XIII. Wandering
Liu Wu decided to change his name to Liu Wu. In the Han Dynasty, parents were reluctant to change their children's names, especially boys, because they had to get married, and changing their names would make some parents feel that it was a mark of abandoning the original family and would be unhappy. However, one Liu Wu originally scoffed at this statement, and the other felt that changing his name would be more conducive to activities, Liu Wu's name, he felt disgusted to himself, so he changed it. Although Liu Wu's name is not good, this is an era that does not pay attention to gorgeous names, and he can't be too unconventional.
Liu Wu's plan is to continue to find his sisters, help them complete their spiritual cultivation tasks, and become a general, and then he will use all the information he has at his disposal to help them make achievements, and then step by step from behind the scenes to the front of the stage...... In this way, Liu Wu began a long career of searching for his sister, and he was determined to search for the spiritual halls in every place, and he could not find a vow not to give up.
At that time, Liu Wu really underestimated the difficulty of this operation. He thought that although he looked like a fourteen-year-old boy on the surface, he had more than 30 years of life experience, and he was also an armed police officer and had endured hardships and experience, so it should not be difficult to do this.
However, Liu Wu was wrong.
First of all, money is an issue. Although Liu Wu was already frugal enough, the three hundred yuan still didn't last long, and it was spent in less than four months. In the past four months, he has been wearing a set of clothes, and he doesn't even dare to use transportation, because the transportation fee in the Han Dynasty is already expensive, and on this basis, the man has to charge an additional surcharge, called the turbidity fee, which is basically close to the transportation fee, so that he can only walk all the way. At the beginning it was still summer, but it was okay, although every day was full of sweat, no clothes to change, can only sleep in the wild, but at least you can wash your clothes at night, and put them on again during the day, after four months have passed, it has entered the late autumn season, the weather is gradually getting cooler, and at night, the cold is particularly heavy, even if you put on your clothes, it is still difficult to sleep, where do you dare to take it off and wash? That smell has far exceeded the level of ordinary "stinky men".
Second, there is the fact that the hierarchical differences and gender discrimination are far worse than he imagined. If Liu Wu is a girl above the civilian level, the situation will be better, because the local government has a shelter, which will provide help to homeless civilian-level women, provide free food and lodging, and arrange work by the imperial court, if it is a pariah-level woman, she will also be arranged to do some heavy work, although there is no salary, at least she can have a full meal, and during the war years, she can even be directly pulled to the battlefield to serve, and what about men, of course, the lost official eunuch can turn to the official office, so that he does not need to wander, But Liu Wu has now become a commoner, and there are very few job opportunities for men, so he finally earned three opportunities before and after, and worked for several bosses respectively, but the work was done, and only two pieces of dry bread were paid, and the salary was not given at all.
Therefore, he had to go all the way east and become a wanderer.
But wanderers were very unpopular in the Han Dynasty. Because this world is dominated by beauty, the empress wants to make the whole world neat and spotless, but the wanderer will undoubtedly destroy this beauty, except for adding to the obstruction of the court, there is almost no positive meaning. The government hates them very much, there is a group of civil servants called urban cleaners, all of them are women, they think they are street sweepers, but in fact they are not, the Han Dynasty street sweepers are all men, even untouchable women do not bother to sweep the streets. The job of the cleaners is to ensure the appearance of the city and remove the wanderers. Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, beating and scolding homeless people was a protected act by law. If someone doesn't like you and comes to you and beats you, you can only swallow your anger. Even if they are beggars, they can only go to the areas designated by the government to beg. But the begging areas designated by the government are often places that ordinary people hate to go, and many people even call them garbage heaps.
Therefore, if a man walks on the streets of the Han Dynasty, it is a very miserable thing if people think that you are a vagabond.
However, Liu Wu's current outfit is impossible for people not to think of as a homeless man, seeing that the people who walk by him, regardless of men and women, the proportion of covering their noses is getting higher and higher, as a handsome, clean and hygienic person, that sense of humiliation really makes him very uncomfortable, and sometimes he even feels that it is better to die than to live like this. However, as soon as he remembered that all this was due to the two of them, thinking of his parents and brothers, and Liu Xin's vain death, a fire in his heart could not be extinguished, he couldn't be so cheap to them, he would definitely live and take revenge. What's more, there are two younger sisters whose whereabouts are unknown that need to be found?
I endure, I endure again, but I must find a way to live first.
