As soon as he turned around, it was no one else standing at the door, it was the two brothers, the younger brother who was the first was looking at Liu Laosan with a hippie smile, and the brother who followed behind closed the door with his hand, and pulled out the dagger from his waist, his face sank like water, implying murder.

Liu Laosan was frightened, and said again and again: "Two heroes, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, I went to the wrong house, I didn't see anything, I didn't see anything." ”

"Hehe, big brother, you are still spicy, you said that you are a little bit of a follow, I still don't believe it, I didn't think about it and really caught a life, hey, I said old man, before sending you to the patrol room, you first take out the valuable things on your body, and put them neatly here, and save our brothers to get started in person, buddy has a heavy hand, and it is not good to hurt you." ”

"Oh, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, two heroes, where do you think I look like a rich man, everyone has eaten a passing meal, and begged the two to raise their noble hands, for the sake of my age, just treat me as a fart, let it go, hey, by the way, I still have a few big sons here, and I should buy cigarettes for the two of you" said and put the few big sons left over from buying buns on the table.

The younger brother looked at the few eldest sons on the table, hehe sneered, walked over slowly, and slapped him coldly: "Damn, you stole our divine dog, and out of nowhere you got a dead child and put it on our bed to frame us, but a few eldest sons want to leave?" Lao Tzu will come to a Confucian saint today and teach you how to be a person. ”

Saying that he opened the bow left and right, his hands and feet were together, and Liu Laosan's soul was out of his body, and the seven spirits ascended to heaven, rolling on the spot with his head in his arms, to say that he was born to eat, and he could withstand the beating the most, but how could he get to this point, it was really not as good as it was back then, and he was knocked unconscious after a few hits, and I don't know how long it took, a basin of cold water woke him up.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was still in the room, his younger brother was standing next to him, his brother was sitting at the table opposite, holding an iron card around Liu Laosan's neck, looking at him with a puzzled face, Liu Laosan looked at it, and had not yet sent it to the patrol room, thinking that this was still negotiable, and hurriedly climbed on the ground, kowtowing to his brother and begging for mercy, this brother looked at him coldly and said: "Okay, let me ask you, where did you get this iron card?" ”

Liu Laosan heard this tone, could it be that this brother knows this iron card, what's wrong with him, since he asked, let's say, in case the blind cat meets a dead mouse, he will tell the origin of this iron card.

In fact, this iron card is nothing, it is the beggar group that picked up Liu Laosan's things, there are rules in this beggar group, raising people only until they are fourteen years old, and then they will be thrown out, begging for food by themselves, when leaving, there is an old beggar who gave him this thing, saying to wear it to keep safe.

Liu Laosan took a look, it was the so-called Xuantie amulet sold by a Taoist fortune teller during a temple fair, which was actually a thin piece of broken iron engraved with what kind of auspicious words of peace and longevity, and he didn't think much about it at the time, so he put it on his body.

After hearing this, the elder brother nodded, and said to the younger brother, "Help him up first, and I'll ask him a few words." ”

The younger brother looked at Liu Laosan, and looked at his brother with some unhappiness, meaning that he didn't want to let go, his brother said in a low voice: "If it's really an incense in the furnace, let's break the rules like this, you forgot what the big dad told us when he came out?" Walking the rivers and lakes is most afraid of breaking the rules. ”

When the younger brother heard the word "big daddy", he lost his temper for a moment, and compounded his brother and said: "Yes, yes, I'm afraid of breaking the rules, get up, go, sit there and drink tea, count your fucking life as a dead old man." ”

When Liu Laosan heard this, he quickly stood up, nodded and bowed to his brother, sat down at the table tremblingly, drank a sip of tea, spit blood, and half of his teeth fell out, and his brother asked, "Are you okay?" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, a handful of cheap bones, you can't die, the two heroes really understand the righteousness, the little old man is grateful, grateful." ”

"Don't be too busy thanking you yet, let me ask you, where are you from?" ”

