Out of Shanhaiguan is outside the pass, and there are heavy guards outside the pass, so if you want to get out of here in the spring and autumn, you have to work hard.

Every citizen who goes out and comes in must be checked, and if he goes out from here, he will probably be caught. But if you don't get out of here, it will take you a long time to get to the gate.

Just when he was at a loss, an old man pulling hay walked past here with a wagon of hay. He had an idea, and thought that it might be a good idea to take his carriage out of the country.

In between stops to check, he crept into the haystack, the sunlight streaming in through the cracks, and his eyes could still see passers-by. He could clearly hear the conversation at the checkpoint.

They only have one question, that is, have they ever met a person named Xia Dong. Of course, there is only one answer they get, that is, they have never seen it.

The soldiers impatiently pushed and shoved the soldiers, and searched their entire body, including their packages.

"Go, go!"

After the soldier let the passer-through go, he shouted: "Next! ”

In this way, it took a long time before it was the turn of this uncle who pulled the hay.

"Old man, where are you going?"

One soldier interrogated in front, and another walked to the back of the wagon, measuring the cart of hay.

"Back to the official, the small one is the forage for the livestock to spend the winter!"

The old man said resignedly.

"Big brother, there's nothing in this haystack!"

He said as he pulled out his broadsword and poked it inside.

As soon as Chunqiu saw him poke in with a big knife, he covered his mouth in fright. His eyes were about to fall out, and if a knife stabbed him, he and the old man would die here. Fortunately, without a single slash on his body, the big knife appeared in front of his eyes, and the cold blade shook so that he couldn't open his eyes.

His heart had been praying that his knife would not stab him. His prayer worked, and after a few stabs, the soldier found that there was nothing inside.

"Big brother, there's really nothing in it!"

He said to the soldier in front of him.

When the eldest brother heard this, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, his eyes softened suddenly, and he looked at the old man and said, "Old man, you have to pass the test, can you pass it like this?" ”

His greedy eyes kept looking the old man up and down, as if he wanted to scavenge something out of his old bones.

The old man's swarthy face was full of wrinkles, and the pudding was tired of pudding, and there was no place for the pudding's clothes. But the official still wants to get some benefits from him.

"Old man, this is the rule, as the saying goes, there is no rule without a circle, we also do things according to the rules, how can there be a reason for not giving money?"

After he finished speaking, he gave the soldiers behind him a look, and then he walked over, patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said: "Old man, the eldest brother is right, if there are rules, everything will be easy to do, if there are no rules, then it will be difficult!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the eldest brother answered: "Yes, not everyone can pass this pass!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at the people lining up in the back.

The rich people couldn't wait, so they took a piece of silver and stuffed it into the eldest brother's hand, looked at the old man and complained: "What do you have to pass without money, hold the road and don't move!" ”

Immediately after that, another person chimed in: "That's it, we're in a hurry to pass the test, it's better for you to occupy the pit and not!" ”

He touched the old man's shoulder and walked away in a rage.

"Old man, you also saw it, it's not that we have to collect your money, it's that this rule is really unbreakable!"

The eldest brother grinned, looking like he didn't care about him.

Chunqiu listened to the itching of his teeth in the hay, and he really wanted to jump out of it and break the two soldiers into pieces. But he still jumped out, but he really hurt the old man!

He can't let these ordinary people be hurt anymore, so he has to endure, only by enduring will nothing big happen.

The sun hadn't set yet, and it was even far from setting, but the soldier's eldest brother shouted loudly: "The gate is going to be closed, the door is going to be closed, if you have passed the gate, hurry up!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the people of Guan flocking to him, and they were like crazy bison, stuffing money into the soldiers with one hand and rushing out with the other hand grasping the luggage.

"See? That's how this rule came out, it's not a rule I set! ”

He looked at the old man and said.

"Official, I, I have nothing, please let me go!"

The old man was almost about to cry, tears kept rolling in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Hands trembled weakly.

"Old man, don't pretend to be pitiful, the big guys are all watching, we didn't bully you!"

The eldest brother was looking at the people who were running outside the gate, he wanted them to know that he had done nothing, but the old man had to look like he was being bullied.

"Big brother, does this old man have no money?"

The soldier standing in the back asked.

"How do you know, this is not allowed to pass without silver! But if this old thing dies with us, that's bad! ”

He thought secretly in his heart for a while, then looked at the old man and smiled: "Old man, you really don't have any money?" ”

He smiled and looked at the old man and said.

The old man's trembling hands wiped away his tears, and with a longing expression in his eyes, he did not speak, but shook his head helplessly.

