"Sir, can I not say it?" Xiu lowered his head.

The night covered his eyes, and Gerald couldn't tell what kind of mood Xiu was in right now.

But it shouldn't be pleasant.

"Xiu, your father and I used to be partners who fought side by side." Gerald looked at Xiu and said.

Xiu didn't respond, just hugged his legs and buried his face in them.

In the distance, the knights were still agonizing over how to carry the Honkaimon. They discussed and argued loudly, and tried one method after another, but they all ended in failure.

Some knights were working on the collapsed black poplar wood, splitting the forks with their axes, hoping to use it to move the Honkaimon.

Farther away, a green beacon rises. The reinforcement from the training camp came, and the knights had a small captain with a team of knights, and the horse's hooves galloped away, and the sound of horses' hooves faded away with the dust.

Farther away, the evening breeze stirred the silver branches of the iron trees, and the hard leaves were like thousands of wind chimes, which sounded like the tides of the sea, and the sound of the waves could be faintly heard.

What a silent night.

When the Honkai is destroyed, maybe every night will be so comfortable and peaceful.

People will argue, but it doesn't hurt their feelings at all, and the more noisy they are, the better. Because they are all thinking about their destiny, they all want to move their prey.

People who came from their homes to support would replay fireworks to report, and people would ride horses to greet them. When the two groups of people met, it was a lively scene again.

When people work quietly, the evening breeze blows through the poplar forest, and the thousands of wind chimes on the trees play this ancient Kagura for all people.

"It's so nice..."

"What?" Gerald didn't get it.

"Nope. It's nothing. Xiu buried his head in the crook of his arm again.

Gerald looked at Xiu with even more pity in his eyes.

"You don't want to talk about your father, then, can you talk about your mother?"

"I don't know what my mom is like. I've never met him. Everyone in the family said that my mother was giving birth to me. They all said that I killed them. Xiu's head was not raised, still buried in his arm.

"So, do you want to hear me talk about your mother?" Gerald said softly.

"You know my mom?" Xiu suddenly raised his head and looked straight at Gerald.

"Of course, I know." Gerald smiled gently. At this time, if anyone saw Gerald's expression, they would definitely suspect that their eyes were broken.

None of them had seen Gerald smile anything other than a sneer in ten years.

"Your mother is my sister. My sister. ”

Xiu's eyes widened in disbelief. His expression grew more and more stunned, and at last his whole little face was occupied by surprise.

"My... What's Mom like? Xiu tried his best to make his voice sound calmer, but... That urgency cannot be concealed in any way.

"She... He is a very well-behaved, gentle, and strong person. Gerald thought carefully.

"When we were young, we didn't live in Mainz at Château de Chaniat, France—that's your age. Do you know Mainz? ”、

Xiu shook his head.

"There is a section of the Rhine that is the most beautiful. The Rhine from Cologne to Mainz is tranquil and gentle. Especially in Mainz. We stayed right on the bank of the river. It is where the Mainz and Rhine meet. But it is very peculiar, where the river bank is very shallow, and the current is not fast, like a shy girl. ”

"On the Rhine, occasionally fishermen pass by rocking boats. We were a group of children sitting on the shore, looking at the sparkling river and the rows of whitewashed vines across the bank. Occasionally, fishermen will cast their nets. ”

"We can't be idle, we will hide from the adults and secretly catch small fish and shrimp. Sometimes, for fear of being discovered by adults, we take off our shoes and pants and go into the water. Even the girls were the same, but they were even more powerful, as they would take off their long skirts, revealing their tunics, intricate straps, and snow-white silk underwear. Gerald gave a wicked smile, "If you talk to the girls about that now, they're going to blush." But we were all young at the time, and we didn't think about it that much. We're always going to suffer if we're going to mess around and get caught, so there's always one person to watch, and that's your mother. ”

"We also tried to get your mother to join us, but she didn't come at all, saying that we were bad boys, and it was for my brother's sake to come. Now that you think about it, your mom was a little cute when she was serious. ”

"Maybe she likes to be quiet by nature, she can't fight with us." Rather than exploring the outside world, she prefers to read books in her own little world that she can't read, all kinds of flowers that can't be planted at all, and bake bread that can indulge the whole town of Mainz... By the way, your mother's bread is really delicious. Every time I make it, I will always be robbed by the children, and even my father will scold him angrily. Because he wanted to eat and couldn't eat. Gerald couldn't help but laugh.

"She is a person who loves flowers. She loves whatever the flower is, but... She is very bad at growing flowers. Sometimes I saw her sprinkling bread into the flower garden just to make the flowers grow better. Gerald couldn't help but laugh a little, "Of course, this behavior was severely scolded by our father. After all, it's a waste of food. Then my father snatched bread from her hand, put it in his mouth, and ate it in three or two strokes. ”

To this day, in the small town of Mainz, the flower beds she planted are still there. It's just that the person who takes care of it is no longer your mother, but a specially hired gardener. Now the words there are violet, but there is no trace of your mother's breath. ”

"By the way, do you know Mainz is there?"

Xiu shook his head.

Gerald took out a compass and glanced at it.

"Do you see the moon? It's September, and the moon will drift more northward, so it's bullish on the moon's trajectory. The moon always rises and falls in an arc, and her position is not fixed, and it is not every day that it hangs directly above our heads. You have to see the path of the moon. Whenever the moon rises high in the sky, "Gerald's finger points to the night sky, drawing an arc along the rise and fall of the moon," and then draws another vertical line in her place. Gerald's fingers drew a straight line again. These two lines just intersect perpendicularly. And the intersection is the moon.

"If one day you want to go, or don't know where you're going, remember that the moon that rises in the direction of your left draws a longitudinal line when she rises to its highest point, and just follow that line..." Now the straight-line distance from this black forest is more than 100 kilometers, which is not far away, but not close. That's where I grew up with your mom, with my older siblings, younger siblings. Maybe in the future, if you have the chance, you can find some traces of your mother's childhood there. ”

Xiu nodded.

"Got it."