Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures-Primordial Era War Chapter Eighteen: True Feelings Confessed (1)

Scenes from over a decade ago involuntarily flashed through Zhang Xingfeng's mind.

"My name is ***Yan. My mother gave me this name herself. It sounds very nice, and I like it very much."

"Tell me, is my name nice?"

The image of that cute and playful little girl is still vivid in my mind.

"Is that you, ***Yan?" Zhang Xingfeng murmured with a smile.

In the landlady's room, ***Yan's former fiery charm vanished instantly. She sat quietly by the dressing table, looking at herself in the mirror.

"Zhang Xingfeng... Zhang Xingfeng..." ***Yan murmured unconsciously, "Do you still remember that little girl from back then? Now she's just a lowly, vulgar innkeeper... Heh..."

"That year, at the National Martial Academy... we only met a few times from beginning to end, but I've always remembered you... You know what? As I've grown older, I can't forget you anymore. I don't know why, but that day, I was with Sister Rou, and she said she'd fallen in love with you. Just as Sister Rou said that, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my heart... I finally understood, the reason I can't forget you is because I've fallen in love with you too!" A dreamlike voice quietly echoed in the room.

"Last year you won the battle and became a revered figure among the people of the entire Ming Dynasty. I went to the capital, twenty li outside the city, hoping to see you, but there were just too many people. I tried to squeeze in to see you, but it was filled with soldiers from the Central Army. I couldn't. I jumped around in the crowd, hoping to catch a glimpse of you, but I realized that twenty li was far too long, and there were too many troops behind you. I didn't know where you were. I ran and ran... ran and ran... constantly searching... Finally, I saw you! You and the Emperor were on the imperial carriage, smiling brightly at the people around you... I saw you smile at me, really, I really saw you smile at me, but then you smiled at someone else. I know I was just a passerby in your life... or perhaps you've already forgotten that little girl from back then."

"I'm home, back at the inn... This is the kind of life that suits a rough person like me!"

A deep sigh echoed in the room, lingering for a long time. Then, silence returned, and a very long time passed...

Suddenly, ***Yan seemed to wake up. She shook her head violently and rubbed her face with both hands until it was completely red before stopping. Looking in the mirror, ***Yan suddenly grinned and blinked her big eyes. In an instant, she transformed back into a fiery young girl. Even if she told others about her infatuated appearance just now, no one would believe her.

***Yan picked up the soft whip beside her, flicked it a few times, smiled smugly, and turned to walk out of the room.

Zhang Xingfeng changed into the ordinary white brocade robe that Tian Dan had bought. Although the material of this robe was not as top-grade as the ones he used to wear, it was still quite good for an ordinary person. It seemed that Tian Dan had spent at least thirty taels of the hundred taels.

Unfortunately, Tian Dan only gave Zhang Xingfeng ten taels of silver, saying that he spent ninety taels on clothes. Zhang Xingfeng just smiled at the greedy Tian Dan and didn't say anything, perhaps because he was looking at the proprietress!

Zhang Xingfeng gently raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp. He frowned. The wine was really just so-so, but it was terrible for Zhang Xingfeng. It wasn't that Zhang Xingfeng liked to enjoy fine food and clothing, but rather that Zhang Xingfeng was used to drinking fine wine and couldn't drink this kind of wine anymore!

Zhang Xingfeng stretched out his right hand, and suddenly a White Jade Wine Pot appeared in his palm. This wine pot was a magical Law Artifact specially crafted by Zhang Xingfeng. Although it was not of a high grade, it was only for holding wine! Moreover, as Law Artifact for holding wine, it was obviously more than capable.

Zhang Xingfeng sat in the southeast corner of the inn, occasionally pouring wine from the White Jade Wine Pot into his mouth.

Tian Dan was a little smug. He tossed the fifty taels of silver in his hand, hummed a little tune, and prepared to go home first to put away such a huge sum of money.

"Call out..."

With a whooshing sound, a long, soft whip snatched the silver from Tian Dan's hand. Tian Dan panicked and turned around abruptly to start cursing.

