Chapter 204 No one can be selfless without a family
"What kind of ceremony is this? What should we do?" Yerou turned sideways and asked Yamei on her left side softly.
"This is my first time to participate. We just need to follow them and imitate them." Yami glanced at the group of older ladies wearing veils.
Latkrani, who was a few years older than the two of them, was also observing the behavior of the older ladies on the other side with her green eyes. She didn't know how to act, so she could only imitate them. p>
At dusk, the golden-red clouds reflected the surging sea like a dark night, rolling up layers of waves and caressing the stairs extending into the sea. Each of them leaned down and placed the lotus in their hands on the side to form a waterfall-like slide.
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Just like this, hundreds of white lotus flowers were washed into the sea by the current, like hazy bright spots on the dark sea surface, slowly floating towards the far end of the sea.
Is this a prayer ceremony to pray for Kalki’s safe return?
Ye Rou looked at the shimmering white lotus floating in the depths of the sea in front of her. This beautiful scene she had never seen before was engraved on her clear eyes like a mirror.
She turned around and saw Liya crying silently while looking at this scene. Under the sea and sky at night, the two tear tracks on her fair face were shining brightly.
"Shatayu will definitely come back." Kind-hearted Yerou quickly walked over to comfort her.
"I have a very bad feeling. He happened to be at the front line when the Gaians attacked..."
Yerou didn't know how to comfort her. She knew nothing about military affairs. She raised her head and saw that many young wives in the fleet system not far away also had sad faces. This would be a big war, and countless people would rush to the battlefield. Countless people would
Turn into cosmic dust.
Later, the survivors will remarry...
Her heart tightened when she thought that this hasty farewell at the seaside might be her eternal farewell to Kalki.
The running water on the steps gradually disappeared, and the steps returned to normal, without any traces of moisture flowing through them.
The ladies who came to pray dispersed in this increasingly dark seascape, and everyone took the "carriage" at the nearby underground station to go home.
The woman with dark black hair, who was as elegant as a royal wife, saw the two young girls hugging each other, putting their heads together with sad expressions and saying something, so she walked over calmly.
"My name is Ningal, and I am a senior court lady at the Palace of White Foch." She said in an unusually elegant accent. Yerou knew that this soft pronunciation of tongue vibrato was a typical court pronunciation, which was her specialty in the "Deva Circle"
"" is not heard among the working class, and women who were born as palace maids like to use this accent to show off their origins.
"After today's prayers and the ceremony of releasing lotus flowers into the sea, we will know everything when we return to the temple tomorrow. You must be mentally prepared. I know this is difficult... but this ceremony is actually a death notification ceremony."
Although she held her head high, her light gray eyes sparkled in the sky after sunset, revealing an elder-like tenderness.
"What? Death notification ceremony?" Yerou said in surprise.
"Yes, this is a special ceremony after a major battle, because soldiers will all die together..." The evening breeze blew the transparent veil on one side of her face, making her look noble and beautiful, as if she was a goddess above them.
The two talked, "By the time the prayer ceremony is held on Plato's planet, the names of the first batch of casualties are often known."
Yerou looked at Liya who lowered her head and said nothing. She could also speak such an elegant and graceful voice, but now she seemed very lonely and pitiful. Especially when she heard the word "death", her whole body seemed to tremble.
"Tomorrow, when you come back to the temple and get the lotus that was transported by quantum teleportation, you will understand what happened, because I am a person who has been there. Eleven years ago, my ex-husband was killed in the Ketuo base... I was like this
I learned of his death during the ceremony."
"Ah?..." The two girls were obviously frightened.
"He is my first husband. He is a white tiger knight. His blue eyes are so beautiful..." Ningal looked at the shining lotus floating slowly on the increasingly dark blue sea.
, they were like small boats of fate, drifting away on the dark night sea. "I then remarried, but my second husband's transport ship also had an accident three years later. Finally... I married
I gave it to a senior commander of the fleet who was unfortunately widowed, and I am still scared to this day."
They were obviously overwhelmed by the lady's memories that a woman had to marry so many times.
"So, in 15 years, I gave birth to 11 children with three different men. The men fought on the front line and bled...I kept dragging my heavy body and endured the discomfort..."
Yerou couldn't believe that such a beautiful and elegant woman could have such a troubled marriage history. The pain caused by the war to Plato's female nobles was no less than that of men. In her circle of scientific and technical personnel, there were many people who grew old together.
"You must remember that all Platonic men are the children of Platonic women. It is our unshirkable responsibility to give birth to excellent offspring for the best warriors..."
"No! I won't remarry!" Liya, who had been silent all this time, suddenly screamed, "I only love Shatayu, I only love him!"
She stood up frankly and said with some excitement: "I dreamed of Shattayu last night. He was holding Little Liya and throwing her with his arms. She was laughing like a silver bell. She was in our house.
The garden full of irises is so beautiful... We are a family, and this will never change! Even if Shatayu dies, he is the father of my daughter, and this will never change! I will not remarry like this... No
!No!”
"We Platonic people's marriage is not established to form a family, we are just to give birth to the best offspring...A society without families can be selfless..."
Before Ningal could finish speaking slowly, Liya covered her mouth sadly and turned around quickly to leave.
"Liya, don't be sad, there is nothing wrong with Shatayu, you don't have to scare yourself!" Yerou shouted.
"I just want you young people to be mentally prepared. I know it is very difficult to accept this, but many women come here like this..."
Yerou could only watch Liya's white back disappear into the night, because she didn't know how to comfort her, and she was so distraught that she could only stand there.
"You are younger than her. You are like a bride who has never given birth." Ningal looked at Yerou from head to toe with a woman's sophisticated eyes. Yerou's slender figure had a girlish softness.
As delicate as a beauty under the moon, "But everyone must be prepared, fate is unpredictable..."
"No! Kalki is the number one general in the world, and nothing will happen to him!" Yerou, who has always been gentle, felt a strong sense of confidence coming from nowhere.
"Actually... there are many ways to lose someone." The lady wearing a translucent veil showed a mysterious smile like the goddess of fate, and then bowed her head politely to say goodbye.