Chapter 1436

"I'm just curious. I heard the wild leek flower sauce here is especially sweet and fragrant," Zhu Yanyi said with a smile. She picked up a piece of hand-held mutton, took a small knife that was ready nearby, cut off a slice of meat, dipped it in the wild leek flower sauce, and ate it.

After one bite, Zhu Yanyi said, "With this mutton and this wild leek flower sauce, it would be perfect if we had some mare's milk wine."

"You are a girl who knows how to eat," a middle-aged man nearby laughed. "If you want to drink mare's milk wine, it’s easy. We don’t have much else here, but we have plenty of this wine." Mare's milk wine was almost a must-have in every grassland family. It wasn't precious, but people loved its taste, perhaps because it tasted like home.

Amuduo smiled too. She walked directly into the house and came out with a wine jar and a plate of small bowls. She placed the bowls down and poured wine for everyone.

The taste of mare's milk wine wasn't actually very good. But in this rugged place, the wine carried a sense of home and unique charm. So, visitors liked drinking it for that special flavor.

Zhu Yanyi took a big gulp and laughed, "This wine with this mutton is the perfect match."

It wasn't that the wine's flavor was amazing, but the pairing was right. Without the hand-held mutton, the mare's milk wine would be nothing. But with the mutton, it became the best partner. It was like eating barbecue at a night stall; beer is always the best drink to go with it.

"You drink too," Zhu Yanyi said to Yan Aohan.

Yan Aohan chuckled lightly, took a big gulp, and gave a thumbs-up. "Not bad. Strong flavor."

"I don't think you two are from the capital. You look like people from here," Amuduo said with a smile.

"Isn't that right?" one of them, named Wulumu, sighed with emotion. "Our branch has been here for nearly a hundred years. We’ve experienced everything. Who would have thought we could return to the Wu family now?"

"Yes. Thinking about the poison in my body, now that it’s cured, I’m so happy. Otherwise, our little girl would have become an old lady by the time she turned seventeen," Wuhaer said seriously.

"Life is better when it’s full of hope," Wula said directly. "Now our hope has arrived. How wonderful! Let’s not think about the bad things. Come, let’s eat meat and drink wine. Today is a day of celebration for our Wu family."

Wula was undoubtedly happy. He had originally thought he would die strangely in this remote place. But now, he could return to normal life. Just thinking about it filled his heart with joy.

Zhu Yanyi watched the Wu family’s happy expressions. They sang and danced, and eating mutton and drinking wine was common.

She realized that happiness and satisfaction for many people were so simple. They just needed hope in life.

But hope in life wasn't something everyone could get.

So, as the saying goes, the simplest things are often ignored. Yet, these easily ignored things are often what bring the greatest happiness.

That night, Zhu Yanyi got drunk. Even though she was drunk, she felt that human happiness was indeed very simple.

Because it was simple, it was sometimes hard to get. So, now that she had it, the feeling of happiness impacted all her senses.

Perhaps because of this joy, Zhu Yanyi slept very soundly that night. When she woke up the next morning, she found that her internal energy had reached the peak of the Internal Energy Transformation Realm.

Zhu Yanyi patted her head. "Is my progress too weird? I always advance without realizing it." Zhu Yanyi wasn't wrong. Every time she leveled up, it was strange. If those who worked hard every day to improve their martial arts knew about her way of advancing, they would surely be envious and jealous.

"You’re complaining when others can’t even catch up," Yan Aohan said with a helpless smile. He brought her water for washing her face. "Alright, stop thinking about useless things. Wash your face and brush your teeth quickly. Auntie Amuduo made cheese pancakes this morning."

Zhu Yanyi didn’t hesitate. She got up, washed her face, brushed her teeth, and went out.

The cheese here was real cheese, and the pancakes were very substantial. Zhu Yanyi ate a large piece of cheese and pancakes. After finishing, she said, "Auntie Amuduo, Aohan and I are going to look around the nearby grassland. Are there any taboos here?"

"No," Amuduo smiled and said. "But the weather on the grassland changes quickly. So, you’d better bring rain gear, in case it rains and you get wet."

"Okay, thank you, Auntie Amuduo," Zhu Yanyi thanked her.

The two returned to their room to prepare, then went out.

Zhu Yanyi and Yan Aohan said they were going to look around the grassland, but mainly to interact with the plants there. Although they hadn’t found the Madman yet, plants were connected. Through this connection, Zhu Yanyi could still get some useful information.

"There seems to be a problem in the canyon near the snow mountain," Zhu Yanyi said to Yan Aohan. "The plants told me this. They said that a group of strangers appeared there a few months ago. Those people stayed hidden and harmed many living creatures on the snow mountain. They even killed a snow mountain wolf."

The snow mountain wolf was a symbol of the mountain gods for the locals. Killing a snow wolf would cause the locals to rise up in resistance if they found out.

"The snow mountain," Yan Aohan pondered for a moment. "In that case, let’s go check the snow mountain."

How could you know what was on the tiger mountain without entering it?

Besides, although he knew the Madman had a laboratory in the Tibetan area, he hadn’t originally planned to stay there. So, the laboratory here didn’t have much equipment.

However, since the isolated island with the equipment had problems, he had to set up new equipment. This was why people only noticed activity there a few months ago.

"Weren’t the Madman’s superhumans sunk with the island? Does she still have people?" Zhu Yanyi frowned slightly.

"Those superhumans can’t easily appear in public. But he can bring one or two as bodyguards when he goes out. Besides, this is the Tibetan area. As long as he has money, he can hire people to work for him. And don’t forget, there is an international group called the Mercenary Corps. It is said that the Madman knows several people from mercenary groups," Yan Aohan thought for a moment and had an idea.

The Madman indeed didn’t have his original helpers, but the fact remained that he had money.