Chapter Ninety-Six: The Beggar Gang (Part II)
"Lao Xu, look at these two black babies sneakily seem to be stalking someone, not like the master who has no backstage. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”
It was a middle-aged man in ragged clothes with an oily face, dressed like a beggar, and his spirits were quite high. He was accompanied by the man known as "Lao Xu", who was also dressed like a beggar, but with a jasper staff in his hand.
These two people are indeed two beggars, but their status among the beggars is terrible. The beggar known as Lao Xu, whose full name is Xu Baoquan, is known as the leader of the beggar gang in the capital, with 100,000 begging bowls under his command; The other was named Liu Xiaoshan, an elder under Xu Baoquan.
Xu Baoquan said: "The original Jianghu forces in the capital have already subdued us, if these two little cubs are not our people, they must be the new begging people who came out to steal business with us." ”
Liu Xiaoshan was puzzled: "Begging to teach ghost slaves? ”
"Why don't you accept it, don't they say that all beings are equal? Isn't it just plagiarizing the teachings of the Confucian saints of the Confucian Mountains? Since these two little cubs have been met by us, they will be our people in the future, and now there are too many people around, and the people they are following have arrived at the place, and it is estimated that they will return the same way, and when they come to the deep alley that they pass by, we will do it again. ”
"Yes."
"Hmph, grab food with my beggar gang, the begging sect is still a little tender."
The "begging religion" in the mouths of Xu Baoquan and others refers to Buddhism. Buddhism has very little influence in the Central Plains, and the name is not uniform, the people have "no teaching", "begging religion", "Buddhism" and other names, now the most used is not Buddhism, but "not teaching" and "begging teaching", the former is the transliteration of "Buddha", the latter is a summary of the behavior of the followers of this religion. The begging cultists in the capital suddenly increased after the Venerable Dari, the national teacher of the Snow Mountain Country, came to the court, and the beggar gang that was originally begging for a living was even more of a disaster area, just a few days ago, many elders under Xu Baoquan had defected to the begging sect. That's why Xu Baoquan mentioned this begging religion, and he hated it so much that the roots of his teeth itched.
Yun Qian and Yun Qian and Yun just suffered from the idea of "pretending to be a beggar" that they came up with on the spot.
As Xu Baoquan expected, Yunqian and Yunyun really chose to return the same way.
Xu Baoquan and Liu Xiaoshan whispered while following from a distance.
Xu Baoquan gritted his teeth and said: "These days, we have lost too many people under our hands, Lao Sun and Lao Zhu are the most excessive, not only did they leave by themselves, but none of the people under them were left to the abduction and begging sect, which is really bearable, which is unbearable?" ”
"But isn't it, I heard that one of them is now known as the Buddha of Fighting and the other is known as the Pure Altar Messenger, I, a martial artist and a dead fat pig who can only eat and sleep, and it is so mysterious." When Liu Xiaoshan mentioned these two people, he was even more resentful in his heart, but how much of this resentment was due to jealousy, and it is unknown.
Tracking the things in front of the cloud and the cloud, the two of them didn't take it too seriously, they were just two little dolls, and they did a lot of this kind of thing. After being caught, gouge out your eyes, cut out your tongue, and preferably break your arms and legs, the more miserable it is, the faster the money comes, especially in this relatively peaceful era, where people's sympathy is overflowing, and usually a crippled little beggar earns enough money a day for an adult to squander for three or five days. Recently, because the expansion of the begging religion is too unbelievable, the business of the beggar gang has been greatly hit, so they are getting more and more bold, and sometimes even adult men can come to such a set, anyway, they can't speak when the time comes, and no one knows them if they are disfigured.
So, for both of them, today's events were just routine.
However, Yun Qian and Yun have been trained by Leng Yuyan for a while, and they are not ordinary children, and their actual age is much older than they seem.
Yun said: "Sister, those two guys are still following us...... Do you want to ......?"
He made a gesture of wiping his neck.
Yun Qian responded: "Don't worry, let's find out what they want to do first." ”
Speaking of this, Yun Qian also pouted and smiled: "These two rammers, I thought we didn't find them, especially the beggar with a jade cane, for fear that others wouldn't know that this was a big man, it's really stupid, such a guy, it is a miracle that he can survive until now." ”
"The beggar gang sounds like a huge force, but in fact, it is just a gathering of profits, and if there is no profit, they will disperse, and they cannot help each other at all, a group of rabble who do not enter the stream."
