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"Old man, senior martial artist, highly respected, be careful he calls Leader Lin over to wreck your stage..."

"If Fatty really dares to come, even if you and I don't make a move, he has no chance of leaving the Southwest alive. Either Old Qin or Chen Fan is enough to deal with him."

The night is gentle, and the carriage slowly drives through the streets of Chengdu. Ning Yi and Xigua look at the night scene, chatting softly.

"Liheng, what do you think Fatty Lin has been doing since that defeat in Jin?"

"Zhan Wu replied that Lin Echan has taken in a disciple, and in the past two years, he hasn't cared about church affairs or his followers, and has focused on cultivating the child. Speaking of which, this fatty has always been ambitious and boasted about his desires and ambitions in front of people. Now he may have seen things a little more clearly, finally admitting that he only has abilities in martial arts. He's also getting old, so he's placing his hopes on the next generation." Ning Yi smiled, "Actually, according to Zhan Wu, Lou Shuwan considered inviting him to join the Jin delegation to give us a show of force when we arrived in the Southwest."

"...Good idea." Xigua thought for a moment, then struck her palm with her fist. "Why didn't they invite him?"

"From a political point of view, if it could be successful, it would be a very interesting thing. Fatty wanted to take advantage of Lou Shuwan back then, colluding to create the title of 'Descending Mysterious Maiden,' but Lou Shuwan outsmarted him and scammed him for almost everything. The two sides can be said to have formed a grudge. The fatty didn't risk killing her, but that doesn't mean he has no intention of killing her. If he could be given a way out under this pretext and help Jin fight in the arena, then Lou Shuwan could be said to be the biggest winner..."

Xigua laughed: "If Lin Echan and that Shi Jin came to the Southwest together, this arena would be quite a sight to see. The people at Bamboo Records would be excited."

Ning Yi also laughed: "It's very interesting to talk about, the only problem is, Old Qin's revenge, Old Father-in-law's revenge, Fang Qifo's revenge, you, me, Shaoqian, Chen Fan... He'd have to die as soon as he crossed Jianmen Pass. If he really wanted to get to Chengdu, it wouldn't work, no matter what name he used."

As he spoke, a coldness flashed in his eyes. The grievances between him and Lin Echan had been small for a long time. For Ning Yi, the most profound thing was that Lin Echan killed Old Qin, but on a larger level, Lin Echan was just a knife in someone else's hand.

After the assassination of the emperor, the grievances at the level of the Green Forest became smaller. As for Lin Echan, Ning Yi didn't mind killing him when he could, but he didn't have much intention of actively seeking revenge. If he really wanted to kill such a grandmaster of martial arts, it would take a great effort with little return. If the other party found a chance to escape, it would really become a never-ending feud, and Ning Yi's side would be unsafe.

For more than ten years, the two sides have maintained such a tacit understanding. No matter how good the false reputation is, Lin Echan will never enter the territory of the Huaxia Army. Although Ning Yi met him once in Jin, he didn't say that he must kill him. But once Lin Echan wanted to enter the Southwest, this tacit understanding would be broken. The fatty offended the entire high-level of the Huaxia Army. Regardless of the old grudges, if this kind of person entered Chengdu, Xigua, Ning Yi and others would not be afraid of him, but if he went crazy, who could guarantee the safety of their family members?

Ning Yi pays attention to the rules in the overall situation, but when it comes to the safety of his family, there are no rules to speak of. Back in Qingmu Village, Lin Echan and Hongti had a fair duel, but just suspecting that Hongti was injured, he would mobilize everyone to gang up on Fatty Lin. If Hongti hadn't been fine later and eased the situation, he might have killed all the witnesses after taking action - Lou Shuwan was originally one of the witnesses at the scene of that chaos.

"...Since both sides want to do business, there's no need to add such a big variable for the sake of a little impulse. Lou Shuwan probably wanted to scare Zhan Wu. Not doing so can be considered maturity... As far as watching the show is concerned, I'm certainly also looking forward to seeing you, Hongti, Chen Fan, Lin Echan, Shi Jin and others fighting together. But these things... let's wait until the world is peaceful and see the performance of the next generation, like Ning Ji and the others. Lin Echan's disciple should be pretty good. Seeing Little Ji's determination in the past two years, I'm afraid he's also determined to go down the path of martial arts cultivation..."

He paused: "It's good to have someone at home who can inherit your and my mantle, right..."

Xigua nodded: "Mainly depends on me. You and Sister Ti together can only be evenly matched with me."

"Huh? What's this way of saying?"

"You and I together can only be evenly matched with Sister Ti."

"...Agua, what you said is a bit too vicious."

The carriage drove through the dim light and shadows of the city at night. The couple joked casually. Ning Yi looked at Xigua's smiling profile by the carriage window, hesitating to speak.

Xigua must have felt such a look. She turned her head: "What's wrong?"

