After a cup of tea, the old man boiled a bowl of hot noodles and brought it over. handed it to Shui Zhongyue, and went to serve the second bowl with a cane.

Although there are no condiments, only salt and chili, as soon as the two of them smell the most basic ingredients, their mouths are full of saliva.

Chopsticks are already inserted in the noodles. Shui Zhongyue took it and saw that the old lady was really generous, and everyone was a big bowl.

It was a little difficult for her to finish eating this bowl of noodles, so she sandwiched some for Mo Xingxing.

The two were also unkind, although they gulped down the noodles.

Mo was happy to eat the noodles in less than five minutes, and there was not even soup left.

The moon in the water also eats the noodles clean. The two of them felt that their strength had recovered a lot. Mo Xing began to burp.

"Old man, call your daughter up and eat something. It's this day, and it's quite uncomfortable for her not to eat down there. ”

Old lady says:

"We people in the mountains, we can eat dinner or not, like tonight, who dares to cook and eat, can save their lives is blessed by the gods. Oh, I forgot one layer. It's okay tonight, you should call her up and meet your benefactor. Wait a minute, two benefactors, I'll go and call her up. ”

The old lady said, and walked slowly to the room on crutches.

After walking three or four meters into the room, the old lady struck her crutches on the ground rhythmically "tuk tuk, tuk tuk" five times, and shouted at the same time:

"Aunt Hui, Aunt Hui, come up. The gangsters are gone. Come up. ”

After about three or two minutes, I only heard a slight sound of wooden boards, and suddenly a square floor in the inner room was lifted upward, and then a head poked out of the ground, like a mouse's head, and quickly looked around, and only after confirming that it was safe did he stand up straight.

"Don't come out yet. That's the benefactor who saved our mother and daughter today, hurry up and thank the benefactor. ”

The old lady glanced at the two of them outside and said.

"Mother, are all the wicked people gone? I won't go with them. ”

"It's all gone, it's all gone. If you don't go, we won't go. Come on. ”

"Yes, I'll come up. ”

The two looked inside, and a little girl of fifteen or sixteen years old climbed the mouth of the cellar, shrunk her feet, jumped, and climbed up.

She held the old man by the placket and carefully followed the old man out of the back room. The two looked at the little girl, who seemed to be very afraid of seeing the living, and just showed half of her body from the side of the old man, and quickly hid back.

"What are you doing behind your back? Come out and meet our savior?"

The old lady pretended to raise her cane to hit the girl behind her, and the girl came out from behind.

The two looked at the girl in front of them, and saw that she was dressed like a peasant girl in the mountains:

A long, thick braid, pulled down from the back of his head to his left shoulder, was neither tall nor too short.

It may be that she is afraid or not well nourished, and it seems that her face is a little pale, and she does not have the blood and youth that a girl of that age should have.

Wearing a thicker floral cotton coat on the upper body, and a pair of blue cotton pants that were a little worn out on the lower body, his hands were holding his fingers with each other a little restrainedly, not daring to look at the two in front of him.

"Aunt Hui kowtowed to the two benefactors. ”

The old lady urged.

The aunt didn't look at the two, just bent her knees and knelt down towards the two.

As soon as Shui Zhongyue saw the girl kneeling down towards them, she hurriedly stepped forward to help her and grabbed her hand and said:

"We all know your name is Aunt Hui. Huigu don't want to be like this, whoever sees this situation will help. You go cook something to eat first. ”

"If you want to eat, make it yourself. The old lady said.

"I don't eat it. I'm not hungry. ”

Huigu replied to the old lady, then withdrew her hand and ran into the back room. The braid flew up behind him, and a blade of grass floated down from the braid, presumably brought from the cellar just now.

Mo Xingxing and Shui Zhongyue asked the old lady some things again, and the old lady couldn't say it clearly. On the whole, it is similar to the initial analysis of the two.

There was no value in asking again, and the two didn't ask anymore.

The old lady saw that it was late at night, so she brought water for the two of them to wash up. The two of them washed up and prepared to go to bed.

But Mo Xing took the initiative to stand guard. He asked the old lady if she had any food for the horses.

The old lady replied:

"Oh, look, don't you say I'm so old and foolish, you still have two horses to eat. Yes, yes, I happen to have some winter adzuki beans from this winter's harvest. There are still a lot of bean husks, so I'll give them some small beans first, and then I'll give them bean husks if they don't have enough to eat. ”

Mo was happy to hear the old lady say that she wanted to eat small beans for two horses, how could this be obtained, this is the food that people eat, and they are eaten by livestock, how will people live in the future, he hurriedly said:

"Old man, you don't need beans. Our horses are not used to eating small beans, so they can eat a little bit of the bean husk you said, and I will feed them some cold water, and tomorrow they will be strong. You say where it is, I'll go and get it. ”

"How can this be, you have to rely on them to get there tomorrow? As soon as I walked around from the outside, I saw it. I'll get it for you. Aunt Hui, Aunt Hui, where did you die, and you can't come out to find the little bean shell behind our house for the benefactor and feed the horse. ”

The old lady was not very flexible, so she called out to the aunt who ran to the corner of the house.

