Dongfang Qiu didn't want to pay attention to that person, but he really saw that person was pitiful, so he casually flipped the bone towards that person. The sloppy ghost who looked like a beggar was startled at first, and quickly dodged, and when he realized that it was the mutton bone he was expecting, he whined happily and fell on the ground to pick up the bones without hesitation.

Dongfang Qiu saw the appearance of this human wolf, and couldn't help but scold mockingly, "Dog thing." ”

When Dongfang Qiu's subordinates heard this, they all laughed.

The beggar who picked up the bones was stunned for a moment, lowered his head, and looked at the pile of bones held in his dirty hands, and tears dripped down the bones.

Dongfang Qiu couldn't help but be puzzled, and looked at that person's face carefully.

The man's afterglow caught a glimpse of Dongfang Qiu looking at him, threw down his bones and fled.

The group of subordinates laughed even more arrogantly, "Hahaha, just now you looked at those bones like a vicious dog, and threw those bones away in the blink of an eye?" What a dog thing who doesn't know what to do. ”

However, Dongfang Qiu walked out of the inn while these people were laughing, and his subordinates were still laughing, and they inadvertently found that their sect leader Dongfang Qiu was gone. Looking around, I didn't see the shadow of Dongfang Qiu.

Everyone stopped laughing and ran to the window to look, but still saw nothing.

Next to the abandoned well, the man who had been picking up bones in the inn was sitting, holding a dead branch in his hand and drawing circles on the ground with the dead branch. The ancients said that this is called painting cakes to satisfy hunger, but no matter how this person paints, he feels that he is painting just a face, and the facial features of that face are distinct in this person's mind, the face of the person who laughed at him in the inn, the face of Concubine Bo when he persuaded him, or the face of the Maitreya sect leader Dongfang Qiu, and the serious appearance of the young emperor when he talked to him and entrusted him with important tasks...... Eventually, all faces were gone, leaving only the faces of those who were laughing at him in the inn.

The man simply threw away the dead branch and stopped struggling uselessly.

There was the sound of a blacksmith striking iron, and it was very rhythmic.

When the blacksmith saw that the man was looking closely at the work in his hands, he quipped, "What? You don't want to beg for food, and you want to come to strike iron? ”

The rough voice, as soon as you hear it, you know that it is an authentic steppe person.

Because this area is located on the border, there are people from Daqi and people from the grassland. No matter who they are, they are here for a bite to eat, just like this blacksmith.

The man standing by the dry well smiled dryly at the blacksmith twice, and then watched the blacksmith's movements earnestly. A question kept on my mind: this blacksmith's arms are so strong, he must be full, right? What did he eat? Lamb bones? No, it has to be those fragrant lamb elbows?

The man bowed his head in frustration at the thought of this, for the faces of those who mocked him came to his mind again.

The blacksmith wondered, "What's wrong with you?" ”

The man did not speak.

The blacksmith asked again, "Are you hungry?" It looks like I haven't eaten for several meals. Come, I don't have anything good to entertain in my blacksmith shop, and I still have a small half bowl of leftovers from my lunch. If you don't dislike it, let me bring it to you. ”

The man stared at the blacksmith and did not speak, his eyes full of anticipation.

Although the blacksmith was wooden, he also understood the man's meaning. Quickly put down what he was doing and walked into the back room. In a few moments, the blacksmith came out with a large bowl.

The man's eyes immediately became greedy when he looked at the big bowl, the sea bowl was covered with a thick layer of green vegetables, green, there were a few leaves that were yellow because of too long, and there were some black and swarthy things under the green vegetables, and when he took a closer look, he realized that it was an eggplant, although it was burned a little mushy, but in his eyes, this was simply a delicacy in the world, and he couldn't wait to snatch it over and eat the contents of the bowl immediately.

Under the eggplant is rice, which is yellowish, and at first glance it is made of aged rice.

However, in his opinion, all of these qiē are the most delicious things.

The blacksmith handed him the bowl, and he respectfully accepted it, nodding gratefully to the blacksmith.

The blacksmith smiled, "It's all called Hanako, what are you doing so fast?" I'm just an ironworker, not an official. After saying it with a smile, he continued to strike iron.

His hand holding the sea bowl was a little nervous, for fear that he would knock over the bowl without paying attention and lose all the food in his mouth.

The blacksmith was watching, and he felt awkward, so he turned around and began to eat hard. The food in his mouth, the feeling of not eating for a few days, and suddenly his mouth full of food made him feel steady, as if everything else was not important at this moment, fame and fortune were not important, winning or losing was not important, what was important was just the food in his mouth.

After three times and two clicks, he ate most of the rice in the bowl, but he didn't dare to eat the last half bowl.

After hesitating for a long time, he turned around and looked at the blacksmith for most of the day before grinning, "I...... Can I take the rest ...... Take it away? ”

"It's okay, it's okay, you take it, but the big bowl has to be kept, I'm in this house, it's just this complete bowl, if you take it, I'll have to grab it with my hands next time I eat."

