Hearing Ye Zixun's curious question, Zuo Yu's smile faded and he frowned slightly and said, "Just as I expected, Ning Yi and Ning Liheng are indeed indigenous travelers, not our fellow villagers, but I think it's okay. What about you?"

Ye Zixun and Li Yun looked at each other.

The former nodded and said with a smile: "I have no objection, what about Brother Li?"

Li Yun thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I don't know much about the novel version of Ning Yi... Let's take a look!"

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In the dim courtyard, after Ning Yi had a low conversation with Lu Hongti, he realized that Lu Hongti had come to see him specially.

This reason was somewhat beyond his expectations.

After all, Luliang came all the way here just to contact one person, it was definitely not worth the trip for her.

"In the past year, as you said, the village has been doing very well... We have contacts with merchants on both sides, allowing them to borrow the road from Luliang Mountain. Except for the materials related to the war, everything else can pass..."

Lu Hongti spoke softly and recounted the development of Qingmu Village in Luliang Mountain over the past year.

Ning Yi nodded slightly after hearing this, knowing that they were indeed operating according to his original plan.

"…Tian Hu has been trying to get his hands on us. In March, he invited the village chiefs to discuss matters. Seven village chiefs who went were killed. Most of those villages surrendered to Tian Hu, but fortunately, our area has not been affected yet. On the contrary, some people who were dissatisfied came to surrender to me."

"In the past few months, the stockade has grown larger and larger. Tian Hu probably has no intention of attacking us for the time being. I heard that he thinks we are just business people and looks down on us."

"But you also said before that if the village suddenly becomes too big, then... it will be very troublesome if the ideological work cannot keep up. Grandpa Liang also said so, and then asked me to go south to Jiangning to find you."

At this point, Lu Hongti paused, looked at Su Tan'er's room, and chuckled, "Originally, I wanted to capture you and take you back to Luliang."

Ning Yi understood that Lu Hongti had lost the confidence and assurance to continue the business, so he wanted to capture him and took him back, so he also laughed: "You are forcing him to do something stupid..."

"I'm not forcing you to go to Liangshan, I'm forcing you to go to Luliang."

Lu Hongti corrected seriously.

"But when I went to Jiangning, you were not at the Su's house, so I went to the home of your confidante, Nie Yunzhu. Seeing her condition at the time, I thought you were dead. Later, when she showed up to ask, I found out that you were trapped in Hangzhou and there was no news at all..."

Ning Yi asked softly: "How is she?"

"I was just worried about you, and that girl Yuan Jin'er. She was quite interesting. I said I would protect you, but she didn't believe me. I almost knocked down a tree across the river before they felt relieved. Later, I went south and met your wife. I pretended to be chased and mixed into her team. It would be easier to find you if I was with her..."

Ning Yi nodded and said, "Thank you very much."

Lu Hongti glanced at the side room and whispered, "Then in Huzhou, your wife and I met these three masters. Although it was a coincidence, I always feel that they came directly to our door."

Ning Yi smiled and said, "You mean, their purpose is not to assassinate Fang La, but to come after me?"

Lu Hongti stared at him for a while, then shook his head and said, "Although I do have this guess, every time I think about it, I always find it unbelievable. After all, with the martial arts of these three people, it is really a bit of a waste to deal with you."

Ning Yi smiled, glanced at the side room next to him, and said meaningfully: "Maybe they are not here to deal with me."

Lu Hongti frowned and said, "I can't be here to help you, do you have any friendship in the past?"

“…Who knows?”

Ning Yi smiled and did not go into the topic further: "When you are free, tell me about Luliang's situation. I will make one or more plans based on the situation and see what to do in the future..."

Lu Hongti nodded without saying anything.

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…

It was already late when we came out of the alley.

Su Tan'er and Lu Hongti sent Ning Yi to the intersection, and then stood in the darkness, watching the carriage go away.

On the way back to Badao Camp, Ning Yi sat in the carriage, looking at Zuo Yu and Ye Zixun in front of him with a strange expression.

After a long silence, Ning Yi said, "You two, please think carefully. The Tyrant Blade Camp is the most elite force under Fang La. You two heroes came here to assassinate Fang La. To sneak into the Tyrant Blade Camp is tantamount to taking risks yourself, like a sheep walking into a tiger's den..."

"Ha ha!"

Zuo Yu smiled when he heard this, and interrupted Ning Yi and said, "Brother Ning, please figure out who is the sheep and who is the tiger?"

Hearing the familiar words again, Ning Yi raised his eyebrows, suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and chuckled: "Since Brother Zuo is so confident, then I will not say anything more. In consideration of the fact that you have escorted my wife all the way, I can help. However, this identity issue..."

Ye Zixun smiled and said, "Of course Brother Ning has the final say!"

"Okay!" Ning Yi slapped his thigh and said excitedly, "In that case, I will dare to call you three my sworn brothers. When the Tyrant Blade Camp asks about it, I will say that I met you three in Jiangning and we have similar interests, so we became brothers."

