In the early morning, the rising sun exudes soft morning light, shining on this land that has been baptized by the flames of war. Civilians are busy making a living. A man surrounded by white robes is walking slowly in the street. Who seems to be on the street?
I didn't even notice this person's existence.
Whenever the man in white robe is about to collide with a civilian, he will always shake his feet slightly, then appear behind the civilian and continue walking slowly. However, the civilian continues to walk as if nothing happened.
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Standing at the door of the Tianlong City Orphanage, the man in white robe stretched out his hands in front of his chest, holding a baby in his hands. The baby was still sleeping soundly, and he had no idea that he was about to be abandoned.
The man in white robe looked at the baby holding tightly on his chest and said involuntarily: "Little master, our whereabouts have been discovered by them, we can't go on like this. Don't worry, after I lure them away, I will definitely come back to pick you up, little master."
of."
After the man in white robe finished speaking, he gently put the baby down and disappeared in the morning.
A middle-aged monk picked up an unknown baby who had abandoned it at the door.
The monk couldn't help but sigh again, "Oh, this is the first abandoned baby."
The monk is Xiao Xiu, the director of this orphanage. Since the truce between the Tianlong Empire and the Black Dragon Empire, His Majesty the King has opened public orphanages in many big cities in the Tianlong Empire.
Your Majesty did this not to show your kindness, but to train these orphans into the talents the empire needs and to become warriors who are absolutely loyal to the empire.
After all, the "Battle of Black Sky" consumed too many troops, and a large amount of fresh "blood" must be replenished. Whether it is the lowest level warriors or the upper-level body refiners and beast soul masters, they all need to take the initiative to cultivate.
After the war, His Majesty also made it clear that civilians within the empire do not need to be imperial civilians. If there are parents who are unable to raise their children for any reason, they can send these children to orphanages opened by the empire and be raised by the empire.
But at the same time, there are conditions. First, the child must not be older than five years old; second, the child must not have physical disabilities or diseases; third, the parents and the child have no relationship anymore, and they only belong to the empire.
As soon as the decree came out, the number of abandoned babies in orphanages around the empire continued to increase. Although the parents of the children also knew that this was tantamount to giving their children to the empire.
However, if they really cannot feed their children, no parent wants to see their children starve to death. The battle is over, but recovery will take time. In such a chaotic period, whether you can feed yourself or not is a matter of course.
It has become a problem. Instead of watching the child die, it is better to let him live away from him.
It is better to live than to die, this is what the common people think in their hearts.
The baby Xiao Xiu picked up didn't look like it was just born. Based on its size and weight, it could be seen that it was at least one year old. The baby was sleeping peacefully with its eyes closed.
"Whirring whirring..."
The round little face looks very cute between inhalation and exhalation. The dark blue swaddling clothes tightly hug the baby's body. The texture of the swaddling clothes is very soft and is not something ordinary poor people can have. Xiao Xiu felt this and checked.
When he picked up the baby's body, as he expected, there was the word "Zheng" on the baby's right arm.
In Qinglong Continent, many generations of great nobles will have their own family names, but having their family names engraved on their bodies is not a power that ordinary nobles can have. Their ancestors must have made brilliant achievements in the continent where they live.
These families are proud of this. The family name must be engraved on the body of a child as soon as he is born, which represents orthodoxy. But why are the children abandoned at the door of the orphanage now?
Xiao Xiu couldn't help but sigh and said: "Another once glorious family has declined." It can be seen that this is not the first time Xiao Xiu has seen children with family names on their bodies. In today's era, the most common ones are those of new nobles.
The rise and fall of the old aristocracy.
Xiao Xiu recalled the great nobles of the Tianlong Empire from generation to generation, but could not find the surname "Zheng".
It can be seen that this child is not from the Tianlong Empire. It should be that the family is being hunted by the enemy. In order to let the family pass on, the child will not be discovered by the enemy, so the child has to be sent out of the empire to hide it from others.
But now that he has been sent to the orphanage, it seems that the family is really dead in name only, and may have been destroyed long ago.
In any case, the baby is now in the orphanage. In order to save him from trouble in the future, some love affairs must be concealed. Xiao Xiu pressed the family name on the child's right arm with the palm of his left hand and said: "Crown Lizard, Fusion."
Suddenly, a lizard-shaped green light appeared from Xiao Xiu's left arm and quickly surrounded his palm.
"hide."
As this sound was made, the clan name on the baby's right arm slowly disappeared and turned into the same color as the surrounding skin. There was no difference at all. The baby did not feel the slightest disturbance and continued to sleep soundly.
Xiao Xiu, all this seems slow, but in fact it only takes place in an instant and is completed.
After removing the baby's clan name, Xiao Xiu couldn't help but smile bitterly and thought: I can be the director of the orphanage in the imperial capital just by virtue of my status as a beast master. I guess His Majesty took a fancy to my hidden skills, but in this way
Come, it is a good thing for both the empire and the child, and it can reduce a lot of unnecessary trouble.
Xiao Xiu's only soul beast is the green lizard just now - the chameleon.
Chameleons are the lowest level of monsters and do not have any powerful power. All they can do is change the color of objects to hide them.
However, this ability has a good effect when used here or in battlefield reconnaissance. Xiao Xiu was originally a retired scout on the battlefield. Because of his special ability, he was designated as the director of the Imperial Capital Orphanage after he retired.
long.
I think I knew from the beginning that there must be some "special people" among the children in this orphanage, so I prepared Xiao Xiu's plan for this. Xiao Xiu couldn't help but admire the people who thought of all this.
What he didn't know was that the person who specially arranged for him to be the director of this orphanage was Mr. Fan, the current prime minister.
Xiao Xiu looked at the child and thought: You already have a family name, so I won’t help you choose another surname. Just keep the same surname as Zheng. There are many people in mainland China with the surname Zheng. No one will treat you just because of a surname.
I'm suspicious. From today on, your name will be Zheng Feng.
I hope that you, the children of the fallen nobles, can make great contributions to the empire in the future and restore the glory of your ancestors. Perhaps then your clan names can be revealed again.
What Xiao Xiu didn't expect at this moment was that the surname Zheng was a common surname in Qinglong Continent, but it was hard to tell when it came to other continents.
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In the blink of an eye, four years have passed.
The sun is blazing in the sky, and in the mountains behind the Tianlong Imperial Capital, if you look down from above, you can see two small shadows running in the forest.
A little kid with short silver hair stumbled behind a girl and shouted: "Sister girl...huh...wait...wait for me, wuwu...no...don't run...then...
Hurry up. Oh, it hurts." There was a cry in his voice.
But the girl in front didn't seem to hear it. She didn't look back and continued running without stopping. She covered her face with her hands and her expression was full of fear. It was as if she was being chased by some extremely ferocious beast and would die if she stopped.
of.
The girl should not be old, probably between nine and ten years old. She has long brown hair tied into a ponytail. The ponytail keeps swaying as the girl runs. Girls have grown earlier than boys since ancient times, and this girl now looks like she has matured earlier.
With the embryo of a beautiful woman.
The sound of "Buzz...Buzz..." came from behind. The sound became clearer and clearer, and the girl ran even harder.
Let's look back and see a lot of bees following the little boy. From time to time, a bee will have a "close contact" with the little boy. At this time, the little boy will always say "Ouch...it hurts."
．．”cry.
Alas, today's children are really fearless. These two children are 90% likely to stir up a hornet's nest. Now that they know they are afraid, they may regret it.