In the early morning, outside the Tianzi Garden rented by the Mi family, the voices of people were boiling, everyone knew that the Mi family, one of the four giants, was going to leave Guanzhong today, and many bigwigs who were intertwined with the Mi family came to say goodbye. They all have to rely on the Mi family's nose to enjoy the bowl of rice.

Mi Cheng took Mi Zhu to have a "cordial" and "friendly" exchange with those uncles who were subdued by Mi Cheng.

The backyard is also busy, and the few things to be brought back are loaded into the carriage, but Mi Zhu and they are not like when they came by land, this world has begun to be chaotic, and the hungry and crazy people dare to attack no matter whose convoy they are, either starve to death or fight, and most desperate people must choose the latter.

They will take a large boat down the Yellow River, and then disembark from Beihai County in Qingzhou and return to Xuzhou.

Mi Cheng was about to lead Mi Zhu to toast a group of merchants, when the panicked old butler and a sobbing and frightened grandmother who came quickly on the side nervously whispered something to Mi Cheng.

The surrounding environment was a little noisy, and Mi Cheng didn't hear it clearly for a while. The old housekeeper dragged Mi Cheng to an unoccupied room and told him with a crying voice: "Master, it's not good! The young lady is gone. I searched the entire mansion, but I couldn't find the lady. ”

"What?" Mi Cheng almost fainted, and roared angrily: "What are you doing to eat!" Let a seven or eight-year-old disappear under his nose? ”

"Sir, don't blame us." Mama cried and mourned: "At first, Miss said that she would take a bath and change clothes, and she would not let the old body serve, and the old body waited outside for half an hour, but when you go in again, there will be no shadow of Miss......"

"What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and find it! ”

Mi Cheng's anxious anger made everyone dare not look at him directly, Mi Cheng pointed at the two of them and said: "If Zhen'er has three long and two short, you!" Just cut yourself! ”

After speaking, regardless of the pale and shaky faces, the two walked out of the room with their sleeves brushed.

Mi Cheng met Mi Zhu who came to find him, Mi Zhu looked at his father, who had almost always been moody, but now he was like this, and hurriedly stepped forward to ask.

"What? The little sister is gone? After hearing this, Mi Zhu's face sank, and he arched his hand and said, "The child will send someone to find it now!" ”

Mi Cheng nodded heavily: "It must be fast!" Don't reveal it yet, I'll hold it up in front, and I'll leave it to you to find Zhen'er! I'm most afraid that Mi'er will fall into the hands of someone with a heart to deal with our Mi family, that's bad! ”

"No! Father, I will definitely get my sister back as soon as possible! ”

Mi Cheng and Mi Zhu here are in a hurry, and what are Mi Zhen doing herself?

She was walking in Luoyang City with a guard disguised as two father and daughter, swaggering to buy things.

The guard had a bitter face, holding a large bag of things in his hand and asked Mi Zhen: "Miss, let's go back as soon as possible, right?" Otherwise, let the little one talk to the family, and bring more people to follow you! ”

The guard said silently in his heart: "The province wants me to carry so many things alone, my back hurts, I have been shopping for most of the day, I am so miserable......"

The guard was still thinking nonsense, a string of fragrant kebabs was stuffed into his mouth, Mi Zhen clapped his hands, along the way, his own guard had been chattering, and now it was finally quiet.

Mi Zhen patted the guard like a little adult: "Okay, I'm just bringing some new things to the family before leaving, my father and brother don't understand the thoughts of girls' families, and bringing some things personally will definitely make my mother and aunt happy." ”

After speaking, Mi Zhen's eyes looked at the jewelry store on the side through the crowd, and her eyes lit up, and she ran in without listening to the guard's greeting, and the guard reluctantly followed into the jewelry store.

In the bustling streets, there are also a few beggars with disheveled hair and dirty faces.

A young beggar, who was as thin as ribs, excitedly pushed the old beggar who was basking in the sun on the side: "Boss, don't you want me to find a target?" ”

"Hmm...... What's wrong? The old beggar, who was sleepy in the sun, scratched the lice, put it in his mouth and crapped it, and took a mouthful of thick phlegm, and looked at him.

"The girl who just entered the jewelry store must be very rich, let's just tie her up, hehehe......" The young beggar laughed lewdly.

