Chapter 400: Rumors
Early the next morning, Zhuang Rou took out the clothes that had been prepared a few days earlier and could be used at any time to change them. His hair was tied up very casually, and he deliberately grabbed it loosely with his hands, and then opened the door and planned to go out.
When passing by Chu Xia's main house, she stopped, looked left and right, and didn't see where Xiao Ran and them were hiding. If she could see it, the guard would be too bad.
She said: "I don't know which big brother is guarding today, I have something to go out for a few days, please talk to the adults, and I will be back in a few days." ”
Yang Qing swooped out of nowhere, looked Zhuang Rou up and down curiously, and saw that her hair was messy, her clothes were old and white, and her shoes were a few holes, so she immediately smiled: "Are you going to be a homeless person?" ”
"It's just a small case of disappearance, and it takes you so much trouble. But it's white and chubby, and it doesn't look like a homeless person, so you'll be discovered when you go in. ”
Zhuang Rou touched the clothes on her body, looked up and laughed, "It's okay, I have a way anyway." Now there are still few people in the state yali, and it is not easy to be discovered when I go out now, Brother Yang, I will trouble you to talk to the adults. ”
Yang Qing scratched his head and grinned: "It's not good for you to go out like this, I'll take you out over the wall." ”
"Okay." Zhuang Rou felt that this was taking advantage, so she agreed, and Yang Qing carried her belt to the roof.
She only felt that her face was blown cold by the wind, and when she came back to her senses, she had already landed outside the high wall of the state government. Yang Qing had to go back to guard Chu Xia, smiled at her and ran away.
Zhuang Rou sighed and said to herself: "It's good to have light skills, you can come and go without a trace." ”
At this time, the sky was just slightly bright, the sun had not yet climbed the mountain, and there were few pedestrians on the street. There are no vegetables to sell in winter, and the poor have thin clothing, so if there is no need, they will stay in the bed for a while.
When she walked into the streets where the people lived, she could only occasionally meet people who were pulling night incense. In order to pretend to be more like, Zhuang Rou didn't wear too thick, and at this time, Leng walked quickly with his hands around his neck without attracting anyone's attention.
When she left the city gate, the officers and soldiers who were opening the city gate did not recognize her, and they would not give a second glance to this kind of girl who looked like a poor family. This difference between the people in the city and the out-of-town outcasts is just a place to stay in the city.
Zhuang Rou didn't alarm anyone out of the city, didn't go directly to the shack, but found a wasteland where no one was, and just lay on the dirt and rolled. In a few moments, her old clothes, which were shabby but white, were stained with mud.
She patted the dust off her body, wiped her dirty hands on her face, and finally grabbed her hair for a while, and her hair became dirty and gray.
"Wanderer...... Zhuang Rou raised her head and closed her eyes, and stood silently for a while before slowly opening her eyes, and the breath of the whole person changed.
His eyes were wary and full of trepidation, and although his figure did not deliberately bend down and bow his head, there was a strange curvature, and a dead air like the walking dead fluttered out.
A few years ago, she was like this, and that dead air was extremely dangerous among the homeless. It means that in order to survive, she can do whatever it takes, and you may be the next to die if she beats her idea.
With an old kitchen knife with a broken blade from the kitchen pinned to her waist, Zhuang Rou walked slowly towards the slope on the other side of the shed.
Before the soup kitchen once a day began, there were no wild vegetables to be found, and most of the hungry people lay in the shacks to avoid the cold, and some were so hungry that they couldn't stand it, and they walked around, trying to find something to eat from the soil to fill their stomachs.
Although Zhuang Rou looked tattered and dirty, she was obviously much fatter than the people here, and she walked through the shed area, and soon attracted the attention of some ill-intentioned people.
Whoever it was, it felt like she must have something to eat.
A skinny man came out of the shack and tried to stand in front of Zhuang Rou and snatch her things.
"Get out of here, or I'll eat you." Zhuang Rou raised her head, her eyes stared at the other party's eyes like a poisonous snake, full of extreme hunger and thirst for food.
