The night was dark, and Zhu Chongba, who had been busy all day, could finally rest.

The New Year is approaching, there are more and more people in the temple to offer incense, and the incense is prosperous and the incense oil is more, and the monks in the temple have to cheer up and take care of the benefactors who give alms to the incense.

However, it is not his turn to know the guest, collect money, and chant scriptures. He could only take a few small novices to do chores, sweeping snow and floors, wiping Buddha statues and door frames. The work is not too tiring, but it is very tedious. Especially now that it is the wax moon, my hands are red, swollen and painful from blisters at the end of the day.

There were two pieces of bread on the table, a bowl of shredded radish soup with clear soup and little water, which was already cold. He didn't rush to eat, but brightened the candle flame and shrouded his damp hands over it.

No matter how small the fire is, it is still fire, and it is also bright and hot. The faint heat spread from the candle flame to the hands, and the slowly damp hands were no longer so uncomfortable. Then, holding a piece of cake in his mouth, he took out a newly received letter from his bosom.

"Obediently, this word seems to be crawled by an old cockroach, and it is ugly!"

The words on the letter are staggered and unorganized, and the language is even more coarse and straightforward.

"Brother Chong, I haven't looked at you for more than half a year, how are you? How are the brothers in the village? Did I receive the money that I asked the people to go back a little bit? If you keep it, buy more good food and drink, and it's almost the New Year, so you can't treat yourself badly.

I am also a rich man now, a few days ago I shot an arrow to kill a hundred households in the imperial court, and the chief manager rewarded me with a hundred taels of silver, white flowers. Obediently, our ancestors have never seen so much silver in their eight generations. How much land do you have to buy, how many livestock do you have to buy, how many wives do you have to marry?

When I got the money, I thought, how nice it would be if you were here. You have a good brain, you have read books, you are generous, and you are righteous. There is a shortage of people like you in the army, and I can be a mixed officer like a bear, why aren't you better than me!

You are too condescending to be a monk, what can you do by chanting scriptures every day? I know you don't want to come because you think it's a headless job. But brother, haven't you understood the way of the world in this dog's day, the officials have forced the people to rebel. After we conquered Dingyuan City, the grain in the granary of the government was piled up.

Xiucai, who accompanied the army, calculated and said that this grain was enough for 20,000 or 30,000 people, and there was more than enough to eat for a year. If the government uses this grain for disaster relief, how many people can it save? Your uncle and my aunt, even if there is a bowl of millet can starve to death?

The government doesn't treat us as people, we are all dignified men, it is better to fight for a ball than to starve to death, and maybe we can also get rich. Just like you told me before, wealth is in danger. Not only is our Huaixi man desperate, but the world is in chaos.

Marshal Liu Futong recruited 100,000 troops in Yingzhou, and 50,000 or 60,000 people in Xuzhou. There are too many poor people in the world who have no food to eat, and there are people when there is food. No matter how many officers and soldiers there are, there are no more than us poor.

If I leak one more piece of news to you, we'll have to fight again. The governor told the adults that this time we had to fight a big city. After the fight, a team of thousands of people can roll into tens of thousands of people at once.

Brother Chong, come and do it with me. Brothers in war, we are closer than brothers! If you come here, I will go to the chief steward and give you this official. ”

The letter was read.

Drop-off, soup and.

Zhu Chongba smiled and put the letter away. Take a sip of the cold radish soup, and silently think in your heart, which city is the big city?

Then he took out a simple drawing, and during the years he traveled, he would draw it everywhere he went.

first found the location of Dingyuan City, and along the official road of Dingyuan, Zhu Chongba's fingers stopped in Haozhou.

Haozhou, an important town in Huaixi. It has a population of 600,000 and countless gold, silver, grain and grass. You can wave your division to the north, but if you can't beat the official army, you can go south.

Haozhou! Haozhou!

Zhu Chongba muttered twice, and a figure suddenly appeared in his mind.

Little Five! Little Five is in Haozhou!

………

It's still that beggar's nest.

The remaining dozen or so little beggars were obviously a little nervous and a little wary when they saw Zhu Wu and the Guo family brothers. A dozen or so people gathered together, revealing the beggar who was the first to turn against the water yesterday.

It seems that this beggar gang has a new leader.

"I'm not here to fight, I'm here to make friends!" Zhu Wu sat on the ground with the Guo family brothers and the errand of the Malaysian Golden Knife, looked at the leader and said, "Yesterday, I haven't thanked you yet!" ”

"Thank you for what you are doing, if you want to thank you, I will thank you. If you don't kill the dog surnamed Huang, we will still have to be bullied by him. The beggar leader also sat down, "My second tiger, what is your name?" ”

"Zhu Wu!" Zhu Wu smiled, "These two are my brothers, Guo Xing, Guo Ying!" ”

"I know them, and they used to ask for food just like us!" As he spoke, he glanced at the Guo family brothers, "Now this is climbing a high branch?" You don't have to ask for food, and you dress so decently! ”

Guo Ying patted the clothes on her body proudly, "Since I followed my little fifth brother, I haven't been hungry." ”

His stinky display made the eyes of these young beggars a little more colorful.

When Guo Xing took out the pig's head meat and steamed bun pickles, the eyes of the teenagers turned into hungry wolves again, ready to move.

