Nangong Fenglin sat on the seat in the room, his face clearly showing traces of time.
Tang Ling followed Xiao Hei on the roof and looked at the situation in the room with his spiritual consciousness. Somehow, he suddenly thought of his parents in his previous life, and felt a little sad for a moment.
The fog that Xiao Hei stepped into was definitely not simple, and it could make time pass by for more than half a year without realizing it.
Nangong Xun's experience of following Xiao Hei is like her coming into this world.
Maybe when she ends her life in this world, she can go back to her previous life in the blink of an eye and see her parents in her previous life.
"Where have you been during this time!"
Nangong Fenglin's voice was majestic and tinged with fatigue, "You left a year ago and never came back. Even if I ask your fifth sister and Ling'er, they don't know what you did."
"Little brother, little brother, is he back?" Nangong Xun suddenly remembered.
"He came back more than half a year ago." Nangong Fenglin said. "After he came back, he also looked for you. He said that you were staying at the inn with him. One night he went out to use the toilet, but when he came back, he saw that you suddenly disappeared. He looked for you again.
I just came back after not finding it for a long time."
"Going to the toilet?" A look of reminiscence appeared on Nangong Xun's face, "It turned out that he was going to use the toilet. I thought he was going to the toilet--"
At this point, he suddenly stopped talking.
Nangong Fenglin raised an eyebrow, "What?"
"It's nothing." Nangong Xun said.
Nangong Fenglin's face was full of anger, "Then tell me, where have you been in the past six months? How could you not report to your family once?"
"In the past six months..." The expression on Nangong Xun's face was very complicated.
"Dad, in the past six months, I-" Nangong Xun's words stopped abruptly.
Nangong Fenglin waited for a long time but didn't hear what was going on. He looked at Nangong Xun and asked, "Why don't you say anything?"
Nangong Xun opened his mouth with a question mark on his face.
Tang Ling followed Xiao Hei on the roof and discovered it a long time ago. Xiao Hei cast a spell to control Nangong Xun's voice, making him speechless for a moment.
It seems that Xiao Hei still doesn't want others to notice where the flower field is.
As for Xiao Hei who came out of the flower field, his memory was obviously much better, and his mana was restored along with his memory.
That flower field is so useful, it must be a very important place to Xiao Hei, and it's understandable that he doesn't want others to know about it.
"I've been helping my little brother find that black cat for the past six months." Nangong Xun finally spoke. He must have noticed that he couldn't talk about the flower fields and forests, so he immediately made up a lie.
"I know your brother's black cat. If you find it, you shouldn't tell Ling'er." Nangong Fenglin said.
"It was my fault." It was rare for Nangong Xun to admit his mistake so neatly, "Actually, I...I got lost in the process of searching, and I came back after experiencing a lot of setbacks along the way."
Nangong Fenglin looked at Nangong Xun's tattered clothes suspiciously, and sighed, "Okay, I won't pursue what happened in the past six months. You can go wash and change clothes."
Nangong Xun breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as he finished washing and changing, his brothers and sisters came to him one after another. Some scolded and others wiped away tears. Their words and deeds showed that they were worried about this little brother.
"Where is the seventh brother?" Nangong Xun comforted and apologized, only to find that Nangong Ling was not there.
"Who told you not to come back earlier!" Fifth Miss Nangong Chengyi said, "Ling'er has been waiting for you for a long time, but you haven't come back. A few days ago, the imperial court recruited soldiers and he went to join the army."
"What?" Nangong Xun said in shock, "Didn't you stop him? He is still so young and has no eyesight on the battlefield!"
"Of course he stopped it!" Nangong Chengyi said, "It's not like you are your younger brother, so we will be worried, but he has been unknown for so many years and suddenly made this request. Dad didn't agree with it at first, but his attitude was particularly tough...
...You also know that dad has always felt that he owed him and his mother, and he has never made strict demands on him. He has always been obedient to his little brother, and there is nothing he can do this time..."
Nangong Xun looked at Nangong Chengyi's face, suddenly lowered his head and muttered to himself, "It turns out it's all true, the dream has come true."
"What dream?" Nangong Chengyi wondered, "What on earth are you talking about?"
Nangong Xun glanced at Nangong Chengyi blankly, "When my seventh brother and I were still together, one night in the inn, the night we separated, I had a dream, and I dreamed that my seventh brother secretly left.
I went to be a soldier, and then I woke up."
It turns out that Xiao Hei's strange behavior that night was creating a dream for Nangong Xun, as a warning?
Tang Ling thought.
"That's right." Nangong Xun said, "This time we went farther. During our journey before we parted, we saw too many people suffering. The villages after the war invaded, the burned and killed corpses, the hungry people alive.
Dead bones... joining the army is actually the right thing to do."
In the following days, Nangong Xun remained silent.
What surprised Tang Ling was that Xiao Hei did not choose to leave, but followed Nangong Xun silently, but Nangong Xun did not notice him.
Perhaps it was to prevent Nangong Xun from telling anyone about the forest and flower fields?
Jue Qi and Mian Mian were very worried about Nangong Xun's silence, wondering what he had gone through in the year he left home.
Tang Lingsi and Xiao Hei's later memories suggest that he should have had the idea of joining the army from this time on.
She still remembered that night, Xiao Hei and Nangong Xun, who had become a general, were sitting on the lookout drinking.
Nangong Xun recalled his state of mind at this time.
"I'm not afraid of your jokes. Ah Ling is my father's illegitimate son. Before he came to my house, he was also homeless. I have only heard him talk about life outside since I was a child, but I didn't expect it to be so miserable."
"I was young and impulsive at that time. I thought I was still young and had all my abilities, so I couldn't let them go to waste. I could serve the country and protect these people."
"I think this is Ah Ling's true intention of joining the army. He has personally experienced these things compared to what I just saw with my eyes."
At the end of the New Year, Xiao Hei followed Nangong Xun and stayed in Nangong Mansion for a few days. Waiting until the night of New Year's Eve, Nangong Xun packed his bags, took Jue Qi with him, and left Nangong Mansion with the whole family on his back, and went to join the army.
journey.
Every house is decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, and a string of red lanterns are hung under the eaves, reflecting the thick white snow on the long street.
With a creaking sound, the deerskin boots stepped through the snow and walked towards the port.
The little black god followed him unnoticed, leaving a line of cat claw marks on the snow, which were soon buried by the blowing winter wind carrying snowflakes.
Tang Ling followed Xiao Hei and looked at the strong back in front of him, wearing a simple black cloak, and suddenly realized that the young man was far different from the image he had in his memory when he first met him, wearing a smear on his head and wiping his forehead, and dressed up in exquisite clothes.
From Xiao Hei's memory, I couldn't read more about what the two teenagers saw and experienced on the way to find themselves, but Tang Ling guessed that it must be as Nangong Xun said, it was not a good experience.
A memory that was not good enough to make him decide to join the army.
In addition to the reason to find Nangong Ling, this determination will support him to move forward and fight bloody battles in the next few years.