"Back to the hero's words, the little old man went out of the city from Huainan Fenghe County in the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu, and he was fourteen or fifteen years old that year. ”

"And where did this brand come from?" ”

"Yes, this is an old beggar who gave me when I was leaving, saying that it could keep me safe, I didn't think so at the time, but now I look at it, it really works, what?" What does it mean to look at the little brother? ”

After listening to this, my brother nodded, and returned the sign to Liu Laosan and said: "Sure enough, it is the daddy's person, and we were also adopted and raised by the daddy, and we also gave a piece when we left, and told that if you meet someone wearing the same brand, it must be a brother, and you must not have a conflict, so you are saved by this brand." ”

Liu Laosan muttered in his heart when he heard this, when the old beggar gave it to me, he didn't say anything, are these two brothers talking to me about the same person? After all, this thing is all over the street, and when I was a teenager, the beggar was almost older than me, what age are the two of them, if they take them in again, will the old beggar still live for a hundred years? Whatever, if he can survive, it is not advisable to stay here for a long time, I don't know when the two brothers will react that we are not talking about a person, so hurry up.

Thinking of this, Liu Laosan hugged his fists and said: "Since this is the case, then we are a family, in this way, the little old man will set up a table of wine in Yunshen Building on the corner of the street at noon tomorrow, let's talk about the wine, and then talk about brotherhood, now the hour is not early, I will not bother the two of you to rest, take the first step, and say goodbye." ”

After saying that, he stood up and wanted to leave, but his younger brother hurriedly came over and muttered a few words in his brother's ear, and his brother nodded and said, "Hey, don't be busy yet, I still have something to trouble you." ”

When Liu Laosan heard this, he sweated, but he had to continue: "Hey, it's not troublesome to say anything, you two have something to do, just let me have an old arm and legs, and I just let this little hero practice again, don't help but add to the chaos." ”

The younger brother laughed and said, "It's okay, you did it," and then pointed to the child in the dog's skin on the bed and said, "Carry this out and bury it." ”

Liu Laosan shuddered after hearing this, and said in his heart that he was afraid that I would go out to report to the official and pull me into the water, but look at these two brothers are not good men and women, they have the heart to say that they will not go, and they are afraid that after saying it, it will not be just a dead child, so after thinking about it, he finally had to nod and accept it.

The three of them said they would go, the brothers went one after the other, and Liu Laosan in the middle trembled and carried the dead child, not tired, but afraid, in case he met a night patrol, this is a capital crime that can't be washed away by jumping into the Yellow River.

I don't know which of the three of them has a good life, and they came to a mass grave in the west of the city all the way safely and soundly, in the middle of the night, the wind gusted on the mass grave, the dog howled and the fox roared, and the green ghost fire wandered among them, Liu Laosan arrived here, shaking even more, and the three of them did not dig a pit, they found a place to throw the child away, turned around and left.

The next day, I don't know whether to be scared or beaten, Liu Laosan actually launched a high fever, and lay on the bed for two days before he could barely get off the ground, and when he went out to grab medicine on the third day, he really didn't know whether it was a narrow road or a deep brotherhood, and he met the two brothers on the street.

As soon as the two brothers saw him, it was as if they had met their relatives, and they had to go to the restaurant to sit down, and explained in advance that Liu Laosan was not allowed to pay a penny.

Liu Laosan didn't want to go, after all, the iron card thing was a mistake, this will drink too much if you find that it is not all the way, it will be troublesome, but the two days of illness, only drink the food paste, there is no oil and water in the stomach, as soon as I hear the wine, the big elbow, Dongpo meat in front of the eyes kept turning, saliva flowed down without a fight, and was persuaded by the two of them, the stomach led the foot and followed.

