Yue'er immediately made a bitter face and said, "I, I just haven't eaten dog meat. I've eaten spirit beast meat, all kinds of spirit beast meat, but I've never eaten dog meat. I didn't know dog meat tastes like this, and, and..." As she spoke, she couldn't help but lower her head and clutch her own hands.
"What else?" asked the old beggar.
Yue'er sighed helplessly like a little adult and said, "It's quite delicious, and the meat you stewed is really fragrant." However, she felt uncomfortable when she thought that she was eating dog meat.
"This is a local dog, it's best to stew it." He stretched his waist and said, "I, an old beggar, have eaten a lot of dog meat. I figured out the way to stew it myself. No one else can learn to make that taste. You are lucky today, otherwise you wouldn't be able to eat my dog meat."
Yue Er looked at the pot and saw that there was still some left. It would be a pity to pour it out, so she asked, "What should we do with the rest?"
"Don't worry, you won't have any share. The old beggar will eat it in the second half of the night." As he said this, he fell asleep against the tree holding the wine gourd.
The next morning, when Yue Er walked out of the mountain path and prepared to continue forward, she saw the old beggar walking slowly behind her. She stopped and said with a smile: "Old beggar, are you going to the city too? Then we are on the same way! Let's go together! There will be someone to talk to on the way."
She felt that they were not far from Yunxiao Mountain, so she relaxed and was no longer in such a hurry.
"I'm an old beggar, and I'm used to being alone. It doesn't matter if there's one more or one less person." As he spoke, he held a branch in his hand as a crutch, and he didn't walk very slowly.
The two walked along the same road. Yue'er chattered non-stop like a little bird, and the old beggar just listened quietly, responding occasionally. The journey was peaceful and nothing happened.
However, at noon, when Yue'er and the old beggar sat down by the mountain path to rest and drink water, they saw those lingering people riding their ostentatious contracted beasts towards them. She was so scared that she choked on the water and quickly shrank behind the old beggar.
When the old beggar saw this, he glanced at those people inconspicuously, then slowly looked away and continued drinking the wine in his hand.
"That devil girl ran quite fast. We didn't see any human figure along the way." A man riding on the contracted beast said, looking around. When he saw the two beggars, one old and one young, sitting by the mountain path, he looked away without stopping.
"That little girl is very cunning! She might have returned to her family now. But, haha, when we get to the city, even if she hides in the family, I can find her out."
As Shen Shiqi was speaking with a smile, his eyes also caught sight of two beggars, one old and one young, who were resting on the side of the road. He just glanced at them and then looked away, not even thinking that the little beggar was the little girl they were looking for.
After all, in their opinion, the little girl must be from a very good family and was very much loved. Besides, she was just a little girl, so how could she be related to a dirty little beggar
"Little beggar, here's something to eat." Shen Shiqi raised his hand, and two big pancakes flew out and landed in the little beggar's arms.