Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

952 The Missing Children

However, Mu Sheng Xi didn’t want to pry to other people’s business.

He knew his limit and since he was not that close to these three, he would not ask too deep. Even friends would not ask private matters of other people.

Unless it was related to the case, he would not speak about it.

“Are there anyone close to you who’s missing?” Feng Ao Kuai asked as he turned to look at Feng Ao Si and Nan Luo.

His interpersonal relationship was not bad, but he still contacted his friends and those acquaintances. None of them were missing, so Feng Ao Kuai didn’t think that anything bad happened to them.

“Not that I know of.” Nan Luo scratched the back of his head. He didn’t have any close friends and didn’t really keep tab of their whereabouts.

Feng Ao Si shook his head. “Most of them are at the battlefield. I don’t recall anyone whom I hadn’t seen for a long time.”

“I haven’t contacted my family members in a long time.” Mu Sheng Xi looked rather ashamed when he spoke about this. Since he had been at the frontline for a long period of time, he didn’t contact his family members anymore.

Besides, with the matter of his soldiers working under General Cao, it had already infuriated many people. He worked hard to be able to take them back, but his prowess and capability was simply not enough.

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That was why he could only pass off as 3000 men commander.

Oh, if he managed to finish this case splendidly, General Wei said that he could be promoted to be 4000 men commander with some condition.

But between 4000 men commander and a general, there was still a big gap. Mu Sheng Xi himself didn’t know how many years he would have to work hard before he could finally take that title.

“You can send them a message. You might be able to find something from them.”

“I’ll do that.”

Nan Hua waited at the back as the four of them discussed things. To be honest, most of the knowledge that she knew came from reading this event. If one talked about evidence, she actually didn’t have any.

Before long, the people she asked to take the information returned. Nan Hua passed the bamboo scroll to Nan Luo.

“There are so many of them.” Nan Luo was speechless.

“There are at least 100 of them. I didn’t expect there are so many of them are from the Capital City.”

“There’s a mix of male and female.” Nan Luo frowned. He glanced at Feng Ao Kuai. “Did you see anyone who’s female so far?”

“Just two.” Feng Ao Kuai’s memory was pretty good.

“Anyone you recognize?”

“Hmm…yes.”

“Who?”

“Nan Xin.”

Nan Luo put down the scroll as his eyes flashed with killing intent. Back then, he had heard that the children from Nan Family would be punished and had to face harsh trial.

He knew that his two half siblings wouldn’t be killed. However, he expected them to be in the Capital City, under the watch of so many others. Who would have thought that Nan Xin actually disappear?

He should ask someone to investigate it.

Because Nan Xin is a young woman and didn’t have much presence during that chaos, she was eventually forgotten. There might be some people sent to search for her, but not much importance was placed on her.

They would pay more attention to the boys.

“She’s also missing?” Feng Ao Kuai frowned. It seemed that he would have to figure out a method to find that young woman.

“Not all of the missing children might be here, but with so many children missing during that short period of time, there will be a lot of work to do.” Nan Luo groaned. He didn’t really like to do this, but he knew that it was important.

They continued their discussion until it was late at night.

“Let’s rest for now. It’s late.”

Mu Sheng Xi had rented the entire inn, so they picked random room to spend the night. Nan Luo turned his head to the side when he saw Nan Hua entered his room. He laughed lightly. “Can’t asleep?”

“I’m here to guard.”

“Haha, just come here.” Nan Luo laughed and patted the bed beside him. When the two of them were young kids, Nan Hua occasionally sneaked to his room because she couldn’t sleep during certain time. At that time, he would hug his twin sister so that she would be able to sleep.

That was before he had his own quarter.

After he had his own quarter, he would at most had a nap with Nan Hua. Though, this never happened after they stayed in Old Master Nan’s Residence.

Nan Hua blinked her eyes and sat down on the bed. “This wouldn’t be proper no matter which identity I take.”

“Who cares? There’s no one here.” Nan Luo yawned. “You’re going to leave soon, right? What’s wrong with me asking for you to stay nearer for a while longer.”

Nan Hua looked at her twin brother, feeling a bit at loss.

She didn’t know why he suddenly feel a bit willful since Nan Luo would still follow the etiquette rules most of the time. However, she didn’t mind agreeing to her twin brother’s request from time to time.

Stretching her hand, Nan Hua held Nan Luo’s hand while she leaned to the wall behind her.

Sleeping while sitting was something that she could do.

As Nan Hua closed her eyes, Nan Luo looked at his twin sister and sighed deeply. He really wanted to switch place with her so that she would be able to sleep soundly. But he was sure that Nan Hua wouldn’t agree.

‘Time passed a bit too fast. When I still want to be with you, you’re slowly going further away because we’re both growing up.’

Nan Luo sighed internally.

If only it was possible, he wanted to be with his twin sister all the time. But they grew up and would eventually have their own family.

It was an impossible dream.