This evening, Ning Yi still slept in the tent outside the small house. Search: \(?Complete?Book?God?Station) to read high-quality literature for free.

The next day, before dawn, he was already up. At this time, there were already sounds in the valley—for these martial artists, they didn't need as much sleep as ordinary people. On the contrary, practicing martial arts in the morning was a habit they had always maintained. Ning Yi secretly greeted Zhu Biao, and then secretly led the horse to the wooden house, picked up Hong Ti, who was also awake, and ran away from one side of the valley.

Leaving the main force and sneaking away with Hong Ti naturally seemed a bit childish. But since they were almost at their destination, Ning Yi was happy to take some time to do some silly things. After all, this time up Mount Lüliang, there wasn't a single woman among the followers. Now there was also Zhao Siye, a member of the Green Wood Stronghold, in the team. If they really traveled together, Ning Yi and Hong Ti would inevitably feel a bit restricted.

Of course, even if they secretly set off by ditching the main force, there wasn't much excessive they could do for the time being. When it came to romance, explicit love words weren't suitable for this era. Hong Ti's personality was actually more inclined towards serenity. After experiencing vicissitudes, she was more like a white plum that had weathered snow. She didn't talk much, preferring to watch Ning Yi doing things by the side, or listen to him talk. Sometimes, when Ning Yi took her hand, there was a feeling of helpless indulgence amidst the warmth. Of course, sometimes she would also find some stories to tell Ning Yi, usually not very tortuous or bizarre—she wasn't very good at telling stories.

Ning Yi didn't dislike this feeling—in fact, women in this era generally didn't have much romance. Ordinary women at home were very reserved when speaking to their husbands. This was also the reason why brothels were so prevalent. Those who went to brothels to satisfy their carnal desires were engaging in lower-class enjoyment. More people were actually going to enjoy love, such as with Li Shishi, or Yun Zhu and Jin'er. After training, courtesans were interesting in their conversation and appropriate in their responses. The true value of courtesans lay in their ability to give love. But Ning Yi naturally wouldn't be misled by this false feeling. Relatively speaking, he preferred those simple and sincere feelings of warmth, which didn't require much communication.

On the night they first met, he naturally couldn't help but tell some jokes to tease Hong Ti. By the second morning, when he pulled her away secretly from the rear, looking at the helpless smile on Hong Ti's face, Ning Yi just laughed and put a finger to his lips. Before long, the two of them walked out of the forest and stepped onto the foothills ahead. The east was gradually turning white, and the refreshing morning breeze of early summer was blowing from ahead. Mount Lüliang showed its outline in front of them, with its horizontal ravines and turns, appearing magnificent and fresh.

As one of the barriers on the west side of Yanmen Pass, this area of Mount Lüliang was actually not very friendly to people. The mountain range twisted and turned, and occasionally one could see difficult deep ravines. Forests and barren mountains were scattered everywhere, and wolves often appeared—Ning Yi and Hong Ti saw a pack when they walked past that foothill. At that time, the sunlight was just beginning to appear in the east, and the sky wasn't fully bright. The pack of wolves, about a dozen, was probably a small family, walking across the grass slope ahead, and then looking over at them.

Ning Yi and Hong Ti didn't turn around, leading the horse straight ahead. As they walked past, Ning Yi looked at a snarling gray wolf and cursed, "What are you looking at!" In the early morning, his voice seemed quite loud in the foothills. The wolf bared its teeth and was about to pounce, but when Hong Ti glanced at it, several wolves "wooed" and retreated backwards, and then more than a dozen wild wolves ran down the foothills.

"Why can't I feel your killing intent?" Ning Yi sized her up.

"If they pounce, I'll really take action and kill them. Some of them will run, some won't, depending on how hungry they are." Hong Ti smiled.

"Speaking of which, even if I really pounce, you wouldn't take action to kill me. I know that, so you don't have any killing intent."

"That's hard to say."

"Heh, I'll try it."

On the foothills, Ning Yi released the horse's reins, twisted his neck, and pretended to charge. Over there, Hong Ti's gaze sharpened, and her hand suddenly moved in front of her chest. She raised it slightly. Ning Yi felt a tightness in his heart and involuntarily took a step back, then looked at his right shoulder in confusion.

