To Li Fenglan's surprise, there were many people in this town below the mountain who knew Hanlu, and it seemed that he used to come here often.

When the aunt of the grain and oil store saw the cold dew, she asked happily, "Isn't this cold dew? Where have you been in these two years?"

Hanlu replied, "I went out for something."

"You said you, and you didn't know if you left. Lao Liu, a few of them, all said that after you were gone, they wouldn't even have a place to drink water at noon. You know Lao Liutou's daughter, right? It's Xiu'e, after you leave, the little girl doesn't think about it. Let me tell you, Lao Liu Tou is just this one daughter, he sees that you have no father and no mother, but you are handsome and polite, and he has long wanted to accept you as a son-in-law. It's a pity, the girl may be down to the family now, and she will get married after the New Year...... Ay? Who's this handsome girl next to you?"

This aunt is very talkative, and she said a lot of things with a bald mouth, and when she asked Li Fenglan's identity, Han Lu replied with a smile: "This is clumsy Jing, Fenglan."

Li Fenglan did not object to his statement, and smiled generously at the eldest mother.

The lady immediately felt embarrassed: "Ah, yoyo, I'm married." Look at the eldest lady's mouth, don't worry about it, Hanlu hasn't spoken to other girls."

Coming out of the grain and oil store, Li Fenglan looked at Han Lu, who was putting things on the horse, pinched him with a smile, and asked, "...... this Xiu'e girl?"

Before she could finish asking, Han Lu didn't look back and said, "The best-looking girl in town, I've seen her several times, her house is in front, do you want to go and see it?"

Li Fenglan patted him: "Why am I going to see people?"

Han Lu turned her head and smiled at her, and Li Fenglan, who knew that she had been tricked, pinched him again.

The two men who had bought the supplies walked towards the hill, not noticing that in the gate of a house around the corner of the street, a woman looked through the crack in the door at a couple of men and women walking slowly towards the outside of the town.

After returning to the mountain, Li Fenglan did something that shocked Han Lu particularly - Li Fenglan cooked a meal for him, although it was a little unpalatable, but it was edible.

Li Fenglan didn't have much appetite, didn't move her chopsticks, just looked at Han Lu who was gobbling up with a happy face. In fact, Hanlu was not hungry, but his subconscious told him that if he didn't finish the meal, the consequences might be unimaginable.

As he ate, he asked, "When did you learn to cook?"

"In the past few days in Xiangyang, I can't go to the restaurant every day to eat...... Is it delicious?"

At this time, Li Fenglan's expression was the same as that expression when she was flattered by the morning fog, and she was looking forward to someone giving her a positive compliment.

Hanlu nodded and said, "It's delicious."

Hearing this answer, Li Fenglan smiled even more happily.

On the first night, Li Fenglan regretted staying here.

The mountain wind at night was very strong, and this year was exceptionally cold, although she slept with someone in her arms, she was still shivering from the cold. Not only that, but in the second half of the night, I don't know where a wolf howl came from, which made Li Fenglan feel that this place was terrifying.

"That ......," Li Fenglan asked softly, "here...... Safe, right?"

Han Lu was a little puzzled: "Of course it's safe, I checked it in the afternoon, and there were no spies following us."

"I'm not talking about this...... Listen, there's a wolf howling outside."

"It's okay," Hanlu didn't care, "It's close to the town, the wolves won't come close, they won't dare to approach the town until the famine."

Li Fenglan lay on her chest, her head retracted into the quilt: "You say that, have they ever been close?"

"Well," replied Hanlu, "there was a famine that year, and the rabbits and deer on the mountains starved to death, and these wolves had nothing to eat, and they wandered around the house every night, even scratching the door of my house. I was only 10 years old and didn't dare to sleep for several nights. But then I wasn't afraid."

"Are you used to it?"

"No, they can't beat me."

Han Lu gently stroked Li Fenglan's smooth back, and said softly, "If you don't get used to it, let's leave tomorrow."

Li Fenglan poked her head out of the quilt, shook her head and said, "I'll get used to it, anyway, I don't know where I'm going in the past two months, I should."

It's all arranged."

"Don't push yourself."

Li Fenglan replied, "No."

Then he smiled and kissed him.

In the past few days since she came down from Baiyun Village, Li Fenglan has not been as unrestrained as before, her heart knot has been opened, there is no need to numb herself with this method, and the frequency of the two has returned to normal levels. But young people, just in the new year, and when it is the most fresh, it is inevitable to indulge a few times.

The next day, both of them got up very early, and after Hanlu returned to the mountain, they immediately resumed their previous routine, and Li Fenglan recognized the bed. Look at the book

After a brief breakfast, Hanlu picked up an axe and walked up the mountain. Li Fenglan was afraid of the cold, so she had to make a stove for the next few days.

After being busy for half a morning, I chopped a large pile of firewood, thinking that it was enough for a few days, and then I was ready to go down the mountain.

But as soon as he had this thought, he suddenly heard steady footsteps behind him. The footsteps were heavy, not Li Fenglan's. He tightened his grip on his axe, turned sharply, and saw a gray-haired old man standing not far behind him.

Although he is old, he is in good spirits, and there is arrogance in his eyes that even young people can't match.

After seeing the old man, Han Lu showed a look of surprise on his face, he dropped the axe, knelt down for the old man, slammed his head on the ground, and said loudly, "Master!"

Kneeling on the ground for most of the day, not listening to the master's words, he slowly raised his head, only to see that the old man was still looking at him, and the arrogance in his eyes deepened.

"Get up." The old man spoke, and his voice did not look old.

"Yes."

Hanlu stood up and asked, "Master, ...... you?"

Before he could finish speaking, the old man interrupted him: "How are you practicing swordsmanship?"

