Li Yi and the two of them said goodbye and went downstairs, hurrying all the way.
But he still stopped downstairs.
Because a girl holding a long sword walked towards him in front of the bookstore.
He confirmed again and again that he was wearing a plain white shirt and did look a bit like a fairy, but he didn't recognize her.
The girl came to him and cupped her hands. "I am Nangong Zhenyi, a disciple of Langya Pavilion."
Li Yi was stunned, never expecting that the beautiful girl in front of him was Nangong Zhenyi, one of the three geniuses of Langya Pavilion.
But how did she dare to announce her name? Not to mention that in this world, people with a special status like her are easy to be missed, and the status of a woman alone can be said to be full of dangers.
Speaking of which, doesn't she know that the world is dangerous?
Thinking of this, the two girls, Zhao Feiyi and Lou Qinyi, ran to Langya Pavilion, pretending to have a showdown with this girl. Oh no, a showdown. It's quite redundant.
Li Yi also returned the favor. "Li Yi, may I ask the girl if something is wrong?"
"Is he in there?"
Li Yi touched his head, not knowing who she was talking about!
But then, he, who had a better mind than Lu Yanbin, came to his senses and knew who she was talking about.
It's not hard to guess, besides him, who else is there in the yard now? It can only be Xu Jinxin who ruined his life.
"The girl said it, is it Xu Jinxin?"
"I don't know his name yet, but he should be. I heard that he ruined his life and lived in the bookstore, but is it true?"
"Yeah!" Li Yi nodded.
"Then! Can I go in?"
"Come in! You don't have to pay anyway." Li Yi, who has always been rigid, joked.
He took Nangong Zhenyi into the back house.
They say they live in the bookstore, but that's not the case. The place they live in has always been the back house of the bookstore, and they can enter directly from the side of the bookstore.
Li Yi opened the door to his room.
He and Nangong Zhenyi looked over at the same time. Xu Jinxin was still lying on the bed, but his eyebrows were slightly furrowed at the corners of his eyes, as if he had dreamed of something he couldn't imagine.
Li Yi made an invitation gesture and consciously did not go in. Instead, he stood aside and looked up at the sky in the corridor. It has a very "I am air but I don't know anything" meaning.
Nangong Zhenyi didn't hesitate. She never cared about whether men and women were intimate or not and walked in directly.
She placed the long sword named Clearance on the other side of the bed. She sat down and didn't say anything, just quietly looking at the young man whom she was willing to change her schedule to chase south when she first saw him.
Li Yi quietly walked away. At least he felt that leaving space for the two of them was the first important thing to do to burn incense.
The next day, his senior brother, a man named He Moqian, known as the "Useless Scholar" in the world, went north.
Before leaving, I said goodbye to him and Uncle Xi in front of the bookstore called "World Affairs". There is a sense of heroism in his words of "entering the Tao to slay demons and eliminate injustice in the world."
In the afternoon, Li Yi went to Sutong Inn again and got letters from Zhao Feiyi and Lou Qinyi.
As expected, the two aggressive girls, who looked like they were looking for someone to settle a score with, did not see Nangong Zhenyi and Wang Ke in person. On the contrary, he was rather critical of the young man named Deng Shilin.
After all, this young man is nothing. It’s just that he is not interested in cultivation matters. However, he is unwavering when the beauty is like jade, and the old god is there. It's no wonder that Zhao Fei also said that he was "unscrupulous".
Of course, it’s not surprising that these two girls would have such thoughts. After all, you said that a good-looking young man didn’t want to make progress but was focused on studying chess. It would be okay if you understand the philosophy of life, but if not, you might be in big trouble!
At the end of the letter, they also mentioned the reason why the two of them could not come to Quling City, and asked him many times not to wait for them anymore. It was more like a farewell letter, asking him to die quickly.
Li Yi smiled, he didn't expect them to be accepted as disciples by the seniors of Langya Pavilion so quickly.
But again, this is always better than following him. You don't have to be homeless and you don't have to worry about endangering your life.
Li Yi knew very well what he was going to do, and thought that since he wouldn't wait for them, it was time for him to leave.
When he came back, Nangong Zhenyi stayed in front of Xu Jin's new bed for another day.
Nangong Zhenyi didn't speak, she was so quiet that it made people think that she was a very quiet girl.