Who knew that a slap came over and hit the young beggar on the back of the head, making him tear his teeth and grin: "Old man!" What did you teach before entering the industry? Don't mess with the officials, don't mess with the powerful! Didn't you see that those two people weren't father and daughter? That girl is either rich or expensive! If it gets wet, both of us will probably have to go under the knife! ”

The young beggar muttered in frustration: "But I've seen it, the two of them are definitely not wearing the clothes we are closing, master, this has not been opened for more than a month, if we don't open a gang again, the family should starve to death." ”

The old beggar strangled his loose belt and sighed: "Alas! Tell the family to come and do it, you will be killed sooner or later! ”

"Okay!" The young beggar jumped up for joy and ran to the house, which was not at all like a man with a cripple in his right leg.

The old beggar looked at the figure of the young beggar gradually moving away and recited the immeasurable Tianzun, he probably came to the outside of Luoyang City in late autumn, and relied on a little ability to get here, thinking that he would not starve to death by begging for food, who knew that the weather was getting colder and colder, he was already old, and there was no place to stay, and the old eyes were dizzy in Tongfu Inn, how could he not rob those young and strong beggars, and he was trampled alive and fainted.

If it weren't for a group of little beggars who saved themselves and lay there on the streets in the cold, they might have become the stiff corpses that the Luoyang Yamen pulled out and threw in mass graves every day.

But most of the little beggars are people who are connected with the same fate or have physical disabilities to keep warm, in order to survive, in order to die less in which cold winter, what they do is far against the bottom line of the old beggar's belief in Taoism, but when they have nothing and are on the verge of death, what way out do they have except to sin? Not a mistake per se, but a tragedy of the times......

Mi Zhen picked up the jewelry of the jewelry store and picked out her eyes, with three or four silver hairpins on her head, and a few gold bracelets in her hands to look at them one by one, the guys in the store couldn't bear it and dared to say something, but they were stopped by the female boss on the side with a smile.

The status of women in the Han Dynasty was much higher than that after the Song Dynasty, and the virtue of women without talent was from the hands of Zhang Dai, a famous scholar of Cheng Zhu Lixue, and there were several female princes in the Han Dynasty, who also did their own business

She walked over and half-squatted down and asked with a smile: "Little sister, the hairpin can only be inserted at most, and if you insert too much, it will make people laugh at ......."

Mi Zhen said indifferently: "I know, there are many hairpins in the family, and there are more fancy styles in Guanzhong, but they are not good." ”

The guy thinks that what Mi Zhen said is full of big words, and these things that Mi Zhen is holding in her hand may not be able to buy these by some small families even if they sell them, and she has a big mouth, so she is not afraid of blowing to death!

"Abin, go to the back and bring the hairpin of the Eastern Pearl and the bracelet of the Western Gem from our store."

"Huh? The shopkeeper's ......" Abin said urgently: "A child ......"

The female shopkeeper waved her hand: "If you are told to go, you will go, let's open the door to do business and not let customers pick?" ”

"No......" Abin reluctantly took out the key from the counter behind and opened a lock, which contained two exquisite boxes, which were opened and placed in front of Mi Zhen.

Mi Zhen's eyes lit up, and on the left was a phoenix bird golden hairpin, with a beautiful style, you know, in ancient times, these were made by craftsmen little by little, and there was a huge East China Sea pearl on the top. On the right is a silver bracelet, carved with ancient seals, and delicately inlaid with five gems of different colors, corresponding to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Mi Zhen looked left and right, and felt that she couldn't put it down, and waved her big hand: "I want it all, including what I bring, wrap it all up for me!" Uncle, pay! ”

After speaking, he jumped onto a chair and ate a wrapped roast chicken with his feet crossed.

The man in the back looked miserable, put down the "mountain" thing and asked for the price, then took out the gold from his pocket to pay it off.

Abin's jaw is about to fall off, what a local tyrant this is, don't look at the clothes and wear it, he is just a middle-class small family, I didn't expect it to be just pretending to be forced! You don't even ask for the price!

"Wait, right away, right away! Abin? Abin! The female shopkeeper smiled and secretly kicked Abin, Abin finally sobered up, hurriedly nodded and stepped forward to pack up one by one, and took the bag.

