What is the difference between the Huazimen on the rivers and lakes and the beggars who choose their own jobs? To put it more complicated, we can start from the differences in skills, organization, incisions, spring ceremonies, teachers, and so on; But on the whole, it's actually just two words, inheritance.

What kind of people are the old people in the rivers and lakes, including beggars? More than ninety percent of them are from the lowest poor families. Of course, the children of wealthy families can choose to study literature or martial arts; But the children of poor families can only go out to work as soon as possible to earn some money to support the family. Except for a few very few good people, who can enter restaurants, cargo stations and other businesses apprentice helper accidents; The rest of the children can only step into the only way to go.

Therefore, the so-called Jianghu Road is actually just the living environment of ordinary people; Although the temple culture is incompatible with the market culture and seems so unattainable, after all, the two also coexist between heaven and earth, relying on each other, and are an intimate relationship of symbiosis and death, as if they are the two sides of a copper coin.

Fan Wenzhenggong also once had the famous saying "If you live in a temple, you will worry about its people, and if you are far away from the rivers and lakes, you will worry about its king".

Jianghu Dao is the human world that only exists in the night; And the brilliant stars that spread across the sky are the sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes who have gone forward and succeeded for thousands of years. And the soil that feeds many children of the rivers and lakes, so that they can thrive and continue, is the vast old etiquette and old rules.

To put it bluntly, even the children on the street have heard a saying that it is called ten rivers and lakes and nine cheats. But why is it clear that everyone knows in their hearts that until thousands of years later, there is still a foothold for Jianghu people? The reason is also very simple, that is, because they uphold the rules and bottom line that have been repeatedly revised and updated by countless predecessors.

In the eyes of the new juniors, this is the stereotyped dogmatism that binds their hands and feet; But in the eyes of those predecessors, these are all the dependencies for themselves, and even their descendants to survive and reproduce! The rules and regulations in each family are equivalent to the bowls used by the children of their own families to hold rice; And the big rules of the rivers and lakes are a big pot for all the people in the rivers and lakes. Punishing the children of the rivers and lakes who break the rules is not actually to show how noble someone's identity is; It's because he wants to use his mistakes to warn all the younger generations of children and grandchildren, don't smash the rice bowl in your hand, and don't smash the pot of cooking rice with fellow Jianghu colleagues!

Take the situation of Jiankang City as an example, the beggars who are really in Jianghu Road may have frozen to death, died of illness, or were beaten to death; But none of them were starved to death; But for the victims, after the cold winter last year, only about 40% of the people who can still see the spring flowers blooming season are left. The difference between the two is self-evident.

So why do beggars with portals choose to take refuge in the land temple outside the city, and only use the broken tile cold kiln in the city as a temporary gathering point? First of all, in order to prevent fires at night, the city will not allow private open fires for heating. Just imagine, a city that has fallen into a deep sleep, and a few open fires are lit in the midst of several broken and cold kilns, which at first glance is clearly inviting trouble to itself!

Although begging is not against the king's law, arson in the city is a felony of the first class!

Secondly, even beggars with portals usually have a good habit of storing emergency rations. Although the old and rotten grain they had accumulated was not worth any money, no one would want to touch it on the street; But once it is discovered by those who eat grass and soil, it will definitely be swept away; In addition, there are very few young and strong beggars, and the night activities in Jiankang City are also very rich, and people often ask for large quantities of waste money from warehouses and restaurants, etc., and they will face a shortage of manpower, or the city gate has been closed. Then whenever you encounter this situation, you can spend the night at a temporary gathering point with your own brothers on duty; Just wait for the city gate to open tomorrow, or go home and call for people, or carry food out of the city with these brothers on duty who have changed shifts.

But today, this Jiankang City is full of strange occurrences, not only the Yaowang Temple near the Huichun Hall, but also occupied by displaced people from all over the world; Even the dilapidated kiln in the city that left the mark of the beggar gang was unattended. Before leaving the city, Shen Gui also went to visit the cold kiln, and found nothing except a large wooden barrel filled with swill!

The swill in this large wooden barrel is probably collected from the back kitchens of some restaurants. Judging by the sour smell of the wooden barrels, this should be at least three days old. According to common sense, although the swill collected from the back kitchen of the restaurant is full of dry goods after pouring the soup, it is also very easy to rot and deteriorate, so there is never a saying that the swill bucket is left overnight. It is not difficult to see from this bucket of dry goods that it is obvious that three days ago, the beggar brothers on duty encountered some accident, and when they withdrew from the city, they were in a hurry, and left this bucket of food here......

So what is the relationship between their hasty retreat and Wu Chengfeng's evaporation from the world?

They didn't go far out of the city, and their group of five came to a land temple in the north city.

