The strange old man ate quickly, and swallowed the flax cake in a few bites, but when he saw him patting his belly with a sad face, he looked at A-Yao with a dissatisfied face and said: "You have twenty coils, why do you only buy a dozen cakes at a time, and wait until the next time you meet the village, you should buy more and bring it." ”

These words made Ah Yao stunned, and Bao'er next to her became furious and shouted: "You eat our cake for nothing, and you dare to accuse Sister Ah Yao ......"

The strange old man seemed to be scared by Bao'er's scolding, hid to the side and shrunk his neck, and said pitifully: "I just want to be full, I don't want to starve to death on the road." ”

Saying that, he pointed ahead, and said pitifully: "Further forward is Hebei Road, where it is not better than Guanlong, there are too many poor people, and sparsely populated, sometimes hundreds of miles of road without people, even if they encounter villages, they can't buy food, it's not that they refuse to sell, but they don't have anything to eat, now this is the time when there is no green and yellow, the people of Hebei Road generally have to dig wild vegetables to survive......"

These words made Ah Yao startled, and she nodded again and again: "Thanks to your reminder, I have to remember, when I meet the next village or city, I will replace all the dishes with food, and then buy an iron pot to cook for the children on the way." ”

The strange old man kept shaking his head and said, "No, no, there is at least a thousand miles to go from here to Fanyang, you can replace all the coils with food, and if you can't go to Fanyang, you will get moldy." ”

Ah Yao was startled again and became a little at a loss.

At this time, the strange old man chuckled twice, and suddenly said: "I see that you are a kind-hearted girl, and I really want you to be my godgirl, if you can call me a father-in-law, I will teach you how to tide over the difficulties." ”

Ah Yao let out a 'ah' and said with some surprise: "You are old enough to be my grandfather." ”

The strange old man hurriedly shook his head, and said in a very serious tone: "No, no, no, I only want to be a father-in-law......"

said as if realizing that his tone was wrong, and hurriedly explained: "I'm not old yet, I can't be your girl's grandfather, I can be the grandfather of these children, but I can't be your grandfather." ”

This is a bit awkward, obviously a supply in a hurry, but A-Yao is a kind-hearted girl, she didn't notice that the old man was wrong.

This girl was worried about going to Fan Yang, for fear that the children she brought with her would suffer, she almost didn't hesitate, and said directly: "If you can teach me a way, I will immediately recognize you as my father-in-law." ”

The strange old man laughed heartily, and said again and again: "Okay, okay, then we will be father and daughter in the future, girl, let me tell you, don't spend it all at once, you only need to purchase five days of rations at a time, and you can walk almost two hundred miles in five days, and two hundred miles is the distance between the Datang post stations. ”

Ah Yao looked very hesitant and couldn't help but say, "Will the post station sell it to us?" ”

The strange old man laughed, pointed at her and said, "You are the wife of King Zhao of Xifu, who dares not to sell your grain?" ”

Aya was taken aback, and then waved her hand again and again, the girl's face turned red with shame, and she hurriedly defended: "Don't talk nonsense, Brother Li Yun and I are innocent." He's always treated me like a sister, I'm not his... His ......"

The girl's heart suddenly twitched when she said this, and for some reason she couldn't say it anymore, he seemed to be very reluctant to express this sentence clearly, maybe she also had an ignorant desire in her heart.

The strange old man watched coldly, took in Ah Yao's expression, and said leisurely: "Even if it's not now, it can be in the future, even if it's not now, but those post guards don't know, we can fake the tiger and scare those post guards to sell food." ”

Ah Yao has a gentle personality, but she hesitated when she heard the words, and said weakly: "It's not good to deceive people." ”

The strange old man's eyes flashed, a scarred face became hideous, and he said in a serious tone: "Girl, you remember, you can't be too kind, especially if you want to follow King Zhao of Xifu, you can't let yourself be too weak, none of the girls around him are fuel-efficient lamps, if you want to live in the back house, you have to be more skilled than them." ”

Ah Yao hung her little head very shyly, and said weakly: "What are you talking about, what are you talking about, what is the back house, I... I... I don't understand ......."

At this time, Bao'er jumped over, stared at the old man with sparkling eyes and said, "How do you know so much?" ”

Blame the old man for a moment.

Bao'er looked at him suspiciously, and continued to ask: "Do you know that Sister Ayao knows Brother Li Yun, and you also know that Brother Li Yun is the King of Zhao in Xifu......"

The strange old man hurriedly snorted, pointed to a few gobbling children around him and said: "It's what they said, every time I come, they will say that one by one their master is the prince, and there is only one prince of the Tang Dynasty in Fanyang." ”

Bao'er was still very suspicious, and circled around the old man with her little hands behind her back, and the little guy looked at the old man, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and suddenly spoke out again, and the old man said: "You know that there will be a post station every two hundred miles, we children have never said this thing, and we don't know ......."

The old man smiled, nodded and said, "You children really don't know, but I'm an old man, I know a lot about going from south to north." ”

Bao'er stomped her foot angrily, clenched her small fists at him, and exhaled angrily, "You wait, I will definitely expose you."

