The world will come very quickly.

So Li Yang also walked quickly.

Matchless City. Cheng.

This is a wasteland, there are not even a few weeds, as if all the barrenness in Wushuang City is gathered together, just looking at it, some people are so excited that they are too lazy to go any further.

"It's really deserted here......" The dark horse under the seat let out a snort, as if agreeing with Li Yang.

Li Yang patted the horse's buttocks, "Hurry up and go, otherwise, you will be hungry tonight." ”

The dark horse hissed softly and sped up.

After half ringing.

Hey?

In the depths of this wasteland, there are still people living there?

Li Yang looked at the thatched hut in front of him in surprise, about ten zhang away.

The thatched hut had obviously been carefully repaired, the thatched roof was new, neatly paved, and the mud wall that should have been ugly was even more beautiful than the wall of the city lord's mansion, lonely in a courtyard, obviously a thatched house, but it gave people a noble sense of loneliness.

Li Yang has seen the slums in Wushuang City, where there are thatched houses, but all the thatched houses there together are less than one ten-thousandth of the one in front of him.

"Who's coming?" A neutral voice came from inside the thatched house.

"Passers-by." Li Yang replied lightly, but he was shocked in his heart.

can actually find himself ten zhang away, and it must be a person, not a bird, or other wild things, just this internal force, he is far behind, perhaps, Dugu is not comparable.

"No passerby ever comes here." The owner in the thatch obviously didn't believe Li Yang's words.

"That's because you never saw me." Li Yang is neither humble nor arrogant.

He didn't lower his posture because he knew that the other party was a peerless master, this person didn't believe his words in the first place, and if he behaved respectfully again, it would only make the other party feel more suspicious.

The tone in the thatched hut was obviously stagnant, and then he said with a little interest: "The old man wants to see you passerby." ”

The door of the thatched hut was pushed open, and an old man in his sixties with a neat beard walked out.

He was indeed old, but his waist was straighter than that of a twenty-year-old lad.

"Enough of it?" The old man asked, meaning that he had finished observing Li Yang.

Li Yang nodded, he had also finished observing the old man.

"See what?" The old man seemed to want to hear what this unusual passer-by would say about him.

"Older than I thought it would be." Li Yang said truthfully.

"Old?" The old man frowned, obviously not very satisfied.

"Listening to your voice just now, I thought it would be a middle-aged man in his forties, but I didn't expect it to be an old man over half a hundred years old." Li Yang was still telling the truth, and his tone was very flat, like he was talking to an old man he met by chance on the side of the road.

"Really? Old man...... It's so old," the old man muttered, bowing his head and looking at his neat beard.

None of them were black.

It's really old.

"But your waist is the straightest I've ever seen, including me." Li Yang said suddenly.

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help but look at Li Yang's waist, and then look at his own waist

It seems to be.

This discovery obviously put the old man in a good mood, "You passer-by is interesting, why don't you come in and have a glass of water before leaving." ”

Li Yang refused: "Don't drink it." ”

The old man was obviously stunned, and then his face sank, "Are you afraid that the old man will harm you?" ”

Li Yang shook his head, "Your water here must be very expensive, I don't have any money." ”

"Money?" A very strange expression tugged at the old man's face.

Li Yang pointed to the thatched hut behind him, "Generally, there are two kinds of thatched huts, one is for the poor to live in, and the other is for the rich to live. ”

"Will there be rich people willing to live in thatched huts?" The old man asked in surprise, it was the first time in his life that he had heard such remarks.

"Yes, and the fee is very high, higher than those inns and restaurants." Li Yang nodded.

"It's unheard of." The old man shook his head.

"You are." Li Yang said with a smile.

The old man opened his mouth and asked hesitantly, "How can you conclude that the old man is a rich man?" ”

"Because you are not poor, and the poor cannot afford to live in such a fine thatched hut." Li Yang said, got off the horse, and walked over briskly.

Push open the courtyard door, enter, come to the old man, and stand face to face.

The old man looked at him strangely.

Li Yang smiled: "Just now, you said that you wanted to invite me to drink water, and you didn't want money, do you regret it now?" ”

The old man didn't pour water, but bluffed and said, "Do you know that in decades, you are the first person who dares to step within three steps of the old man?" ”

"I don't know." Li Yang seemed to be deliberately provoking him.

"Now you know?" The old man's eyes stared straight at him.

It's hard to imagine that an old man in his twilight has a pair of eyes that are sharper than an eagle.

"Those who don't know are not guilty, besides, you let me in to drink water." Li Yang is neither humble nor arrogant.

"That's right." The old man nodded, pointing to the water tank in the courtyard.

"The water is there."

"Do you want me to do it myself?" Li Yang asked.

How can there be a reason for the host to entertain the guests but let the guests do it themselves?

"The old man's waist, how can he break it for you." There was a deep pride in the old man's tone.