The man only felt cold to the bone, and the fear made him take a step back, stepped into the mud, and fell to the ground.
Zhuang Rou didn't look at him, like a ghoul looking for food, and walked directly past him.
The countless eyes that had been staring at her in the shack disappeared, and her aura was different from that of those of them who had just become homeless people, always making people suspect that she was a ghost who lived out of the pile of corpses, gnawing on corpses.
Frightened off the people who were about to stir the disaster, Zhuang Rou swaggered around the shed, and did not see any bastards who were different from them, so she walked towards the soup kitchen.
No matter day or night, there are always many victims here, reluctant to leave, just hoping to grab a place in front of the soup kitchen. In this way, the porridge and rice can be thicker, and you will not be unable to receive steamed buns.
Chef Liu's multigrain cake is also nearby, and she always waits for the soup kitchen before coming, otherwise she will be robbed of the stall by someone who didn't grab the steamed bun and was anxious.
found a bare tree, Zhuang Rou sat down against the tree, and silently guarded.
She sat here and didn't scare anyone, so there were a lot of homeless people around, waiting for the soup kitchen to have nothing to do, so they chatted there without a word.
"Have you heard, there was a big feast in the city last night, and all the rich people went. It is said that one braised pork knuckle is given to each person, and it is enough to eat as much as you want. ”
"Then there must be braised pork, right? I don't even know the taste of meat, and I want to take a bite right now. ”
"There must be, a piece the size of a bowl."
"Phew, these rich guys eat such good things."
The sound of several people snorting and gurgling in her stomach reached Zhuang Rou's ears, and she looked sideways. There were five or six men chatting over there, and it was impossible to tell whether they were farmers or coolies before they became homeless.
The displaced people can't enter Hongzhou City, and if no one comes out to spread the word, they won't know that a banquet was held in the city. And the dishes eaten are obviously also made up, especially for the poor.
If you want to say that you have eaten dishes such as lily five-flavor minced meat or deer plum branches, these people don't know what it is, and they can become displaced victims, and they can barely survive in the past.
Zhuang Rou knew that at such a time, there would definitely be people who would come to confuse the public, causing the homeless people to be dissatisfied with the court and the rich, so that they fell into the grass.
Looking at a few people, they should have listened to other people's words and chatted together, but that's what those bandits wanted.
She looked at it a few times and then stopped looking, and continued to close her eyes and wait for Chef Liu to come, otherwise she wouldn't know who the woman was.
At this time, another word came, "Yesterday's banquet sold a lot of grapes, a bunch of one hundred taels of gold, clearly said that it was to exchange money for us to buy grain, but in fact, it was the female canon's filial piety to Prince An." ”
"Not to mention us homeless victims, even the rich families in the city, were robbed by that woman and cried out."
"That's right, last time, Lord Zhizhou gave us three meals a day to eat meat buns. Since the history of the women's canon came, it has been replaced with gruel once a day, and people are almost starving to death. ”
"I heard that she also caught a lot of women from good families in the city, and gave them all to King An to enjoy, and the inside of the yamen is simply unsightly!"
"Not only that, but the daughter of the neighbor's family of Shi Daniu's cousin, who fled with me, was robbed. Heard...... Playing alive and dead, throwing it out without any clothes, and all over the body is injured and out of shape. ”
"It's cruel! As a woman, how can you do such a thing! ”
"This person is a tumor in Hongzhou, this official is mutually exclusive, and no one dares to touch her. Even Zhizhou was beaten all over the street by her, and he was lawless. ”
"......" Zhuang Rou rolled her eyes when she heard this, the women arranged by King An in the past, there was no woman from a good family, and they were all selected from the Qinglou.
She felt that she must have offended someone, and someone deliberately spread rumors about herself. But what's the use of this, I'm not an official who wants to be promoted, and I don't want a good reputation to marry, it doesn't matter if my reputation is bad.
can spend so much effort to arrange himself all day long, rumors one after another, how much hatred this person has for himself!
"Ahh Chu Xia sneezed in the quilt, rubbed his nose a little inexplicably, quickly wrapped the quilt tightly, and continued to meet with Zhou Gong.