"If there's a next time, you can prepare to go home!" ***Yan's cold, emotionless voice rang out. ***Yan had been running this inn for six years; back then, when she was just a teenager, she could already keep these waiters in check, let alone now.

Tian Dan's heart trembled, and he immediately said, "I dare not do it again, I dare not do it again!" He knew ***Yan very well; she was not as playful as she seemed, and she could kill without blinking an eye!

Yan flicked her whip slightly, signaling Tian Dan that he could go! Tian Dan immediately ran far away.

***Yan sighed deeply. She thought about the past six years. Running this inn was no joke. Having experienced the hardships of life, ***Yan was more mature than the average girl. She had even killed some greedy and ruthless waiters and cut off their hands!

But none of this was of her own volition. In this far west where almost no one cares, whoever is ruthless lives well! Whoever has the biggest fist lives more comfortably!

She could only make herself ruthless and stronger. Fortunately, she had an older brother who was the captain of a patrol team, so some small gangs didn't dare to bully her.

***Yan looked at the fifty taels of silver in her hand and thought of the white-haired man who looked like a beggar. For some reason, ***Yan inexplicably decided to return the silver. In the past, when such things happened, ***Yan would always put the silver into her own pocket.

Upon entering the hall, ***Yan looked at the white-haired man, smiled, and walked over.

"Your money!" ***Yan threw the money onto Zhang Xingfeng's table, sat down with an air of superiority, and reached for the wine on the table to drink.

"Hmm!" ***Yan frowned. She saw the White Jade Wine Pot. Clearly, this White Jade Wine Pot was no ordinary item. ***Yan had experienced a luxurious life and had seen all kinds of grand occasions, but she was certain that she had never seen such a wine pot before. It was not only because the wine pot was made of jade, but also because the wine pot gave people a feeling of being full of Spiritual Qi.

***Yan raised her head, wanting to see what the white-haired person looked like. As soon as she raised her head, ***Yan froze.

So many years have passed, so many nights, so many dreams have been haunted by that figure, yet it's still those eyes, those unfathomable eyes, and that hair, indeed, is as white as the legend says, turned white for Sister Rou...

***Yan's eyes were a little wet.

"Are you *** Yan?" Zhang Xingfeng's voice rang out softly.

***Yan was taken aback. She looked at Zhang Xingfeng, who was smiling, and felt a surge of panic. She immediately said, "No, young master, you've mistaken me for someone else. My name is Hongfeng. Everyone here knows me!"

"Does everyone know my name?" The two had been talking very quietly, and no one around them had noticed, but now ***Yan shouted loudly, and everyone around heard it!

Everyone knows that she is ***Yan, but she is also Hongfeng. Hongfeng is just a nickname, and ***Yan usually does not allow others to call her by her name, only her nickname.

"Yes, that's our famous Sister Hongfeng. Kid, you better watch out, Sister Hongfeng is really formidable!" a guest in the distance said with a smile.

Zhang Xingfeng was stunned. He was very certain of his intuition; he felt that this girl was the same girl he had known since childhood. But now the girl in front of him was denying it, and the guests next to him were saying the same thing. Could it be that he had mistaken her for someone else?

Zhang Xingfeng didn't know.

"***Yan's ancestors were ministers of rites for generations, how could she possibly be an innkeeper's wife in the far west?" Zhang Xingfeng suddenly thought, and said apologetically, "I'm sorry, young lady, you look a lot like one of my friends, so I... I'm really sorry!"

***Yan felt a mix of joy and disappointment. She was happy that Zhang Xingfeng remembered her, but she also felt a sense of loss. She was disappointed that Zhang Xingfeng no longer treated her as ***Yan! But wasn't this exactly what ***Yan herself had wanted to deny earlier? ***Yan smiled bitterly to herself.

"Oh... May I ask when was the last time you saw your friend?" ***Yan, however, remained as carefree as ever on the surface.

Zhang Xingfeng was taken aback, then smiled and said, "It's been about ten years!" For some reason, Zhang Xingfeng felt very calm and slightly happy to be with this girl.

"Hahaha... More than ten years ago, how old was this friend back then!" ***Yan's laughter was very clear and resounded throughout the hall.

