Chapter 96.2: Azure Water Valley (2/2)
When the old man did it, for some reason it just felt vulgar.
Not to mention, he even did it while crouching behind Tang Doudou. In addition, his face that was filled with wrinkles exposed an expression as if he was intoxicated. That appearance would have scared quite a lot of wives and daughters from good families badly.
Fanning the grilled fish, Tang Doudou inhaled the fragrance deeply. She then said a bit regretfully, “The fish is good stuff, it’s just missing some seasoning so I can’t draw out all of its flavor. Shame ah, what a shame…”
“Let’s eat first, then regret!” Tang Doudou turned around to grab the small knife she had placed behind her earlier and ended up being so startled by the old man crouching before her that she almost fell into the open fire behind her. Luckily, her inner strength was now profound and she managed to forcefully stabilize herself.
“Little yatou, this fish is grilled pretty well!” Seeing her turn around, the old man’s folds-filled face turned into a brilliant chrysanthemum with a smile. His mung bean eyes below his long eyebrows were as vulgar as it was possible to describe. He wore dusty and filthy clothing and seemed remarkably like a beggar that had crawled out from some refugee hole. There was no point mentioning footsteps as there wasn’t even a single footprint on the soft grass. It couldn’t be that this old beggar dropped from the sky?
Just as she was dazing out, she saw the old beggar reaching out with smiling eyes and unbelievably dirty hands to grab the grilled fish. Tang Doudou immediately took a big stride forward to block the old beggar upon seeing those dark black claws and shouted, “Hey! What are you doing!?”
The old beggar had originally been about to touch that grilled fish when he was blocked by Tang Doudou. He sucked back the drool that had flowed to the corner of his mouth and replied with a laugh, “There’s so many fish and a lady like you won’t be able to finish alone anyways. Just take some pity on this old man and give this old man some of it to eat.”
Tang Doudou saw that he was pretty much the same age as her grandpa. Although he wasn’t as benevolent as her grandpa, she still felt unable to coldly refuse him after seeing his pitiful expression. “Alright, then you sit there and wait for now. Once it’s done, I’ll give you half, alright?”
“Alright, alright, alright! You’re really a kind-hearted, good lady!” Having obtained Tang Doudou’s agreement, the old beggar crossed his legs and sat back down in his original spot. However, his eyes didn’t shift away from those grilling fish.
Tang Doudou wasn’t very concerned about the fact that an additional beggar had appeared. When she saw him sit down obediently to wait, she moved to continue with the last steps for the grilling.
However, right after she turned around, a one-eyed old woman crawled out from somewhere and exposed a wrathful expression as she stared at the grilled fish.
After she appeared, the old beggar started waving his hand at her, trying to get her to leave quickly.
The one-eyed old woman gave a sinister smile. Completely ignoring the signals he sent, she walked towards Tang Doudou who had her back toward the two of them.
Seeing this, the old beggar immediately blocked her way. He used his gaze to warn the one-eyed old woman not to mess around.
The old woman poked the walking stick in her hand. Her single muddy eye glared fixedly at Tang Doudou as she muttered something that couldn’t be made out. Afterwards, she said with a dark smile, “Stinking yatou! So it was you that took this old woman’s fish!”
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