Ning Yi didn't know that Lu Hongti had heard his conversation with his wife on the roof before, so naturally he couldn't make too many associations with her reaction. From the beginning to the end, he could only be regarded as casual talk, not much wit. The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention.

Of course, even in some situations, a woman like Red Grape will be extraordinarily emotional, but it doesn't mean that this heart will be touched to what extent. It can even be said that even though she doesn't hate Ning Yi, and even admires and admires it, in her heart, she has actually dispelled some thoughts and speculations about possibilities when she went down the mountain. The man in front of her is not an existence in the same world as her, and after this recognition, the rest becomes simpler.

Since he had decided to return to Jiangning as soon as possible, the next morning, Ning Yi also found an official ship through the Tang family's connections. Although a big man like Tang Xiuxuan is not in Zhenjiang, but when he learned that he was leaving, some of the children of the Tang family or the rich and relatives who had received favors also hurried over, and they all said that if there was any trouble in the future, they could find them, and it was incumbent on them to stick a knife in both sides.

At the beginning, on the way to escape, after Ning Yi fell into a coma, the whole team was also in an embarrassment, and later learned that the pursuers wanted to arrest Ning Yi, and some people in the team used some means to make the pursuers' attention turn to him as much as possible. For example, when An Xifu and others secretly attacked and bombed the camp, they specially sent a team of people to protect Ning Yi, which was actually an extra move that attracted attention. After Ning Yi was arrested, he vaguely spelled out the intention of the whole thing, but he didn't plan to investigate what happened in that situation, and the other party was just a small action of pushing the boat along the water, not a malicious intention to harm people. After all, Ning Yi had never hoped for the high moral character of the people around him at that time, and he did not regard the other party as a companion, so it could not be said that such a thing happened completely unexpectedly.

Now that I'm back. If they are willing to make a good match, they don't have to be polite. The business that was ready to be given up because of the Lou family when he left Hangzhou can now be directly rolled out to the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal through these relationships.

Su Tan'er is nearly nine months pregnant, and each day of delay gets closer to the day of delivery. Therefore, at noon that day, the family boarded the boat, which belonged to the government, and the building boat belonging to the government was the largest boat that could be found in the inland waterway at present. Even if it goes up the Yangtze River. The journey was also quite smooth. The ship was divided into two floors, and Ning Yi and the others were all arranged in the room on the first floor where they could not feel the bumps, as expected. At night, we will rest for a few hours, and by the evening of the next day, we will be able to arrive in Jiangning.

February 28 of the 10th year of Jinghan. In the bright spring light, the huge building boat slowly sailing against the current slowly sails through the waterway of the Yangtze River, with lush trees on both sides, and occasionally flashes the rice fields, farmhouses and villages in Qianmo. Lu Hongti stood at the bow of the boat and watched all this, informing Ning Yi of his plans to leave.

"After disembarking tomorrow evening, I will go north, and I will not enter the city."

Ning Yi was silent beside him for a while: "Zhilu said that you are in a hurry to go back, but it is not bad for these few days, not to mention those thoughts that I want to give you." It's not completely sorted out yet, so let's stay for a few more days and take you to take a good look at Jiangning. ”

Lu Hongti smiled: "I know that you have almost sorted it out, this should be your habit, don't procrastinate in everything." ”

"It's a bad habit......"

"And after you go back, there should be a lot of things to deal with at home, and you will have to devote yourself to entertaining me. There's no need. Besides, I've really been out for too long this time, and it would be better to go back one day earlier, after all, I have a lot to do. ”

Lu Hong's words were sincere. It's not just polite, Ning Yi thought for a while: "If it's a matter at home." There's really nothing to do, it's all very simple, but since you're ......"

"I'm really worried about being in the stockade, and I've been out for too long, and I'm thinking about it." Lu Hongti said with a smile.

"Hmm." Ning Yi nodded, "Then I'll get everything ready tonight." ”

"Thank you." Lu Hongti arched his hand.

"Children of the rivers and lakes, we don't have to say these hypocritical words."

"Hehe......" Hearing him say this, Lu Hongti laughed and trembled, "I also wrote you a small book, not the kind of cheats you said in those martial arts stories, but it should be useful to you, you probably won't be able to become a first-class master in the future, but if you continue to practice, after three or five years, you will have more than enough self-defense." ”

I said...... What kind of concept do you mean by a first-class master......"

"The owner of the watermelon farm, Liu Tiannan, Chen Fan, his master Fang Qifo, as well as Li Tianyan and Wang Yin, and even Bao Daoyi, who was killed by you, can be regarded as first-class, you have distractions, and your foundation is unstable, I am afraid that you will not be able to reach that level in this life." Lu Hongti said with a smile.

