chapter 212
212 – Wedding Feast in the Desert #2
212 – Wedding Feast in the Desert # 2
It was after a long walk.
A signpost announcing the entrance to the village began to appear in the distance.
Garot seemed quite nervous.
I asked as he looked somewhat anxious.
“Are you okay?”
“Okay. Cecily, are you okay?”
“It’s not okay at all… ! The ground was muddier than expected, so the shoes I had been wearing so beautifully ended up covered in mud… !”
Cecily seemed to be okay too.
After taking a breath, Garot took a breath.
When Garrot, holding Cecilie’s hand tightly, finally entered the village as if he had made a big decision, she noticed that the people who were herding the sheep turned their heads one by one to look at us.
We also looked at them.
Their faces were dark and healthy, and their hair and eyes were black or dark brown. The number is about fifteen people.
There were no strong men.
Most of them are women or young children.
However, it was not a group that looked easy.
Sereung.
A person who picked up a knife sharp enough to cut a bone stopped cutting the meat and plunged the blade into the wooden cutting board.
She was a woman wearing an apron, but she was quite tall and had a grim face. The straight scar around her left eye she was ugly.
She came up to us and asked after wiping her hands on her apron.
“What show?”
It was a voice that conveyed quite hostile emotions.
It was common for people in rural villages to show hostility toward people from unfamiliar lands, so I decided to do that.
“My name is Cecily von Ragdoll.”
The little child, Cecily, bowed gracefully, holding on to the hem of her skirt.
Then, I felt the hostility from the woman with the grim expression softening a little.
It’s difficult for people to harbor blind hostility towards a group that takes children with them.
“That wound… By any chance, Auntie Tyrk?”
At that time, Garot asked a woman who looked as scary as a butcher. The scarred woman wearing her apron looked slightly surprised and looked around at her face.
“Now I see you are Garot? I didn’t recognize her because she was so tall and pretty! That’s right! It’s Garot! Everyone come out and check it out, Garot is back! Garot has come to the village of Iscaliot!”
AtMrs. Tyrk’s loud shout, people came out of the tent one by one. Most of them were women.
Sometimes there were men, but they were young boys.
People flocked around us.
This is the village of Iscaliot.
It was Garot’s hometown.
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“What have you been doing all this time? How have you been?”
“Your skin is completely white, right? “Wasn’t it a little dark and dark until you were here?”
“I heard you lived in the city? I guess the city water is good, boy!”
Crack, cackle!
Women’s chatter was more hectic and noisy than men’s thoughts.
The women of Iscaliot were particularly strong and strong, so their voices were so loud that the small tent was shaking.
Pang-.
At that time, someone hit my butt with the palm of their hand
When she turned her head, a middle-aged woman with an eye patch on one of her eyes was laughing.
“The man looks like he uses his strength and his well. He is a very handsome man.”
“You don’t seem like a city person?”
“Which tribe are they from?”
Because of my appearance, they probably thought I was a nomad living in the wilderness, right? However, it was not a look of disdain or fear like I felt in the kingdom.
Rather, I was receiving a lot of favor.
“How old are you?”
“Do you have a lover?”
“What about me!”
“Oh my, Iruru, you’re too direct, boy!”
It was like that.
I was receiving very blatant favor.
Have I ever been surrounded by and ogled by so many women in my life?
There was none.
I thought this might be the peak of my life. They said there is a type of person who is not popular at all in their home country, but becomes popular when they go abroad. I guess I was just that.
I was a handsome man on the Great Plains!
“This is my… “He is the one who will become my husband.”
At that time, Garot came up to me and introduced me.
Then the women’s eyes got very big.
“Oh my god! Garot, you brought a husband!”
“Great. “It’s traditional.”
“I want to quickly go out of town and bring a partner!”
The women of Iscaliot praised Iscariot very much.
Before coming to this village, I heard quite a lot from Garot about the traditions of the village and the plains.
It is said that the tradition among plains people is not to find a partner within the same tribe, but to go on a trip when they reach a certain age, find a lover, then return to the village and introduce them to the people.< Br﹥
It felt like it was a system designed to prevent intra-tribal marriage and ensure genetic diversity.
“Who is this guy?”
“It’s totally like a doll!”
“Wow, that’s cute.”
The women were now interested in Cecily, who was sitting still. Cecily was popular even in this unfamiliar culture and a land full of tough female warriors.
I guess it’s because Cecily’s appearance she is pretty.
A long time ago, a story came to mind when missionaries began to arrive on the Korean Peninsula at the end of the Joseon Dynasty.
There was a feeling that the Eastern people at that time would reject Westerners as ‘nose-bodied’ or ‘blue-eyed ghosts’.
At that time, missionaries often came to the Korean Peninsula with their families, and the children brought by Western missionaries were said to be very popular regardless of age and gender.
It is said that all the people in the neighborhood flocked to see the missionary’s children.
Records of what people saw and felt at the time also left comments such as ‘the children were very pretty’ or ‘they looked cute’.
In other words, a person’s aesthetic sense is not innate to any era or culture and is consistent to some extent.
I felt it clearly when I saw Cecily.
Cuteness goes anywhere.
Zek-.
Garrot put his hand into Cecily’s side and lifted her high into the air.
