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Walking out of the back door, there is a small courtyard with two empty nurseries and a row of small clay ovens.

"These are all left by my mother. The land under the Tianshan Mountains is barren, and medicinal materials are even more scarce. In the past, my mother would plant some medicinal materials in these two nurseries. These two rows of clay stoves were made by my father. I made it myself, and it was used for boiling medicine; my father was not in a bad state at the time, so he took me to dig the mud, and the two of us made these clay ovens together in this yard."

Lu Nanzhu pointed to one of the stoves, which was slightly distorted in shape, and said, "I made that one."

Xia Qinyi listened with a smile all the time, and following Lu Nanzhu's simple narration, they crossed the shackles of time and returned to the time when Lu Nanzhu was young.

She saw a gentle and beautiful woman, holding a medicine shovel, carefully and caring for the medicinal materials in the nursery.

Then, the woman turned her head with a smile, and looked at one big and one small in the courtyard. The two of them rolled up their sleeves, making mud and kneading the stove.

Xia Qinyi has never experienced such a warm scene.

She couldn't help turning her head to look at Lu Nanzhu next to her, and saw that she also had a slight smile on her face, presumably Xiaolu was thinking the same as herself at this time.

The two returned to the main hall of the medicine house, and Xia Qinyi saw a painting hanging on the west wall.

Then he walked forward, Lu Nanzhu explained: "This is my mother, this painting was drawn by my father, and the words below are written by my father."

Xia Qinyi heard the words and carefully looked at the woman in the painting. The woman was extremely beautiful, elegant and dignified.

"Your eyebrows and eyes are very similar to your mother."

"Well, daddy also said that my eyebrows and eyes are like mother's, and my nose is like daddy's."

Xia Qinyi looked again at the two lines of small characters in the lower right corner of the scroll, and couldn't help but read out: "Life and death are bound up with Zicheng, hold your hand and grow old together."

"My father said that this was his only wish after meeting his mother; it's a pity that they didn't grow old together. A few years after we moved here, my father passed away, and then my mother also went."

Xia Qinyi couldn't hear Xiao Lu's sad tone, took her hand, and comforted her softly: "The dead are like this, they will be together forever."

"Ok!"

That night, Grandma Sun prepared dinner and invited Lu Nanzhu and Xia Qinyi over.

At that time, the two of them finished their bath and both changed back into women's clothes.

When Grandma Sun saw Xia Qinyi, she fell in love with her. She took her hand and praised: "This girl is so clever. How did you and Nan Zhu know each other?"

This was a slightly embarrassing question, and Xia Qinyi cast her eyes on Lu Nanzhu for help.

Lu Nanzhu rubbed his nose and replied: "She...was drowning, and I got to know her after I rescued her."

Xia Qinyi glared at her: thanks to her being able to describe bathing as drowning and stealing as saving lives.

But thinking about it again, it seems to be related. Tangchi does have water, and Donghai Yemingzhu is also to save people.

"Okay, okay, we Nanzhu grew up in the village. You are the first friend she brought back. If you go out in the future, please ask Miss Xia to take care of her."

"Grandma Sun, don't worry, I will."

Five people were seated, and there were four simple stir-fried dishes on the table, three vegetarian dishes and one meat dish.

Lu Nanzhu knew that this was already the highest courtesy from Grandma Sun's family, but such dishes were quite simple for Xia Qinyi.

However, Xia Qinyi ate naturally, and kept praising Grandma Sun's cooking skills.

Grandma Sun was very happy being coaxed by Xia Qinyi, and the meal was enjoyable.

On the way home, Xia Qinyi suddenly said with emotion: "Next time I go out, I will definitely bring more cash. This time I bought too few things. If they are divided into five shares, the family will not get much."

"Thank you."

"You don't need to thank me, Grandma Sun is a good person, and I also like Little Bean Sprout and Little Huzi very much."

Early the next morning, Lu Nanzhu cooked porridge with wild vegetables and ate it with Xia Qinyi, then took her out and walked north.

The two climbed up Tianshan Mountain, walked through a dangerous ice-covered path, and came to the edge of a cliff.

Looking at the bottomless valley under her feet, Xia Qinyi asked suspiciously, "This is...?"

Before Xia Qinyi could finish speaking, Lu Nanzhu hugged Xia Qinyi by the waist and jumped off the cliff.

"Ah~~~~~~!"

Xia Qinyi screamed in fright, Lu Nanzhu hugged Xia Qinyi tightly with a triumphant smile on his face.

And because Xia Qinyi was afraid, she hugged Lu Nanzhu's neck tightly, her face was pressed against Lu Nanzhu's neck, and she couldn't stop screaming.

After landing smoothly, Lu Nanzhu looked at Xia Qinyi in his arms and grinned in pain: I didn't expect her breath to be so long. From the moment she jumped down, she screamed all the way to the bottom of the valley, and her ears hurt.

Xia Qinyi felt that Lu Nanzhu had touched her, and the whistling wind in her ears disappeared, so she put her arms around Lu Nanzhu's neck, and took a peek outside.

The two of them were standing on an ice platform, a few feet below was a pool of water.