"This time, they heard that I was trapped in Hangzhou, so they rushed all the way here to rescue me."

"Of course, in order to better cover up the lie, we still have to compare our statements, especially about the process of sworn brotherhood and the details of our interactions. We must discuss it more carefully and not allow for any mistakes..."

Ning Yi chattered on and on about his fictitious past.

Zuo Yu and Ye Zixun on the opposite side looked at each other with strange expressions.

This Ning Liheng is really rude. He is thinking of tying the three of them to himself.

"But we are here to assassinate Fang La after all." Zuo Yu said with a smile, "If something goes wrong, aren't you afraid of being implicated?"

"No problem!" Ning Yi's expression did not change at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "If I were still in Hangzhou when the incident happened, I would say that you kidnapped my wife from Huzhou and I was coerced into doing things for you."

"As long as I don't know your true purpose, my life will not be in danger."

Zuo Yu raised his eyebrows and said, "You are so confident. It seems that Brother Ning has an extraordinary status in the Tyrant Blade Camp!"

Ning Yi smiled and cupped his hands, saying modestly: "Just average, third in the entire battalion."

After saying that, Ning Yi looked at Zuo Yu and Ye Zixun's faces, blinked, and said, "Then...is it settled?"

Zuo Yu and Ye Zixun looked at each other, smiled, and raised their hands to knock on the car window.

"Hey, brother, what do you say?"

"…Take good care of your fourth brother."

Li Yun's faint voice came from the front of the carriage.

Ning Yi smiled, straightened his robe, and bowed respectfully.

"My younger brother Ning Liheng greets my elder brother, second brother, and third brother!"

"No need to be polite, my dear brother!"

Zuo Yu smiled and helped him up: "Come on, let's work on the details of the story..."

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The doors and windows of the spacious hall were open, and the sunlight shone in from the windows and fell on the huge dragon-chair-like palace.

This big bed has a backrest and armrests, but no frame above. Because it is so big, it can only be called a bed.

There was originally a gauze curtain hanging in front of the bed, but at this moment, the gauze curtain was pulled open, revealing a large bed behind it, and a desk with many bamboo slips, tripods and incense burners placed on it, and a huge and sturdy blade placed on the desk.

A figure was sitting beside the bed, holding the hilt of the giant blade in his right hand, looking at the four people in the hall with a frown.

On both sides of the lobby, there were many big men holding long swords. Each of them had scars on his body to varying degrees. They had a stern temperament and a ferocious look in their eyes that was captivating.

If an ordinary person was stared at by these big men, breaking out in a cold sweat would be the least of his worries. If he wasn't scared to the point of shitting and pissing himself, he would be considered a hero.

However, the four people in the hall, facing the brutality and murderous aura in the hall, still seemed extremely calm and composed.

The young man in white shirt who looked a bit playful even turned his back to the people who were staring at him maliciously and yawned out of boredom.

"Military Advisor, what you mean is that these three are your sworn brothers in the martial arts world. They heard that you were trapped in Hangzhou and had no news, so they broke into my Tyrant Blade Camp alone to rescue you?"

"Correct it!"

The handsome young man raised a finger and said seriously, "It's three guns and three horses, not a single gun."

The big man holding a long sword beside him laughed grimly: "How dare you! How dare you interrupt the commander when he is speaking?!"

As he said this, the man was about to draw his sword to teach this ungrateful young man a lesson.

The big girl holding the huge blade frowned and just glanced at the man, causing him to pause and thus saving his life.

The girl's brows relaxed and she turned to look at Ning Yi: "Three guns and three horses, is there such a saying?"

Ning Yi looked strange: "If it's an idiom, there really isn't one, but as for sayings... there are no taboos, and nothing is impossible."

The girl nodded and turned to look at the most handsome young man: "Master Zuo - that's what you should call him, since you are here for Military Advisor Ning, why don't you take him away, but stay in my Tyrant Blade Camp?"

Zuo Yu looked helpless: "There is no way. My fourth brother doesn't want to leave. He said that he has a great cause that he has not accomplished. We swore in front of Guan Gong that we would die on the same day of the same month of the same year. So even if we are unwilling, we can only follow his will and stay to work with him."

When talking about Guan Gong, Zuo Yu changed his previous appearance and bowed solemnly towards the void.

The members of the Badao Camp are all sword-wielding people who roam the world and are well-versed in martial arts. They value righteousness and respect Guan Gong the most. Upon hearing these words, they all stood in awe.

The man who had spoken rudely to Zuo Yu just now also changed his expression, and his eyes turned kind when he looked at Zuo Yu.

The girl smiled and turned to look at Ning Yi in the front: "Is what he said... true?"

Ning Yi's face straightened: "Of course, we have a deep brotherhood. To save each other, we would go through fire and water..."

"That's not what I'm talking about." The girl interrupted Ning Yi and looked at him steadily and asked, "You really don't want to leave?"