In the winter of 397 in the Cangwu calendar, the city lord's mansion of the flower realm.

Snowflakes fell one after another, and the entire Flower Realm City was covered with a white color like silver armor.

The city lord Bai Slaughter has long hair and a shawl, a pair of phoenix eyes squinting slightly, two sword eyebrows straight into the sideburns, the assassin He is sitting upright in the lobby, everyone in the hall is wearing flowing armor, or carrying a heavy sword, or carrying a slender soft sword at the waist, everyone's eyebrows are faintly sad.

"Report-" A person ran quickly outside the door, dragging the usual tail note to hover in the hall, after entering the door, he made a knightly salute, and then said: "The lord of the city, the three subsidiary city-states in the southeast of the flower realm have all been lost, and the knight of the flute and his command are ......."

The pawn suddenly stuttered.

"What's wrong with Feng Di!" Bai Lu, who was sitting on the city lord's seat, stood up suddenly, his eyes widened, and his eyes widened with anger.

"The Knight of the Flute...... Fallen, the entire Knights ...... Annihilated. The pawn's voice grew quieter and quieter, and his voice trembled.

Bai Lu's fist clenched tighter and tighter, the silver finger guard rubbed sharply on the fingertips, extremely harsh, his brows were furrowed like knots, and his eyes were gently closed.

There was deathly silence throughout the hall.

A few minutes later, Bai Lu sat down on the city lord's chair and sighed secretly: "In the past three years, my flower realm has fallen a total of eight Fei Knights, forty-nine glass knights, more than 100 silver casts, and more than 1,000 white clothes. Feng Di was twenty years old and fought on the battlefield with me, and at the age of thirty-five, he was promoted to Fei Can, the youngest Fei Xuan knight in the place where we belong to the city, how did I expect this battle to be ......" Bai Lu paused, couldn't speak for a while, and after a while, he drank: "Come on, serve wine." ”

Out of the side hall came a woman, dressed in a white brocade robe, carrying a silver tray with a glass wine jug and two jade wine glasses.

The woman lifted the wine jug and was about to pour the wine, but Bai Lu raised her hand to stop it: "I will personally pour this glass of wine for the sealed flute." As he spoke, he filled the two glasses of wine, then waved his hand and sprinkled one on the ground, stared at it for a long time, and then said aloud.

"This first cup, to the knight of the flute, more than 20 years of fighting on the battlefield, today can finally rest. After saying that, Bai Ji drank it all.

"This second cup, I salute the thousands of fallen knights in this battle in Flower Realm City, your name will be recorded in the history of the city and passed down for eternity. "Fill it up again and drink it.

"This third cup is to honor you, and today we will set off with me and go to the frontier together. Bai Lu was just about to drink, the wine glass had already touched his lips, and the next person in the hall hurriedly saluted and reported: "City Lord, this battle is not bound to be fought by the City Lord himself, and give me a thousand iron horsemen to quell the border rebellion." ”

After a pause, Bai Lu still drank the liquor in the cup: "Ying Tu, this lord has been in this mansion for too long, since the offshore army invaded my city for three years, day by day, the attendants outside the door report daily newspaper, night and night newspaper, all the time the battle ahead is tight, otherwise which noble horse has fallen, but I will always stay in this city, listen to the wind and smell the rain, this is how I will face the thousands of undead in my city after a hundred years." With a long sigh, Bai Lu was about to say something again, and a woman walked out of the side hall.

The woman looked like she was about thirty years old, with a beautiful face, black hair tied back at the back of her head, a golden jade-inlaid hairpin on her head, a plain dress, and a faint bulge in her lower abdomen.

When Bai Lu saw this woman, he hurriedly walked over to help her, and said, "Madam, why did you come out, there is a discussion in the hall, and you can wait for me for a while." ”

The woman looked at Bai Lu and smiled faintly: "I heard what you just said." Xianggong, the concubine does not seek much wealth and glory, nor does she expect to use the child in her womb to keep Xianggong, I only hope that Xianggong will always remember that there are still wives and children waiting for you on this trip, waiting for the day when you triumph. The woman stroked her lower abdomen, as if she wanted the fetus in her womb to hear it.

