The old man raised his head, revealing his eyes blocked by his disheveled hair. There were also injuries on his face, all covered with old scars. Although the eyes, nose, and mouth were not injured, it was serious enough to disfigure the face.
His legs were crippled and his appearance was completely ruined, but there was still light in his eyes and his spirit was still there.
"Where is the child?"
"At brother A Yi's house, I will come over first to see if you are willing to keep A Bao."
If he refuses, I will tell him that he has found the wrong person when he gets back, so as not to make the child sad.
"Bring him here."
Tao Baye said this to A Yi, who responded and turned around to go home.
"Please come in." Tao Baye then invited me standing at the door.
As soon as I walked into the yard, a puppet flew out of the haystack. He was as tall as a real person. His hands were replaced by double hammers, and he swung at me without hesitation.
I didn't want to use my powers in front of Mr. Tao Ba, so I fought with the puppet for a while. I didn't destroy the puppet. It stopped on its own and flew back to the haystack.
Even though the puppet is very ruthless, Tao Baye has no murderous intention towards me, he must be testing me.
"You are not from the Haisha Gang."
"I am their enemy."
Tao Baye felt relieved, smiled a little more on his face, and apologized for his rudeness just now.
"Understood, the world is dangerous, so it's always right to be cautious."
"Miss An, please sit down."
There are many objects in Tao Baye’s yard, most of which are broken pots, pans, pots, pans, and furniture from villagers’ homes.
Ah Yi led Tao Abao over. I just sat down and waved to Ah Bao.
"This is your eighth grandfather."
"Hello, Grandpa Eight."
Abao saluted and said hello in a decent manner, and bowed deeply to Tao Baye.
"Okay, okay, Abao has grown so big..." Tao Baye's eyes were a little moist, and he pulled Tao Abao and stroked the top of his head.
Tao Baye asked A Bao if he remembered what happened at home. A Bao told him that bad guys had entered the village and his grandfather asked him to hide and tell him all about revenge when he grew up.
Tao Baye and Tao Wuye look very similar, especially their eyebrows.
The original person had met Master Tao many years ago, and he was very similar to the current Master Tao.
It's just that their temperaments are completely different.
From Tao Baye's tone, he knew that Tao Abao existed, and it didn't seem like he had completely cut off contact with Tao Wuye.
Tao Wuye knew where he lived, and he knew Tao Abao's birth.
The brothers did not completely break up as rumored.
The grandfather and grandson talked next to each other for a long time. Tao Baye did not know that A Bao's parents were dead. This shows that although he and Tao Wuye had contact, they were not in frequent contact.
Knowing that only A Bao was the only seedling left in the Tao family, Tao Baye sighed deeply.
He has no wife and no children, and he originally planned to live out his life in this mountain. Unexpectedly, Tao Wuye's family suffered such a disaster, and now he has become Abao's only relative.
"Jianghu... I have warned him a long time ago." Tao Baye's eyes were moist, and his tone was quite helpless.
"Does the Tao family have any enmity with the Haicha Gang? They seem to be looking for something, but they can't find it." When I came here, Tao Baye suspected that I was from the Haicha Gang. It was said that the Haicha Gang had no contact with him, and he also They are not from the Jianghu, so there should be no involvement between the two.
When Abao just recited the last words of Master Tao Wu, he didn't mention the Dragon Palace Order. I don't know whether the little guy forgot it or deliberately concealed it, so he only said that he saw the Haisha Gang rummaging through Tao's house.
"This, it starts with a escort trip many years ago."
Tao Baye caressed A Bao's head, recalling a past event that happened a long time ago.
At that time, the chief bodyguard of the Wanbo Bodyguard Bureau was still Tao Ying, the father of Tao Wuye and Ba Ye.
Tao Wuye has just started working as an escort with his father and is in the practical stage.
Tao Baye is still young, but he can already remember things.
He remembered that one night, there was pouring rain, lightning and thunder, which made him unable to sleep. Because of fear, he quietly ran to Tao Wuye's house to spend the night with his brother.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door in the middle of the night, saying that there was a escort that Tao Ying needed to transport in person.
Tao Baye was deeply impressed, firstly because of the terrifying thunder, and secondly because the customer threw a golden animal head from outside the door, which hit the yard and made a big hole in the ground.
He ran out of the house to take a look and saw that the golden animal head was as big as a lion's head.
He was stunned because there was only one person talking outside the door. The other person could throw a solid gold nugget as big as a lion's head into the courtyard. Is that something that human arms can do?
In other words, why would a person with such ability need to hire someone else to escort him?
Tao Baye was still a child at that time, and his ideas were relatively simple. He had never traveled far and had never met the powerful people in the world.
He didn't even expect that his father would refuse to escort the other party's goods and ask the other party to take back the 'money'.
It was much later that he realized that no one would make pure gold monster statues in ordinary people's homes or palaces. Such things would only appear in tombs.
It is not the tomb of ordinary princes and nobles, it must be from the tomb of a monarch or an emperor.
No matter which Fengqi family's emperor's grave the other party digs up, it will be the crime of killing the nine clans.
What's more, the goods the other party wants to transport are likely to be dug out of graves.
However, the visitor did not give up. He caught the two young brothers who came out to watch the fun and threatened Tao Ying's escort with their lives.
The strange thing is that Tao Ying was not prepared in advance, but the other person's figure was like smoke and wind. Even though the Tao brothers had already hid in the house, they were still held hostage by that person.
Tao Ying wanted to stop him, but he didn't even have a chance.
