean family, those people have always been ......ruthless," the Baroness continued.

Art listened attentively to the tireless teachings of Baron and Lady Galvin and nodded in agreement, but his mind had already flown to the opposite bedroom to talk to Miss Lottie......

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Over the next few days, the Boulder Patrol Station on the north side of the valley continued to report the arrival of guests invited to the wedding, and Art led Ron's Sentinel out of the valley to greet him personally.

On the day before the wedding, all the guests invited to the wedding arrived, and Earl Balwyn did not come unsurprisingly, but Count Balwyn asked Ron, who went to deliver the letter, to bring back a small knife of exquisite workmanship as a gift to celebrate Arte's wedding, this short knife may not be as valuable as the gift brought by Ron, but it was Earl Balwin's belongings, indicating that Earl Balwyn still has some importance for Art; Bishop Orlof sent his personal bodyguard, Sir William, to the valley with five religious cavalry and a number of valuable gifts, Viscount Pierre and Viscount Herreth also sent his own knights of the Inner House to the valley to attend the wedding on his behalf, and Baron Antayas of Fort Andermatt brought Knight Chloe into the valley to attend the wedding in person.

All of a sudden, the valley wooden castle was flooded with a large number of guests.

Not only the army commanders who were in charge of internal and external security, but also the deputy stewards and the first officials of the civil administration, with more than 20 peasants and peasant women selected from the valley, were busy in the wooden fort, not only to decorate the venue and prepare food for the wedding, but also to prepare daily food consumption and forage and drinking water for the horses and animals for the guests and their families......

One or two hundred people is not much, but all of a sudden, the small wooden castle is a little difficult to deal with, and the nobles who come to the wedding will inevitably have intrigues, grievances and hatreds, the nobles will not lose their temper at other people's weddings, but those servants and guards are not easy to say, so there will always be some small frictions and disputes in the wooden castle every day, and Art has to send additional soldiers to maintain law and order. Not only that, but Art also has to guard against "guests" with ulterior motives who are particularly curious to explore Yat's territory......

Just when the support of the Asian Express was weak, the last day of March finally came, and the long-awaited wedding began.