- Generally speaking, people who are slightly drunk should walk unhurriedly, because they come to the liquor store but do not drink heavily, and most of them are people who come for sake tasting and are in a good mood.

The strong man came after the evening, and the wine was drunk slowly, and no one else came to tell him what to do in the middle, and there was no money for the wine at the end, so why did he run as anxious as a rabbit after settling the wine money?

Boss Xiao was puzzled for a moment, and then he suddenly thought of a possibility in his heart, so he couldn't help but half-open the leather curtain and take a big step outside. But he quickly stepped back again, lowered the curtain, moved his lips silently, and finally sighed lowly.

In fact, the possibility that Boss Xiao thought of was extremely probable.

However, the actual situation needs to be slightly modified.

The strong man seemed to leave like a frightened rabbit, but in fact he walked out of the wine shop with the same mood as a cheetah, and the plain-clothed scribe who left one step ahead of him and the drunken Xiaochao were the frightened rabbits in his eyes. It's just a pity that based on his true identity, he is at most a fierce dog of the master's family, and although the two people in front of him are the prey that the master's family needs, they may not be frightened at this time.

According to Lin Shan's instructions, he left the old house in the morning, and Jiang Chao said goodbye to him halfway, and then he went to the old acquaintance's wine shop to learn to drink.

In the last years of the Zhou Dynasty, several years of war and chaos in the supply of materials that the death of the dynasty would inevitably bring. Separated relatives and broken families have multiplied across the country, and at the same time there are a huge number of orphans. Most of these children are left with mental defects due to the sudden disaster of their originally peaceful families, except for their own parents. It is difficult to be educated by others. The helpless children have limited ability to work, and most of them wander with other people who have fled from the army. In the ranks of refugees who lack supplies and care. Every day, children starve to death.

A child who has been honed by real life and can survive to the end. Mental power is growing rapidly, and some of them are even deformed beyond their age limit. They knew that Kyoto had always been a place where dignitaries and nobles lived. At that time, no matter how much the emperor cared about the stability of the people's livelihood, the place where he lived must be the last place to catch fire. Therefore, most of the surviving children of the displaced people choose to blend into Kyoto.

In this place, even if they live a begging life, they pick up the leftover food residues in the swill that large families have dumped in the garbage heap. It is also better to have a chance of survival than wandering in other places, which is that those children have lost their dreams and happiness in the cold reality, and finally there is only one hope left to live, and they have only found this way out.

Jiang Chao was one of many orphans who fled to Kyoto and blended into the city to beg.

This group of children is except for the part that has died for various reasons in the past ten years. In the rest of the part, some people became little beggars forever. This is mostly because the spiritual pillars in their hearts have collapsed, and they have nothing to do but passively rely on the charity of others to survive. Such people are pitiful and hateful, and it is difficult to integrate into the life of normal people.

And some people. It's like Jiang Chao. Earn a living by selling coolie labor. They either braved the danger of fierce beasts to cut wood deep in the mountains in exchange for living expenses, or went to the port near the sea in Kyoto to fight goods and earn some hard-earned money.

Because of the complexity of Kyoto's population, the imperial court issued a restrictive ordinance for homeless orphans. Although it has maintained the security of the capital to a great extent, it is inevitable that the interests of some people will be sacrificed. A person like Jiang Chao, who has no ancestral home to follow, even if he has a sound body and hope for the future, no matter how hard he tries, he can only live at the level of low-class coolies.

But among the top people in Kyoto, there is a semi-open secret. That is, among the dignitaries and nobles in Kyoto, there are many people who take in such homeless orphans and train them to become their own dead soldiers. What is even more surprising is the original origin of this claim. It turned out to be the garrison of the inner courtyard of the palace.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, if the original statement is true, maybe the purpose of a certain imperial family to take these children in. On a macro level it is good.

Many of these children are congenitally highly qualified, or manifested in wisdom. or manifested in the physique. If they are allowed to wander outside, they will continue to be one of those who die of sickness and starvation; Either it is to waste the talent in the strong labor of daily survival; There may be another outcome. It is to become a very difficult villain to deal with, endangering the lives of ordinary people.