The opponent's martial arts skills are far superior to his, and he can be said to be a monster-level master.
Why does such a master have to have the Wan Bodyguard Bureau deliver the goods for him?
Knowing that there must be big trouble here, Tao Ying had to agree to save the lives of his two sons.
The next day, rumors spread that Tao Ying had accepted a large sum of money to escort the mysterious man to the Dragon Palace.
Tao Ying originally didn't know what was in the black box given to him by the mysterious man.
Generally, after paying a certain amount of money, the customer does not need to tell the escort agency what goods are being escorted.
As soon as the rumors spread, Tao Ying knew that he was indeed in big trouble.
The Dragon Palace Token is said to be the key to unlocking the treasures of the Dragon Palace, similar to an access card.
One can imagine how many robbers Tao Ying would encounter on the way to escort.
But his two sons were still in the hands of the mysterious man, so he had no choice but to risk his life and make this trip.
It's just that he returned to the escort agency just after a day out, looking dejected and almost completely lost.
He thought about experiencing countless robberies along the way, but he didn't expect to be robbed as soon as he stepped out.
In just half a day, he lost the dart.
This is undoubtedly a serious blow to an experienced and experienced martial arts master.
He became a big joke in the martial arts world, and the reputation of the Wan Bodyguard Agency was damaged.
The mysterious man heard him say that his things had been taken away, but he didn't make things difficult for him. He let the fifth master Tao and the eighth master go, and didn't take back the golden beast head. He just said he knew, flew away, and never appeared again.
Others thought Tao Ying was incompetent and threw away his escorts when he went out.
Only the Haisha Gang didn't believe it. First of all, the employer didn't ask for a refund or blame Tao Ying. This was really unreasonable.
Secondly, the Haisha Gang really searched everywhere. After that, there was no news about the Dragon Palace Order, and no one took the Dragon Palace Order out to sea to hunt for treasure.
"The Dragon Palace Token was once a thing protected by the Haisha Gang. It was stolen a hundred years ago and they have been looking for it. They suspect that the Dragon Palace Token was not lost at all. My father was afraid of being robbed, so he deliberately acted and told others that he had been robbed, but in fact he kept it for himself. The treasure is prepared to be left to future generations to dig into the sea for treasure.”
When the Wulin Alliance was here, the Haisha Gang didn't dare to make any mistakes, and their sphere of influence was along the coast, so they couldn't reach too far.
After the Yuancheng catastrophe, the Wulin Alliance fell apart. The Haicha Gang's tight spell was finally loosened, and they began to make trouble and hold the Wan Bodyguard Bureau responsible.
The reason for their suspicion was "sufficient". Tao Ying had just been out of the city for half a day, and no one would be stupid enough to rob him so close.
He was walking on an official road, where people came and went. If a fight broke out, there would be witnesses around at any time.
However, when the Dragon Palace Order was robbed, no one passed by, and no one saw the process of his being robbed.
Furthermore, if someone really robbed it, it must have been for the purpose of hunting for treasure, and they wouldn’t have kept it as a souvenir, right?
The power of the Haisha Gang along the coast can be described as pervasive.
After the news of the appearance of the Dragon Palace Order came out, they immediately arranged manpower at all the docks along the coast.
Specially keep an eye on the ships going out to sea. The Dragon Palace treasure is hidden in the deep sea. Even if one person goes to fish it out, a group of sailors are needed to row the boat.
The surveillance work lasted for three years, consuming a lot of time, manpower, energy and money, but still could not find the person who carried the Dragon Palace Order to sea.
They thought about it differently and suddenly realized that everyone had been tricked by Tao Ying.
Maybe there was no 'robbery' incident at all. Tao Ying deliberately took that official road and waited until no one was passing by, then pretended that the goods had been robbed.
Otherwise, how come he wasn't hurt at all when he returned?
He was fighting for such important goods, and even though his son's life would also be lost if the goods were lost, he actually didn't get hurt at all.
People from the Haisha Gang feel suspicious no matter what they think.
But the strangest thing was the employer. He didn't care at all if the things were lost, as if nothing happened.
So another version of the 'truth' came out in the world.
The employer's request to be escorted by Tao Ying was just a cover, and he made such a big fuss just to attract people in the world to snatch the fake goods.
The real Dragon Palace Order has been sent secretly, using a hidden route.
Tao Ying's bright line was set up to cover the hidden line.
So I'm afraid he doesn't even have the fake Dragon Palace Order on him, and the box is simply empty.
This can explain why he was not injured, because he knew that the box was empty, and if someone grabbed it, they would grab it. Why bother to fight and get injured all over?
Jianghu people believed that most of them were the latter, so no one bothered Tao Ying.
Only the Haisha Gang insisted that the things were still at Tao's house.
But suspicion is just suspicion after all, and there is no basis for it. The Wan Bodyguard Bureau has opened in Yuancheng again, and if something goes wrong, the Wulin Alliance will uphold justice.
They never got a chance to make a move, but they sent people to search the escort office at night, but found nothing.
After Tao Ying passed away, the Haisha Gang turned their attention to Tao Fifth and Eighth Masters.
They are Tao Ying's only two sons. If they want to go out to sea to hunt for treasure, they will go.
By keeping an eye on the two of them, you can track down the Dragon Palace Order.
Ever since Tao Baye broke his legs, the eyeliners staring at him have stopped.
He is already disabled and it is difficult to walk at ordinary times. Sneaking into the deep sea to hunt for treasure is nothing more than a fantasy.
