Chapter Twenty-Five: Hunger and Cold (Asking for Votes!)

Help me in the new week!

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The end of the year is approaching, and the north wind is howling.

The willow trees stained with frost and snow on both sides of the street are full of tree hanging, like silver bars hanging on the trees, Baoyu only feels that the eyes are full of dazzling, innumerable, and also knows that the four seasons change, and now this day, it is naturally cold.

The colder the better, and the thicker the snow, the better, and they all say that Ruixue is a good year, and he should rejoice. But the cold at this time is not the north wind, nor the cold winter, but the bitter cold that has been freezing through all of his bones from the deepest part of his heart.

His bones are frozen!

His mind was frozen!

His soul was frozen into a lump of desperate ice!

He saw that along the Six Horse Avenue as far as the eye could see, there were worn-out 'cloth bags' at intervals. More than half a person tall, three or four meters square, I thought it was a pile of garbage, but if I looked closely, it turned out to be ...... Person!

The men were gathered together, their legs clinging to each other, their arms intertwined. They don't dare to approach the shops on the street, they will be driven away, and they don't dare to block the road, so they can only scatter into one 'cloth bag' after another to keep each other warm, or...... Die together.

The 'cloth bag' was worn and covered with sludge, and through the rotten strips of cloth, the straw covered with burrs could be faintly seen. Baoyu looked to both sides, and found that the west city was much more dilapidated than the east city, and the buildings were a few stories lower, which could not stop the biting cold wind at all.

Respect the old and love the young, protect the weak, the Confucian world should be like this!

The city is full of victims and starvation, where are the literati and gentlemen?

Baoyu was shocked and shouted, "This ...... How could it be ?!!!?"

Li Gui bowed and said, "Second Master Bao, let's go." Saying that, he helped Baoyu, "Now the whole Xicheng is full of disaster victims, and if you see a lot, you will get used to it, and we can't manage so much." As I say, take a few quick steps and don't let them dirty your eyes. ”

Baoyu stubbornly did not move, gritted his teeth, and glared at Li Gui: "Let me ask you, what the hell is going on?"

Li Gui looked at Mingyan and saw that Mingyan looked indifferent, and all those who fiddled with their hair buns hung down, so he could only reply by himself: "It's a charm." ”

It turned out that eight hundred miles west of the central capital, a plague god appeared. The plague god is a kind of ghostly spirit, which is difficult to drive away, and even more difficult to kill. All cities and towns along the way, except for the big city where Shang Baoqing sits, only people can protect the three-mile radius.

How big is a three-mile radius? How many people can raise the level of humanities? The residents of those small and large villages and poor and weak towns can only drag their families and flee everywhere, causing such a miserable scene.

Li Gui shook his head and said: "It is said that when the country is governed by a good way today, there should be such a tragic situation, but it is hateful to find that the people of the plague god used their mantis arms as a car in order to increase their literary fame, so that the plague spread, and it is no longer difficult to sort out." ”

"What about the people who don't have disaster relief?"

"They can't take care of it. ”

Li Gui sighed and said, "The plague has spread for three thousand miles, and the granaries everywhere have been contaminated. If it is said that there are still rich merchants and landlords hoarding grain in the market, but they want to compete for profits and hide all the grain, if it were not for today's strict order to grain merchants to release grain at the original price, and those who have no grain will be cut, I am afraid that the price of grain will ......."

"Wait, you're talking about food?" Baoyu's eyes widened, he thought he was seeing the victims of the disaster unbearable cold, but he didn't expect that it was hunger and cold, and it was miserable!

Baoyu took a few deep breaths, finally calming herself down.

He staggered a few steps, turned his eyes into a street alley, and saw that there were more people inside. There are mostly old and weak women and children in the alleys, and it is right to think about it, the cramped alleys are much warmer than the six horse avenues.

A young boy who was embraced by the old lady, seeing that he had noticed it, opened his mouth, and uttered words that were almost silent, so Baoyu had a living position, and his ears and eyes were bright under the blessing of talent, and he could distinguish the movement of his stiff and purple lips.

He knew that the boy was saying, "I'm hungry." ”

Hungry, not cold. Baoyu could imagine the cold that the child was suffering now, but he couldn't imagine what it was like to feel hungry that was even more unbearable than the cold.

"In 2008, the snowstorm affected 19 provinces, in 2008, the Wenchuan earthquake killed 70,000 people in Huangquan; in 2009, typhoon 'Morakot' swept through, killing more than 100 people in Taiwan, hundreds of people are missing, and dozens of people were injured; In 2010, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, and Chongqing were hit by a once-in-a-century drought in southwest provinces and cities; in 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai; in 2010, 458,000 people were affected by heavy rains in Shandong; and in 2010, a large mudslide ...... in Gannan, Gansu Province"

Baoyu muttered in a low voice.

This is what he vaguely remembers is the disaster that the great nation of the 21st century has endured. He was lucky not to suffer from the disaster, but only donated half a year's salary. He had to be busy with his life, and he couldn't help himself, so he couldn't volunteer to go to the front line, but that kind of pain, that kind of miserable situation, he thought he felt the same way.

But now that he saw it and saw it, he suddenly found that his so-called empathy was simply ridiculous!

Baoyu gasped violently and sneered, "What about the saint?"

