Fu Le walked into the room and smelled a choking musty smell, and he coughed violently twice, almost pulling out.

Fu Le opened his eyes, his vision in front of him slowly cleared, the light in the room was dim, and he could barely see the small part of the room by the window where the sunlight could penetrate through the window.

The walls of the house were peeling off in large chunks, making the whole wall look ugly, and the daily furniture was very simple, except for a bed, two stools, and other cooking tools.

Fu Le frowned, put the two bundles of firewood on his shoulders on the ground, and he saw a rickety old man sitting in the dimly lit room.

"Grandpa—"

When the little girl saw the old man, she jumped up and down laughing, and threw herself into the old man's arms.

"Hey, Ru'er is back......"

The old man also picked up the little girl at once, and touched the little girl's delicate face with his stubble chin, which made the little girl giggle.

Fu Le looked at the pair of grandchildren quietly, standing aside and not speaking.

"Grandpa, I picked a red mushroom today. ”

As she spoke, the little girl carefully took out a red mushroom from her bosom and put it in the old man's hand.

Fu Le chuckled suddenly, this little girl was still wary of herself, and let herself carry the two bundles of firewood, but she didn't put the red mushroom in it, but carried it with herself.

The old man finally noticed Fu Le, and he looked at Fu Le and looked at him curiously.

The little girl ran over, grabbed Fu Le's right hand, and pulled Fu Le, who was obviously still a little restrained, into the house.

The little girl pushed Fu Le in front of the old man, and excitedly introduced Fu Le to the rickety old man.

"Grandpa, it was this brother who helped me carry the firewood back...... He had no one to take him in. ”

Fu Le couldn't help but want to cover her face, did this little girl always have to consciously emphasize the last sentence?

The old man nodded hurriedly when he heard this, he looked at Fu Le and coughed twice, and said with a grateful look: "Thank you Wa'er, help my Ru'er carry firewood and bring my Ru'er back." ”

Fu Le saw the appearance of this rickety old man clearly, he was indeed very old, and even gave people a feeling of old age, the hair on his head was sparsely attached to his head, his face was covered with ravine-like wrinkles, and large and small age spots were distributed everywhere, which made people unbearable to look at directly.

"Ahem—"

Fu Le looked at the old man's violent cough, his throat rolled, and he subconsciously stretched out his hand.

The old man's body was so thin that Fu Le was even a little afraid of his withered body, unable to withstand this kind of shaking, and always couldn't help but want to hold him.

The old man lifted several plates on the table, took out three broken bowls with missing edges, and presented three bowls of gruel from the stone basin under the table.

The old man pushed the gruel towards Fu Le, and said with a smile to Fu Le: "If you have nowhere to go, let's stay here with the old man first, but there is no good food......

"Thank you, old man. ”

After the guidance of the woman in blue by the stream, Fu Le was not polite this time, took a bench and sat down, took the two nests on the table and ate them.

The old man looked at Fu Le's gobbling up and smiled, he beckoned Na Ru'er to come over to eat together, and the little girl also jumped over, sat at the dining table, showing a food appearance that was not inferior to Fu Le, and ate a lot.

"Good, good ......"

The old man on the side didn't eat, just looked at the two children, one big and one younger, with a smile, and nodded incessantly.

Before Fu Le finally swallowed the contents in his mouth, and before he had time to stuff new food into his mouth, the old man finally couldn't help but ask, "Where is the baby's house?"

Seeing the old man asking himself a question, Fu Le hurriedly swallowed the nest head in his throat hard, and found that he couldn't swallow it anymore, so he quickly poured two mouthfuls of millet porridge and finally pressed it down.

"I'm not a local......"

Fu Le explained to the old man, he calculated the direction again, and whispered, "I came from the east. ”

When the old man heard Fu Le's words, he showed a thoughtful look and muttered to himself, "...... in the east"

Fu Le didn't look at the old man's eyes, and simply lowered his head and continued to eat.

Fu Le seemed to have thought of something, and in order to change the topic, he put down the bowl in his hand and asked the old man, "Why did you let the little girl go so far alone to collect firewood?"

Unexpectedly, the old man showed a puzzled look, looked at Fu Le and asked, "Isn't it at the entrance of the village?"

Fu Le was shocked, he knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly lowered his head and continued to eat.

The little girl on the side quickly took the old man's bowl, smiled sweetly at the old man, and shouted loudly: "Grandpa, I'll fill up the rice for you." ”

The old man sighed, looked at Fu Le and said, "This girl has no father and mother, I am an old man...... Let her go to the Daohua Hall to try it and see if there are any roots and seedlings of cultivation, but she won't go. ”

"Daohuatang?"

Fu Le repeated the name softly, pondered for a while, looked at the old man and asked, "What is this?"

The old man looked at Fu Le with a puzzled expression, and said softly: "Even though your hometown is not from Jingzhou, this Daohua Hall should be found everywhere, right?"

Fu Le scratched his head, his expression was a little evasive, and he hurriedly explained: "I didn't like to practice since I was a child, you see, I am still this mortal body. ”

Who knew that after listening to Fu Le's words, the old man's expression became even more strange, he looked at Fu Le, and said to himself: "I listen to your words, I really look like a person outside the territory. ”

Fu Le panicked in his heart, he thought about the wording in his heart, and wanted to continue to explain to the old man, but the old man smiled and waved his hand, looked at Fu Le and said: "That's it, young man, I'm this old, what else can't I see." ”

Fu Le looked at the old man's eyes, his heart suddenly stabilized, he raised his hand, and looked a little speechless.

"Grandpa, I ......"

The old man picked up the porridge bowl with a smile, drank two sips slowly, and said unhurriedly after putting down the bowl: "When you go out, you have to bring some secrets on your body, man......"

"Huh?"

Fu Le felt that something was wrong with the old man's words, and he raised his head and looked at the old man in front of him in surprise.

The old man also looked at Fu Le, and kept laughing, revealing an expression of "Don't hide it from me, I know everything, I had more stories than you when I was young", as if he had seen through Fu Le, but he didn't want to expose that disdainful little secret.

The feeling that this old man gave Fu Le changed instantly, and it became a little ...... Not serious?

Looking at the old man's somewhat hooligan ruffian smile, Fu Le felt as if he had misplaced the old man, and the old man laughed, and even felt a little disrespectful for the old man.

The old man raised the porridge bowl, still with that inexplicable smile on his face, he looked at Fu Le, raised his head and said: "Young man, it doesn't matter if you have a secret, you have to let the whole world help you hide it together." ”

When Fu Le heard this, he wanted to laugh inexplicably.

But he watched the old man raise the broken porridge bowl to himself, and he couldn't help but lift the porridge bowl on the table in front of him.

Ding——

The two bad bowls touched each other, and in Fu Le's surprised gaze, the old man showed an indecent smile.

"Come little man, toast to your secret away from home. ”

The old man raised his eyebrows, raised his head, and drank the gruel in the bowl, revealing the breath of the old rascal.