Ning Yi naturally wouldn't be hit by this kind of thing, if Lu Hongti said that he could fight these people alone, he would feel that the world was very mysterious, and thought for a while: "Do they count as Fang Shuchang?" ”

"Those seven, that's pretty much it. Mr. Du Kill, who is ranked first, has reached the threshold of first-class, and the most powerful one at present should be the 'Ember Evil Knife' Luo Bingren, but he has always been low-key, but the best qualification is Qian Luoning, who is at the bottom of the ranking, and his achievements in the future should be above other companions, you can't reach it. If you work hard in the future...... Well, it should be similar to the current Fang Shuchang. ”

Her martial arts are estimated to be at the level of a grandmaster at the moment, and the evaluation she said will not be wrong, saying this, she looked at Ning Yi for a while, and then, she muttered with some sighs: "However, how high the combat power is, it is not to use these ...... that can be judged" probably because she thought of Ning Yi's perverted heart, decisive means and can always manipulate people's hearts and humanity in the palm of his hand, which is very accessible.

Of course, she wouldn't say these things directly to Ning Yi. After chatting a few more words, she sighed: "Actually, along the way, there is something I have always wanted to ask ......"

"What?"

"Is it really possible to achieve the things you did in Badaozhuang and the things you told Miss Liu?"

Ning Yi glanced at her: "Most of the people who can ask these questions are some enthusiastic people......

"Huh?"

"I don't know what to do." Ning Yi said, "I don't know what it will become if I do it, if I do it seriously, it may be useful, maybe in a hundred or two hundred years, some people will realize some things, but it is also possible that these things will be buried for four or five hundred years before anyone discovers them." But no matter what. As long as we are one step ahead in eight hundred years......"

In the last eight hundred years, Lu Hongti didn't understand what it meant, but Ning Yi usually said some strange words, and she was used to it, so Ning Yi shook his head with a smile and continued: "You don't have to think about them for the time being...... Of course, it's okay to think about it, but you can't do anything. Over there. Let's do something pragmatic first. To be honest, the siege of Hangzhou has been lifted, and I don't know if I need to go to Beijing now. And...... In the future, if I really poke a terrible basket, I may have to go to you. ”

"Huh?" Lu Hongti blinked, quite interested.

"That's how people do things. At first, you just want to do something, but in the middle you will encounter all kinds of people and things, offend people who are not easy to offend, use methods that should not be used, and end up ...... I'm afraid these things will overwhelm the original intention. Do you know the truth? Most of the officials in the court are capable, and at the beginning, they also have a patriotic heart to serve the country, but slowly. The interests gathered behind them are different and the direction is different, and the interests that need to be defended in front of them are more important than the original idea. I'm probably no different from them, and ...... I'm afraid I'll be even more unscrupulous than they are, and one day I'll have to fall into the grass. ”

"I'm welcome." Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Hongti said with a smile. "To put it too far, if only there was this day, I'll wait for you to come."

"I'll try to refrain from it."

Both of them laughed, and after a while, Lu Hongti looked back at the back. Seeing that Su Tan'er and the others were not there, Fang Cai said softly: "Your lady is actually very good to you." Do you know the way? The time I was spying on her in Huzhou. The servants around said that if you really died, your lady would probably ignore the fetus in her womb and go down with you. A woman can do this to this extent, she is really fond of you, I ...... I kind of admire her. ”

Ning Yi solemnly nodded: "...... Zhilu Dao. ”

"What about that Nie girl in Jiangning? She is also a good woman, I know that she had a rough life in the early years, and she was reduced to dust, but she has always been clean and self-conscious, and now she likes you with all her heart, and if you abandon her, she will have nothing. What do you do? ”

On this question, surprisingly, Ning Yi didn't hesitate much: "What do you say?" ”

"I don't know what to do...... But you men always have three wives and four concubines, heh, it's a good woman who always lets you meet, and that Miss Liu......"

"Hey." Ning Yi turned his head and looked at her with a smile, "This is too much, there's no need to pull everything on me......"

"You just answered so quickly, which means that you have been thinking about this, not that you have no heart and lungs." Lu Hongti said with a smile, "What about your results, what are the results you came up with?" ”

Ning Yi looked at her: "What do you think if I directly share with Yunzhu for the sake of Tan'er and don't communicate with each other again?" ”

Lu Hongti looked at him and didn't speak, frowning slightly.

"Then if I leave the Su family like this for the sake of Yunzhu, what do you think?"

“……”

Lu Hongti frowned, but still didn't answer, although this is the era of three wives and four concubines, but it is just a little less thoughtful about men to be single-minded, the reason why Lu Hongti asked is probably that he still hopes that Ning Yi himself is a more perfect person.

Ning Yi lowered his head and looked at his hands, the backs of his hands, and the palms of his hands: "Actually, there was a time when I wanted to leave the Su family for Yunzhu, but it didn't work out." Recently, I'm actually thinking about separating from Yunzhu for Tan'er, but ......"

Ning Yi shook his head, smiled, and finally didn't say anything more. Su Tan'er pursed her lips, and then laughed slightly, as if she thought that Ning Yi would also have such a tangled time. The two chatted like this for a while, and when they had dinner in the evening, the boat stopped at a village on the way, where they rested for the night, and rented a farmhouse to stay. After turning on the lamp and settling down, Lu Hongti heard Ning Yi's voice from the courtyard: "But it was said that there was a scholar named Ning Caichen in the past, and he ......"

