After leaving the yamen, he had just taken two steps forward, when suddenly a person stopped in front of Zhao Pu, "Brother Gongzi, what are you doing here?" ”

A ragged beggar smiled slightly, "Brother Gongzi has returned to his former identity, but don't forget the half of the flax pancake when he was in trouble!" ”

Zhao Pu was stunned for a moment, but saw that this person was the beggar squatting next to the South City Gate, and immediately arched his hand very enthusiastically, "Brother Zhang? ”

Seeing that Zhao Pu didn't have the slightest shelf of Brother Gongzi, the beggar Brother Zhang also showed some yellow stained teeth and smiled, "Brother Gongzi, do you owe me anything?" ”

"Oh, two flax cakes!" Zhao Pu smiled and hurriedly took out a money bag from his arms. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"No," Brother Zhang hurriedly waved his hand, "I haven't eaten for two days, buy me three!" ”

"You can help me in times of crisis, I, Zhao Pu, am not such a conscienceless guy, Xiao Er, come directly to five flax cakes!!"

Brother Zhang's eyes also flashed with surprise, "Boy, I really didn't see the wrong person, it's really interesting...... However, why are you going to die in broad daylight? Which city to the north and what? ”

Brother Zhang grabbed a flax cake first, and asked while eating.

"I'm going to the north of the city to collect tax money." In the spirit of entertainment reporters, Zhao Pu raised his eyebrows and said, "Brother Zhang, do you know where the ten households over there come from?" ”

"Where did it come from?" Brother Zhang was stunned for a moment, and then snorted coldly, "It's nothing, it's just that when the emperor of the Later Jin Dynasty ascended the throne, he granted amnesty to the world and released all the death row prisoners in the prison." I heard that the wicked people on the north side of the city are eager to eat human flesh. ”

"Huh?" Zhao Pu's face changed suddenly, "Those people are all death row prisoners?" ”

"Well, don't you know? It's strange, there are children crying in the middle of the night in this Changzhou city, but if they say 'cry again and send you to the north of the city', those children will be obedient immediately. Brother Childe, you don't know? ”

Brother Zhang only cared about himself and took a big bite of the cake, eager to swallow the five big cakes in one bite.

Zhao Pu's face was a little depressed, who would mention this to him if he had nothing to do? He really doesn't know. Otherwise, I wouldn't have taken on this drudgery.

"But since I have eaten your cake, I naturally won't be stingy, Brother Gongzi, I really don't talk about this to ordinary people." Brother Zhang, a beggar in ragged clothes, leaned in front of Zhao Pu with some mystery, "The ten families of death row prisoners in the north of the city know each other in prison, and the reason why the government does not dare to touch them is because they are each gang, I don't know why, these ten people have become a group, calling themselves a faction!" ”

"Oh?" Zhao Pu's eyes lit up.

Brother Zhang continued, "Changzhou City is also not small, with 100,000 acres of fertile land, and he occupies 10,000 acres of land and wild forests in the north of the city. ”

"Why? There are so many people in this city, are you still afraid that he will not be able to make ten households? Zhao Pu's expression was a little nervous.

Brother Zhang shook his head with a smile and said, "Then you have to see who the death row prisoner is." Haha, the ten families of them don't farm, they don't plow, they only do one livelihood. ”

Before Zhao Pu could ask, Brother Zhang's smile suddenly retracted, and he looked serious, his eyes glared and said, "Kill!" Ever since they were released, they have been dead men in this realm, and they don't even care who they kill, just the money! Brother Childe, you said it yourself, can you go to such a place? ”

Zhao Pu didn't speak, but just wondered, this is obviously a big summer, why did the wind behind him start to swish into his neck?

Unconsciously snorted, Zhao Pu suddenly frowned.

The so-called nothing can't be no money, and what can't be ashamed!

With his chin raised, Zhao Pu looked at Brother Zhang and said, "Go!" I'll have to take a different approach, though. ”

……

In a fenced courtyard in the north of the city, a scar-faced man is lying on a leisurely chair swaying back and forth with his eyes closed, looking exceptionally elegant.

