Crowds of people, the streets are not spacious, walking through the crowded places, inevitably a burst of pushing and shoving. The old man walked in front of them, but he seemed to be relaxed, and he always found a place where the crowd was taunting him, and he walked through it lightly.
Gently slowing down his pace, Gu Nan followed the old man unhurriedly, while gradually adjusting his footsteps to maintain the same pace as the other side. His eyes fell on the old man's waist and surveyed it again.
The rope tying the money bag was tied with a live knot, which could be undone with a gentle pull. This tying method was convenient for taking money, but at the same time, it was also convenient for stealing. If it was tied with a dead knot, Gu Nan would just walk away without saying a word. There was no knife in her hand that could quickly cut the rope, and she didn't have the ability to untie a dead knot without anyone noticing.
The money bag looked heavy, swaying with the old man's steps.
All that was left was to wait for a moment, Gu Nan pursed her lips and looked ahead. There seemed to be a cooking cake stall with a good business up ahead, and there were about seven or eight people waiting there, ready to buy one and try it. This place should be considered the downtown of the marketplace, with quite a few people coming and going on the road aside.
'Ahem.' The old man glanced at the roadside cooking cake stall, if it was before he might have come back to buy a few, but now that the man is old and his teeth are not as good as before, it's better to avoid it. Rarely out for a walk, he was still prepared to find an old place to have a cup of tea.
'Pa Pa.' Suddenly felt someone patting his right shoulder, unconsciously turned his head to look over, but there was no one.
'Hoo.' A thin, inaudible wind sound was emitted from behind, and it was almost impossible to hear it amidst the noise of the crowd.
The old man instantly understood what was going on and raised his eyebrows, a hint of teasing flashing through his eyes.
Good, stealing something and daring to steal from me!
Hehehe, got it. Gu Nan's hand was like a spirit snake that seemed to quietly scramble out, swiftly and without much noise at the same time, strangely wrapping around the old man's waist, and giving a soundless tug on the rope of the money bag.
The rope knot issued a slight friction between the money bag has fallen down, was a hand steadily catch it, froze not half a bit of movement.
The bag was caught by a steady hand, and it didn't move a bit. The corner of Gu Nan's mouth curled up. He was about to withdraw, but was caught firmly by an old hand on the wrist.
A somewhat hoarse voice said calmly, 'Little brother, it's not the way of a gentleman to take things without asking.'
The old man spoke in a muffled voice and turned his head, a pair of sharp eyes that didn't even look like an old man's swept over Gu Nan's cheeks.
'Gu duh.' It was only a half-second stare, but Gu Nan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, and on a hot summer's day, the appalling sensation caused a drop of cold sweat to drip from her forehead.
When the old man saw Gu Nan's face, his eyes flashed with a hint of surprise, then his gaze fell on her slightly bulging chest, and he nodded in understanding, 'Oh, rather I was wrong, so it's a little girl.'
Goodness, who said the old man's reaction is slow, come out, I won't kill him.
With a slight movement of his eyes, Gu Nan's eyes had drifted to an isolated side street all over again.
Slipping.
Gnashing his teeth, the hand that was grabbed fiercely tried to draw back, but the other hand is like an iron hoop as deadlocked without half a bit of loosening.
The old man stood still, but Gu Nan, blushing, tugged at his own hand, but to no avail.
Eh? The old man frowned, his hand slowly exerted force, already using 80% of his strength.
He himself knows his own strength, although he is already old, but the strength on his hand even if he doesn't use internal force, there is at least 600kg (300kg).
Ordinary two or three men simply can't drag himself.
And in front of the eyes of this does not look young little girl actually let himself use eighty per cent of the force, that is at least four or five hundred pounds of the level ah.
This girl, the strength is not small. The old man thought secretly, but still didn't let go, letting Gu Nan pull and tug there.
Damn it, what is this old man's origin, or are all the people in this place so perverted. Gu Nan had the urge to cry, she was just stealing money to feed her stomach, how did she come across this kind of thing.
After half a day of tugging and pulling, Gu Nan finally gave up his useless efforts, took a breath, and revealed a dry smile to the old man, 'Old man, life is not easy in this world, otherwise, how about letting me off the hook? Let's meet in the mountains and waters, today's favour will be rewarded in the future.'
This girl's speech was interesting, the old man smiled, stretched out his hand and took the money bag in Gu Nan's hand.
He looked her up and down a few times, her clothes were ragged, and her face, which should have been handsome and heroic, carried a few dirty mud stains, so he thought that she was another poor person whose family had fallen into trouble: 'Girl, where are you from.'
The old man asked faintly in Gu Nan's uncertain eyes.
'Me.' Gu Nan hesitated, what did she say, she didn't even know what kind of hellish place it was, she couldn't even name a place at all okay, did she say she was from the global village?
Coughing, Gu Nan's eyes dodged sheepishly, and said with a dead duck's mouth, 'I don't remember.'
'Don't remember?' The old man froze for a moment, 'What about family.'
With nowhere to hide, Gu Nan simply lowered her head, not looking into the old man's eyes, kicked the stones on the ground with her toes, and muttered, 'No.'
There was nothing she herself could care about, after all, this thing of not having a family wasn't a year or two old, and she had long since grown accustomed to it.
Fatherless and motherless, have you even forgotten where your home is.
Looking at the girl in front of the low head, the old man's eyes some helpless, iron hoop like hand loosened some, also is, this is after all so a chaotic world.
'If you do not want to go to the government, follow me.' The old man loosened his hand, turned his back and walked away.
No way, this old man won't still have any special ideas.
Gu Nan looked down at her own body, although she was very reluctant to admit it, she did still have a few good looks. Thinking of this, Gu Nan immediately got the idea of running away again.
'Don't think of running, it's still very simple for the old man to catch you.' The old man crossed his arms backwards and said nonchalantly, his tone carrying a sense of confidence.
On the day, Gu Nan blackened his face and ruthlessly followed.
Just follow, I'm still afraid of you.
A small teahouse by the roadside, said teahouse, in fact, just a small tea stall built up by bamboo scaffolding and hay.
Tea is not familiar with the tea, really say, is a bowl of cold water.
Inside set up a few short table, wooden table polished some rough, put a worn couch on the side, but barely a place to sit.
Teahouse in a lot of people, sweltering weather, walking on the street for a long time, want to take a break, this kind of roadside teahouse is always a good choice.
People drink tea and say some small talk, occasionally chat so a few high talk, but also will be this small teahouse, chatting very lively.
The corner of the teahouse sat an old man and a young man, just so look, is a decent old man, with a downtrodden young boy. The old man asked for a pot of tea, so drinking tea, looking at the street. And his opposite 'teenager' is grasping the bowl of rice in front of him, swallowing in large mouthfuls, a long way away can hear the sound of her swallowing!