"Alfer's eldest son of the Jin family, meet the Holy Maiden!"

"Li Songji's second son of the Pei family, meet the saint!"

"Ask the Holy Maiden to give me the power of the Lord of Fear!"

"Pray that the Holy Maiden will let my father, who is suffering from a vicious illness, gain the transcendence of the Holy Land!"

……

Every day, every morning, believers come to worship and pray for the protection of the god of the Black Sect, the Lord of Fear. Day after day, year after year, from the point where she couldn't remember at all, to finally understanding what they were talking about.

She meditated quietly in the room, and a small smoke from the small stove with incense came out, rising into the air of the room before disappearing. And the believers across the wall were kneeling reverently, and the shadows cast on the doorcloth rose and fell.

"Mother, they call me a saint."

"Mother, what is the Holy Maiden?"

"Mom, why are they kneeling down to me?"

On a peaceful afternoon, "Little Pee's" mother replied to her, "Little Pee was born with the power of blessing." So everyone likes Xiao Pei very much and wants to be like Xiao Pei. ”

Mom's voice is as soft as a stream, and it's nice. The stream water, which my mother said was a very beautiful thing, tasted very sweet. If you see it one day, go take a sip.

"Mom, what do you like?"

Mom hesitated for a moment and explained, "If you like someone, you really want to see him...... I want to give him a big hug and I want to protect him...... I'm always worried about him......"

The young Pei, looking at the slight flickering light in her mother's eyes, couldn't look away for a long time.

"What is concern?"

Since she was a child, she has never left this academy, even the outer courtyard is not allowed to approach. On that day, something big should have happened, and the adults rushed back, but they were still one step too late.

"Did you hear that, Akane's child watched the child in the same room fall from the roof, and ignored him until he lost his breath......

"That's how you died? Didn't you find an adult? ”

"Nope. It is said that she was standing by at the time of the incident, watching the child die and doing nothing......"

"Oh my God...... This...... It's just amazing! She is worthy of being a saint who is a spokesperson of God! ”

"Yes! This kind of immortal wind and fearless quality is worthy of the true son born with the divine power of the Lord of Fear, our holy daughter! ”

"The Holy Maiden blesses my sect with eternal prosperity!"

"The Holy Maiden bless our religion with prosperity!"

The parents of the dead child, after hearing that it was their own child who was killed, knelt down in front of Xiao Pei for the first time: "Thank you to the Holy Maiden for giving my son the blessing of detachment in the Holy Realm!" My religion was born by the common people, thousands of generations, and unified the rivers and lakes! ”

Xiao Pei looked at the distorted faces of the two people who seemed to be laughing and crying, and couldn't tell what kind of mood she was in.

Turning to look at Mom. Mom had a solemn face and couldn't smile at all. Later, she told her mother, "Mom, I want to run out and call someone, but I'm not allowed to go out of the yard......"

After hearing this, my mother's preoccupied appearance finally disappeared, and she hugged her for a long time and couldn't speak.

……

"Meet the Holy Maiden!"

"Ask the Holy Maiden to bless my Mingar family!"

The early morning worship was still the same, Xiao Pei looked at the swaying figures across the door, and still couldn't tell what kind of mentality. She is different from other children, she has no clear idea of what she dislikes and likes.

Maybe it should have been business as usual until she grew up. But one thing changed everything. Two days before the incident, she heard her mother and several elderly people discussing something in the house.

"What a damn blasphemous Raman! We want to hand over the saints to their elders! ”

"Aren't I Jiao and Rahman a symbiotic existence, even if this kind of concession is made, it can't affect the alliance between the two sides, right?"

"The Holy Maiden has also reached the age of knowing the world, and it is understandable that she will marry that elder with great powers, although it is too early."

"It's the birthday day in two days, so let's send her out of the yard afterwards. If all goes well, it will not be a fantasy that the whole of Laman will be made by our religion at that time. ”

"Don't forget, she's just a vessel."

The old people's voices are very flat, they are talking about something inconsequential, right? And the mother didn't seem to say anything, just sat quietly in front of the crowd.

On the day of the sacrifice, a group of slaves from the defeated country came to the courtyard. Xiao Pei remembers very clearly that day, and the wailing of the courtyard did not stop for a long time. Not long after the ritual began, one of the doors of the inner room was stained red with the blood of the head of the house. By the time everyone thought it was a good deed done by a slave, her mother had already galloped her horse a few kilometers away in the wilderness, and in an hour she would leave the so-called Lamanite Union.

She didn't expect to see so many new things when she left the yard for the first time. Forest, slight, people, birds, flowers...... She closes her eyes and feels everything in the endless nature. The world, playing joyful songs, rushed through her little mind.

And the stream! She finally saw the stream! The water flowing down from a high mountain with a beautiful sound.

She couldn't help but take a sip, but she didn't taste the taste she had imagined...... There was only a very strange taste in the mouth, and I couldn't tell what it was.

When my mother came back from the crowd, she was stunned to see her mouth full of red.