"No, no, no. I'll just go get it myself, as long as I know the location. ”

Mo Xingxing knew the place of the bean shell, and he didn't need the old lady, he did it himself, and after a while, he hugged a big hug and threw it in front of the two horses, and the two horses didn't know how to get tired, and began to chew the bean husk on the ground.

After feeding the horses, Mo Xing said to the moon in the water:

"Water girl, you should go and rest too. I'll take care of the horses and the responsibility of guarding you. Rest with ease. ”

"There must be no problems. Good work, big team leader. ”

Shui Zhongyue finished speaking and went upstairs.

The old lady also went into the back room.

Mo was not happy that someone was moving with bad intentions, so he sat on a bench and meditated while listening to the movement outside.

Before you know it, it's dawn, and the night is peaceful.

When the moon got up and came down, there was no one in the house.

On a small square table were two bowls of boiled vermicelli.

Compared with the noodles last night, these two bowls of noodles this morning are a little different, there are a few slices of coriander on the noodles, a burst of fragrance wafts over, and the feeling in the nostrils is also a little different, Shui Zhongyue couldn't help but lean his nose closer and smell it.

As soon as she finished smelling the aroma, she walked out of her aunt and brought her a wash of water, and a brand new towel was placed in it.

Today's aunt looks much more generous than last night.

Huigu brought the basin to the moon in the water, and when she saw the moon in the water during the day, she looked at it with admiration and envy, she rarely saw such a beautiful woman, and she was a little stunned, and then said:

"Well, sister benefactor, please wash your face, the vermicelli has been made here, and you can eat it in a while. ”

"Okay, Aunt Hui, are you still scared? Are you making this vermicelli?"

Seeing that Aunt Hui was much cuter than last night, she couldn't help but ask lovingly.

"Report to my sister, with you here, I'm not afraid. I made it, I'm afraid that there is salt and no chili, and you can't get used to it if it has no taste. ”

"You're amazing. Able to cook. Fragrant, really fragrant. It's definitely delicious. ”

Shui Zhongyue also sincerely admired the little girl in front of her who was a little rustic but very cute.

She washed her face a few times. I didn't see Mo Xing, and I was a little worried. She took the water outside and poured it out, and by the way, she saw where Mo Xingren went.

Walking out of the house, it was so foggy that it was almost impossible to see the appearance of people five meters away.

Shui Zhongyue heard a sound in the place where the horses were tied, she looked there, and in the thick fog, it turned out that Mo Xing was leashing the horses, feeding the horses forage and brushing the hair on his body.

"Breakfast. Leader of the Mo University. You feed the horses first, and then you come back to eat. It's better that the horses can rest more. ”

Shui Zhongyue said to Mo Xingxing, who was feeding the horses.

"Water girl, are you resting? I'll come in. ”

After breakfast, Shui Zhongyue and Mo Xing began to pack their things.

Huigu watched them pack up their things and hid far away. At first, I was close to both of them.

I said a few more words at first, but now I won't say anything.

The two knew that she saw them packing up their salaries, afraid that they would leave, and as soon as they left, who would protect the safety of their mother and daughter. Last night, those gangsters said they were going to rob people today.

Shui Zhongyue said to Mo Xingxing:

"No matter how busy we are, we have to wait until this afternoon to see that they are all right, and then we will leave. It's best to wait until the first half of the night, it's best to have nothing to do. What do you say?"

Mo Xing wanted to leave here, he always felt a kind of uneasiness in his heart. The situation in front of Mata, I'm embarrassed to leave, especially in front of the people I like, if I escape, are I still qualified to like people in the future?

"You say stay, stay. I listen to you. When you say you want to go, you can go. Is that okay?"

The fog was so thick that they decided to guard outside. In addition to guarding their masters and themselves, they also have to guard their horses.

The two of them took two benches and sat outside the house to see what kind of wicked man would come here to arrest this girl.

An hour passed after breakfast, and nothing happened.

The thick fog gradually dissipated, and the mountains seemed high again, and began to be in the fog, like everyone who stayed in the deep boudoir, afraid of seeing the living.

Now the warm winter sun is slanting from the mountains, and people feel a little warm. The two chatted casually, but gradually couldn't find a topic. The sun shone on people, and they didn't rest well during this time, and they gradually became a little sleepy.

The moon in the water proposes to move the position to the house.

The two had just entered the house.

At this time, from the direction where the wicked man disappeared last night, there was the sound of horses' hooves.

Mo Xingxing and Shui Zhongyue were both shocked at the same time, and looked at each other.

As soon as the aunt who was working in the back room heard the sound of horses' hooves, she ran out of the back room in a few steps, and lifted the mouth of the cellar like a tanuki into it.

The old lady came out of it, bent down with great difficulty, closed the mouth of the cellar, and leaned on crutches against the doorframe of the inner room, without saying a word, looking at the two of them with an anxious face, and from time to time looking at the stone road outside the door.

At first the sound of the horse's hooves was a little hurried, but the more you got to the house, the more the horse's hooves slowed down.

Mo happily walked out of the door unconvinced. Shui Zhongyue also stood up, but she didn't go out, just stood at the door, looking at who it was.