CHAPTER XLIII
She looked at the two children on the ground.
Very skinny.
It's also dirty.
The two men were dressed somewhat similarly to the kid they had met on the street corner.
From what had just happened, it seemed that the two children were following the orders of the man who had run away, and that they were clearly resisting when carrying out the order.
Is this the child who was controlled by the beggar gang that Master said?
She thought about it, hesitated for a moment, and then took out a sachet from her arms and put it on the noses of the two of them.
Just for a moment.
The two of them woke up quietly.
"Uncle, spare us, we are also forced to be helpless...... We didn't mean to......" The little dog was the first to react, and hugged Chen Jiaojiao's calf and cried.
The little mouse did the same, turned over and hugged Chen Jiaojiao's other calf.
"Yes, uncle, we are all poor people, we have been abducted to the beggar's den by bad people since we were children, and if we don't obey, we will be beaten."
"Look at my arm, they were all beaten, new injuries add old injuries, and they never get better."
The little mouse seemed to be afraid that the ugly old man in front of him would not believe it, so he reached out and rolled up his sleeve.
Chen Jiaojiao glanced at it, there were many new injuries, and there were also many old scars, and there was a trace of pity in her eyes.
"Alright, alright, I won't kill you, you guys go."
Her voice was unusually hoarse, like a sharp pebble scraping through a sharp weapon.
The two boys glanced at each other, and both of them had surprise in their eyes.
They let go of their hands and slowly crawled to the side, snuggling up to each other, and then did not dare to move.
Chen Jiaojiao felt a little bitter when she saw their appearance.
In the afternoon, he also lamented that the little beggars were clever in begging, but he didn't think that they were just tools to collect money for others.
Chen Jiaojiao wanted to ask them if they knew the location of Jiurentang.
But the words came to his lips and he swallowed again.
An elder of the beggar gang was looking for him, and he also knew that he would go to Yucheng.
Would he also know that his true destination was Jiurentang?
No, this location can't be revealed, so you can only find it slowly by yourself.
Chen Jiaojiao thought for a moment and then walked forward again.
The two children looked at the old man who was struggling as he left with his body bent.
"Brother Mouse, just now Boss Zhu must have thought we were dead, should we go back?"
The puppy asked in a whisper.
The little mouse was stunned.
"No, if you don't go back, you will be beaten every day when you go back."
"But if we don't go back, there will always be an old beggar at the gate of Yucheng, and we won't be able to escape."
"If they catch us, I'm afraid we will be like kittens, breaking our legs and begging on the street corner every day."
As soon as he said this, the two children shivered with fear.
"Brother Mouse, why don't we follow the old man in front, he will use poison."
"Brother Zhu said that the people who are most afraid of provoking on the rivers and lakes are the ones who use drugs."
"As long as we follow him and beg him to take us in, we can live another life."
The delicate words of the two fell on Chen Jiaojiao's ears one by one.
Her already slow pace slowed even further.
"But no one on the rivers and lakes will look down on the poison, all the people in the rivers and lakes disdain to make friends with them, if we follow him, I am afraid that we will be like him in the future, and we will be a lonely person until I am old." The puppy shook his head, a little hesitant.
The little dog was anxious, and he said quickly: "Brother Mouse, we have been controlled by Boss Zhu for many years, do you think we can escape?" Maybe if we were a little older, he would be afraid that we would run away, and it would not be necessary to gouge out our eyes. ”
"Those blind old beggars, you haven't seen much?"
Hearing what the little dog said, the little mouse was also moved, Boss Zhu definitely can't go back, maybe there is still a glimmer of life with this old man.
"But let's go, what should Xiao Guangzai do, he is still in the hands of Boss Zhu." The little mouse was a little tangled again.
The little dog was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said, "Brother Mouse, if we want to rescue Brother Guangzai, then we can only ask the old man in front, maybe he sees us pitiful and will help?" ”
There was a lot of uncertainty in his words, but it was the best thing he could think of.
The little mouse nodded: "Now it's all about this." ”
The two children helped each other up, and ran behind the old camel in small steps.
Chen Jiaojiao knew that they were coming, but she didn't stop.
She hesitated.
If you are in trouble, can you really save them?
She dragged her bulky body up and down, turned two more streets, and in the midst of the swaying, the sky was completely dark.
Chen Jiaojiao didn't leave either, and sat down next to the wall.
The two boys, you push me, I push you, pushing each other and slowly moving in front of her.
"Old-timer, my name is Little Puppy."
"Old-timer, my name is Little Mouse."
"Senior, can the two of us follow you?"
After the two of them whispered, they asked in unison what they wanted to ask the most.
Chen Jiaojiao's eyes were closed.
Silent.
Seeing the old man's silent appearance, the little dog was a little anxious.
Boss Zhu fled when he saw the danger, but he would definitely come back afterwards to find their bodies.
The beggars have an unwritten rule.
To live to see people, to die to see corpses.
If he couldn't find the body, he would definitely know that he and his brother had escaped.
If the old man doesn't take them in, they will be arrested by Boss Zhu and them, but they are afraid that it will be inevitable to break their hands and feet.
Thinking of this, the puppy trembled all over, and his hairs stood on end.
He knelt down on his knees, tears raining down: "Senior, please save me and Brother Mouse, if we are caught, we will definitely be tortured." ”
When the little mouse saw his partner kneeling down, he also knelt down busily.
"Senior, you are doing well, please take us in, we will be filial to you in the future, as long as you take us in, you can be a cow and a horse." The little mouse cried and cried.
He thought of the never-ending torment he had been subjected to since he could remember.
The days were too hard and too desperate, and he became numb after crying, and he couldn't cry anymore.
But now seeing the old man in front of him, he rose a faint hope again.
He wanted to live.
He wanted to live well.
Chen Jiaojiao was very helpless.
She also wanted to save.
But his own strength is meager, and there are many people who are eyeing him, maybe he saved you now, but he will harm you in the future!
The little dog listened to the crying on the side, and the emotions that he had been holding back also collapsed.
"Senior, please, save us, not only in this life, but in the next life, I will be a cow and a horse for you, senior, you can do well......"
The puppy doesn't want to die either.
Because he has already died once.
It's terrifying.
It's so terrifying that it's too humble to live in this world, and I want to make a living.