He only felt warm in his heart about the blacksmith's kind jokes, but instead of laughing, his heart was sour, but he had the urge to cry.

The blacksmith found him a small half of a plantain leaf, wrapped the rest of the meal in the plantain leaf and handed it to him.

The man bowed gratefully to the blacksmith, who had never seen anything like this before, but only smiled silly. The man turned around and took two steps before he reacted and shouted, "Hey, I still have some things here, you can take them." ”

After that, he quickly ran into the house, and when he came out, he had a few more white, yellow, and white cakes in his hands.

He insisted on not accepting it, but the blacksmith was also stubborn, so he insisted on stuffing the cake into his hand, and said with a smile: "Don't look down on it, although this white flour cake doesn't look big, but it is eaten with cold water and full." ”

He was stunned for a while, and finally his lips trembled and he spoke, "You...... Why give me so much? ”

Over the past few days, he has seen too much, there are abuses, punches and kicks, and snatching between beggars, it is the first time that he has been so heartwarming.

The blacksmith said, "Hey, see where you have gone?" What's so much about this little thing? If it weren't for an uncle on the side of the road who handed me half a bowl of rice that he had leftover, I would have starved to death. Although my life is not easy now, I still have a life. You too, don't break the jar and break it, you will be fine. ”

The man nodded at the blacksmith, and when he was full, he had the strength to eat, and his curiosity rose, "How did you fall into trouble back then?" ”

The blacksmith had given him so much that he couldn't help but want to care about the blacksmith's affairs.

The blacksmith scratched the back of his head with his dirty right hand, and said with an indifferent expression: "Hey, it's actually nothing, but I committed something and was locked up by the people of the court." The laws of Daqi are not as easy as those of this grassland. However, this border is good, although it is a little chaotic, but after all, there is no need to be afraid of offending the people of the court. ”

Daqi? Court?

"Who saw what you did? I'm going to lock you up? As soon as the man heard Daqi, he became even more curious.

At the mention of this, the blacksmith's eyes were filled with mist, and he still shook his head, "It's been a long time, don't mention it, who told us not to take a detour?" Do you have to meet a dignified adult? My horse was so frightened that it almost hit Somasa-sama's carriage. ”

……

The man felt a thunderbolt strike over his head.

When the blacksmith saw the man's eyes dodging, he wondered, "What's the matter?" ”

"Oh, nothing, I was just thinking about something all of a sudden, thank you."

With that, he ran away as if he were leaving.

The blacksmith looked at his fleeing back and couldn't help but laugh and scold, "A broken beggar can still have important things." ”

Bang-bang-bang

The sound of striking iron followed one after another.

Dongfang Qiu had been following the man, and the man didn't expect that he would be followed by someone on the border between the grassland and Daqi, so he just ran and didn't think about anything else at all. It's just that the blacksmith's words kept echoing in his mind, over and over again, so that he couldn't hide.

The man came to a broken shed, Dongfang Qiu Fei was on the beams of the shed, the beams of the shed were extremely fragile, and Dongfang Qiu could only use internal force to control his body so that he could not step on those beams.

As soon as the man entered, an old man and a child lying in the broken shed became frightened and shrank into the corner.

The man hesitated, choked up, and said, "Don't worry, I'm not here to rob you of your things, I have something to eat here, you can take it." ”

So saying, he walked over to the child. The boy was only five or six years old, dirty, his face was covered with dirt, and he couldn't see his facial features clearly, only the black eyes were still rolling.

The boy was so frightened that he was about to cry, but the man hesitated, stopped, put the banana leaves wrapped in the meal on the ground, and put the white flour cakes that had been pinched by his black hand and a few fingerprints on the food, and turned and walked out.

The boy and the old man were so hungry that they immediately became hungry when they smelled the food. The child hurriedly ran over and carefully picked up the banana leaf, as if he was holding a Buddha instead of a meal.

The child's nose was about to touch the food, and he inhaled the aroma of the food vigorously, but he did not eat it immediately, but handed the banana leaf to the old man's side, "Grandpa, give it." ”

"Kid, what if it's poisonous?" The old man is not afraid of death, but his grandson is still young.

The child's nose twitched, "What is there to be afraid of, grandpa, even if you die, your grandson also wants to be a full ghost." Eat quickly, the food is not swishing, and it must taste good. ”

"You eat too."

……

Hearing the conversation in the broken shed, the man standing at the door burst into tears.

Dongfang Qiu, who was standing on the broken shed, was even more incomprehensible.

Dongfang Qiu chased the man all the way to a small river, "Master Zongzheng, don't come unharmed." ”

Dongfang Qiu was the first to greet the person sitting on the stone by the river in a daze.

The man turned back, his washed face full of doubts, who is this man?

Seeing that Lord Zongzheng was puzzled, Dongfang Qiu immediately ripped off the bare beard on his face, "Lord Zongzheng is really a noble person who forgets things, even I don't remember." ”R638