Chapter 2 Five Meanings
This teenager is me.
My name is Wang Mingzi, Your Highness.
It's my name after I was 10 years old.
Before I was ten years old, I didn't have a name, and everyone called me a stinky boy, a little bastard, or something.
I'm an orphan, I can't remember when I became an orphan, anyway, I don't have a father or mother for as long as I can remember, and even my age is set for myself after comparing myself with other children who have fathers and mothers. I have been begging for a living since I can remember, but fortunately, in those years, Long Live Lord ruled the country well, and was in the capital, the richest place in the world, and every family had surplus food, so it was very easy to beg for food, so I didn't feed myself.
When I was ten years old, I was begging for food on the street, and I happened to meet His Royal Highness the prince on a tour, and I couldn't tell me what was going on and how excited I was, but I just looked at him and said to myself, "One day I'm going to be a prince, and I'm going to have a lot of good food, and I'm going to have a lot of money, and I'm going to have a lot of people to serve me." So for the first time in my life, I have a name - the surname is the king's name, the word Your Highness, no matter what you call it, it is a very domineering name, the king, the son, His Royal Highness is still called His Royal Highness the Prince, how about it, isn't it very good, it's just that I took this name just to draw bread to satisfy hunger, and my prince will not have the worship and worship of his subjects. Of course, this is my own name, and I don't know that I am arrogating this name, and I am going to be imprisoned or even killed. At that time, I didn't even know what trespassing was, and I didn't know what to call a name. Because I was illiterate at that time, the reason why I knew to take this name was entirely because of the shock that His Royal Highness really had on me.
At the age of twelve, His Royal Highness the Prince became His Majesty the Emperor, and I was a little beggar. However, this emperor is not as good as his old son, and this new emperor is incompetent, pampered and traitorous, greedy and lustful - these are the consensus of all the people, but they dare not say it, and I dare not, but I just say it in my heart.
The emperor has no way, and the people in the prosperous land of the capital are also miserable - who has surplus food to give to us beggars!
So I tangled up a group of little brothers who played from childhood to adulthood (everyone is an orphan, and they are all children who grew up by the occasional kindness of the people in the capital) to form an organization in the form of a beggar gang, and we also want to give our organization a resounding name, but unfortunately we are all illiterate, and secondly, our stomachs are not full, who still has the heart to think of any loud name? So everyone unanimously agreed that our organization is also called the Beggar Gang, and our organization is only five people, me, Monkey, Bald, Buffalo and Yu'er. The five people seem to be about the same age, everyone is an orphan and naturally they don't know their birthdays, although we want to learn from Liu Guan and Zhang Taoyuan, but unfortunately we can't get out who is older and who is smaller, so we are all exempt from this set. Yu'er is the only girl among the five of us, so she calls the four of us brothers, and the four of us are big brothers, no matter how big or small.
Later, our little beggar gang (later I learned that the beggar gang is very famous, there are hundreds of thousands of brothers in the beggars, although we don't know how many hundreds of thousands, but we understand that it is a group of people we absolutely can't afford to provoke, in order not to be knocked on, we consciously changed the name to the little beggar gang) in the capital Yangliuer Hutong is also famous, because we are not just beggars, we can also be thieves, short-term workers, liars...... Whatever we do, it's just to survive.
The year before last, when I was 14 years old, one day I went out on the street alone looking for work. Seeing a very rich uncle, five big and three coarse, I don't know what kind of madness happened, this kind of person usually we don't dare to start, but as soon as I saw the silver in his pocket, I didn't hold back, and the result was obvious, I was caught. He didn't embarrass me when he saw that I was thin and didn't stretch my muscles, but invited me to eat, but then he didn't know why, but he looked at me very pleasing to the eye, and took me home. Later, I moved into his house.
He has a very beautiful and gentle wife and a very lovely and at the same time very scary daughter. He also has a very large group of men and a very good group of men.
He is the chief dart head of the most famous Kyushu dart bureau in the capital - Luo Jianqing.
By the way, the demon I just kissed is the pearl of Mr. Luo's dart head, my nightmare Luo Rou!
