Chapter 5: The Beggar's Nest

After entering the messy Xichengfang, I came to a big willow tree, and five or six messy shacks were built around the big willow tree. Liu Da fool and his beggars lived here, and the dog also lived here for a while before, but then he couldn't stand the fact that the Zhang brothers always let themselves go out to steal money every day, so they moved out alone.

At this time, those beggars are not in the shack, this point is probably doing "business" outside, as for the Zhang brothers, they are not here, I think where to find fun!

There was no need for dogs to lead the way, and he found the shack where Liu Dafool lived. A shack made of rags could not stop the cold wind blowing in the middle of the night in this late autumn season. When the two of them entered the shack, they saw Liu Dasha lying on a pile of broken straw, snorting with his eyes closed!

"Liu Dasha." The dog shouted as he poked his leg with his hand.

"Who called grandpa!" That Liu Dasha replied scolding without opening his eyes.

The dog next to him saw that he was busy and called him in a low voice, "Dasha, wake up, it's Brother Da Lang who is here, and he came to call us to move to live elsewhere." ”

Liu Dasha heard the voice of the dog, and hurriedly opened his eyes and said, "Brother Lang? Belch! It's Brother Lang! When did you come? He turned his head to look at the dog leftover next to him and said, "Dog leftover, I'm hungry and uncomfortable, do you have any leftover porridge for me to eat in the morning?" ”

"Dasha, I brought it, but I didn't bring it, I put it with Brother Da Lang, I and Brother Da Lang came here this time to call you over, and we won't live here in the future."

"Don't live here? Good! The Erlang thief on the dog day was insidious, and he actually beat me with a sack when I was unprepared! ”

The dog next to him heard it and hurriedly asked Dasha, "Dasha, are you okay?" Can you still move? ”

"It's okay for me to have my head, but my left leg was knocked with a stick by Zhang Erlang, and I felt very painful and couldn't stand up."

Hearing him say this, the dog quickly stretched out his hand and lifted the thin piece of cloth covering his leg, and saw a palm-sized bruise on his left leg.

"Zhang Erlang of this dog day was so ruthless that he almost broke Dasha's leg. Fortunately, it's just a little swollen, and after three or five days, it won't hurt so much when the swelling goes down" After speaking, he turned his head to the dog on the side and said: "Go and find two long sticks tied to the two ends, let's carry Dasha away!" ”

Seeing the dog left, he ran out, and the dog also stood up and searched around the tent. Raising his hand, he took out a longbow with no strings from a pile of broken firewood, and the lower end of the dark bow body was engraved with a martial character. He also found a tattered cowhide armor in a broken straw basket, and the dog knew that these things were old things of Dasha's father.

After looking for a long time, he didn't find what he was looking for, so he turned around and asked, "Dasha, what about the broken knife that your father left you with several knocks?" ”

Dasha was really stupid, and opened his mouth and said: "That broken knife was already taken by Zhang Dalang to change it for cooking cakes!" Zhang Dalang said that he gave it to the quality warehouse, but there were too many holes, and he only changed four cooking cakes, which was only enough for me to eat! After speaking, he stretched out five fingers and gestured to the dog!

The quality warehouse, that is, the pawnshop, is only a higher threshold than the pawnshop, and only collects some valuable things. Dasha's knife has seen himself, it is a standard weapon made by the Great Song Dynasty Capital Institute for the forbidden army, and this knife is still the weapon that Dasha and his father were promoted to the team, and the commander Zhang who appreciated him was rewarded by the commander who chose fine iron for the officers to wear. There's a steel stamp on it!

The iron material is forbidden for the common people, and the Northern Dynasty is strictly investigated, and if it is caught, it can be detained for a big case of rebellion! After the imperial court moved south, the ban was relaxed, but the iron material was not something that the common people could use. Although it has collapsed a few times, it is worth two or three copper coins, right? One penny copper coin for two cooking cakes, although the city is in a bad situation and now three pennies can be exchanged for two, but the knife is not four cooking cakes can be exchanged! That Zhang Dalang was greedy for so much money, and Dasha just didn't steal enough of the amount he set, so he beat him so hard, what a vicious heart!

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I looked up to see Dasha still dangling his five fingers, and through the black fingers, I saw that his mouth was still smacking, as if he was reminiscing about the fragrance of the cooking cake! Angrily snapped back a finger and said, "This is four, you are five!" ”

"I know, I learned math from your father! Although I don't remember much, I can still count two slaps! That Zhang Dalang did give me five cooking cakes, but he had to take another one and said it was an errand fee! I think it's right, it's just that the knife broke too much, otherwise I can change a few more cooking cakes, I think I can change at least ten more. ”

This Liu Dasha only knows ten numbers, so he thinks that more than ten is a lot.

Looking at Dasha and thinking about it, the angry dog slapped his right leg fiercely, with a crisp sound, Dasha didn't have anything to do, but his palm hurt to shoot! This rough meat, well, we don't know like fools.

"Dog leftover, did you find it?"

"Okay, okay, Brother Lang and I found two flat poles, can you see if they can be used?"

The curtain of the shack was lifted, and the dog ran in with gusto, holding two black poles thicker than a fist. The Zhang brothers never worked hard, and these beggars were still young and didn't have the strength to use so much, so they must have stolen it from someone's house!