After a while, the two of them brushed their sleeves and left, Mi Zhen saw something interesting again, and walked in front of him jumping up, and the guards had to nervously carry large bags and small bags to hurry up, for fear that the pearl of the Mi family's palm would be missing, Abin stood next to the shopkeeper and asked puzzledly: "Shopkeeper?" How do you know that the two of them are so rich? ”

The female shopkeeper smiled proudly and glanced at Abin and said, "Do you see the girl's neckline?" ”

"Uh...... Don't look at indecent things, so what? Abin scratched his head and said he didn't understand.

"Hey! You are stupid to read, the most important thing for us to do business is to observe words and looks, what kind of guests introduce what kind of goods, the girl is wearing a silk shirt as thin as cicada wings, obediently, except for Shaofu and Sichuan Shu, no one can weave! That's worth more than gold! You say, will a little girl be short of money in such clothes? Study hard! The female shopkeeper calculated the money earned from this order, and walked back to the store with her eyebrows fluttering.

Abin was depressed for a while, and then went back.

A few unkempt heads poked out of the street corner, and the old beggar spat out the grass roots in his mouth and asked, "Do you see clearly?" ”

The beggars replied, "I see! ”

"After this alone, we can all eat steamed buns for months!"

The beggars were very excited, especially a few little beggars, and Liu Wei had invited the beggars in the city to eat steamed buns that day, and when they heard that there were meat buns to eat, their saliva was about to flow to the ground.

The old beggar felt great pity in his heart, and touched the "radish heads": "Go, act!" ”

Mi Zhen was looking at this and that at the stall of the grandmother who sold cloth tigers on the side, looking at this and that, suddenly the alley on one side was noisy, attracting everyone's attention. It turned out that several older beggars in the alley were beating a little beggar curled up on the ground, and the little beggar was holding the broken bowl in his arms and not letting go, and even being beaten to the point of vomiting blood was stubbornly silent and did not move.

Finally, a few people turned him over, took the stone and smashed his hand holding the broken bowl one by one, finally, the hand was released, the broken bowl fell to the ground, and it was shattered, and a few copper coins fell to the ground.

The little beggar pulled the broken bowl with his trembling and bleeding hand, and there was no penny...... He finally couldn't help it, he knelt on the edge of the broken bowl, covered his face in ragged clothes, and cried sadly, blood and tears dripping on the ground.

The crowd watching on the street outside the alley sighed a little, and some silently watched the crowd gradually disperse.

"Bell ......" A crisp voice fell into the broken bowl, and the little beggar looked at the half-broken bowl with a golden nude in it, and Mi Zhen smiled and handed over her handkerchief.

The little beggar laughed too...... He smiled strangely, as if he was smug!

"Phew!" A thick log slammed into the guard's head.

The guard felt bad, he held on to not fall, all the things in his hand were scattered on the ground, his hand was on the knife at his waist, and he roared angrily at Mi Zhen: "Miss! Hurry up ......"

"Phew!" With another blow, the young beggar's hand holding the wood trembled a little, and the guard finally fainted and fell to the ground motionless.

These actions are only completed in the electric light, Mi Zhen ran out of the alley, the old beggar rushed out, hugged Mi Zhen from behind, held a piece of torn clothes in his hand and covered Mi Zhen's mouth and nose, and after a while, Mi Zhen, who was struggling violently, collapsed softly in the arms of the old beggar.

"Quick! Gunnysack! The old beggar shouted.

They put Mi Zhen into a sack, the old beggar followed the two children and fled into the dark with their backs, and the other people hurriedly picked up some things from the ground and quickly scattered, in less than three minutes in total, the alley escaped into darkness again, and returned to calm.

"Father, father, I inquired, Zhen'er went out with Misi, and she should have gone shopping on the street." Mi Zhu broke into the room and said to Mi Cheng panting.

"Smack!" Mi Cheng slapped the table: "Send everyone to the street to find it immediately!" ”

"This time, I have to ground her for a few days!" Mi Cheng seems to be really angry.

"No!" Mi Zhu quickly walked out of the house again, he was also very worried about his sister's safety, all the people of the Mi family outside gathered there, Mi Zhu took the sword handed to him by the guard and raised his hand: "Let's go!" ”

(End of chapter)