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Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi thought about the ugly old woman's face full of scars and the clothes she wore were full of patches, and they thought her house must be old and tattered as well.

Unexpectedly, the ugly old woman led them to a very elegant bamboo house.

Looking closely, this bamboo house is actually three stories high, and the bottom floor is supported by bamboo poles as the base.

Looking again, I saw that there were many snakes inside. When they saw the ugly old woman coming back, they were like children seeing their mother. They twisted their heads and waists and started dancing.

The ugly woman scolded the snakes, "Behave yourself and stop disturbing our distinguished guests."

The snakes immediately stopped moving, as if they really understood what she said.

Then the ugly old woman took out a whistle from her body and blew it at the group of snakes.

Then the snakes were seen crawling out of the bamboo fence and crawling towards the back mountain. From time to time they looked back at the ugly old woman, as if they were children who were reluctant to leave their mother.

Although Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi had heard from the ugly grandmother that these snakes would not bite people without reason and were not poisonous, they still felt a little uneasy when they thought about a bunch of them sleeping under their beds at night, so they did not stop the ugly grandmother from temporarily driving her "children" to the back mountain.

The ugly old woman took Pei Yi and Xie Zhichan to the third floor and led them into a room in the middle.

The room was filled with decorations that young girls would like, pink bedspreads, an exquisite dressing table, and even a toilet with a gold rim. It looked like a little princess' room.

Xie Zhichan was a little embarrassed and said, "I still don't know what to call my mother-in-law?"

The ugly old woman seemed to be afraid that her ugliness would scare people, so she turned her head away and said, "You can just call me the ugly old woman. Everyone in this village calls me that."

Xie Zhichan said, "Ugly old lady, I wonder whose room this is? We are guests, how can we stay in such a nice room? You should just find a room for us."

The ugly old woman immediately showed some sadness on her face. She looked at Xie Zhichan and said, "This is the room I prepared for my daughter. She and I have been separated for seventeen years. I heard that noble people carry noble aura. You can live here for a while and let this room be stained with your noble aura. Maybe I can find my daughter."

Xie Zhichan saw the ugly grandmother's eyes welling up with tears. He didn't know that she also had a daughter. He thought that there must be a story behind her face, and it should be a sad story. He felt sympathy for her and nodded, saying, "In this case, I will stay. I just hope that the grandmother can reunite with your daughter soon."

The ugly old woman suddenly became happy again, as if she was really about to find her daughter.

Pei Yi saw a bamboo recliner in the room. He was about to sit on it to rest for a while after running all the way. But the ugly old woman looked at him coldly and said, "Come with me to another room."

Xie Zhichan and Pei Yi were both stunned.

Xie Zhichan thought that the ugly old lady probably gave the best room in the whole bamboo house to him, and he felt a little guilty about it, so he spoke to the ugly old lady very politely.

She smiled at the ugly old lady and said, "You probably don't know that the prince and I are husband and wife, so we can live in the same room. I would like to trouble you to arrange a room for each of our two followers."

The ugly old woman looked at Xie Zhichan, shook her head firmly and said, "Even if you are a couple, you still have to have separate rooms for men and women when you come to me. My bamboo house is fragile and can't stand the tossing and turning."

This sentence made both of them blush and feel a little embarrassed.

Xie Zhichan touched his nose and smiled at Pei Yi, "Well, the guest should follow the host's wishes. I'll have to pity the prince to stay alone in his empty room tonight."

Pei Yi looked at Xie Zhichan aggrievedly, then followed the ugly old woman to the next room with a cold face.

He frowned as he entered the room. Although this room was also tidy, compared with Xie Zhichan's room, it looked like the room of a servant and his master.

Pei Yi had a strange feeling in his heart. If we talk about nobleness, isn’t he, the Prince of Yan, more noble?

But when he thought back to the ugly old woman's words and actions along the way, he really couldn't figure out what her intentions were towards them.

After settling Pei Yi, the ugly mother-in-law arranged another room for Danfeng and Yueyan, also on the third floor.

