Chapter 53 Method
No words were spoken that night.
The next morning, Lu Fei got up with a sore back and stretched. His old clothes were not very thick, and the ground was very hard, so they were very uncomfortable.
In addition, the wind was strong at night, and although his small hut was open to the wind on all sides, it could still block it to some extent.
Fortunately, it is midsummer now, everything is full of vitality, and the evening breeze only brings a little coolness.
Lu Fei rubbed his slightly itchy nose, picked up the old clothes, and was about to put them back into the closet in the house.
Lu Fei, who had just woken up and was feeling a little groggy, suddenly started when the door opened. He suddenly remembered that he was sleeping outside the house not because he had any camping hobby, but because there were guests inside the house.
Just as Lu Fei was about to close the door, he saw Jian An Ning standing at the door in a white dress, looking at him expressionlessly.
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then pushed open the door as calmly as possible, put the clothes in his hands back, and then said to Jian An Ning: "It's bright now, it should be easy for you to find the way home. You can go back, we will meet again if we are lucky."
There was no trace of nostalgia in Lu Fei's voice. After all, to him, Jian An Ning was just a stranger he met by chance.
But Jane Anning looked at her hands, then looked out the window of the hut. She saw the pomegranate flowers blooming outside the window from the gloomy sky, and she stood there motionless.
At this time, Lu Fei finally felt that something was wrong. He recalled carefully, and except for the few syllables that Jian An Ning uttered when answering his name, he seemed to have not heard the girl say a word.
Could she be mute?
Just as Lu Fei was imagining the mute girl's struggle to survive, Jian An Ning spoke.
There was something inexplicably strange in her voice, like the babbling of a child, or the hoarseness of someone who had not spoken for a long time. However, the strangeness gradually weakened with the words Jane An Ning spoke, until it became completely normal.
"I can't go back."
Jane Anning said simply.
Lu Fei was stunned.
Luming City is just a small city. It only takes an hour to tour the entire city on horseback. How could Jane An Ning say that she couldn't go back?
"Aren't you from Luming City?" Lu Fei asked.
Jane Anning nodded.
But Lu Fei remembered that Jian An Ning fell from the mountain. You know, the city closest to the mountain is Luming City. However, he had also heard that there was another city on the opposite side of the mountain, and one could reach the top of the mountain from that city.
However, if you want to reach the city on the other side of the mountain from Luming City, you have to cross the entire mountain.
This is really tricky.
People who make a living from the mountains will not do such thankless tasks. After all, there are many dangers in the mountains. They will only act when safety is guaranteed and will not cross mountains and ridges for no reason.
The people of Luming City have lived here for generations, being self-sufficient. They have no desire to communicate with the outside world, and they don't even have a channel to communicate with the outside world.
However, this does not mean that people in Dongchang are completely unable to get out.
Lu Fei thought about it and found that there was only one way left.
"Anyone who can pass the Dongchang Trial will have the opportunity to meet the gods. Perhaps the gods will listen to your wishes and send you back home."
In fact, the gods did not appear after every trial, but compared to single-handedly opening a path to the outside world, this method was obviously much more feasible.
Jane Anning tilted her head, and it was unclear whether she was agreeing or denying.
But Lu Fei just assumed that she agreed, because Jian An Ning didn't seem to be very talkative.
Now, how to pass the Dongchang trial in the near future has to be put on the agenda. After all, Jane An Ning looks weak, and if she relies on herself alone, she might easily die there.
Lu Fei took out the herbs she had collected from the backpack she had carried up the mountain and kept those for stopping bleeding and treating external injuries. She took the rest to the market to exchange for money, and used the money to buy medicine for healing.
The clerk in the drug store was quite familiar with him, and when he saw him preparing like this, he realized what he wanted to do.
"You are going to participate in the trial in three days?"
Lu Fei nodded. The guy was a little older than him and had participated in a trial before. Unfortunately, he failed and became disabled as a result.
The drug store clerk had a limp in his right foot and walked in a strange way.
"Brother Huang, do you have any suggestions?" Lu Fei asked without hope.
Huang Xian smiled, put a hand on his shoulder, and said, "You've asked the right person."
Lu Fei actually didn’t like overly intimate physical contact, but for Huang Xian’s subsequent words, she reluctantly agreed.
After all, there are not many people who can come back alive from the trial, and among these few people, this is the only one he can contact.
"The most important thing is to avoid greed."
Lu Fei pricked up his ears when he heard that.
"There are three ways to succeed in the trial, and these three ways also determine the starting point of your future cultivation."
Huang Xian said carefully, "But no matter what, that's just the starting point. It doesn't mean you can't continue to improve. If you pursue high-level success too much, you'll end up like me."
