But the old man was still ogling everyone’s bowl of noodles, swallowing his saliva from time to time, that greedy look made it difficult to look straight at him.
"You..." Yang Ruxin felt that what she brought back was not an old man at all, but a rice bucket.
The old man probably felt his behavior was a bit too much and quickly diverted his gaze, touching his stomach, "Girl, it feels like it’s been decades, and I finally had a full meal..."
All of a sudden, Yang Ruxin was at a loss for words, "Old sir, you’re exaggerating a bit too much, aren’t you?... Decades? You would have starved to death, right?"
The old man just chuckled and didn’t continue to say anything.
Yang Ruxin couldn’t help but roll her eyes, this old man seemed like he was going to squat here permanently, but she still couldn’t help but remind him, "Old man, although it’s the start of autumn, the weather is still very hot. Aren’t you hot wearing two layers of clothing?"
"Heihei, you noticed, huh?" The old man was not only unembarrassed by being found out, but he even seemed happy, "These clothes are... picked up."
Yang Ruxin rolled her eyes again. If she hadn’t discovered that the old man was disguised and filthy, she wouldn’t have let him in.
"Why do you need to disguise yourself?" Zhou Ying couldn’t help but ask, "Is someone trying to kill you? Won’t that implicate us?"
"How dare someone try to kill me, an old man?" The old man glared the moment he heard it, "I just don’t like to be recognized, those people are annoying."
"Only bad people need to disguise themselves." Zhou Ying pouted, "The bad guys who tried to capture me and my brother used to change clothes and disguise themselves..."
"The little girl has been captured before?" The old man suddenly became interested.
Zhou Ying, however, ignored him and clung tightly to Erni’s side, acting as if she thought the old man was a bad person.
Yang Ruxin laughed out loud, teasingly looking at the old man.
The old man, feeling depressed, touched his nose and turned to leave, "I’m going to take a bath and come back." He felt like he looked like a bad person.
"Big sister, he really is a strange old man." Erni watched the old man leave and looked at Yang Ruxin, "He isn’t really a bad person, is he?"
Yang Ruxin smiled, she didn’t believe it was a coincidence with this old man. Despite his filthy disguise, his fingernails were clean, and there was even a faint scent of sandalwood on him, so she deduced that the old man must have come to find her specifically.
But since the other party didn’t state his reasons, she did not ask.
Everyone was cleaning up after the meal when the old man came back, and the moment he entered, it was a sight to behold. His hair and beard, previously grizzled, were now pure white after being cleaned, and he had taken off the dirty outer clothes to reveal a white robe underneath, giving off the impression of an otherworldly being.
"How about it? Don’t I look handsome?" The old man saw everyone looking at him and immediately felt proud, "Let me tell you, when I was young, I was absolutely..."
But before he could finish, everyone lowered their heads and went back to their work.
"Girl, did you plant these?" The old man, feeling a bit down, started making small talk and looked at the herbs planted in the yard, pulling at some here and there.
"Yep." Yang Ruxin placed the washed dishes on the table, then took the dishwater out to water the herbs.
At this time, without chemical detergents, it wasn’t a problem to use this water for watering plants.