"Mom...... The stream water is not delicious at all......"

A few days later, they arrived at a mansion in the Duchy of Slemie, where they sat on a stool outside the study. Several high-ranking officials were discussing something in the house.

"She gave us information, and it made sense that we offered her shelter."

"Who's going to take in that kind of person, though? If it is found to be this background, the entire city could be affected. ”

"How do I see that she is assigned to you, Mr. Percy? It just so happens that no woman has a reputation with you. ”

"Huh?" The man known as Mr. Percy was the most bullied of them all, and he was very embarrassed: "This is not feasible, is it?" My family kept urging me to find a local girl. ”

So, my mother married Mr. Posey, and they became a member of the Posey family. And Pee's father, a man named Mr. Percy, got himself drunk on his humble wedding day and collapsed in the grass of his house.

"From today, Pee will be renamed Pella," said her mother, who stuffed the candy into her mouth, "and we're safe here." ”

The candy was sweet and delicious.

So, the little girl who changed her name to Pera started a new life at the Posey family. The breathless life of living in a small courtyard like before gradually blurred in the memory, turning into a small dot that never seemed to exist in the background board.

However, Dad, is not very friendly to them. often punches and kicks my mother, and wants to beat her together, but my mother stops me.

Dad, this man named Mr. Percy, was the victim of this marriage. In fact, this can't be regarded as a real marriage, but it was forcibly imposed on him by a person with a higher status, and it was just a lively and interesting one.

Daddy, hate them, hate these two demons from the Hell of Raman, these two villains who took his life.

Pera touched the bruises on her mother's body, her face was calm, but her little mind was full of dangerous thoughts: "Mom, do you want to kill him?" ”

"No, you can't." Mom: "He's Pera's dad...... Daddy has been protecting Mommy and Pera oh ......"

But, Mom, can this also be considered protection? Pera looked at the wound on her hand and was at a loss.

Happiness, I want my mother to be happy.

But what is happiness?

Two years later, my mother gave birth to a younger brother. Pera stood on the edge of the bed and watched her brother sleep, feeling that he was so small and wanted to hold him in her arms. When she raised her head and saw her mother's face, at that moment, she seemed to understand what happiness was in her mother's smile.

Happiness is the younger brother.

After another two years, my mother gave birth to a younger sister. She was by the bedside and carefully picked up her sister. At that moment, the empty heart seemed to be illuminated by something, and in this light she deepened the definition of happiness.

Happiness is also a sister.

My brother and sister are so cute.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been almost 6 years since she and her mother came to the Posey family. Mom was worried about something, but the good thing didn't happen.

Pera's happiest time is in the afternoon, watching her younger siblings fall asleep. She walked up to her mother and saw that the words Laman, religion, and sorcerer were among the words on her beads, and she pointed out them proudly.

"It's 'defeat,'" she said, pointing to other words: "It's 'war,' 'no one.'" ”

Mom was surprised that she recognized the words because she wasn't a particularly smart child...... The lingua franca taught at home is also a mess, and it is difficult to read complete sentences.

Mom quickly put away the news and replaced it with a fairy tale book.

"Once upon a time there was a little princess who loved apples," the mother began to tell her the story one by one: "Then the apple fell from the tree and hit her little brain......"

The wind gently blew into the room with the open windows, and the curtains floated up. My sister frowned slightly in the sun, but fortunately she was not awakened.

Dad, he didn't stop the violence just because his mother gave birth to two sons for him. Mom is still often scarred.

However, he was very kind to his younger siblings, and gave them many preferential treatments that she had never received. While her younger siblings were often clowed with toys and dressed in beautiful clothes, she stood very plainly. In the eyes of many people, she is a maid who plays with her younger siblings.

Her favorite thing to do is watch her younger siblings play games. Because you can see a happy look on their faces every time. She has never liked other people as much as she likes her younger siblings......

Oh no, and Mom. Mom, I have younger brothers and sisters, and I have happiness. I have younger siblings, and I have happiness.

She took her younger siblings to the church in town, and at first there were many children to play with them, but then there were fewer and fewer children. The three of them circled around the wishing tree in the church yard, its trunk so thick that it took twenty steps to make a circle around it. When you are tired of playing, sit under the tree and quietly enjoy the coolness brought by the dappled leaf shadows.

"Sister, you know what? The wishing tree is also called 'Ayubichi' Oh," said her brother, who was almost five years old, in a soft voice, "Do you know what 'Ayubichi' means in the ancient language?" ”

"Is it the meaning of dwarf oil?"

"Not really!" Younger brother: "Ayubichi, that's what my mother means~~"

I know that my brother is really smart...... Yes? Is this the tree what Mom meant?

……

Yes...... It turns out that you are called the "Mother Tree......

So we've been circling around Mom?

She looked up at the tree's large torso, and the branches rustled in the wind. As if answering her question.

"It's me," it seemed to reply.

"Mom."

She hugged the tree and pressed her face against it, not letting go for a long time.