He looked down at his right foot and said, "I ended up in failure."
Lu Fei understood, and then asked, "Brother, do you know what the trial is? I've searched through all the classics and still can't figure it out. I just know there will be heavy casualties."
Huang Xian shook his head and said, "I heard from those people that the content of each trial is different."
Seeing that she couldn't get anything else out of him, Lu Fei pushed Huang Xian's arm away and was about to leave.
However, Huang Xian stopped him, with a puzzled look on his face, and said to Lu Fei: "If you can successfully come back, can you give me some of what you finally got?"
Lu Fei was stunned and didn't understand what Huang Xian meant.
But he continued, "I only need a tiny bit. It won't affect you."
"What are you talking about?" Lu Fei was a little confused.
But Huang Xian was obviously very persistent. He didn't say what he wanted, but he insisted that Lu Fei agree, otherwise he would stop him and not let him leave.
Lu Fei was very troubled. When Huang Xian said for the forty-ninth time, "It's just a little bit. It won't affect you," she finally agreed.
Huang Xian's eyes showed some joy, and he finally let go of Lu Fei and said, "This way I can wish you a safe return."
Lu Fei smiled and didn't take it seriously until she walked out of the pharmacy and then she came to her senses.
What did Huang Xian mean by that? If he didn't agree to this man's return, did he not want him to return safely?
Lu Fei felt inexplicably uncomfortable, so he didn't stay on the long street for long. He bought some necessary items from various places and went straight back to his hut.
In the hut, Jane Anning sat quietly, still maintaining the same posture as before he left.
But Lu Fei did not notice Jian An Ning's abnormality. He concentrated on taking out a pair of embroidered shoes from his bags.
It was obviously a pair of embroidered shoes for women, with auspicious cloud patterns embroidered with gold thread on the red base. He gave the shoes to Jian An Ning.
"For me?" Jane An Ning asked, pointing at the shoes.
Lu Fei nodded, feeling a little embarrassed for some reason, but still said, "Someone from the Lu family will come tomorrow to take us to the trial site. We may have to walk a long way, and we can't go barefoot all the time."
At this time, Jian An Ning actually couldn't understand the existence of things like shoes, but she could see something similar on Lu Fei's feet, so she followed suit and put on the pair of gold and red shoes.
This made Lu Fei touch her chin unconsciously.
Jane Anning originally had long hair that reached her waist, wore a white dress, and was barefoot. Although her style was not that of an ordinary person, her overall look was very harmonious, as if she was born that way.
The pair of shoes he bought for Jane An Ning, although with intricate and gorgeous patterns, when they were worn on her feet, it was as if something originally natural had been forcibly added with traces of artificial carving, which inexplicably felt like adding unnecessary details.
"Is it still suitable?" he asked hesitantly.
Jane Anning looked at the pair of shoes, swayed left and right, and finally nodded.
Lu Fei felt uncomfortable no matter how she looked at it, but how could a person walk without shoes? How painful would it be to walk?
He thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure out what was wrong.
The next day.
When the sky was just getting light, Lu Fei woke up, stood outside her hut, gently knocked on the window, and said to Jian An Ning in the room: "I'm going to the Lu family today."
He walked to the door, carrying the pile of old clothes he used as bedding, and knocked gently, asking, "Can you open the door?"
With a "click", the door opened.
Jian Anning was still dressed the same as before, except that she was wearing a pair of gold and red shoes that he had bought before.
Perhaps because he had been looking at them for so long, Lu Fei finally found the shoes somewhat pleasing to the eye.
He tidied up the bed and old clothes, packed up all the things he had prepared, and said to Jian An Ning, "The Lu family is not very punctual, so we have to go early to avoid being left behind."
Lu Fei said this and was about to leave, but after walking for a while, he found that Jian An Ning did not follow him.
So, he could only go back and ask Jian Anning, "What's wrong?"
She pointed at Lu Fei and said, "Are you from the Lu family?"
Lu Fei nodded, and then heard Jian An Ning pointing at herself and saying, "But I'm not."
Although the words were brief, Lu Fei already understood what Jian An Ning meant.
Did she mean that she was not a member of the Lu family and could not go to the Dongchang trial site through the Lu family?
Lu Fei speculated, and then explained to Jian An Ning with a smile: "It doesn't matter. Those people only know the Lu family members of the main branch. They can't recognize the side branches at all. There is a high probability that they don't even recognize me, so you won't be discovered if you blend in with them."
Jian An Ning tilted her head slightly, as if thinking about Lu Fei's words.
Then she took a few steps forward and followed his pace, looking as if she believed Lu Fei's words.
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