Walking on the road, Lu Ming suddenly smelled a familiar fragrance of flowers, and Huo Yuhan also twitched his nose and sniffed carefully.

"What a familiar taste", Lu Ming muttered quietly, carefully looking for the source of the fragrance.

"What does it smell like? It doesn't seem to be there", Wang Dong also tried to inhale, his nose trembled twice, and he didn't smell anything.

"Eh, it's the falling cherry blossoms", Huo Yuhan ran to a small tree, looked at the small, golden flower bones on it, and shouted excitedly.

"It's really a cherry blossom", Lu Ming slowly approached the tree, stared blankly at the flowers on it, and muttered.

"What month is it now", Lu Ming muttered.

"May 2nd, don't you usually keep track of dates," Wang Dong muttered quietly.

Lu Ming didn't answer her, maybe it was because of the climate, the cherry blossom chrysanthemums in Xingluo City would not grow buds until the end of May, and here, at the beginning of May, there were already small flower bones drilling out from between the branches and leaves.

Suddenly, a sense of unreality enveloped him, and he raised his hand and slowly stroked his fingertips over the buds, and the faint and thin fragrance seemed to penetrate into his body along the pores of his body.

He seemed to have returned to the Star Luo City, the filthy but glowing Star Luo City, the city was full of golden light, thousands of flowers were blooming, the fragrance filled the entire street, straight to the nose, but it was as golden as gold, warm.

It was dark at night, only the shallow moonlight, and the oil lamps lit by every house, although the oil lamps were not as bright as the soul guide lamps, but there was always a kind of fascinating fireworks.

Tea, rice, oil and salt, coarse tea and light rice, one by one in the dark night with fine smoke chimneys, by the moonlight, from the side of the road to pick two dew-hung cherry chrysanthemums, remove the roots, just under the stamens, wash the floating dust, and fry them carefully to eat.

The taste is not good, and it has a bit of bitterness, but it has a different flavor, and some children will climb a tree and pick two to taste.

"This flower is really fragrant", Lu Ming looked at the flower bones, and said in a daze, unconsciously, he had been away from there for six years......

"Is it very fragrant, why didn't I smell it", Wang Dong's words interrupted Lu Ming's thoughts and made him break away from it.

"It's not time to bloom yet, but when it blooms, it's the most fragrant", Lu Ming showed a bright smile at Wang Dong, with a little inexplicable sadness in the corners of his eyes.

Wang Dong looked at Lu Ming's appearance and was stunned for a moment, Lu Ming's smile was very warm, but the corners of his eyebrows carried a sense of sadness and sorrow, which was very contradictory and incomprehensible.

"Let's go, let's go back to the dormitory to cultivate", Lu Ming took care of a few people and stopped Huo Yuhan, who was trying to find a way to pick a few flowers.

Lu Ming never knew what nostalgia was like before, until today, when he saw this familiar cherry blossom chrysanthemum in Shrek City in a different place, an inexplicable thought came to his heart, and he suddenly felt a little melancholy, and missed that carefree place.

The distant Star Luo City gradually faded into a memory, blurred like a faded old photo. There are many vague scenes and buildings depicted in it, and although he has lost all his feelings for Old Man Lu, he still misses that carefree place......

Like a wisp of fragrance in the dark night where no one is around, Lu Ming, who is far away from the hustle and bustle of the world, dissolves little by little. Looking back at the faded old photos, there is always a little sweetness in the bitterness, like tea, but it will not become more and more diluted.

No one knew what Lu Ming was thinking at this time, even Huo Yuhan didn't understand, she was just a child who had just left home for a few months, and she didn't know the weight of memories, and she might not even feel the warmth in his childhood, so naturally she couldn't experience this heaviness.

He didn't know, it wasn't that she couldn't experience this feeling, a child wandering across the distance of more than three days of carriage travel, not much money, no strength.

She changed into the shabby and dirty clothes she had picked up, cut her hair, dressed up as a tomboy, and carefully faced all the crowds, like a young beast that broke into a bustling metropolis, fearful, afraid.

During the whole period, she always missed the small place in the house, missed her mother's arms, missed the bright streets and the fragrance of flowers.

Maybe it was God's blessing, or maybe it was a coincidence of fate, she met the person in front of her, the only person who gave her warmth when she was a child except for her mother.

Nostalgia is the coarse tea and light rice, the real important thing is not the sourness of the rice, but the person who cooks, and the love that comes out of it.

When my mother is gone, that place will be sealed forever, and all that will bring her is pain, it doesn't matter where it is, as long as the person in front of her is around, it is home......

"It's been six years", Lu Ming raised his head, blocked the dazzling sunlight with his hands, and looked at the white clouds, as if to observe whether the sky here was any different from the sky in Star Luo City.

Turning his head, Huo Yuhan was looking at him and laughing, silly, dumbfounded, his blue hair sprinkled with sunlight.

Lu Ming looked at Huo Yuhan's smile and laughed a little, and unconsciously touched her head, it was very comfortable to touch, and her soft hair was the same as a kitten.

......

Several people went back to the dormitory, Huo Yuhan and Wang Dong went to practice, since they saw Huo Yuhan's hard work, Wang Dong also realized his efforts.

