The sky was bright.

Hong Jiu squatted in the ditch near Shanxi Lane, regardless of whether the stream flowing through thousands of households was dirty or not, he stretched out his arm and scooped one scoop after another with a broken clay pot, scrubbing it from head to toe.

The skin was about to break, and the turquoise stream was reflected, and the messy hair on his head was neatly gathered, and he felt that he was already looking like a dog, so he straightened his waist with satisfaction.

Of course, this is just that he is satisfied, in fact, that sloppy ragged shirt, no matter how much he scrubs it, he can't get rid of the identity of a 'beggar'.

That's right, Hong Jiu is a beggar, and a 'famous beggar' - one of the most famous beggars near Shanxi Lane.

The reason why he can become a 'famous beggar' is because he is obviously more lazy than others, and he can always have a good harvest with that clever mouth that can speak well, and he lives a hundred times more nourishing than others.

"Ninth brother, ninth brother!"

At this moment, two little beggars rushed over, and before they could get closer, one of them, who was fourteen or fifteen years old, held up the broken bowl covered with a wooden board in his arms, and said triumphantly: "Brother Jiu, listen to this voice, it is a proper celebration!" ”

"Caught?!"

Hong Jiu was also overjoyed when he heard this, and strode to meet the two, staring at the broken bowl with burning eyes, as if he was looking at some cornucopia.

"Of course! Brother, if I make a move, can I still have a runner?

The little beggar showed off in his mouth, and carefully opened a crack, and saw a magpie poking its head out of the bowl, and screaming 'slag, slag'.

"If you have it, you're done!"

Hong Jiu laughed, stretched out his hand and grabbed the magpie out of the bowl, tied it with a straw rope and held it in his arms, raised his hand and greeted: "Let's go, Brother Jiu will lead you to please you!" ”

"Pleasant~!"

The two little beggars cheered and followed Hong Jiu through the streets and alleys to the door of an inconspicuous courtyard.

Hong Jiu stopped, made a silent gesture, and touched the flower magpie in his arms again, stroked Ling Yu, and said with words in his mouth: "Good man, you have to work hard today, otherwise if Brother Jiu can't get money, he can only sacrifice your teeth." ”

While speaking, the two little beggars were already squatting side by side in the corner of the wall, and Hong Jiu was not polite, stepped on their shoulders and climbed to the top of the wall, put the magpie on the wall, and pressed the straw rope holding the magpie under the tile.

After arranging this mechanism, he leaned on the wall and looked in a few times, and saw that there were a few red double happiness stickers on the window of the inner room, so he jumped down happily, and said with a smile: "Second son, there is really your son, and he is really marrying today!" ”

The second son rubbed his shoulders and proudly showcased: "Is that okay, I heard what this old mother said with my own ears, can there be a fake?!" ”

The little beggar next to him also scrambled to show merit and said, "What are you?" If I hadn't found out that there were two beautiful sisters hiding in this house first, and some big officials came to the door from time to time, would you come here to listen to the news? ”

"But you didn't say it was a 'foreign house' at the time, if I hadn't heard and understood, that sister was going to be married to a concubine, wouldn't it be good......"

"That's it!"

Seeing that the two were arguing, Hong Jiu scolded a little impatiently: "This magpie doesn't scream, but you two scum are making a lot of trouble!" ”

The two little beggars hurriedly stopped talking.

But after another half an hour, I heard a few 'scum' voices on the wall, and my voice was rapid and loud.

Hong Jiu's eyes also lit up, and he hurriedly gestured to let the two little beggars avoid the side, and then took out a pair of bamboo boards from his arms, and waited for the magpie to chirp a few times, and then came to the door to 'chirp' and beat the bamboo board, and sang the lotus fall:

"I have a dozen bamboo boards, and I praise a good house, if you want to say that this is not simple, there are already magpies chirping, this magpie has a mouth, and good things must be there!"

