003 Grab porridge
There was a crisp birdsong in my ears, like a warm atmosphere of spring flowers. It's just that the chill on her body and the pain in her legs are warning her: this late autumn morning, in the frost, at the end of the wind, the ground is full of blood red.
Red, not maple leaves, it's her legs. Isn't that how it came about?
laughed self-deprecatingly, when is it, still here for literature and art. You are an ugly, not Ji Chujin, you have moved away from the prosperity and order of modern times, and you are now a beggar.
Beggar. After reading these two words gently, Ah Chou opened his heavy eyes and looked around. As soon as the morning dawned, Grandma Xu was nowhere to be seen, probably worried about the so-called filial piety money. As for himself, he was lying by the door of the Guandi Temple.
Moved slightly, well, it's okay, it didn't hurt the bones. I checked my pulse, the fever has subsided, there will be no big danger, it is best to take a few more medicines, but now I don't have to eat, where is the medicine?
Originally, Ji Chujin came from a medical family, she also studied Chinese medicine with her grandfather since she was a child, and her father founded Ji's Pharmaceutical when she was young, and later gradually became a leader in the pharmaceutical industry. At the time of her family's accident, she had just finished her master's degree in pharmacy and was ready to take over the side branch business of Ji's Pharmaceutical.
However, these are all in the past. Now what she has to worry about is today's filial piety money and subsistence problems.
As for Qin Ye and this dilapidated Guandi Temple, as well as the era she is in, she needs to understand it as soon as possible. Because, her core idea now is - escape.
Since this beggar gang is so dark, why didn't she run away?
Just thinking about it, there are a lot of people in this Guandi Temple, how can no one think of running away? That is to say, there is a lot of resistance to escaping, so where will the resistance be?
While thinking, three companions walked in at the door.
"Yo, I saw Ugly faint yesterday, and I was going to die, why did I wake up so quickly today. Tsk, I want to vomit when I see this face. β
"You still want to vomit, I haven't eaten since last night until today, and I use it as filial piety money. You said that her filial piety money can be paid three times today? Oh, I don't believe it! β
"I don't believe it either, only the two ghosts can deceive people, live a nourishing life every day, and are favored by Qin Ye. If I had a brilliant head like hisβ"
"Come on, look at your beauty! It would be nice if you could hand over the filial piety money today! β
When Ah Chou heard their conversation, he couldn't help frowning: In this way, this filial piety money is not a small amount! That two ghosts rely on deceiving people? This is a beggar gang, it is clearly a fraud organization! No, it's a pyramid scheme!
Thinking of this, Ah Chou became more and more irritable: If you want to escape from the pyramid scheme gang, it's difficult!
"Ugly, how are you?" Grandma Xu walked in from outside the door tremblingly, her somewhat cloudy eyes overflowing with concern.
Ugly looked up and smiled: "I'm fine." β
"Come, drink this half bowl of porridge first!" Grandma Xu said with a broken bowl.
Ah Chou looked down, the cold porridge was condensed, and there was only half a bowl. The weather was cold, but it still smelled faintly rancid.
She sighed: "Grandma Xu, I'm not hungry, I don't have an appetite. She has gone from being depressed to this situation, but she still can't adapt to this kind of life. It seems that we must escape as soon as possible.
"Hey, I don't have an appetite for it, are still so hypocritical!" The beggar who walked in the door just now and said that he hadn't eaten since last night said, his eyes full of greed.
Ah Chou turned his head and asked Grandma Xu, "Grandma Xu, have you eaten it?" β
Grandma Xu held the bowl: "You eat first." β
As soon as the words fell, a pair of black and dry hands snatched the broken bowl and held the half bowl of porridge and nibbled violently.
"You!" Ah Chou was angry, and when he was excited, he stood up and rushed to him, wanting to say something but seeing that he had finished gnawing, he could only stare dryly and helplessly.
"Ugly, watch your legs!" Grandma Xu hurriedly supported the ugly who was a little unsteady on her feet.
Only then did Ugly realize that he had actually stood up! Originally, looking at the situation yesterday, my injuries should be very serious, and I couldn't stand up for at least ten days and half a month, but now it's only the second day, and I actually stood up?
After being stunned for a moment, she pointed to the beggar's face, and her eyes were fierce: "You, pay for porridge!" β
"Ha, it's funny that you want me to lose money? You also ask for it from others, is the porridge your own? What a joke! In my hands, it's mine! Tsk, I really haven't had a few days of hard life, and I thought I was everyone's miss! The beggar mocked.
Ah Chou gritted his teeth faintly: What he said is not unreasonable. When you are a beggar, whoever grabs it is whoever you wants, and it doesn't matter where it comes from?
However, looking at Grandma Xu's reaction just now, it was clear that she hadn't eaten it herself......
Ah Chou was very sad in his heart, staring at the broken empty bowl, and became more and more determined to escape.
"Grandma Xu, help me go outside." She sighed and stepped against the mottled doorframe.
After the rain, the sky is clear, and the air is filled with the chill of the tide.
After being reborn, he stepped out of the courtyard of this Guandi Temple for the first time. The dark fragrance of osmanthus flowers wafting from the corner of the street, but unfortunately Ah Chou had no intention of stopping-
Whether or not you can survive the filial piety money at dusk today is unknown, who still has the heart to appreciate the flowers.
"Grandma Xu, I have some questions, please answer them truthfully." Ugly sighed and leaned against the wet wall on the side of the street to speak.
Grandma Xu nodded tremblingly: "Alas, what's the problem?" β
"Filial piety money, how much a day?"
"A copper plate."
Ah Chou looked at the sky, it was so humid here, it seemed to be the south: "A pound of rice, how much is it?" β
Grandma Xu lowered her eyelids and recalled for a while, her eyelids were slackening, and under the sun, wrinkles appeared on her dry face: "A copper plate." β
One pound of rice a day, if you have this pound of rice, you can barely get by. This is really an out-and-out MLM organization, where is it like a beggar's gang?
"Why don't you run away?" Ugly asked lightly.
Grandma Xu hurriedly covered Ugly's mouth, looked around at no one, and then said in fear: "This is a crime!" β
Sighing, Grandma Xu lowered her voice: "Run, where can you escape?" We don't have an account, the military master doesn't give the city miles, in Jianye City, we haven't been caught by Qin Ye yet, and we will be beaten up at that time. There are no homeless people with a head of household, and the official doesn't care, and no one collects the corpse when he is killed. β
Ah Chou frowned slightly, Grandma Xu's words, translated into modern Chinese, probably mean the following: These beggars are all homeless black households, without passports, and they are not allowed to pass the customs; Without a passport, not a citizen, not protected by law.
"So, how do you have an account?" Ugly's eyes narrowed.
"The head of the village can buy one acre of land, and if there is a house in the city. But where do we get all this money? Grandma Xu's tone was very bitter.