"I said I was in charge." A woman with a pan head walked over, this woman was quite ugly, rough hands and feet, but also very neat, the spout in her hand was not next to each other, and she poured the hot boiling water into a large porcelain bowl in the hand of the scar-faced man, and did not spill half a point.

"What's wrong?" The scar-faced man seemed to be listening to the force, and did not open his eyes, but directly took the large porcelain bowl and put it in his mouth.

The stout woman sighed softly, "Recently...... At this time, more and more people are moving out of Changzhou City, but there are fewer and fewer people begging us to kill. ”

Scarface slowly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of extremely small pupils, and nodded lightly, "That's it, I'll take what kind of business the next one is!" ”

As he was talking, two figures appeared in the distance, the short one was a somewhat hunchbacked beggar, walking at a speed like a turtle crawling, the tall one beside him looked good, and his straight posture looked good, but this one looked like a weak scholar.

Before Scarface could react, the thick woman beside him frowned, "A beggar, a son?" What are these two people doing here? ”

Scarface also frowned, "What kind of blood feud can a young boy have?" I think it's probably some kind of newborn calf, I don't know if this realm north of the city can't come. ”

As she was talking, the sturdy woman was not ambiguous, she walked out of the courtyard directly, and said loudly, "The two in front, don't go any further, there are rules in the north of the city, if you go further, don't blame me for being polite!" ”

Hearing this coarse woman's incomparably rough voice, Brother Zhang suddenly shuddered, and hurriedly turned around and said, "Brother Gongzi, did you hear it?" I just ate a few pieces of your bread, and I didn't say I could die! ”

Looking at the thick woman, Zhao Pu also directly pulled the placket of Scarface's clothes, no matter how the old brother broke free, he still didn't let go. Lang Sheng shouted to the woman, "Those in the north of the city, can you make a living?" ”

As soon as she heard this, the stout woman was stunned for a moment, and looked back at the scarface in the fence courtyard, which was also a little skeptical, and got up and looked at the young man in the distance, with a very unpredictable look.

"Make a living." After all, the current Zhao Pu is two silver ingots in the eyes of the thick woman, "Brother Gongzi, you come over first." ”

Zhao Pu nodded, almost dragging Scarface towards the courtyard in front of him.

"This big brother, I heard that you can kill people, right?"

Scarface half-narrowed his eyes, looked Zhao Pu up and down, and reached out to take the thick tea bowl, "Different people have different prices, kid, but I'm not a place for you to play, you ...... Don't play with me. ”

Pouting, Zhao Pu nodded, "This eldest brother just looks at my young age, I do have a person here who wants to kill, I don't know if I can help, as for this money, it's easy to say." ”

"Oh?" Seeing that Zhao Pu had fine skin and tender flesh, he didn't look like he was suffering, and the thick woman's eyes were also shining. "Who do you want to kill?"

Zhao Pu rolled his eyes, hurriedly looked at Brother Zhang and said, "It's not me, it's him!" He wanted to kill Feng Tuiguan. ”

As soon as Brother Zhang looked at the scarred face, he was suddenly frightened, and his voice trembled, "Feng ...... Feng Tuiguan robbed me of my fertile land and killed my father, if you are willing to help me kill Feng Tuiguan, I am even willing to offer my ancestral inheritance to ......"

"We don't take over the affairs of the official family." Scarface casually put down the tea bowl and said slowly, "If you two don't have anything else to do, just please!" ”

As soon as he heard that the other party had issued an eviction order, Zhao Pu suddenly sighed in his heart, he came this time to see what kind of people the ten households in the north of the city were, remember everyone's appearance, so that he could think of countermeasures, however, now there is only one family, and the conversation is too short, and he has not understood the other party's habits at all.