He sang here in a low tone, and when a woman heard the movement, she opened the door and looked through a crack, but saw a white-faced flower standing outside, and couldn't help but wonder: "You flower child is really ignorant, how can you come to beg for food before dawn?" ”

Hong Jiu lowered his shoulders down, and sang flatteringly with a smile on his face: "The magpie branch is chirping, it must be a noble person who wants to make a fortune, it is better to make a fortune sooner rather than later, and Daoxi must be in a hurry sooner!" ”

Today was originally a happy day for this family, Hong Jiu was full of auspicious words, and the mother-in-law was not good at driving him away, and was thinking about whether to give away some leftovers, when someone inside suddenly asked: "Mother Wu, who is here?" ”

That Wu's mother hurriedly said: "Mrs., it's a begging flower, saying that she heard a magpie calling in our house, and she was in a hurry to congratulate our family." ”

While speaking, a neatly dressed middle-aged woman came out of it, looked at Hong Jiu in surprise, and before he could speak, Hong Jiu sang happily again: "Look at the left and right sides of this door, there is a blessed person walking out of it, the heavens are full, and the blessing of life is not over; The ground is round, and the wealth and glory are endless, and the enjoyment is endless! ”

The lady couldn't help laughing when she heard him so sweet-mouthed, and caught up with her wish today, and finally married her daughter to a rich and noble family, so she went back to the house for the first time, took more than two taels of broken silver, and threw it to Hong Jiudao: "I will reward you for these auspicious words!" ”

Hong Jiu took the silver in his hand, couldn't help but smile, knelt on the ground with a puff, and said crisply: "Mrs. Xie reward!" If you go to do business, specify a full warehouse of gold and silver; If you marry your children, you will be designated to import them! ”

The latter words were right for this wife's thoughts, so she smiled and said: "What a sweet mouth-Mother Wu, reward him with the half pot of chicken soup left over from yesterday, and give him a few white flour steamed buns!" ”

With that, he went back to the courtyard by himself.

"Mrs. Xie's reward, Mrs. Xie's reward!"

Hong Jiu kowtowed happily twice, holding the broken clay pot, waiting for the mother-in-law to give half a pot of chicken soup and a few big white steamed buns with cinnabar, which was another thousand thanks.

"Brother Jiu, this time we really sent it!"

When Mother Wu also returned to the courtyard, the two little beggars approached happily, staring at the clay pot of chicken soup with bright eyes, and their saliva couldn't stop dripping.

"Look at you two!"

Hong Jiuyi glared, raised his hand and said in high spirits: "Go, go back to the temple, call the girl to heat up this chicken soup, let's open the meat too!" ”

The two little beggars screamed happily, and were about to leave with Hong Jiu in their arms, but Hong Jiu suddenly stopped, looked back at the corner of the wall, and said, "Wait a minute, since that finch helped us, we can't help ......."

"Hong Jiu!"

Before Hong Jiu finished speaking, someone suddenly snorted coldly, Hong Jiu followed the prestige, but saw that in the alley in front of him, four beggars suddenly flashed, the first one had a big waist and a round waist and led a wooden stick, missing half of his left ear.

This person is not another person, but he is the most powerful beggar deaf boss near Shanxi Lane!

Unlucky!

How did you get blocked by this guy?!

Hong Jiu secretly scolded in his heart, while secretly glaring at the two little beggars, he smiled very happily: "Hey, isn't this a deaf boss?" What wind is blowing you here?! ”

As he spoke, he seemed to be about to catch up, but he led the two little beggars to turn around and run!

Just after running two steps, Hong Jiu found that there were five beggars who were staring at him.

Seeing that he encountered a front and back attack, Hong Jiu knew that he was in a catastrophe, so he simply turned around again, and sent the chicken soup steamed bun forward, and said in a loud voice: "Deaf boss, I, Hong Jiu, have confessed to it today, you take the things, count me as a brother, I will honor you!" ”

The deaf boss sneered and said disdainfully: "Shao Teniang is sloppy with Lao Tzu, how did you get the silver when I didn't see it?" ”

After a pause, he sneered again: "It's not enough for Lao Tzu to find you today, not for any money, but to set rules for you, so that you know who is in this Shanxi Lane!" ”

As he spoke, he raised the mallet in his hand and said, "Brothers, give this grandson some color!" ”

Under this order, the nine beggars immediately clamped their bags twice and surrounded Hong Jiu and the three of them, but they saw sticks raining down, chicken soup flying around, and a few white-flour steamed buns rolling back and forth on the ground......

