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The spirit was sometimes clear, sometimes confused in the darkness.

Dimly, it seemed that Lu Hongti carried him on her back, whistling through the mountains and forests. A soft touch.

"How did you find me..."

"You thought I found your home how? I put medicinal powder on you. My Little Green can track you. If you betray me...it's just that you went too far this time..."

"If I had known, I wouldn't have fought so hard..."

"What?"

Flames burned, the yellow light illuminating the surrounding dirty environment, the roof tiles above his head were broken, and the statues of the gods were peeling and collapsing. Lu Hongti squatted beside him, quickly unwrapping the bandages on his left hand, then taking out medicine, a gourd filled with water, and quickly treating the burns on his left arm, the light reflecting on her focused profile.

"I...I need pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, I need to write a letter...help me send it to Jiangning City, to my home...otherwise, they will start looking, it's best not to..."

"You're still thinking about this at this time."

"There's a friend, named Nie Yunzhu, she lives...there's a two-story building over there, she and her maid live there, she looks like...go check and see if she's okay..."

"Noted."

"There are two people, two people to kill, they are...near Xinlinpu, in a courtyard, one is called Little Four..."

"Good people or bad people?"

"They want to kidnap my friend..."

"You have so many things going on."

His consciousness dimmed again. When he woke up again, Lu Hongti brought some pen and ink, his left hand already bandaged. She didn't seem to want to wake him up, but when she saw that he was awake, she helped him up, and put the brush in his right hand.

"Can you still write?"

"Barely...can."

"I really underestimated you before..."

"I just had to do it...is my left hand, is it useless?"

"If you hadn't met me, it would really be useless."

"Oh, thank you..."

"What exactly did you do before..."

"...Met a lunatic."

"Sleep, wait for me to come back."

Her figure whistled away.

What happened next that night was unclear. The things hanging in his heart had been said, and then, the feeling of fatigue came like a landslide, knocking everything down.

He woke up the next morning, still in pain, so tired that he couldn't get up at all. The birds chirped, and the morning light shone obliquely from the broken roof.

He still struggled to get up. His chest, shoulders, and left hand had all been bandaged with new bandages, and his clothes had also been changed. The clothes he had originally been wearing had actually been rummaged out of the houseboat, with little blood, but it was much bigger. This was a broken temple in the mountains. When he walked out of the door, Lu Hongti was doing boxing in the forest in front. She was wearing a black dress, her clothes fluttering in the morning light, but every strike she made was full of the iron and blood of the battlefield and the aura of killing, the beauty of rigidity and softness, the wind of her fists and palms whistling. This was indeed not the martial arts of the Jianghu, but an iron-blooded martial art tempered from the battlefield. The morning light also shone obliquely in the forest.

Ning Yi sat quietly on the steps in front of the broken temple, watching. After a while, Lu Hongti stood still and gathered her breath, her eyes looking towards this side, watching him for a long time.

"Okay, I've changed my mind."

"Hmm?"

"You do look like you have places where you can use martial arts, and you also have enough mental fortitude."

"Ha." Ning Yi laughed, "This is the best news I've heard these days."

"There's a set you can practice. You won't become first-rate, but if you become second-rate, it'll be enough to protect yourself. I interrogated Little Four and his accomplices, and then went to take a look along the road you came from..." She shook her head, revealing a smile, "Gave me a scare."

"A rabbit bites when it's cornered."

"The things you said have all been done. Your family was very anxious last night. That little maid was so anxious that she was jumping up and down, but she was good. Even when she was anxious, she didn't cry, she just told the family servants to do some things and find people. I secretly put the note where she could see it, and she immediately cried when she took it, and then ran to tell your wife that you were safe while crying, and even fell once in the middle. That girl named Nie Yunzhu is also fine. When I went, she was sleeping."

Ning Yi wrote on the note that he was leaving home for a few days because a friend had something to do. Now that the note had arrived, presumably Xiao Chan and the others wouldn't worry too much. It was good that Nie Yunzhu was fine. As for what happened to Little Three and Little Four, it didn't matter to ask more about it. The two sat on the steps for a while, Lu Hongti said, "I'll go cook some porridge for you."

Lu Hongti had probably lived in this broken temple for a while. There was a broken pot, and she also had an extra luggage package by her side, probably placed somewhere in Jiangning, and this time she brought it out. The two finished breakfast sitting in the broken temple. During this time, Lu Hongti said, "Martial arts, once you really learn it, sometimes you can't help but use it to solve problems. After you treat it as a way to solve problems, you unknowingly develop a fierce spirit. We over there can only do this, there's no way, but you're different. If you don't encounter an enemy, if you can avoid fighting, it's better to avoid fighting after all. You're knowledgeable and mentally tough. I want you to promise me that you can understand when you really should fight."

Ning Yi thought for a while, "I really don't like relying on personal violence to solve problems, I promise you this."

Lu Hongti nodded, "That's good, I'll start teaching you later."

Ning Yi raised his left hand, "Can I learn like this? And I don't have any strength in my whole body now, I'm seriously injured."

Lu Hongti chuckled, "I'll teach you some basics first, remember them in your heart. If you have the strength, write them down, anyway, you'll have to start practicing after you go back."

"Do I have to kowtow and become your disciple?"