Because there are only two of us in the dart game, I have been very close to her for two years, of course, this is only when she is in a good mood, if she is in a bad mood, she will immediately turn into a demon and I will go to hell.
I just sent money today, of course it's nothing to invite her to eat, I asked myself if I'm not a stingy person, the reason why I first didn't admit it and then ran away was entirely because I had something to do, and I had to meet a few people.
You must have guessed it, yes, the people I'm going to meet are monkeys.
Liu'er Hutong has become more desolate in the past two years, and the monkeys' situation has become more difficult, but fortunately, everyone has become half a child, and their ability and wisdom have begun to mature, so they can barely get by.
They now live in an abandoned house that collapsed from heavy rains on a hot day this year. In that disaster, all four members of the family were crushed to death by the collapsed house. Three of the original five rooms of the house collapsed, and the remaining two were even more deserted. When the monkeys saw that no one lived, they honestly and unceremoniously moved in.
"Brother Prince, you're here!" Before he entered the house, he heard a sweet cry with joy.
Then a piece of nephrite poured into my arms.
"Brother Prince hasn't come to see Xue'er for a long time!" The girl hugged me and said coquettishly.
Yes, she's our mutual sister: Cher. She didn't know Cher's original name, and when we met, she seemed to be only four or five years old. Cher's skin is very white, white like snowflakes fluttering in the air in winter, white and holy, so we all call her Cher.
Yu'er, who is dressed in old clothes and has a vegetable-colored face, looks astringent, but she still can't hide her beautiful face. Especially her delicate eyes, which always make me willing to do anything for her.
"I went to Yilie Shandong, didn't I just come back to see my sister Xue'er!" I stroked Cher's hair and said. I did go to a lying Shandong, although Mr. Luo took me in, but I can't eat in vain, so when I want to go to the dart, I often follow to carry the flag and shout the mountain to do what I can. This time I went to Shandong to escort a Beijing official who was transferred abroad to take up his post, and he walked for half a month before coming back.
"Oh, I thought Brother Prince didn't want Sister Xue'er anymore!"
"Nonsense, how could Brother Prince not want Sister Xue'er! Sister Cher is so beautiful and cute, and obedient. I took the basket from Sister Cher's hand: "Let's go, let's go into the house and talk!" ”
There are only two cabbages and a few sweet potatoes in the vegetable supervisor. These are almost their staple foods, and Yu'er always goes to buy vegetables in the afternoon when it is almost dark, because this is when the food is cheapest.
The kitchen is still the original kitchen of this house, although it collapsed, but the stove was not broken, after the monkeys they turned over and cleaned up, and built a roof with thatch, the kitchen is considered to be there. The tables and chairs were all cleaned out of the ruins, and they were also considered waste, although everything had obvious traces of repair, but they were all spotlessly cleaned up by Yu'er.
Put down the vegetable basket and take out his own silver, a total of one or two or seven cents. Leave two pieces of silver for herself, take Cher's hand and put the remaining pieces of silver in her hand.
"Prince, brother......" Xue'er couldn't hold back her tears and flowed.
Seeing this, I felt sorry for myself, and hurriedly pulled my daughter into my arms and said, "Okay, Xue'er won't cry!" It's my brother who has no ability to make Xue'er suffer! ”
"No!" Xue'er looked up at me firmly: "Brother Prince is the most powerful person in the world......"
"He's the best, what about us?" Cher's words were unceremoniously interrupted.
Hearing someone speak, Yu'er hurriedly broke free from my embrace.
Cher and I were in front of three laughing stinky boys at the same time - Monkey, Bald, and Buffalo, my best buddies.
It was a buffalo who spoke just now, with a stout figure, not at all like fifteen or sixteen years old, it was strange that everyone ate the same since childhood, how did he look so strange, we even suspected that this kid was hiding with us, otherwise how could he look like a pig, we were all skinny, brute force and loud voice are his characteristics. The monkey is very well-proportioned, with a pair of eyes that do not turn his eyes, and he is a calculating person, and the monkey has always been the most shrewd of us, and we have to bow down to stealing things and deceiving things, he is our absolute military advisor. The bald man is bareheaded, just like the monks who rob us of our jobs, so he often pretends to be a monk and abducts and cheats, and the people in Liu'er Hutong are very disgusted with monks, so that later the monks did not come to Liu'er Hutong to grab jobs with us, because the monk and his reputation in Liu'er Hutong were ruined by the bald man, at this time, he was holding a half-sized duck in his hand who did not know from that house, and the duck's beak was covered by him, and I doubt that it was covered by him.
