Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 794
it's me.

Lou Xiaolou heard the girl in front of him speak clearly.

is her.

Feeling the precise position on her back, Lou Xiaolou opened her eyes wide in a daze.

Although he had guessed it before, he didn't expect to hear this sentence from this girl himself, and he didn't expect that she would be willing to tell him the secret.

The momentary shock made Lou Xiaolou unable to judge whether it was a dream or reality.

"You..." Lou Xiaolou stared blankly at the girl sitting in front of his bed with a calm expression, unable to recover for a long time, "You are..."

"You should have noticed it before, right?" Ying Baoyue withdrew her hand, looked into the eyes of the man on the bed and smiled, "Why are you so surprised now?"

Lou Xiaolou's eyes paused when he heard the words, and then nodded.

But the next moment he realized that he had made a slip of the tongue and raised his head suddenly, "But Your Highness, I am not doubting your identity, this subject is..."

"I know," Ying Baoyue interrupted his flustered words, "I know what you mean. I don't doubt your loyalty."

Lou Xiaolou, as the leader of the former Qin princess's wedding team, was loyal to her body identity and recognized her as the former Qin princess.

But because he knew the original appearance of the former Qin princess, as a middle-aged general with rich combat experience, it was impossible for this man not to notice that something was wrong with her.

But even so, he escorted her to Nanchu, and returned to the former Qin Dynasty without the princess.Although Ying Hanri probably didn't have time to recall him recently, if he returns on his own initiative, Ying Baoyue believes that the former king of Qin who wished all the generals would stay to protect him would be very welcome.

But Lou Xiaolou did not leave.

And when she asked him to intercept Qianqin's intelligence line, it was actually contrary to the captain's own position, but the man agreed without asking anything, and it was done beautifully.

At this time, Ying Baoyue knew that he might have noticed something.

Noticing the gaze of the person at the head of the bed, Lou Xiaolou also looked at her face, and then looked down at Ying Baoyue's hand on her knee.

Those hands were originally delicate and white, and they were also the hands of the princesses and aristocratic ladies he was familiar with.

It was precisely because of these hands that when Ying Baoyue disbanded the wedding team, although he was shocked by the princess's boldness, he didn't realize that there was anything wrong.

He did not choose to flee back to Southern Chu with the other guards, on the one hand because of his loyalty to the former Qin Dynasty, and on the other hand because he was overwhelmed by the girl's determination at that time.

The former Qin royal family has not produced such a person for many years, and such a person should not die.

But as they traveled all the way to Nanchu, Lou Xiaolou gradually noticed something was wrong.

He originally thought that he was the one escorting her to Nanchu, but as he walked, he realized that it was this young girl who was leading them to Nanchu.

Lead, that's a word that almost never comes up in princesses.

Just like the hands of this girl now.

Lou Xiaolou stared at Ying Baoyue's hands on her knees. In just over two months, the girl's palms were already callused.

It was a sword cocoon worn out by countless blood blisters.

This is not the kind of hands that a princess in the deep palace can raise, and what these hands can do is not something that ordinary princesses can do.

A month ago, it was these hands that drew the map of the distribution of the twelve intelligence lines from Southern Chu to the former Qin Dynasty.

The map appeared in front of Lou Xiaolou's eyes. Not only were there clear locations on it, but also the time for changing defenses and the commonly used shelters and mechanisms for deploying defenses.

The details are...shocking.

Lou Xiaolou stared at the girl sitting beside his bed for a long time.

It is impossible for a princess who lives in the deep palace to be so familiar with the terrain and the secrets of the army.

But just when she handed him the picture, what shocked him was the girl's trust in him.Just because it was impossible for her not to know that he would be suspicious when he saw this picture.

But she did it anyway, she didn't even threaten and lure him, she just gave him a warning.

"If there are too many enemies, retreat to save your life, and remember to return safely."

Remember to return safely.

That's right, that's the sentence.

Lou Xiaolou stared into the girl's eyes as clear as lake water, at that moment, he suddenly thought of a person.

Someone he knew well but had never met.

A man his brother mentioned in almost every letter home.

Lou Xiaolou looked a little dazed.

Their family is a military household.Not a general, but an ordinary military household.

His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather died on the battlefield for three generations.Whether he is his elder brother or not, he has known since he was a child that the word "safety" does not belong to him.

Their role is to stay behind, at best, they use their lives to fight for a title for future generations, and at worst, they die on the battlefield as fertilizer for weeds without making military achievements.

Veteran military households know that on the battlefield, most of the recruits can't survive the first battle.

All three generations of their ancestors died in the first battle, and they did not leave behind a half-job.In their generation, the family was so poor that they couldn't even afford a wife before their two elder brothers served.

Fifteen years ago, when he was fourteen and his eldest brother was fifteen, the head of the township conscription brought people to beg for help. Their mother, who was already seriously ill, ran to the mountain in despair to collect medicine for some money, but fell off a cliff and died.

From then on, he and his elder brother had only each other left, and they didn't care about leaving any descendants.After closing the door of their dilapidated house, Lou Xiaolou remembered that he and his elder brother looked at each other and lit the torch in their hands.

Everything in their hometown was burned, and they each went to their own military service.

That's right, each.

At that time, their family's quota for serving as soldiers was located in two different places, one in the south and the other in the north.

The military households at that time knew that most of the soldiers who went to the south to fight against bandits were well-equipped and well-equipped, and they were able to perform meritorious deeds without danger.

And go north...

Lou Xiaolou clenched her hands under the quilt.

To go to the north is to go to the Great Wall of Eternal Night to resist the Xirong people.

Not only more than ten years ago, until now, military households in the Central Plains are most afraid of going to the north to serve as a soldier.

It has been passed down from generation to generation among the military households that Xirong people are monsters eating people, and children can stop crying at night in the Great Wall of Eternal Night.

On the battlefield, the battle casualties with the Xirong people are always the greatest, and every battle is extremely tragic.

Moreover, the main force of the northern army was soldiers from the Northern Wei Dynasty. The physique of the Northern Wei people was much stronger than that of the southerners.

And 15 years ago, his elder brother Loulou gave him the place to go to the south.

It was equivalent to giving him the only chance to live.

Because at that time, none of the people in their village who went to the north to serve as soldiers came back.

All dead.

Going to the north is a dead end for southerners.

Although he was the eldest brother, the boy was only 15 years old back then, but he left his vitality to his younger brother and the danger to himself.

He couldn't resist at the time, so his elder brother knocked him out. He tied him to the bullock cart and let the village chief take him away.

And the boy who took care of everything at the age of 15.

So alone, I went to the Great Wall of Eternal Night in the north.

(End of this chapter)