Surviving the Fourth Calamity

Chapter 713 The story of the past, a touch of sadness

When he arrived at Lynn's house, Hill understood where his friend's pragmatic attitude, which was incompatible with other elves, came from. His parents were not the reliable elders that Hill had imagined.

Children of such parents are either extraordinarily chaotic or extraordinarily independent.

His half-elf father was full of artistic temperament, and their home was very special at first sight.

In fact, the elves of the Star Mountain Range live in a relatively poor life. Of course, they don’t have to worry about food and drink, but they don’t have the conditions to live a luxurious life like the elves of Yongju Island.

Moreover, the stone house, which occupies a relatively small area, is very good in the eyes of humans, but it is too rough for elves who are naturally literary and romantic.

But compared with the vine-covered walls of their neighbor's house, the exquisite and delicate plant murals on the outer wall of Lynn's stone house have a special beauty.

Liz pulled Hill towards the stone house: "Actually, we also wanted to live in a tree house at the beginning, but there are too few big trees on the Star Mountain Range, so there is no way for each family to live in it. To be fair, we simply built a stone house.

But isn't my house particularly beautiful?Even among elf artists, Alessio is the best group! "

Hill, who approached the stone house, looked at the murals in admiration. The vigorous vitality seemed to fly on every leaf and grass in the paintings. Lynn's father, Alessio, was indeed a great artist.

The same is true in the room, which looks ordinary, but there are carefully crafted artworks in every corner. Alessio can not only paint oil paintings, but also carve very well.

And... Hill saw Alessio who went straight to the kitchen when he walked into the house, it seemed that he also cooked the meal.

"Don't worry about Alai, my family doesn't have any troublesome dishes, they are all traditional elves' food, you know~" Liz pulled Hill and sat on the rattan sofa in the hall.

Hill smiled. The so-called traditional food should be fruit platters, cheese biscuits and the like, but I don’t know if Lynn’s father is also good at making sausages.

Hill, who found that Liz couldn't wait to share interesting stories about the child with him, quickly took out his door-to-door gift.

Fortunately, he had already made preparations to meet Lynn's family before coming to the High Forest.

He actually prepared two kinds of gift boxes, one is more gorgeous and luxurious, and the other is more practical and simple.

After observing the family's preferences, Hill decided to take the practical one.

The male master's artistic accomplishment is more inclined to the simple and indifferent school, and this family is mainly arranged according to the male master's hobbies.

After receiving the gift, Liz put the exquisite little box on the table, thanked Hill lightly, and took out a half-meter-high thick booklet from the small cabinet next to it.

She smiled happily: "Let's take a look at this...you can tell Lynn when you go back, his dear mother has kept these very well, and she will take them out to have a look when she is almost free, the child is the cutest when."

Opening the first page of the album, Hill saw a half-elf baby holding a bouquet of flowers and smiling very cutely, with a round face, big dazed and innocent eyes, golden-brown hair softly attached to the top of the head, and a small mouth. Slightly opened, as if calling for mother.

Hill laughed, Lynn was really cute as a kid.

Also, it seems that Lynn's mother is not so nasty.

It's a pity that Hill's happiness completely disappeared after turning a few pages... After the young Lynn became a teenager, the style of oil painting changed suddenly.

He suddenly realized that when he was a child, Lin En stayed on Yongju Island. At that time, his parents probably hoped that their children would be happy and safe, and they didn't have so much leisure time, so the style of painting was normal.

But later on it was different.

Lynn, who had turned into a teenager, seemed to be at a bonfire party. The lute he was carrying was obviously turned upside down, and he was wearing a long robe, looking up in a panic and looking straight ahead.

Liz said in a very emotional tone: "This was when we were wandering on the mainland... I was not feeling well emotionally and physically at that time, Alessio was busy taking care of me, and although Lynn was not yet an adult, she also I have to do housework every day.

His cooking skills were actually learned from the humans and dwarves who were with him at that time, so his preferences are very different from those of elves.

At that time, Lin En actually knew that his mage talent was not very high, and if he became a swordsman, his physical fitness would not be good... When he was born, we were a little scared, so Lynn's health was not very good.

Speaking of it, Lin En was really hit hard during that time. He was kicked out of Yongju Island, but he was not talented enough. It seemed that becoming a ranger was his only hope, but he didn't know what to do.

I was also very confused at that time. Since elementary school, I have been fighting skills at sea, and Alai is a priest who is a part-time scholar. Although there is no problem joining the adventure team, I was a bit self-defeating at that time... It was really embarrassing... Not at all Like a strong golden elf.

