For a whole day and night, the coal train stopped at a major station and finally stopped starting. The sky was foggy and the sun could not be seen, Wu Xiaoliang climbed out of the coal pile, slipped out of the carriage, grumbled with hunger, took out the steamed buns from his arms and chewed them. The platform was filled with steam, full of people, and the anti-bao trumpets were mixed with the cries of the hawkers, like a divine comedy of later generations. He did not go to the platform, but climbed out of the fence along the railroad and came out into the street. Not far away, the arrow tower towered, confirming Wu Xiaoliang's guess, Beijing City has arrived.

The dome tower of the European-style station building has six large characters "Zhengyangmen East Station" inlaid above the gate. Wu Xiaoliang touched the letter of recommendation close to his body, this is where his hope lies, Beijing is not the end, I am here at Baoding Military Academy. The smell of tofu brain from the roadside stall was bursting, and he swallowed his saliva, but there was only one big son in his body. Regardless of his previous life or present life, he came to Beijing for the first time, and the ** he has been yearning for since he was a child is close at hand, so he simply doesn't eat it and goes to see it.

**The city tower is mottled with vermilion paint, hidden in the fog and more dilapidated, the gate embedded with copper rivets is tightly closed, and the Jinshui Bridge in front of the door is crowded with ragged beggars, how can there be a little bit of the momentum of the imperial capital of the past. Wu Xiaoliang squatted on the railing of Jinshui Bridge in disappointment, thinking about how to go to Baoding.

Suddenly, he heard someone call him, and he looked up.

"Yes, it's you, come with me, you have a good job, and you can eat and live five big sons a day."

Wu Xiaoliang thought that he was penniless now anyway, so it was better to follow him to earn a passage first.

"Big brother, what kind of work?"

A black-faced man with impatience on his face pointed to a few people and told them to stand up, look left and right.

"You are a foreigner, where do you get so much nonsense, you don't want to go, some people want to go."

The originally lazy crowd was active when they heard that there was a job, Wu Xiaoliang was deflated, and when he saw that they were all rushing to go, he hurriedly stood behind the man, he didn't want to lose this job that had not yet arrived, and it was the right thing to earn enough travel expenses as soon as possible.

The black-faced man finally selected five people and led them through the front door into the alley of Nancheng. The alleys are turning more and more and there seems to be no end, the courtyard walls are becoming more and more dilapidated, and there are more and more mud walls and grass huts.

Wu Xiao said in conscience: This is going to the slums.

The black-faced man finally stopped, the courtyard wall was low and the courtyard door was rotten, and he knocked on the door fiercely, and there was a scream from inside. Everyone looked at each other, the broken wooden door opened from the inside, and a few unattractive villains rushed out, holding wooden sticks to drive a few people into the courtyard. A timid child was scared of feces and urine, and the stench immediately spread, and the black-faced man frowned, lifted him and threw him into the courtyard.

Wu Xiao's conscience is not good, this is a den of thieves, but I don't know what they want to do, and his hand quietly touched the gun card under his clothes.

In the courtyard, the old man's right leg was dyed blood-red, rolling on the ground in pain, screaming, and a blood-stained stone next to him was seeping people. There was also a group of young and old people at the root of the house, dressed in rags and with silent eyes, some of them had no arms, some of them had no legs, and some of them had sunken eye sockets, as if they had no eyeballs.

Abducting people to maim them, and then accusing them of begging for themselves, Wu Xiaoliang had seen similar reports in the news in his previous life, but he didn't expect that there would be such a thing as early as the Republic of China, he no longer hesitated to take out his gun and shoot it in the sky. Several beggars shrank in fright when they heard the gunshots, the villains did not dare to step forward, but the black-faced man was not afraid and pounced on Wu Xiaoliang.

Wu Xiaoliang pulled the trigger, the big man was shot in the right leg and burst out of a bloody flower, fell to the ground and howled, although the rest of the evil men treated the beggars cruelly, but most of them bullied the soft and afraid of the hard, seeing this person so ruthless and ran away, and the coolies who were deceived with him also took the opportunity to escape, and the group of crippled beggars shrank into a ball and did not know what to do.

