While the convoy was resting and resting, the lord encountered a large-scale event.

It is the 8th of May, and it is a festival belonging to the goddess Damia.

There is a tall stone statue of the goddess in the small square of Yinmer village, and the villagers are gathering to pray to Damia, the goddess of harvest.

It is a traditional custom of farmers in the south of Pande, who pray for good weather after planting seeds.

At the same time, since this is also the time when winter wheat has just been put into storage, everyone has grain, and the busiest sowing period has just ended, so this festival has another meaning.

Goddess Damia is not only the goddess of the harvest, she is also known as the goddess of protection, and her 'protection' also includes the meaning of the life of the offspring, so young men and women also gather at this time to find the right person of the opposite sex to drink and dance.

If both men and women feel that the other is okay, they can go to the neighborhood to talk alone, and if they can talk, they can make a vow under the idol of Damia, and the local tribune will confirm the marriage contract directly on this day.

If the courtship is successful on this day, it will be more meaningful and legitimate for the followers of Damian to receive the blessings of Goddess Damia, the local lords, and all the villagers.

It doesn't matter if you can't negotiate, you can come back and dance and look for it, which is a big courtship day.

But this is the kind of more harmonious and civilized, there is no such thing as snatching relatives, it is more like a modern ball.

However, this event, which is full of good and hope, is dangerous for the lord, who sees an old acquaintance next to the statue of the goddess, General Creon.

"Amy, don't turn your head...... I seem to see General Creon, we need to hurry. ”

The empire's domain was Karen Deer Castle, but most of his people moved to Yinmel, which is probably why he appeared here.

This taciturn general on the battlefield is now standing in the middle of the crowd with a few Radiant Cross Plague Exorcists.

They were unarmed at the moment, and were carrying heads made of wheat straw to offer offerings such as ale to the statue of the goddess.

This should have been Emperor Marius's request, and around this time all the consuls and generals would take the peasants to worship the goddess Damia.

General Creon was a member of the Knights of the Radiant Cross, and had a distinctly high status among the peasants, as evidenced by his unarmed approach to the crowd.

However, General Creon seemed to be a little absent-minded, as if he was still a little anxious.

After completing his ritual, he even yawned and turned his head to look around, as if he had something on his mind.

Seeing that General Creon had been looking around, the lord certainly didn't want to be discovered himself, after all, the two countries had not signed an armistice agreement so far, and they were still considered hostile countries.

Caravans would certainly not be a problem, and most of the Bacchus lords would not take the initiative to attack a caravan with three noble banners, especially a general like Creon from the Knights of the Radiant Cross.

In fact, the village of Yinmeier welcomed the arrival of the caravan on this beautiful day, and some people planned to drag the people in the caravan to dance together, but the men of Metenheim were too big to be harassed.

Sarah had already joined the villagers in the singing and dancing rituals, and as a bard, she would maintain reverence for any main god, so she played the harp in the small square.

- If you don't play, you can't do it, many men in the village are staring at her, and if you don't play the piano, you have to be invited to dance......

It's a courtship festival after all......

Sarah is very calm, she has been to Bacchus before, and it is not the first time she has encountered this festival, and she can adapt to it.

But the lord can't take the lead, General Creon has seen Leon, and he knows that this is a kidnapper......

So, while he wasn't discovered, the lord pulled Amy and planned to hide quickly.

Risardran was peeping behind the big tree at the entrance of the village at this time, and when he saw Leon turn to come out, he covered the hood on his head and greeted him.

"My lord, have you met an enemy? Do you need me to kill that guy? ”

The Elf Killer has been quite proactive in his work lately......

"No, this is someone's territory, don't mess around, let's just go outside the village and guard the carriage."

The lord didn't want to make a fuss, he just wanted to avoid it.

Sarah is a bard, and it's very popular at the time of the festival, so there's no problem.

The people of Metenheim need not worry either.

Although the men are rough-looking, the villagers are not hostile to them, after all, Mertenheim mercenaries can often be seen in Bacchus.

As hostile nations of the Buckley Empire, the Mettenheim and Bacchus are actually natural allies, as the Bucks Empire and Buckley have always been hostile.

In fact, the Bacchus Empire was hostile to most countries......

Although Bacchus is a little more depressed today than before, after all, the ancestors are wider - the wider the country, the more enemies there are.

So now Bacchus probably only has the only ally with Metenheim.

The first stop for most of the Mertenheim mercenaries to come to Pande to beg for a living was also the Bacchus Empire.

However, according to Frederick, the Bacchus are now bidding too low to match a fraction of the Fieldsweirs.

In fact, the lord understands very well that the cities of Fields are generally chaotic, and there are more commercial and trade behaviors, and the demand for big bodyguards must be stronger.

In recent years, Bacchus has become more abundant due to Emperor Marius's reforms, and now there is not much demand for mercenaries, so most of the Mettenheim will eventually go to the western coast to Fieldsway to take over business.

Yin Meier's attitude towards the caravan is very good, everyone does not need to worry, the only one who needs to worry about General Creon is actually only Leon - mainly because he has kidnapped two governors in front of Creon, and he is a dangerous element.