When Cecily was drooping, she said to everyone,
“This is my daughter. Her name is Cecily Bar Judah, and she is also known as Cecily von Legdoll. “She is the daughter I gave birth to, and she came here to show everyone.”
Garrot lifted her Cecily higher so that many could better see her own daughter her her her.
Cecily had a half-satisfied expression.
“Iscariot’s daughter?”
“Now that I think about it, I think we look a bit alike! “Her eyes her her her her are two, her nose her is one and her mouth her her her is—.”
“Didn’t she look like that in the old days?”
“Shh, let’s not talk about Rione.”
I could feel the people’s mood spreading from joy to confusion at the same time. Soon Garot spoke as if she were conveying her good news to her people.
“Mom is alive too. Although I can’t meet her now. It will take some time to explain. Anyway, I’m going to marry this man soon. “I want to show it to everyone before then.”
The villagers looked at each other’s faces.
Even though Garot’s explanation was rough, she smiled like everyone was okay with it.
“We should have a festival today!”
“When the men come back, let’s open the barrel!”
“Wow!”
It was a more bustling hometown than I expected.
Soon, when the sky turned red, I could see the sun setting over the horizon.
It’s the horizon.
Due to the nature of the Korean Peninsula where I grew up, it was safe to say that there was no need to see the horizon.
The great plain, where the sky and the earth meet far into the distance, resonated quite deeply in my heart as someone who grew up in the city.
As I was looking at it, Cecily came up next to me and said.
“The sunset is so pretty!”
“Right?”
“I had no idea there was such a large area of land. Although there are no noble chandeliers and no ladies in elegant dresses, the sunset is the prettiest.”
It was Cecily who spoke bluntly.
Cecily was half me and half Garot.
Since half of Garot is the Lady of Leone and half of Garot is the blood of a great hunter from the Plain of Iscaliot, it could be said that Cecily had about a quarter of the blood of this plain.
Cecily seemed to quite like 1/4’s hometown.
Purrrr!
At that time, a sharp cry of a bird of prey was heard in the sky.
“Cecily, it looks like an eagle has come to get you.”
“Hmph.”
When Cecily snorted her -.
She was all like that, and the sound of her horse’s hooves was heard.
I thought a group of thieves had appeared, but the women of the village welcomed someone riding a horse.
“Are you here?”
“Amor, how was the hunting today? Instead, look who’s here! Garot is back!”
“Oh my god, the great hunter’s daughter has returned to the village?”
“She didn’t just come back, she brought her husband with her! No, she already said she has a daughter, so is she a husband!”
I have previously described the women of the village of Iscaliot as unyielding.
The men of Iscaliot were unrivaled warriors.
Perhaps because they were a group of people who rode horses and hunted, not a single person was fat and they had a sharp aura like a sharpened arrow.
And it felt like they didn’t like me very much.
“Are you the husband of Garot?”
“You look like a gisaeng brother! “I think it’s going to be a waste of money!”
“Are you a city person?”
I can’t believe that a day will come in my life when I will be told that I look like a gisaeng brother. To these rough-looking nomads, my face was soft.
Am I the handsome guy here?
The feeling was very subtle.
Anyway, I could tell that they thought of Garot, whom they had not seen for a long time, as if they were their family.
Do you feel wary when your younger sister or older sister brings her boyfriend?
It seemed like Garot was quite popular in her hometown.
Garot once said, “Men may be a little picky. It’s a tradition to bring a bride or groom from outside, but they don’t like it if they’re from the city.”
Zek-.
At that time, someone appeared, dividing the group of men.
He was as big as a bear and had a hawk-shaped tattoo on his face.
“This guy who looks like he can’t even hit a fist is the husband of Garot, the daughter of a great hunter. I don’t understand! “I wonder if I can hunt even a rabbit in the prairie.”
Pot-.
He grabbed me by the collar.
Kuwoouk-.
He felt a surge of strength, but soon an embarrassed voice came out of his mouth.
“Wow, this guy is heavy!” It won’t go away!”
“Domor, what are you doing? Use your strength!”
“Everyone come! This guy, his body his his his is as heavy as a cart!”
All the men attacked me.
They were pulling my collar and my arms, but I didn’t like the feeling of being touched because I was surrounded by so many men.
Anyway.
A bear-like man called Domor asked out of breath.
“What on earth are you? No matter how you look at it, this is not a human trick! “Are you a ghost?”
“It’s similar.”
When I nodded, the men seemed scared.
Some even picked up weapons.
To lighten the mood, I took out a gift from the shadows.
There’s nothing better than giving gifts to strangers to gain their favor.
What I took out was a round soccer ball.
Phut-. Pang-.
When he kicked it and passed it to the men, the lively men were very happy and each took a ball.
In addition to balls, I offered things like cigarettes, alcohol, and tool boxes, but it was industrial products like chocolate and drinks that were more popular than expected.
The men each took a box of cola in a glass bottle and loved it.
“We, the hunters of Iscaliot, welcome you. “As long as you don’t cause too much trouble, you will be treated as a guest!”
Dinner with that feeling.
A large firework burned in the center of the village and a noisy festival began.
The main characters were me and Garot.
“According to the tradition of Iscaliot, the wedding of Iscariot, the daughter of the Prairie, and Judah begins!”
The sound of drums and horns, along with the smoke of the bonfire, illuminated the night on the prairie.
It was an exceptionally bright moon and starry night.