Ning Yi looked at her: "Old Niutou sent a message, it's not good." He took out a letter from his arms and handed it over. Xigua took it and sighed: "It's not the first day it's been like this anyway..." Then she frowned and began to read the letter.

The carriage became quiet, and Ning Yi looked at his wife with a warm gaze. He would come over

Lu Liutong joined in the fun, and his curiosity about the Green Forest was ultimately secondary.

In the Old Niutou incident nearly two years ago, Chen Shanjun and Li Ximing led more than a thousand Huaxia soldiers to split off from here and occupied the northwestern corner of the Chengdu Plain to develop on their own. Chen Shanjun cared about the people and pointed to the Datong world of equal means of production. With the cooperation of more than a thousand Huaxia army troops, he annexed several nearby counties and towns and began to fight local tyrants and divide the land, unifying the land and various large-scale means of production for redistribution.

The entire process of reclaiming land was not friendly. Although the landlords and rich peasants who controlled the land at this time could also find traces of misconduct, not all of them could be bad people. Chen Shanjun first started with the landlords who could control the traces of misconduct, imposed severe punishments, and deprived them of their property. Then he spent three months constantly lobbying and laying the groundwork, and finally completed all this with the cooperation of elite soldiers.

During this period, bloody incidents did occur, but Chen Shanjun firmly believed that this was a necessary process. On the other hand, most of the Huaxia army soldiers who followed him had also deeply understood the importance of equal means of production. Under Chen Shanjun's daily lectures, in which he set an example, they eventually suppressed all resistance on the entire territory. Of course, some landlords and rich peasants moved to the Huaxia army's territory with their families - Chen Shanjun certainly had no intention of driving these people to extinction if they were unwilling to be convinced but were willing to leave.

So from the spring of last year, Chen Shanjun and others created the world's first "People's Commune" in Old Niutou. Based on nearly 2,000 armed men, it governed a population of about 40,000. With all the means of production belonging to the government, the land was averaged, and the collective distributed cattle and iron farm tools purchased by Chen Shanjun through the Huaxia army's relationship. Of course, the seeds of problems also existed from the beginning.

Farm tools are good or bad, and land is also divided into three, six, and nine grades. Chen Shanjun relied on the army to suppress the people in this place, and the army also became a hidden privileged class from the beginning - of course, Chen Shanjun was not unaware of these problems, and Ning Yi had reminded him of these problems from the beginning.

Because the place was not large, Chen Shanjun himself set an example. Every day, he opened study classes to lobby everyone about the meaning of equality and the vision of Datong. For the activists around him, he divided a group of elites to form an internal supervision team, hoping that they would become more conscious defenders of equal thinking in terms of morality. Although this also led to the formation of another higher privileged class, Chen Shanjun could only rely on these "more conscious" people to handle affairs in the early days of the team.

For more than ten years, the exploration of "equality" within the Huaxia army has not been perfect. The doubts and frictions within Old Niutou have never stopped from the beginning. During this period, the Huaxia army was first preparing for war, and then officially entered the battle with the Jurchen West Route Army. It did not pay attention to the situation of Old Niutou, but Qian Luoning and others who were originally arranged there were also constantly observing the development of the entire situation.

The struggle over interests always appeared in a political way. After Chen Shanjun formed the activists into an internal supervision team, some soldiers who were excluded protested and friction occurred. Then someone began to mention the bloody incidents in the land distribution, believing that Chen Shanjun's approach was not correct. On the other hand, another questioning voice was issued, believing that the Jurchen West Route Army was about to invade, and the split they had launched now seemed very stupid.

Due to this pressure, Chen Shanjun had also proposed to the Huaxia army to send troops to help in the battle, of course, Ning Yi also expressed his refusal.

The joy of land distribution occurred in the first half of last year, but by the second half of the year, various problems, like surging undercurrents, had already begun to surface. Many army members began to show corruption, and similar signs also appeared in the supervision team - the reason why it was said to be signs was because conviction began to become blurred and difficult, and mountain strongholds that embraced each other gradually appeared. In September last year, even a family annihilation case in which a peasant family was killed to silence them occurred in an investigation. The top-level conference table began to quarrel and accuse each other.

Chen Shanjun and Li Ximing cooperated to launch two internal rectifications, but the specific effect was difficult to define. They could strictly average the land, but it was difficult to launch a real purge within the army. In the two rectifications, several upper-level officials were convicted and expelled, but the hidden dangers were not eliminated.

Although a bright direction was set from the beginning, Old Niutou's pace has been difficult from the beginning. By the beginning of this year, the conference table was almost full of quarrels every day. Chen Shanjun and other leaders were weakening their control over the spring ploughing. When the Huaxia army won a great victory in the Southwest War, more people in Old Niutou raised Ning Yi's name, believing that they should not disobey Mr. Ning, and that equality of means of production here was not originally at the time it should have appeared.

