He is about forty years old, with braided braids and arched eyebrows.
Her appearance is not absolutely beautiful, but she has a gentle and friendly personality.
She is Rean's adoptive mother and the mistress of the Baronial Palace, Lucia Schwarzer.
She looked at Li En, her eyes widened at first, and she said in surprise: "It's really you."
After Li En nodded, he complained a little more and said: "You kid, why didn't you tell me in advance when you came back?"
Semlia's technology has focused on mobile communications, and wired communications have also achieved basic coverage. Although it is not available in every household, it is still no problem for a village or town to have a communication device.
In the past, before Li En went home, he would contact him in advance to inform him of his return time.
"Because we are temporarily in Luray for business, Alyssa sent a flying ship to get back. We have to leave early tomorrow morning."
Even though Rean looks like a young hero on the outside, with his stunning demeanor, he is still just a child in front of him.
"Leaving early tomorrow morning? In such a hurry." Lucia was not really angry with Li En. Once she heard that the child could only stay one night, she lost all her dissatisfaction.
"After all, I am also an instructor, not a student." Li En explained with a smile.
"Yes, I look much more mature than during the New Year. It's only been half a year, and I seem to be a little taller..."
Lucia clearly remembers every change in Rean, this is her mother.
"It's really only a little bit." It's less than 0.01 subdistance. Even for men who develop a little later, their height should be almost finalized by this age.
"Who are these two cute children?" Lucia noticed the two little followers behind Rean.
"Let me introduce. Xiaodi, my senior brother, the daughter of Arios Maclain, another disciple of Teacher Yun, the Sword Master of the Wind, is temporarily under my care for some reasons. This is Xiao Huan
, my adopted child. Xiaodi Xiaohuan, this is my mother, Lucia Schwarzer."
"Hello, Auntie." Xiaodi's etiquette was always perfect.
Although Xiaohuan didn't call anyone, he nodded along with Xiaodi.
"Hello." Lucia's smile became softer.
Although she rarely leaves Youmil, she is not an ordinary housewife who doesn't care about current affairs.
I have the habit of reading newspapers and listening to the radio every day. I know what happened in Crossbell and how difficult it is for Xiaodi.
As for Xiao Huan, one sentence of adoption is enough to explain everything.
Li En himself is an adopted son, which is a fine tradition of the Shu Huaze family.
"Come in and sit down, don't stand outside talking."
Lucia kindly led the children into the house, and just in time, a tall and sturdy middle-aged man with short brown hair came out.
Li En called out: "Father, I'm back."
"Welcome back, Rean."
The owner of the Baron Mansion, Baron Theo Schwarzer, nodded. His attitude was much more majestic than Lucia's, but his soft eyes were exactly the same.
With Lucia, with Rean's memory, and even with Rean himself.
This is the home where he grew up, the place he is most familiar with, and it has not changed after so many years.
Just standing in the entrance hall, looking at the unchanged corridor and living room, Li En would feel at ease.
At the same time, I felt a little guilty.
Before coming back, in order to rid the empire of the influence of "blackness", he took a decisive step without hesitation.
He still has no regrets, but in the end he said goodbye to his companions and friends, but forgot about Youmil and his family.
You can imagine how heartbroken his parents would be once they knew his ending.
The emotions and bonds between family members are never less than those between friends and companions. This is the most precious relationship in the world.
In this life, what I owe the most is my family.
"Rean, what's wrong? Did something happen?" Lucia noticed her son's confusion and asked with concern.
"No, it's just that I haven't been back for a while, and I feel a little nostalgic... The state during the New Year was also not good. I received the letter that my father asked Elyse to give to me. I'm sorry for making you worry."
Of course, what Rean said was not a lie, he was just hiding something that he couldn't say.
"It's fine. Take the children to sit in the living room, and Lucia and I will prepare tea and snacks."
Theo nodded, and while talking, he led his wife towards the kitchen.
Lucia was still about to say something, but after seeing her husband's attitude, she swallowed her words and walked to the kitchen skillfully.
Li En looked at the backs of the two people leaving, thoughtfully.
Xiaodi tilted her head and subconsciously reached for Lien's hand.
Xiao Huan also made the same move. The two little girls looked at each other and smiled, holding Li En's hands one on the left and one on the right, and sat down on the sofa in the living room.
Much of the subsequent development was no different from Luray's.
Chat, tour, sightseeing.
The area of Youmir is much smaller than Luray, but because it is Rean's hometown, it doesn't take much time to go around.
The town is so big, every household has acquaintances, and everyone has to say hello when they see them.
Aunt Martha, Grandpa Gerald who manages the ski slopes, Master Werner from the Phoenix Inn, Paple and sisters Maple who are in charge of cleaning.
Either watch Rean grow up, or grow up with Rean.
To them, Rean was never an aristocratic hero. He was just the boy next door who went up to the mountains to hunt birds and went down to the rivers to catch fish. He was serious about his work and practiced martial arts diligently.
Rean also doesn't think about showing off as a boss, greetings when necessary, and making jokes when necessary - mainly with Maple.
She is the same age as Rean. She was always noisy when she was a child, and she has no control over it as an adult.
Don't think that being a hero means you're great.
It sounded like a quarrel, but in fact both parties knew that the other had no bad intentions, it was just habit.
This is exactly what Rean wants to see.
Of course there are some differences, such as the smell of home.
It was Luray's hotel, and Serestan's cuisine was incomparable. Even Elysee, who had received her mother's true inheritance, still had to be inferior to Lucia.
It had been a long time since Li En had eaten so much. He ate until his stomach was so big that he almost couldn't walk.
Another example is Yumil's biggest reserved item - bathing in hot springs.
In the afternoon, there was a footbath, and after dinner, there was the oldest and famous Phoenix Inn open-air hot spring in Youmeer, something that every person in Youmere is proud of.
After handing Xiao Di and Xiao Huan to Papu and taking them into the women's bath, Rean skillfully walked into the men's bath on the other side.
The mixed bathing time at the Phoenix Inn is near midnight. Normal bathing is done separately for men and women. Li En doesn't specifically look forward to mixed bathing between men and women. He has no hobby or desire in this regard.
After washing away the stains on his body with water as usual, Rean walked into the bath and slowly lowered his body into the water.
The hot air from the hot spring washed his pores, leaving him in a state of clarity, and a comfortable hum escaped from his nose.
With his eyes slightly closed, he thought of someone.
PS: There is still one chapter to go back home, and then it’s time to return to the main story.