Another World's Palm Spider

The biggest piece of news in Feralas recently was the funeral of the Melville family.

The city of Feralas is the first big city that the Orac Empire entered from the west.If the outpost of McGowan is the garrison of the border guards, then the city of Feralas is the barracks and granary of the garrison troops. If there is any friction in Erlanting, there will be a limited number of guards in the McGowan outpost, and because the defense force is not enough, a large amount of food cannot be safely placed at the forefront of the border.

Because of the geographical location of the city of Feralas, the Orac Empire built it into an iron barrel-like fortress city like other big border cities-no matter when a war breaks out, these cities can kill the enemy as soon as possible. Resist outside.

According to the laws promulgated by the Orac Empire, each fortress city must be equipped with a military general and a civil servant in addition to the city owner. The city lord is responsible for the operation of the city, uploading and issuing all kinds of affairs. There is no relationship between the city lord, the military commander, and the civil servants. Although the official titles are different, they are all competing with each other and play a role of mutual restraint. Once encountering a transaction that cannot be decided unilaterally, the three parties can initiate a vote to reduce the error rate of transaction processing.

Although being a city lord of an ordinary city would lead a much freer life, a fortress city is the easiest place to get a letter of recommendation for transfer to the king's city--as we all know, the more dangerous the place is, the easier it is to make meritorious deeds, so the fortress city has become A springboard that everyone is jealous of. Due to the policy of joint management and mutual supervision by the three parties, there will only be healthy competition in most cases in the fortress city, so such a place is also the easiest place to produce talents.

The Melville family is the family of Udura Melville, the civil servant in Feralas City.

Speaking of the Melville family, for the residents of Feralas, this is a great noble family that everyone knows. Speaking of which, the Melville family is not a local noble family in Feralas.The roots of the Melville family are all in the royal city of Galeria, and it is also a very old big family, and such a big family has a place in Feralas City. The reason is to start from the family tree of the Melville family. I found it when I counted two generations.

The grandmother of Udura Melville, an active civil servant stationed in the city, actually saw each other's eyes with the military general stationed in Feralas City at that time when she was visiting friends with her family. She stayed and married someone, because this noble lady was almost held in the palm of her hand and cared for by the clansmen, and in the end she couldn't get her way. Following her wish, the generals stationed in the fortress city were killed The chances of bringing her to the king's city are great, and within three years at most, this noble lady will be able to return to the tribe with her husband.

I just didn't expect that this noble lady married for less than a year, and her husband had his head beheaded in a border dispute with Baier Landing. The good noble lady became a widow just like that. After the death of a military general stationed in the city, when the noble lady was sorting out her husband's belongings, she unexpectedly found ironclad evidence that he had committed adultery with other women.The noble lady was so angry that she beat her dead husband's adulterous partner half to death with the evidence. She also canceled her plan to return to the royal city. She said she had no face to go home, so she stayed in Feralas city.

Unable to accept the scandal of her dead husband, she abandoned her husband's family name, restored Melville's family name, and lived in Feralas with her only son.

The Melville family felt very sorry for the experience of this noble lady. She refused to return to the royal city and did not force it, so they bought a property in Feralas for her, and stayed in Feralas like a branch. The noble lady's son got married and gave birth to a son and a daughter, the daughter of whom was Udura Melville, an active civil servant stationed in the city.

And the recent funeral of the Melville family in the city of Feralas was held for the grandmother of Udura Melville, the civil servant in the city, that is, the noble lady Sylvia Melville who once became a man of the day. Yes—this noble lady passed away in her sleep a few days ago, and according to the will that was made long ago, Sylvia Melville will be buried today.

Udura Melville's rose-red eyes with the characteristics of the Melville family showed a consistent sharp light, but the two reddish corners of the eyes revealed the fact that she had cried. She was wearing a black dress and stood He sat next to his parents and elder brother, who were also dressed in black, and watched silently as the priest finished his short eulogy—it was requested by the grandmother herself. His style of dealing with things, vision and taste are straightforward and simple, and the same is true of educating children and juniors.

After praying for the dead, the priest waved his hands to cover the coffin placed in the center of the altar in the church with a velvet coffin.

According to the rules, after that, they will go to the cemetery for burial.

Udulla watched as the four corners of grandma's coffin were lifted, gently lifted and transported smoothly to the cemetery.Udulla walked out behind the coffin together with her parents and elder brother, and two clansmen from Melville's family in the royal city accompanied them.