When I arrived at the restaurant, I singled out a box near the window in the corner of the second floor, and after a while, the wine and meat were all together, and the cup was changed. ”

The two brothers glanced at each other, and the younger brother lowered his voice and said, "It's an old business." ”

When Liu Laosan heard these three words, he was stunned at first, thinking of those poor children, he didn't feel good in his heart, but he couldn't say anything, so he nodded hesitantly, and asked: "You two also learned this method from the beggar gang?" ”

As soon as he heard this, the younger brother looked up at his brother, and muttered for a moment, and the elder brother said: "Hey, this is a long time, when our brothers had a hard life, they just came out of the beggar's nest, and they were arrested by the patrol room that day, and insisted that we were Jiangyang thieves, and named them together, his name is Ma San, my name is Zhao Liu, originally we didn't recognize it, but the means inside, you know, the dead are beaten alive, the live are beaten to death, say what you are what, there is no denial, and then we really can't stand it, just ask for a death, simply sign and draw, waiting to ask for beheading."

In our death row, there is another person, this person is called Zheng Eighteen, who claimed to be the head of the Huainan generation of beggars in his early years, when he was brilliant, there were hundreds of beggars of all sizes under his hands, all for him alone, he did not have the vice of eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, and bought a house and land when he had money, and finally washed his hands in a golden basin and became a landlord, but who knew that there were unforeseen circumstances, a little beggar under him changed careers and did the Buddha, and stole a family in Feidong County, and finally the family reported to the official and took this person away, and I don't know what enmity this person has with Zheng Eighteen, I insisted that Zheng Shibai asked him to go, originally the things he stole were not worth much, and Zheng Shibai was the head of the beggar gang, and after he became rich, he made friends with a lot of people from the government, and he was also a bit of a figure on the ground, this kind of trivial matter was not taken into account at all.

But the bad thing is that the family he stole is a relative of Li Zhongtang, this family heard that it was instructed by the local beggar gang, and it blew up the sky on the spot, saying what to say that Li Zhongtang was embarrassed, and even the beggars bullied them and the like, while writing a letter to the capital, while asking for it to be brought to justice, the county lord provoked the family, and arrested Zheng Shibai overnight, without trial, and went to prison.

Others are on death row, just waiting for the autumn to ask for beheading, our brothers heard that it was the head of the beggar gang back then, and they were respectful, that was to rub their shoulders and beat their legs, serve tea and send water, and take care of everything, it is estimated that my father is alive, and he can't enjoy this blessing, Zheng Eighteen saw that we were two people with a heart, so he secretly told us the method of this god dog,

Later, President Yuan Da ascended the throne and granted amnesty to the world, and our brothers came out, but unfortunately Zheng 18 was only three days away, hey.

In fact, this god dog is also very simple, find a four or five-year-old child, can not be fat, the thinner the better, after finding it, starve for a few days, and then take the sweat medicine to a fan, with a special medicine on the body, within an hour to open the skin, and then find a dog of about the same size, the longer the hair, the better, peel off the skin, while it is hot, put it on the child, and when the child wakes up, he can't peel it off, but such a child can't live long, at most ten days and half a month, so no matter where we go, only stay for three days. ”

Liu Laosan's heart palpitated for a while when he heard this, and when he finished speaking, his younger brother laughed, took out a small paper bag from his arms, patted it in front of him and said: "This is the medicine to wipe the body, and the right is that the younger brother made a heavier hand that day, and apologized to the elder brother." ”

Liu Laosan didn't want it, but his hand was stretched out by the gods, and the dementia took the medicine and put it in his arms, his brother looked at him and said: "We don't know that this is a lack of virtue that damages yin and longevity, and then again, who doesn't want to do some good deeds and accumulate virtue, and be a good person praised by ten thousand people, but you have also seen it, this world does not give people a way to live, either you die or I die, you look at those who sell children and daughters on the street below, which one is not for their own stomach, those children are bought, and how many can grow up without worrying about food and clothing?" And this trick is not Zheng Shiba's original, it was fought from Emperor Guangxu and when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was disturbed, and the beggar gang has long been recorded, but except for the gang leader, it will not be passed on, why? It's just to accumulate virtue, today's world, compared to that coming, is more chaotic and has no royal law, and we are also forced to be helpless, hey. ”

