Outside the south gate of Chengwu County, a group of displaced people is entering the city, leading oxen and donkeys, carrying baskets and pots, carrying rags, dragging their sons and daughters, and squeezing the city gate in a noisy manner. It had just rained, and the ground was muddy, and it was trampled by hundreds of pairs of feet in straw sandals, and it became a muddy pool. People laughed, scolded, pushed, and shoved, made vulgar and obscene jokes, touched their arms on their thighs, touched them upwards along the way, stepped on their little feet, and deliberately planted them on people.

A healthy woman was touched three times in a row, angry, barefoot, holding a whacking stick and frantically chasing a short and thin man, the short man repeatedly said that his feet were slippery, and he had no way to find a thigh to help him in order to maintain balance.

The healthy woman and the thin man soon twisted together, and the thin man had a slight upper hand from the scene, so under the cover of laughter, someone quietly stretched out his foot

The thin man threw himself into the mud, and the healthy woman pounced violently, riding on his neck, and tearing the thin man's hair with both hands as if she were plucking chicken feathers. Every time the man screamed, he inevitably had to drink a mouthful of dirty water, which was really miserable. The woman's husband came after her, grabbed her by the hair, lifted her up viciously, slapped her five or six times with a crackle, and then smashed her fist on the woman's heart, and the healthy woman squatted in the mud with her heart in her hands, and only shed tears in pain.

His husband picked up the wreck and struck the thin man in the head, mingling with cursing, persuasion, and wailing.

Li Mao was not interested in this kind of excitement, and drank away from the crowd and continued to walk forward, and a shack was newly erected along the street inside the city gate, where the beggars who migrated from Xuzhou set up camp, and the beggars formed groups or squatted on the side of the street waiting for money, or went door to door begging for money, and a few people set up a stage on the roadside, playing monkeys, circus, boxing, and selling their crafts to eat. At night, the beggars openly stood on the side of the street to solicit customers, and they froze in the woods on the side of the street, charging three cents each time. The city of color sticks rushed to patronize, so that the night ban was bad.

This kind of behavior is harmful to the people's hearts, Xue Rong has ordered a ban several times, but it has been repeatedly banned, and the beggars are embarrassed and vulgar, but they are all teenage girls, and they are only three at a time, this temptation is too great.

The entire South Street has been occupied by a large army of beggars, and a group of beggars will chase and intercept pedestrians passing by. Over time, the women of the entire Chengwu County did not dare to go to South Street.

Li Mao rode on a tall horse, with a saber hanging from his waist, followed by four guards, and his bearing was not comparable to ordinary people. The beggars knew it well, and they did not dare to go forward, and they walked unhindered all the way. After the crossing, the beggars were gone, and the place was occupied by a group of even more fierce and domineering outsiders, these people were not from the Central Plains, but from the face of the Zahu, they had a strange surname Moqi.

There is a clearing in the north of Cross Street, where the Moqi people have set up camp, their tents are round, similar to felt bags on the grassland, but much smaller, and the material used is not felt cloth, but snow-white linen. After seizing this golden treasure, they sold cakes, knives, and counterfeit medicines on the street during the day, and held bonfires and wine banquets in the open space in front of the felt bags at night.

The beggar gang relied on the strength of the crowd, and wanted to expel this group of people from Chengwu County, monopolizing the golden location of the crossroads, but did not succeed, several open and secret battles, but the beggar gang suffered a big loss, some people said that the beggar gang was killed at least four people in the battle with the Moqi people, but when the government went to investigate, they insisted that no one was injured, for this kind of non-registered homeless people, the attitude of the government has always been to let them fend for themselves, since the bitter lord does not tell them and is too lazy to investigate.

Li Mao rode past their camp on horseback, and after just a cursory glance, he received a few very unfriendly glances, and three young men with pigtails chased after him, all three of whom were equipped with scimitars at their waists, and their eyes were so fierce that they could tear Li Mao apart with his men and horses. Li Mao reined in his horse and stared directly at the comer, and the four guards spread out in a fan shape, ready for battle. The three Moqi people were not afraid, and a young man at the head was leaning his neck, staring at Li Mao coldly, and his eyebrows were full of provocation. He had a large red mole on his eyebrows, and from a distance it looked like he had three eyes.

