A Simple Family

But they were not especially picky.

After all, for people like them, when they were out in the wilderness or in a ruined temple, they could make do with a bite of dry, hard rations.

Ao Xin said to Qin Xi, "The old man has some rice here, and there are also some greens. Once they're cooked, all of it can be eaten."

The difficulty was that the four grown men were not particularly good at cooking. The old man seemed to notice that Ao Xin looked as if she wanted to say something but could not quite bring herself to.

The old man said to them, "This old man's cooking may not be especially tasty, but it's still barely edible. I'll fry up a few simple dishes for you in a bit. Just don't mind that they're a little rough."

Seeing that the old man was slowly becoming less restrained around him, Qin Xi said, "Then we'll trouble you, sir."

Then he looked at Ao Xin and Di Qun and said to the two of them, "In a bit, you two go help the old man out. That much, the two of them could manage."

Although the two of them were Great Elders of the Monster Clan and the Dragon Clan, they still had some survival skills for the wilderness. They said to Qin Xi very respectfully, "Yes, I understand."

Daoist Yangmei, on the other hand, had long since grown extremely lazy, propping his feet on a crossbar beneath the table. As if he were so tired that his whole body had gone limp, he lay there like a puddle.

He drank his tea and said to Qin Xi, "To have a place like this to rest along the way really is quite nice."

On the old man's side,