Yun Yun's eyes rolled and said: "The lord seems to have said that the bull ghosts and snake gods in the capital, he plans to rectify them, so let's take this opportunity to sneak in between them and become the master's secret chess." ”
Yun Qian thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "It's not appropriate." We haven't explained the task of this line yet, so it's best not to make any extraneous branches, catch them later, and just ask. The owner of Yuyan said, we are still in the training period, we are still apprentices, save our lives first, don't get involved in anything casually. ”
"Okay...... I just want to do something big so that the master and the master will look at each other differently. ”
"There will be opportunities in the future."
As soon as Yunqian's voice fell, the two of them had a spirit in their hearts, and their postures flashed, and they flashed into a dark alley.
In the eyes of Xu Baoquan and Liu Xiaoshan, it was just a blink of an eye, and the two little ghost slaves were gone.
"It's weird! Am I dazzled? Xiaoshan, do you see where those two little ghosts have gone? ”
Liu Xiaoshan frowned and said, "I didn't see it either...... Suddenly it's gone......"
"Go ahead, if I'm not mistaken, let's walk through the alley ahead when we follow those two little ghosts."
Hearing Xu Baoquan's words, Liu Xiaoshan nodded.
When the two of them passed by the alley where Yun Qian and Yun were hiding, the corner of their eyes seemed to catch a glimpse of two black shadows like tanuki suddenly rushing out of the alley, and then the two of them lost consciousness.
When I opened my eyes again, it was already night.
The sky was still very overcast, and the stars and the moon were not visible.
Xu Baoquan tried to sober himself up, and suddenly found that his hands and feet were tied, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry.
Could it be that the people of the Begging Sect also know how to capture the thief and capture the king first?
Xu Baoquan tilted his head and found that Liu Xiaoshan was by his side, tied up by Wuhuada, and had not woken up yet.
In the darkness, a voice said, "Awake? ”
Xu Baoquan was shocked.
"Somebody there!"
"I, I'm ...... Not...... Sister, why are you blocking me! ”
An even sharper voice said, "We are black and white, and we have come to take your life." ”
Xu Baoquan looked at it.
Sure enough, there were two headless ghosts lying in front of him, and there was nothing on their necks, only their bodies swaying back and forth.
Xu Baoquan screamed, very sadly, and then tilted his head, and completely lost his breath.
He was scared to death.
The front of the cloud and the cloud looked at each other, speechless and choked.
"Wake up the other one......"
Liu Xiaoshan also woke up.
He was really startled when he saw two headless people in front of him at first, but Yun Qian and Yun didn't joke with him in order to prevent this guy from being scared to death, and immediately covered his mouth and said softly: "Don't worry, we are not ghosts." ”
Liu Xiaoshan stabilized his mind.
Feeling the warmth from the palm of the hand covering his mouth, as well as the slightest sweat, he was sure that the two "headless people" in front of him were indeed not ghosts.
He remembered the two ghost slaves he had stalked with his gang leader during the day.
Xindao: Sure enough, it's a bait sent by the Begging Sect! This time it's in their hands.
Liu Xiaoshan glanced at Xu Baoquan beside him, his eyes were round now, his face was gray, obviously he was not fainting, it was more likely that he was dead. For a while, Liu Xiaoshan's heart was half frightened and half excited, what was afraid was that he didn't know if these two little ghost slaves would kill him, and what was exciting was that since Xu Baoquan was dead, now the oldest person in the beggar gang counted him Liu Xiaoshan, and this gang leader was not a thing to be captured. The amount of floating wealth that the beggars have accumulated over the years, he is very greedy.
If...... If you vote for the begging religion with this amount of money......
"Amitabha, sin and sin ......"
Liu Xiaoshan shook his head and muttered, as if he was now a high-ranking monk and Buddha in the Begging Sect.
"What are you muttering! I haven't asked you yet! ”
Liu Xiaoshan immediately said with a straight face: "Master, may I ask." ”
"Master? What the hell is that? Let me ask you first, who are you? ”
Liu Xiaoshan was surprised: "You don't know who I am? Then why are you still arresting me! ”
"Grab it and ask if it's okay to play? Don't talk nonsense, talk fast, or I'll kill you like I killed that guy! ”
Liu Xiaoshan was startled.
"I said, I said, the contemptible Liu Xiaoshan is a beggar...... But it's not an ordinary beggar, I'm the eighteen bags of elders of the beggar gang, everyone calls me Elder Liu, in the beggar gang, only under the help leader's protection. ”
"Oh? Where is Xu Bao? ”
Liu Xiaoshan smiled bitterly: "Far away in the sky, close in front of me, the one next to me is." ”
“……”
"Sister, it's not good, let's scare the beggar gang leader to death......"
Yun Qian was also stunned.
