The sound of horses' hooves faded away.

The two guards who were waiting under the tree watched the whole time, and at this time they exchanged glances and glanced at each other from a distance.

They were silent on the surface, but they knew in their hearts that the Lord's mind was getting harder and harder to guess!

One of the guards was one of the two men who had followed the ship all the way from the capital city to Suzhou, and he had already seen the Lord's completely different style from before.

When he arrived in the deep valley near Suzhou City, after encountering the black-clothed hijackers, even if the lord arrived in Suzhou City, his mind was not in a state, and it was as if he had lost his soul.

They had whispered about these things in private.

I know that the little junior sister has an extraordinary status in the eyes of the Lord, but no matter what, the Lord is the Lord.

There is no doubt that the decisions he has made will be overlooked, and that the plans he has arranged will be carried out with all his might!

Including this time, the manpower was originally planned to be arranged to squat on several mountain roads outside Suzhou City, but the Lord's temporary change of decision was to separate two of the best kung fu to the dock.

The deserted and depressed riverside wharf of Suzhou City in winter is this decision

The guards couldn't figure it out, and they inevitably had doubts about this decision.

Now look at the Lord, two trips a day, a short time to the dock to check, is it possible to happen to meet those two people who are waiting?!

Although there are not many ships anchored in Suzhou City in the past few days, there are many people who have come ashore one after another.

According to the guards, the chance of hitting them is too low!

It's hard to guess, and it's not easy to think about it. The guards just need to do their duty and do what they need to do.

The two people squatting under the tree looked at each other several times in succession, and the tacit understanding reached was still silent and continued to wait.

Since it is the will of the Lord. Subordinates also have to act according to orders

I was out of breath, wiped the sweat from my forehead, and stood in the mountain wind to rest for a while.

The fatigue from walking yesterday has not yet recovered, and my feet are so swollen that I don't want to look at them anymore.

Not only the feet, but also the scars on the shoulders that were strangled by the burden, although I found some herbs by the stream yesterday evening and put them on. But you don't need to untie it, just by touching it with your hand through your coat, you can feel that the wound is swollen and raised.

Be optimistic. Is this also an experience in difficult conditions?

Experience-Yun Chu has said this word to me more than once, and I have doubled it in the past few days.

It was even harder than when I woke up alone on the riverbank.

Because I also brought a man with me, who said he was a companion, and he often caused trouble. Sometimes it can help. But the main task is to add to the chaos!

I looked back and thought, if he is okay and stays in the cave for a few days, it will be a big deal to make some disguise at the entrance of the cave, and ordinary people will not be so easy to find out!

I just didn't want to stay honest, and I had to run deep into the mountains, but the more I ran, the more I ran, the more I hung up. Not only did he hang up the lottery, but he was even poisoned!

Think about what he's doing now. That's all left of the spearfish!

Well, I'll admit it, it's still a technique that kills me.

I sighed and estimated that it had been almost an hour since I walked from the cabin.

If I can't see the mountain people's dwellings anymore, I'll have to go back.

The boy stayed in the hut, and he told me again and again that it didn't matter, but I felt that the quilt was still indispensable in the night, and that I had to rush back to the cave again.

I made up my mind to walk through the forest in front of me, and if I couldn't find it again, I would turn back the way I came.

The pace was not slow, and as I walked through the woods, I was surprised to find a few fruit trees at the end of the woods, which did not look like they were growing naturally.

Suddenly, my eyes lit up, and I knew exactly what that meant, and I quickly quickened my pace and ran forward.

Turning the mountain road, the stream formed by the stream of water makes an exaggerated turn here.

After walking a short distance along the path by the water, a house in the middle of the mountain suddenly appeared in front of me.

It is a bit exaggerated to say that it is a house, but in fact, it is a few rooms, plus a bamboo fence enclosed by the front and back yards.

There is a bit of land in it, and it looks like there are a lot of things growing in it.

This is not the first time I have seen this kind of house, and the last time I saw the hunter living in the mountains, it was also a house of similar structure.

