Gongsun Li felt a little relieved, and he said, how could there be a poisonous insect in the world that he didn't know about!

It’s fake!

Fuling's face was full of innocence. She changed the subject and said innocently, "Miss had a lot of medicine prepared a few days ago. Maybe she prepared it at that time?"

After she finished speaking, she patted her chest and added, "The young lady even dug up her herb garden because of this!"

The knife in Gongsun Li's sleeve had already slipped into his palm, but he quietly put it back after hearing these words.

Even the herb garden was dug up, it seems that a lot of herbs were indeed wasted! If it was for refining this Gu, it makes sense!

However, since this poisonous insect is so precious, even Hua Yuanzhao probably won’t have too many of them. He only needs to wait a few more days.

Gongsun Li gradually calmed down and put on a gentle appearance, coaxing Fuling away with just a few words.

Fuling looked puzzled, as if something was wrong.

…

The boat docked at daybreak, and everyone changed into men's clothes and dressed up as knights, disguising themselves as a group of wandering warriors.

After everyone got ashore, they rode their horses forward. Hua Yuanzhao was afraid at first, but to her surprise, after she sat on the horse, she actually grabbed the reins tightly with muscle memory.

Even the timid Fuling got on the horse tremblingly, and he rode quite well.

It was as if the master and servant had once learned to ride a horse.

Rong Xiu sat upright on the tall horse, holding the reins, squinting his eyes as he looked Hua Yuanzhao up and down, and teased, "Not bad, you still remember how to ride a horse?"

Hua Yuanzhao looked at Rong Xiu suspiciously, feeling that the latter wanted to say that she was too fat to ride a horse.

Without waiting for Hua Yuanzhao to think of words, Rong Xiu shook the reins and ran ahead to lead the way.

This should be his first time to come to this place, but he is very familiar with it and even knows where there are small paths and where he can take shortcuts.

Princess Changle was able to match the road along the way with the map, but after just half a day, she was completely lost.

The rest of the people couldn't even tell the directions anymore and were completely confused.

It was not until evening that Rong Xiu led everyone out of the forest and walked towards the village along the path.

"It's dangerous to walk on the mountain road at night. Let's rest here for one night and continue our journey tomorrow morning." Rong Xiu slowed down and said.

Princess Changle looked around and sighed thoughtfully: "I was wondering how you got the title of young general, but it turns out that it is not all in vain."

Just the ability to recognize the road is beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Rong Xiu touched his nose, feeling that this was not a good thing to say.

As dusk fell, only a few houses in the village had lights on. People walked along the village path and slowly entered Wushan Village.

Hua Yuanzhao held the horse with one hand and touched his nose nervously.

"What's wrong?" Rong Xiu's eyes had never left her, and he asked with concern, "But is there something wrong?"

Hua Yuanzhao smiled awkwardly, shook his head and said, "Nothing, maybe I'm overthinking it. There's a smell of moxa here, maybe it's some kind of custom!"

"Moxa?" Rong Xiu sniffed it and asked casually, "Is there anything special about it?"

Hua Yuanzhao was not sure: "To ward off evil and eliminate plague?"

It's just that this season is long past the time for mugwort to grow, so she found it a little strange.

"Maybe someone is sick." Gongsun Li said gently, "If mugwort is used as medicine, there are still many places where it can be used."

Hua Yuanzhao nodded in agreement, and also felt that he might be overthinking it.

But the further they went in, the stronger the smell of burnt mugwort became, as if every household was burning and fumigating mugwort.

Shihu was originally running ahead to find a place for everyone to stay, and now he was running back in a hurry.

"Sir." Shihu looked strange and said awkwardly, "There is a family at the end of the village who is willing to let us stay for one night."

Logically speaking, there were eight strong men in their group. If they wanted to stay overnight, they would naturally have to go to the village chief first. At worst, they would have to find a wealthy family with men at home.

But every house here was closed, and no one was willing to open the door even though he said he would pay for the stay.

It was not until we reached the end of the village that a family offered to take us in for a night.

Rong Xiu saw that Shihu was hesitant to speak, so he kicked him lightly in annoyance and said, "Finish your words."

Shihu shrank his neck and said guiltily: "There is only a woman in that family with a daughter..."

Before Rong Xiu could ask, Shi Hu spoke first, and quickly explained: "Every household in Wushan Village has closed their doors, and only that family is willing to open the door... Sir, we can't force them to give up their house, right?"