The soldier was happy all of a sudden, took a step back and shouted: "Did you hear it, did you hear it, the old man said that he had no money, he had no money, and he wanted to pass the customs without money, what do you say should I do?" ”

In an instant, the common people who heard the soldier's words immediately looked at the old man. Their eyes are so indifferent, but to the old man, they are a pair of poisonous eyes.

The old man's weakness, helplessness, and humility were suddenly laid bare in front of these people. He didn't dare to look up, because as soon as he looked up, he could see those vicious eyes burning him.

Chunqiu bit a dried straw in his mouth, and he curled up in it motionless, and the old man's pity and pathos made him unbearable. But so what, he still had no choice but to watch him be humiliated.

"Old man, I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's that I really can't help someone recklessly!"

His eyes were moist, and the dry straw was wet.

"Master, I really don't have any money, what do you want me to do before you let me go!"

The old man pleaded feebly.

"Yo, I said old man, we should ask you about that. Everyone else has passed, but you haven't passed, so it's hard to rely on us. You say you don't have money, are we the ones who made you have no money? Are we the ones who make you poor? ”

The soldier taunted the powerless old man.

The old man was powerless to refute what he said, and his tired figure bent down again, his criss-crossed cheeks full of pity. No one knows what this old man has gone through, let alone how he has come through this life.

No one knows how much helplessness and sadness he has, but now it seems that his helplessness and sadness are only composed of countless things like this.

"Official, I really don't have any money......"

After he finished speaking, he knelt on the ground with a "plop". The dust on the ground jumped up and soon submerged him.

When the dust fell, the soldier pretended to scream: "Ahhh ”

Then the two of them looked at each other, and the eldest brother walked up to the old man.

"Who made you kneel, you call me like this, it's hard to do!"

He glanced at the reactions of the common people, and found that they continued to rush out of the gate with indifference and ruthlessness. He smiled and said, "Old man, since you have no money and you have no backbone to kneel, then I will reluctantly accept it!" ”

The old man kept his head down and didn't speak, and his decades of dignity were gone at this moment. He was supposed to be at home for a long time, but he still had to come out to pull hay. Even so, he never complained, he always thought that he was not diligent enough to keep his family so poor.

But at this moment, he didn't know what to say, it turned out that in their eyes, he was not even as good as a maggot. He has no money, so he can't get through this hurdle. But he can kneel, he can kneel to the sky, he can kneel to the ground, and of course he can kneel to these officials.

The old man sobbed differently, not for the sake of the soldiers, but for complaining about why God did this to him.

"Old man, we have no money here and no money rules. We'll give you a way to get through when you're old! ”

When the old man heard this, he immediately came to life, and he thought that the official was going to let him go. He kowtowed his head on the ground differently.

"Old man, don't knock, if you continue like this, you will break our rules?"

The soldier said with a smile.

Only then did the old man stop kowtowing as if he had just woken up from a dream, and looked up at the soldier in the bitter cold.

"Official, what is this rule?"

The old man asked through gritted teeth.

"This rule is to drill under my brother's crotch!"

The two of them looked at each other and laughed a few times.

"What?"

The old man cried out in surprise. He was older than the two soldiers combined, and yet they said such disobedient things.

"Old man, do you have bad ears?"

They repeated what they had just said.

"Get under our crotch!"

The soldier's words pierced his heart like a dagger, and his mind was so confused that he didn't know what to say.

Chunqiu heard their conversation clearly, if those passers-by were already indifferent to the point of cold-bloodedness, but his left Chunqiu's blood was hot, how could he allow such a thing to happen?

He closed his eyes, tears pouring down like a flood that burst its banks.

"That's the best we've ever thought of, old man. Don't forget that you broke the rules and couldn't really come up with the money. If you were a young man, he would have been arrested by us a long time ago! ”

The two of them were not ashamed, and they were even complacent. They think that bullying a weak and powerless old man is a hero, and he is the proud official of the Ming Dynasty. But who is not a people? Who is not a maggot in the crotch?

"Okay, I—drill!"

The old man raised his head and looked at the sky, he used to go to the temple every day to burn incense and worship the Buddha, but why are those bodhisattvas who purify all sentient beings not working now? Do they only shelter those who give more money to incense?

The sun was gentle, but the old man's face was rugged and hard. Tears flowed down the ravines.

"Old man, you are not a maggot, what you have drilled through is not humiliation, but the sorrow of the world!"

Chunqiu's heart couldn't be calm, he closed his eyes, not wanting to let himself see the old man's humble moment.