Li Gui replied: "Master, you forgot, the Confucian saint is the legendary majestic Tang Dynasty, and we don't have a saint in the Great Zhou. ”

Baoyu nodded, reached out to unbuckle the finch gold fur, and walked aside. Li Gui was startled, and hurriedly followed behind, even the little face with the cigarette changed color, and turned his head to lead the way in front.

They saw Baoyu walk into the alley, and in the face of the grandfather and grandson, the finch gold fur was about to take off.

Li Guitong fell to his knees with a puff, and howled bitterly: "Master, don't do this, don't do this." This is the finch gold fur given to you by the ancestors, if you take it off, none of the people in our house will live!"

Baoyu's palm stopped, and Mingyan looked at the child, then at himself, snorted, 'You're cheap', and took off his clothes. Li Gui was inspired, and hurriedly took off the outer brocade clothes, turned into a muscular black wolf, rolled on the ground, and put on the outermost brocade clothes.

On the ground lay a cotton coat and an inner lining, and a set of snow-white muslin lining. Mingyan didn't have such trouble, relying on his young age, he took off his essence, and only put on the outermost navy blue brocade clothes.

Baoyu looked at him with an indifferent look, and felt a little that even if this monkey grew up, he didn't care about showing his essence in front of people.

[It's shameless. Baoyu smiled and stretched out her hand to Mingyan.

He took out a handful of copper coins from his arms, pulled Li Gui's clothes, grabbed a hundred strings of two big coins strung together, pulled the rope, and waited for Baoyu in his arms.

Baoyu grabbed a handful, about thirty or fifty, and handed it to the child.

The childish boy was very sensible, kowtowed on the ground, and then reached out to pick it up, but he didn't grasp it steadily, and a big money rolled on the ground, and he hurriedly ran over to pick it up. He was in no hurry to get dressed, and cold was really nothing compared to the big money that could buy food.

People who don't try to be hungry will never understand the terrible taste of wanting to eat themselves all.

Baoyu chased after him and wrapped the clothes for the child, and Li Gui did the same and helped the old woman wrap in thick cotton clothes. Baoyu nodded approvingly and helped the little boy pick up the big money, but someone took the first step and took away the copper coin.

Baoyu looked up and saw a short old man, dressed in a bronze coin and double-cardigan coat, hunched over crutches. When he saw the old man stuffing the copper coin into his arms, he was not annoyed, but just took a step back and watched quietly.

This old man was silent, and when he didn't see it, he couldn't feel his existence, but when he saw it, his Wenshan kept vibrating, and his talent surged, and he spontaneously changed his righteous qi body.

He looked at it closely, but smiled.

Charm and miser.

[A little old man, wearing a copper coin double-placket coat outside the staff, hunchbacked crutches. If someone gives him money, he will take it, but if someone catches it and asks for money, it will explode into a cloud of smoke and make this person unlucky for three years. 】

[This miser has no other ability, unless he robs him of money, he will not harm anyone. 】

Baoyu's mind turned around the description of Scrooge in "The History of the Great Zhou", and asked Mingyan to make up a big sum for the child. It seems that Scrooge took the copper coin as a gift to him, and it is impossible to get it back.

The reason why it is called Scrooge is because it would rather die than hand over the money in his hands, and no one can kill it.

Of course, there are exceptions.

Scrooge is kind-hearted, and loves children the most, but if he meets a poor child, he will give him a silver bill, ranging from five taels, ten taels, or even fifty taels to one hundred taels. This kindness is very good, but it is a pity that it will cause disaster to the child, it just looks at it, shakes its head, and sighs, but it does not help.

Thinking of this, Baoyu froze for a moment and looked behind Scrooge.

Followed by a few people, flowing and angry, looking like a splash. Seeing that the men's eyes were shining, he hurriedly looked at Scrooge's thin palm, and sure enough, Scrooge took out a silver bill.

Not much, five or two.

A lot, it can kill people.

Scrooge looked at the child lovingly, and the silver was handed halfway, and was grabbed by the hand. It looked at Baoyu, its old eyes were full of hideousness, and the corners of its mouth were full of greenish-yellow smoke, and it was stained with bad luck for three years.

It is none of the business of the silver to the child, but it is taboo to snatch it from its hands. Scrooge thought that Baoyu was going to rob it of the silver, and the smoke of the dead man spread.

Li Gui was so shocked that he wanted to pull Baoyu, and the monkey was more direct, and he was about to start fighting with his claws.

Baoyu smiled at Scrooge, "Don't panic, I didn't want to rob you of your silver. ”

Scrooge was stunned for a moment, his mouth suddenly opened wide, like a toad, swallowing the diffuse green-yellow smoke into his stomach, and looked at Baoyu suspiciously.

Baoyu let go of his wrist and protected the child behind him, and then asked with a smile, "I don't know if you have heard a word?"

"What words?" Scrooge's voice was a little shrill and harsh.

"If you have a heart for good, you will not be rewarded for good, and if you have no heart for evil, you will not be punished for evil." ”

At the first word, Baoyu felt wrong, but he couldn't stop. I saw a nameless cold wind rolling up on the flat ground, which simply blew the walls apart. Fortunately, he is the one who speaks, and this surging and explosive atmosphere has no effect on him.

He protected the child, Li Gui and Mingyan wanted to step forward, but he made a look and hurriedly protected the old woman.

Those ruffians were not so lucky, they were blown up and howled wolves, rolled out of the alley and fell and broke their heads.