Lu Ming took advantage of a few people to meditate and cultivate, and without paying attention, he slowly went out, humming the familiar and brisk song, and arrived at the market at the east gate of Shrek.

Carefully purchase some vegetables, a kind of vegetable similar to rape and celery, according to some recipes in memory, buy the vegetables you need little by little.

After a careful search, he didn't find the rice he wanted, so he could only go to the market in Shrek City, and he still needed to go around in a big circle.

But it doesn't matter, he is not in a hurry, he walked around the market in Shrek City, and fought with the vegetable seller for the price of a copper soul coin.

In the end, there was still a lack of seasoning, a special ingredient, which was a crop unique to Star Luo City, which resembled a combination of sweet potato and corn.

Lu Ming had no choice but to try his luck in the cafeteria, hoping to find an ingredient.

"Sister-in-law Lin, is there any green sweet rice in your canteen, it's the small, green, and sweet one that tastes sweet", Lu Ming found the kitchen aunt in the canteen where Huo Yuhan usually eats fish.

The aunt looks very simple and simple, short, chubby, dark-skinned, with droopy eyes, and always speaks in a long tone, and slightly raised, which is the dialect tone of Shrek City.

"Oh, yes, it's not, kid", the aunt said in a very kind voice, with a bit of Shrek City accent, rummaging left and right in the back kitchen for a while, and found a bag of green things that looked very similar to mung beans.

"Yes, yes, sister-in-law Lin, I want a small handful, how to sell it", Lu Ming saw that he had found the right one, and said happily.

"A handful, what kind of money do you have to give, you can take it directly, this thing is called green in the Heavenly Soul Empire, child, you are not from the Heavenly Soul Empire, right?", the aunt grabbed a handful of green beans and put them in a paper bag.

"No, no, I'm from the Star Luo Empire, how can I do this without giving money, it's not easy for you", Lu Ming hurriedly waved his hand.

"What kind of money do you give, don't you look down on Auntie, the child still runs far away, you are a freshman, you have a face, you miss home, it's strange and bitter to run so far", Auntie stuffed the bag into Lu Ming's arms, and said a lot of words in a grunt.

"Freshman, freshman, of course homesick, why don't you come here to find some materials to cook something", Lu Ming looked at the simple woman in front of him and smiled.

"Oh, that's weird and uncomfortable, I can only go home once a year, and it's just that month. Child, you can't cook by yourself, you can come to me often to buy materials in the future."

"It's all little babies at home, and you can't be angry outside, the food in this canteen is still too expensive, you can cook whatever you want, it's convenient, how good", the aunt grabbed Lu Ming's hand, ran to the side again, grabbed two handfuls of vegetables and stuffed them into Lu Ming's pocket.

"Many students in our school are buying vegetables from me, and I am cheap here, so I sell them directly to you at the purchase price, and I still take care of myself when I go out."

"Auntie, no, no, I can't ask for it anymore, you can't do it well", Lu Ming hurriedly pushed the old man's hand away and took the food out of his pocket.

"If you see the outside, I'll treat you as an aunt, I'm angry with you like this, I use this little thing to give money."

"What's more, it's worth much, don't you know, how cheap the purchase price is here, take it and take it away", the aunt waved her hand and pressed Lu Ming's hand back, and her hand strength was quite strong.

"Then, sister-in-law Lin, I'll leave", Lu Ming couldn't resist his aunt, so he had to secretly put a few copper soul coins on the table.

"Hey, children often come to buy vegetables in the future, if you don't have money, tell your aunt that it's worthless at all, and you don't want it at school", Auntie's enthusiastic voice made Lu Ming slightly uncomfortable.

"Goodbye, auntie", Lu Ming waved his hand at Sister-in-law Lin, and took out most of the vegetables protruding from his pocket, which looked quite ridiculous.

"Hey, it's also a hard-working child", Sister-in-law Lin watched Lu Ming's figure leave, sat on a small wooden bench, only to see her take out a small cloth bag from the pocket of her clothes, after opening the small cloth bag, it was a thick parchment, and finally what appeared was a clean and tidy envelope, only the corners were a little worn, she took out a letter from it, opened it carefully, and looked at the handwriting little by little.

"Son, when will you come back, it's been five years, and you have to have a head in this war, and I don't know if you're doing well outside, whether you're eating well and dressing", Sister-in-law Lin muttered while looking at the envelope.

In fact, she didn't know how to read, she only knew that her son sent it back, and she asked a student to help him read the words in the letter.

The student couldn't bear to tell her a cruel truth, and half-made up and half-deceived to tell her that his son was doing well, eating and drinking well, and had made military achievements, and that he would soon be back.

However, this is not actually a family letter, but a suicide note, her son's ...... He died on the battlefield three years ago.

She saw these children in a foreign land like her own son, always doing her best to make their lives better. She was afraid that her children would not eat or drink well on the distant battlefield......

She also wanted to go over to find her child, but it was too far, too far, and the border of the Heavenly Soul Empire was two weeks away from here to make a carriage.

Besides, she didn't know that her child was in that unit, that barracks, and she could only rely on the face of her son's friend to do an errand in Shrek Academy.

For her, the place where her son is may be called home......

If no one told her the truth, she would probably have waited here for the rest of her life......