Chapter 29 Singing the bride price
Wang Chengping, the ancestor of the Wang family, stood at the gate of the city with a group of clansmen from the Wang family, and behind him, the patriarchs or family members of the various families in the mountain city, they also led their respective clansmen, waiting for the arrival of the county town to welcome relatives. From the gate of the mountain castle to the castle lord's mansion, there were rows of guards on each side of the road. Today, all the guards of the Izuyama Castle Guards were dispatched, and their armor was clear, their weapons were sharp, and they were energetic to show the majesty of the guards. Behind the guards, there are people watching the excitement, and there are not many lively events and scenes like this, so many people come to the street to see the freshness.
Half an hour later, a quick horse came to report: "The welcoming procession of the county town has arrived!"
After a while, I saw that on the road to the north, flags were waving, and the momentum was like clouds, and a group of soldiers rode high-headed horses, and arrived quickly.
Wang Chengping, the ancestor of the Wang family, led everyone to hurry up, and saw the front of the welcoming procession, two sweaty dragon horses walking side by side, and two people were sitting immediately. One was about seventy or eighty years old, a martial artist level eight, and was obviously the leader of the welcoming team.
On the other horse sat a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, dressed in a mink fur brocade robe, handsome and plump, and a martial artist of the ninth rank. This is Lin Junwei, the groom of Miss Wang Yuexin.
Behind the two, there was a guard of two hundred men. Behind the guards, there was a long row of carriages, all covered with brocade and containing bride prices for their relatives.
Seeing a group of people coming, the old man and the groom of the eighth level of martial arts hurriedly jumped off their horses.
Wang Chengping stepped forward and saluted: "You have worked hard all the way, Chengping is courteous here." ”
The bridegroom hurriedly stepped aside, and was not polite.
The old man of the eighth level of martial arts hurriedly returned the salute: "The old gentleman is invited, Lin Taiqing has seen the old gentleman." ”
Originally, Wang Chengping's age was much older than Lin Taiqing, but in the Shenwu Continent, cultivation was respected, so in terms of age, Wang Chengping should be respected, but in terms of cultivation, Wang Chengping was a martial artist level 3, and Lin Taiqing was a martial artist level 8, so Lin Taiqing was more noble than Wang Chengping in terms of cultivation.
Lin Taiqing said: "The old gentleman is the ancestor of the Wang family." Our city lord Lin Gong misses you very much!"
Wang Chengping said: "Haha, thank you Lin Gong for your concern, I also miss Lin Gong very much!"
At this time, Lin Junwei stepped forward and greeted him: "Junwei has seen the old ancestor. ”
Wang Chengping laughed: "Okay, okay, young people don't need to be polite." ”
Then he said to Lin Taiqing and the welcoming team: "The City Lord's Mansion has prepared a feast of thin wine, and please move there." ”
The group of people all walked towards the City Lord's Mansion. Soon everyone came to the square in front of the City Lord's Mansion. I saw a circle of guards standing around the square, and outside the guards, there was a lively crowd. At the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, there were several groups of people, these were the Wang family and the people who came to the Wang family to help.
The procession stopped in the square, the people in the carriage carried down the bride price box on the carriage, and a steward took a red gift book and handed it to the chief steward of the Wang family. The head of the Wang family handed the gift book to a Wang family steward who sang the bride price next to him. The steward took the gift list and sang aloud: "Lin Junwei of the Lin clan of Nanyue County is married to Miss Yue Xin of the King of the Mountain City!"
A storage bag!"
"Wow!" the countless people present were stunned for a moment, and then they all let out an exclamation.
The storage bag is too precious, not to mention how much it is worth, the key is that there is no, you can't buy it if you have money, there may not be a few in the entire Nanyue County, and no one in the entire Great Xia Kingdom can refine it.
"Ten spirit stones!"
"Wow!"
The crowd exclaimed again!
Spirit stone is a kind of ore containing the aura of heaven and earth, which is divided into many kinds, including fire spirit stone containing fire attributes, thunder spirit stones containing thunder attributes, earth attributes, metallic properties, dark attributes, life attributes and so on.
The spirit stone mine was formed in a place where the aura of heaven and earth was very strong, and there was no spirit stone mine in the Great Xia Kingdom at all.
"Ten Qi Gathering Pills!"
"Wow!"
The crowd exclaimed again!
Qi Gathering Pill is a kind of elixir containing the aura of heaven and earth, and it has the same nature as the spirit stone, which is refined by alchemists.
"A yellow-level spirit weapon, the Flowing Moon Knife!"