Without waiting for him to reply, the old man stooped down and picked up two sticks from the ground, and his bending movements were very slow, and he could see that his legs and feet were no longer very neat.

He threw a wooden stick to Hanlu and whispered, "Come."

Every time the Master gave him a trick, he only said the word "come".

Han Lu took the wooden stick and saluted with a fist: "Master, please advise."

After saying that, take the lead in attacking.

Han Lu originally thought that this was just an ordinary exchange between master and apprentice, and after two years of going down the mountain, the cultivation results were tested by the master. But the more he fought, the more he felt that something was wrong, and the expression on Master's face ...... Are you getting more and more disappointed? When he was a child, the master fed him countless moves, and each time his face was expressionless, and he never commented on his swordsmanship, what did he mean this time?

Han Lu's heart couldn't help but beat a little drum.

Just as he was thinking about it, fifty moves had passed, when the master suddenly swung the wooden stick hard, breaking the wooden stick in Han Lu's hand.

The two of them stopped, and Han Lu stared blankly at the angry master.

Master asked in a low voice, "What kind of swordsmanship are you?"

Hanlu cautiously replied, "Disciple...... I realized it myself......"

"Humph!" With an angry reprimand, he threw away the sword in his hand. Startled, Hanlu hurriedly knelt down. In his life, Master is the sky, and he has never contradicted Master.

"Rubbish!" There was no hatred for iron and steel in Master's tone, but it was as if there were cracks in the carefully fired porcelain that should not have been, "This swordsmanship is more feminine than masculine, but not masculine!" And if you don't have supporting exercises, if you practice for another two years, you'll be wasted!"

Hanlu had never seen such an angry master, and he didn't dare to reply for a while.

I was thinking about how to keep Master from getting angry, when a roll of parchment fell in front of me. He was a little confused, because he seemed to have seen this scroll.

"It's half a map, you should have the other half."

Han Lu was shocked and asked, "Li family's underground palace map?"

"What is the Li family's underground palace map? This is the secret book of various factions that I have found in the past fifty years, and I was given half a volume to the Li family twenty years ago. You take the map, find the marked location, and go inside to find a suitable internal strength method to practice."

Hanlu silently put away the map.

Master smiled coldly, "I don't have much time, and you don't have much time."

"Master

What do you mean by that?"

The old man turned around, put his hands behind his back, and asked, "That girl is Li Fenglan, right?"

"Yes."

"How long did she give Nightfeather Kozuki?"

These words made Han Lu even more confused, and he said in his heart: Does Master have anything to do with Night Feather Xiaozhu?

He was a little hesitant to tell his master, after all, the Armageddon two months later was still classified information.

Seeing that he hesitated, the master sneered again, "Let's be generous."

"Two ...... Two months."

"In that case, you and I still have two months...... Take advantage of these two months, practice your internal skills well, and then forget your sissy swordsmanship. Two months later, it's time for me to put myself to the last test."

Seeing that Hanlu didn't understand, the old man smiled and asked, "Have you met Xu Qingchen?"

"Yes."

"You are indeed brothers, but I have never regarded you as apprentices, you are just a test that I set for myself. Two months later, Changfeng Lou and the Bai family will face Ye Yu Xiaozhu, you two, to me."

"What?"

The old man didn't explain anything to him, but turned and walked down the hill.

Looking at the direction in which the master disappeared, Han Lu only felt that his head was being pasted. The master, who hadn't seen him for two years, suddenly appeared, and after a few moves, he reprimanded him a few more words, and said some inexplicable things, which made him very incomprehensible.

Hurriedly put away the good firewood, he needed to find a smart person to help him analyze it.

When he returned to the cabin, he found that the smart man was not there, which made him a little flustered, and subconsciously told him that the current master was no longer the master he used to be, and he seemed to be doing something unfavorable to himself. For a while, he became very insecure, worried about Li Fenglan's safety, he was a little anxious, stood at the door of the hut and shouted.

"Feng Lan!!"

In the distance, from the direction of the creek, there was a reply: "I'm here!"

He ran towards the source of the sound, not far away, and in the blink of an eye. I saw Li Fenglan sitting on the pebbles by the stream, washing the clothes that the two of them changed yesterday.

didn't care to sigh that she would even wash her clothes now, he squatted beside Li Fenglan and held her water-stained hand tightly.

"Are you alright?" He asked eagerly.

Li Fenglan was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile, "What can I do?" Are you worried that I'll be eaten by a wolf?"

"No," Hanlu asked, shaking her head, "Did you see anyone just now?"

"No, what's wrong? Something seems wrong with you."

Han Lu eased his mind and recounted what had just happened, and after he finished speaking, he took out the half of the map from his arms.

"That's it."

Li Fenglan took the map and checked it with the half in his mind, and sure enough, he could get it together, and there was a lot of necessary information marked on this half of the volume.

Li Fenglan thought about it for a long time, and then slowly spoke, "How much do you know about your master?"

Hanlu shook her head, "I don't know much, I don't even know what his name is...... Before, when I was in Chang'an, your valley lord said that I might be a red-haired demon. I didn't go up to Zhongnan Mountain with you, you must have asked Daochang Zhang, right?"

Li Fenglan nodded and handed back the half-scroll map to him: "I asked, according to what Daochang Zhang said, you two should be the disciples of the Red-Haired Demon, your master...... It could be the Red-Haired Demon."

"Then what does my master mean? What do you say, two months later, it will be me and Xu Qingchen to him."

"I don't understand what your master has between him and Nightfeather Kozuku. But I understand what your master means, he is a martial idiot, so he carefully cultivated two disciples, and each of them mastered half of his swordsmanship, in order to ...... Defeat himself?"