The old man seemed to love Bao'er very much, and he was not angry at all when he heard this, but laughed heartily and said: "That's good, that's good, I'm waiting for you to debunk it, if you can really debunk it, I'll take you as a righteous daughter." ”

Bah!

Bao'er looked at each other angrily, and said even more angrily: "You bad old man is very bad, take advantage of me." ”

The old man stood up, suddenly patted his belly with a sad face, and said pitifully: "Alas, I still haven't eaten enough, why don't you always eat enough?" You have twenty entanglements, why are you stupid to carry them? The money has always weighed four or five pounds, and twenty pounds of money is close to eighty pounds, and a group of you children are carrying a package, and they are panting with a heavy weight, and if they are seen, they can guess at a glance that you are carrying money. The people who are in a hurry are coiled on their backs, and they are basically like this......"

These words surprised Ah Yao again.

The old man seemed to want to teach Ah Yao how to do things, or because he had just accepted Ah Yao as a righteous daughter and wanted to show it, in short, no matter what the reason, he suddenly pointed to the children present, and said to Ah Yao with a smile: "Girl, do you think you have played a clever trick and distributed twenty yuan to the children to carry, so can you really hide it from someone who cares?" You're underestimating the robbers on the Green Forest Road. ”

Speaking of this, he paused for a while, and then said: "And today is not clear, the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty has not yet been stabilized, and the Guanlong area is fine, after all, it is close to the imperial capital of Chang'an, so there are fewer mountain bandits who rob the road, but Hebei Road is extremely uneven, and it has been the birthplace of the heroes of the green forest since ancient times." ”

Ah Yao's little face turned pale, and she couldn't help but murmur: "That, that, what should I do?" ”

Bao'er looked at the old man with a suspicious expression, and suddenly asked: "You just said that there are fewer mountain bandits robbing in Guanlong, but you didn't say that there are no robbers in the Guanlong area, the implication is that Guanlong also has them, so why didn't we find it all the way, and even crossed the entire Qinling Mountains to be safe and sound?" ”

The strange old man glanced at her, and suddenly began to make up nonsense again, boasting: "Because I am strong in martial arts, I have been protecting you all the way." ”

Boa's eyes sparkled.

A few children next to him chattered, constantly grimacing to shame the old man, and said with a grin: "Bragging, bragging, you bragging, you are very pitiful, if you want to eat a flax cake, you have to lie to us, if you can beat those mountain bandits, will you have no flax cake to eat?" ”

The old man laughed and picked up the little girl.

Bao'er suddenly opened her mouth and asked solemnly, "Do you really know martial arts?" Pretty good? ”

The strange old man hugged Xiao Nannan and was funny, and turned his head to look at Xiao Bao'er when he heard the words.

The old man seemed to be born with a love of boasting, and began to make up stories again: "I used to be invincible in the world, even my junior brother was not my opponent, my junior brother is very powerful, he is as natural as your big brother." ”

Bao'er pursed her lips and instantly relaxed her suspicions.

If the bragging is too outrageous, then no one will believe it anymore.

It's a pity that Bao'er didn't notice that the strange old man would stare at her palm every time......

Bao'er was about to help A-Yao clean up her heart, when she suddenly heard the old man shouting to stop her.

The old man was still full of boasting, and he was making up lies, and said: "Little girl, do you want to worship me as your father-in-law, if you worship me as your father-in-law, I will teach you an extremely fierce martial arts, and then help you build two kitchen knives to ensure that you can run rampant in the world." I heard that there is a holy high priestess in the Turks, who taught a Linglong princess with superb martial arts, you will help Sister Ayao in the future, you can't do it without martial arts, how about it, worship me as your father-in-law, I see that your palm is different from ordinary people, and it is extremely suitable for holding a kitchen knife, very powerful......"

"Whew! Kitchen knife? ”

Bao'er rolled her eyes viciously, turned her head and scratched her nose to shame the old man, and said proudly: "Old liar, shameless, I am the smartest one among everyone, you will never want to deceive me, if kitchen knives can run rampant in the world, why don't those generals use kitchen knives......"

The old man laughed, and said facelessly: "I was debunked by you again, you little girl is so smart." ”

Bao'er became proud, and arrogantly went to help A-Yao pack her luggage.

……

After a while, everyone went on the road again, originally Ah Yao wanted the old man to walk together, but the old man shook his head again and again and refused.

And he was not ashamed, the cowhide blew with a shocking sound, and patted his chest and said: "I won't go with you, I want to use my peerless martial arts to explore the way, once I encounter mountain bandits who rob the road, I will kill them all." ”

This made the children laugh at him and brag, and even Ah Yao couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "Your old man appears behind us every time, when did you help us explore the road and clear the obstacles?" Since I have made you a father-in-law, I have the responsibility to be filial to you, so come with us, and it will be convenient for me to take care of you. ”

The strange old man just didn't want to, and waved his hand again and again: "You go first, you go first, for my father to help you explore the way, I can't go with you." ”

Ah Yao looked helpless.

said that it was to help us find the way, but let us go first, this father-in-law who had just been recognized was really a liar.

But she was kind-hearted and did not blame the old man.

……

…… The fourth is here, 12,000 words today, the outbreak is over, and the landscape is going to ponder tomorrow's plot.