"Okay, just right." He took the two poles casually, picked out some small strips from the pile of torn cloth beside him, tied the two ends, and wrapped them around a few times with a sturdy coarse cloth in the middle, and a simple lifting rod was ready!

Seeing that the dog was still squatting in front of him and looking stupidly, he scolded when he opened his mouth: "You don't have eyesight, he's stupid, are you stupid?" Why don't you turn Dasha's body sideways and see what I'm doing! ”

When the dog heard this, he didn't go to help Dasha but leaned in front of him again, and was about to get angry, when he saw that the dog took out three money bags from his arms, handed them to himself with a thief's eyebrows, and was taken aback and hurriedly opened it, only to see that each money bag contained seven or eight copper coins.

The dog's face was happy, and he hurriedly asked in a low voice, "Where did you get it?" ”

"Zhang Erlang's concubine, in Widow Zhang's tent."

"Well, I think Widow Zhang secretly hid it behind Zhang Erlang's back! However, Zhang Erlang's money was given by Zhang Dalang, and the money you stole was also given to Zhang Dalang, how could Widow Zhang get it? ”

The dog Yu also learned from the dog to disturb his head and think, and after disturbing it twice, it didn't make much sense, so he said: "Brother Lang, there is a big crockpot under the widow's bed, I see that there are more than a dozen money bags in it, and there is also a half-crockpot copper coin underneath, I see that there seem to be a few silver horns mixed in it, why don't I go and get it back?" ”

"Don't go again" hurriedly stopped the dog's legs, the dog lowered his head and thought about it, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Zhang Dalang hid the money in Widow Zhang's tent, so he made a good move." You can't go again, this money is counted, and Zhang Dalang will order it every once in a while! We took Dasha away today, Zhang Dalang came back and disappeared, he will definitely go to recount, and if there is a shortage of money, he will find that he will definitely go to find Dasha, and our brother can't beat him, so he will suffer. ”

After a short pause, he looked back at Dasha and said again: "Right now, we are mainly carrying Dasha away, and today we found out that he was hiding money, and when it recovers his legs, let me come up with a plan that will make him suffer a big loss!" After speaking, he squinted his eyes and put his hands behind his back, and imitated his father's appearance to make a contemplative outfit! Before he could recite his father's poem, he heard Dasha's rough voice in his ears.

"Ahem... Brother Lang I'm hungry, when are we leaving? ”

Ha, I pretended to be overdone, my cheeks were hot red, and I hurriedly lowered my head and pretended to take the pole to cover it up by the way.

"Ahem... Brother Da Lang has already brought the pole over, and Dasha is also lying on it, shall we go? ”

"Let's go!"

With a red face, he carried the front end of the pole, and the dog was left to carry the back end. This crude pole is quite strong, and the two of them walked for a meal, and then they came to the dilapidated house of the Ba family. After finding a piece of flat ground and putting down the pole, he saw that Dasha who was lying on it had not woken up yet, and was still snoring happily, so he took out the two bowls of porridge that had been put in the morning, brought them to him, and the two of them walked together to the well beside the big tree.

After washing my hands and face, I wanted to take off my torn clothes and wash myself, but it was very cold to test the water, and my small body couldn't withstand the cold wind in autumn, so I had to give up! I really couldn't stand the smell of sweat, so I had to take a linen cloth dipped in water and wipe it slowly.

Thinking of Dasha's dirty face, he sighed, and went to the front family to borrow two pots, and returned to the broken house with water, this Dasha was still snoring and sleeping, but the porridge in the bowl was gone!

Forget it, don't wipe him, it's all mixed into a beggar, dirty and dirty, see him sleep happily, and when he wakes up, it is estimated that this leg injury will be better.

This is not unfounded, because the beginning of life is sleep, and you see that those babies are often in a state of sleep, sleep after sleep. Even adults have to maintain eight hours of sleep, if they don't sleep enough, they will have dark circles under their eyes, and they will be in a state of insomnia and lack of sleep for a long time.

Tearing, yawning, and even bleeding gums are all reminders to catch up on your sleep.

When you are in deep sleep, your body will unconsciously excrete some factors, which will help the body to metabolize, similar to the effect of an analgesic, which can relieve the pain of the body. So some people who are injured will become lethargic, and get down to business.

The two of them carried the wooden basin into the east room, sprinkled the ground with water with their hands, picked up the broom again, tied a piece of broken hemp to their mouths, and one divided half of the land, pouted his buttocks and began to clean. For a while, the dust was flying, and the gongs and drums were noisy! Well? Drum? Hurry up and lie down in front of the window hole and look outside.

I saw a group of people dressed in sackcloth, with filial piety cloth tied to their heads and hemp ropes tied around their waists, slowly walking from the direction of Dongcheng, and were about to go out of the south city gate. The head was a sturdy man in his thirties riding a big black horse, and unlike the others, he wore a white filial piety hat on his head.

He was followed by more than a dozen men dressed as domestic servants, all holding mourning sticks in their hands, some carrying bamboo baskets, and looking at them from a distance as if they were carrying shovels tied with strips of white cloth.

In front of the man on horseback were five men each holding gongs and drums beating and blowing, and unlike him, they only wore hemp ropes around their waists, but the sackcloth shoes they were stepping on had a piece of white cloth attached to them! The leader of the group was a lean old man in his fifties with a gray beard on his chin.