"If you charge over, I'll hit your shoulder," Hong Ti said.

Ning Yi scratched his hair: "That's so exaggerated... Are you really going to hit me..."

Hong Ti didn't answer, but after a moment, as they continued to walk forward, he heard her say softly, "Actually, I wouldn't hit you..." Looking back, in the morning light, her eyes were clear, and she was smiling calmly.

Such a small interlude was a warm joke between the two of them. When the morning sun was higher, they started a fire by a nearby stream and cooked salted meat porridge for breakfast. It was already daytime, and Hong Ti put away the cloak she wore at night. She was wearing ordinary warrior's clothes that were easy to move in, long sleeves and trousers, all in gray-black. Her figure was still evident—Hong Ti was tall and slender, but wouldn't appear thin, nor would she seem fat or strong. Perhaps due to long-term internal cultivation, she had her own natural aura in her gestures, as well as a sense of power that couldn't be easily slighted. In front of Ning Yi, she was still the warm and beautiful chivalrous woman, but in front of enemies, she could instantly unleash a sharpness that made people feel fear.

It's just that the clothes were already old, and there were two inconspicuous patches on the back shoulder and cuffs, carefully sewn with the same color fabric. If you didn't look closely, you basically couldn't see them.

After breakfast, the two of them rode their horses and proceeded along the direction Hong Ti pointed. Hong Ti was naturally very familiar with this area, while Ning Yi listened to her introductions and learned a little: where she had fought, where she had killed people, which famous bandits were there, and what had happened.

In some winding mountain forests or valleys, Hong Ti could find some villages or strongholds. Some were inhabited, while others had long been turned into dead lands, with broken walls and ruins. There were residents nearby, but most of them lived extremely hard lives, or were under some protection—those who lived better were mostly robbed.

The bandits of Mount Lüliang, those who could form a scale, would basically develop and loot towards the towns outside Mount Lüliang.

Hong Ti's introductions to these things were basically quite simple, and everything seemed like ordinary things. In fact, these were of course ordinary things, killing people, going hungry, looting, and even cannibalism. Ning Yi wasn't without such concepts. He could imagine a rough idea as soon as he heard it. Hong Ti had once said that everyone here "lived like they weren't human." Ning Yi was also aware of this. Hong Ti didn't go into detail about many things, and it was useless to go into detail. He was also aware of this. As he traveled with Hong Ti that day, he didn't expect that such a thing would unintentionally appear in front of him in the afternoon...

That was the village where Hong Ti used to live—before everyone entered the deeper and more evil mountains to form the Green Wood Stronghold, Hong Ti lived in a mountain village. After noon, Ning Yi suggested that he wanted to go and take a look. Ning Yi had spoken, and after Hong Ti hesitated for a moment, she naturally agreed.

Traveling twenty-odd *li* northwest from their current location, under Hong Ti's guidance, they found the small village located in the poplar forest. The afternoon sun was warm and bright, and the village in the small forest had long been dilapidated and out of shape. On their way, they talked about Ning Yi's Bamboo Record business.

When they first met in Jiangning, in the small courtyard where Xiao Chan said "See you tomorrow, bell," Ning Yi had once said that he would open a Bamboo Record store in Mount Lüliang in the future, mainly to sell roasted chicken. Now it seemed that it wouldn't be easy to open one there, but fortunately, Ning Yi had conveniently brought chicken and seasonings in his package. After the two of them entered the village, they went to find the house where Hong Ti had lived as a child.

In this village, there was a scene of ruins and broken walls. Mud or wooden houses couldn't withstand too much wind and rain without anyone taking care of them. But in the village, the house where Hong Ti was said to have lived as a child still had a frame. The two of them cleaned up for a while out of boredom, set up a table with only three legs, and cleaned up the stove in the kitchen. Ning Yi prepared to roast Beggar's Chicken to eat. Hong Ti helped out for a while, and when everything was ready and Ning Yi was about to show off his skills, she said that she had some things to do outside.

