Wang Huan suddenly felt a cloud of doubt in his heart, feeling that middle-aged people didn't seem to be as compassionate as they seemed on the surface. Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan didn't know why, and asked the middle-aged man one by one: "Daguan, do you come to you to work, and you can eat as much as you want?" ”

The middle-aged man laughed and said: "Naturally, as long as you work hard, everything you eat and drink will be open to you. ”

The two sturdy young men standing behind him also echoed: "Yes, our host is the most merciful, and we can't see the suffering of the people on the street, especially young children like us, as soon as we see him, we will take him in to work and eat, and even the government will make him a great good person." ”

The middle-aged man smiled and waved his hand: "That is the trust of the prefect in me, it is the responsibility of my generation to do good deeds, everyone can do it, where is there anything great." ”

When Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan heard this, they admired the middle-aged man even more, their eyes were full of admiration, and they whispered to Wang Huan: "I look at this big official very well, why don't we stay in Xiangyang City for a few days, eat and drink enough, and then it's not too late to leave." ”

Wang Huan's eyes wandered, noncommittal, looking at the middle-aged man, and then at the sturdy young man behind him, knowing that things don't seem to be so simple today, and this posture doesn't seem to be okay.

The middle-aged man handed the cloth bag with the nest head to a young man to carry, and said to Wang Huan and the three with a smile: "Since you are willing to go with me, then let's go." ”

After that, the leader walked towards the depths of the alley, Chen Ergou and Xu Gou followed behind, and couldn't help but turn around to greet Wang Huan, who was slow, while the two sturdy young men fell side by side unhurriedly, blocking the way to leave.

The group walked through the alleys, came to a secluded side street, crossed the small street, and passed through several narrow alleys where sewage flowed, the road became narrower and narrower, and the houses on both sides were more and more broken, and at last, they almost walked to the base of the city wall, and came to a small courtyard of a broken temple that almost no one came.

Wang Huan observed all the way and found that this dilapidated temple had no doors and no windows, only a few big black holes, and two baskets were conspicuously placed at the door. Apparently dilapidated for a long time, this place, in any way, does not look like the workshop of a decent merchant.

The courtyard was surrounded by earthen walls, surrounded by low, dilapidated houses, lifeless, and sparsely populated, with either burly men or sneaky suspicious figures.

Chen Ergou also noticed that something was wrong, and he whispered to Wang Huan: "Why don't I think this place is wrong, it's not like a factory, it's like a thief's den infested by robbers and kidnappers when I was messing around in Yangzhou City." ”

Xu Goudan watched a stout man with tattoos come out of the gate of the small temple, how he looked like a thief blocking the road, he couldn't help but be frightened, grabbed Wang Huan's hand, and couldn't help trembling.

The big man ran into the middle-aged man head-on, but he bowed down and sang, looking very respectful, and saw Wang Huan and the others following behind, and grinned: "Wang Tuantou has brought back three lambs, and the business is booming." ”

The middle-aged man said reservedly: "What's good, you have to be trained and trained, and with the capital, you can go out and be a dead twister." ”

The big man laughed, gave up his hand and left, and when he walked away, he looked at Wang Huan and the three of them again, his eyes were full of greed, and he seemed to see three money-making treasures, so frightened that Xu Goudan tightened his hand holding Wang Huan a little tighter.

At this moment, Wang Huan's heart was bright, and the cold sweat on his back came out all of a sudden, his heart was bad, and today in order to covet a nest, he entered a thief's den.

The dead twist in the middle-aged population, the lamb in the hands of the big man, are all black words, the dead twist is the lowest level of begging in the middle and bottom of the beggar gang, generally with disabilities, the little sheep refers to the child who has just been abducted from the outside and has no upper road, these black words are the cut of the first big gang of --- beggars in the rivers and lakes that have taken root in the society since the Southern Song Dynasty and gradually organized formed.

Speaking of the beggar gang, Wang Huan read a lot of books in the previous world, and had read books describing the history of beggars, this beggar gang is also divided into regions, the northern and southern provinces have their own territory, and there are two baskets at the door of the broken temple, which must be the symbol of the Huguang beggar gang --- the basket gang, indicating that this is the hall of the basket gang, and the middle-aged man is called the head of the group by the big man, that is, the second-level management of the basket gang, called the character of straw sandals, and the identity is quite high.

Wang Huan slowed down and whispered to Chen Ergou and Xu Goudan simply, the two suddenly understood, and suddenly became nervous, and the three of them dragged on, so they didn't want to continue to move forward.