Nangong Zhenyi twisted a wet towel and covered Xu Jinxin's forehead, staring at Xu Jinxin closely, as if he was afraid that something would happen to Xu Jinxin.
In short, she is a woman, but with the care of a boss like Li Yi, she takes care of people in a disciplined manner.
Li Yi went to the kitchen and coughed when he came back. When Nangong Zhenyi turned around, he said. "Thank you very much, girl, for these two days."
Nangong Zhenyi smiled. "Need not."
Li Yi walked in and put a few dishes of side dishes and white rice fried in the back kitchen on the table together with the dinner plate. "I saw that the girl hadn't eaten, so I went to the kitchen to cook a few side dishes for the girl. It's not too late for the girl to eat something first and then get busy. Fortunately, I'm here now, so I can relax."
"Thank you very much."
Nangong Zhenyi sat over.
Li Yi said. "Take it easy, girl. If anything happens, just call me." He pointed to the other side. "I'll go over there to see if the medicine I cooked earlier has gone cold."
Nangong Zhenyi nodded, and Li Yi walked out.
Li Yiyou reheated the medicine he had boiled before, and after it cooled down a bit, he brought it back and fed it to Xu Jinxin himself.
He looked at Nangong Zhenyi who had packed the tableware and walked in, and said. "I'm going south tomorrow, girl, do you have any plans? If you want to stay, I'll say hello to Uncle Xi. You can stay as long as you want."
"You want to go south? What are you going to do? Do you want to take him with you too?"
"Ah! Go to the southern sea."
Li Yi thought for a while and said again. "Have you ever heard of the Deep Sea Shark Pearl?"
Nangong Zhenyi shook his head.
Li Yi smiled. "It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of it. Anyway, it's a good thing. As for whether to take him with me, the girl thinks what else can I do. If not, he will probably commit suicide when he wakes up. In short, since I saved him in the first place, I can't do it again. leave it alone."
Nangong Zhenyi nodded, she seemed to have thought of something and said. "Then I will go south with you. Compared to taking care of people, I seem to be better at it. I can also be effective in dealing with emergencies."
"Going south? Are you going to southern Xinjiang?"
The two people were talking when a voice came from the wall.
Li Yi turned his head and saw Jiang Yu, dressed in white, sitting on the wall shaking his feet, somewhat leisurely.
"Miss Jiang."
"Just call me Jiang Yu."
"Li just wanted to ask. Are you going south too?"
"If you want to go south, then I will risk my life to follow you. If you don't go, then forget it."
"It's true that we are going to southern Xinjiang, but I don't know why the girl wants to come with us?"
"You must have heard that my brother is seriously ill in the north. I am going south this time just to find some medicinal materials. It is to southern Xinjiang."
Of course Li Yi knew. When he went upstairs to ask Uncle Xi and the senior brother about Zhang Chuxin's whereabouts yesterday, he heard them talk about it.
In this way, it makes sense why she appeared in Quling City.
"In that case, then you should prepare your bags early."
The next day, Li Yi bought a carriage with the jewelry Wang Daoping dug up at the Taiping ruins, and the three of them said goodbye to Uncle Xi in front of the bookstore.
Li Yi sat outside the carriage and drove, while the two women and Xu Jinxin, who was still awake, sat inside the carriage.
Nangong Zhenyi is seventeen years old, and Jiang Yu is also seventeen years old. However, Jiang Yu is three or four months younger than Nangong Zhenyi, so Jiang Yu has been affectionately calling her Sister Nangong since they met.
The carriage was speeding along the road to the south.
Nangong Zhenyi opened the curtains of the carriage and looked outside. Countless tree shadows were flying in the opposite direction of where they were traveling.
She put down the curtain and said to Jiang Yu. "I took a look. The scenery outside is pretty good. Our trip south this time should be an easy one. Are you ready to enter southern Xinjiang?"
Jiang Yu was a little pessimistic, not to mention that he had heard Wang Daoping talk about Li Yi's previous pursuits in the north. Just talking about the front, it is not as safe as imagined.
Jiang Yu said. "It is said that there are many bandits on this road, so be careful."
Nangong Zhenyi nodded.
Jiang Yu suddenly became interested and asked again. "I heard people say that Langya Pavilion is a good place. Why did Sister Nangong come down the mountain? This is actually the same as enduring hardship."