The family is broken and difficult to repair, and what they need most physically is only three full meals a day, and the lack of spirit is the most complex and critical. This group of children's way of thinking is still in the growth stage of the war life is severely bruised, it is not easy to learn well, but if taught well, this group of people will become a group of huge new forces, because they have not yet lost their creativity they have tasted the taste of survival, more skilled than ordinary children to master the perseverance of the disposition, more able to keep the faith of survival again.

It was only rumored that among the children who were included in the royal compound, this idea was the original version, and the benevolent intentions were relatively intact; However, when some of the other nobles in Kyoto began to follow suit, the purpose of this practice became more and more local; In addition, when the nobles began to perform similar activities, the street children in Kyoto had already been selected by the royal family, and the remaining street children had some problems with their qualifications. In this way, between the dead soldiers and the masters of the house, who were trained by the homeless children, the slave master rule gradually emerged.

If his identity is exposed face-to-face, Jiang Chao will find that he and the strong man who has been following him not far behind him since he left the wine store are actually the same passerby, but the one who took him in a few years ago was the commander of the Kyoto garrison who represented the royal family, and the strong man was one of the last batch of homeless children who were selected and taken away by a certain high-ranking official.

However, even if he doesn't expose this identity, Jiang Chao also has an impression of this person. Because he felt that this person had always wanted to find out who he was, and this feeling lasted for more than a year.

Jiang Chao's identity in the eyes of ordinary people is that he is a woodcutter who supplies firewood for the Xiao family's wine shop; The strong man was a coolie who unloaded and carried bags for merchant ships in the port every day. Jiang Chao knew that the strong man was called 'Tie Da'. It's not because he still has a brother below him, the eldest in the rankings. It's because he's big. It is famous for its strength in carrying goods in the port, hence the name; The strong man who called the big iron man also knew Jiang Chao's name. Because the owner of the Xiao family's wine shop often yells at him.

But Jiang Chao and Tie Da are both suspicious of each other's identities. The reason is simple. Both of them knew that the other party was a practitioner, and Jiang Chao had been chopping firewood for so many years. has never been injured, Tie Da has been carrying bags in the port for more than a year, rain or shine, which shows that the kung fu of both of them is good. A person with such martial arts. But they do simple and repetitive labor every day, and the reason can only be because this kind of work is simple and unchecked, and it is convenient to hide their true identity.

Of course, most people who think this way are extremely observant and meticulous. Or someone who has been assigned by someone.

And speaking of this. Jiang Chao belongs to the former, and Tieda belongs to the latter.

Originally, Jiang Chao wanted to continue to maintain this unclear relationship, as long as Tie Da didn't mess with him, he didn't want to have more complications on the issue of identity. In the days of more than a year. Except for Tie Da, no one has ever doubted his identity, and before the task assigned by the Commander-in-Chief is issued, protecting his identity is his main task at present.

But now, the task has come down. He will change his way of doing things in order to accomplish his mission.

At the end of a street, Tieda stood behind the wall of a house on the corner. He waited quietly for a while before he walked out of the corner of the street.

There is another street ahead, but this street is more tortuous. It's hard to see the head at a glance. The Xiao family sake shop is a small business, and the location is not in the bustling area of Kyoto, on the street of this area. The patrol team did not walk too often, and the ever-bright lanterns lit at night were also blind in a few places due to negligence in care. By this time it was completely dark. The street lights are obscure, so that the images of people and objects are visually adhered to under the dilution of distance.

Tieda stood at the corner of the street. Stunned, he watched the two men turn into the street, calculating the speed and time of their walking to the range suitable for his tracking, and then continued to follow, but he did not expect that the two men would disappear out of thin air.

If it's not that their figure enters a visual blind spot in a crooked street, it's that they've discovered themselves. Quickly hiding in a gap between the walls of a house, Tie Da, who was listening quietly against the wall, felt a trace of uneasiness in his heart.

After standing quietly for a while, Tie Da finally heard the sound of slight footsteps coming from the street, but what made him even more alarmed was that the footsteps were actually coming in the opposite direction, and they were getting closer and closer to his hiding place.