Xiaochan was talking: "Uncle...... Uh, Xianggong Xianggong, I have heard this story before...... "Although Xiaochan and Ning Yi have been married for a while, they often blurt out Ning Yi as their uncle.

"I've heard it and I'll listen to it again."

Lu Hongti knew that the relationship between the family was quite harmonious, chatting at night, telling stories or playing chess and cards, etc., even if Juan'er Xing'er and these maids embroidered the soles of their shoes, Ning Yi could always find something to do with them. She walked out the door. Sure enough, Su Tan'er also sat under the eaves over there, after all, the weather is warmer, and you can enjoy the moon and stars in the courtyard on this kind of day, of course, at the end of this month, there are only stars in the sky.

What Ning Yi said was something she had heard more than a year ago. But I didn't finish listening to the story called "A Chinese Ghost Story". When she came out. Su Tan'er and the others also beckoned to her, she moved a stool, and sat down beside Su Tan'er, the farthest from Ning Yi.

“…… said that Ning Caichen met Nie Xiaoqian in Lanruo Temple...... Yan Chixia shouted, "Heaven and earth are infinite." Qiankun borrowed the law', and the eight swords flew towards the old demon of Montenegro at the same time...... Finally, Nie Xiaoqian said this to Ning Caichen......"

Starlight blur. Ning Yi sat there and finished this story that was not too long, and after finishing speaking, he told a story about the gods and monsters called "The Plum Girl" at Xiaochan's appeal, and from beginning to end, he did not talk to Lu Hong.

By the time the story was finished, it was late at night. The next morning, the official ship set off early in the morning and arrived in the afternoon. Already approaching Jiangning, Lu Hongti packed up his small baggage and prepared to disembark near Jiangning.

"The story I promised to tell you last time is finally finished."

"I thought you would have to sell the second story."

"Isn't it a thousand and one nights......

When handing over the booklet and other things he had written, Ning Yi said so, then laughed and handed her a stack of silver tickets: "A total of 24,000 taels of silver." Recently, the limit of what can be taken out is my investment, or it can be the investment of the Su family. ”

Lu Hongti frowned: "Our side...... There is no shortage of these ......"

"Money can make money, not for your own use, but to buy things from those merchants. Put these investments into operation first. These silver tickets can be redeemed in the customs. They will not fail to take it. Good weapons and armor are the most important, and training should also be invested, and food should be used, but don't raise lazy people, let them eat and live together and suffer together, and practice to the death, heh, these are what you know best after all. Force is the foundation, it can be expanded by economic operation, everything is in it, your Grandpa Liang is very powerful, show him. I'm waiting to take refuge with you one day. ”

"Then I'll wait for that day to come early." Lu Hongti accepted the silver ticket and looked at him with a smile, a little reluctant to speak, but he still smiled and said, "Whether it's Miss Su or Miss Nie, treat them well, they deserve this, and you ...... It's worth it. Don't let it down, don't mess it up. ”

Ning Yi nodded: "Zhilu Dao, next time I will tell you a story, and I will also listen to you talk about Lu Liang, if you have any trouble, you can go to the capital to find me, I am on your side." ”

Lu Hongti looked at him, his face changed, he was silent for a moment, nodded with an open-minded smile: "It's good." ”

Lu Hongti got off the boat on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and after saying that there would be a period later, Ning Yi returned to the boat, and they watched this woman with strong martial arts but a lonely woman riding a horse, gradually walking away in the mountains over there.

Half an hour later, the ship entered Jiangning and docked at the wharf.

Jiangning is still the lively scene of the past, people come and go on the dock, they went to the nearby Su family warehouse to get the carriage, the shopkeeper here came to see Su Tan'er and Ning Yi, and then also said some changes in the family in the recent period. In fact, Su Tan'er originally said that she was going to Hangzhou to relax, if everything was fine, the Su family might be quiet, but since the outbreak of the war in Hangzhou, Ning Yi and the others lost their news there, there will definitely be movement in the second and third rooms of the Su family, and it must have changed a lot since such a long time.

Listening to the message brought by the shopkeeper, Su Tan'er leaned on Ning Yi's side, just smiled faintly, and Ning Yi then helped her into the carriage.

The sun had set, rendering the remnants of spring in the distance: "Let's go." They looked at the street scene of Jiangning in the distance, "Look what has become of the home." ”

The carriage drove through the street, the sun fell, the wind stirred the willow trees on the side of the road, as if thinking of them waving, Ning Yi looked at the distant scene through the car window, the tributaries of the Qinhuai River occasionally turned out of view, and the waves of the setting sun rippled on the water. Ning Yi knew that there would be a small building in a certain river bend in this city, and there was a person who was also waiting for his return......

***********

There was a power outage yesterday afternoon and a network outage this afternoon.

And then of course it will continue......