Walking in the door, Luga saw several laughing and playful children running out, they were lively and agile, and they ran out of the chase and ran out and crashed into Luga's body.

Luga was an adult, and he was dressed in heavy scale armor, and a weak child without any protection was like hitting a hard stone.

"Cave Pass!"

Where could this kid be Luga's opponent, his center of gravity was unstable when he hit him like this, and he sat down on the ground.

The laughter stopped abruptly, not only the child who had been knocked down, but also the other children, who were so frightened that they stood there at a loss when they saw Luga, a tall and iron-clad "monster".

Perhaps frightened by the sudden obstacle, he looked up at Luga, his eyes full of doubt.

"Wow!"

When he finally came to his senses, he saw that the child opened his mouth and began to cry, and even Luga was frightened by the sound.

"Oh my God!" Luga scratched his head, and hurriedly bent down to try to coax the crying child, but the kid didn't buy it, but the more Lujia coaxed, the more he cried.

Lu Jia was completely out of luck, he held the child, and the child opened his mouth and cried loudly at Lu Jia, which not only made Lu Jia's ears hurt, but also splashed his face with spit.

"Oh God, Oh God!" Luga took the child in his arms and turned around, hurriedly asking for help from Arecio and the others.

But several of them shook their heads in unison, and it seemed that they were also good at coaxing children. It's not surprising that anyone can see a man with a child in such a so-called "civilized" country?

"Oh my God, Garth, are you bullying again?" At this time, a woman was heard in the room complaining loudly, and the voice was familiar to Luga - Ana.

Anai hurried out of the house, and the first thing he saw was Luga, who was holding a struggling child.

The whole scene was very embarrassing, and Luga was stunned at the first sight of Anais, the woman in a green coarse linen dress and a dark apron and a headscarf that had been washed for a long time. Her face began to look yellow, and the years had carved a few wrinkles in the corners of her eyes, and she would not even see any difference when she was placed next to the village girl, and she had become unattractive.

At the moment when the four eyes met, both sides were stunned. "Is that Anai?" Luga asked himself in his heart.

In Ana's eyes, this general who clumsily hugged a crying child was indeed a little strange. It's just that the armor on his body has become more gorgeous, and his skin has turned black because of the continuous travel, and the most able to reflect the vicissitudes of life is the beard, I'm afraid Lu Jia didn't think that it would grow so quickly.

"Hey! Ana, uh... Belch... Long time no see! Luga was the first to come to his senses, and he hurriedly put the crying child down, and watched him run behind Anai as if he was seeking refuge, pulling Ana's skirt and crying.

Anai came back to her senses at this time, she lowered her head, picked up the child and ran into the house, without saying anything.

"What's going on?" Lu Jia was stunned in place, he didn't expect to be separated for so long, and he chose to avoid meeting her, "It seems that Anai doesn't want me to see her like this." ”

Luga thought about it, sighed, turned to Arecio behind him, and said, "Disperse, everyone is busy, let me sit alone at the door." ”

"Also, after all, women don't look like they let their favorite objects see themselves like this." At this point, Arecio finally seemed reasonable, and he said as he did not forget to fix his hair. Such a delicate technique is not something that ordinary men can do, such thin fingers and handsome face, he always dresses himself up very charmingly, like a real, woman.

Luga was really shocked by this move, and he hurriedly turned around and pretended to ignore it and waited for Arecio to go away.

After most of the day, the door of the orphanage was opened, and Anai dressed herself again. Instead of the messy green gown, there was a blue, cleanly washed dress.

She didn't forget to take off the hat on her head, carefully combed her hair neatly, and tied it behind her back, this look was clean and neat, like a green lotus out of the mud without staining. At least in the face of Luga, she is no longer the embarrassed appearance of the gray face just now, looking at her, Lujia feels that the original Anai has returned, this is the original her, familiar with her, has not changed at all.

The fly in the ointment is that she doesn't even have decent jewelry, and when she gets close to Luga, Luga reaches out and caresses the earrings she wears on her ears, this color, this texture...

"How is it copper?" Lu Jia couldn't help frowning, and couldn't help asking, "I remember that I once sent you a lot of good jewelry, is it that after such a long time, you are so stingy that you are unwilling to bring them out to show me, right?" ”

"No, it's not like that!" Anai hurriedly shook his head,

Even if she made a mistake, Anai didn't admit her mistake at all, on the contrary, she proudly puffed up her chest, proudly pointed to the orphanage behind her and said proudly to Luga: "It's not all, this is the orphanage you got in exchange for your jewelry, there are more than a dozen of my children here!" ”

"Looks like you're really raising them as your own children." Every word of Anai touched Luga deeply, and Luga understood that it was because her physical defects left her love with nowhere to rest, so she simply raised these children, at least so that they could grow up.

