Wu Dynasty Jinghan ten years of spring, Zhenjiang.

When the sun sets, it is like the wind blowing the petals of a flower across the sky. The weather has not yet fully warmed, but it has not yet made people feel the cold of winter, the willows are budding, the poplars are dancing, and the peach trees have become pink.

It was nightfall, and the boats sailing near the wharf had gathered and were bustling, with the cormorants standing on the rafts watching all this, the cries of the fishermen, the clamor of the artemisiaws, the comings and goings of the boatmen, and sometimes the cabins touching the nets, causing a wave of confusion and abuse. When the bell of Jinshan Temple came from afar, the lights were already lit up between the ancient cities behind.

The setting sun was dyed a residual red on the corner of the distant mountains.

"When I left, it was summer, and when I came back, it was already the beginning of spring the second year."

At the door of the house where the lantern was lit, looking at the spring scene outside, Ning Yi sighed with Lu Hongti.

The woman in the cloth clapped her hands, and not long after, she sat down on the threshold very unvividly, tilted her head, and watched the scene when the pedestrians returned.

Ning Yi smiled, and also sat by the threshold for a while, and then Xiaochan called Miss Uncle to find you inside, and then got up and went in.

The day I arrived in Zhenjiang was February 27.

Compared with the leisurely journey all the way south, when I really rushed back, it didn't take much time on the road. When the city was broken, Su Tan'er was more than eight months pregnant, although it was said that Wen Ren was taken care of, but anything could happen in the newly broken city, so under the protection of Wen Ren'er, Su Tan'er Xiaochan and others went north to Zhenjiang for the first time, waiting for the dust to settle. And when the matter of the Badao Battalion was finally dealt with, Ning Yi and Lu Hongti rushed over to this side together.

Since July last year, the crisis of the trip to Hangzhou has been one after another, and it has hardly stopped. In the most difficult time, even Ning Yi was a little confused about the fact that he could still return. But at this point, the whole thing finally came to an end. Especially after dealing with the fate of the Badao Battalion, I finally let go of a big stone in my heart, and I could breathe a sigh of relief. Being able to feel the peaceful atmosphere of the streets of Zhenjiang is really like a world away.

For Lu Hongti, it may be another mood.

The Luliang Mountain where she originally lived was not necessarily much better than Hangzhou when it fell, with Liao in the north and Tianhu in the south, after arriving in Hangzhou. It's nothing more than seeing a group of like-minded people getting into trouble. In every sense of the word. For her, Zhenjiang is not like a different world, but another world similar to Jiangning, which is difficult to reach.

For Ning Yi, whether it is Zhenjiang, Jiangning or Hangzhou. Its prosperity is only a tolerable passing range. As for those remote and remote areas where many people eat chaff and drink poorly and can't even wear clothes, he can certainly understand and imagine, but he can say that he can empathize. Naturally, it is still impossible.

The situation of Luliang Mountain is probably so miserable, the farmer has planted the land, not to mention whether the harvest of the year can be guaranteed, the Liao people sometimes commit offenses, and occasionally the people of a village can't avoid it, and it often becomes a blank land. After the Liao people left, there would be people from the government who didn't know where they came from to collect taxes and rents, and those who could bring knives away would die under the knife after a while, and groups of people who fell into the grass killed the enemy, skinned them and hung them on the flagpole. After Tian Hu's uprising. There is another force to participate in the robbery, but everyone doesn't seem to feel any more sad, it's just getting used to it.

Being able to come here and see the stable life of these people really feels like they have arrived in another world, even in Hangzhou after the occupation, you can see the prosperity of not long ago from the previous buildings. All I can think of is a sentence of "what a pity......".

Today's Luliang Mountain is better, at least the village is much better, but it still can't be compared with here. She sat at the door and watched for a while, and only got up and went in when Juan'er came over to call her for dinner.

In those days in Hangzhou. She does makeup every day, although she has her own way. But it's also very troublesome, except for some necessary outings, just staying in the yard, and during this time, there is relatively silence. Ning Yi would occasionally talk to her about Lu Liangshan, and would briefly talk to her about some ideas, but he didn't make anything decisive. She also watched everything Ning Yi did in those days, trying to remember them and understand them.

But this time, with the coming over, she was no longer dressed as a woman in her thirties, but showed her original beautiful face, which made Xiao Chanjuan'er and them a little amazed, at this time, Su Tan'er, who was already with a big belly, looked normal, but she couldn't help but look at Ning Yi and look at her suspiciously.

These people don't think that they have a problem with Ning Yi.

Thinking of this, some of her emotions made her smile slightly. On the way south last year, she thought about some things with some complicated thoughts, including persuading Ning Yi to go to Luliang, and even ...... The possibility of something happening with him. After all, she is not young, and there are many things that need to be forced to think about it seriously.

She is used to seeing the human style in the north, and the atmosphere she has seen in the south along the way is too weak, and there are stronger ones, which are biased towards the coldness she doesn't like. Only this man named Ning Liheng is very strange, he not only has the elegance and calmness of a scholar, but also does not lose the atmosphere when he is strategizing, and even when he is in close contact with others, he treats others and treats himself ruthlessly, I am afraid that many outlaws near Luliang who are known for their fierceness will be frightened. If there is such an assumption: she will be with such a man. She didn't mind thinking she wouldn't mind either.