After looking for a job many times in a row without success and starving for nearly two days, after a very fierce ideological struggle, Liu Wu finally decided to go to the begging area to sell songs to raise money. Because pure begging is unearned, Liu Wu disdains to do that.
This decision ultimately changed the trajectory of his life.
In fact, he played quite badly when he sang, first, he was too hungry, secondly, the sense of humiliation made him a little unable to let go, and thirdly, he struggled for a night before making this decision, so the entire vocal cord was affected, plus on the noisy street, there was no stereo and no microphone, the environment was so bad, all kinds of comprehensive factors, resulting in his performance that day was definitely not up to the normal level, plus that tattered clothes, covered with a dirty image, it was annoying, So even if people would look at him more out of curiosity when they passed in front of him, they all left directly without any expression, which made him less confident the more he sang.
Fortunately, Liu Wu's singing voice actually attracted an old beggar, the old beggar sat next to him, applauded him, and helped him beg for money, his begging skills were obviously far more professional and skilled than Liu Wu, with his help, Liu Wu sang for the first time, and finally it was not in vain, Liu Wu harvested two coins. At the price here, he can eat two meals with this money.
The old beggar's name was Bai Tong.
In view of Bai Tong helping Liu Wu on the side, Liu Wu did not hesitate to take out one of the knife coins to Bai Tong, because he didn't want to owe someone else's love debt, but he didn't expect Bai Tong to refuse, which made Liu Wu a little surprised, a beggar actually refused to give a reward, and he always felt a little unreal.
But Liu Wu didn't have time to think about it, he hurriedly found a street food stall and bought two pieces of meat buns to fill his stomach. Bai Tong has been following Liu Wu, Liu Wu thought that he wanted to give him a share, so he wanted to give him one of them, but he still didn't want it, and said, I'm not hungry, you are so hungry, you can eat it yourself.
Liu Wu looked down on beggars in his bones, and of course he couldn't be polite to him, so he hurriedly stuffed two pieces of meat buns into his stomach, and the belly problem that had tormented him all day was finally solved.
Bai Tong waited for Liu Wu to finish eating, and also went to buy two pieces of meat and steamed buns to eat. Liu Wu felt strange and said, "Didn't you just say that you weren't hungry?" ”
Bai Tong smiled: "Hungry is hungry, but the reason why I volunteer to help is because I have something to ask for you, since I have a request, I received your reward, so I am embarrassed to ask you to do anything again." ”
Liu Wu was puzzled: "What can I help you?" "Although his mental age is already in his thirties, in this world, he is only a fourteen-year-old boy, Bai Tong, an old man in his sixties, can there be anything that needs his help?
Bai Tong said: "I want your help, it's actually very simple, it's the song you sing." ”
Liu Wu said angrily: "I sang so badly just now, didn't you hear it, of course my real level is much stronger than what I showed just now, but you haven't heard my real level, I don't understand why you are interested in this." ”
Bai Tong said: "You really didn't sing very well just now, but it's not bad, besides, you know how to sing a lot of songs, all of these songs are all I haven't heard, and they're pretty good...... I'm here for this. Who is your master, why is he so powerful and has passed on so many songs to you? ”
Do you need a master for this? Liu Wu was stunned for a moment, but immediately his brain turned around, indeed, this is not the world of his previous life, there is not even the Internet here, no, no, even the newspaper industry is very poor, newspapers only have one copy in ten days on average, and there are no sound carriers and recording equipment such as records and tapes, and the entertainment skills and program content here are also passed down from generation to generation like other traditional methods. Therefore, a person like Liu Wu who can sing a lot of songs usually has a master.
Bai Channel: "Who is your master, say, say it, I'll give you ten, no, no, twenty, thirty sword coins......"
Liu Wuleng paused for a moment and said, "I don't have a master. ”
Bai Channel: "You don't have a master, it's impossible." ”
Liu Wu loves face, and he really doesn't want to have too much traffic with this kind of beggar, so he said angrily: "Isn't it just a few songs, what master do you need?" ”
Bai Channel: "No Master, then how can you sing these songs, eavesdropping?" Where did I overhear and tell me, I added twenty dollars, a total of fifty dollars, is enough...... But you can't lie to me, lie to me, I can find you at the ends of the earth and settle accounts with you. ”
Liu Wu said impatiently: "It's all said, I don't have a master, please stay away from me, you follow me like this and talk hotly, others really think of me as a beggar like you, am I so much like a beggar?" ”