The uncle saw Mu Nuannuan come in, glanced at her, and then said to Mu Tingxiao: "Yes, there is, but it's not safe."
Mu Tingxiao looked back at Mu Nuannuan and said nothing more.
In the next few days, it continued to rain, and the road conditions did not improve, so even if the county sent people down to repair the circuits and signals, there was no way to get in.
Mu Tingxiao and Mu Nuannuan can only live in their uncle's house.
On rainy days, my uncle doesn’t have to go out to do farm work. He often sits on the rocking chair at the gate with a pipe in his hand and watches the rain outside. Occasionally he hugs the cat.
The vegetables we eat are picked fresh from the vegetable fields every day.
Mu Nuannuan and Mu Tingxiao stayed at their uncle's house, so they naturally took over the tasks of picking vegetables and cooking.
However, she still doesn't know how to burn firewood, so her uncle usually lights the fire, Mu Nuannuan cooks, and Mu Tingxiao washes the dishes after dinner.
When Mu Nuannuan woke up this morning, she listened to the sound of rain on the house.
After listening for a while, she turned her head to look at Mu Tingxiao: "It's not raining anymore."
Mu Tingxiao lay flat beside her, dozing his eyes lightly. He looked like he was asleep, but Mu Nuannuan knew that he had been sleeping very lightly these past few days, not to mention that his eyebrows were frowned tightly, which would appear to a discerning person. You could tell by looking at him that he was awake.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the man beside him opened his eyes slightly and responded with a hoarse voice: "Yes."
After hearing this, Mu Nuannuan got up and walked around to the other end, got out of bed, put on her coat and walked to the door.
In the past few days, she had developed a memory. Every day when she got up, she would go around Mu Tingxiao's feet and get out of bed.
Mu Nuannuan went downstairs, opened the door and walked out.
This house is built on a mountain. There is a small movable platform in front of the door, and beyond that is a mountain forest.
At this time, white mist appeared in the mountain forest.
The long rain and heavy fog will eventually clear up.
When it clears up, the circuits and signal towers will be repaired, and someone will come to repair the roads, and Gu Zhiyan and the others will definitely be able to find them as soon as possible.
They are leaving here.
Obviously only two or three days have passed, but looking back, it seems like a long time.
Mu Nuannuan lowered her head and could see the black plastic slippers she wore on her feet. The size of the slippers was a bit large, and she wore them to reveal a section of her white instep.
She stepped in the mud a few times with her slippers, and mud splashed up onto the corners of her pants.
"Daughter, bring me a backpack."
At this time, the uncle's shout came.
Mu Nuannuan heard the sound and looked over, and saw the uncle standing in a green vegetable field, waving to her with his hand covered in soil.
The distance was a bit far, and Mu Nuannuan didn't know what the uncle was doing, so she raised her voice and responded: "Oh, come right away."
Mu Nuannuan carried the basket on her back and saw the uncle squatting in the vegetable field, pulling something out of a pile of newly dug soil.
"Uncle, what are you doing?"
It had rained for so many days in a row, and the soil on the ground was soaked. Mu Nuannuan rolled up the corners of her trousers to her knees and walked over.
The mud was so sticky that Mu Nuannuan's slippers were covered with a thick layer of mud.
When she walked to her uncle, a pair of slippers were covered in mud and were extremely heavy.
The uncle wiped the mud on his hand, handed a ball to Mu Nuannuan, and smiled: "Do you know this thing?"
Mu Nuannuan stared at the thing for a few seconds before confirming: "It's a sweet potato."
The uncle looked surprised: "You know this too?"
"I know them. I bought them in the supermarket, but I've never seen them freshly dug out of the ground." Mu Nuannuan said, curiously squatting down and picking one up.
After looking at it for a long time, she bit her lip and said, "It's a bit small."
"I'm just going to dig a few to try. If you can eat them, you can dig them home. Take these back to cook sweet potato porridge." The uncle said, and put the sweet potatoes he dug out into his backpack.
Mu Nuannuan also helped him pick it up.
In the end, there was only one sweet potato with a smooth skin. The uncle cut it open with a knife and handed it to Mu Nuannuan: "Try it. This kind of sweet potato with a decent appearance tastes sweet and crispy."
Mu Nuannuan took it and took a bite. It was indeed sweet and crispy.
"Is it sweet?"
"Yeah, very sweet."
Mu Nuannuan helped the uncle carry the backpack and walked behind, while the uncle walked in front holding a sickle. The two chatted.
When she was approaching the door of her house, Mu Nuannuan shouted into the house: "Mu Tingxiao, we dug particularly sweet sweet potatoes!"
Mu Nuannuan's words were spoken, but there was no response from Mu Tingxiao.
Mu Nuannuan said to herself: "Have you not gotten up yet?"
She thought as she walked back with her uncle.
When she walked to the door, she saw that there seemed to be a few more people in the room.
Mu Nuannuan was stunned for a moment, and the expression on her face slowly faded.
It must be Gu Zhiyan and the others who came here.
The uncle squinted and looked into the room: "Is someone at home coming?"
"It should be our friends who came here." Mu Nuannuan pursed her lips and spoke lightly.
The uncle was also stunned for a moment, and it took him a few seconds to react. He reached out and took off the basket she was carrying: "Go and take a look. I'll make some sweet potato porridge."
Mu Nuannuan turned around and saw the uncle going to the kitchen with a hunched back and a basket on his back.
Mu Nuannuan went to the main room.
There are no windows in the main room. When entering from the outside, due to the alternating light, it is difficult to see the people inside for a while.
Mu Nuannuan stepped in and took a moment to see clearly what was going on inside.
Mu Tingxiao was sitting on a wooden chair, and the man sitting opposite him was not Gu Zhiyan!
As soon as Mu Nuannuan came in, they both turned to look at her.
Mu Tingxiao had no expression on his face, his eyes were deep, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.
The other man smiled slightly at Mu Nuannuan: "Nuan Nuan."
Mu Nuannuan's face had no time to hold back the surprise: "Li... Jiuheng, why... are you here?"
That's right, the man sitting opposite Mu Tingxiao is Li Jiuheng.
Mu Nuannuan knew from Mu Tingxiao that Gu Zhiyan came to find Shen Liang, and she had been guessing that the first person to come to him might be Gu Zhiyan, but Shiye was more likely.
Although Mu Tingxiao did not bring Shi Ye out this time, in Mu Nuannuan's view, Shi Ye was an all-powerful special assistant with so many magical powers that there was nothing he couldn't do.
She never thought that the first person she found would be Li Jiuheng.
"Of course I'm here to find you." Li Jiuheng smiled openly and purely, as if he simply knew that Mu Nuannuan was trapped here, so he brought someone to find her.
Li Jiuheng said it easily, but Mu Nuannuan's mood was a little heavy.
The fact that she came to see Shen Liang was not told to Li Jiuheng except for Mu Tingxiao.
She did not deny that Li Jiuheng was capable, but it was simply impossible to find her in such a short period of time without knowing her itinerary.