"Remember to come back when it's time to eat." Ning Yi smiled as he wrapped mud around the dead chicken and waved his hand. Of course, she was going out to reminisce. At this time, the sun had turned towards the western horizon, but the light was still warm. Ning Yi hadn't actually done this kind of thing himself for a long time. After tinkering for a long time, he could smell a slight fragrance coming from the fire.

There was the sound of footsteps outside, seemingly entering the next room. Ning Yi rubbed his hands, walked out of the stove area, and over to the door. Someone peeked their head in, their voice slow and hoarse: "Hong Ti is back? Hong Ti... is back?"

That was a woman whose clothes were tattered all over, and whose body was almost entirely black. It was impossible to tell her age. One of her eyes seemed to be a little blind, squinting slightly. She was missing two teeth in her mouth, and one could smell the stench emanating from her body from not far away. She should be a mad woman. After seeing Ning Yi, her body suddenly shrank back. Hearing her say Hong Ti's name, Ning Yi was slightly stunned, and then said: "Hong Ti... is back, I am her husband."

"Ah?" Hearing Ning Yi say this, the woman's vigilance obviously relaxed, and even her eyes suddenly lit up a bit, "You are... her husband? Hong Ti she... she got married? When did you get married?"

"Just this year, not long ago." Ning Yi said with a smile, "You are...?"

"Just this year, just not long ago? Oh, not long ago... Hong Ti got married ah, where are you from... oh, I... I am, I am Fu Duanyun ah, am her Sister Duanyun..." The woman was obviously just a mountain village woman, probably mad, living here alone, ending up like this, but after hearing that Hong Ti was married, there was genuine joy on her face. Ning Yi was also infected by this, smiling and nodding.

"Sister Duanyun, my name is Ning Yi, and I am from Jiangning. Oh, please wait a moment."

Ning Yi walked to the stove, took out a water cup and a towel from his bag, fetched water, wet the towel, and took it out.

"Sister Duanyun, wipe your hands, drink some water, sit." He moved a stool that could still be sat on to the side of the table and let the other party sit down. The woman in front of him seemed a little hesitant to wipe her hands, but after sitting down, she still wiped her hands and held the cup.

At this time, the house no longer had a roof, and the walls were only three incomplete sides. Among the broken tables and chairs, Fu Duanyun, like a normal woman visiting, spoke to Ning Yi intermittently.

She asked Ning Yi what he did, and also said that Hong Ti hadn't been back for a long time, and also talked about Hong Ti's childhood, saying that she was sensible, and also talked about being hungry when she was a child. Only when she mentioned herself and the things in the village did she obviously become a little disordered.

"...Recently, everyone has gone out to visit, and I just went to Runxing's house, and there was no one... As for me, I'm alone at home, ah, my man, and my mother-in-law, went to Fenyang to buy... buy New Year's goods, and haven't come back yet... I was thinking of watering the ground first... The bucket at home is broken, and I wanted to borrow a bucket, so isn't this just right, seeing your door open, Hong Ti is back... That's great, Hong Ti got married... Master Ning, you must treat her well..."

As she spoke, Ning Yi responded respectfully by the side. During this rambling time, Hong Ti's figure came from outside. She also seemed to be looking for something. Seeing Fu Duanyun, her searching gaze calmed down, and then she looked at Ning Yi with a complicated look, and walked over: "Sister Duanyun, why are you here?"

"Oh, Hong Ti ah, you, you're back. As soon as you came back, you went out visiting, right? So, I came over to your place and met your husband."

"Husband..." Hong Ti glanced at Ning Yi.

Ning Yi smiled and stood up from there: "It's just about time to eat dinner, let's keep Sister Duanyun for dinner. Sister Duanyun, stay for dinner."

"Oh, oh..." Fu Duanyun nodded in response, and said to Hong Ti again, "You went visiting... You went visiting..."

"I just went to your house to find you..." Hong Ti said softly.

"I, I came out..." Fu Duanyun thought for a while and said with a smile, "I wanted to plant something, and the hoe was borrowed by someone else. I went to get the hoe. When my mother-in-law went out, she told me to plant some soybeans... Plant the soybeans..."

The bright sunlight spilled down from above, filling the room with a warm atmosphere.

"Yes, plant soybeans." Hong Ti nodded in response.

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