On the surface, the people of Old Niutou were talking about bright words, but what they actually wanted to cover up was the imbalance that had already broken out in private. In the case of insufficient internal supervision and rectification, corruption and encroachment of interests had reached a considerable level, and the specific reasons were naturally more complicated. In order to cope with this impact, Chen Shanjun may launch a more severe and thorough rectification, and the other parties naturally picked up the weapons of counterattack and began to accuse Chen Shanjun of problems.

In such a chaotic situation, with swords drawn and bows bent, Li Ximing, as an "insider," may have noticed some clues, so he wrote a letter to Ning Yi, reminding him to pay attention to the development of Old Niutou.

In fact, Ning Yi from

the beginning only regarded Old Niutou as a test field. The initial difficulties of this great ideal were completely predictable, but this matter had a different meaning on Xigua's side.

He looked at the woman's figure looking down at the letter by the car window.

Time is like water, making his wife's profile more mature, but her frowning appearance still carries the innocence and stubbornness of that year. Over the years, Ning Yi knew that what she was thinking about was the idea of "equality." Old Niutou's attempt originally appeared under her insistence and guidance, but she did not go there later. During the past year or so, when she learned about the stumbles there, she naturally had such and such anxieties in her heart.

"Maybe this will be better..."

"Maybe that won't..."

Occasionally, when talking about Old Niutou with Ning Yi, Xigua said the most was such words. However, during the previous battle with the Jurchens, the two spent less time together, and in the few simple meetings, she always suppressed her casual chats in this regard and did not say too much.

At this time, the war in the Southwest had been settled. Although the current city of Chengdu was in chaos and turmoil, he had already set the steps for all situations. He could jump out of here a little and care about his wife's ideals.

"It's getting more and more chaotic..." With the help of the lights and moonlight, Xigua frowned and read the letter for a long time before finishing it. After a while, she sighed a long breath, "...Liheng, do you think it's still possible to survive this time?"

"If we weren't there next to them, they shouldn't have survived the first time." Ning Yi shook his head, "Although they nominally split off, they are actually still a small force within the scope of the Southwest, and many of them will still consider your and my existence. So since the first two times have passed, this time, it's hard to say... Maybe Chen Shanjun is ruthless and can find a more mature way to solve the problem."

Xigua thought for a moment: "...Would it have been better to drive them out completely at the beginning?"

"Immature system models, experiencing more cruel internal struggles, will only collapse earlier. These nascent things are always like this..."

"—You haven't really seen it!"

Xigua frowned and shouted at Ning Yi. Then she took a few deep breaths: "You always say that, you always say that... You haven't really seen it..."

This time, probably because the war in the Southwest was finally over, she could be angry about it, and finally broke out in front of Ning Yi. Ning Yi was not annoyed, and looked out of the car: "You're right... there aren't many people here, let's go for a walk?"

"...Yeah."

Xigua nodded. The two stopped the carriage. When they got out of the car, it was a quiet street in the city with few tourists. Although there were shops and houses with lights on both sides of the road, most of the pedestrians on the road were nearby residents, and children were playing and laughing in the neighborhood. They walked forward, and after a while, Ning Yi said: "Doesn't this look like that night in Hangzhou?"

"There was a curfew in Hangzhou that night, no one!" said Xigua.

Ning Yi leaned over and took her hand. Two children who were playing nearby saw the couple holding hands and made some surprised and shy sounds, retreating to the side. Xigua, wearing a blue floral dress, smiled at the children - she was a girl from the Miao mountains, who dared to love and hate, and was very generous. She had been married for more than ten years and had a calm demeanor.

"I sometimes think," Ning Yi said, holding her hand and walking forward, "At that time in Hangzhou, how old were you, thinking about becoming a shepherdess, wanting everyone in the world to be able to grab that steamed bun? If it were in another situation, could your thoughts still be so firm today?"

"Hmm?" Xigua turned her head to look at him.

"Back then on the streets of Hangzhou, it was me who told you about the world of great harmony and equality for all. Comrade Xigua, could it be possible that it was because I told you these things that you have been able to remember them so resolutely for so many years? When I think about it, I feel that this matter can be regarded as our common ideal, right..."

His words were warm. After saying this, Xigua's originally somewhat rebellious expression softened, and her eyes gradually narrowed with a smile: "But didn't you say that you were deceiving me back then..."

"It's still that sentence, there was deception at that time, but that doesn't mean I don't believe it," Ning Yi said with a smile, "Looking back, when I asked Hongti what she wanted, I took it over, made it into a bow, and gave it to her. She said she wanted world peace... I can achieve world peace, but your idea is the only thing we can't reach in this lifetime..."

"It's Chen Shanjun who can't reach it." Xigua looked at him, her eyes a little resentful, "Sometimes I think, if you did those things, wouldn't it be different? But you haven't done them, so you always say that it must be like that... Of course I also know that the Huaxia army must first defeat the Jurchens, and you can't do things like Chen Shanjun, you have to be stable, but... you really haven't seen it..."

"If..." Ning Yi sighed softly, "If... I had seen it?"

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