Hearing this, Lu Xingwan turned his head to look and saw that Wen Shu was picking up a dusty booklet from the incense table in the center, the cover of the booklet was extremely ordinary, and it could even be said to be rough.

"What is this?" She asked, turning back and walking towards the main hall.

On the other side, after seeing the words on the booklet and the contents of it, Wen Shu was directly stunned.

Because the cover of the booklet is written with three big characters "Merit Book", and then look at the inside, page by page is recorded, which year, month, month, where he met someone, what the other party said to him, what things he gave, and a small portrait of the other party was drawn next to it.

These statues include old men over sixty years old, teenagers, and even some young women and women in their thirties and forties, and the latest page of the booklet records the events of the morning, and there is a small portrait of Miss Lu next to it.

Although the picture is simple and uncolored, looking at its charm, it is seven or eight points like Miss Lu!

And just as she was in her mouth, Lu Xingwan had already come over and took away the booklet in her hand, and after reading it, her brain was dazed for a moment, and then her heart beat wildly.

After trying to calm down for a long time, Lu Xingwan carefully put the booklet back on the table, then looked up at the dusty statue of the mountain god above, bowed respectfully three times, and then said to Mama Chen and the others outside the door: "Let's go." ＂

Wen Shu came back from his surprise, and also bowed three times, and then looked up at the statue of the mountain god on his head, and somehow, he saw a little bit of the shadow of the young man from this clay statue.

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In a house not far from the mountain temple, the old woman who was still demented at noon looked clear at the moment, looking at her son standing in the court with a nervous face.

"I've heard that there are a lot of people coming, they won't find this!"

"No, it won't. ＂

Liu Xiu was holding a booklet in his hand, and he was not nervous when he heard this, but stroked the booklet in his hand and slowly opened it.

The contents of the booklet are the same as those on the altar table of the mountain temple, but the three big characters on the cover are not "merit book" but "kindness book." ”

"Xiu'er, it's all my mother who has bothered you!" The old woman suddenly cried, "If it weren't for my illness, you would have been able to go to school normally and study for fame, but now you are dragged down by me, but you have to do such a thing against your will." ”

Liu Xiu didn't know how many times she had heard this sentence since she was a child, and she was helpless and powerless.

"Mother, those kind-hearted people gave us things voluntarily, and my son didn't deceive anyone." He smiled and comforted, and raised the booklet in his hand again, "And these kind sons have remembered it, and they will repay them one by one when I come out in the future." ”

Speaking of this old woman, her tears couldn't be stopped: "It's all useless for me to be a mother, your father left early, and your second sister let the flower shoot away, and your eldest brother's uncompetitive one even left our mother and ran away, I haven't seen it for so many years, and if they are still there, you won't be so difficult!" ”

"Mother." Liu Xiu was helpless, "These are all things in the past, you have to look forward and get better as soon as possible, so as to really reduce the burden on me." ”

He wasn't lying, his mother was really hysterical.

When he was four years old, his father went up the mountain to collect medicine, and accidentally fell off the cliff and died.

When the family lost their roof and lived on the roof, the clansmen took advantage of the situation to bully each other and wanted to take back their houses and fields, so that the four of them could go to the clan to live.

The life under the fence is naturally not easy, and what is even more sad is that in July of the same year, the second sister disappeared for no reason, and the eldest brother also ran away from home the following year.

The mother couldn't stand the blows one after another, and fell ill directly in bed, and since then she has suffered from hysteria, and she is in a trance for most of the day, often pulling people she doesn't know, calling the names of the eldest brother and second sister, and causing a lot of trouble.

When the clansmen saw this, they drove them out on the grounds of trouble, he was only six or seven years old at the time, and had nowhere to go, so he could only take his mother to live in the ruined temple, and then follow the beggars to ask for food.

Until two years ago when he came to Gulou County, once in a while, his mother ran out again while he was not paying attention, and when he found out and chased out, she was standing in the middle of the road and pulling a little lady shouting the name of the second sister.

At first the little lady panicked and kept shaking off her mother's hand, but when he ran out to apologize and tell her that she was suffering from hysteria, the girl did not blame her, but took two trowels from the basket and gave them to him.

It was the first time he felt warmth, and it gave him an idea.

Instead of standing pitifully on the side of the road begging for food, it is better to simply show his pity in front of the right person at the right time.

Gulou County is not far from Bianliang, the capital of the city, often there are dignitaries or wealthy merchants passing by, he immediately summoned the beggars in the city, let them guard the city gates, once there is a carriage or a convoy into the city, follow them, determine their residence, and then come to report to him.

Once these rich merchants or nobles have settled down, they will come out for a walk, and then he will be in the right place for the beggars to rush out and ask for money.

As for his mother, when he is sober, he will cooperate with him in acting, and when he is confused, he only needs to shout 'second sister' or 'big brother' to people in the distance, and she will rush out.

However, nobles are not so easy to meet, and not all nobles have kindness, some nobles not only have no sympathy, but when they see them beggars, they will be bored to let the subordinates around them whip them.

After suffering a few losses, he summed up a few experiences.

First, women and the elderly are preferred, whether women are elderly ladies or young ladies who have not yet come out of the cabinet, they want to be more or less face-saving, even if they don't give money, they will not instruct their subordinates to beat people.

And most of the old people are soft-hearted, and when they look at her mother's appearance, they can think of themselves to some extent, plus they are not bad for money, so they will basically reward some.

Of course, he is also very clever to only look for outsiders, because this kind of thing cannot be hidden from locals.

In order to prevent some merchants from staying too long and hearing some rumors and asking them for trouble, he deliberately found a mountain temple, and took the beggars to move there more on weekdays, and then made a merit book and put it in front of the case, which recorded in detail those who had given him money or help, from appearance, identity to age.

Then compare the appearance of the statue of the mountain god and dress yourself up, so that once someone finds this place, as long as they see the merit book in front of the case, they will basically not be investigated.

Coupled with his deliberate arrangement, most people will associate this matter with ghosts and gods, even if they don't believe it, they don't find him on the spot, and they won't arrest him all over the city for a few taels of silver.

He relied on the money obtained from these "cheating" to collect the beggars in the city, and gave his mother medicine to keep his condition from deteriorating, barely surviving.