"Can I know how they got orphaned?" Luga asked.

Hearing this, Anai raised her head and looked at Luga with a smile, her smile was meaningful, and she then said to Luga, "It's because of you, Master Soldier." ”

"Me?" Luga pointed at himself and looked at Anai with wide eyes, but Anai still smiled faintly, as if to question Anais: Are you telling this true?

"yes, Luga." Anai said, looking away into the distance, as if looking for something.

"Hey, look!" Anera pointed to Lugar to a small stream in the distance, where there was a clearing.

Then Anai said to Luga, "We'll race here, but..." Anai looked up and down at Luga's armor, which was a complete set of tools, but the weight of it could be seen from the collision of iron pieces as he walked.

"If any of us are left behind, whoever is a puppy!" Anai smiled at Luga, who was as lively as a little girl who was just approaching adulthood. Full of energy, all ready to run!

"Okay!" Luga smiled disdainfully, and continued, "Don't look at me in heavy armor now, but I run as fast as a rabbit!" ”

"Oh?" Anai's tone could tell she didn't believe it at all, "Then let's try, Captain Soldier!" ”

Before Luga could get ready, Anai was like an arrow off the string, "whooshing" and running a long way.

"Okay, you're fooling!" Luga protested loudly behind him, ignoring the weight of his armor, and took three steps to catch up with him.

The two of them ran along the path, laughing and laughing, until they came close to the river, and Anai could not run, and she had to stop walking, but Luga did not overtake her from beginning to end, and he could not bear to overtake this somewhat weak woman.

"Ha, ha, I, I'll just say, you, you're a puppy!" Anai pointed at Luga and smiled. Luga just laughed behind her, and at last the two of them came to the river and sat down.

I didn't expect Anai to be so weak, just a distance of more than three hundred meters already made her gasp, and her face turned pale.

Luga wanted to take the initiative to help her, but she refused, but after a while, she finally felt better.

"I can't impart the knowledge that the nobility needs to make them easy scribes or anything, but I can teach them how to work, how to weave cloth and their own craft, so that they can earn a living without me, and not die carelessly, as they do now." No, as soon as she sat down, Anai talked about the children, she was like a real mother.

"Seeing the silence here, I just want to talk to you, Luga." Anai looked up at Luga with tears in her eyes, and wanted to say something, but she couldn't say anything.

"What are you thinking?" Luga asked curiously.

"No, nothing, just a reluctant request." Anai sobbed and said, "Can you stop starting a war?" ”

"What are you talking about?" Luga's tone was a little reproachful, you must know that war is not a casual one-sided word, of course, how can a woman be able to see such a situation at the moment.

Luga didn't know how to explain it, so he could only answer to Anais: "You don't understand! ”

"Yes, I don't understand, but these children, their fathers are all descendants of the soldiers who followed you in the northern and southern wars, and there are more and more such children as the war begins, and many of them will only become beggars without anyone caring and no one asking, or they will die of hunger and cold."

Anais's words made Luga irrefutable, admittedly, this is an eventful time, and if you want to maintain the stability of the country, you must go through war, but war means death.

The soldier was a hundred years dead, but his children and wife were left alone. War means that more and more young people are on the battlefield, but it also means that the power of the country gradually weakens and eventually disappears with the lack of manpower in the perennial war.

Now the Western Roman Empire is slowly turning into a huge orphanage because of the perennial war.

"Rome needs the future, these children." Luga muttered, but there was nothing he could do, as a soldier commander and a soldier, he couldn't understand that there were fewer and fewer soldiers in Rome, and sometimes it was not that they were unwilling to join the army, but that the number of people who could join the army was decreasing day by day.

"The reconquest of Rome required the rest of the land to provide food, armaments, and soldiers, but the war brought not only the destruction of families, but also the desolation of the land and the reduction of taxes." Luga thought that he was beginning to feel afraid, and he began to understand why Aetius had done no more, and the army of the field legion only maintained a strength of 20,000 men to fight everywhere.

There is indeed no one left, and he is more like a vampire, squeezing the last blood of Rome to maintain the land and glory he deserves.

"Anai!" Luga took Anai's hand and said to her helplessly: "Right now, there is nothing else that can protect the land under your feet except war!" ”