When the two sides were at a stalemate, a large number of Moqi people rushed to reinforce them, and one of them, a young man holding a double-strand steel fork, stood next to Li Mao's horse, his eyes were as cold as a wolf, and the frightened war horse snorted uneasily. His steel fork is less than two feet from the horse's neck, and if there is a war, his steel fork will be the first to work.

Li Mao was a little nervous in his heart, but more angry, this group of people was really a little too deceitful

South Street, just the young woman didn't dare to go, but this North Street couldn't even go to a man with a knife like him, what kind of reason was this The two sides confronted each other for a long time, suddenly someone coughed, the voice was low and majestic, a black beard carried his hands behind his back, and slowly walked out of the crowd, he muttered a string of words at the "Three Eyes", and the "Three Eyes" spat and foamed contemptuously under Li Mao's horse legs, turned around and left, and a group of people followed to evacuate, but they turned back in three steps, and their eyes were still cold and could eat people.

Li Mao looked at the person who had relieved him from a distance, it was a middle-aged man with a sturdy physique, with a white cloth wrapped around his head and a swarthy beard. The man also glanced at Li Mao, but he didn't say a word.

Sent four guards back to the inn, Li Mao went to the county government to find Xue Rong, and met Kuaishou at the gate of the county government to prepare Qingmo, Li Mao solemnly recommended Qingmo to Xue Rong after serving as an envoy, and now he runs errands in the yamen, runs errands, and practices academic qualifications. Seeing Li Mao's horse arrive, Qingmo stepped forward to take the reins from him, and asked with a smile: "Where did the entourage come from, and where do you want to go" Li Mao said: "I just came back from Su Nu Township, and I was about to see the county honor, what's wrong with you, listless"

Qingmo said: "The county respects the city to inspect the disaster, and I am afraid that I can only come back before dark." I'm this, hey, yesterday I received news that the Moqi people were going to fight with the beggar gang, Cui Shaofu was afraid of chaos, and ordered me to wait in the yazhong to standby, I didn't sleep all night, I just slept this morning, and I just received news that the beggar gang had an appointment with the fish line in the west of the city, and tonight the three watches were outside the Iron Buddha Temple to learn martial arts. Feng Tou asked us to go home for dinner, and gathered in Erya after dark, it seems that we haven't slept tonight. Maybe it's better to choose a day than to hit the day, please let my brother be a host, how about inviting my brother to have a glass of wine. My brother is now an official, but don't look down on my brother. ”

Hearing that Xue Rong was not there, Li Mao was about to go home, and when he heard this, he scolded with a smile: "Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, you should have learned some skills with Feng Tou, how did you learn this yin tone." Qingmo sneered: "The officialdom is sinister, it's not so difficult to survive." He shouted to the miscellaneous servants in the yali to lead Li Mao's horse to the public stable to feed, but he went out of Xinglongfang with Li Mao.

On the road, there was a hitchhiker chatting and gossiping, and suddenly I heard someone sitting on the ground crying in front of me, it turned out to be a woman who went to the street to buy vegetables was stolen by a beggar for money, and she was afraid that her husband would beat her and dare not go home.

When the onlookers saw Qingmo arrive, they made fun of him, and he came out to preside over justice, Qingmo sneered: "Presiding over justice, it is easy to say, there are only twenty people in the ya, and there are no less than a thousand beggars in the city, how to preside over petty theft has existed since ancient times, how can you ever forbid to say that you are useless as a woman, and you were stolen ten cents when you went to buy vegetables on the street at a huge age, needless to say, you are coaxed with golden-nosed worms, three-year-old children know that thing is fake, their own greed is too much, and they deserve to be deceived." The woman cried, "I was stolen, not deceived, what is the reason why the chief does not make decisions for the small people, but humiliates the small people?"

Seeing that Qingmo was about to be anxious, Li Mao hurriedly stepped forward to play a round, took ten money and gave it to the woman and said, "Go back early after buying vegetables, knowing that there is chaos in the city and there are many scammers, you should be more careful." The woman folded her hands and said, "For no reason, I don't want your money." The people around laughed and persuaded: "This is Li Zhiya, who has just been promoted, this is a scattered blessing, accept it." Then the woman timidly accepted it, got up, picked up the basket, bowed to Li Mao, and wiped away with tears in her eyes. Just walked a few steps but turned around and walked back, threw the ten coins in front of Li Mao, and sneered: "It turned out to be you, hum, I don't want your stinky money"

Li Mao looked at the woman in a daze and staggered away, but he was confused, and he offended her without knowing where she was. xh118

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