"No need, anyway, I'm only teaching you second-rate Kung Fu." Lu Hongti thought for a while, "In the afternoon, let's continue talking about *Tian Long Ba Bu*, it's best to finish it during these days."

"Heh, good."

In the following days, the two lived in that broken temple.

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In the morning, Lu Hongti would talk to him about the cultivation methods of second-rate Kung Fu, occasionally demonstrating, describing various situations. In the afternoon and evening, Ning Yi would talk about *Tian Long Ba Bu*, or chat about some random things. The time was approaching the hottest days of summer, the days and nights were hot, and there were many mosquitoes. At night, Lu Hongti would take some strange leaves to drive away the mosquitoes in the broken temple, driving Ning Yi to run around, scolding and laughing a few times.

If it were said in a slightly ambiguous way, it would feel like a poor little couple who had settled down in this broken temple. There was indeed nothing, that broken pot was used to cook rice, cook vegetables, and boil water. Fortunately, Lu Hongti went out once the next day and brought back pots and bowls, but other than a package, there was nothing else. At night, Lu Hongti would apply wound medicine to Ning Yi slowly, on his left hand, and Ning Yi couldn't do it himself on his chest and shoulders with one hand. Lu Hongti didn't care about this.

"I've seen all the men on the mountain, you're not good-looking, just a little stronger than the average scholar." She always had a look of disdain.

Ning Yi exercised for a year and made himself a bit stronger, but he didn't have any muscles yet, so naturally he couldn't compare to the men who really fought on the battlefield, but he felt that he was quite well-proportioned. He wanted to ask if she had seen above or above and below, but the times were different, and he couldn't make this kind of joke, otherwise he would probably be beaten up, and he had no choice but to mentally acknowledge the knowledge and experience of the other party, who always seemed a little awkward every time.

Bandaging wounds and applying medicine for people on the battlefield is probably a bit different from bandaging wounds and applying medicine for people in this situation. However, occasionally thinking about it, Ning Yi stopped this thought.

There was a mountain spring not far behind the broken temple, and he would take a gourd or bamboo tube to fetch some clear water during the day. Lu Hongti raised a green bird that liked a special kind of fruit. Lu Hongti would make the fruit into powder and sprinkle it on someone's body, which could keep the scent from dissipating for a few days. If not for this, she would not have been able to find him out of the city that night.

On the third day, a thunderstorm began. In the torrential rain, the small broken temple was like a boat that would sink at any moment. Lu Hongti picked some dense branches to reinforce the top of the broken temple, and then sat with Ning Yi in the only dry corner of the broken temple, chatting, feeling like they were the last two people guarding a collapsing world.

Occasionally, Lu Hongti would also talk to Ning Yi about Mount Lüliang, not in a complaining tone, but if the Liao army invaded, how difficult the days would be, Ning Yi could probably guess some of it. Lu Hongti was probably leading one of the branches of the Lüliang bandits now, and the scale might not be very large. Her master was also a woman, very intelligent, but she took the risk to assassinate a Liao general. After succeeding, she was surrounded, fought to the point of exhaustion, and committed suicide to avoid being captured. This was largely the reason why Lu Hongti didn't teach martial arts indiscriminately.

"Master was smart and powerful. If her martial arts weren't so powerful, she probably wouldn't have considered assassinating him. If she had used strategy, she might have been able to kill him, even if she couldn't kill him, at least she wouldn't have died. If Master hadn't died, and she had led us later, we probably would have been able to save more people...therefore, you shouldn't be superstitious about martial arts either. You talk about emphasizing investigation of things, understanding it is enough. Smart people...shouldn't take risks, being alive is more useful..."

People who have come back from the brink of life and death value this life and death even more. Perhaps it was also because after her master passed away, the burden was placed on her shoulders, and she felt the weight of it. If you want to carry a small group, it's not enough to have martial prowess. The difficulty of various organizations and coordination, the more sensitive people, perhaps the more they can feel these things. This Lu Hongti, although she hasn't read books, is intelligent, and her master might have told her, so it's not surprising that she would say these things at this time.

So on the seventh day, Lu Hongti probably finished explaining the cultivation of martial arts, but Ning Yi hadn't finished *Tian Long Ba Bu*. When she complained, Ning Yi said, "I also want to teach you something, maybe it will be useful to you. Originally, I wanted to exchange this martial art with you."

"Hmm?" Lu Hongti's eyes lit up, "Are they those strange and weird tricks again?"

Although she had always said that Ning Yi's things were crooked ways, she also knew Ning Yi's personality, and in some aspects, he might still be reliable. Since he could take it out with such confidence, it would probably be useful to her. Ning Yi nodded, "Maybe some of it is, there's a lot, it's very complicated. I wasn't very clear about the situation over there before, and I haven't been able to fully sort out the system, and I don't know if you can use it, so first of all, I also know a few sets of martial arts, maybe you can refer to them."

Lu Hongti frowned, thinking he was joking. Ning Yi laughed, "It's okay to take a look, maybe the stones from other mountains can be used to polish jade, you can decide for yourself if it's useful. Some things, such as vital points, joint techniques, and the like, should still be relatively systematic."

Lu Hongti exhaled, "...I don't even know what you're talking about."

However, she was already used to it anyway, like molecules, atoms, chemistry, physics, and other messy things, she often didn't understand what he was going crazy about. He wanted to teach her martial arts...obviously that was it too...

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