Tie Da groaned for a moment, and at last he gritted his teeth, and suddenly pulled out of the gap between the walls of the two houses, and took a big stride, but he turned and walked towards the street from which he had come.

The stalking behavior has been exposed, and you can no longer let your face be seen by the other party.

It's just that he is the last child in the group of homeless children to be picked up, and on the basis of this, he is inferior to Jiang Chao, and the quality of the training he received from the mansion of the great official the day after tomorrow is far inferior to the power personally taught by the commander of the garrison who has the legendary color of the martial god. All this caused him to go in the wrong direction from the moment he left the liquor store, until he received the bitter fruit of a mistake in judgment.

On the street he walked on when he came, as soon as Tie Da turned around, he saw the river tide standing two or three feet away on the opposite side.

At the corner of the two streets, Jiang Chao had already crossed the wall and overtaken, but he didn't notice it at all, was it really because of drinking that his judgment was affected? But this person drank so much, but he was not affected at all and performed an extremely high level of vertical leaping kung fu, is he a monster?

Tie Da was stunned for a moment, and then he heard the increasingly clear footsteps behind his ears continue to approach, and his mood was a little complicated. Being outflanked by one's own target is not very pleasant.

But he only froze for one step, and then continued to move forward, indirectly towards the river tide.

And what he expected, when he was already very close to Jiang Chao's side, he heard Jiang Chao suddenly speak: "Brother Tie, why are you following me?" What do you want me to do? ”

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……

Mo Ye sent Gu Ya back to his home on the edge of Baihuai Road in the south of the city, and during the chatting on the way, Mo Ye was surprised to learn that Gu Ya's first work in engineering was the house where he lived.

However, his family seems to be a little poor in terms of location.

Driven by curiosity, Mo Ye unconsciously talked to Gu Ya about a few things about Baihuai Dao, although her words were very tactful, but they were still hidden in Gu Ya's words.

"The folk have a long history of saying that the locust tree attracts evil and causes trouble, but in my opinion, this is mostly misinformation caused by the accumulation of misunderstandings." Gu Ya smiled faintly between his eyebrows, and said in a very calm tone, "It is suitable for people's living environment, not too sunny, not too shady." To put it simply, it is not the fault of the locust tree, but the mistake of the person who planted the tree, the location of the locust tree and the house are not harmonious enough, so that the shade is too deep, blocking the sun, causing people to be depressed and sick for a long time. ”

"A similar argument has also been read by Xiaomei in the codex of the Kyoto feng shui master Mr. Wu Wen......" Mo Ye thought about opening her mouth, and suddenly paused in the middle of her words, and a trace of shame gradually appeared in her gaze as she looked at Gu Ya's side face, and regret sprouted in her heart.

When she spoke again, her tone was already less calm just now, and obviously more embarrassed: "Most of the rumors and legends are only useful for annoying people, I really shouldn't use the meaning of rumors to talk about Brother Gu's house, and ask Brother Gu to forgive Little Sister for her mistakes." ”

"That's a big deal." Gu Ya shook his head, "The topic of the old tree becoming a fine is all a topic of conversation after tea and dinner, everyone can say it, and I haven't talked about it less, what other sin can be taken from this." ”

After entering the city, he didn't have to walk long before Gu Ya's home arrived.

It was the first time Mo Ye had seen the house where Gu Ya lived, but he recognized it at a glance, all because of the appearance of the house, which was resting in a wooden-edged and gray-tiled house, which was a little conspicuous.

Hundreds of steps away, looking at the boxy house, which seemed to have no beams and tiles, Mo Ye was thinking in his heart, this is about Gu Ya's home, if he wants to evaluate himself later, how should he speak? At this time, seeing Gu Ya, who had been walking slowly beside him, suddenly took a few steps faster, copied to the front, and then stood still and turned around.

"Miss Mo, thank you for sending Gu a certain ride." Gu Ya shook his hand, "The humble house is shabby, so I won't invite the girl to drink tea, I'm really sorry." ”…… (To be continued......)