The old man ate very quickly and swallowed the squid cake in a few bites. But when he saw him patting his belly with a frown, he looked at A Yao with dissatisfaction and said, "You have twenty strings of money, why do you only buy ten cakes at a time? When you meet a village next time, you should buy more."

This made A Yao stunned. Baoer next to him became furious and shouted: "You eat our cake for free, but you dare to blame Sister A Yao..."

The old man seemed to be scared by Baoer scolding, hid aside and shrank his neck, and said pitifully: "I just want to eat enough, but I don't want to starve to death on the road."

As he said that, he pointed ahead and said pitifully: "Walking forward is Hebei Road, which is not as poor as Guanlong. There are too many poor people there and sparsely populated areas. Sometimes there are no people around a hundred miles away. Even if you encounter villages, you can't buy food. It's not that they refuse to sell it, but that they don't have food. Now this is a time when the people of Hebei Road generally have to rely on digging wild vegetables to survive..."

This shocked A Yao and nodded repeatedly, "Thanks to your reminder, I have to remember that when I meet the next village or city, I will exchange all my food for food, and then buy an iron pot to cook for the children on the way."

The strange old man kept shook his head and said, "No, no, there is at least a thousand miles from here to Fanyang. If you exchange all your money for food, you will have to get mold if you can't walk through Fanyang."

A Yao was shocked again and became a little helpless.

At this time, the strange old man laughed twice and suddenly said, "I see, you are kind-hearted and want you to be my dear girl. If you can call me an adopted father, I will teach you how to overcome the difficulties."

A Yao said 'ah' and said in surprise: "You can be my grandfather at your age."

The strange old man shook his head quickly and said in a serious tone: "No, no, I just become an adoptive father..."

As he said that, he seemed to realize that his tone was wrong and explained anxiously: "I am not old yet. I can't be your grandfather. I can be your grandfather, but I can't be your grandfather."

This was a bit difficult to say, and it was obviously a supply in desperation. But A Yao was a kind-hearted girl, and she didn't notice that the old man was wrong at all.

The girl was thinking about walking to Fanyang, afraid that the children she brought with her would suffer, so she almost didn't hesitate and said directly: "If you can teach me a way, I will recognize you as my adoptive father immediately."

The strange old man laughed and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, then we will be father and daughter in the future. Girl, I tell you, don't spend all your money at a time. You can only purchase rations for five days at a time. Five days can take about two hundred miles, and two hundred miles is the distance between the Datang Post Stations. Although Hebei Road is poor, the court also sets up post stations. You only need to insist on going to the next post station and buy food from them with money."

A Yao seemed very hesitant and couldn't help saying, "Will the station be sold to us?"

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

Aya was shocked, then waved her hands repeatedly. The girl's shameful face turned red, and she hurriedly defended: "Don't talk nonsense, Brother Li Yun and I are innocent. He has always regarded me as a girl, I am not his...his..."

When the girl said this, she suddenly felt a twitch. For some reason, she couldn't continue to say it. He seemed reluctant to express this sentence clearly. Perhaps she also had a ignorant desire in her heart.

The old man watched coldly, and took A Yao's expression in his eyes, and said leisurely: "Even if it is not now, it can be so in the future. Even if it is not now, the postmen at the postmen do not know. We can pretend to be powerful and scare the postmen to sell food."

A Yao has a gentle personality, and hesitated again when she heard this, and said weakly: "It is not good to lie."

The old monster's eyes flashed, and a scarred face turned ferocious, and he said in a serious tone: "Girl, remember, you should not be too kind, especially if you have to follow the King Zhao of Xifu, you should not make yourself too weak. None of the girls around him are fuel-efficient. If you want to suppress the back house, you must be more skilled than them."

A Yao was very shy and lowered her little head and said weakly: "What are you talking about? What are you talking about? I...I...I don't understand..."

At this time, Baoer jumped over, stared at the old man with a glittering eyes and said, "How do you know so much?"

The old man was stunned.

Baoer looked at him with a suspicious face and continued to ask: "You know that Sister Ayao knows Brother Li Yun, and you also know that Brother Li Yun is the King of Zhao of the Western Palace..."

The old man quickly beat him up and pointed at the few voracious children around him and said, "It was what they said. Every time I come, they would say that their master is the prince, and there is only one prince in Fanyang in the Tang Dynasty."

Baoer was still very suspicious, and he was circling around the old man with his little hands on his back. While examining the old man, the little guy didn't know what he was thinking, but suddenly he spoke again and said, "You know there is a station every two hundred miles. We children have never mentioned this matter, and we don't know..."

The old man smiled and nodded, "You kids really don't know, but I'm an old man. I know a lot about it."

Baoer stomped her feet angrily, clenched her fists at him, and said angrily: "Wait, I will definitely expose you."