I hesitated to stand under the tree and watch, I could be sure that it was the dwelling of the mountain people, this area was far from the dense forest, and it did not look like a hunter's residence.

But what happened between the boy and Orion last time was not revealed to me.

I was thinking that the reason for his concealment might well be that the hunter had bad intentions, so that I would be apprehensive when I came into the dwelling of the mountain people again.

Looking back, the boy should have told me the truth.

At least let me have a bottom in my heart, unlike now, I can't be sure at all, and my heart is hesitant.

I stood under the tree for a while, thinking about what I should say if I met the mountain people, and then walked slowly forward.

When I walked outside the house, I saw an old lady working under the tree in the front yard with her back to me.

I stopped, and when I looked over, it seemed that the eldest lady was holding a bamboo plaque in her hand and was drying vegetables.

I walked to the door, hesitated for a moment, stepped forward and shouted, "Auntie! ”

The eldest lady turned around and looked at me fixedly, with a look of astonishment on her face.

I smiled awkwardly, and instead of pushing open the half-human-high door surrounded by a bamboo fence and entering, I stood there and looked at my aunt.

I didn't dare to enter the door without the permission of my master, even if it was a bamboo fence in front of me.

My cautious and polite actions really made the vigilance in the eldest lady's eyes slowly fade.

I stood at the door and said to her embarrassedly: "Auntie, I passed through this mountain, got lost, and walked for two days to find here." ”

"I'd like to ask you for directions."

My aunt was still looking at me, and I let her eyes be on my face. After a moment, she replied to me in an accented voice, "Come in." ”

Sitting under the big tree, the eldest lady brought me a bowl of water and two steamed buns made of coarse grains.

I broke it off and ate half of it. The rest is left on the plate, and I plan to ask the eldest lady for it later.

I sat at the stone table and talked to my aunt

"I also have a brother who is waiting halfway down the road, and I came to explore the way."

The eldest lady looked at me with sympathy in her eyes and said, "Stay at my house for one night at night, and have a free place." ”

"Your brother is about your age?"

"He's a year older than me." I thought about it and said casually.

In fact, I don't know the age of the tsundere boy at all. But he is tall, and I am pretending to be a man, or I directly say that he is a year older. When the eldest lady sees it, she won't feel too abrupt.

"Do you live here alone?" I raised my head and whispered to my aunt.

"The old man went to the village down the mountain, and the other day he caught some prey on the mountain and took it to the village to exchange for something."

Although the eldest lady speaks with an accent, I can still understand it.

Hear the words. I was stunned: "Auntie." Do people here hunt? ”

I looked at the age of the eldest mother, but I didn't expect her husband to be still hunting.

In my concept, most people of this age can only do light physical work, and hunting the kind of work that requires strong physical strength seems to be not suitable for the elderly.

The eldest lady shook her head and said: "It's a trap in the forest, you don't need to work very hard to guard, I went to see it the next day, and most of the time I didn't get anything." “

My aunt told me honestly. "Wait until spring begins. There is more prey in the mountains. “

I listened sentence by sentence and asked if the trap was set in the forest. Suddenly, I was a little afraid.

I didn't take much care along the way, if I walked alone and ran into a trap in a daze, it would be a disaster!

I feel that I am lucky, God favors me!

The eldest lady didn't know what I was thinking, and seeing that I only ate half of the steamed bun, she asked strangely, "Why don't you finish it?" After walking in the mountains for a long time, aren't you hungry? "I want to ask you for it, take it for my brother," I said, bowing my head, "and he's like me, he hasn't eaten it in days." “

The eldest lady sighed and said, "You can eat, and besides, I'll get it for you later." "The place where your brother is waiting is not far from here?" When the eldest lady saw me drinking water and eating steamed buns, she asked me. "It's a long way," I told the truth, "I walked all the way along the stream, through the mountains, through the woods, to your house." "I can't tell you how far it is, but I've been walking for more than an hour." "Stream?" The eldest lady was stunned for a moment, and suddenly said: "It turns out that it is from over there, the distance is quite far, you might as well wait for an hour or two." "How?" "When my old man comes back, he will rush over in a carriage, which is much faster."

