The Great Qin: Starting with marrying Jingni, I began my quest for immortality.

Although I don't understand why Jiang Chuan knows these things, it's never wrong to listen to his advice, since it's for the child's good.

Soon, she followed Jiang Chuan to the foot of the mountain.

Jiang Chuan's house was also nearby, located at the very edge of the entire village.

The house was small, the most common kind of adobe house, with a thick layer of thatch on the roof.

However, after stepping into the house, the woman discovered that the small house was actually a hidden world.

It contains many hunting tools.

Homemade bows and arrows, various ropes and fishing gear, and several dried animal hides hanging on the wall.

Jiang Chuan ran to the back kitchen and fiddled around for a while before picking up a ceramic jar.

Inside the earthenware pot was millet porridge cooked by Jiang Chuan. Millet is also known as foxtail millet.

Millet is one of the five grains.

Although the millet of this era was not as refined as that of later generations, for someone like Jiang Chuan who had traveled from the future, having anything to eat was already a blessing.

He usually cooks a pot of millet porridge on the charcoal stove in the morning, then goes out to check the harvest. When he comes back, he drinks a bowl of porridge and then thinks about what to do during the day.

Jiang Chuan then found a simple porcelain bowl, scraped off a layer of rice paste from the top of his millet porridge, and put it into the bowl.

He held up a bowl of rice cereal and said to the woman, "Millet is very nutritious and can help soothe a child's stomach. Of course, your child is too young and still has difficulty digesting it, so rice cereal is fine for him."

The woman nodded gently after hearing Jiang Chuan's words, remained silent for a moment, and then said to Jiang Chuan, "Thank you."

Jiang Chuan smiled and said, "It's nothing, after all, I quite like children."

Upon hearing this, the woman looked at Jiang Chuan with surprise again.

Then she went to feed the child.

Jiang Chuan glanced at the scene of the woman feeding the child, but didn't look at it for long.

Besides his genuine fondness for children, there was another reason he helped the woman, which he didn't mention.

That is, women know martial arts.

Even if the woman's previous technique wasn't magic, it was at least martial arts.

This proves that the world is not as simple as the ordinary late Warring States period.

At first, Jiang Chuan had resigned himself to his fate, wanting only to live an ordinary life and honestly. But now, by chance, he had encountered this woman and witnessed another side of this world.

He inevitably developed some newfound ambitions.

He doesn't have much ambition; he just wants to practice martial arts.

After all, as a young man, it's inevitable to dream of wandering the world with a sword and wine.

Chapter Three: Dreams

After eating some millet porridge, the baby in the woman's arms fell into a deep sleep.

Seeing that the woman was holding the child, Jiang Chuan was worried that she would get tired, so he offered to let her put the child on the bed to sleep.

Of course, if the woman complains that he has slept in the bed, then there's nothing that can be done.

The woman eventually accepted Jiang Chuan's offer.

She placed the child on Jiang Chuan's bed, then stood beside him, watching the sleeping child, lost in thought.

I stared at the child for a long time.

The woman snapped out of her reverie and looked at Jiang Chuan, who was processing the fish, shrimp, and loaches he had caught that morning. Her gaze suddenly sharpened. "What's your name?"

"Jiang Chuan!"

Jiang Chuan casually responded to the woman.

He then asked the woman, "And you? You're all alone with a child, you must have a name, right? I wonder what I should call you?"

Upon hearing Jiang Chuan's question, the woman was stunned. For a moment, she didn't know how to answer it.

Her original name wasn't even a name.

That was just a code name, a code name named after a sword, representing her identity as a sword slave.

Besides that name, does she have any other name?

Yes, there is another name.

"My name is Ru Shuang!"

The woman revealed her name.

Ru Shuang was the name she used when she was in Xinling. With the help of the Luo Wang (a powerful organization), she quickly became a famous Qin Ji (a female musician) in Xinling. In the end, through the music of the Qin, she gradually closed the distance between herself and the disheartened Lord Xinling, becoming his favorite concubine, until she killed him.

Although this name carries a past she is unwilling to mention, she truly has no other name besides this one.

Moreover, compared to the name she used in that assassin organization, this name felt more real, representing that she had truly lived as a "human being," and she preferred to use this name.

"Red-faced like frost, a beautiful name."

When Jiang Chuan heard this name, the first thing that came to mind wasn't "the reeds are green and the dew is white," but rather Jay Chou's song.

The woman named Ru Shuang didn't feel much.

For her, her name was just a label.

Her beautiful gaze fell on Jiang Chuan. "Why are you helping me?"

"Just liking children doesn't seem like a enough reason!"

As she spoke, her aura solidified and landed on Jiang Chuan. Jiang Chuan felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him, bringing him immense pressure.

Having barely escaped a life-or-death crisis, Jiang Chuan never expected to face another one so soon.

If I can't give the other person a satisfactory answer, they'll probably kill me.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan didn't hide anything and directly revealed his true thoughts, "I want to learn martial arts!"

"You know, I'm just an ordinary villager from the mountains. I rarely even come into contact with scholars, let alone martial artists. What you used earlier must have been martial arts."

"It's rare for me to meet a martial arts master like you, so of course I'll have some thoughts."

"Of course, if I were indulging in wishful thinking, why would a master like you teach martial arts to a country bumpkin like me?"

Before we can determine whether the woman is cultivating immortality or practicing martial arts, let's assume she is practicing martial arts.

"Is that so?"

The woman named Ru Shuang gave Jiang Chuan a deep look.

She knew that there was no such thing as a free lunch in this world, and Jiang Chuan's help to her was indeed for a purpose.

However, compared to Jiang Chuan helping her, her desire to practice martial arts was not a selfish motive; it was simply the dream of a villager from the mountains.

Ru Shuang did not develop any aversion towards Jiang Chuan because of this.

After thinking about Jiang Chuan, the woman then thought about herself.

For Jiang Chuan, a villager from the mountains, his daily life was one of struggling to make ends meet, and his dream was to learn martial arts.

What about yourself?

What should one's own life and dreams be like?

Because of that person, she ultimately chose to live for herself.

Thus they betrayed the net.

After the child was born, she was named "Yan" so that she would remember Lord Xinling. Yan itself means "trust," and Wuji means "children speak without restraint."

Of course, the main reason for choosing that name was because of the jade pendant given to her by Lord Xinling, which had the three characters "Yan Wuji" on it. This was the key reason why she named her child "Yan".

Initially, she wanted to live for herself. Now, in addition to living for herself, she also wants to take good care of her child and let her grow up slowly as an ordinary person.

But can I really do that?

Ru Shuang fell silent.

She can't even take care of children, so it's really hard to talk about the future.

Not to mention, even after she defected from that organization, that organization never gave up hunting her down.

After Jiang Chuan answered the woman's question, he noticed that she fell silent, and the aura of her gaze that had been emanating from her disappeared.

As for why Jiang Chuan was able to perceive these things?

Naturally, it's because the pressure has disappeared.

He carefully looked at the woman's beautiful face and said, "Although I don't know what you've been through or why you're here with a child, you can stay with me for the time being if you don't mind."

Even though the woman's personality seemed somewhat unpredictable, she was generally a person who could be talked to.

Jiang Chuan still did not give up his initial ambition.

He wanted to practice martial arts and learn swordsmanship.

He had no choice but to be transported to this world and become a villager in the mountains.