Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1034 Prologue
The moon is like water.

Gui Chen didn't hear Ying Baoyue's last words. He dropped the last chess piece and slid one hand off the chessboard. Ying Baoyue raised his head and found that the boy on the opposite side of the chessboard had fallen asleep.

She wasn't angry, but with a smile on her face, she got up and walked to the side of the boy who was sleeping on the chessboard, and carried him firmly on her back.

For her who has already reached the sixth level, this weight is easy.

Ying Baoyue walked out of the library with Gui Chen on her back, a figure appeared in front of her, and she raised her head to look at the girl standing under the moonlight.

It is returning home.

Compared with the first meeting half a year ago, the little girl has grown a lot taller.

"Don't worry," Ying Baoyue raised her head back and looked at Gui Li who was standing at the intersection, "He's asleep."

Gui Li wasn't worried, but looked at the big brother being carried by Ying Baoyue in a complicated mood.

Isn't the role of these two people a bit reversed...

"This reminds me of the scene when my elder brother carried you back." Gui Li walked to Ying Baoyue and stared at the person on her back. "It's still the same as before, falling asleep after reading a book."

"He worked very hard," Ying Baoyue said with a smile, handing Guichen into Guili's hands, "Let him sleep well, I'm leaving."

"Sister, you..." Gui Li looked at Ying Baoyue who turned around and walked back to the library, with a dazed expression.

Ying Baoyue waved her back to her, and walked back to the library.

"Let's go back."

Gui Li was staring blankly at Ying Baoyue's back when a male voice came from beside his ear.

"Brother?" Gui Li turned his head and looked at his brother who opened his eyes in astonishment, "When did you wake up?"

"Just now," Gui Chen said, looking down at his younger sister who came to pick him up, and said softly, "Let's go back, it's getting late."

"But my sister..." Guili hesitated to speak.

"Don't bother her, just pretend you didn't see anything," Gui Chen looked at the girl who walked into the library alone in the middle of the night from the corner of his eyes, and quietly closed his eyes.

How hard is she trying to go?

"A Li, be obedient."

In the end, he didn't stop her, but just lowered his head and coaxed his sister.

What he can do is not to stop her, but to make himself stronger.

Now he has nothing to do for her, only to do everything he can.

Do your best.

That's what he learned from her, too.

"I'm going back to rest and maintain my strength," Gui Chen recalled the chess game in his mind, and took a deep breath.

He will be strong.

Until you can protect her.

Gui Chen and Gui Li returned to their room, and Gui Chen went to bed resolutely to save energy for tomorrow's battle.

……

……

Under the moonlight, only Ying Baoyue was left.

She returned to the stone table where she played chess with Gui Chen before, staring at the chess game on the table, she smiled slightly.

"If the commander-in-chief knew that I actually played this game of chess with his grandson, what would he say?"

This is a past that Gui Chen does not know.

Ying Baoyue looked up at the bright moon in the sky, as if seeing herself at the age of 11.

Not long after she went to the Great Wall of Eternal Night to join the army, she was assigned to a commander-in-chief as a soldier, and the commander-in-chief was named General Long Xiang.

The name is Guiming.

With her new status in the army, she was not qualified to meet the commander-in-chief. She made meritorious service in the first month of joining the army, but was swallowed up by the centurion.

But just a month after she arrived and was swallowed up, she met an old man on the side of the road and played a game of chess with him.

Not long after this game of chess was over, the centurion who took her credit was exiled, and she became the new centurion.

Later, two years later, she made remarkable achievements in the border battle, and she made a contribution that was enough to be named a marquis. At the same time, her identity as a woman was completely exposed. The commander-in-chief decided to report her contribution to the Ming court.

She was not granted the title of marquis, and finally won the title of princess.

At the same time, there was another older general's daughter who was named princess with her.

The commander-in-chief didn't get anything, and finally took an official post to the court on the grounds of old age and frailty, and left the border.

All the officers and soldiers at the border stood on the Great Wall to watch the old general leave. Only then did she realize that this general was the old man who played chess with her on the side of the road. Master had mentioned it to her many times, but she had never had the chance to meet him. One of the three founding generals.

General Long Xiang, return to Ming Dynasty.

That is Guichen's grandfather.

Ying Baoyue brushed the pieces on the chessboard with her fingertips. Compared with Gui Chen's grandfather, she was actually not familiar with him.

All she can remember is this game of chess.

"The art of war?"

In fact, she has been away for a long time.

Ying Baoyue tidied up the chess game on the table, picked up the military book that Gui Chen left on the table, and jumped to the roof of the library in two or three steps.

But when she climbed onto the roof, she was taken aback.

A dark figure was standing quietly on the roof.

Seeing that slender figure, Ying Baoyue was startled, but then smiled, she sat on the roof and looked at him, "You are here."

The moonlight shone on the bronze mask, emitting a faint light. Hearing the movement, the man's black eyes under the mask looked at her.

"You lied to Ji Jiashu," he said lightly, "you didn't go to sleep."

No, why both of them blamed her for this...

Those who didn't know thought she did something to Ji Jiashu...

Ying Baoyue was speechless, and raised the book in his hand, "I'll just browse the knowledge points, and then I'll go to sleep after reading it."

"Aren't you going to stay overnight?" Li Ji looked at her expressionlessly.

"I had this plan," Ying Baoyue smiled, but before she could tell that she was joking, Li Ji took out a clay pot from behind.

Ying Baoyue had a bad premonition, "What is this?"

"Soothing Soup." The masked man didn't change his face.

"There's no need to mobilize so many people..." Ying Baoyue looked at the dark jar in front of her, not knowing what to say.

"I boiled this for myself and Zhao Guang," Li Ji said lightly, "I was prone to insomnia on the eve of the war, so I boiled some of it casually, and after pouring a bowl for Zhao Guang, I found that there was still some left, so I brought it with me. "

There is a word written in the man's eyes.

Everything is just by the way.

yes?

Ying Baoyue stared fixedly at the man standing on the roof.

"I said, in order to ensure that my prediction is correct, you have to live for at least one year," Li Ji said indifferently, "If you don't take a good rest, you will die from physical and mental exhaustion."

Is this statement really not far-fetched?
"If you don't want to drink, then I'll give it to Ji Jiashu," Li Ji said quietly, "Tell him, you are very energetic now, and you are not going to sleep."

Is Ji Jiashu some new method of threatening her?

Ying Baoyue lay down on the roof with her pillow on the tiles, and said with a wry smile, "I will sleep, but not now."

She didn't lie to Ji Jiashu, she planned to read here until the second half of the night, and then sleep for an hour before dawn to maintain basic physical strength.

She didn't want to read books, and couldn't sleep.

"Don't worry, this bowl of medicine is green silk vine," Li Ji also sat down beside her, "Do you know what it is?"

Ying Baoyue was startled when she heard the words, and the next moment she took the medicine jar in his hand and drank it all in one gulp.

(End of this chapter)