Fortunately, there was a bard in an adventure team that we followed at that time, who liked Lin En very much, and took Lin En to sing and learn the piano every day. Later, Lin En decided to become a bard!

He was really happy at that time, his singing voice was crisp and melodious, and even attracted the birds in the station to surround him.

This was his first official performance, because he was too anxious to hold the lute upside down.

Alessio specially recorded this scene, hoping that Lynn can always remember those beautiful days. "

Hill... Hill was a little desperate: Lynn would definitely not think this was a good memory, and he would probably feel ashamed every time he saw it.

What absurd comedy it is for a bard to turn his lute upside down while singing!

Hill looked at Liz, her face was filled with infinite nostalgia and sentimentality, perhaps from that time on, Lynn began to grow up slowly and choose his own path.

Hill can fully understand Lynn's independence, and it's not that his parents don't love him, it's just that Liz needs Alessio's care at that time, and Lynn, who is healthy, has to take care of himself.

In the world of elves, Lynn's parents are already very responsible for their children. Many elves grow up by themselves. It is probably because of Alessio's other half of the blood that he behaved. You have to care so much about your child's childhood life.

Hill flipped through the oil painting. Although Lynn on it was in a mess, Hill could see how he changed from a naive and lovely elf to the stable and reliable sheriff he is now.

Liz kept talking about the interesting things about Lynn's growing up, but Hill could understand that after Lynn's brother was born, the family's focus became that little child, and they even went to Starland together for the safety of that child. mountains.

This forced Lynn to leave his bard teacher.

Sometimes, a child's choice of his own life may be determined suddenly on a certain day. Hill was a little suspicious. On the day he had to leave the teacher, Lynn had already made up his mind to return to the northern continent in the future.

Hill suddenly thought of some words that Lynn said during the chat. After he arrived in the mainland, the end of his travels seemed to be a certain village, and then he stayed there for a long time, and continued after the people he cared about were gone. travel.

It is very likely that there is the place where his bard teacher died in retirement, and Lynn should really miss his teacher.

Although there are also bards among the elves, most of them are part-time jobs for the sake of making their performances more exciting. During the years he stayed in the Star Mountain Range, he probably could only grope for his own growth.

In fact, Hill has long discovered that Lin En has learned a lot of swordsman skills. Compared with ordinary bards, his friend is much more agile. It is no problem for him to want to work part-time, but since Lynn never mentioned his swordsman skills Judging from his part-time job performance, being a bard but having to learn swordsman skills while growing up is not something he should be happy about.

But he stayed in the Star Mountain Range, which was not a place where an elf could leave by himself, and his parents who cared about him couldn't let the underage him follow their teacher's adventure team at that time.

Speaking of which, there was nothing wrong with Liz and the others. Even though most of Liz's skills were used at sea, as a high-level fighter at level 20, the members of the adventure group certainly didn't dare to take Lynn's idea.

A young, beautiful and singing half-elf, the bard couldn't protect Lynn at all.

It's not that Lynn doesn't understand many things, but too many regrets and misses will make him unable to calm down.

In the latter ones, the only thing that made Hill laugh was the painting of him making wine: Lynn, who was frowning and was smoked out of tears, was really jealous.

Lynn's expression in Alessio's pen is vivid and embarrassed, so that everyone who sees it can feel how strong the vinegar smell is.

It's not that these parents don't love their children, it's just that they are more like artists and have too many things to distract them.There is only so little time for the children, so when Lynn is old enough, their attention will naturally be more on Lynn's younger brother.

Hill could hear it, and Liz didn't expect that the interval between the births of their children would be so short.

The appearance of Lin En's brother was indeed something they were caught off guard, but this child was so talented that he showed an obvious elemental reaction almost immediately after he was born.

Liz and his wife, unable to return to Yongju Island, had no choice but to venture into the Supreme Forest. Only here could they keep such a talented child, otherwise they might be snatched away.

In fact, what happened to Lynn's family can only prove one thing. The status of the elves in the land of Faerun has declined sharply. Hill estimates that Liz's various discomforts at the beginning are also related to this. If it weren't for the strength of their husband and wife, Lynn would not be able to keep it. .

However, after the birth of a more alluring child, with the strength of her 20th-level fighter, she could only escape into the highest forest to escape, and did not dare to stay in Faerun Continent at all.

That should be the most miserable period of time for elves, unspeakable but desolate.

(End of this chapter)