Although the beggars are destitute people, due to the nature of their work, their habits are still very regular, and they are no different from the monks who serve the Buddha and the farmers who cultivate the farms, they all work at sunrise and rest at sunset.

But now it has been night for a long time, and this land temple in the north of the city is still full of fire and noisy people......

"Is there an uncle in the hall, the regimental officer from Lu Donglai has come to hang the pole." (Are there any older beggars at home?) Fan's peers, passing by here to worship the door).

Shen Gui stood outside the temple and shouted an incision, and the originally noisy and noisy land temple became quiet in an instant; Immediately after a while, a rather young-looking beggar with big and small eyes poked out half of his head from the crack in the door, and after taking a closer look at Shen Gui's appearance, he muttered in wonder:

"Wipe white? …… Hanging in the wind (how can you be a beautiful person?) Waiting outside...... ）”

The five of them waited outside the door for a while, and then two childish baby-faced beggars carefully pushed open two broken doors...... One of them, a taller young beggar, asked with a sad face:

"What's your last name?"

"Shen ......"

"Which uncle are you looking for?"

"Naturally, it's my Shen family's uncle."

"And his old man's surname?"

"Aren't you asking nonsense? Since he is looking for my Shen family's uncle, of course his old man's surname is Wu! ”

After hearing this, the two young beggars looked at each other, their expressions were excited and excited, and there was a hint of excitement:

"Uncle You're here...... I knew that the ancestor would not leave us here, so he would leave us alone! ”

After a group of five mermaids entered, they found that there were dozens of beggars lying in this small temple. These people have all kinds of appearances, and now they all have a pair of their own eyes, or one eye, staring at Shen Gui and the others; And the tall beggar who was in charge of the reception stretched out his hand and nodded at the two relatively strong men at this time, and pointed out the door, which pulled Shen Gui to the edge of the futon:

"Young helper, you're here! As soon as this old ancestor leaves, we people are really leaderless! Tell us a few words and make up your mind. ”

Shen Gui was inexplicably pressed on the futon by him, looked at the angry beggar brothers below, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, took out a silver ticket and handed it to Qi Yan, and then said loudly:

"In a quarter of an hour, it's time to eat!"

Indeed, he himself doesn't know anything, so what can he say to everyone?

Through the following introduction, Shen Gui also gradually became clear about the recent events in Jiankang City. It turned out that the two young beggars, one tall and one short, were the absolute descendants who were responsible for serving Wu Chengfeng's diet and daily life; And the general meeting they held tonight was to elect a temporary helmsman to lead everyone to counterattack Jiankang City.

From the perspective of the practitioners of the beggar gang, all people who do not lack arms and legs are not the majority; So when they lost the protection of their ancestors, within a few days, they were beaten by the homeless people gathered in the city and called their mothers, and they completely lived in Jiankang City.

From the point of view of begging, these two groups can be said to be the most direct competitors, and there is an irreconcilable conflict of interest between the two sides; In addition, among these displaced people, there are many unethical people who were expelled from Huazixing by Wu Chengfeng; Therefore, under these deliberate clamours, the resentment between the two sides will naturally accumulate deeper and deeper. As soon as Wu Chengfeng walked on the front foot, the victims on the back foot came to rob the camp! Not only did he beat up the beggars in the city, but he also caused four or five lives!

According to reason, there was a homicide in Jiankang City, so according to the laws of Nankang, business should be done? However, the identity of the victim and the beggar is difficult to define, and it is impossible to distinguish who is from where; Neither party is naturalized nor has identity credentials, so how should this case be heard? Moreover, no matter how the final outcome of this case is determined, it will have the opposite effect of encouraging murder for both sides!

There is a cell where the wind can't blow and the rain can't hit for me to live in, and there is plenty of protection for three meals a day! As soon as such a good thing spreads, whether it is a disaster victim or a beggar, don't they immediately think about committing a crime on the street?

Therefore, the Nankang Mansion has always adopted a laissez-faire attitude towards these two waves of people. You can make trouble as much as you want, as long as you don't go to Nankang merchants and people for trouble, then you can ignore it.

The beggars are all bound by rules, and Wu Chengfeng personally sits in Jiankang City, so he can naturally be at peace with the Nankang court; But these victims don't care so much, if they don't come, they will steal, if they can't steal, if they can't steal, if they can't rob, they will kill people, and the black smoke and miasma of Jiankang City that will be stirred up for a while; It was not until the yamen could not stand it and began to pass a series of laws on the handling of displaced people that the development of the situation was gradually controlled......

The method of dealing with the troubles of the displaced people is actually very simple: no matter how big or small the crime is, it will not be taken into custody; Minor offenders are deported, and serious offenders are killed on the spot.

After a few heads landed, these victims, who failed to open up the market and increase output, turned their minds to monopolizing the market......