Qin Qiu returned to the outside of the city after leaving the yamen, a dilapidated shack village, and all the people who had escaped just now ran back, and said with a smile: "Boss, it's great that you're okay." ”

"Boss, that dog officer didn't embarrass you, did he? We're scared to death! ”

"These dog officials are so disagreeable, we didn't do anything, but we took the boss away. If you are injured like this, you won't lose money, it's just a beast! ”

Qin Qiu looked at them, pulled everyone out and walked into an earthen house, and as soon as the door was closed, everyone was locked outside.

This rotten mud house is a good house, although it leaks on all sides, and the roof is still missing a lot of tiles. When it rains, it's raining heavily outside and a waterfall inside.

But even this kind of dilapidated house is many times stronger than the surrounding shacks.

Although the room was dilapidated, only some parts of the light came in, and the rest was still in shadow.

Qin Qiu didn't like the dark, so he walked directly into the sunlight in the house, looking at the broken bed in the corner of the room, where there was a person hiding in the shadows, covered with a black and tattered quilt on the bed.

"I'm leaving." He said calmly.

The man on the bed suddenly moved, and sat up slowly, revealing a figure with dirty and unkempt hair. The man said in disbelief, "Really...... It's true? ”

The corners of Qin Qiu's mouth curled and said, "I said that you have been studying for so many years, and you have also been admitted to Tongsheng." It's just that he broke two legs, and he willingly became a beggar, and now he doesn't even believe me when I say I'm leaving, and my earlier momentum is gone. ”

"Momentum?" The person on the bed suddenly became excited, and he didn't know if it was because Qin Qiu was leaving, he looked forward to hope, and as soon as he was excited, he fell off the bed.

Like a terrible ghost crawling out of hell, he slowly squirmed on the ground and crawled towards Qin Qiu.

Qin Qiu didn't move, just looked at him with a nonchalant face, and when the others crawled into the sunlight that leaked in, a face covered with scars as if it had been attacked by a fishnet appeared in his sight.

He gritted his teeth and said resentfully, "If it weren't for you, how could I have become like this!" ”

"Oh, indeed. Thinking that you and I have no resentment or resentment, and it is normal to be hurt like this by me for no reason. Qin Qiu grabbed the hair that had been drenched in water, but it was still messy, and pulled out a long gray and black thread that was not much thicker than the hair.

The man's face was suddenly full of fear, and he was so frightened that he desperately tried to crawl to the door.

Qin Qiu walked in front of him, the gray line in his hand shook, and hung around his neck, "Don't worry, I won't cut off your head, and I will keep the whole corpse to send you back to your hometown." ”

"Help......" The man looked ahead with wide eyes and horror, trying to call for help, but he couldn't say a second word with his mouth wide open.

There was a thin streak of blood in his throat, and he made a faint snoring sound when he breathed.

Qin Qiu didn't continue to move, but with a flick of his finger, the gray thread flew up and wrapped around his finger. I scratched it in my hair and the gray line was gone.

Without looking at the dying man on the ground, Qin Qiu stepped over from him, walked directly to the door and opened the broken door.

The flower children at the door just now have already dispersed, either basking in the sun by the wall and catching fleas, or tying up the belt of their trousers, pouring cold water on their stomachs and holding it first, waiting for the meal to beg for food.

He stood at the door, clasped his hands and said, "Zhang Xiucai is dead." ”

It's common for someone to die here, not to mention that Zhang Xiucai has been lying in bed for several months, sleeping in the broken quilt and not moving. The smell in the house was worse than the stench on them, and no one wanted to go in.

Hearing that he was dead, everyone still didn't have much energy, so they were stunned and responded, no one wanted to stand up.

He didn't eat anything, who was in the mood to carry the corpse, his house was so smelly, maybe his body was rotten to maggots.

But there were a few old beggars who shook their heads and said regretfully: "Xiucai, who has called him for so long, can't he die when he wants to set up a tablet, and still call him Xiucai?" I remember him saying that his name is Zhang Yaozu. ”

"After all, it is a person who has read books, and with his guidance, when he goes to block those sons and scholars from asking for money, he will not return empty-handed."

"That's right, let's get up and carry Zhang Xiucai to bury it. Anyway, I have been the boss for everyone for so long, and I have never treated everyone badly, but how is this body so bad, I can't get up when I get sick. The old beggar sat on the ground and struck it with his begging stick, trying to get some body to look at the strength.

Everyone looked at one by one, and no one refused to get up and take this head, what does it matter if the previous boss died. He lies in bed all day and doesn't get up to raise his body, can't take everyone to beg for food, and he is already a waste.

Besides, the current boss is still standing here, it hurts so much to beat people, who would do this kind of thing to offend him, isn't this a stab in his eye.

Qin Qiu still needed these people, so he said: "The female official of the Yamen has already promised to let Yanhongyuan take out the silver to treat Zhang Xiucai, who was humiliated by them. ”

"However, he died before waiting for the silver, and part of the money was used to buy a thin coffin, and sent him back to his hometown, and the rest were divided." His words were like drugged everyone, and the people who were sitting in the corner of the wall with weak energy stood up in an instant, and everyone's faces were filled with the brilliance of begging for chicken legs.

An old man who still remembered Zhang Xiucai's good just now shouted excitedly: "Boss, this Zhang Xiucai's hometown is only half a day away from here, so why send it back." Isn't it easier to dig a pit and bury it in the mass grave over there. ”

"That's right, his family is dead, and there is no one to send him back!" Everyone feels sorry for the silver, and it is important for the dead to have the living, so it is better to take all the money and share it among everyone.

Qin Qiu disagreed, he rarely reasoned seriously, "His family still has an ancestral grave, and he has asked for food for a lifetime, so he has to go back when he dies." Now you go with me to Yanhong Courtyard to ask for silver, and buy wine and meat for Zhang Xiuchang's funeral at night. ”

As soon as they heard that there was meat and wine in this funeral, the flowers stopped bothering Zhang Xiuchang, and quickly hugged Qin Qiu and went to Yanhong Courtyard again.

Zhang Yaozu, who died in the house, no one took a second look.

Zhuang Rou knew about it that day, and she had already asked Ma Dezheng to send someone to tell the people in Yanhong Courtyard that as long as she gave one or twenty taels of silver, she could send away these begging for food.

Tai Shufang kept thanking him, he used to open to two hundred taels, but the leader of the flower didn't agree. Now it can be solved with only twenty or thirty taels, and he is still not satisfied.

As for the story of a scholar who spent all his money in the Yanhong Courtyard and finally died of illness on the street, he didn't remember it at all. But there is still slander in my heart, how can there be a poor ghost who wants to go back with the wine and silver.

After learning that Yanhong Courtyard had paid twenty taels of silver, and that Qin Qiu had promised not to block the door again, Zhuang Rou breathed a sigh of relief and continued to take a pen and scribble on a piece of white paper.

This is her plan, and when the picture is okay, the Yanhong Courtyard will be rich.