Frowning, Zhao Pulang said, "By the way, I still have someone who kills each other." It has nothing to do with the official family! ”

"Oh?" Scarface looked at Zhao Pu, seemed to be interested, and said calmly and slowly, "You say." ”

"The person I'm going to kill, I guess you won't be able to find it." Zhao Pu smiled slightly, "His name is Zhao Kuangyin!" ”

"Zhao Kuangyin?" Scarface scratched his head and said as if he was a little dazed, "How come I've never heard of this name?" ”

The stout woman also frowned, "I'm not sure about this, so I have to invite the old guy out and ask." ”

The stout woman turned her head and exchanged glances with Scarface, and seemed to look back at Zhao Pu and the others with extra caution, and then walked out of the courtyard and went to the next room.

"She's going to ......" Zhao Pu was about to ask on the side, but Scarface said lightly, "Don't ask more about things you shouldn't know, you won't even understand this truth, right?" ”

As soon as he saw Scarface's words, Brother Zhang was so frightened that he hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed twice, and trembled all over, "Big brother, this kid is not sensible, ...... Don't be angry. ”

Scarface looked out of the courtyard as if he hadn't seen the beggar at all, and his short eyes looked out of the courtyard as if he was waiting for something.

"Here we are." Zhao Pu's eyes lit up, and he saw that next to the thick woman, there was an old man with crane hair and a childish face, a pair of empty and cloudy eyes looking straight ahead, but the crutches in his hand kept drawing on the dirt road under his feet.

"Little boy, you said you were going to kill someone?" Before he could get closer, the crane-haired old man asked first.

Zhao Pu nodded, "Yes, the person I'm looking for is called Zhao Kuangyin." ”

"Hmph." The crane-haired old man snorted lightly and said slowly, "Children don't want to come to the north of my city to mess around, how can you come to this place just by saying that?" ”

"How do you call me a fool?" Zhao Pu didn't blink his eyes, and said with a straight face, "I'm really here to kill this person." ”

The crane-haired old man slowly walked in front of Zhao Pu and said, "Little boy, dare to play tricks with the old man!" Counting your family in Changzhou City, there are a total of eighteen families with the surname Zhao, but no one has ever called Zhao Kuangyin, you are looking for Zhao Kuangyin, I don't know, where did you get your name? ”

I thought that this crane-haired old man was talking nonsense and fooling himself, but the sentence of "count your family" made Zhao Pu very uneasy, he has not yet reported himself, and people can know his depth and shallowness, which shows that this old man is blind in both eyes, but his heart can see more things.

"That'...... He is from Youzhou City! With a glance, Zhao Pu hurriedly imported nonsense.

"Haha, joke!!" Slowly sat down, the old man with crane hair sighed lightly, "There are more than 100 people surnamed Zhao in Youzhou City, among which there is the word 'Kuang' in their names, but two of them, one is called Zhao Kuangju, a child who died young, and the other is called Zhao Fukuang, who is an old and rough man, and it is estimated that they have almost returned to the West in the past two years. I don't know, who do you want to kill? ”

"This ......" was said by the old man with crane hair, Zhao Pu's face immediately turned red, when he was an entertainment reporter, he walked the streets and alleys to follow and secretly take pictures, he told a lot of lies, and there were many lies that were exposed, but it was the first time that there was not even scum left after such an authoritative analysis!!

With a slitted slit, Zhao Pu suddenly felt that this crane-haired old man was not simple, although a pair of eyes could no longer see, but this heart eye was much more sensitive than the eyes.

It seems that there is nothing in the world that he does not know.

Brother Zhang, the beggar next to him, didn't seem to have gotten up, and hurriedly turned his head to bow to the crane-haired old man, "The old gentleman is angry, angry!" ”

At this time, the old man with crane hair waved his palm slightly, as if it was some kind of suggestive gesture, and the scarred face and the thick woman on the side turned their palms into claws, and both grabbed the throats of Zhao Pu and Brother Zhang.

