"Hahahaha..." Xiao Qingheng walked in from outside with a big laugh.
He turned his head and looked at the scarred woman and scolded her, "The county lady is asking you a question? Are you really mute?"
The scarred woman then lowered her head and said in a pinched voice, "I dare not."
How could I describe that voice? It was as if someone who hadn't spoken for a long time suddenly forced words out of their throat.
"Tsk, that sounds terrible." Xiao Qingheng stared at Tian An and said with disgust.
Then he walked to the table and sat down and said, "Why did the county lady let her eat all these dishes? Could it be that she suspected that I, the prince, had poisoned them?"
Tian An subconsciously stood up and moved away from him before saying, "It's not that he poisoned me. I still trust the prince very much. It's just that I'm not in a good mood today, so I want to eat something light. It would be a pity not to eat those dishes, so I thought of letting her eat them."
"Oh...the county lady is such a frugal person." Xiao Qingheng kept staring at Tian An, as if trying to judge the truthfulness of her words from her expression.
After a while, he looked at the scarred woman with an ambiguous expression, "Since the county lady lets you eat, then eat it!"
Xiao Qingheng spoke, and the scarred woman did not dare to disobey. She carefully picked up the chopsticks and put some of the food on the plate into the bowl, then stepped aside and ate in small bites.
Tian An subconsciously observed the scarred woman's eating movements. Seeing that she held the chopsticks skillfully, and there was no dirt in the cracks of her fingernails when she picked up the food just now, for some reason she subconsciously felt relieved. It seemed that this woman was not treated like a "pig".
But it is also possible that she is in the same group with Xiao Qingheng and the others.
Xiao Qingheng looked at Tian An sizing up the scarred woman with a playful expression, and suddenly said something inexplicably, "The county lady seems quite interested in my servant."
Tian An came back to his senses and looked at Xiao Qingheng with a raised eyebrow, "What? Could it be that the prince wants to give her to me?"
Xiao Qingheng was stunned for a moment, then frowned in thought, as if he was really considering this possibility.
The scarred woman's palms were sweating from nervousness, but she didn't dare show it at all. She didn't even dare to glance at Tian An. She continued to eat the food in the bowl slowly and slowly, without making any extra noise.
The scene was a little too quiet for a moment. Tian An carefully observed the expressions of the scarred woman and Xiao Qingheng. It seemed that the two were not in the same group.
But the people in this village, except for Xiao Qingheng's people, were kidnapped by them, so why was she treated differently from others?
Could it be that these people are divided into different levels?
Retracting her thoughts, Tian An laughed and broke the silence, "Alright, this lady was just joking, but the prince took it seriously. How can I really take away someone's favorite thing?"
Seeing this, Xiao Qingheng hypocritically said: "He is just a slave, this prince would not do that.
I had thought that once you healed me, I would give you this servant as a surprise. Even if I were to give it to you now, it would only be a little earlier than planned."
Tian An frowned and pointed at the scarred woman in disbelief, looking at him, "Is this the surprise you want to give me?"
What kind of surprise is this?
Seeing that Tian An's expression did not seem fake, Xiao Qingheng stared at Tian An's face closely, trying not to miss any expression on her face.
After a while, he curled his lips and said, "Doesn't the county lady think this servant looks familiar?"
"Hahahaha, since the county lady likes it, then this servant will be given to you."
Xiao Qingheng seemed to have thought of something interesting, and went out laughing in a very happy mood, leaving Tian An with a confused look on his face.
Suddenly, he didn't even bother to eat, as he was busy thinking about what Xiao Qingheng meant.
His words clearly implied that he should know this woman, but she thought about it for a long time and couldn't think of anyone around her who had ever been lost!
She frowned and looked at the scarred woman, staring at her face carefully for a long time. Putting aside the deep and long scar, she took apart her facial features one by one and actually felt that she looked somewhat familiar, but she just couldn't remember who she looked like.
"Do you know me?" Since she couldn't remember, she just asked the woman.
Tian An saw that the woman's hand paused for a moment while she was eating rice, but she still said nothing and continued to eat rice until she finished the last grain of rice in the bowl.
She put down her bowl and said the first words to Tian An since she saw her, "Eat quickly! The food is getting cold."
Although the voice was still hoarse, Tian An could hear a hint of the gentle care of an elder for the younger one.
After taking the new serving of rice from her, Tian An observed her while eating.
Although she kept her head down, Tian An could sense that she seemed very nervous. Her hands were clasped tightly together in front of her. She wanted to look up at Tian An, but she was holding back. She felt a mixture of anticipation and fear.
At this moment, Tian An was sure that she knew him and had recognized him a long time ago, but for some reason, she just refused to say it.
After dinner, when the woman came to collect the dishes, she accidentally touched Tian An's hand. In a flash, Tian An seemed to have his Ren and Du meridians opened up, and he subconsciously picked up a hair that fell on her shoulder.
After she left, he closed the door, went straight to the bed, and lowered the bed curtains before slipping into the space.
Just when the woman approached her, she clearly felt a sense of familiarity coming from deep within this body. Combined with her previous guess, she had a vague guess about the woman's identity, but whether the result was what she thought still needed further verification.
In front of the mountain outside the village, there was no shelter around because the area was deserted. Zhao Yiming and his companions could only follow from a distance until they lost track of the carriage that Tian An was riding in.
Fortunately, thanks to the red bean marks left by Bai Ying and Tian An along the way, they finally reached the mountains outside the village.
However, there was not even a path around the foot of the mountain except for a poor farmer's family.
Zhao Yiming thought they had taken the wrong path, but after comparing the marks left by Tian An several times, he found that this was exactly the destination they were looking for. Even the two eagles, Zhuifeng and Zhuyue, were circling here and refused to leave.
In desperation, Zhao Yiming could only take people to knock on the farmer's door.
The task of knocking on the door naturally fell on Deng Xue, the only woman in the team.
"Bang, bang, bang... bang, bang..."
Deng Xue knocked on the door for a long time before finally hearing footsteps coming towards her.
"Who is it?" As an old voice asked, the old door opened with a "creak..."
What caught my eye was an old woman with gray hair, a slightly hunched back, a thin body, and wearing an old, patched coarse linen dress.
Deng Xue withdrew her gaze from the courtyard, a kind smile appeared on the corner of her lips as she looked at the old woman and said, "Grandma, we are passing by here and have run out of the water we brought with us. We would like to ask you for some water."
The old woman glanced at Zhao Yiming, Jingyu and others behind Deng Xue, hesitated for a moment, and then agreed.
"Come in!"
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