Nangong Xunding's inn room has two beds and is very large.
That night, I called the waiter to bring two bathtubs filled with hot water and a small basin. First, I threw Xiao Hei into the basin and rinsed him. After closing the doors and windows to prevent Xiao Hei from escaping, I also soaked in the tub.
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Tang Ling wanted to close her eyes but couldn't, and her face turned red.
"This little guy has a lot of injuries on his body!" Nangong Xun showed off the lean muscles he had developed as he fished Xiao Hei out of the water with one hand. The changes in the muscle lines on his arms were very beautiful.
"Let me see."
Nangong Ling stretched out her arm and took Xiao Hei from Nangong Xun's hand.
"Stray cats must have suffered a lot."
Nangong Ling looked at Xiao Hei very carefully, her eyes filled with a layer of moisture through the hot air.
Compared with Nangong Xun, this child's skin is white and shining, and the muscles on his body are a little thinner, but there are still a lot of them.
wrong.
Why do I have to look so carefully?
Tang Ling felt ashamed, and it was not her who wanted to look carefully. She couldn't control where the cat's eyes drifted.
This pot needs a little black back.
Sexy cat.
However, I don’t know yet whether Xiao Hei is a female.
"I wonder how Xiao Hei has lived these years." Nangong Ling read it and threw Xiao Hei into the hot water basin.
Perhaps it had been a long time since he had been treated so comfortably. Xiao Hei showed no signs of running away, but just stayed in the hot water until the two brothers finished bathing and bandaged him.
"The little guy is quite obedient." Nangong Xun said with a smile while bandaging.
Nangong Ling was still changing her clothes. After hearing this, she paused and continued to put on her clothes. "This is a bit like Xiao Hei."
"I didn't expect you to be so persistent with a cat." Nangong Xun said with emotion, "But that's right, after all, it was your mother who left it to you."
Nangong Ling was silent for a while, and the footsteps gradually approached.
Xiao Hei seemed to be very satisfied with Nangong Xun's "service" and lazily raised his eyes to look.
His eyes happened to meet Nangong Ling's walking over.
Nangong Ling's hair was half wet, and the ends of her eyes were a light red due to the heat. Her eyes were as clear and bright as water, and she looked at Xiao Hei with a strange look in her eyes.
Seeing this, Tang Ling felt extremely relieved.
After the bath, it was another meal, sweet and sour pork ribs, eight-treasure duck, mandarin fish...
Xiao Hei also ate a lot.
Tang Ling couldn't help feeling that even though they were in the enemy's country, these two people did not wrong him at all, and they were very open-minded about eating and drinking when they should.
After eating and drinking enough, I start to feel sleepy.
Xiao Hei was washed and smelled good, nestled beside Nangong Xun's bed, and seemed to have no intention of running away for the moment.
Nangong Ling lit a piece of soothing incense. After the candle was extinguished, the room fell into silence.
The moonlight seemed to shine through the translucent windows, spreading a silver glow on the ground.
There seemed to be a thin sound of mosquitoes in the room, surrounding my ears, "buzzing" non-stop.
Nangong Xun lay on the bed, turned over, and then turned over again, like spreading pancakes, endlessly.
"Brother, what's the matter?" Nangong Ling couldn't bear it anymore and interrupted him.
"It's okay." After Nangong Xun finished speaking, he was silent for a moment and then said, "You said you're going to join the army if you can't find it this time?"
Xiao Hei opened his eyes, and the moonlight reflected a silvery cold glow in his eyes.
Nangong Ling said "Yeah", "When Xiao Hei is around, it's like my mother is by my side. With his company, I muster up the energy to do many things. After he left, I felt inexplicably empty.
It’s like the last link between me and my mother has been cut off. I can’t muster the energy to do anything, and I can’t do it well.”
"There is no use for me to stay in Nangong Mansion." Nangong Ling said, "There have been frequent wars in the past two years. It is better to join the army and serve the country!"
"You have indeed become more passive in your work in the past two years." Nangong Xun sighed, "But little brother, do you really want to join the army? You are too young, and Xiao Hei may not be able to find him. We can wait for another two years.
Didn’t you say it remembers the road?”
"Yes, it knows home." Nangong Ling said, "So if it really wants to come back, it will come back. I have been looking for it for so long and still can't find it, and I haven't waited for it to come back, which means it doesn't want to come back, so I won't force it.
"
"But..." Nangong Xun hesitated for a while before speaking, "With the chaos outside now, it might have been captured, or maybe..."
Or maybe he was eaten by someone or hit by a carriage on the roadside...
There are too many possibilities.
Nangong Xun didn't say these consequences, which didn't sound so good, because he had to take into account his younger brother's mood.
"A Ling, if you hadn't said you wanted to join the army this time, I wouldn't have chased you all the way." He said, "Brother, to be honest with you, we have walked so far and have been away from home for a long time. I saw something along the way.
Too many refugees, who were in Nangong Mansion before, did not notice this at all, and thought that the outside world was the same as Nangong City."
"It's different." Nangong Ling said without emotion, "I've known it's different since I was a child. The world is like this, the weak eat the strong, the strong enjoy the best resources, and the weak will be bullied and trampled on."
"You also suffered a lot when you were a child." Nangong Xun said after being silent for a while.
"It's all over." Nangong Ling said, "So I have to always remind myself not to put myself in the position of the weak, and when I have the ability, I will help more weak people."
"Such as joining the army?" Nangong Xun suddenly returned to the topic, "You are so young now, and you have not mastered the martial arts taught by Jue Qi. How can you be considered capable?"
"But brother, you have also seen it. You have seen so much, don't you have nothing in mind?" Nangong Ling's voice suddenly became louder.
"Yes, I have an idea!" Nangong Xun's voice also became louder.
"My idea is that I am afraid that my younger brother, who is less than fifteen years old, will be inferior to these refugees after going to the battlefield and end up losing his life!"
"So what if you lose your life? You should die fighting for your country, as a man should do!"
"You are still a child now, you are not a man!"
"You are only two years older than me, why are you pretending to be so mature all the time?"
"Hey you brat, your skin is itchy, right?"
"Let's have a fight!"
The two of them had a "quarrel" on the bed like corpses, and fell silent again for a while.
For a long time, no one spoke.
The aroma of the soothing incense was intoxicating, and after a while, the sound of even breathing came from Nangong Xun's bed.
"Brother, I'm sorry, I can't wait any longer."
Nangong Ling said something coldly on the bed, followed by a rustling sound.
From the moment Nangong Ling got out of bed and put on her clothes, until she opened the door and left, Nangong Xun's breathing was always even, and she occasionally uttered two sleepy words, which was obviously a deep sleep.
The soothing incense on the table was half burned, and the aroma filled the room, getting stronger and stronger.