In fact, it is a coincidence, in the entire Bacchus Empire, there are only a few people who can know the lord, and it is not so easy to meet......

No one should know anyone, including Amy, except for the two governors who had been kidnapped.

Leon told Amy not to look back, just to cover for himself - taking a girl with him was the least noticeable way to do it.

However, just as the lord was about to leave the village with Amy, the absent-minded General Creon seemed to see Amy with a musket on her back.

He probably didn't recognize Amy either, but he probably knew the musket—a weapon that only Barkley people had.

So, the general said a few words to the people around him, pointed in this direction, and then several epidemic repellent people ran in this direction.

"Teacher, they seem to be eyeing me...... You leave the village first, and I will send them. ”

Amy gave her a calm glance, then sent the lord and Risadilan away.

She knew that General Creon must know the lord.

But she herself had been on the heights of White Hart Castle, and none of these Radiant Cross Plague Wardens had ever been on the city walls, so it was impossible for them to recognize her.

Amy's eyesight is quite good, or rather, it's a girl's instinct - she can tell at a glance whether someone else is staring at her or someone else.

So Amy turned around and greeted the wards.

Leon put on his hood and half-covered his face, and walked out of the village with Risadillan, avoiding the gaze of General Creon.

"Gentlemen, you seem to be chasing me? What's the matter? ”

Amy stood in front of the repellent with a smile on her face.

"This young lady...... Uh, sorry, you don't look like a Barkley...... But the general asked us to ask, are you from that caravan? Where did you get your firearms from? ”

Seeing Amy's direct provocation, several epidemic repellers put their hearts at ease, and after taking a serious look at Amy, their attitudes seemed much kinder. The questions were also very direct, and there didn't seem to be hostility, just ordinary inquiries to strangers.

"I'm protecting the caravan. You're not trying to rob my arquebus, are you? This is my trophy, and if you dare to mess around, I swear I will fight you to the end! ”

Amy glanced sideways and took a step back pretendedly.

"No, no, no, we're just curious, nothing else. Good afternoon and welcome to the feast day of the goddess Damia, beautiful lady ......"

Several of the epidemic repellent hurriedly put on a smile, and then retreated directly, they didn't want to be mistaken for robbers.

And since it's a 'trophy', it's obviously hostile to the Buckley Empire, then it's okay and can be reciprocated.

Amy looked back behind her and walked out slowly, watching the wardrobbers return to General Creon.

Then General Creon looked at Amy, but suddenly seemed to be interested, and walked over himself.

And they went in a hurry.

Amy simply stood and waited again.

She already knew that Creon's men wouldn't do anything to her, and the Knights of the Radiant Cross were said to be pretty much decent.

But General Creon's first words when he came to Amy scared her......

"Honorable Miss, may I treat you to a light meal?"

Hiss......

Amy was really a little confused at this time, she was indeed often invited to dinner by men, and those lion knights and the knights of White Deer Fort all wanted to invite her to dinner.

However, being invited by an old man in his fifties, except for her father Godric, really didn't happen......

But Creon looks serious on his face, and he doesn't seem to have any intention of flirting, right?

Even if it's a special day, it's an invitation to dance, right......

The Sergeant Major of the Knights of the Radiant Cross isn't that kind of person, is he?

"This ...... You should be General Creon, right? Do you have anything to do with me? ”

Amy shook her head incredulously, mentally assessing Creon's age.

At least in his fifties, I guess the children are much older than me......

That's not the right age to invite an eighteen-year-old girl to dinner, right?

"Ah, don't get me wrong, I'm not very good at talking...... I just wanted to ask, you don't look like you're married yet? I hope you can do me a favor......"

General Creon does not seem to be very eloquent, and it is estimated that he will not deal with women at all......

Amy's sweat was all down.

Sarah should be good at handling this situation, but Amy has never had this kind of experience, so she doesn't know what to do at all!

"General Creon, I'm not going to think about marriage yet...... Well, I still have something to do, so I'm leaving......"

Amy looked left and right, Sarah was still playing the piano, and she couldn't get out of it for a while.

So she hurried to Sarah's side—she knew Sarah was good at handling the troubles.

Sarah, seeing Creon's movements, and apparently seeing the embarrassment on Amy's face, stood up and apologized to the men around her, and then greeted her.

"Alas...... This young lady, this is a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding...... I didn't mean that, I just ......"

Creon also looked embarrassed, although his eloquence was not very good, but he must have known in his heart that Amy must have misunderstood.

But he could only scream a few times in the back, but he couldn't explain it clearly.

Sarah didn't hear what Creon said, and when she saw Amy running over with a stiff face, she hugged Amy: "What's wrong?" ”

"The general actually asked me if I was married, and said he wanted to invite me to dinner...... Am I running into an old rascal? ”

Amy's panicked look made Sarah laugh.

Sarah kept watching Creon's reaction and knew that there should be no problem, after all, no big nobleman would play hooligan in front of the people, what a shame......

"It's okay Amy, he shouldn't have any ill will."