"Isn't the dog stick method very powerful? The leader of the beggar gang was caught by the two of us so easily? ”
Liu Xiaoshan said: "The dog stick method is very powerful? Well, it's probably quite powerful among beggars. Dog beating stick method, as the name suggests, is it a dog beater...... Our Xu Da gang leader once had a good record of forcing back five vicious dogs. ”
"Beating a dog stick is beating a dog, what about the eighteen palms of the dragon?"
"Eighteen Palms of the Dragon Descending, what is that? Haven't heard of it. ”
“……”
Yun tugged at the placket of Yun Qian's clothes and reminded: "The master seems to have said...... He's just telling a story, not a real story. ”
"Okay...... Let's kill the leader of the beggar gang, do you want to tell the master......"
"Let's be honest, such a vegetable guy, if he dies, he will die, maybe it's a good thing for the master, just let them become a plate of loose sand, and each one will be broken."
Listening to the questions and answers of Yun Qian and Yun Qian, Liu Xiaoshan was even more sure that these two ghost slaves were sent by the Begging Food Sect.
Thinking about trouble with the beggar gang every day, who else can there be besides the begging sect?
Liu Xiaoshan asked tentatively, "Two boys, do you recognize the Buddha of the Begging Food Sect?" ”
"Buddha Buddha? Isn't it dead? ”
"It's the Buddha who died, and I'm asking about the Buddha of the Great Ri Nyorai."
"I don't know."
Liu Xiaoshan said secretly: It seems that these two little ghosts do not have a high status...... Even the famous Buddha of the Great Day did not know him.
"Wait a minute, are you asking me or am I asking you! Hmph, apart from you and this eighteen bags of elders and gang leaders, are there any big people in your beggar gang? ”
"Originally, there were eighteen bags of eighteen elders, but now there are only nine left, including me, and the other eight are not as old as me. There is also a deputy gang leader, who was gouged out and cut out his tongue by the gang leader a few years ago, and is now begging near the City God Temple. ”
"What do you usually do? Is it just begging? ”
Liu Xiaoshan said: "What are you doing?" Of course, it's not nonsense to do what the beggars need to do...... Oh yes, your methods of begging are more advanced, mainly deception, unlike us who rely on miserable people......"
"We beggars pay attention to appearance, mainly rely on appearance to eat, the old, the small, and the crippled are all good-looking, easy to get money, if they are old and crippled or small and crippled, then it is even better. Now our outermost 'gangs' are generally small and old. ”
Yun Qian was puzzled: "I heard that you are so powerful, where did you get so many cripples?" ”
Liu Xiaoshan smiled and said with a little pride: "Isn't this simple?" There is no cripple, but there is no cripple. Why is it so difficult for a person who is alive and jumping to chop off a pair of legs and become crippled? ”
“……”
"Why don't you two speak? Am I not right? Alas, this is also groping all the way. At first, I mainly relied on inquiry, who has a cripple, just say how much money a day, generally speaking, the family often raises the disabled is also a little annoying, even if you are not happy, you will agree to grind for a few days, and then such are all under our command; Later, I couldn't find out who had a cripple, so I bought it, and then later, I felt that both of these things were a bit expensive, and finally we elders put it together, and simply made it ourselves, which was not troublesome, and there was no salary, and there was no profit in trading. ”
"Alas, I said that you can also learn to beg and make a few cripples in the temple, so you said that you used incense money to support you, and the effect must be good."
“……”
"Sister, I want to kill him."
"I want to ...... too But aren't there many more to kill him? This kind of thing, it's better to leave it to the master. ”
"There is such a person in this Great Heavenly Empire...... I'm dirtier than the people in the tribe. ”
"My lord once said that the smarter a person is, the more vicious and terrible his methods of doing evil are, and this is true and does not deceive me."
"Sister, what should we do now?"
“…… Liu Xiaoshan, where is your nest? ”
Later, Yunqian asked many questions, Liu Xiaoshan answered them one by one, and finally concluded: "The Xu gang owner saved a lot of money and bought thousands of acres of land in his hometown, which is already considered Tian Qianmo, and then I felt that I didn't make money as a landlord, so I didn't go back to my hometown much." I heard that he has more yellow and white goods in his house than in our beggars, and his house is on the edge of the ancient capital Luoyang. I can show you the way. ”
"Why don't you take it back to the house...... Otherwise, it may not be so easy to catch him in the future. ”
"I think it's okay......"
In this way, Liu Xiaoshan was taken back to Baifu by them in a daze. Along the way, Liu Xiaoshan was still thinking in his heart: What kind of Buddha name is better for himself? Immeasurable merits? Dzogchen Dazheng Path Buddha? At least it can't be worse than that old grandson's fight to defeat the Buddha!