Chapter 60: Three Little Beggars
Fang Jing lowered his head and walked towards the center of Jinzhou City, wanting to find a guest house to stay for a few days, but when he looked up, he saw the three little beggars who were originally begging in the south of the city, which made Fang Jing stunned, thinking in his heart why did he come here to beg? Is the north of the city better than the south of the city? There aren't many shops here, but it's not as prosperous as the south side of the city.
Fang Jing walked towards the three little beggars, but the three little beggars were retreating, Fang Jing felt that there was something about him that made them afraid? He was not a wicked person, so he hurriedly ran over and stopped them.
"What are you doing? What are you doing with me? I don't have much copper coins, I've already given you ten cakes and copper coins, don't follow me, I really don't have many copper coins. Fang Jing said to the three little beggars, her expression was not a little murderous, she was very kind.
"Brother, we're here to thank you for the cakes and copper coins." The big little beggar thanked Fang Jing softly, and his words were full of fear and worry.
"Oh, then no thanks, I also said that I also have a little sister the size of her, what about the adults of the three of you? Why did you come out to beg at such a young age? Does your father and mother care about you? Fang Jing still asked about their situation, but she felt that if there were no adults, the three of them would really not be able to live well, and they didn't know if the state government would take care of it.
"My father died in battle, my mother died later, my father and brother also died, there was no one in the family, and there was no food, so our three brothers and sisters had to come out to beg for a living." The eldest little beggar answered Fang Jing's question very calmly, although it was calm, Fang Jing could see endless pain and suffering in his eyes.
"So how long have you three been out of the house, and where do you have a place to stay?" Fang Jing squatted down, looked at the smallest beggar, and asked the biggest.
"It's been almost two years since we came out of the village, and we have a place to live, outside the city." The big beggar responded to Fang Jing's question, and pointed in the direction of the south of the city.
"Out of town? Staying at a relative's house? Fang Jing asked.
"Well, it's outside the city, there are no relatives, and the relatives don't take us in, we live in a grass house outside the city." The big beggar responded to Fang Jing.
"Grass house?" When Fang Jing heard this answer, she felt in her heart that it should be a thatched house that no one lived in.
"Then you will take me to see it later, anyway, I don't have a place to stay, go and see first." Fang Jing felt that he didn't really want to go to the guest house anyway, and it was defenseless to go and see by the way, it really didn't work, he could just find a mountain cat and spend a few days first, fortunately, Fang Jing didn't have any cleanliness habits, and he didn't have the idea of looking down on anyone, otherwise Fang Jing wouldn't be able to talk like this.
Fang Jing is really not picky about where to live, he is a random person, it is enough to have a place to live, maybe he can rub a place to live and save some copper money, Fang Jing is not to save money, mainly because he doesn't want to eat tasteless meals, he wants to get some food for himself.
"Brother, shall we go over now?" The three little beggars let down their vigilance and invited Fang Jing to take a look at the place where they lived.
"Let's go, then." Fang Jing followed the three little beggars towards the south gate of Jinzhou City, there is a distance from the north of the city to the south gate, how can there be a land of four or five miles, think about the east and west directions, Jinzhou City is estimated to be four or five miles in size, although it is not small, but it is not big, but the city wall is high and long.
followed the three little beggars for two or three quarters of an hour, and finally passed the south city gate, this way, but was looked at by many people, and they all thought that Fang Jing had a problem in their eyes, a cleanly dressed, white and delicate young man, but followed the three little beggars, it was really detrimental to his identity.
Fang Jing has come all the way, but she has gained the eyes of a large number of passers-by, some are good, some are bad, of course, there are very few good ones, maybe because most people have little cognition, or they are numb when they see more, or maybe the world view causes such numbness.
Fang Jing followed the three little beggars far away from the south city gate, at least three miles, a dilapidated small thatched house is located next to a wood, the house is a soil and grass structure, a house made of soil blocks, the top is made of mud and grass, a door hole, no doors and no windows, the roof is in tatters, only a roof near the innermost corner is slightly better, the ground is paved with some thatch, it seems that it is the residence of these three little beggars, there are some broken quilts piled up on the thatch, it is so dirty that it is no longer like words, It's even dirtier than Fang Jing's family's previous ones, it can be said that it's not a quilt at all, and I don't know where the three little beggars picked it up.
The little broken house is empty, there are no other things, in fact, it is useless, what can the three little beggars have for themselves, except for the shelter, the things that cover the body, what else can the beggars have?
"You three live here? There are no people living here, you see it leaks when it rains. After reading it, Fang Jing dissuaded the three little beggars.
"Brother, but we don't live here, and we are not allowed to live in the city, they will drive us away at night." The older little beggar looked at Fang Jing with his eyes, very helpless.
"Alas, brother, I don't know, I thought there were always some places to live in Jinzhou City, and the government didn't care about you?" Fang Jing really didn't know the situation, so he had to ask them again.
"Official? They will only chase us, they will not care about us, there are many people in the city who are like us, they are like us, we can only be near the south gate of the city, we cannot go to other places to ask for food, otherwise there will be a government messenger to come and arrest us, we have to hand over a lot of copper coins to them, otherwise we will not be able to stay at the city gate. The little beggar told Fang Jing again, once again subverting Fang Jing's cognition.
Fang Jing had only heard in his previous life that some little beggars specialized in begging for money and handed it over to the people who controlled them, but isn't this just like this, begging for money and handing it over to some yacha, can this still be the Tang Dynasty? Maybe the so-called peaceful and prosperous era will not get better until Li Shimin comes to power, Fang Jing hopes that it will get better, but will it really be good? Although Fang Jing thought so, he thought that the possibility was not too great, in this era, human life was the least valuable, so as long as there were benefits, someone would use them to earn benefits, so Fang Jing didn't have too much hope for this future.