The old man with crane hair said unhurriedly, "Let's talk about it, a down-and-out beggar in the city, and a carefree boy in the government, what is the purpose of the two of you coming to the north of my city alone!" ”

"Old Han, why bother talking nonsense with them? I think these two guys are spies sent by Feng Gouguan at all, maybe the soldiers have already been surrounded outside, just waiting for a signal from one side to execute us!" The scarred face clasped Zhao Pu's neck, and an iron claw seemed to be about to rip his throat.

"I didn't!!" Seeing that the rough woman forced Brother Zhang speechless, Zhao Pu hurriedly said, "My name is Zhao Pu, and I am a small soldier under Fu Sima, I came here just to collect taxes for Monkey Five!" ”

"Collect taxes?" As soon as he heard this, Han Lao seemed to be laughing too, a pair of gray-blue old eyes were fixed in the distance, but as if he could see Zhao Pu, he said slowly, "Courage is commendable, third child, let it go." ”

"But Han Lao ......"

The scarface just wanted to say something, but Han Lao waved his hand, and the two let go of Zhao Pu and Brother Zhang as if they were absolutely obedient.

Taking a few breaths of breath, Zhao Pu hurriedly knelt down in front of Han Lao, "Mr. Han, the junior was bullied by his colleagues in the army, and ordered ten households in the north of my city to levy five coins of silver, otherwise, ...... Otherwise, you will be punished with thirty rods. ”

"Hmph, you want to take the silver from my hand and pay back five coins of silver? Boy, your life is not worth the price!! Scarface shook his hand as he spoke, if it weren't for Han Lao's order, Zhao Pu would definitely be torn into strips of meat by him at this time.

"Five cents? Thanks to those soldiers, they can think of it. Han Lao waved his hand and was about to leave on crutches.

Zhao Pu was stunned, he hadn't thought about it before, in this dynasty, one penny of silver is one hundred yuan, and five yuan of silver is five hundred yuan! In this realm, it is enough food and clothing for a poor family of three for half a year, which is not a small amount.

In troubled times, money is fate, even if Zhao Pu is taken out of his father's hands, I am afraid it will not be possible. Moreover, Zhao Pu did not want to do so.

As soon as Han Lao walked in front of Zhao Pu, Zhao Pu suddenly hugged Han Lao's legs violently, and said in a tricky way, "Mr. Han save me!" If I am scolded by the rod for thirty, I really would be worse than dead!! ”

"Han Lao dodge, be careful of deception!" Scarface has a grappling hand, only to hear a clatter, Zhao Pudeng's two arms don't look like his own.

The rough woman also snorted coldly, "It's not easy to make money these days, dare to talk to the old lady about money, boy, I'm still soft-hearted and keep your life, but you have a little bit of an inch." ”

Han Lao is different from these two people, relatively speaking, he is quite gentle, "Little boy, if you want to get money from the north of the city, it is estimated that you will have to leave two lives, you say, do you want money or death?" ”

Zhao Pu broke free from Scarface's restraints, stared at Han Lao with a pair of eyes, cleared his throat and said, "To... Ask for money. ”

"Zhao Pu, you have a kind!" Han Lao stretched out his crutches and nodded at Zhao Pu, and said helplessly, "I haven't been clean in my ears in the past two days because of your affairs, you stabbed Feng Tuiguan's lair, provoked Huo Yuan's family, and now you dare to come to stab the hornet's nest in the north of the city, which the official family finds difficult, you kid is going against the sky?" ”

Zhao Pu looked firmly and said, "People live with a breath, since I have made a military order in front of everyone, I will definitely take back five coins of silver!" ”

"That's it?"

"That's what I was supposed to do, but right now, I have more important things."

As soon as Han Lao Gang questioned, Zhao Pu said directly, "Mr. Han, please accept me as an apprentice!" ”

"Huh?" Including Brother Zhang, who came with Zhao Pu, everyone was stunned.

"Hehe, you want to worship me as a teacher?" Han Lao shook his head slowly, "I don't want to accept you as an apprentice!" If you are really capable, you can scrape together five coins of silver from ten households in the north of my city, otherwise don't bother me! ”