"What are you talking about?" Ding Rong glared at Zhang Chen angrily: "What does it mean to reduce the loss to the lowest level? Will we brothers still be defeated by that boy? As the saying goes, you still don't understand the principle of attacking troops!"

I don’t know if my brother has seen too much military strategy recently. As long as he gets a chance, he will use some great principles to teach Zhang Chen and the others.

Zhang Chen was also a little used to this, so he could only enter one ear next to him and one ear out, waiting impatiently for the elder brother's education to end as soon as possible.

After saying a lot of things, Ding Rong stopped condemning and looked up at Xiaowen and Xiao An not far away, with his eyes full of jokes.

On the other hand, Xiaowen did not notice the person lurking in the dark, but added some dry firewood to the fire. The night in the woods was colder. As a cultivator, she had the ability to resist the wind and cold, but Xiao An's passive lips were already blue.

After the fire became a little bigger, she found that Xiao An was still trembling and asked, "Are you okay? Why don't I take off one piece of clothing for you?"

Xiao An shook his head: "I'm a man who said this, how could I ask for women's clothes to keep warm? I'm fine!"

When she glanced at the old-fashioned Xiao An, Xiaowen couldn't even close her mouth when she smiled.

"Haha, you guy is so funny that you are so angry. You just keep calling yourself a man at such an age!"

Xiao An naturally would not admit her statement. After all, he had already started to help his mother with housework since he was very young, so his mind was far more mature than his peers and could not be compared with ordinary children.

He didn't care about Xiaowen's joke just now, and said seriously: "Sister Xiaowen, I can still bear it. You should wear the clothes yourself. If you are implicated in the cold, it will be my fault!"

After hearing this, Xiaowen was a little amused and cried, and then she ignored Xiao An's agreement or not, and put her own clothes on the latter.

Feeling the remaining warmth on the clothes and the faint fragrance that poured into the nose, Xiao An couldn't help but be in a mess: "You, you..."

Seeing this, Xiaowen stretched out a finger and pointed Xiao An's head: "Come on, I don't mind, you guys, that's a big deal!"

As she said that, she proudly raised her chest: "Don't underestimate you, Sister Xiaowen, I am actually a cultivator!"

Xiao An was stunned: "Sister Xiaowen is also a cultivator?"

Xiaowen said arrogantly: "That's not, so you don't have to worry about me getting infected with the cold. With this little mountain wind, I'm not enough to cool down!"

Although her words were a bit exaggerated, they also made some sense. After all, the cultivator has a different body than ordinary people. With the protection of the vital energy in his body, how can cold wind pose a threat?

At this time, Xiao An sighed, "I really envy you. In fact, my wish since childhood is to become a cultivator, and then I can live a better place with my mother's conditions."

Xiaowen asked curiously: "Have you never told you that she is a cultivator before?"

"No!" Xiao An shook his head: "If my mother hadn't been injured this time, maybe I'd been in the dark until now."

Since he was a child, he thought he lived in an ordinary family, and his mother was also an ordinary rural widow, and he had no hope for life.

However, when Xiao An's mother came back from home for three days, Xiao An's originally peaceful life was in chaos.

He never thought that his mother was actually a cultivator!

If it were normal times, Xiao An would definitely be so happy that he could not help himself, but when he saw his mother's weak situation, he could not be happy.

At that time, he didn't even bother to ask about his mother's specific incidents, but went to the depths of the mountains to find ways to treat his relatives.

After listening to some of Xiao An's narrations, many questions suddenly arose in Xiaowen's heart.

"This is a bit strange. Why did she hide these things from you? And how could a cultivator have been hiding his identity for so many years?"

As the saying goes, people go to high places, water flows to low places.

What a cultivator pursues is naturally the growth of cultivation. If he does not reach a certain level, he will not be able to live a life without competing with the world.

Xiao An's mother's cultivation level is definitely not very strong, so she was the first to deny her identity as a hermit master.

Since she is not a hermit master who has seen through the world, why did she live in the mountains for so many years without caring about the identity of a peasant woman?

Facing Xiaowen's puzzled gaze, Xiaoan shook her head helplessly: "I don't know this, because my mother has never talked about her original experience. Even some old people in the village don't know her specific background."

Xiaowen said thoughtfully: "This matter is very strange!"

Similarly, Xiao An also felt that his mother must have hidden some secrets over the years, so she never mentioned her past.

Thinking of this, he said firmly: "When my mother's illness is cured, I will definitely ask her!"

Xiaowen smiled slightly: "You will tell me that at that time, after all, our woman's curiosity is strong!"

She clearly remembered the explanation made by the Pavilion Master Han Yuelin before she left, and knew that the batch of nightmare grass in Xiao An was taken out of the forbidden area, so she was very concerned about the affairs of this family and was unwilling to miss any details.

Xiao An didn't know what Xiaowen was thinking, but he would naturally treat people who helped him honestly and smiled lightly.

"Don't worry, when my mother sees you as a cultivator, she may feel a certain kindness, and she may naturally tell her past naturally!"

Xiaowen replied: "This is the best!"

At this moment, Xiao An suddenly remembered something and said with concern: "By the way, Brother Xiao has been there for so long, why haven't he come back yet!"

Hearing this, Xiaowen reacted: "Yes, it didn't take that long for the young master to hunt just now. Why did it take so long for me to get water?"

Xiao An asked anxiously: "Can something unexpected happen?"

"Impossible." Xiaowen waved her hand: "Young master is extremely powerful, not to mention that this is not a forbidden area in the mountains, so it is impossible for people and things that can threaten him."

She didn't have a long time to contact Xiao Shun, but she also learned from some incidents that the latter was not an ordinary person, so how could there be an accident in the water-drawing project?

After hearing what Xiaowen said, Xiao An’s worries did not completely dissipate, and he asked: “Since that’s the case, why don’t Brother Xiao come back after he goes there?”

Xiaowen patted his shoulder and comforted him, "Something should have been delayed. Let's just wait here. The young master will definitely not be able to do anything."

Immediately afterwards, the two of them no longer had the interest in talking. They sat upright by the bonfire, looking at the direction when Xiao Shun left, quietly waiting for each other to return safely.

As time passed by minute by minute, their expressions changed from calm to solemnity at the beginning.

Suddenly, Xiaowen heard a faint movement on the side and was immediately delighted.

"Young Master is back!"

Xiao An stood up and looked around, but he didn't see Xiao Shun's voice at all.

"Where is it? Why didn't I see it?"

Seeing him looking at him blankly, Xiaowen smiled and pointed to the bushes not far away.

"Just over the bushes, I clearly heard footsteps just now."

As soon as he finished speaking, a person appeared deep in the grass.

Taking advantage of the hazy night, Xiao An also clearly saw the figure appearing in front of him and scratched his cheek suspiciously: "Strange, Brother Xiao was obviously wearing blue Yishan before, why has he turned black now?"

At the same time, the joy on Xiaowen's face cooled instantly, because she had already noticed that the person who was slowly walking in the distance was not the young master Xiao whom she was familiar with!

Immediately, she pulled Xiao An behind her and asked loudly at the man in black.
Chapter completed!