Lu Nanzhu was startled when he saw the tears hanging from the corners of Xia Qinyi's eyes, and quickly put her beside her firmly, holding Xia Qinyi's face in both hands, and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with his thumbs.

"I'm sorry, I... I didn't mean it."

Xia Qinyi was really terrified. Without any warning in advance, she was hugged and jumped off the cliff. She thought she just died like this!

However, when Xia Qinyi saw the self-blame, nervousness and pity in Lu Nanzhu's eyes, she couldn't lose her temper. The big ones overflowed the eye sockets, and wept.

Xia Qinyi cried more and more fiercely, Lu Nanzhu panicked and blamed himself, and couldn't help wiping away Xia Qinyi's tears, but there were more and more tears.

She was at a loss for a moment, so she simply hugged Xia Qinyi in her arms, buried her face in her arms, and sucked her tears with the front of her clothes.

One hand was around Xia Qinyi's waist, the other was stroking the long hair on the back of her head, and she coaxed softly: "I'm sorry, Qin Yi; I'm sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn't scare you, please stop crying, okay? My fault, don't cry, you beat me, scold me, punish me, don't cry."

Xia Qinyi held Lu Nanzhu's waist tightly with both hands, nestled in her arms for a while, then raised her face, and said with a sob: "I... I'm afraid of heights!"

Looking at this pear blossom with rain and reddish eyes, Lu Nanzhu felt that he had made a huge mistake, and wished to give all he had to make up for her.

A firm thought welled up in Lu Nanzhu's heart: In this life, she never wants the person in her arms to cry again.

Lu Nanzhu didn't know what to do, she just felt so distressed, so she hugged Xia Qinyi tightly into her arms again, pressed against her ear, and said softly: "I'm sorry, I will never make you cry again. gone."

Hearing the promise-like words, Xia Qinyi's heart pounded like a deer, even more violent than when she "jumped off the cliff" just now.

She got away from Lu Nanzhu's embrace with a blushing face, and lowered her head.

Lu Nanzhu took Xia Qinyi's hands and held them in his hands: "Come on, come in."

Xia Qinyi moved with Lu Nanzhu, only to realize that they were standing outside an ice cave.

Inside the ice cave, there are obvious traces of someone's life, including ice-carved bookshelves, screens, tables, chairs, and even an ice bed.

Lu Nanzhu led Xia Qinyi to sit on the bed, who was surprised to find that the bed was actually warm.

"This is a bed of warm jade. Thanks to it back then, otherwise I would have froze to death."

Hearing the word "death", Xia Qinyi squeezed Lu Nanzhu's hand tightly, and asked nervously, "What's going on?"

"Actually, I didn't know any martial arts back then. When I was 13 years old, my mother was seriously ill. I heard from an old man in the village that Tianshan snow lotus can heal my mother's illness, so I secretly climbed up the mountain with my mother on my back. I went to the Tianshan Mountains and picked the legendary Tianshan snow lotus, but just as I got the snow lotus, the rope broke suddenly, and I fell from that place just now, and fell into the cold pool below, luckily I survived."

Xia Qinyi felt extremely distressed: Xiaolu also experienced the feeling of fear just now when she was 13 years old.

"This ice room is the place where my master Wei Xia lives in seclusion. I was drenched and shivering from the cold. When I saw this ice cave, I wanted to climb up to escape the cold wind. I didn't expect there to be a cave inside. Thanks to this warm jade It was a strange thing to say, that there were ready-made flints, fire-folders and dry firewood in this cave, as if the master and his old man knew that someone would fall into the bottom of the valley, I used the ready-made I dried my clothes with dry firewood, and caught Tan Zhong's fat fish to feed myself, and survived."

"What then?"

"Later~"

Lu Nanzhu pointed to the bookshelf in the ice room, and continued: "Later, I tried many times but couldn't climb up, so I gradually gave up; there was no sun and moon at the bottom of the valley, and life was really boring, so I started to borrow books. I read the books on the shelf one by one, and one day I finally finished reading all the books on the shelf, but another incredible thing happened..."

Next, Lu Nanzhu shared the adventures of the year, the content of the letter left by the strange man, including how to practice the Heavenly Demon Kung Fu, how her appearance was completely destroyed, and when she returned to the village, her mother was no longer there, and she frightened the village again. The residents had no choice but to run back to the bottom of the valley and concentrate on practicing.

On the day when the Heavenly Demon Kungfu achieved great success, he almost lost his temper and narrowly escaped death.

There are also the Canglong Sword and Silver Dragon Inner Armor hidden under the cold pool, and the second letter left by the strange man, how her appearance has been restored, and the strange man's tactful mention in the letter: I hope her Heirs, if there is a chance in the future, they can hold the Canglong Sword to compete with the heirs of the Phoenix Blood Knife, maybe there will be surprises.

All these things have been explained in detail.

The author has something to say: the second watch is coming, please call for my hard work.

Xia Qinyi: People are super afraid of heights, SOBADBAD, beat your chest with small fists, humming (╥╯^╰╥)

Lu Nanzhu: [covers his chest, takes three steps back] WORD God, I suddenly feel so cute, what should I do?