Ten days later, I, like other beggars, had to start paying tribute to Liu Er. Although it feels uncomfortable to be oppressed, it is not a big deal, every day I bring a steamed bun, a pot helmet or something to throw to him, sometimes I am in a good mood to get a meat-filled bun back, and his eyes are so excited that his eyes are straight.

As I talked more and more things and spread more and more widely, gradually everyone in Pingyang City knew that there was a braggart beggar "Huazi Liu". Like all the strange things that are circulated among the people, slowly my image is distorted. Some say that I am a god who descends to earth and can predict the next five hundred years; Some say that I am the reincarnation of a goblin, and I am demagogic everywhere; There are also Lai I am a bandit's eyeliner, and I go to big families to step on it.

Pass it on! The more God spreads, the better, it is best for the emperor to know, so that I can have a chance to meet, at that time, I will tell him the history of the Ming Dynasty, if it is not good, it will really be able to rewrite history, let China rise in advance, occupy the Americas before Columbus, and destroy the Dongying Island Country by the way, that picture is simply not too beautiful.

That afternoon, after discussing materialist dialectics with Master Meng, I was about to return to the ruined temple with the "thin monkey" and the "strong donkey", when I suddenly found someone sneakily snooping around the corner of the street.

"Tough Donkey" said that it was "One-Eyed Seven", Liu Er's henchman.

I hadn't noticed this blind beggar before, why did he suddenly appear now? What are we following for, it can't be to protect my safety!

Back at the ruined temple, I noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere. In the past, in addition to making offerings to Liu Er, I also brought some leftovers to the old, weak, sick and disabled beggars, which was very popular with them. In the past few days, when they saw me come back, everyone began to become cold, as if they were deliberately estranged from me.

Liu Er accepted my tribute as usual, but he no longer praised me for how capable I was.

You guys who are cheaper than dogs are called Hanako, and you dare to show me a face after getting my benefits. Liu Er, you scumbag, maggot, Lao Tzu gave you food, that is not a tribute, it is a charity for you, you really take yourself seriously. Lao Tzu is now a hot figure in Pingyang City, and his friends are either masters or talents, either rich people or outsiders, and this broken temple is not rare.

I couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, and when I sat up, I saw my body covered with tattered skin and flesh, and I seemed to have a rare lucidity in my daze.

Why did you fall asleep in this ruined temple? How did you become a beggar? Suddenly it feels like the whole world is shaking, it's just absurd, people wander in a time and space like this, maybe it's just an illusory space and time?

I remember having this question in the tin house on the construction site, when I woke up from a nightmare and looked at the workers all over the floor.

When the rooster crows, I feel like the world is floating when I am half asleep and half awake, and I feel that I am in the iron house for a while, and I feel that I am in the temple of the Emperor of the Broken Gate.

The next day I asked the skinny monkeys what was going on with Hanako. I knew that this guy was as thin as a monkey and as fine as a monkey, and there was nothing in the streets that he didn't know.

He leaned his greasy head over, lowered his voice and said, "The Hanako said that you are a god descending from heaven and want to push you to be our new king, especially those who have received your favor. Liu Er heard the wind, and now he is afraid and annoyed, and it is estimated that he is holding bad water in his stomach! You have to be careful. ”