"My fifth brother has a good heart, I invite you to eat meat and buns today!" Guo Xing looked at the beggars, with some superiority on his face, "Look at it, the palm-sized slices of meat, the snow-white white buns, do you want to eat them!" ”

The little beggars nodded with their saliva, and some of the bold ones had already come over, and it seemed that they couldn't wait anymore and were about to start grabbing. Not to mention these children who have been asking for food since childhood, even adults, they may not be able to eat meat and white noodles for a year.

"If you want to eat, follow our rules." Zhu Wu suddenly frowned and snorted coldly, those little beggars looked at him with a little timidity, after all, this killing god was too scary yesterday.

"The third, the fourth, let them line up and score one by one!" Before coming, Zhu Wu had already explained to the Guo brothers. So the two brothers immediately commanded these little beggars to line up, and if they didn't know what to do, the two brothers kicked them directly.

As long as no one takes the lead, no one will resist. When Zhu Wu was a soldier, the old squad leader he met was also like this, he spoke directly with his feet, and the effect was particularly good. Someone is not afraid to take the lead, even if his eyes are not convinced, he kicks down directly. Of course, the premise is that if you slap it, you have to give a date.

The beggars all lined up obediently, waiting to divide the meat and buns, but the two tigers did not move.

"You don't eat?" Zhu Wu asked.

"I want to eat!" Erhu licked his lips, "But I know that eating people is the shortest, and taking people is short." Invite me to eat meat for no reason, what do you care? ”

"What do you have to worry about me?" Zhu Wu asked rhetorically and said with a smile, "Actually, I also asked for food before, but it's not as good as you, at least you can apply for the group." I can only follow a crippled uncle and a girl. Later, the crippled uncle died silently, leaving me and the little girl, and there was only half a meal of millet left on my body! ”

"Then how did you become the way you are? So decent? There was a light in Erhu's eyes, and he approached and asked.

Zhu Wu handed him a white-flour bun, "I met a benefactor, he pulled me, gave me good wine and meat, and gave me this." As he spoke, he took out the silver ingot and shook it, "My benefactor, make me like a person!" ”

"What doesn't your benefactor want from you?" Erhu was asking, and the eyes of several little beggars also looked over.

"Figure!" Zhu Wu stared at Erhu's eyes, "He asked me to help him kill people!" ”

"I dare to kill too!" Erhu shouted, "Whoever can make me eat enough every day, whoever can make me look like a person, I will help him kill people!" ”

Zhu Wu looked around, and the little beggars who gobbled up looked at him with expectant eyes.

He smiled, with a bit of cruelty in his smile, "Who else dares!" ”

"Me!"

"I dare!"

"And me!"

The young beggars cried out like the howls of little wolves,

"Since you all dare, I'll pull you too!" Zhu Wu weighed the silver in his hand twice, "From today onwards, I will pack your food, not only give you food, but also give you clothes to wear!" ”

Guo Xing sneered beside him, "After eating my fifth brother's meal, you have to listen to my fifth brother, who dares to be two-faced and unjust, my brother will give him a white knife to enter, and a red knife to come out!" ”

"Medium!" Erhu took a bite of the steamed bun fiercely and stared at Zhu Wu, "As long as you give you food, I will give you my life!" ”

Zhu Wu smiled.

This is a troubled time, and the power of one in the troubled times is too small, so small that it is difficult to protect oneself.

But if there is a group of people around you, a group of obedient and desperate people, the chances of survival will be greatly increased.

Therefore, when Zhu Wu was pulled into Guo Zixing's group, what he immediately thought of was to have his own people. The Guo family brothers are far from enough, he needs a lot of people, a lot of people who can make him safe.

So, he found the little beggars. He also has to eat, he knows what it is like to starve, and he believes in the power of food.

………

"Little Wuzi went to the beggar's nest in Nancheng again?"

Yuelai Inn, the study of Guo's shopkeeper. Guo Zixing put down the jade Buddha in his hand and asked Heizi.

"Yes, he practiced knives for a day, took the Guo brothers out in the afternoon, and bought a lot of food on the street!" Heizi didn't understand why his master was so concerned about Zhu Wu.

Guo Zixing smiled, "Hey! This kid, let's let him join the gang, he is pulling others into his gang. Good boy, a bit of a brain! ”

"It's all called Hanako, what's the use?" Kuroko laughed.

"It's so useful!" Guo Zixing said, "In this world, the more you look at useless people, the more useful they are!" ”

said, glancing at the sunspot, "Do you think that the old man is a little too concerned about Xiao Wu?" ”

"The little ones don't dare!"

"It's strange to say, the first time we saw this kid, we thought he was not ordinary. You think, why did a little Hanako clean up so clean. A young master named Hanako can speak better than a decent person, has a smart brain, and can read and break words. ”

Guo Zixing continued to laugh and said, "The old man has read countless people in his life, and he is called Huazi, and I will see him for the first time." That's all there is to it, yesterday the old man found this child, the other side. ”

"What?" Kuroko asked,

"He's guts!" Guo Zixing clapped his hands and said, "Some people are fake and courageous, and some people are really courageous!" Zhu Wu, this kid, looks bold, in fact, he is bold and boundless, and he has never had blood on his hands, but when he kills people, it is called a decisive killing. ”

said, waved his hand again, "Tomorrow morning, you ask Xiao Wu to come to me, and let him do something!" ”