"Don't we still have Dabao?"

"It has to go home eventually! After it goes back, we can only drive Route 11."

Bai Zhou didn't refute her anymore, he just smiled fondly.

Early the next morning, the two of them went to the kitchen to prepare and fry vegetables. Not long after the sun came out, the old man came in, feeling lazy.

As soon as the old man entered the house, he asked if there was anything delicious to eat today, but he completely forgot about the incident where he got drunk and exposed his identity last night.

Xiang Youshou shouted, put the dozen or so plates of fried food on the table, and said to the old man: "Old man, we are leaving tomorrow. I have cooked a lot of food for you today, enough for you to eat for several days."

Already."

When the old man heard this, he was half happy and half sad. He was happy that he could eat the fried food for the next few days in advance, but he was worried that after they left, no one would make such delicious food for him anymore. It took him a long time.

, only two words came out of his mouth: "Okay!"

Xiang Youyou saw that he did not embarrass them, so he asked again: "Then what you said before, do you still keep it?"

"Of course, who do you think I am? How can you say what you said is not true!" The old man was a little unhappy.

When Xiang Youyou saw this, he quickly apologized: "Don't be angry, it's just me who is superficial!"

"Tomorrow morning, I will definitely give you the magic weapon." The old man said.

"Okay!" Xiang Youyou replied happily.

On the morning of the next day, the old man kept his promise. When he saw them off, he handed them a small long box made of jade tortoise bamboo. Xiang Youyou saw a row of bubbles forming at the corner of the old man's mouth.

I wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh. I thought: This old man must be greedy and ate all the dishes at once. He must be angry now!

By the way, the modern Xiang Youyou has been in love with hot food since she was a child. After eating some hot things, her mouth would be full of fat the next day. Later, her mother stopped letting her eat those things like "potato chips" and "mogo".

It is similar to fried food. Everyone knows that the more you are not allowed to eat it, the more you want to eat it, and the more you are not allowed, the more you miss it. Xiang Youyou often goes behind his mother's back and secretly indulges in food. But every time he can't

If he was lucky, there would be bubbles on his lips the next day, and he would have to be scolded.

Just scolding her could be ignored, but the blisters hurt and were ugly. When she was in the fourth grade of elementary school, she once had a full circle of growth around her mouth, which made her classmates afraid to get close to her.

.There were also some malicious people who spread rumors that her drinking was contagious, causing the head teacher to clarify it for her in the class.

Later, the redness and swelling of the fire blisters took a week before scabs formed, and another two weeks passed before all the scabs fell off. Fortunately, this thing did not leave scars, otherwise she would have lost her appearance countless times. After this incident,

She secretly swore that she would never be greedy for fried food again.

The result was like this until before the art exam. One day, Xiang Youyou was so hungry that she ate half a bag of potato chips under the temptation of her classmates. As soon as she finished eating, she regretted it and spent the night in trepidation. The result

When I woke up the next day, I found nothing happened.

It turns out that the reason why she got herpes around her mouth was because her body's resistance was weak when she was a child. As she got older and her body gradually recovered, her habit of eating irritating food and getting blisters gradually disappeared. Despite this,

, but she later tried her best to control her mouth and eat less fried food.

Bai Zhou also saw the bubbles on the old man's mouth, took out a bottle of ointment from his pocket, handed it to the old man and said: "If you eat too much of these fried things, you will get angry most easily. There is a box of plaster here, apply it thickly once a day.

It takes three days to recover.”

Xiang Youyou looked at the ointment. It was the one given to her by Long Bo Jinyu pretending to be Sister Ziyu when she was on Sanxian Island. She murmured in her heart: Why didn't I have such a magical medicine when I was in modern times?

It takes me a month to get better every time I get soaked.

The old man grunted and said "thank you". It must be quite painful to think about it. Xiang Youyou felt that he had the most say in this matter, so he did not forget to remind him: "Don't do it."

If the bubble bursts, water will flow into your mouth, causing oral ulcers."

"Already...already...ulcered!" Lao stammered.

"Remember, diseases come from the mouth! Let's see if you are still so greedy in the future!" Xiang Youyou imitated the tone of his mother when he was a child, and suddenly felt a sense of superiority from someone who had come before.

The old man was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, so he just nodded and waved his hands.

Xiang Youyou opened the bamboo box that the old man had just given to her, and saw two golden wheats lying inside, which were larger than the wheat that the brother and sister gave them to cross the river two days ago. She couldn't help but say

: "Ah, it's wheat ears again!"

"This...this is big...barley!" the old man said vaguely.

"Barley? What's the difference?" she asked.

The old man smacked his mouth and said with difficulty: "That wheat can only be used to cross the river, but this barley can be inserted into shoes, and it can... run!"

Xiang Youyou heard this and was surprised. He picked up two wheat ears and took a closer look. He found that this pair of wheat ears was not only larger than the other pair, but also stiffer.

"You mean, these pairs of wheat ears can not only cross the river, but also increase the strength of your feet?" Bai Zhou asked.

The old man nodded and continued: "Going west, you will also... encounter white water. You will know after you try it."

Xiang Youyou put the bamboo box away and said goodbye to the old man with Bai Zhou. The two held hands and set out on the road. After walking for half a day, they encountered Baishui "blocking the road" again.

The two rested by the river, preparing to eat some dry food before crossing the river slowly. Xiang You ate and complained: "You said that the white water is going around the land of Haozhou, why doesn't the governor build a few bridges?

.”

Bai Zhou thought for a moment and said, "Maybe they didn't practice it on purpose!"

"Why?" Xiang Youyou asked curiously.

"Perhaps this is their natural defense system. In this way, the outside world cannot enter the depths of Haozhou from land." Bai Zhou explained.

After hearing this, she suddenly realized: "So they just need to set up the air defense system so that no one can get in."

"Yes!" Bai Zhou said.

"But why do they need such a strong defensive attack? This would not only cut off contact with the outside world, it would be equivalent to seclusion!" She couldn't think of any benefits to them from doing this.

"They must have their reasons for doing this. Just like Sanxian Island outside the East China Sea, there must be many secrets behind it."

Xiang Youyou took a few mouthfuls of dry food and said: "You mentioned to me before that Honghong said that the Jiuzhou Continent has been divided and reunited countless times. Then it must have a lot of unknown past.

, so we don’t need to worry about these.”

"That's it, we just need to collect all the strings, and then we can go back together and live our little life together," Bai Zhou said.

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