The young man led Fang Xiaoyu and his party all the way to the north, and soon came to the City God Temple in the north of the city, this City God Temple is not large, and it is in disrepair, the tiles on the roof are missing a lot, and many places are already in the open air. Seeing the boy come back, dozens of children in the City God Temple ran out, and the boy smiled and divided the buns handed over by the guards.

"You have so many siblings?" Fang Xiaoyu asked in surprise. The boy smiled and shook his head, and as he tore open the buns and divided them equally among each child, he replied, "Only one is my own sister, and the others are orphans living in the City God Temple." That's not all, the older ones are out looking for food, and only the little ones are here. ”

Fang Xiaoyu asked with interest: "I found out that you didn't give all the food to your sister, but divided it equally among each child, what is this for?" The boy sighed and said, "We are all alone, if we can't help each other anymore, what's the difference between looking for death." Today I divide the food equally among each child so that if I have an accident, someone will give the food to my sister. Fang Xiaoyu nodded secretly when he heard this.

At this time, a little girl who was only four or five years old walked up to the young man with a piece of steamed bun and said, "Brother, let's eat this for you." The young man gently touched the little girl's head and said, "I have already eaten, you can eat it." The little girl looked at the bun in her hand, swallowed her saliva and said: "Brother, you eat, I know that you don't eat at all, every time you give us food, but you are hungry and drink cold water, I see it at night." As she spoke, the little girl's eyes were red and she couldn't help crying.

Seeing the little girl's big teary eyes, Fang Xiaoyu's heart couldn't help but twitch a little. He stepped forward and asked, "Little girl, what is your name?" The little girl glanced at Fang Xiaoyu and said, "What little girl, I'm already eight years old, and you're not much older." Fang Xiaoyu was stunned for a while, he always forgot his age in this life, and from time to time he regarded himself as the teenage young man in his previous life.

Seeing Fang Xiaoyu's embarrassment, the young man scolded: "Xiaomei, don't talk nonsense." This uncle is a good man, and these buns are what he gave me. Hearing his brother's words, Xiao Mei stepped forward and bowed to Fang Xiaoyu and said, "Uncle, I'm sorry, I was wrong just now, Xie Lu thanks you for giving us food." ”

Fang Xiaoyu tried to make what he thought was the gentlest smile and said, "Hello, you're welcome." Your name is Xiaomei, my name is Fang Xiaoyu, you don't need to call me uncle. I'm only ten years old. If you don't dislike it, just call me Brother Fang, or Brother Yu, I'll call you Xiaomei, okay. Xiaomei nodded and said, "It's good, Brother Yu." My name is Sun Xiaomei, and my brother's name is Sun Xiaohu. ”

Only then did Fang Xiaoyu know that the young man was called Sun Xiaohu. At this moment, a rough voice came: "Xiaohu, you come back first." Come and help kill the dog, the big yellow dog of the rich man Zhao in the south of the city was brought out by me, this bastard, always chasing us and biting, this time we will use it to beat the tooth sacrifice. ”

Fang Xiaoyu followed the sound and saw that a young man who was not tall, about eleven or twelve years old, dragged a big yellow dog almost as tall as him and walked towards this side with difficulty. Sun Xiaohu explained to Fang Xiaoyu: "This is also ours here, his name is Zhang Si." After speaking, Sun Xiaohu ran over to help, and said while helping Zhang Si drag the dog: "Fourth brother, we can roast dog meat today." "That's that, or your fourth brother has the ability." Zhang Si said happily and loudly.

Seeing their happy expressions, Fang Xiaoyu shook his head and said to Sun Huaizong behind him: "You go buy more buns, buy some chicken and wine." Seeing Fang Xiaoyu's appearance of going to eat with these children at noon, Sun Huaizong frowned and said, "Young Master, this is not appropriate." If you let a few old masters know what to say......" Before Sun Huaizong could finish speaking, Fang Xiaoyu interrupted him and said, "I have a sense of proportion, you can go quickly." For this little young master, who is very important to the whole family, Sun Huaizong did not dare to disobey, he quickly took the order to take a guard and two palanquin men out to buy things.

Sun Xiaohu and Zhang Si put the big yellow dog on the ground, and several teenage girls ran over to busily skin the dead dog, remove the internal organs, and wash away the dirty blood. The others brought firewood and grass to prepare for the fire, and the children who finished eating the buns also came to help. Seeing these skillful children skinning dogs and burning fires, Fang Xiaoyu felt sad for a while, if it was in the era when he came, these children who were only eleven or twelve years old were still the treasures of their parents, not to mention doing these things, there were very few people who could take care of themselves.

Just when Fang Xiaoyu was looking at it, Sun Xiaohu dragged Zhang Si to his side. Sun Xiaohu introduced: "This is Fang Xiaoyu, Brother Fang. This is Zhang Si, we all call him Fourth Brother. Fang Xiaoyu greeted with a smile: "Fourth brother is good." That Zhang Si saw Fang Xiaoyu dressed in luxurious clothes, frowned and snorted: "I don't have any friendship with you rich sons, and I don't dare to call the fourth brother right." ”

Several guards behind Fang Xiaoyu heard Zhang Si's unkind words, and they all scolded him, wanting to come up and take him down for questioning. Fang Xiaoyu waved his hand and said to the guards, "It's nothing wrong with you." When several guards heard Fang Xiaoyu's words, they immediately retreated behind Fang Xiaoyu, but their eyes were glaring at Zhang Si.

Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said, "It seems that the fourth brother has a lot of opinions about the rich son." Sun Xiaohu was afraid that Zhang Si would annoy Fang Xiaoyu and suffer losses, so he said again and again: "Brother Fang, don't mind, Fourth Brother, he is often found fault with those gentlemen and suffers a lot of losses, so he is more impulsive when he sees people in gorgeous clothes." ”

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head with a smile and said, "It's okay, I don't like those guys who bully people, but I'm definitely not one of them." Hearing Fang Xiaoyu's words, Sun Xiaohu's mental arithmetic was put down, and Zhang Si's face looked a little better.

Sun Xiaohu then said to Zhang Si: "Fourth brother, this Brother Fang, not only did he not bully others, but he also saved me today and gave us a lot of food. Then Sun Xiaohu told Zhang Si about today's events from beginning to end. Listening to Sun Xiaohu's words, Zhang Si's face turned red, and he walked over to Fang Xiaoyu and saluted: "I, Zhang Si, have a reckless temper, and I blame Brother Fang, I hope my brother will not be surprised." ”

"No, the fourth brother is jealous and hateful, how can I be strange?" Seeing that the young master, who was only ten years old, was talking to these teenagers with an old appearance, the three guards behind him almost laughed, but they also looked down on the young master who had such a steady performance at a young age.

After a while, several teenagers about the same age as Zhang Si also came back one after another, some of them brought food, and some of them returned empty-handed. Zhang Si stepped forward and greeted, "Huh? How many brothers came back so early today? One of the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys replied: "I heard that a foreign envoy is coming in the afternoon, and martial law is going to be imposed in the city, so we have no choice but to come back as soon as possible. ”

The best time for them to find food is at night, not only some rich families will throw leftover steamed buns, but the market can also pick up some abandoned rotten vegetables, but martial law begins at noon, and there is naturally no food at night. The young man next to him sighed and said, "I have to wronged everyone today, and tomorrow we will find some good ones to make up for it." ”

This is the young man who spoke first when he saw Fang Xiaoyu, who was dressed luxuriously, frowned and asked, "Fourth, who is this?" Zhang Si hurriedly introduced: "This is Brother Fang we just met, Brother Fang is very good, and he gave us food." The young man said, "Fourth, don't talk nonsense, how can you call this son a brother?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu smiled and said: "I'm not very old, of course I can be called a brother by him, what's wrong with that." I saw that the young man cautiously saluted the other party Xiaoyu and said: "In the lower forest wind, I don't know what Your Excellency is in the lower forest." Fang Xiaoyu also saluted: "My name is Fang Xiaoyu, this should be the eldest brother in their mouths, hello Brother Lin." ”

"Don't dare, don't dare." Lin Feng, the oldest and quite sophisticated, was a little scared. At this time, Sun Huaizong came back, he not only bought two hundred meat buns, but also a few chickens that had been killed, some vegetables and two urns of rice wine, and the two sedan chairmen also carried two pots, Fang Xiaoyu secretly said that Sun Huaizong was thoughtful.

Fang Xiaoyu turned around and said, "Brother Lin, let's prepare for dinner." ”

"This." Lin Feng was a little undecided, but when he saw that his younger brothers and sisters were all looking at the food in the hands of Sun Huaizong and the others with hopeful faces, and then looked at the seven or eight dried steamed buns that he had brought back, he sighed, and had to nod and thank Fang Xiaoyu.

Now that there is a pot, the dog meat that was originally intended to be grilled was divided into small pieces and boiled in two pots with the chicken, and several girls were busy putting salt and vegetables in the pot, while others handed out the buns to each child.

Lin Feng looked at Fang Xiaoyu who came over, and didn't know what to find for him to sit on, Fang Xiaoyu smiled slightly when he saw his embarrassment, and went straight to the ground with a big grin. As for Sun Huaizong and the others, Fang Xiaoyu felt that they were in the way, so he asked them to find a place to eat by themselves. Although he couldn't twist this little young master, Sun Huaizong didn't dare to really care, he had to ask the two palanquin men to buy food again, and he and the four guards occupied the nearby commanding heights, watching the surrounding situation to prevent danger.

In a boiling pot, the meat is quickly cooked. The children stared at the tumbling broth, their noses twitching from time to time. The girls began to stick pieces of meat with branches and deliver them to each child, and none of them scrambled for it. Hunger, poverty, and the example of older siblings have taught these young children unity and discipline. The meat was divided from the youngest children, and it was not yet in the hands of those who were in their teens.

These teenage children were the backbone and leaders of this group of children, and they all sat around Fang Xiaoyu, talking to each other and drinking the two urns of rice wine. Although Lin Feng was a little cowardly, his leadership ability still made Fang Xiaoyu very sure, among these children, those under the age of ten were not allowed to drink, and even Sun Xiaohu obediently sat on the side and nibbled on buns.