Chapter 14: Just for Survival
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Qin Siyang was shocked again, turned his head and stared at Liu Shuangli, and just wanted to ask out loud, he saw Liu Shuangli suddenly screaming towards the sky, and then without Qin Siyang asking again, he continued to say to himself, "My father is the most useless scholar that the folk say. He studied the Four Books and the Five Classics hard since he was a child, and spent all his efforts on it, but in the end, he only passed the Xiucai exam. After that, I was poor and destitute all my life, and I achieved nothing! That year, my family suffered a disaster, and my father took me to flee, desperately trying to survive, but in the end I was starved to death. Before my father died, he happened to meet the master who had traveled there. With the last bit of strength, he begged the master to take me as an apprentice and teach me martial arts. Before my father died, he wanted me to live a good life and stop being a useless person like him. β
When Qin Siyang heard this, he was stunned for a long time before asking, "Scholars are useless, then martial artists are useful?"
"Warriors are at least capable of self-preservation. Liu Shuangli replied.
"Self-preservation, how to protect yourself? Like a robber, killing people and plundering goods?"
Liu Shuangli said angrily: "You, a person, why do you only think of this when you talk about martial artists." You don't want to think about it, if it weren't for my martial arts, how could I have saved your life on the night you were hunted down?"
Qin Siyang was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Liu Shuangli to mention this matter to him, and he didn't know how to respond for a while. He was stunned for a while before he muttered: "No, no, the saints all say: everything is inferior, only reading is high." Only reading is what a serious person should do. β
"Yes, what do you do and how do you do things after reading the book?" Liu Shuangli said with a smile.
"What are you doing?" Qin Siyang was stunned, and after a pause, he suddenly raised his throat, as if he was struggling to the death, and shouted, "Don't study literature, let yourself see your own opinions, and be unreasonable." β
"Siyang-" Liu Shuangli sighed, not wanting to fight the boy anymore.
Qin Siyang froze, looked at Liu Shuangli and said, "The teacher said that martial artists who don't study will only use martial arts to break the ban, and they will not be educated, and they are all chaotic people. β
"Your teacher is talking nonsense. Liu Shuangli retorted loudly.
"The teacher is a famous teacher and a great Confucian, and he will never talk nonsense. β
"My master said that the main purpose of learning martial arts is to strengthen the body and protect oneself. Liu Shuangli shouted, "If the martial arts are higher, we must help the weak and the poor, and do chivalrous justice." β
"Acting chivalrous and righteous?" Qin Siyang roared, "Isn't it just the business of not abiding by the law, disobeying discipline, killing people and plundering goods, and disrupting society?"
"That's a bandit, not a knight, you have to distinguish it. Liu Shuangli shouted.
"What's the difference, aren't they all bandits who don't obey the discipline of the imperial court and run away after killing people and plundering goods?" Qin Siyang argued.
"Siyangβ"
Liu Shuangli felt that her head was already two big, she rubbed her head, and said after a while: "Okay, okay, let's stop fighting for this, we can't fight clearly, it's chaotic." Anyway, although I learned martial arts, I can't do such unkind and unjust things as killing people and plundering goods. β
Qin Siyang was still a little unconvinced, his lips moved, and he wanted to argue again. Seeing this, Liu Shuangli had to take his white and smooth hand, and persuaded softly: "Okay, it's useless to say anything." Now we still have to think about how to protect ourselves. I'm running out of money, and you don't have anything on you that you can spend, so you can't go on like this. So, we don't need to think about anything else, we just need to think about how to survive now. Tonight, we'll spend the night here, and tomorrow I'll try to find something to do, and even if I can't find anything to earn money, I'll have to find a place where I can eat enough and spend the winter. β
"Oh!" Hearing that Liu Shuangli made sense, the boy nodded, putting aside the pointless argument for the time being. He raised his head, looked around, and his face darkened again: "We're going to sleep here tonight, on this muddy floor, and there's not even a tree here that can shelter from the wind and rain." β
"I'll be down tonight. Liu Shuangli twisted his hand and said, "Anyway, the weather hasn't completely cooled down, even if there is wind and rain, it won't be able to freeze to death." Look at the sky, it's very good, and it doesn't rain anymore. β
"Butβ"
Liu Shuangli waved his hand and didn't let the boy continue: "No way, you have also seen it along the way, all the broken temples and grass houses, where there is a roof in the sky and a board on the ground, have been occupied, and we really have nowhere to go." There are no caves around this city, and there are no big trees thick enough for people to sit on and sleep. I don't know where else to spend the night other than this dirt slope. β
"Isn't it okay in the city?" Qin Siyang questioned, "There is no need for a roof and bed boards. Let's find an alley where at least the bricks are solid and there is a wall to keep the wind out. β
"But there's a lot of people in the city. Liu Shuangli shook his head and said, "Those poor people who wander, we are better dressed than them, and I am afraid that it will not be safe at night." β
"Yes, it's safety, why didn't I think of it!" Qin Siyang grabbed his fist and said, "Those chaotic people must be guarded against." β
"Siyang-" Liu Shuangli frowned and looked at Qin Siyang with a serious face, and there was an indescribable helplessness in his heart.
She didn't know how to explain to Qin Siyang, explaining that those wandering poor people were not chaotic people. They are just ordinary people struggling on the brink of death. Even if they come to rob you of all your things, they don't really want to do anything to you, they just want to survive, that's all.
Liu Shuangli sighed, raised his head, and looked at the sky dyed red in the west. What a beautiful sunset it was, but how many people could really calm down and appreciate the beauty of the sunset?
The sun has completely sunk below the western horizon. Liu Shuangli stood up straight, pulled Qin Siyang forward, and found a leeward slope.
After deciding on a place to spend the night, Liu Shuangli took out a few wide coats from the package, wrapped himself and Qin Siyang, and then took out the large cloth that he bought in the town two days ago, which was eight or nine feet long and wide, and had been used as a package before, and folded two layers repeatedly and spread it on the mud floor, which was used as a bed.
Then the two children went to find some dry branches and made a fire in front of the large cloth that had been laid out to keep them warm.
After everything was done, Liu Shuangli hugged Qin Siyang, and the two children leaned on their heads and fell asleep.
Although there is a difference between men and women, first, they are still children, and they are not yet aware of this; second, the weather has become colder, and it will be even colder at night, and the fire will not burn for long, and if they do not sleep together, it is easy to wake up from freezing at night. When they were wandering around the mountains and forests before, they had been awakened by freezing at night.