The two clansmen who came to the funeral, one elder and one younger, had seen the older Udura. He was the son of Udura's grandmother's elder brother, Udura's uncle, and Udura's son. The one with the uncle looks very young, he seems to be only about 25 years old, with brilliant blond hair and a gentle smile, people want to let go of their guards and make friends with him when they first see him impulse.

But Udulla somehow felt that there was an indescribable sense of disobedience among the members of the same family—his behavior was very elegant and aristocratic, and Udulla couldn't find anything wrong at all.

Probably sensing her gaze, the clansman who called himself Noah Melville tilted his head and showed her a warm and kind smile, his rose-red eyes filled with warmth and a trace of dissatisfaction. Too obvious a soothing color.

The other party expressed kindness to her, and Udura could only nod slightly in response.

When his uncle introduced him, he was so vague, he only said that he was a member of the Melville family, and asked Udura to call Noah his brother.

Why did this "brother" come to the funeral when his grandmother passed away?Uncle's vague introduction made people uncertain about the identity of this person, but the family wanted to ask, but the uncle stopped them.And the excuse brought by the other party is also reasonable-it is said that the Melville family is in charge of this year's harvest festival, and the clansmen are too busy to get away, and the uncle is getting old, so he asked Noah, a younger generation of clansman, to help Send uncle to Feralas City and ensure his safety along the way.

... Now such a peaceful world still needs to protect the elders of the family so carefully when they come and go between the two cities?And my uncle is only in his 50s and has a great reputation. It is more than enough to suppress a few ordinary officers with a sword on his shoulders. Protect him? ...Who would believe it!

Udulla just felt that there was something wrong with Noah's arrival, but she couldn't find anything wrong, so she could only keep her doubts in her heart.After she nodded slightly, her eyes slid past the black-haired young man who was following Noah Melville.

According to Noah's introduction, this black-haired young man is called Ryan, and he is his bodyguard.

... This thing is even more strange. Uncle doesn't have any bodyguards around him yet. Let the clansmen of the same clan protect uncle, and then the bodyguards protect the clansmen?

Leaving aside the unreasonable things, Udura felt that the choice of this bodyguard was a little too...a little naive, and he seemed to be able to hold his breath at all. He just attended the funeral with Noah. A pair of black eyes stared intently at the progress of the funeral, as if he had never seen how the funeral was carried out.

Shouldn't the bodyguard be watching the owner all the time to ensure that the owner is safe at all times?

A master who is full of mysteries but exudes aristocratic style, and a bodyguard who is full of "I am not deeply involved in the world"?As strange as this pairing could be!

Udulla sighed in her heart—after all, it was the clansmen assigned by Wangcheng, and her father put the matter aside without asking any questions, and she couldn't say it even if she was slandering.

Because the reputation of the Melville family in Feralas City is quite good, there are a lot of people who come to the funeral. Because of the custom, people who encounter the funeral procession on the road will also leave with them for a while, and the group is so mighty. He followed into the cemetery and stopped at the edge of the cemetery that had been set long ago.

Seeing the priest put the coffin into the grave that had already been dug, as the prayers sounded, Udura's family members and friends who were usually close to Sylvia Melville wept slightly They gathered around the tomb and sprinkled yellow and white petals as they fell to the ground, expressing their memory and condolences to the dead.

After the funeral, the people attending the funeral did not disperse.

The parents of the Melville family thanked the priest who followed up the funeral today. The two brothers and sisters of the Melville family supported each other and still mourned their grandmother in front of the new grave. Many of the rest of them could not be found with the parents of Melville. The opportunity to say hello is not urgent, just chatting in groups of twos and threes.

"Hey, so birth, old age, sickness and death, there will always be such a day." Not far away stood three elderly women dressed as ladies, and one of them, a blond lady covered with a black veil, sighed: "Others Participating in the funeral, I don't know when it will be my turn."

"Don't talk about these undead! Aren't you still alive, you can't think about it now."

"It's just a feeling."

"Speaking of which, have you heard of a rumor that suddenly appeared in the city recently?"

"What rumor?"

"It is said that a missionary came from the outpost, preaching something about regaining youth and immortality..."

The three ladies who were chatting did not notice that the blond young man standing not far from them suddenly raised his head and looked at the black-haired young man next to him. There was a sharp light in the eyes of both of them. Two-point attention is paid to the content of the conversation of the three women here.

"...Regaining youth? Eternal life?...Is it a liar? How could such a good thing happen!"