"It's not entirely right to say that you endure hardship. Such incidents often happen in the sect. They call it experience. Before this, senior brother Deng Shilin went down the mountain."
"But that's right. I heard people say that you are extremely talented and a martial arts prodigy. It doesn't matter if you go out and practice, you won't be blind in the future and know nothing."
"Actually, my talent is average. Among my fellow brothers, not to mention Junior Sister Wang Ke and Senior Brother Deng Shilin who are above me, even some other senior brothers are not much worse than me. As far as I know, they are from Nanmu Country That Junior Sister Bai Xu is very eye-catching, the so-called Peach Blossom Girl, and her skill with the Peach Blossom Sword Technique is hard to beat."
"I've heard before that there are disciples from all over the world in Langya Pavilion. Now that I heard it from you in person, I started to believe it. To be honest, I'm a little yearning for it." Jiang Yu said.
"In addition to those from Nanmu Kingdom, there are also those from Beili Nanjiang, Dongsang and even the southeastern countries. There are many talented people among these people. Yuwen Huaizhong from Beili, Sanmu from Western Chu, and Mr. Chen Shang from Nanjiang . But if you really want to go, you can come with me when I go back."
"good!"
Just as the two of them were talking about this, the carriage slowly stopped.
Nangong Zhenyi opened the curtain and asked. "What's wrong?"
Li Yi jumped off the carriage, untied the horse and said. "I think the water next to here is good. Let's add some water and eat something. This will also be good enough for the horses to rest and eat some grass? We can't let them starve too."
"good!"
Nangong Zhenyi said, whispered a few words to Jiang Yu in the carriage, and got out of the carriage with his long sword.
Jiang Yu also got out of the carriage, and the two women started walking around.
Li Yi found a few stones and quickly built a stove, placed a washed iron pot on it, added a pot of water to it and lit the fire.
He looked at Jiang Yu and Nangong Zhenyi's slowly walking figures and said. "How's it going? Is it safe?"
"It's up to you to come to the conclusion, Sister Nangong."
Nangong Zhenyi smiled. "Conclusion, all is safe."
Of course it is safe. The grass here grows very lush, but there are no traces of other animals eating it. Since no animals have eaten it, there are naturally no ferocious animals like tigers and leopards.
Li Yi smiled and said. "I'm going to cook porridge, can you stop me?"
Porridge? Why is it porridge instead of cooking other dishes? It is to take care of the person who is still lying in the carriage.
Nangong Zhenyi walked over and sat in a corner of the carriage, saying without looking at him. "Can I eat anything?"
Jiang Yu also chimed in. "Li Wenqing, you think we are too weak to endure hardship."
Li Yi was stunned and looked up at her, but she just smiled.
It wasn't because of what she said later that she was too delicate to endure hardship, but because of the name she called out.
He remembered that he had never told her this name, not even when she gave him the sword before. But how on earth did she know?
He thought for a long time and finally knew.
Wang Daoping, who fought with her against the shadow army on the northern battlefield, knew her name, and Xu Shi had told her about it.
"Okay, since we can all eat, let's make do with it. The next stop will be Nansha County. Then we'll sell the horses and eat something good before taking the water route."
Nangong Zhenyi said. "Actually, it's quite beautiful to stand in a place like this and drink porridge."
Indeed, the place where they stopped the carriage to rest was indeed beautiful.
Li Yi went to search in the carriage. Jiang Yu walked to the stove, not caring whether he was the eldest daughter of the Jiang family in Qulingcheng, and helped light the fire. Nangong Zhenyi leaned against the outside of the carriage holding his sword.
But at this moment, there was a sudden sound from behind, and the danger was gradually approaching. The sound was very subtle, and it was the sound of animals hunting.
Yes, why did they forget that if there are really no traces of herbivores here, how come the predators couldn't survive and ran away? Shouldn't this be their habitat?
Speaking of which, they just saw an animal skeleton, although it looked quite old.
Jiang Yu also noticed something was wrong and picked up a stone from the ground and held it in his hand.
Li Yi also noticed the dangerous approach and clenched the thorn in his hand in the carriage.
"Don't move." Nangong Zhenyi said and closed his eyes.
This sentence was said to Jiang Yu, but the voice was moderate, and Li Yi in the carriage must have heard it.
At this moment, a tiger pounced from ahead. The target is very clear, it is Nangong Zhenyi who stands in the most conspicuous position.
