Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 1248 Soft Light
"General, that brat is looking for you again."

Standing in the sword fire, Meng Shi's vision was somewhat blurred. She saw that she had turned into a six-year-old child, holding her sister's hand and standing in front of the bustling barracks, stumbled by the armor of the soldiers.

"Is it coming again? Who is it this time?"

"You, you have saved so many people that you can't even remember their names. It's the twin sisters."

"I have saved quite a few twins, which one?"

"It's the one that was awakened when you saved it!"

All the way up to this point, the female general who was surrounded by soldiers in the depths of the crowd seemed to be able to react.

"It's Xiaoshi, what's wrong with her? Did that family treat her badly last time?"

Meng Shi raised her head anxiously, watching the woman who was surrounded by female generals leave the crowd and strode up to her.

Upon seeing those clear eyes, all fear disappeared.

"Sister Yue!" She shouted happily, and even their sister beside her, who couldn't remember how this person rescued her, opened her mouth happily.

Sure enough, two sweet and milky candies were stuffed into their mouths at the same time.

"This is my new toffee, try it and see if it tastes good," Lin Baoyue bent down and looked at them with a smile, "What do you come to see me for? Are you wronged by your new parents?"

"No, uncle... Father and mother are very kind to us." Meng Shi quickly argued.

After rescuing them in Huishidong Village that day, almost all the adults in the village including her father died, but the big family who bought them did not die. Meng Shi originally thought that she would be handed over as a slave. To the landlord, but unexpectedly, the female general took them away and found an old couple who had lost their child in Shanhaiguan City. She and Meng Ge have new parents since then.

Although the adoptive father and adoptive mother were old, they were very kind to her and Meng Ge. Meng Ge suffered from the root cause of his illness after choking on the snow that day, but the old couple made medicine for Meng Ge every day, and Meng Shi was very grateful.

"Since you're doing well, what are you doing in the barracks?" Lin Baoyue smiled, "It's very dangerous here."

"It's still the same thing as before." Meng Shi swallowed her saliva, glanced at the young female generals coming and going behind her, with a trace of envy in her eyes, "I have already chosen, I want to be a practitioner, I Enter the barracks too!"

That day, she heard from the officer who was about to kill her that she had awakened, but she didn't understand what awakening was all about, until after all the soldiers who killed civilians were cleared that day, Lin Baoyue asked her a question.

"Do you know what a practitioner is?"

She remembered shaking her head in a daze.

It was only later that Meng Shi learned that it is extremely rare for her to awaken without knowing what a practitioner is. Children from aristocratic families often prepare for awakening from birth, and ordinary people rarely raise natural practitioners. He was discarded at the gate of the aristocratic family when he was born.

The village they were born in was too desolate and barren, with few wild animals, and their father was drunk for many years, so he didn't notice the abnormalities at home, so they grew up in such a daze until they were five years old.

Although in the end it still ended up almost being burned to death.

In a sense, the villagers were not completely wrong when they regarded them as broom stars.

"If you don't know anything, it's too early for you to accept this fate." Meng Shi only remembered the woman staring at her seriously, "I hope you can choose yourself."

"What?" She asked in a daze.

"After you understand what you have to face in becoming a practitioner, and you can choose for yourself, then decide whether to take this path."

"But... can I choose?"

Even after growing up, Meng Shi has never met anyone other than that woman who would ask a natural practitioner like this.

"My ability can seal the power in your body," Lin Baoyue smiled, "Fortunately, your natural rank is not high, so I can still seal it, as long as it is sealed, no one will notice To your special."

"If you want to become a practitioner when you grow up, you can ask me to untie it for you."

"Wait, Baoyue, even if you are at the tenth rank, you will still..." The female general in silver armor rushed back from a distance, but Lin Baoyue raised her hand to stop her.

It was only later that Meng Shi learned that sealing a natural practitioner was almost against God's will, and would cause great damage to the practitioner. Even if she was only at the tenth level when she awakened, Lin Baoyue would have to pay a considerable price.

"I..." She didn't understand anything at the time and raised her head in a daze.

She didn't know what to do.

"Then wait for you to grow up and choose again." She was gently hugged by the girl in front of her. Meng Shi opened her eyes wide, and blood slowly slid down Lin Baoyue's forehead. She wanted to turn her head to look, but was caught Lin Baoyue straightened her head.

"Don't be afraid, there will be some pain, but it will be over soon."

A faint soft light enveloped the whole body, Meng Shi only felt that something was wrapped inside the body, and the pain and heat all over the body disappeared.

The girl's gentle voice rang in her ears.

"I hope that one day, you can choose yourself."

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After less than a year in the city, Meng Shi understood what a cultivator is.

With her true essence sealed, she and her younger sister obtained the happiness that belongs to ordinary girls in Guancheng.

She is content.

But it always felt like something was missing.

After hearing that the Yinchanwei led by Princess Zhaoyang took in many orphaned girls, she became eager to move. After Meng Ge recovered a little, she often dragged her younger sister to find Lin Baoyue.

Of course, the other party is too busy.As the patron saint of the border, Lin Baoyue has saved so many people that she can't remember everyone's faces at all, but every time she sees her, Meng Shi will be treated gently.

And there is sugar to eat.

"Is it still about joining the army?" Lin Baoyue looked at her helplessly, then turned around and asked the silver-armored female general behind Meng Shi who was familiar with, "Mei Niang, how old was Lan Niang when she joined the Yinchan Guard?" with?"

"When I picked her up... she seemed to be ten years old."

"You heard me," Lin Baoyue turned her head, "You are only six years old, so young."

Meng Shi puffed up her face and hugged the woman's thigh tightly. After getting along for a long time, she knew that the well-known Princess Zhaoyang had an unbelievably good temper, so she also changed from being timid to arrogant and self-willed stand up.

"If you don't promise me, I won't leave! You said that I can choose myself!"

"Okay, let's do it this way." The girl who was entangled by her smiled helplessly, "When you reach the age of nine, if you still insist on becoming a practitioner, come to me, and I will unlock the seal for you, and then you will practice for a year If you persist, I will allow you to enter the barracks at the age of ten."

"it is good!"

She happily agreed, and then climbed up and down Shanhaiguan City with Meng Ge every day, dreaming that one day she could become a female general like the princess.

Even Shanhaiguan City is located on the border of Xirong in the Northern Wei Dynasty, but after the woman became the guard, for three full years, the border was as solid as gold, and trade gradually prospered.

That was the most carefree time in Meng Shi's memory.

There are so many things to play in the city, she sometimes forgets to look for Lin Baoyue for several months, and doesn't even notice the vibration at the border.

Thinking of being able to be with Yinchanwei every day after the age of nine, she threw other thoughts out of her mind and continued to play wildly with her younger sister.

Sometimes Meng Shi would think, if she wasn't so stupid at that time and squandered her good luck early, would the time with her be longer?
Unfortunately, by the time she realized it, it was too late.

Until eight years ago, on her ninth birthday, she stood at the gate of the barracks, staring blankly at the Yinchanwei camp that had been burned, and was kicked away by the soldiers guarding the gate.

"Are you looking for Princess Zhaoyang?"

"The Princess Zhaoyang died long ago, where did you come from, a pariah brat, get out of here!"

She turned around in a daze, only to find that the Shanhaiguan City behind her was ablaze with billowing black smoke.

(End of this chapter)