Although Hong Jiu has a sharp mouth and a lively heart, his body is notoriously thin, and he is not an opponent one-on-one, not to mention that the other party still bullies more and less?

In a blink of an eye, he was beaten to the ground, but he insisted on protecting the two little beggars, gritting his teeth and not saying a word!

"That's it!"

The deaf boss saw that he was almost done, so he shouted to stop his subordinates, and took away the broken silver from Hong Jiu's arms, and then said triumphantly: "Sun thief~ Master will teach you to be obedient today, and ask for money in the future, remember to send it to your deaf master - I don't want all of you, I don't want all of you, it's done in 28!" ”

As he spoke, he stepped on Hong Jiu's backbone again, lowered his head and sneered: "If you don't want to make offerings to the master, then it's nothing, if the left and right masters find it once, they will smash one of your fingers, and when all ten fingers are broken, they will abolish your dog's paws that can steal fish!" ”

After finishing speaking, seeing Long Jiutou lying on the two little beggars with broken blood, still silent, the deaf boss couldn't help but be annoyed again.

With a look, a subordinate immediately stepped forward and fixed Hong Jiu's left hand on the ground.

The deaf boss raised the mallet in his hand and said with a cruel smile: "Even if you break the rules for the first time today, the master will leave you a mark and a long memory!" ”

The two little beggars cried in fright, and begged sharply: "The deaf boss is gracious, just spare our ninth brother this time!" ”

"Phew~!"

The deaf boss spat on Hong Jiu's body with disdain, and scolded: "What is he?" What dare you call Brother Nine in front of me?! I'm going to leave him a mark! ”

As he spoke, he rounded the stick and was about to smash it on Hong Jiu's tail finger!

Crash~

At this moment, Mother Wu suddenly pushed the door out, seeing that there was a mess outside, Hong Jiu was pressed to the ground again, and hurriedly shouted: "What are you doing, what are you doing here?" Let that man go! ”

If you were an ordinary beggar and were scolded like this, I was afraid that I would have been cowardly a long time ago.

Who knew that the deaf boss was arrogant and tight, and turned his head and pointed at Wu's mother with a stick and scolded: "Old pious woman, whose crotch is not tightly tied and leaked out of your old thing?!" ”

When the beggars around him heard this, they all burst into laughter.

Seeing that there were many of them, Mother Wu first subconsciously shrank back, but then remembered something, straightened her waist and jumped out, crossed her waist and scolded: "What a dog thing that doesn't have long eyes!" The second lady of my family is going to marry into the family of the 'God Break' Sun today, and I have stirred up the happy event of this day, and I will carefully pick your skin from Lord Sun! ”

As soon as the deaf boss heard the words 'God Judge Sun', even if his backbone softened, he didn't dare to shout anything anymore, so he was careful and accused a few times, and then ran away.

His subordinates were reluctant to give up the spoils on the ground, and you picked up the steamed buns and chicken for me, and then they also followed the girl.

At this time, Hong Jiu also got up with the support of the two younger brothers, and said to Wu's mother: "Auntie's life-saving grace, Hong Jiu is unforgettable." ”

"It sounds like a well-read, but how do you have to be a flower?"

Wu's mother muttered, looking at the way his head broke and bleeding, after all, she couldn't bear it, so she turned back and took a few steamed buns, sighing and said: "The good chicken soup has been ruined, and now there are only these steamed buns for you." ”

Hong Jiu thanked him again, and when Wu's mother turned back to the courtyard, he was not in a hurry to leave, but gritted his teeth and climbed to the wall, released the magpie, and then limped. 8)