Zhang Xingfeng knew what the girl was after, but he still said, "She was only six or seven years old back then!"

"Six or seven years old, now she's almost twenty, brother. You can tell the difference between a little girl back then and a young lady now, hahaha..." ***Yan's laughter rang out again.

The surrounding customers were all regulars here and knew ***Yan well, so they all laughed.

"This brother is really... ah... hahaha... They say girls change a lot at eighteen, and you can tell what a six or seven-year-old looks like now. Brother, I really find it hard to believe!" A burly man walked over, holding a bottle of wine, talking non-stop.

Yan frowned as she looked at the burly man. He was a real headache for her. This man, named Wang Shan, was a local tyrant in the far west who had been pursuing her relentlessly. However, Yan's brother was the captain of a patrol force with over a thousand soldiers under his command. Since he was a powerful figure in this area, Wang Shan couldn't use force and could only keep coming here to harass Yan.

Hearing the laughter around him, Zhang Xingfeng said nothing, simply raising his glass and taking a small sip, completely ignoring the sounds around him.

"Damn it, I'm talking to you, didn't you hear me?" Wang Shan suddenly shouted. He really felt embarrassed. He had already addressed Zhang Xingfeng as "brother," which was already giving him a lot of face, but he didn't expect this white-haired young man to completely ignore him, as if he were invisible. He, Wang Shan, was a big shot in the far west; who would dare to disrespect him like this!

***Yan was furious that Wang Shan dared to insult Zhang Xingfeng, but she quickly recovered. She knew Zhang Xingfeng's strength and wasn't worried about Zhang Xingfeng at all. She just wanted to see what Wang Shan would do.

"Kid, you drink alcohol? Hmm... what kind of wine is this? I've never seen this wine jug before!"

"This doesn't belong to our inn, it belongs to this young master!" ***Yan immediately said calmly, and then fell silent.

"Hmm... it seems there's some good wine in this flask. Let me have a taste!" Wang Shan said, reaching out to snatch the flask. He wasn't an ordinary person, and he could tell that this flask was no ordinary one. Forcibly taking it was something he was good at. He reached out and took it; once he got it, the flask was his!

Zhang Xingfeng frowned, looked at the fool in front of him, and said coldly, "You think you're worthy of drinking my wine! Get lost!"

Wang Shan was stunned. He had actually been insulted. He, the overlord of the far west, had actually been insulted. The world was in chaos. Wang Shan was momentarily speechless, perhaps because he had never been insulted like this before.

All the guests around stopped to watch the show. They all knew what kind of person Wang Shan was, and this white-haired young man didn't seem to be an ordinary person either. Leaving aside the white-haired young man's temperament, you could tell just by looking at the White Jade Wine Pot.

Clearly, Wang Shan also realized that this white-haired young man was no ordinary person and not someone to be trifled with, but he had just been insulted! After a while, Wang Shan finally suppressed his anger. The main reason he could live such a comfortable life as a tyrant in the far west was that he knew who he could mess with and who he couldn't!

"Haha..." ***Yan laughed, looking at Wang Shan's flushed face. Everyone around them laughed too. Wang Shan, caught up in his inner turmoil, was oblivious to his own burning embarrassment. Hearing the laughter around him, he was startled, but instantly felt a wave of awkwardness wash over him!

He felt incredibly humiliated, utterly humiliated, all because of the white-haired young man before him! Wang Shan's anger flared as he listened to Yan's laughter; perhaps being laughed at by the woman he loved was a deeply humiliating experience!

"I want your wine, and you dare to..." Wang Shan said, trying to snatch it, but before he could finish speaking, he screamed and flew out the door.

Nobody knows what happened.

Zhang Xingfeng knew that he had only moved slightly and reached out his hand when Wang Shan arrived, and Wang Shan had been sent flying. Of course, because the speed of the reach was so fast, no one saw it, so everyone was confused.

"Yu Yan! I'm back!" A burly man dressed in dark armor, resembling a general, walked in!

"Big Brother!" ***Yan felt a pang of embarrassment and immediately glanced furtively at Zhang Xingfeng, who was also looking at her in surprise.

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