"Brother Monkey, Brother Bald and Brother Buffalo are also the most powerful people in the world, just as powerful as Brother Prince!" Cher said sweetly.
The three masters were happy when they heard this.
I stepped forward and handed the duck that I had snatched from the bald man's hand to Yu'er, and then the four of them hugged each other tightly.
"Stinky boy, where did you die for so long?" The buffalo shouted.
"There's work in the dart game, and I'm leaving before I can tell you! Didn't you just come back! ”
The bald man said: "How about it, I haven't encountered anything, is there anything missing?" With that, his eyes swept up and down my body.
"you, I'm still in the mood to see you when there's something missing!" I slapped the bald man hard.
The monkey didn't say anything, but gently patted me on the shoulder.
"Okay, we don't have any meat, what's the matter with a few old men hugging each other!" The buffalo shouted.
We let go of each other, looked at each other, and suddenly laughed together, laughing from the heart, this kind of laughter only occurs when we are with our own brothers, and only our brothers who share life and death will understand this kind of laughter.
After laughing, the monkey said: "It's not early, Xue'er is cooking, I'll go buy some wine, our brothers haven't seen each other for a long time, we have to drink it well!" ”
Xue'er pulled the monkey and said, "Brother Monkey, you and Brother Prince will talk for a while, I'll go buy wine, it's still early, come back and cook!" ”
"Okay, come, give you money." The monkey also wanted to talk to me for a while, so he agreed to Xue'er's suggestion and took out a dozen yuan from his arms.
Cher obediently took the money and went out.
The buffalo brought a few bowls of water, and we sat down at the small table and blew the water from all over the world, of course, more about what I had seen and heard along the way.
Suddenly, there was the sound of hurried footsteps outside.
"Don't follow me anymore, I'm home, if you move your hands and feet again, my brother will be unkind to you!"
Cher's voice came from the street.
Someone was bullying our sister Cher, and it was okay, and we rushed out almost at the same time.
"Don't! Let go of me, Brother Prince, come and save me......"
On the street, Yu'er was being grabbed by a little old man in his forties, and his mouth was about to rub his mouth against Yu'er's face.
Cher screamed my name as she struggled.
"Fuck, you're looking for death!" The buffalo shouted, and was the first to rush up and hit the old man in the head with a punch, directly knocking him out.
The monkey and the bald man do not show weakness, and twisting the old man's hands and feet is an old fist.
I hugged the frightened sister Xue'er in my arms and kept comforting: "It's okay, the prince's brother is here!" It's okay! ”
Cher suddenly cried out loud with a "wow".
Looking at Yu'er's sad and sad appearance, my heart was like a knife, and I stroked her back and said gently: "It's okay, it's okay, Brother Prince is here, see Brother Prince avenge you!" ”
After speaking, I stepped forward with Xue'er in my arms, and shouted: "Dead old man, tell you to bully my sister, old pervert, I'll let you bully!" The foot stomped the stomach of the old man, who had already been knocked to the ground.
The old man spit out with a "porphyry", and the trouser legs were all on for me, and the smell of wine spread in the air.
"Dare to spit on me!" was disgusted in his heart, and he stepped on the old man a few times.
The old man probably drank too much wine, and since the buffalo punched him, he has been humming all the time, and he can't shake out a complete sentence.
"Okay, Brother Prince, don't fight!" Seeing that we still didn't stop, Xue'er was afraid that we would be in trouble if we beat him to death, so she hurriedly persuaded us.
"It's cheap for you, Sister Xue'er has asked you for it, otherwise I won't be able to kill you!" After that, I was still angry, and I lifted my foot into his crotch and kicked him hard.
"Ahh The old man shouted, the loudest he had ever screamed.
"Phew! Deserve! The buffalo spat in his face, and kicked the old man in the crotch of his pants as I did.