After everyone had rested for a short while, the ugly old lady came up and told them that dinner was ready and invited everyone to go downstairs to the dining room to eat.

We sat in the living room.

There were four dishes and one soup on the table, all of which were typical Central Plains dishes.

Three of the dishes are meat dishes, which is rare in Lingnan where material resources are scarce.

Pei Yi served Xie Zhichan a bowl of soup.

Xie Zhichan tasted the soup and thought it was very delicious, so he asked the ugly old woman, "Grandma, what kind of soup is this?"

The ugly old lady was very happy to see Xie Zhichan liked it. She smiled so much that the scars at the corners of her eyes wrinkled. She replied, "It's bamboo rat mushroom soup."

Xie Zhichan asked curiously, "Did Grandma also go to the bamboo forest to catch bamboo rats?"

The ugly old lady said with some pride: "I didn't have to fight, Ah She brought it back."

Xie Zhichan asked curiously, "Ah Snake?"

It seems like there are no other people here?

The ugly old woman said, "Ashe is the thickest snake in the group. It usually catches bamboo rats and pheasants for me. I can survive here only because of it."

Xie Zhichan finally understood that the snakes raised by the ugly grandmother were to help her hunt.

After the meal, the ugly mother-in-law ordered Pei Yi, "Go wash the dishes."

Pei Yi was stunned for a moment.

The ugly old woman looked at Pei Yi and asked, "Why? As a guest, after eating, can't you wash the dishes?"

Pei Yi had a strange feeling in his heart. Why did the tone sound like that of a mother-in-law ordering her son-in-law around?

When Dan Feng saw this, he immediately said, "Let the subordinate come down."

The ugly mother-in-law glared at Dan Feng and said, "Why are you joining in the fun, kid? I asked your master to come because I like your master."

Everyone just thought that the ugly old woman had a really weird temper, but since they ate her food and lived in her house, it seemed like washing dishes was no big deal.

Xie Zhichan could only smile to Pei Yi and said, "In this case, I'm sorry to trouble you, my lord."

She really didn't expect that from the time she knew Pei Yi till now, this ugly mother-in-law seemed to be the first person who could always make Pei Yi lose face. Of course, these people did not include herself.

Pei Yi then quietly collected the dishes and walked towards the kitchen under the direction of the ugly mother-in-law.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the kitchen, the ugly mother-in-law also walked in.

He originally thought that the ugly mother-in-law changed her mind and didn't want him to wash the dishes anymore.

Unexpectedly, the ugly old woman just glared at him coldly, then picked up an empty bucket and scooped the hot water from the big pot into the bucket.

Before he went out with the hot water, he said to Pei Yi, "This pot of hot water is for the Crown Prince's Consort. When I have scooped out the water, you wash the dishes, fill the pot with water, and boil another pot."

Pei Yi nodded with a dark face, and watched the ugly old woman carry the water out, his brows furrowed even deeper.

This ugly old woman was carrying a full bucket of water, and she was walking so easily. There was not even a ripple in the water in the bucket. The ugly old woman walked all the way without spilling a drop.

This mother-in-law's martial arts skills were so unfathomable? Why was she willing to be tied to a stake and almost burned to death?

The ugly old woman carried the water to the third floor, poured the water into the wooden barrel in Xie Zhichan's room, left the room, and went downstairs again.

In this way, after running two or three times, he really poured the full pot of water into the bathtub in Xie Zhichan's room.

Xie Zhichan felt a little embarrassed but he could not resist the ugly old lady who insisted on helping him.

After the ugly old woman poured the last bucket of water, she returned to the kitchen, placed the wooden barrel in the kitchen, and walked out of the room.

Pei Yi looked at the ugly old woman's back, thinking that she was going back to her room to rest.

What he didn't know was that the ugly old woman went out of the kitchen door and went around to the back of the bamboo house, but she just tiptoed lightly and climbed up to the window outside Xie Zhichan's room.

She looked through the window into the bathtub and saw a snake-shaped mark below Xie Zhichan's shoulder blade near his chest.

The ugly old woman murmured, "A Yuan——"

His grip loosened and he almost fell out of the window.