The black-faced man wailed and begged for mercy: "A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life......"

Wu Xiaoliang ignored him, put away the gun and came to the old man, squatted down and tore open his trousers to check it. The old man fainted in pain, but the injury was not serious, there may be some bone cracks, he found a branch to fix the injured leg and tie it tightly with hemp rope, and the old man woke up slowly.

"This ...... This...... You...... You ......"

The old man was frightened and incoherent, and he couldn't even say a word.

"Don't worry, those evil men have run away."

The old man looked at the tied legs, understood that it was the ragged beggar in front of him who saved him, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you little brother for coming to the rescue." ”

"I don't know where the old man's family lives, I'll send you back" Wu Xiaoliang saw that his legs and feet were inconvenient and wanted to send him home first, and then find a way to go to Baoding.

"Alas, little brother, the old man's family lives in Qingyuan County, southwest of Beijing, but the old man's car is still in the car shop in the south of the city."

"Okay" Wu Xiaoliang picked up the old man and shouted to the beggars: "You are free." "Go straight to the big car shop.

When I arrived at the big car shop, I put the old man on the Chase bunk in the store, and when I saw his chapped lips and painful expression, my heart softened: If I leave and no one cares about him, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no case. Well, good people do it to the end. There was no kitchen in the cart shop, only a well in the yard, and a large wooden barrel stood next to it, full of water, and a wooden scoop floated on it.

He fetched a scoop of water, brought it to the house to help the old man drink it, and took out half of the steamed bun that he hadn't eaten in the morning from his arms, which had been dried and hard, and tore off a piece of soaked water and fed it to him.

After tossing, the sky turned dark, and drowsiness came up, Wu Xiaoliang climbed the coal car for a day and a night, and he was already exhausted, so he fell asleep.

When I slept darkly, I felt that someone was filming me, and when I opened my eyes, it was the old man I saved yesterday.

"Is the old man feeling better?"

"Thanks to the little brother, it's much better." The old man had a smile on his face, and he had recovered from yesterday's fright.

"Listening to the little brother's accent, is it an outsider?"

Wu Xiaoliang got up and stretched his back, "Those who fled have committed something at home." ”

The old man saw that he was sincere, although he was down, but he did not feel embarrassed, and the northern man was bold and arrogant, and he was angry with himself, and asked, "Is there a place to go?" ”

"There are relatives in Baoding, go there." Wu Xiaoliang told a little lie, and then asked: "Uncle, your family lives in Qingyuan, why did you come to Beijing again?" ”

"The old man's son is studying in Beijing, and this time I came to see him." The old man sighed and received again: "Qingyuan and Baoding are on the same road, it's better to go with the old man and take a companion." ”

Wu Xiaoliang was overjoyed, the two of them were ready, hastily ate a mouthful of steamed buns, and then drove the mule cart on the road to Baoding, out of You'anmen Guanxiang, Beijing City was left far behind. He lamented that this was the end of his one-day trip to Beijing.

When it was close to dinner in the afternoon, the two of them entered Baoding City, Wu Xiaoliang thanked the old man again and again, and was about to say goodbye, when he suddenly heard someone shouting to catch the thief, and a man in black ran towards him, pushing left and right and cursing. How could he not shovel when he saw that the road was uneven, Wu Xiaoliang pulled his legs and chased after him.

On the street pancake stall sat a young man in a blue robe, covered with wind and dust, with a large suitcase at his feet, the pancake rolls and green onions were eaten fragrantly, I heard someone shouting to catch the thief, and the ragged beggar rushed by him like the wind, how could it be reasonable to rob in broad daylight, and the young man in the robe threw away the pancake and chased after him.

Tips: The new domain name "biquge.info" has been launched by Biquge, and the original domain name is about to be discontinued. Please tell each other, thank you!