The middle-aged man stepped into the small courtyard, but when he turned around, he saw that the three of them were stagnant, knowing that they sensed that something was wrong, he immediately pulled down his face, sank his face, and shouted viciously: "What? After eating the uncle's and drinking the uncle's, I don't want to work for the uncle, do you? Hmph, this is up to you! ”

Chen Ergou said angrily: "You are lying to us, what kind of workshop is here, it is clear that it is a den of thieves." ”

The middle-aged man looked up to the sky and laughed, and said leisurely: "It's a thief's den, I didn't say it's not a thief's den, since you've entered a thief's den, do you think you can still go?" ”

He scolded, "Why don't you drive them in and be stupid?" ”

The two sturdy young men who followed behind agreed, one on each side, caught up from behind, pushed and rubbed the three of them, and scolded: "The big official told you to go in, so go in quickly." The two of them were slightly older than Wang Huan and the others, and they were tall and strong, and even Chen Ergou, the strongest of the three, couldn't fight against them, and was pushed and staggered towards the small courtyard.

The middle-aged man stood at the gate of the courtyard and said gloomily: "Don't be unwilling, it will leave some scars and disabilities on your body later, and you can beg for money when you go out, and you can live a long life." ”

Wang Huan understands that as long as he enters the yard, he will definitely be pushed to the ground, either knocking off his hands and feet, or gouging out his eyes, just like the group of children who eat nests he met at the entrance of the alley, he was taken to beg on the street to win sympathy, and all the money and things he got had to be handed over to the middle-aged man to become a tool for him to make money.

This courtyard can't be entered, if you want to run, at this moment, there are only two people behind you, and when you enter the courtyard, there are more than that.

Wang Huan's heart was racing, he had a certain idea, he immediately made up his mind, and glanced at Chen Ergou, Chen Ergou understood, nodded, and the two pretended to be scared, took a step forward, but turned around at the same time, one on each side, and punched the person behind.

Chen Ergou was very powerful, and punched the bridge of the man's nose, hitting a full house, the bridge of the nose made a crisp sound, the man let out a miserable scream, raised his head and fell to the ground, writhing on the ground, screaming in pain, and the bridge of his nose was broken.

Wang Huan's punch, but because his physique was too weak, a punch hit the face of the person behind him, the strength was insufficient, although he was caught off guard, but there was no big problem, but his face was blue, the sturdy young man was furious, pounced up, pressed Wang Huan to the ground, and hit the fist headlessly.

Wang Huan was so pressed that he couldn't get up, so he could only protect the door with his hands, and fell down, Chen Ergou saw this, and hurriedly went to help, but was kicked away by the middle-aged man who rushed over, fell to the ground, and was also ridden by the middle-aged man, full of old fists.

Xu Goudan was frightened stupidly, looked at it in a daze, suddenly understood, and rushed over to help Chen Ergou, but was punched by the middle-aged man at random, hit the ground and snorted.

Wang Huan gritted his teeth and suffered a beating from the young man on his body, peeking to see that the other two were also subdued, and he was ruthless in his heart, knowing that if he didn't work hard today, he was afraid that he would not be able to get out of this Xiangyang City, so he freed up one hand and took out the short knife from his arms, gritted his teeth, and stabbed it out of his waist, hitting the young man's chest, the short knife entered without a handle, and the tip of the knife came out from behind, and the young man's body suddenly twitched, and he lay down and didn't move.

Wang Huan pushed the corpse away from his body, ignoring the blood on his body, and shouted angrily: "Grass you fucking thief, Lao Tzu ******!" Rushing to the back of the middle-aged man who was still beating Chen Ergou Zhenghuan, the middle-aged man turned his head when he heard the sound, and the short knife was just inserted into his neck, the middle-aged man grunted in his throat, his eyes opened incredibly, obviously he couldn't understand why the three little sheep brought here today were so ruthless. The body went limp, and it slowly fell down like a ball of cotton.

The young man who was broken by Chen Ergou broke his nose, seeing Wang Huan kill two people in a row, where had he ever seen such a strong child, he was frightened and scared, and screamed loudly on the ground.

Chen Ergou was splashed with blood, pushed the middle-aged man away, got up from the ground, Wang Huan pulled up Xu Goudan, who was still humming on the ground, and shouted eagerly: "Run, there are still their people in the temple, it's too late if you don't leave!" ”

The three of them turned their heads and ran, and just a few steps after running out, a group of big men in the broken temple courtyard who heard the wrong sound rushed out one after another, and when they saw the two corpses on the ground, they immediately scolded, and chased after the three of them with sticks and short knives.