Sarah, of course, could tell at a glance that Creon was not messy, and she stepped forward and let Amy hide behind her.

"I know you, General Creon, but you seem to be scaring my sister."

"I'm sorry, young ladies, but I'm just ...... Well, to be honest, I'm looking for a suitable dance partner for my son, and this lady happens to be ...... Well, I don't know what to say......"

Creon's face stiffened, he had come to invite out of politeness, but he was too speechless......

Sarah was quite surprised: "General, how could you personally come forward with such a thing?" And in the environment of so many people......"

Indeed, for the aristocracy, this kind of thing is usually done by the maid.

A high lord would not have invited a girl in public, no matter what it was for, even if the girl was a civilian or mercenary, which was rude for Creon's status.

Sarah took a closer look, the general was dressed in the costume of the Radiant Cross Repellent of the Plague, Imperial infantry armor, and there was no coat of arms on his body, only the Exorcist behind him held his military flag.

The flag is a golden falcon, which is the signature flag that Emperor Marius gave to the leaders of the Pander Aboriginal after the reform, and the yellow-brown background color is also the symbol color of the Bacchus Empire after the reform - expressing the peaceful coexistence of the two peoples of Bacchus and Pande.

So Sarah immediately understood - Creon was a high-ranking military officer from a civilian background, and probably didn't pay much attention to etiquette among nobles, and he didn't know that Amy was a noble girl now, probably thinking that Amy was a merchant or mercenary.

"I know this is a bit rude, I'm worried that your caravan will never be seen again after it leaves, and I'm a little anxious...... It's like this......"

It turned out that Creon's son, Lord Dean, was thirty-three years old, but he never married.

Emperor Marius, on the other hand, decreed that men over the age of thirty-two or women over the age of twenty-eight who had never been married were to be convicted of a crime and to serve hard labor - a policy for the purpose of population growth, and it was an equal kind of observance to anyone, including the consuls.

Emperor Marius also specially stipulated that old cows were not allowed to eat tender grass, and the age difference between husband and wife should not exceed 25 years old, and both violators had to go to prison, so as not to increase the population and waste resources.

Creon himself was a staunch supporter of Emperor Marius's reforms, and of course he had to obey the law, and as a result, his son was sent to three months of hard labor by his own hands last year......

If his son doesn't find a girlfriend this year, he'll have to go to the mine to move stones for another three months......

As a father, Creon of course feels sorry for his son, and he himself hopes that his son will start a family soon.

But Lord Dean is stubborn......

Dean was one of the first beneficiaries of Marius's reforms, and after graduating from the Royal Academy in Siyuan City, he became a follower of Damia, the goddess of harvest, and was particularly adept at hydraulic engineering and agricultural construction.

Since the age of twenty, he has been involved in agricultural construction throughout the Bacchus Empire, and it has been quite effective.

For this reason, he accumulated a lot of merits, and was made the lord of Yinmeier, a place that had been stable for more than twenty years, and there was a lot of wasteland around it, which was suitable for agriculture.

However, I don't know if this kid Dean is selfless or has the wrong orientation, anyway, he has not been interested in women for more than ten years......

Creon had arranged dozens of blind dates for him, from aristocratic girls to beautiful commoners, but none of them had succeeded.

Dean looked down on ordinary girls, and he felt: "Just saying a word to them is a disaster, I can't be with a woman who screams at the sight of a sword, and they are unknowledgeable and stupid to communicate." ”

General Creon said that these were Dean's exact words.

The students of the Royal Academy may indeed look down on the village girl......

So Creon is quite anxious - he thinks that his son probably likes knowledgeable and talented female warriors.

It's really hard to find.

And after meeting Amy, he thinks it's a good opportunity!

Because Amy is now carrying a gun and a sword on her back, just intuitively, she is definitely not an ordinary girl.

Just looking at it, I feel that this is a cultured female warrior - she has no knowledge and can't play with muskets, and her humility and arrogance in the face of several soldiers also shows her courage.

And a battle-hardened general like Creon can see that Amy must have seen the flames of war and been on the battlefield.

So Creon felt that this was definitely someone his son looked up to, probably in line with Dean's expectations.

Unbeknownst to him, this was Godric's daughter, and Amy claimed to be 'protecting the caravan', believing that Amy was just a mercenary.

There is really no need for a general to go around in circles with a mercenary to play aristocratic etiquette, it is normal to have something to say - just like the uncle and aunt in the park who are looking for a partner for their children.

Sarah has already begun to shake her head: "General, with your identity, you can find a willing girl in the village first, and directly set a marriage contract for Lord Dean, and then slowly settle it after avoiding the guilt...... At most, I will get a divorce later. ”

General Creon nodded with a sad face: "That's what I thought!" But Dean's kid is a little ...... It's a bit stubborn! He wasn't interested in those women...... Unwilling to listen to my arrangement. Today was supposed to be a good opportunity, he is a devout disciple of the goddess Damia, and I also arranged a good girl with his childhood sweetheart, but he hid at home and didn't come out! So I'm going to ask this lady to help trick him out...... Otherwise, half a month later, he will have to mine again! ”