After crossing the plains around Qiuyuan County, he entered the boundary of Shuzhong in Hengzhou.

The boundary of Shuzhong is mountainous and precipitous, and the rolling mountains crisscross it, making it a natural defensive barrier.

Due to the special geographical location of the territory of Shuzhong, a group of extremely vicious mountain bandits and rogues have been stationed here all year round, and there are also fugitive cultivators.

They are bloodthirsty and murderous, and their methods are ruthless, making the local people miserable.

Although the imperial court also responded, the so-called saviors who were delegated here were just a group of lame and mercenary cultivators of the lower three realms.

Their own cultivation was already extremely difficult, and without any cultivation resources or the support of the sect, taking on this kind of errand was nothing more than wanting to get a little oil and water from it.

And those who are in the cultivation realm of the Middle Three Realms, one by one, boast of being high, in their eyes, this kind of thing is not worth their cultivation, so naturally, it also falls into the hands of these cultivators in the Lower Three Realms.

At first, the effect was acceptable, and those mountain bandits and bandits also stopped for a long time after receiving the blow.

But this peaceful scene did not last long, and these outlaws were driven by profit to make a comeback.

After learning the lesson from the last time, they gradually became wiser and began to learn to use their natural geographical advantages to deal with it.

In this way, the original group of confident and arrogant hunters were gradually tricked by these prey in their eyes, and finally they were broken one by one and fled in the wilderness.

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In the mountains and forests, the red horses galloped, the wind rolled up smoke and dust, and with a hissing sound, the red horses who were walking against the wind stagnated.

The oncoming hot wind stopped blowing, and the young man sitting behind the horse straightened his messy bangs and jumped off the horse with an unnatural expression.

"Looks like we're only here for one night today." The boy patted the dust attached to the corner of his clothes, looked at the quiet environment around him, and turned to the girl on horseback and said.

When the girl heard this, her figure was stunned, and then she turned over and dismounted, shrugged her head and responded to the young man's faint word.

Looking at the faint flush on the girl's cheeks, the young man coughed twice in embarrassment.

The atmosphere between the two suddenly became delicate.

From Akihara County to now, the two have been driving dozens of miles non-stop.

This is also thanks to having a horse, otherwise according to the carriage that Chen Bugui had expected before, it would take an estimated day to catch up.

The slanting sun on the horizon was gradually swallowed up by the continuous mountains, and the scattered afterglow reflected on the flowing stream, reflecting a golden halo.

The heat of the day began to subside, and the air gradually attached to the cold.

The twilight of the distant sky gradually flooded the sky.

After Chen Bugui tied the horses, he looked for some dead wood nearby to use as firewood.

Although the temperature in the mountains and forests did not have any effect on him, it was still necessary for an ordinary girl who had not practiced to maintain a normal temperature.

The rising flames dispelled the cold air around them, and the two sat around the fire, and the girl buried her head in her knees in silence, and looked at the burning fire with her eyes lost.

Chen Bugui looked at the girl's absent-minded appearance, and stopped talking.

The young man who didn't know why simply followed Xu Wanning's example and stared at the fire silently.

The silence spread indefinitely, and only the crunch of firewood burning in the fire could be heard.

The young man who stared at the fire for a long time was finally persuaded by the swelling pain in his eyes, he turned around and took the food he bought in Akihara County, picked out a piece of peach blossom crisp from the package, looked up at the girl who remained in the same state, and asked in a low voice, "Peach blossom crisp, do you want to eat?!" ”

Xu Wan's thoughts were pulled back by the young man's voice, slightly sideways to the buried head, and glanced at the peach blossom cake handed over by the young man with his residual vision, and then decisively withdrew his eyes, and said lightly, "I'm not hungry..."

"Miss Xu, what are you ......" The young man withdrew his outstretched hand and looked at Xu Wanning with puzzled eyes.

It's fine during the day, but why did you become like this now?!

"I'm fine."

After Xu Wanning finished speaking, she changed her posture again, and said with her hands on her cheeks, "I just didn't expect it to feel like this after leaving home." ”

It turned out to be homesick......

After hearing the answer, the young man finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

"You're leaving home for the first time?!" Chen Bugui raised his eyebrows.

Xu Wanning turned her head and said weakly, "It's the first time I've run away from home......"

"Leave ...... What?! ”

The boy's words of comfort came to an abrupt end.

But after thinking about it, with this aunt's temperament, she can really do such a thing.

"Where is your home?!" Chen Bugui subconsciously took a bite of the peach blossom crisp in his hand and asked.

"Tiandu."

"Tiandu ......"

The word Tiandu, Chen Bugui has only heard of it in Zhao Xuan's mouth, it seems to be the capital of the Tang Kingdom, the most prosperous place in the entire Zhongzhou.

