Chapter 4: The Little Beggar
More than a dozen little beggars in the courtyard ran to the side and looked around for some wooden sticks to hold in their hands.
"Yo, it's very united..."
Li Yi'an also worked as a beggar, and he used to be hungry, so he also stole money and grabbed food. Seeing this scene, he was actually a little moved.
"This damn memory. Li Yi'an scolded.
He led the little donkey into the yard, because he had run a few blocks with the little donkey, and he was really a little thirsty, and when he saw that the water in the pot was boiling water, he got some water, blew hot air, and wanted to drink it as soon as possible.
When they saw him coming, they all retreated into the courtyard.
There were more than a dozen people in the courtyard, plus a small donkey, but at this time, the needle drop could be heard, which was completely different from the bustling crowd outside the hospital.
Just as Li Yi'an was about to take his first sip of hot water, another wave of people came outside the door, also a dozen or so beggars dressed in tatters, fifteen or sixteen years old, and even in their early twenties.
And seeing the new beggars outside the door, these little beggars in the courtyard took a few steps back and stood behind Li Yi'an, it seemed that compared to Li Yi'an, this group of people made them more afraid.
"Yo~ New here?" The leading 20-year-old boy looked at Li Yi'an and said, "The clothes are good, where did you come from? There is actually a donkey"
"Look, Boss, they have something to eat"
"Roast chicken, meat buns, life is good. ”
The leading beggar continued: "Erhu saw that your people went to the main street to rob us of our business again?
Li Yi'an didn't speak, he knew what was going on, these two groups of beggars were not together, like this case, it was usually two groups of beggars in different places who clashed, and these older beggars would even directly grab the food that these little beggars begged for on weekdays. This happened in various places during the war years, and even in peacetime, after all, he had seen it with his own eyes.
Li Yi'an just wanted to speak, and a little beggar behind him walked up, the one who stole Li Yi'an's money bag.
"You help us fight them off, and I'll pay you back. I've already hidden the money, and only I know the place. ”
"I..." Li Yixin was speechless, and he was actually used as a gunman.
Li Yi'an looked back at the beggars. Once he was, Li Yi'an thought about it, and he didn't want to continue to recall.
The beggar who led the goods, seeing that Li Yi'an was still calmly drinking hot water, pointed at him and said, "You are the new leader?"
Now in this situation, the original group of beggars are standing behind Li Yi'an, looking at the past, isn't Li Yi'an the leader?
Li Yi'an didn't raise his head and said, "Get out"
"Get out?" laughed more than a dozen beggars.
"Bailing, you shouldn't be the leader, but don't look for such a fool, are you broken by us?"
I thought that what I was talking to Li Yi'an just now was the Bailing that this leader said. The name is quite nice.
The little beggar Bailing said: "This is my eldest brother, who knows swordsmanship, if you don't want to be hurt, hurry up and leave." ”
"Yo, hahaha, brothers, copy guys. The leader spoke, and the beggars behind him each took out their weapons, mostly sticks and the like.
The leading sword Li Yi'an continued to blow hot air and wanted to drink hot water. picked up a moving brick from his feet and smashed it at Li Yi'an.
Li Yi'an held the bowl in his left hand, and pulled out a small wooden sword from his back with his right hand, without looking at it, and smashed the moving bricks with a snap.
"Whew, I'm finally full" Li Yi'an drank all the water in the bowl in one go, put the bowl on the ground, held the sword in his right hand, and walked towards the beggar.
"Hit me, kill him. Let him pretend..."
A group of beggars raised the sticks in their hands and rushed towards Li Yi'an, Li Yi'an didn't use the real yuan, joking, this is going to kill people. When he dodged, he kept drawing his sword, completely relying on his body to swim among the crowd. After fighting for a long time, he didn't hit anyone in a daze. I didn't even touch the corners of my clothes.
The sticks in the hands of these people had been knocked to the ground, and the beggars were clutching their swollen wrists from the wooden swords and screaming. It's not going to be good for a short time.
At this time, apart from him, only the leading beggar was still standing.
At this time, the leader was not calm, and said tremblingly: "Big, hero, you don't know Taishan with eyes, you just let us go, the business on the main street, let's do it together." As he spoke, he knelt in front of Li Yi'an.
Seeing this, the beggars around also knelt down to Li Yi'an, shouting for mercy.
Li Yi'an raised the wooden sword in his hand, and used the sword blade to face the leader. The beggar almost fainted from the blow, coughed a few times, and spat out a few broken teeth.
"Spare your life, spare your life," the lead beggar continued to beg for mercy.
Li Yi'an said: "I beat them because they wanted to harm people, and I broke your teeth because you instigated them to harm people." ”
The leading beggar began to kowtow, and said in a frightened voice: "Yes, yes, yes, the hero is right." I don't dare in the future, and I won't do it in the future. ”
Li Yi'an put away his sword and said, "Don't come here in the future, let me see you once, and I'll break your teeth again." Roll"
The leader hurriedly ran out with his men.
When the beggars were gone, the courtyard fell silent again. This group of beggars knew that it was their leader Bai Ling, who stole Li Yi'an's money bag, and people came to the door, and the strength was strong, and the beggars were a little scared.
"You're a lark. Li Yi'an pointed to a seven or eight-year-old beggar and said.
Bai Ling walked out, his hair was messy, his clothes were in tatters, he looked at Li Yi'an with some fear, but his big eyes kept staring at the sword behind Li Yi'an.
