Chapter 32: The Beggar
Nanjing or called Jingshi, Jinling, in short, this is a magical city, but also a city full of prestige, once upon a time here was the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Like those famous ancient cities in China, countless stories have happened here, but Nanjing's real glory did not start with Sun Quan's Jianye or later Song Gaozong's Jiankang Mansion, but the Ming Dynasty was the era when Nanjing really emerged.
When Zhu Yuanzhang's iron cavalry broke through the city called Jiqing at that time, it was renamed Yingtianfu, and Zhu Yuanzhang himself called himself Wu Guogong, and later created a unified prosperous Ming Dynasty. Yingtianfu was also established as the capital called Nanjing, with Kaifeng as Beijing, and later Nanjing was also called Guojingshi. It was not until Zhu Di ascended the throne that the capital was moved to Beijing, and Nanjing was the capital to stay, and there were still six departments, which was equivalent to a small imperial court. Although the city of Nanjing is now the capital of Liu, it is also very prosperous. On the streets, there are also people coming and going during the day, and there are many people of all kinds who are officials, businessmen, and workers. Where there are many people, there must be a mixture of fish and dragons, and the lower ninth-rate industries are naturally indispensable. What shaved heads, prostitutes, blowers, and dramas filled the bustling streets, and of course beggars were also indispensable.
Outside the palace in Nanjing, there are some beggars squatting in a street market, they are waiting for the six ministers of Nanjing, every day when these ministers go to the Yamen office, the beggars will gather together, catch up with which official is in a good mood, maybe they will appreciate some copper plates, this day is considered to be over.
Sure enough, I didn't know that the official had a birthday today, so he didn't say anything about the porridge at the door of the mansion, and asked the family members to distribute bread to the beggars along the way. A crowd of beggars, in tattered clothes and dirty clothes, came forward to grab food, but a man with a beard and disheveled hair in the corner did not go, and he curled up there motionless, and one of his attendants saw it, and thought he was pitiful, so he came with a basket full of bread.
I just wanted to reach out and pat him, but I saw that his body was covered with dust and his hair was dirty, so I couldn't do anything, so I had to say, "Hey, are you still alive?" Give you the bread. So saying, he took out a small white cake from the basket and handed it over, and the beggar did not move, and a beggar came up to him and said, "Give me this bread too, he is dead." ”
As soon as I heard the words, someone sighed and said: "I'm not dead, it's just that a gentleman doesn't eat the food that comes from him, and I don't know who you are calling for that feed just now." Seeing the beggar who had just curled up in the corner stood up and looked at the attendant, the scene was a little embarrassing, and the attendant looked at the beggar, his face full of beard and dirty obscuring his face, but the eyes were a little cloudy but bright, as if he could see the hearts of others. The entourage said humbly: "In Xia Ah Rong, a native of Hangzhou, I was really sorry just now, this brother Tai gave you cakes." ”
The beggar nodded and said, "Thank you then." As he spoke, he took the cake with a fist, put it in his arms, returned to the corner, and continued to curl up. The entourage smiled helplessly, not knowing why he was so polite to a beggar, standing a little overwhelmed by standing there, and several other family members behind him came running and shouted: "Brother Ah Rong, what are you doing standing here, let's go, don't delay the master's office." Ah Rong looked at the beggar in the corner, and knew that this must be a person with backbone, and now he must be in trouble, and it is really pitiful that he ended up like this. But on the other hand, he is also a casual person, although he follows the master every day, he can't help much, and in the end he is also a subordinate, so he has to sigh and leave.
Several attendants beside him heard the conversation between Ah Rong and the beggar just now, and couldn't help but mock: "Brother Ah Rong, why are you so polite to that beggar, he is just poor." Ah Rong snorted and reprimanded: "You few don't say a few words, don't look down on scholars." ”
A few people followed the sedan chair of the official master and gradually moved away, but suddenly heard a noise and scolding behind him, Ah Rong saw that the beggar was kicked to the ground by the beggars around him just now, and then a group of people rushed up and punched and kicked, and kept scolding him for not knowing what to do, and no one would eat in this area after offending the official eunuch's house, and ripped open his shirt and took away the bread he hid in his arms. Ah Rong wanted to stop him, but he was stopped by the family and said, "Don't make trouble, if the master goes late, he should lose his temper." Ah Rong sighed again, and had to continue to walk towards the Nanjing Palace, but he kept looking back.
After being kicked a few times, the beggar suddenly spurted blood from his mouth, startling the surrounding beaters, and someone said in a panic: "Why can't you beat it so much, it will be like this after a few kicks." The other person explained as if he had broken the siege: "This person must be sick, and he wants to take us to pay for his life together, so don't be fooled, just disperse." So saying, the beggars were about to depart one after another.
The beggar who was knocked to the ground kept vomiting blood, as if the blood in his body was inexhaustible, and suddenly a beggar who was about to leave smirked, and then quickly ran to the wall, in full view of everyone, in the surprise of the beggars who opened their mouths wide, the man hit the wall headlong, ** burst and fell to the ground. Then more and more beggars giggled like that, and ran towards the wall as if they were enchanted, and slammed into it, and in an instant the red, white, and green under the wall were scattered together, giving out the disgusting smell of the neighbors.
Finally, a beggar reacted and shouted, "There are monsters!" Then he ran away, and the beggars were panicked and crawled, but they all stood still as if they were stupid, and the beggar who had just been beaten to the ground shouted: "Enough, nightmare! I don't need your help with my business! As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the beggars fall to the ground, and after a long time they got up and fled in a hurry.
The beaten beggar also stood up, leaned against the wall and trembled and said, "Nightmare, you can't kill people so casually, they just insult me but they shouldn't kill me." There was a roar in the beggar's ear: "Lu Yunzhi, don't be amorous, is your body well?" Originally, after the battle outside Beijing, you didn't recover for a few days, and you were injured by Yu Qian's Soul Suppression Tower, and your kid is very weak now. You vomited blood again just now, I didn't do it for you, if you die, I won't be gone, so I made a move. But you are stupid, it was just a few beggars, even ten times more you can fight, why don't you fight back, and why did you fall to this point. ”
It turned out that this dirty and unkempt beggar was Lu Yunzhi, and it had only been three months since he fainted by the river last time, and Lu Yunzhi was already depressed and depressed. When he heard Nightmare's words, he just whispered, "You don't understand me." So he leaned against the wall and slowly walked into the deep alley, gradually moving away.