The weapons of the Great Xia Kingdom are divided into mortal weapons and spiritual weapons. Mortal weapons are forged by blacksmiths with iron and steel, etc., and spiritual weapons are refined by refiners with genius earth treasures containing the aura of heaven and earth, and the power of spiritual weapons is many times that of mortal weapons.
Subsequently, the steward of the Wang family sang about cloth, silk and many other objects.
Many people don't understand how the lord of the county town is willing to take out so much expensive bride price to marry a junior.
You must know that the lord of the county city is the baron and the cultivation of the king of martial arts. With such a cultivation status, if you want to marry a daughter-in-law for your nephew in the next life, coupled with Lin Junwei's handsome and abundant appearance, as long as you open your mouth, there will be many families who are willing to marry their daughters to Lin Fu. Although the young lady of the Wang family is good-looking and has a kind temperament, she doesn't need to pay so much bride price and such a big pomp to marry! The ancestor of the Wang family in Izushan City is only a third-level martial artist, and the official rank of the little Izushan City Lord is not worth mentioning.
On the one hand, a person familiar with the matter explained the reason for the incident:
It turned out that the ancestor of the Wang family and Lin Yinghao, the lord of the county town, had served together in the Flying Dragon Army in the southwest of the Great Xia Kingdom to resist the invasion of the hostile Great Chen Kingdom.
Once, a squad led by Lin Yinghao was ambushed by the enemy, and Lin Yinghao led the team to fight to the death with the enemy, but in the end, because there were too many enemies, they could not break out of the encirclement, and in the end, Lin Yinghao was the only one left in the team, and the whole team was about to be wiped out. At this time, Wang Chengping arrived.
At that time, Wang Chengping was a first-level martial artist, and Lin Yinghao was also a first-level martial artist.
In the Great Xia Kingdom and the Great Chen Kingdom, only the emperor is at the level of the Martial Emperor, and the number of Martial Kings is very small, and they are the most high-end combat power of the two countries, and they will not easily go into battle. King Wu has the power of two elephants to ten elephants, and the destructive power is extremely great, if he goes into battle to fight, it will cause great damage, and he does not dare to lose one easily, which will have a huge impact on the national strength of the entire country. Martial artists are the backbone of the army, and ordinary martial artists are appointed as squad leaders, squadron leaders, group leaders, generals, etc., according to their cultivation.
On that day, Lin Yinghao was surrounded by a team led by several martial arts level warriors.
When Wang Chengping saw Lin Yinghao surrounded by enemy troops, he rushed forward without hesitation, tore through the encirclement of the enemy army, and joined Lin Yinghao, and then the two desperately rushed out of the enemy's encirclement, fled into the mountains, and then returned to the barracks.
However, Wang Chengping was seriously injured in the battle, which hurt the foundation of martial arts, and from then on, his cultivation improved slowly, and finally after breaking through the third level of martial arts, he could no longer improve. Lin Yinghao's cultivation continued to improve, and later broke through to reach the cultivation of King Wu, becoming the pillar force of the entire Great Xia Kingdom, and was made a baron by the emperor of the Great Xia Kingdom, and appointed as the county lord of Nanyue County.
When Lin Yinghao was appointed as the lord of Nanyue County, he immediately invited Wang Chengping to come to Nanyue County to jointly manage the county. But Wang Chengping refused, he preferred to return to his hometown, sit in the Wang family, and protect the Wang family. Lin Yinghao saw that Wang Chengping was resolute, so he agreed to Wang Chengping to go home, but immediately appointed Wang Chengping as the lord of the mountain city. Later, when Wang Chengping was older, he gave up the position of city lord to his grandson Wang Guangming.
Wang Guangming has a high talent in martial arts, and his grade has reached the second level of martial arts at a young age, and he is the person with the highest cultivation in the Wang family except for Wang Chengping.
The reason why the county lord of Nanyue County gave so many dowries and put on such a big posture to marry Miss Wang was that he was grateful to Wang Chengping for saving his life, and wanted to compensate Wang Chengping, and to show the deep relationship with the Wang family.
After reading the bride price, the Wang family and the people who came to help came up to help, some went to take care of the carriages and horses of the welcoming procession, and some came to carry the bride price. The people in the welcoming procession were welcomed into the mansion by the ancestors, city lords and stewards of the city lord's mansion to rest and eat.
The people who carried the bride price came in pairs and walked into the city lord's mansion with the bride price.
The bride price was carried to the outside of the warehouse of the castle lord's mansion, and a steward opened the door of the warehouse, ready to register it according to the number of gift lists.
Dan Qingzi and Chi Yunzi were highly concentrated in their mental power, closely observing the movements of several members of the Cao family and the bandit group.
Suddenly, Chiyunzi said, "Attention, prepare to shoot arrows, they are ready to do it!"