The eldest lady is both a doctor and a warrior, they love her so much

That night, Hua Xin and Nangong Ziqiu stayed at A Mao's house.

A-Mao's house occupies a large area and has some extra empty rooms.

Hua Xin and Nangong Ziqiu did not mind and moved into one of the rooms.

The dinner was not that sumptuous, just some naan and dried meat.

A-Mao collected the money from the two men and prepared a pot of hot soup for them. The soup was filled with large bones, which had a layer of white oil. He also tore naan into pieces and put them in the soup, which had a unique flavor.

A Mao thought Hua Xin and Nangong Ziqiu would be disgusted, but he didn't know that they were not picky at all. They ate whatever was prepared and were very easy to talk to.

There is also an uncle with difficulty walking in A-Mao's family. Something happened to the uncle a few years ago. After coming down from the snowy mountains, his eyesight became bad and he gradually couldn't see clearly.

He couldn't speak Daxia language, and was always talking to A-Mao in a gibberish manner. From time to time, he looked at Hua Xin and the others, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Hua Xin thought it was better to have less trouble than more, so she and Nangong Ziqiu ate and drank their fill and went back to their room.

The bed in the room was not really a bed, it was just a pit dug out of the ground, with a lot of animal skins and two thick quilts on it. The animal skins were quite comfortable to touch, but the quilt was too hard. Hua Xin felt that she would be crushed to death if she covered herself with it. And the smell in the room was not very good.

Nangong Ziqiu took out his secret scented powder and sprinkled it around the bed, saying, "As usual, we sleep on one side each?"

Hua Xin shook her head and said, "It's different here. The bed is so big, I'll just sleep on one end."

Nangong Ziqiu had a faint smile on his face. After three whole months, he could finally sleep in the same bed with Hua Xin?

"Don't smile so frivolously. It's just a sleep. Do you think there could be some more entertainment?"

Nangong Ziqiu touched his nose, feeling a little guilty, but said, "I didn't think much about it. But Xinxin, can you be Liu Xiahui in front of my face?"

Hua Xin looked at Nangong Ziqiu seriously and said, "No."

Nangong Ziqiu was stunned when he heard this.

"Hahaha, so you better be careful later! I'll do this first, then that, and then I won't be responsible!"

Hua Xin was talking seriously. Nangong Ziqiu was about to ask what this or that was, when Ah Mao's voice rang out from outside the door: "Two guests, we will leave at 7:00 tomorrow. Please go to bed early."

"understood."

Nangong Ziqiu responded, lowering his voice and saying, "Xinxin, the house here is not soundproof. I think we disturbed them."

"I didn't make a noise!"

Hua Xin spread her hands innocently.

Nangong Ziqiu said nothing more. Facing Hua Xin who was pretending to be stupid, he was helpless.

Thinking that she had important things to do the next day, Hua Xin did not do anything excessive to Nangong Ziqiu. Even so, that person still had a red face when she woke up the next day, and even looked at her with a little more resentment.

Hua Xin really wanted to say that she had shown mercy.

The next morning, Hua Xin and Nangong Ziqiu opened their eyes almost at the same time. The noise outside was too loud and they couldn't fall asleep even if they wanted to.

A-Mao was preparing things for hunting in the mountains in the yard, and the uncle next to him was chattering loudly.

When Hua Xin and Nangong Ziqiu came out, Ah Mao looked at them, put down the things in his hands, walked towards them and said, "Add money."

"What? You're charging more for just one night?"

Nangong Ziqiu was furious. It was true that one cannot judge a person by his appearance. This Ah Mao looked like an honest man, but he didn't expect that he would resort to the trick of raising the price.

"How much?"

Hua Xin tugged at Nangong Ziqiu's sleeve and asked.

"Five taels, give it to my elder brother."

It turns out that this uncle is A-Mao's elder brother.

Hua Xin said to Nangong Ziqiu: "Give me the money!"

Nangong Ziqiu handed him a bag of silver very reluctantly.

"Hurry up and order some, don't say we didn't give you enough later."

Ah Mao actually counted on the spot, and only nodded after confirming that the amount of silver was sufficient.

However, he did not carry the silver with him when he went up the mountain. Instead, he returned to the house, hid the silver, and then left with them.

A Mao's elder brother talked to them again, this time to Hua Xin and Nangong Ziqiu, because he smiled.

"My eldest brother asked you to follow me closely and don't get lost."

"Thank you, A-Mao, brother. Let's go!"

Hua Xin walked out and waved to the people in the yard. Only after their figures disappeared did A Mao's eldest brother slowly walk into the house.

But before he could enter, the village chief followed in with two other big men.

"What about people?"

One of them walked around the yard and said, "He's not here. I guess Ah Mao took him up the mountain."

"Just ask A-Man if it's true that we're going up the mountain."

A-mao’s elder brother is called A-man.

The man pulled A-man aside and talked a lot. Finally, he nodded with satisfaction and said to the village chief, "Village chief, A-man said they did go up the mountain."

"That's good. As long as Ah Mao leads the people up according to our route, the rest will be left to the brothers on the mountain."

The village chief took a puff of welding smoke, a gleam in his eyes.

Aman's face showed sadness, but he didn't say anything else.

At this time, one of them looked at Ah Man and asked again: "They are going up the mountain. Has Ah Mao collected the money?"

Aman was stunned at first, then nodded and took out a tael of silver from his pocket.

The man took the silver and handed it to the village chief, and the three of them left.

Aman stared at their backs as they left, slammed the door angrily, and then went back to the house.

From Rabbit Village all the way north, there is a special road leading up the mountain.

Along the way, A-Mao hardly spoke actively. Occasionally, Hua Xin asked a question and he answered it. Finally, Hua Xin lost interest.

After walking for about an hour, Ah Mao took the initiative to ask for the first time: "Do you have any dry food? We won't be coming back for a few days. If you still want me to lead the way, you'd better prepare some dry food."

Hua Xin really wanted to say, we have been walking for such a long time, and you just remembered to ask, are you trying to sell some dry food?

Then he pointed at Nangong Ziqiu's back and said, "Look, it's such a big bag! We have prepared food and drinks."

The implication is that everything you need is in there.

A-Mao deliberately took a few more glances at the bag behind Nangong Ziqiu and stopped talking.

The road under my feet gradually became difficult to walk on. At the beginning, you could still see sand and gravel. As the altitude increased, the sand and gravel road turned into a dirt road. Later, it became muddy due to the mixture of snow and water. Sometimes it was easy to step into potholes, and the pace of progress also slowed down.

A-Mao was very surprised. He had experience walking on mountain roads for many years, but he was a little tired after walking for more than an hour in one breath. How come the two people behind him didn't have red faces or were not out of breath, as if they were walking on flat ground?