"Then why did you run away from home?!" The boy asked inexplicably.

Although Chen Bugui only stays in the literal cognition of Tiandu, this does not prevent the teenager from yearning and longing for these two words.

As the capital of a country, in the eyes of the young man, there should be more than just prosperity, there should be many new things, and there should also be many very powerful cultivators.

The young man didn't quite understand why Xu Wanning's starting point was thousands of times better than him, so why he would think about running away from home.

"Because ......" the girl subconsciously wanted to answer, but as soon as the words came out, she immediately reprimanded, "Why should I tell you!" ”

"Give it to me!" The girl stretched out a hand and glared at Chen Budao.

"What?!" Chen asked puzzled.

"The one in your hand!" Xu Wanning pointed to the thing in the young man's hand and raised her eyebrows.

Lowering his head in the direction of the girl's fingers, Chen Bugui looked at the peach blossom cake he had bitten in his hand, and instantly understood.

"I'll get it for you." The young man smiled awkwardly, and immediately took a piece of peach blossom cake from the package and handed it to the girl.

Only women and villains in the world are difficult to raise, and this sentence is really not wrong at all.

One second he was still saying that he was not hungry, and the next second, he blatantly asked you what you wanted to eat.

"Is Tiandu far away from Sword Ridge?!"

Looking at the girl who was chewing slowly, Chen Bugui asked.

"Tiandu and Jianling, the two are thousands of miles apart, you said it is not far away." The girl chewed on the food in her mouth and replied vaguely.

Looking at the girl's calm answer, Chen Bugui couldn't help but feel a strange emotion in his heart.

Thousands of miles away, for an ordinary person, how can it be so easy?!

Even if it is a cultivator of the Middle Third Realm, it will take a lot of effort to cross the distance of thousands of miles in a short time, let alone for an ordinary person like Xu Wanning who has not yet condensed the starlight.

"Now that we have reached the realm of Shuzhong, we will be able to reach Jianling in a short distance." Xu Wanning swallowed the food in her mouth, licked her lips and said, "There is a village not far ahead, where will we go to change our clothes tomorrow." ”

"How do you know there's a village ahead?!" Chen Bugui asked incredulously, "Isn't it the first time you've run away from home?!" ”

Xu Wanning looked at Chen Bugui with a hellish expression, and helplessly held her forehead with her hand and said, "It's good that I'm running away from home for the first time, but I didn't say that it's the first time I'm going to Jianling......"

"A few years ago, when my aunt was born, I followed my father to Jianling once, and then rescued a pair of siblings who were bullied by mountain bandits here, and the village in front of me is where the sibling lives."

"The boundary of Shuzhong is not like other places in Hengzhou, here is not subject to the rules and regulations, in recent years, mountain bandits have risen, the court is just a sloppy eye, in the end it is the people who live here who suffer."

"Doesn't anyone care?!" Chen Bugui asked.

"Tube?! How do you care?! The girl sneered, "Those high-ranking bigwigs only play tricks, and they think that if they have to do this kind of thing themselves, it will be too worthless." ”

"So they exercised their rights as a matter of course, and sent those little-known but self-righteous people to help them with these trivial matters."

However, these little people who are standing on the cusp of the storm naturally want to perform well in exchange for the favor of the big people...... But they didn't think about what the word price was. ”

"I don't have much ability myself, but I want to ascend to the ......sky in one step through this way," the girl paused and said, "The result can be imagined, they underestimated the ruthlessness of this group of outlaws, and then they suddenly sobered up and began to be afraid...... I'm afraid that I'll lose my life, and I'm afraid that I'll become a nameless corpse on the side of the road that no one cares about......"

"There are two sides to everything, and the world is no exception, and the shiny surfaces you see with your eyes don't mean everything...... I can't say, but in fact, my bones are rotten to the point that they stink. ”

"This world is not as good as you think......" The girl stared at Chen Bugui's cheeks and chuckled, "but it's not as bad as you think." ”

The boy was dumbfounded.

Xu Wanning's words gave him a new understanding of the world.

It is true that Zhao Xuan has taught him a lot in the past year or so.

For example, practice, and kendo.

The big truths are not less than what the young people listen to in Zhao Xuan, but the big truths that Zhao Xuan and he talked about are how to kill people and how to save their lives.

The boy only listened to the latter.

Now Xu Wanning's words have once again changed the young man's view of this world.

He didn't know how many of the girl's words were true and how many were false.

But at least he could clearly feel Xu Wanning's mood swings when she said this.

That's real.

Maybe she's seen the world.

But he didn't.

So he wanted to see it for himself.

Whether it's good or bad, it's always what you've experienced and it's true.