The tall girl glanced at the boots handed to her, her eyes flashing with natural wariness and rejection of the outside.

"I’m not familiar with you, so I won’t wear your shoes."

"But the shoes you’re wearing..."

"They’re broken, but they were given to me by your dad. He saved me, I’m familiar with him."

"But actually, the pair of shoes you’re wearing now were also mine before." Li Yuan bluffed casually, then smiled, "So, since you can wear my shoes, why not wear my shoes?"

Zhenyan Xue got tangled up in the argument, blinking her eyes, staring at Li Yuan.

"Once you buy some embroidered shoes, then return them to me." Li Yuan said.

Zhenyan Xue hesitated for a moment, her snow-white and full little feet stepping on the lush green grass of the countryside.

Li Yuan bent over and placed a pair of boots in front of her.

The air was somewhat quiet.

Suddenly, Zhenyan Xue walked forward, shouting, "I won’t wear your shoes, I’ve only known you for a day."

Li Yuan noticed she had indeed hesitated, finding her amusing.

He didn’t put the boots back on either, just casually picked them up with his hands and walked beside Zhenyan Xue.

The two walked barefoot on the ground, and soon, both pairs of feet turned into muddy ones.

Zhenyan Xue silently glanced at his feet but said nothing.

Soon, the two arrived in the town, drawing curious glances from passersby, each with a peculiar look staring at these two barefoot people...

However, Zhenyan Xue was tall and fair-skinned, and though Li Yuan looked plain, he had a unique aura that suggested he wasn’t easily bullied even while standing in mud.

But in the lawless countryside, there were always so-called little gangs, and the hooligans in these gangs were arrogant, believing themselves to be the second most important under heaven, thinking all the girls in the village belonged to them, dismissive of whoever stepped into their territory...

Soon, a hooligan, enchanted by Zhenyan Xue’s beauty, came to harass her, and Li Yuan, without much ado, went forward and beat the hooligan to the ground.

Zhenyan Xue looked at the fallen hooligan in astonishment, "Why so weak?"

As they were speaking, a group of hooligans rushed out from an alley at the end of the street, pointing at Li Yuan and Zhenyan Xue, but their leader hadn’t even started speaking when Li Yuan rushed up and sent him flying with a punch.

The rest of the hooligans charged with weapons, and Zhenyan Xue joined the fray.

As soon as she stepped in, there was the sound of bones cracking.

The clueless girl didn’t know how to control her strength. When hearing vulgar words, her punch made a hooligan’s chest collapse completely, and with a throw, the hooligan flew back over ten meters, spewing blood onto the ground, unable to get up.

"So weak, way too weak..."

Zhenyan Xue couldn’t believe it.

The remaining hooligans began shouting, "Murder!! Murder!! Bandits in the town, acting with impunity!!"

Seeing Zhenyan Xue still in a daze, Li Yuan grabbed her hand and led her away from the scene.

They ran past an alley corner, and Zhenyan Xue threw his hand away, "I don’t understand."

"Don’t understand what?"

"Why are we running?"

"Bandits in town, acting with impunity. The government officials will soon be here."

The government, though, was always present, because the brand was useful, the system was useful, so even though the officials ate family meals and gang meals, they still wore the uniforms of the Great Zhou Dynasty’s officials.

Zhenyan Xue said, "But we aren’t bandits."

"Do you even know what bandits are?"

"Of course, sometimes neighboring tribes come to steal things, and there are thieves in our own tribe too. But we didn’t steal anything just now."

"You killed someone, you know?"

"Killed someone? He pulled a knife on me, I barely touched him and he died, how is that my fault?

Oh, the government, right. You mean their tribe will mobilize entirely, and we don’t have enough people to fight them, is that it?

That’s right, the ones we encountered earlier were just the weak ones from their tribe, their real strong ones aren’t here yet."

Zhenyan Xue suddenly realized, explaining to herself with her own logic, her eyes brightened up, and a wild spirit developed from surviving in extreme places burst forth with an inexplicable will to fight, "If it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get!!"

Li Yuan: ...

The tall long-legged girl said calmly, "We need weapons."

Saying this, she rushed into a bamboo grove on the side, pulling down a bamboo and sharpening it, muttering, "There’s no ice here, how to make a spear..."

Li Yuan found it somewhat amusing and frustrating, but his expression also showed contemplation. He then stepped forward and said, "The weapons here are made of steel, look at my dad’s bow, the forks, the firewood blade."

Zhenyan Xue spread her hands, "But we don’t have those here, maybe we should just escape?"

The clueless girl evidently had no concept of her own strength, convinced that she should run when outnumbered.

"When we get back, let’s call... call..."

She trailed off, suddenly speechless, because she realized she had no one left to call.

Perhaps calling the old hunter?

But the old hunter, while he saved her, was very weak too.

For a moment, she didn’t know what to do.

Li Yuan said, "You go back and find my dad, he’ll have a way."

"Okay!"

Zhenyan Xue was clearly open to this idea.

At that moment, the two were sitting on a stone, and Li Yuan suddenly lifted the girl’s foot beside him, wiping it with the hem of his clothes.

In an instant, the dirt was gone, revealing a foot that was not only pale and carried a crystalline icy aura, but was also pristine, devoid of any foot odor...