"You see that the sun is about to go down, and there are no people living here, and it is cold, so you live here? Where can I stand it, alas, my brother is also in trouble now. Fang Jing expressed helplessness, should she accompany them or go back to the city to find a guest house to stay in, or which hill is a cat alone?
"Well, you wait here, I'll get some food, and you'll wait here." After Fang Jing finished speaking, he turned around and ran quickly in the direction of the mountains and forests, now that the sky was still bright, Fang Jing didn't dare to fly, he was really going to be seen, he would think he was a monster, but don't grab it and skewer it on a stick to make a roast pig.
Fang Jing caught two rabbits in the mountains and forests, and asked the gods for a pot with ears, and then asked for some rice to pack, and by the way, he asked for some seasonings for cooking, mixed them together and put them in a freshly cut bamboo bucket, and then carried them to the small broken house.
After returning to the small dilapidated house, the three little beggars didn't know why Fang Jing went to the mountains and forests to do something, but seeing Fang Jing carrying two rabbits and an iron pot that he didn't know what he didn't know, they understood that Fang Jing was going to eat, and there was rice, and the three little beggars licked their lips and looked at Fang Jing and the pot.
"Go and pick up some big rocks, and I'll get some firewood, and eat the rabbit meat and rice at night." Fang Jing didn't see that there was no earthen stove, thinking that he would build one at random, and he would have to pick up some firewood.
Fang Jing quickly picked up firewood all over the ground by herself, and there were many dead trees anyway, so she got some back at random, seeing that the three little beggars were still picking up big stones, Fang Jing also unintentionally asked them to pick them up, just to see if they were obedient.
After Fang Jing picked up the firewood, he also picked up the big stones, and after picking up some, he felt that it was almost over, so he asked the little beggars to stop and come back, and he moved four bigger stones over, put them aside, picked up the stone stove by himself, picked up the smooth stones to make the earthen stove, and began to carry the rabbit and the boiling pot to the stream to wash rice, peel and wash the rabbits, interspersed them with bamboo strips, and returned to the earthen stove, put the cooking pot on the earthen stove, and used the lighter he asked the gods for to start cooking rice.
"Come, you come to add firewood to cook rice, and I'll roast rabbit meat." Fang Jing called the big beggar to help, and began to roast the rabbit by herself, applying the seasoning with her hands while roasting, and slowly the fragrance came out, and the three little beggars all looked at the roast rabbit when they smelled the fragrance, especially the youngest beggar's saliva flowed a lot.
"I'll be able to eat it in a while, but not right now." After Fang Jing finished speaking, he lifted the lid of the cooking pot and used a knife to cut the rabbit meat into the almost ripe rice piece by piece.
After cutting the two roast rabbits, cover the pot and continue to cook, pick up his sword, directly cut the two bamboo barrels brought back into the size of four bowls, cut the edges with a knife, try to make the bamboo bowl as good as possible, and by the way, he sharpened four pairs of chopsticks, and after all this, Fang Jing suddenly found three little beggars, looking at him like a monster.
"This bamboo bowl will be used for dinner later, I'll put these into the rice first." Fang Jing took off the lid of the pot and put it on the ground, put the garlic onion in the lid and chopped it, sprinkled it into the pot, then covered the lid, and stopped the fire.
Fang Jing found that the dishes and chopsticks were there, but there was no spoon for the meal, Fang Jing used the sword to cut a bamboo board down, and used a knife to cut it into a spoon, looking at it felt perfect.
At this time, it was almost dark, Fang Jing felt that the rice could be eaten, but the fire of roasting the rabbit was too small, so he set up a lot of firewood and increased the fire, so that he couldn't see it when he was eating for a while.
Fang Jing multiplied half and a third of the rice in each bamboo bowl, and then multiplied the rabbit meat.
"Let's eat, it's absolutely delicious, my little sister likes my food the most." Fang Jing picked up the dishes and chopsticks and took a big bite, feeling so refreshed, she didn't feel too tired all the way today, but it was also a pleasure to be able to eat a hot meal on this dark and cold night.
The three little beggars also took the dishes and chopsticks and ate them in a big gulp, and halfway through the meal, the three little beggars cried in unison, Fang Jing didn't know what was wrong, was it hot?
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is it hot? Fang Jing hurriedly stopped eating and asked.
"Brother, we have never eaten such a delicious meal, if my father and mother are still here, it would be good to be able to eat such a delicious meal, my mother wanted to eat a bowl of soup cakes before she died, but she didn't eat it until she died." The big beggar explained to Fang Jing with food in his mouth and tears in his eyes.
"Alas, don't be sad, don't be sad, when I used to be with my little sister, I couldn't eat enough, I was hungry every day, and when I slept on the straw mat every day, I wanted to eat a bowl of delicious rice, and I could eat no vegetables." Fang Jing is the most insolent person, so she wants to diverge her words, because Fang Jing has always been unable to comfort people, she doesn't know what to say, and she belongs to a stupid person.
When night fell, the south gate was already closed, the three little beggars and Fang Jing had eaten all the food, and there was not a single grain left, the three little beggars were uncomfortable eating, standing aside and staring at the fire, but Fang Jing was thinking about how to spend tonight, like people in martial arts dramas, do they sit all night? Fang Jing said that it was, and he just wanted to sleep, but how did he spend this night?
Fang Jing got up and left with his sword, then cut a bunch of withered weeds and came back and threw them into the small dilapidated house, which was all over the ground, Fang Jing was still too little, and cut a bunch of them and spread them inside, and then asked the gods for two sleeping bags, and it didn't matter, as long as they were not seen by the little beggars, otherwise they would have to freeze outside for a night tonight, not to mention that there were three little beggars, if they could help a handful.