Bai Lu's eyes were a little red: "Madam, I will definitely come back, and when I settle the border, we will leave this mansion together, find a secluded place, and live in seclusion for the rest of our lives." ”

"Well, you never lied to me, I believe everything you say. Madame White looked at her husband.

"I don't know when I will return from this trip, and if my wife is about to give birth, I will definitely invite the best doctor to come. If the child in the womb is a boy, it is called Bai Xuan, and if it is a daughter, it is called Bai Yin. Sound of Triumph...... That's a good idea. ”

And he listened to him. Madame Bai said.

A day later, Bai Lu brought three thousand knights to the front of the mansion, and the people of the Flower Realm came to the front of the city lord's mansion to see off the warriors of this battle.

The three thousand knights were all dressed in armor, most of them white or cast silver. The array was magnificent in front of the mansion, the door of the city lord's mansion was opened, and the white slaughter was covered with dazzling armor, and he carried a black broken heavy sword, which was brilliant and majestic.

The attendant brought a fiery red war horse, and his whole body was also covered in armor.

Madame Bai stood up with her bulging lower abdomen and looked at her with tears, and the servants and maids in the house also greeted her one after another.

"Raise the battle flag!" Bai Lu shouted, only to see a hundred flags erected proudly in the three thousand armor ranks, and the flagpole was shining with a cold light, pointing directly above the nine heavens.

The flag is blood-stained fiery red, the totem of the flower realm is dyed with ink, and the golden silk edge and the whole flag are swinging wantonly in the wind.

Bai Lu got up and was about to get on the horse, when he suddenly heard a few baby cries.

After searching around, he finally found a baby boy wrapped in swaddling clothes on the side of the wall of the City Lord's Mansion.

The baby boy cried incessantly, and Bai Ji's entourage hurriedly picked it up, finding a note pressed under the child.

I saw that it was written "My father went out with the army, and he was determined to fight to the death, his wife has passed away, and there is no one to take care of the swaddling clothes at home, and he is willing to be taken in, but there is no way to repay him, and his son's name is called nicked"

Bai Lu saw the note, looked up at the southeast, and said, "Whose child can be left to take care of, and there is no need to go out with the army." ”

There was no response from the Iron Rider.

"Who's child, you can stay and take care of it, you don't have to go out with the army!" Bai Lu sighed again.

Still no one answered.

"At the time of national disaster, it is really my luck to have such righteousness. Looking at this baby, Bai Lu sighed softly.

The baby in the swaddling clothes looked at Bai Lu's face, suddenly smiled, babbling something, and grabbed Bai Lu with both hands, as if waving his hand, as if he was making a move.

"That's it, even this baby is cheering for our army. He looked at it with a light smile for a while, and said: "This son will be fostered by my city lord's mansion, and will be treated with the courtesy of my son's heir. After saying that, he ordered his entourage to carry the baby boy back to the house.

"Expedition!"

At the sound of the order, the people saluted each other, and the three thousand iron horsemen marched towards the southeast, and for a time the war horses roared, and the dust raised by the horses' hooves flooded the entire team.

What he couldn't see was one of the three thousand iron horsemen looking at Fuzhong, his eyes red.

What is invisible is the deep gaze of countless men gazing at their wives and children.

The old and young women and children in the crowd kept shouting the words of the city lord and triumph, and the war drums were loud until the whole army disappeared from people's sight.

"Xianggong, I'll wait here for you to come back. Madame White's face was full of tears.

Half a year later, at the beginning of the 398th year of the Cangwu calendar.

Mrs. Bai gave birth to a baby girl, named Bai Yin according to her husband's wishes, and at this time, the baby boy who was picked up was already one and a half years old.

And that's where the rest of the story begins.