"Yes." Li Yang nodded, walked to the water tank, picked up the wooden cover, scooped the water with the water in it, and did not dislike it, just drank it to his mouth.

"Just for your straight waist, I'll drink more." Li Yang scooped up another scoop.

"You can take some with you." The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile.

"Good idea." Li Yang walked out of the courtyard and untied the water bladder on the horse's back, which was obviously full of water, but he poured it out and went to the water in the water tank in the courtyard instead.

The old man kept watching, and suddenly asked, "Have you ever seen a person?" ”

"Who?" Li Yang asked.

"The one who brought food to the old man." The old man said lightly.

"Look at your tone, I guess you don't know what the name of this food delivery person is."

"Yes."

"Looks?"

"I didn't pay attention."

In the eyes of this old man, how insignificant is the food delivery person.

Li Yang sighed: "Then why are you paying attention to it now?" ”

"Because he hasn't delivered food to the old man for six days." The old man's tone was still indifferent, as if he didn't care about the life and death of the person who delivered the meal.

Li Yang was stunned, "Don't tell me that you haven't eaten for six days?" ”

"Yes."

"......" Li Yang.

He had a very strong feeling that this proud peerless master should be hungry because he would come out of the hut and talk to himself.

"Aren't you going to cook for yourself?" Li Yang couldn't help but ask.

The old man stretched out his hands, "Do you see the old man's hands, like the hands of cooking and cooking?" ”

Li Yang really came over to look at it, looked at it very seriously, and then sighed: "It's really not like it." ”

It's not like that.

The old man's hand bones are very large, full of calluses, the calluses of laundry and cooking people will be born on the palm meat, but his calluses are born on the fingers, and then think of his peerless internal force, it is not difficult to imagine that this must be a pair of hands that are used to holding some kind of weapon.

Li Yang's gaze shifted from the old man's hands and looked up at the old man's indifferent eyes.

An old man in his sixties, who has not eaten for six days, does not cry out that he is hungry?

Is your waist still so straight?

Li Yang sighed: "You must have a glorious past, that's why you have this unimaginable pride." ”

"Brilliant, brilliant!" The old man affirmed, his eyes flashing with remembrance.

"Do you want to be brilliant again?" Li Yang could feel the old man's heart of disobedience.

The old man's eyes suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance, almost making Li Yang unable to look directly, "The old man is willing to be mediocre, but he must not die of mediocrity!" ”

Li Yang can understand.

People who have a glorious past are unwilling to serve old age, so they want to repeat the glory in their later years, but in the eyes of young people, they are too capable of tossing.

Li Yang glanced at the thatched hut behind the old man, "Presumably you don't have firewood, rice, oil and salt here, right?" ”

"Of course not." The old man said as a matter of course.

Li Yang broke off the idea of cooking for him, and asked again, "Can you eat dry food?" ”

The old man said angrily: "Are you pitying the old man? ”

"I'm just wondering if a strange old man and a strange passerby I met in the wasteland had a chance to have lunch." Li Yang can always say what some people like to hear at certain times.

So the old man smiled and waved his big hand, "Since it's fate, why not?" ”

Li Yang nodded, turned around and went to the bag on horseback to take out dry food and wine.

The old man still didn't bend down.

Li Yang didn't bend either.

The two of them stood in the courtyard, facing each other, holding dry food, and eating slowly, as if this was not dry food, but a delicacy.

Li Yang took a sip of wine and handed over the wine gourd.

"The old man has lived his life, and he doesn't drink a drop of wine." The old man didn't look at it, he tore off a small piece of steamed bun in his hand and sent it to his mouth, chewing it slowly.

Li Yang did not persuade the wine, the wine gourd was naturally taken back, just about to take a sip, but heard the sound of horses' hooves, and thought that his horse had run away, turned his head to see, it turned out that a white horse was galloping from the east.

The horse is very white, but nowhere near as white as the skin of the girl on the horse.

The girl is dressed plainly, she is twenty-eight years old, although she is dusty, but her bright and moving face is absolutely impossible to cover in the dust.

The girl came galloping on horseback, and when she arrived outside the courtyard, she stopped suddenly, and despite the unpleasant neighing of the white horse, she jumped off the horse, and knelt outside the courtyard, and was about to speak, but she saw a stranger in the courtyard.

--Li Yang.

The girl's open mouth also closed, but her eyes looked at Li Yang in disbelief, as if there should be no one else in this courtyard except the old man.

"I'm looking for you." Li Yang took a bite of the dried meat in his hand and reminded.

"Nope." The old man said indifferently.

"You don't see such a pretty girl?" There was a hint of ridicule in Li Yang's tone.

Don't think that old people are not lustful.

Old men are also men.

Especially men who don't accept old age.

The old man swallowed the last bit of steamed bread in his hand, "That's the old man and niece." ”

"......" Li Yang.