Of course, such a mood was only budded at the beginning, and it was washed away by many things, not because it was vetoed, but ...... It's hard to think about it anymore.

Everything that happened in the Badao Camp, everything Ning Yi did, she saw it both bright and dark, how others were lost in the conspiracy, how they were deceived, how they were instigated by him, and even how the girl named Liu Watermelon fell in love with him. made her feel that she couldn't do these things that this man had done, and even she had some difficulty figuring out what the other party was thinking.

In the previous acquaintance and separation in Jiangning, Ning Yi wanted to ask her for martial arts, but there was not much calculation, and he showed sincerity at that time. Tell stories once in a while, and do some messy "experiments" in his little "laboratory". Sometimes she was amazed, but then she could appreciate him. This is based on the self-perception that "everyone looks the same".

Now it's different, she doesn't dislike what Ning Yi did, but after watching it for a long time, she is just amazed, and even feels the mountains look up. Especially the whole plan he made to Liu Xigua, the concept of making everyone's life better, she didn't know how much of it was deception, and how much of it was his serious thinking. However, when these things are fully unfolded. The breadth and depth of the man in front of her was more than she could reach. It's hard for her to think about it.

It's just that...... Suddenly, there was a bit of a loss.

I once heard a similar story from Grandpa Liang.

It's as if a Jianghu person met a real Confucian, the kind of person who is like a saint for the country and the people, and was impressed by his ideas. was even infected by the other party and wanted to do something, but after reaching the worst, the people in the rivers and lakes had to be reckless after all, and there was still a world of difference between the two people.

She didn't think that Ning Yi was a saint, but her emotions were similar.

That night, after dinner, she sat in the courtyard, bored. I sat on the roof for a while and watched the lights of the ten thousand houses. She has superb internal strength, intentionally or unintentionally, she heard the conversation between Ning Yi and his wife Su Tan'er coming from over there, Su Tan'er will not give birth for more than a month, and Zhenjiang is not very far from Jiangning, so she wants to return to Jiangning as soon as possible. After all, there are more familiar doctors and stable women in my home, and the environment is better.

Su Tan'er usually runs around and runs west, her health is good, she has experienced many things after she is pregnant with a child, and recently she has been lively except for the occasional movement of the child in her belly. It's not too strenuous, if it's just a little more than a day's journey. It's not that I can't stand it. Ning Yi should have nodded in agreement.

After all, listening to people's privacy is not good, Lu Hongti has already heard a few words, and then wants to leave, but then the two talked about her, Su Tan'er said: "This Lu Nuxia is a little different from the other Jianghu people I saw in Hangzhou." ”

She paused on the roof, but heard Ning Yi say, "She's not a Jianghu person. These words made Lu Hongti a little curious, and sat down again.

"What? She's very good at martial arts, right? ”

"The rivers and lakes that Hangzhou saw those people had something to do with the level of martial arts, but it didn't have much to do with it. Their rivers and lakes are the same as businessmen, they are just living a life, what kind of people they see, what kind of words they say, what kind of etiquette they say, what kind of rules they practice, these are all lives that they can see and touch, you will know martial arts, and it is more likely that you have to live in this way. On Miss Lu's side, martial arts is life, used to cut trees, used to chop vegetables, and learned martial arts in order to have a life to live, how to live is a matter of later. ”

Xiang Gong said so...... Seems ......"

"Huh?"

"It seems that Miss Lu is a little pitiful......"

Lu Hongti frowned on the roof, but he could hear Ning Yi below: "It's not pitiful, I think it should be...... Cute, right? He thought about it for a while, and then made this definition softly, Lu Hongti blinked upstairs, and Su Tan'er may have been a little stunned: "Xianggong, you ......."

But Ning Yi's words were a little solemn: "In that most harsh environment, with your own strength to kill out of the sea of corpses and blood, you can survive all the way strong, such a person, I think...... It's amazing...... In some ways, I think it's similar to people like Qian Xiwen. ”

Su Tan'er probably didn't expect Ning Yi to have such an evaluation, and Lu Hongti was also a little distracted for a while, is she similar to Qian Xiwen...... She had heard Ning Yi tell the story of the old man in Hangzhou, and she had also heard his evaluation of the old man, but she had never thought that she was similar to the other party. I only heard Su Tan'er think about it and said, "Speaking of which, Xianggong thinks that Miss Lu is ...... Admirable? ”

"Nope." This time, Ning Yi replied simply.

"Huh?"

"She's a woman." Ning Yi said.

Su Tan'er hesitated: "So what?" ”

"She's a woman." Ning Yi emphasized, after a while, probably because his wife couldn't understand, "She is a woman, how can I admire a woman, of course women make people feel cute, right......"

Su Tan'er probably laughed out loud, and Ning Yi's voice lowered slightly: "Aren't you too, a woman, thinking about doing men's things, being a housekeeper and doing business, this way and that, when I first got married, I was still thinking about how to accommodate me, I was a little tired, why bother...... I'm not going to admire you, so it's okay to think cute. ”

"Now that the child is about to be born, if you had known the Tao earlier...... Heh......"

I thought I was talking about myself, but it turned out that I was flirting...... The conversation between the husband and wife in the room over there continued, Lu Hongti thought so, thinking about that paragraph, his face unconsciously warmed, but then he sighed and left from the roof......