The old man seemed to love Baoer very much. He was not angry at all when he heard this. Instead, he laughed happily and said, "Okay, that's fine, I'll wait for you to expose it. If you can really expose it, I will accept you as my adopted daughter."

Pooh!

Baoer glared at each other and said even more angrily: "You old man is so bad, you take advantage of me."

The old man stood up and suddenly patted his belly with a frown again, saying pitifully: "Oh, I'm still not full, why can't I always eat? You have twenty stagnant money, so why should you take it stupidly? The money for a lifetime is four or five stagnant, and the money for twenty stagnant money is nearly eighty stagnant. You groups of children carry a package each, which is so heavy that they are panting. If someone sees it, you can guess at a glance that you are carrying money. People who are rushing to carry money, basically this is what they look like..."

These words surprised A Yao again.

The old man seemed to want to teach A Yao how to deal with things, or because he just took A Yao as his adopted daughter, he wanted to show off. In short, no matter what the reason, he suddenly pointed to the children present and smiled and said to A Yao: "Girl, do you think you have been smart and gave the children twenty coins to take. Can you really hide this from those who are interested? You underestimate the robbers on the Green Forest Road."

He stopped here and then said: "It is not clear today, the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty has not yet been stabilized, and the Guanlong area is not bad. After all, it is close to the Chang'an imperial capital, so there are fewer bandits who have robbed the road, but Hebei Road is extremely unstable. It has been the birthplace of the Green Forest hero since ancient times."

A Yao's face was pale and she couldn't help but murmur, "Then, what should I do?"

Baoer looked at the old man with a suspicion and suddenly asked: "You just said that there are fewer bandits in Guanlong's robbery, but you didn't say that there are no bandits in Guanlong's area. The implication is that there are also Guanlong. So why didn't we find it all the way, and even cross the entire Qinling Mountains, it's safe?"

The old man looked at her and suddenly started to make up lies again, boasting: "Because I am very skilled in martial arts, I am protecting you all the way."

Baoer's eyes shining.

A few children next to him chattered and kept making faces to shame the old man, hehe, "Brave, you brag, you brag, you are very pitiful, you want to cheat us if you want to eat a shiba cake. If you can beat those bandits, would you not have shiba cake?"

The old man laughed and picked up the little Nannan.

Baoer suddenly spoke and asked solemnly: "You really know martial arts? That's very powerful?"

The weird old man hugged Xiao Nannan and was funny. Hearing this, he turned his head to look at Xiao Baoer.

The old man seemed to be born to like bragging, and began to make up stories and said: "I used to be invincible. Even my junior brother is not my opponent. My junior brother is very powerful. He is born with divine power just like your elder brother."

Baoer curled her lips and relaxed her suspicion in an instant.

If bragging is too outrageous, no one will believe it again.

Unfortunately, Baoer didn't notice that the old man would stare at her palm every time...

Baoer was about to help A Yao clean up her heart when he heard the old man shouting her out.

The old man was still boasting and making up lies, saying, "Little girl, do you want to worship me as your adoptive father? If you worship me as your adoptive father, I will teach you an extremely powerful martial arts, and help you create two kitchen knives to ensure that you can dominate the world. I heard that a saint high priest from the Turks taught a princess Linglong with superb martial arts. You should help Sister Ayao in the future. It would be impossible to have no martial arts. How about it, worship me as your adoptive father. I think your palm is different from ordinary people and is extremely suitable for holding a kitchen knive. It is very powerful..."

"Bah! A kitchen knife?"

Baoer rolled his eyes fiercely, turned his head to scrape his nose to shame the old man, and said proudly: "Old liar, shameless. I am the smartest among the people. You will never think of cheating me. If the kitchen knife can dominate the world, why don't those generals use kitchen knife..."

The old man laughed and said shamelessly: "You have exposed it again. You little girl is so smart."

Baoer became proud and went to help A Yao pack her luggage proudly.

...

After a while, everyone set out on the road again. Originally, A Yao wanted the old man to walk with him, but the old man shook his head and refused.

He also said arrogantly, bragging and slapped his chest and said, "I won't go with you. I will use my peerless martial arts to explore the way. Once I encounter bandits who have robbers, I will beat them all to death."

These words made the children laugh at him again, and even A Yao couldn't help laughing and said with a smile: "You old man always appears behind us. When will you help us explore the road and clear the obstacles? Since I let you be your adoptive father, I have the responsibility to be filial to you. Let's work with us, so that I can take care of you."

The old man was just unwilling to do so and waved his hands repeatedly, "You go first, you go first, I want to help you explore the way for my father, and I can't go with you."

A Yao looked helpless.

He said he was helping us explore the way, but he asked us to leave first. This adoptive father who just recognized him is really a lie person.

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

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Chapter completed!