Under a low wall made of rubble, three children in tattered clothes crouched in the corner.

The children were dirty, wrapped in a coarse cloth full of holes, and had two stone chips on the soles of their feet, wrapped in strips of cloth to make their shoes.

The road was covered with yellow sand and gravel, and when the wind blew, the sand and gravel came to their faces, and the children pulled the cloth from their collars and covered their mouths and noses.

In front of them, there were three sunken stone bowls, which they had spent more than ten days carving.

A child picked up a stone bowl and pleaded to passers-by: "Big brother and sister, okay, I haven't eaten for 20 days and haven't drunk water for 10 days." Big brother and big sister, okay......"

A child next to him pressed his hand down and said, "It's not right for you to shout like that, how can anyone go without eating or drinking for so many days, it's too fake." ”

The third child nodded and agreed: "Let's shout, Zheng Qiu, you have been shouting like this for two days, and you haven't gotten half a piece of bread." If you keep shouting, we're going to starve to death. ”

The child who shouted just now was Zheng Qiu, his memory when he was a child was very vague, and he only knew that he had lost his parents early and became an orphan, and he had been begging for food in this place called the Great Wilderness Lonely City.

His level of begging is very bad, and it is common for him to not be able to get food for four or five days, but he has an advantage, that is, he is particularly hungry, and every time he eats, he can last ten days and half a month.

The other two children he met while begging, the one who pressed his hand was called the eared cat, and the one who spoke to the eared cat was called Ma Peng.

Eared Cat and Ma Pengke are both good at begging, the two of them cried so much that they were so moved that they chose the object of begging very accurately, and they could get enough rations from pedestrians every day.

In order to stop Zheng Qiu from being hungry, they worked hard to teach the experience of begging, hoping that Zheng Qiu would learn it as soon as possible.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" said two big men suddenly from the front of the road, shouting this loudly, pushing the pedestrian away rudely.

Ma Peng hurriedly hugged the stone bowl tightly, trotted back to the corner, and urged Zheng Qiu and the eared cat at the same time: "Hurry up, the wicked people are coming." ”

Hearing Ma Peng's words, Zheng Qiu and the eared cat immediately picked up the stone bowl and followed Ma Peng to the alley.

The Great Wilderness Lonely City is not a place where neighbors are harmonious and everyone is friendly, it is chaotic and disorderly, and people are dying almost every day.

Thinking that a little beggar like Zheng Qiu, in the eyes of a fierce cultivator, is no different from the yellow sand on the ground, and he can wave his hand and scatter it at any time.

The only place where Zheng Qiu and the others can move is the street around the market, where there are many people doing business and pedestrians are friendly.

They don't dare to go anywhere else, they can stand up at any time and make fun of a cultivator who is in a bad mood and take advantage of their three lives.

Running along this small alley, you can get close to the walls of the Great Wilderness Lonely City, where the eared cats find a hole under the walls to serve as a place for them to spend the night.

After begging every day, they would run to the foot of the city wall, climb into the hole, and cover the entrance with scattered wall tiles, so that they could rest and sleep in peace.

The three men ran under the city wall, put the stone bowl into their clothes, lay on the ground, and climbed into the hole one after another. Zheng Qiu, who was the last to enter, picked up the wall tiles on the ground and carefully covered the entrance of the cave.

The eared cat sighed: "Hey, I didn't get anything today, and I'm hungry again." ”

Ma Peng smiled, and didn't seem to take hunger to heart: "Don't be hungry and don't worry, at least your life is here." We'll go back tomorrow and see if the wicked don't come to the market every day. ”

Zheng Qiu lowered his head and looked very embarrassed: "It's all my fault, if my level was better, I would have been able to get rations a long time ago, and everyone wouldn't have starved." ”

Hearing Zheng Qiu's words, a smile suddenly appeared on the eared cat's face: "Okay, I know that you love to carry the black cauldron." However, under the guidance of the two of us, your level has improved a lot, at least once in three days. ”

When there was nothing to eat, sleeping was a good way to relieve hunger, and the three children cowered in the hole, dozing off against the awkward wall tiles.

In the middle of the night, Zheng Qiu was woken up by a noise, and he leaned to the edge of the cave and looked out through the gap.

In the distance, the dark streets are constantly lit up with colorful brilliance, as if someone is lighting a lantern, and it is as if fireworks are being set off on the ground.

There was a large bungalow between the city wall and the place where it was lit up, and Zheng Qiu couldn't see what was happening, he only knew that it was a cultivator fighting.

After a few moments, he noticed that the flickering brilliance seemed to be approaching, and the sound of weapons clashing began to be heard outside, although it was very light, but it was getting louder and louder.

Zheng Qiu hurriedly shook the eared cat and Ma Peng, and raised his hand to cover the mouths of the two: "Shhh, don't make a sound, there are cultivators fighting outside, they are leaning over this way!"

"Really, it won't be so unlucky, right?" Hearing this, the eared cat suddenly looked nervous, and moved his body in the narrow hole in the wall, close to the entrance of the cave to look out.

At this look, the eared cat was shocked: "Oh my God, it's really approaching this way, if we get caught up, it will be miserable!"

Ma Peng grabbed Zheng Qiu and the eared cat's clothes and dragged the two of them into the hole in the wall: "Hide in and seal the wall!"

"Yes, seal it quickly!" the eared cat took out the stone bowl from his bosom and slammed it on the wall of the cave, "Use this to pry down the wall tiles in the cave and fill the hole." ”

Click, click, the three children waved the stone bowl vigorously, pried out the wall bricks of the cave wall one by one, filled in the hole, and completely sealed the remaining gaps.

The entrance to the cave was completely sealed, and the three of them could no longer see the situation outside, so they could only stick to the innermost side and prick up their ears to listen to the sound outside the cave.

Boom, there was a bang, Zheng Qiu felt that the entire wall hole was shaking, and it hit here so quickly!

Boom, the sound of the explosion came again, louder than before, and Zheng Qiu could even hear the faint scolding outside.

Giggled, the eared cats next to them shivered in fright, and their teeth involuntarily knocked on each other.

Ma Peng grabbed the eared cat's torn clothes and stuffed them into his mouth: "Shhhh

Peng, there was a muffled sound, as if something had smashed on the city wall, and the wall bricks at the entrance of the cave clicked and trembled, and there were signs of scattering.

Zheng Qiu was closest to the entrance of the cave, and he hurriedly crawled over and held on to the wall tiles at the entrance of the cave to prevent himself and his friends from being discovered.

The fight continued, and violent tremors continued to hit the city walls, and waves of air rolling outside washed over the wall tiles at the entrance of the cave.

This small hole in the wall is like a bird's nest in a storm, and it is in danger of being destroyed at any time.

After about half an hour, the fighting finally stopped outside, and only two men could be heard talking. After a while, one of the men yelled and the woman's crying could be heard.

Soon, the scolding turned to pleading, followed by the man's terrible screams, and the woman's crying turned into a heart-rending cry.

The shouting stopped instantly, and the outside fell silent, Zheng Qiu listened for a moment, retracted his hand holding the wall tiles, and crawled back to the inside of the wall hole.

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