The next day, Zhou Ning woke up in Bai Zhao's tent, but she found that Bai Zhao was not in the tent, but had gone out to practice martial arts.

Xu Yongchang couldn't believe his eyes, ran to Bai Zhao and asked, "General, what are you doing?"

Bai Zhao said, "I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so I came out to practice boxing."

"You've been fighting all morning?"

"No - it's the whole night." Bai Zhao said.

Xu Yongchang saw Zhou Ning coming out of Bai Zhao's tent and asked, "How did that girl come out of your tent?"

Bai Zhao choked on his own saliva and said, "She went to look up some information. I have been practicing martial arts outside. Don't talk nonsense and tarnish the girl's innocence."

Xu Yongchang was surprised by Bai Zhao's reaction and asked, "Don't you suspect that she was sent by the enemy?"

"Yeah." Bai Zhao couldn't hold back his smile. He said, "She is one of us."

"Great!" Xu Yongchang smiled innocently, "To tell you the truth, I like that girl. Now I can pursue her boldly without any worries——"

Xu Yongchang felt a chill on his back and looked up to see that his general was staring at him.

"What did you say?" Bai Zhao asked through gritted teeth, "You want to pursue her?"

Xu Yongchang didn't realize anything was wrong, and continued, "Yes, I just saved some money. When I go home and buy good farmland and a house, I will ask the girl to marry me. Anyway, the girl has no father or mother. As long as we are in love, it will be fine..."

Bai Zhao was so angry that he turned around and left.

Xu Yongchang was puzzled as to why the general seemed angry.

Zhang Zhiyuan stepped forward, patted Xu Yongchang on the shoulder, and asked, "Didn't you notice that the general likes that girl?"

Xu Yongchang widened his eyes, pointed at himself, and then at the general.

Zhang Zhiyuan nodded and said, "So, you should give up as soon as possible."

"Why?" Xu Yongchang said, "Although I am not as good-looking as the general, my martial arts skills are not as good as the general, and my wealth and family background are not as good as the general, but I will marry a girl. With the general's family background, I am afraid that he can only take a girl as a concubine at most."

Xu Yongchang nodded and said, "I think I can still fight for it."

Zhang Zhiyuan shook his head. Never mind. This idiot couldn’t make any sense. Let him try it himself and he would know.

*

Zhou Ning was chatting with Shen You when she heard someone calling her outside. When she came in, she found it was Xu Yongchang.

Xu Yongchang took two oranges and said, "Girl, fruits are hard to come by in winter, so I brought two oranges for you to try."

Shen You looked at Zhou Ning as if she was watching a show, pushed her twice, and said with a smile: "Hey, they are giving you oranges."

Xu Yongchang's ears turned red, and Zhou Ning also understood what he meant. Just as she was about to refuse, she took the orange and threw it into her arms.

It turned out that Xu Yongchang threw the orange into Zhou Ning's arms and ran away.

Zhou Ning smelled the orange and said helplessly, "I don't like sour food."

"I know you don't like it." Shen You took it and peeled it open, saying, "I'll eat the orange, and you can have this."

"It's actually a peach." Zhou Ning took it in his hand and played with it for a while, then said, "Why do you carry peaches with you?"

Shen You said: "Xiao Bai sent it here."

Bai Zhao?

Zhou Ning looked towards the corner, where there was a basket of peaches.

Zhou Ning sniffed the peach, which had a strong aroma. She washed it, took a bite, and said, "It's delicious."

Shen You smiled and said, "What are you telling me? Go tell the person who delivered the peaches."

Zhou Ning asked Shen You for some money and went to the market to buy some things. He didn't come back until the evening.

She first found Xu Yongchang.

Xu Yongchang was so happy that his face turned red with excitement. He said, "You want to give me...something?"

"Well, a piece of calligraphy, I think it fits our relationship very well." Zhou Ning said.

Xu Yongchang rubbed his hands together and took it over excitedly. When he opened it, he saw four big characters written on it: "Deep Brotherly Love."

He learned to read, and because of learning to read, his heart was broken.

"Do you treat me as... a brother?" Xu Yongchang asked.

Zhou Ning nodded: "Yes."

Concise and clear, without any drag.

She has never had much emotional intelligence and is not very good at talking. Most of the boys who pursued her in the past were attracted by her appearance, so she would just reject them directly and never cared too much about other people's feelings.

The same is true now.

"You gave me oranges, but you don't know that I don't like sour food. You want to marry me, probably because I'm good-looking, gentle and quiet, and I'm an orphan so I can easily rely on you. But the me you know is just an act. In fact, I'm stubborn and quiet, overbearing and disobedient. I'm probably not suitable to be your wife. Okay, let's leave it at that."

Zhou Ning said.

Xu Yongchang's heart was broken, and he said, "You, you really don't like me at all?"

Zhou Ning thought about it carefully, and just when Xu Yongchang thought he still had a chance, Zhou Ning denied it and said, "I don't like it."

Xu Yongchang stopped Zhou Ning who was about to leave and asked, "Can't you give me a chance to pursue you?"

Zhou Ning said: "No, I don't like you, and I'm not what you like. For example, I never like others to force me."

After Zhou Ning finished speaking, she walked away from Xu Yongchang.

She saw a figure in the distance, raised her eyebrows, walked forward and said, "You've been looking at me?"

Bai Zhao said, "We have to queue up."

Zhou Ning put his hands behind his back, strode forward, suppressed the smile on his face, and asked, "Aren't you afraid that someone will chase me away?"

Bai Zhao asked back, "Maybe you were afraid before, but not now. When I saw you reject Xu Yongchang just now, I knew that you are still you. You only choose the one you love and won't make do with others."

"You know me so well?" Zhou Ning asked.

Bai Zhao lowered his eyes and smiled: "Of course, I know best what our Ah Ning is like."

"What am I like?" For the first time, Zhou Ning was curious about what others thought of her.

Bai Zhao counted on his fingers: "He is stubborn and obstinate, doesn't like to get up early, is lazy and stays in bed, doesn't like to please others, always scolds others, and will argue even if he is not right..."

Seeing Zhou Ning about to explode, Bai Zhao silently added, "She has a particularly bad temper."

Zhou Ning took a deep breath and motioned Bai Zhao to continue.

Bai Zhao said: "She is... a girl who is not easy to feel sorry for. She always shows her sharpest thorns to others and takes things on herself if she can."

"Then what do you like about me?" Zhou Ning laughed angrily, "You don't just like these, do you?"

Bai Zhao said seriously: "I once expressed my feelings to you. At that time, I knew exactly how I fell in love with you. But now——"

"In fact, after thinking about it, even if you are no longer the lively and irritable An Ning, and you become gentle and docile, I will still love you. Maybe, before I fell in love with you, I could have thousands of reasons, but after I fell in love with you, there was only one reason - you are Zhou Ning."

"As long as you are Zhou Ning, I will love you. No matter how the sun and moon change, or how the mountains and rivers change, I will always love you."

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