When he was about to sleep, Nangong Xi asked the Hua sisters for their advice again, not to find Shui Muzi, and to chase the murderer with them all the way; I still have to go to find Mizukiko. Both sisters are willing to go to Mizukiko on their own. In the midst of a burst of laughter, the individual rested without mentioning it.

The next day, everyone got up early. The Hua sisters said goodbye and headed east. What is the situation of these two people, I will not see it for the time being.

Let's start with Nangong Xi's five people continuing to move west.

The farther west you go, the less populated the area becomes, and the area becomes more and more desolate.

They finally came to the annual market, Nangong Xi ordered everyone to go to the market to buy more things, take them with them, and find the market in the future, and there are fewer and fewer places to buy things.

Four young men went to the bazaar to buy several large bags of goods, mainly dry food, and divided them into several equal portions, each of them carrying one with him.

As time went on, the roads became more and more difficult to walk, the conditions became more and more difficult, and there were not many things to carry with them. It can last up to a week. Everyone's mood is a little lost.

The family walked on the road, not opening their mouths or speaking, and even Nangong Xi's face was a little gloomy.

On this day, the five of them came to a plain area. Not to mention how happy everyone was in their hearts, the unhappiness of the worries in their hearts for the past few days was like a dark cloud being blown away by a strong wind, especially the four young people, who were active again.

Although this place looks like a plain, the area is not large, and there is not much grass on the grass, not even barren grass.

But the careful Shui Zhongyue found that there were fresher cow and sheep footprints on this meadow. She excitedly ran to report to Nangong Xi:

"Report to the team leader, there are cow and sheep footprints on this grass, and I think there should be someone not far away. ”

Nangong Xi smiled slightly:

"Who taught you? I can't see it, this little girl has a lot of knowledge, knows how to observe the surrounding environment, and can also find problems. ”

"Report to the team leader, I didn't learn it from the team leader. Didn't you teach us along the way to be good at observing things around us, and if we didn't pay attention to what was going on around us, we wouldn't know how we would die?"

Shui Zhongyue said it again in Nangong Xi's tone.

The usually serious and unsmiling old man of the South was amused.

Nangong Xi returned to his former seriousness and said to everyone:

"Since there are footprints of cattle and sheep in this place, I want to come to someone's house, let's look for it separately, where there are people's homes, today our food and accommodation will be set in this place, whether we can find a place to eat and live, it depends on you. ”

Everyone was divided into two groups, Mo Xingxing took the initiative and Shui Zhongyue in a group, and Lu Zhengtong and Zhang Wangxi in a group.

Nangong Xi walked casually on the grass to see if there were any other discoveries.

The four of them went for an hour, and then they all returned.

Mo Xingxing reported to Nangong Xi, saying that they had walked more than ten miles, but they did not find anyone or food, and the direction they walked was northwest, and when they walked there, it was a high mountain, and the mountains and forests were desolate, so the two of them came back.

Zhang Wangxi and Lu Zhengtong came back to report that they walked along the northeast direction, the two walked for more than six miles, found no signs of people, and walked two or three miles to the southeast, and finally saw a small house, they walked to the small house to see, there was no one inside, waited for a while, and shouted at the small house for a long time, no one answered. And they returned.

After listening to the debriefings of the two groups, it became clear that the first group was of no value. Fortunately, the second group found a small house, which would be nice to have a place to live.

Nangong Xi asked:

"How far is that house from here, can there be people living in it, is there any unfavorable movement around?"

Zhang Wangxi replied:

"Back to the master, the small house is not far from us, and it is only six or seven miles. Although it is a wooden structure, the grass on one side has been blown away by the wind, and only a few bare logs remain, but the whole house can still be inhabited. As for whether there are any disadvantages you are talking about, I don't see this. ”

He glanced at Lu Zhengtong twice and said to Lu Zhengtong:

"Brother Lu, do you see any unfavorable circumstances? Anyway, I can't see it. ”

Lu Zhengtong thought for a while and said:

"The house is built under a gentle slope, where the leeward side is more open in front. I don't see any disadvantages, I can only say that if there is an accident, it is easy to escape. ”

Speaking of running away, he himself laughed.

"According to you, it's not a big problem to rest there. Well, let's go now. ”

Nangong Xi issued an order. The five of them walked for more than half an hour in the direction led by Lu Zhengtong and arrived at the small house.

Sure enough, as the two said, it is relatively remote, but it is still possible to live in people. This is a house where the herdsman drove his cattle and sheep, and he stayed here for a day or two at a distance from his home, and it was common sense that the house of this function was at least thirty miles away from the herdsman's house.

But everyone is already satisfied with having a place to hide without food and shelter, where is the qualification to care about the quality of the conditions.

Nangong Xi walked around the small house, didn't find anything suspicious, and decided to stay.

He let Shui Zhongyue live in an intact room inside, and the four of them were crammed into a leaky room outside.

Stayed overnight and nothing happened. When he got up the next day, Zhang Wangxi also found a well at the back of the house, the water was not big, not much, but it was very clear.

The five of them scooped water and washed their faces, and Shui Zhongyue also took a look at the well as a mirror.

After eating some dry food casually, Nangong Xi gathered everyone together to discuss where to go next, he felt that if he went in the wrong direction, everyone's survival would be difficult, and what enemies would he catch.

Opinions were mainly divided into two parties.

The party led by Mo Xingxing wants to take the road discovered by Zhang Wangxi, and he and Shui Zhongyue think: This side is the grassland, although the direction is not northwest, but the road is easy to walk, there is water and grass, and it is convenient to find food.

It's okay to walk a little more, the road is easy to walk anyway. Turn around more and then return to the right path, people should suffer less losses, and at most spend more time.

Led by Zhang Wangxi, he believes that the general direction cannot be chaotic, and the direction of the grassland is the southeast direction, and the southeast direction is not going back. This is the standard and cannot take the path of the grassland.

Besides, taking the northwest road is the right direction in itself. No matter how difficult the road is, it is also temporary, it is impossible to be difficult all the way, although it is necessary to climb a mountain at the beginning, but maybe this mountain will be turned over, it will be a bright avenue, and it will become another village.

Shui Yue is a girl, and of course she doesn't want to take the difficult path, so she is on Mo Xing's side.

The current situation is two-on-two. Of course, Nangong Xi can exercise the power of the team leader.

As long as he gives an order, he will go wherever he goes. But he thought that he didn't listen to everyone's opinions, which seemed a bit arbitrary, and if everyone suffered losses because of one of his own decisions, he couldn't help it.

There is another problem, which he should try to avoid as much as possible. That is, his apprentice advocates taking the road of the mountain, if he agrees, it doesn't mean that it is his own idea, so what is it called discussing?

After weighing it many times, he finally said:

"Then let's take into account everyone's physical strength, let's go to the grassland. I can't tell you what's going on ahead."

The decision was made, and the five marched in the direction of the steppe.