Liu Laosan who said these words was like falling into five miles of clouds, dizzy and never came back to his senses, and he didn't even know how to go home, and when he woke up, he only remembered that before parting, I don't know if it was my brother or my younger brother who said: "We are the life of the ninth rate, don't fuck the heart of the ninth rate, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue is a matter after eating a full stomach, no one cares about a bitter child, and no one cares about you when you starve to death." ”

Liu Laosan took out the medicine bag in his arms, put it under the pillow, looked at Liang Liang, who had not eaten a full meal for several days, and the child he had just bought, and fell asleep.

After listening to him, none of the three of us was silent, who should be blamed? My brain is also a mess, the second master took the flat shoulder, found a piece of soft land, even the hoe and planing, dug a deep pit, put the child down gently, just about to fill the soil, Liu Laosan walked to the edge of the pit, said to the second master: "Heroes, the little old man is willing to pay for his life, but there is one thing to ask for, it is also the last wish of the little old man before he died, I hope you put the beam, he has followed me for so many years, has suffered a lot, but his heart is not bad, he has not done anything bad, hey, it's a pity that his tongue was bitten half by a dog, and he can't speak, I still have a few oceans in my pocket, please transfer them to him for me, Daliang, I will go first! In the future, the burden of goods will be yours, sell the goods well, don't do things that hurt nature, you know! ”

Da Liang whimpered and nodded, anxiously wanted to roll this way, I went over to loosen his tie, he ran over in two steps, hugged Liu Laosan, the two hugged their heads and cried, Yuan Mei turned around, secretly wiped her tears, and finally under the old man's repeated reprimand, Da Liang carried two bamboo baskets and turned back step by step.

After walking two steps, the second master shouted: "Wait", Da Liang stood and looked at him from a distance, the second master took out the Wang Ba box in his waist, withdrew from the magazine, looked carefully inside and out, put the magazine on again, walked to Da Liang, handed him and said: "This broken thing is best stuck, usually rub it more, oil it frequently, and also, you can only defend yourself, you can't harm people, you know?" Also, remember this place, if you really have a heart, at this time of year, come and burn some yellow paper, there is no business to ask for food below. ”

Da Liang nodded vigorously, bowed deeply to him, and looked at Liu Laosan, Liu Laosan waved at him, and then he reluctantly left slowly.

Seeing that Liang walked away, Yuanmei suddenly asked Liu Laosan: "How do you know that we are soldiers?" ”

Liu Laosan said: "You are not, the two of them but, you look at their hands, and the cigarettes they smoke, the former enemy This cigarette is not something that ordinary people can smoke, by the way, you have to be careful if you want to go to Qiucheng, I don't know what happened a few days ago, suddenly a lot of people came, saying that there are big people to arrive, and a few people are going to be arrested, now the city is very strict, you had better go in after dark, leave as soon as possible, so as not to get into trouble, of course, if the little old man guesses correctly, the people they want to arrest are probably all heroes, right?" ”

After hearing this, the three of us glanced at each other, and we all knew it, and then the second master took out a big son from his pocket and handed it to Liu Laosan, "Hold a money in your hand, and become a rich man in the next life." ”

Liu Laosan shook his head and said: "Hey, old man, I have been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, three teachings and nine streams, five elements and eight works, I have seen it all, and I suddenly understand a truth, people live for a lifetime, no matter whether they are rich or rich, it is difficult, the poor are troubled, the rich are troubled, if there is really an afterlife, I would rather turn into a pig and dog beast, and I don't want to be a human anymore." ”

After speaking, he jumped into the pit and leaned quietly beside the child, with a satisfied face.

Yuan Mei nodded to the second master, and flew into the pit with a handful of red soil, and the time for a bag of cigarettes was already flat ground, and the three of them continued on the road silently, heading straight to Qiucheng.