Li Yi'an stretched out his hand to him.
Bai Ling came to the corner of the wall and opened the pyre, and Li Yi'an's money bag was buried in a dirt pit. He shook the dirt on the money bag and carefully handed it to Li Yi'an.
Li Yi'an took the money bag and hurriedly opened it to take a look at his entanglements.
"Why is there only ten taels of silver?" asked Li Yi'an.
Bai Ling: "Buy, buy and eat..."
Li Yi'an: "Roast chicken?"
Bai Ling nodded.
Li Yi'an took a breath and said, "Who are you fooling? Are you stupid for me, or are you stupid for me? These things cost ten taels of silver?"
After Li Yi'an finished speaking, he touched the wooden sword behind him.
Bai Ling and the beggars around him saw Li Yi'an draw his sword, and they were so frightened that they knelt on the ground.
Bai Ling: "Some bought food for the baby, and some for wearing, I'm sorry, I didn't know that this silver was so important to you"
"Baby?" Li Yi wondered with peace of mind, he was still a baby.
Bai Ling saw Li Yi'an's doubts, pointed to the inner courtyard of the house, and motioned to take Li Yi'an forward.
Li Yi'an was also curious, so he followed Bailing into the inner courtyard, and in the courtyard, sure enough, there were two babies, one and a half years old and one two-year-old.
Bai Ling hurriedly picked up one of them, and the other was held by another beggar and coaxed for a while before it quieted down.
Li Yi'an asked, "You still steal children?"
Bai Ling hurriedly explained: "No, no, don't look at the bustle in Pingyang County, here is only two or three months away from the nearest battlefield, since the war started there, there have been refugees passing through us, some people are unable to support these children, they will put these children at the door of some large families, hoping to be adopted, although some children will indeed be adopted, when they grow up, they will be used as servants in the house, but some babies they don't want." ”
Li Yi'an asked, "Don't want it?"
Bai Ling pulled a part of the baby's clothes, revealing the baby's calves. The baby's right leg is disabled.
Li Yi'an understands that because this kind of baby is born with a disability, even if it is a servant or a maid, no one wants it.
Li Yi'an is a little embarrassed now, but after thinking about it, this kind of thing is really normal in the war era, and Li Yi'an took out the money bag again. He left a tael of silver for himself, and then threw the money bag to Bai Ling.
Li Yi'an said: "Take it, save some use"
Bai Ling couldn't believe his eyes, and after confirming it repeatedly, he finally accepted it and hurriedly thanked him.
Li Yi'an can only do this, after all, he still has to go on the road, the road to cultivating immortals is cruel, and it is impossible to take a child. The money before was used to buy steamed buns, roast chicken, and baby supplies, and it would definitely not cost ten taels of silver, and Bailing must still have a surplus, but at this time, who would care about the ten taels of silver, plus the silver taels he gave them now, go out to beg on weekdays, and there are some other livelihoods, which is enough for them to use for a while.
Li Yi'an continued: "I have a suggestion for you, the county guard of Pingyang County is not bad, you can try to put the child at the gate of the official mansion." ”
This is the only way that Li Yi'an came up with from memory.
Bai Ling said: "Okay"
Li Yi'an gathered all the beggars present together, and then taught them a set of self-defense boxing. After preventing him from being bullied again in the future, he went to the front yard, took his little donkey, and left the yard.
Donkey: "Ou-ah, Ou-ah"
Li Yi'an touched the little donkey and said, "I'm sorry, brother donkey, I'm really anxious, I frightened you, it's my brother's fault, ha~ Let's go, let's stay in the hotel." ”
...
There is an inn inside
Li Yi'an called Xiao Er, paid dozens of dollars, had a full meal beautifully, and then asked for the cheapest room, and lost several radishes to his donkey brother, which was an apology.
One or two silver, if you really start using it, you can't buy anything, when Chen Yulan fell down due to illness, he was worried about these two silver, and now...
He used the rest of the money to let Xiao Er prepare some dry food.
"Next, I have to continue to eat dry food~ The money for going into the mountains to collect medicine for most of the year was spent in one day, if my father and mother knew, they wouldn't kill me... Sleeping"
With Li Yi'an's current realm, he has only just stepped into the road of cultivating immortals, after all, he is still a mortal, and after many days of hard work, he has fallen asleep in the end.
In the dream, he dreamed that he was begging in another county, and because he was too hungry, he robbed the buns from the bun shop on the street, and was chased and beaten. Fortunately, half of the bun had already entered his stomach......
...
Early the next morning, Li Yi'an packed his luggage and led his little donkey to the foot of Lequan Mountain.
He pursed his lips, got on the little donkey, and began to enter the mountain.
The reason why this mountain is called Lequan Mountain is because there is a spring in the deep mountain, and the sound of the water is pleasant, so the locals named him Lequan Mountain. He had drunk that spring water back then, and it almost made him collapse.
"I have a little donkey, and it's never in a hurry~~"
Li Yi'an hummed a song while using his perception to probe his surroundings, the locals of Lequan Mountain go up the mountain to chop wood and collect medicine all year round, and there are no vicious beasts or monsters, so Li Yi'an is not worried. He was interested in having a small tail behind him.
And the person who has been following him since he entered the mountain is the little beggar named Bailing who he met in the house yesterday.
"I have a little donkey, and he is never in a hurry, and one day I was so angry that I carried it to catch a thief......"
Donkey: "Ou-ah, Ou-ah"
Bai Ling: "..."