I was about to agree, but suddenly remembered one thing, I ate and took it at someone's house, and I also had to be picked up by car, how could I be embarrassed?

owes such a big favor, and that guy doesn't know if he has any money on him?

But even if there is silver, it is rare for those who live in the mountains to use it, and do they not see that they use the prey they hunt in exchange for food?

I blushed and whispered: "Auntie, I won't tell you, my brother and I were robbed of the mountain bandits on the road, and the money and valuable things on our bodies were robbed, I"

When I went back, I had a small burden on my back, and I still refused my aunt's proposal to me.

I knew she was kind, but the time of her husband's return was uncertain, and she said she had waited an hour or two, and if it was later, I was worried about staying in the cabin.

I made an appointment with the boy before I left, but what if I went back too late and he mistakenly thought that I was in danger in the woods?

Maybe that responsible guy will come out to me without regard for his own body.

Wouldn't that be self-defeating!

I walked back slowly by myself, thinking that there would be hot food and soup tonight, and that I would have a clean place to sleep, and I was in a good mood!

The previous time, on Orion's side, I was still afraid that the person looked at me a little strangely, but when I got to the eldest mother, this slightest scruple did not exist.

The eldest lady looks like a very good person!

I walked through the forest, and when I left the yard of the eldest lady, I also specially asked the eldest lady about the distribution of traps in the forest.

The eldest lady told me about the route, and I found that the traps of the mountain people were all bypassing the routes that strangers would take.

It turned out that it wasn't my luck, but that when they set it up, they were worried that there might be a relationship between strangers who were not familiar with the bad environment.

I didn't notice the traps when I came, but when I walked back, I was paying attention!

Seeing the traps scattered along the roadside, I realized that I had overlooked many details that I hadn't seen before.

If the people who were together were replaced by Yun Chu, maybe they would have found out a long time ago!

On his back, he carried a small burden given by a lady, filled with steamed buns and a pot of water.

The water was lukewarm, and although it would probably be cold by the time I got to the hut, it still felt warm in my hand.

After about an hour of traveling, I bypassed the mountain road from afar, and when I saw the wandering figure at the door of the wooden house, my heart suddenly settled!

Seeing that guy, my temporary partner was standing there waiting for me, and I hurriedly walked to the boy's side.

As he walked, he raised the burden in his hand, which was an unexpected gain. "I thought you had fallen into a ravine!"

The young man saw me approaching, looked at me with a good body, obviously there was a smile between his eyebrows and eyes, and the words he said were still human!

I've learned so many times that I just ignored his words.

I looked at him and said, "I don't have to stay here tonight, I know you're not satisfied, I'm lucky to have found someone to stay at!" ”

Hearing what I said, the boy frowned and looked at the little burden I had waved with him.

"That's right, it was given to me by the mountain people," I said, patting my hand, "it's an old lady who lives with her husband in the woods over there." ”

"When I came back, she told me if I should wait for her husband to come home before leaving."

"Why, husband?" The young man's eyebrows moved, and he asked alertly.

"Ah, that's right, the one from her family went to the village down the hill to exchange things with the villagers." "She has a carriage at home, and she said that I should wait until her husband comes back and catch the carriage directly." I explained the matter to the boy.

"Are you stupid?" The boy almost didn't hit me on the head with his hand, but luckily it was his injured hand that reached out, and he retracted it himself without me dodging.

Just a little better, he also knows that he can't withstand the beating!

"Can't you wait?"

"You're really," I said if I wasn't angry, "and you just thought you could ride in a carriage without effort!" "The eldest lady said that it would not be necessary to wait for about two hours, I was afraid that you would be worried, so I quickly refused to come back."

"I'm so tired of walking, I have to be told here that I am why!"

Turning my head, I didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, and stuffed the burden in my hand into him and said angrily: "Eat yours!" (To be continued......)