A small alley in front of her branched off, and Liancheng pulled her into it. The fork was small, less than a mile wide, and both of them needed to lean sideways to barely fit it.

Gu Qing was not used to the sudden close contact of her body, and twisted slightly, but Lian Cheng hugged her tightly, made a silent movement, and listened to the movement of the alley outside.

A rush of footsteps tossed and turned in the alley before leaving, and the people were still shouting, "The little rabbit is running fast!"

Liancheng looked at it, and suddenly laughed: "Haha, I haven't been chased for a long time." ”

When I was a child, I was fed and fed, and I would often steal things from neighbors or rich people to eat, and after being discovered, I would always inevitably chase and beat him.

The feeling of disappearing suddenly came to my heart, and Liancheng felt very warm and real.

Gu Qing's cheeks were crimson, and he didn't have the heart to listen to Liancheng's speech at all, he could only feel his masculine aura staying on his side. So close, she seemed to see his lightly curled eyelashes, ah! It turns out that men have such beautiful eyelashes.

Liancheng was immersed in the imagination of memories, and inadvertently turned his head, just in time to see Gu Qing looking at him intently.

"Enough of it?"

Gu Qing sighed, immediately turned his head away, and asked unnaturally, "Where are we going next?"

Lian Cheng touched the money bag on his waist, looked at a wonton shop on the street, and said with a unique ruffian atmosphere: "I can guess with my toes that you must still be hungry, come with me, let you taste what is a peerless delicacy." ”

"Peerless...... Delicious?" Gu Qing suddenly became interested, and obediently followed behind him, thinking to himself, isn't it thousands of times better than the delicacies in the restaurant just now?

The tip of the tongue can't stop flowing out of the greedy saliva.

When the two came to the wonton shop, Xiao Er was so busy that he didn't notice them, and no one shouted. However, Liancheng seemed to be very familiar, walked up to the middle-aged cook in charge, and said with a smile: "Boss, two bowls of wontons." ”

The cook looked up and saw that it was him, and immediately smiled and replied, "It's you kid, you haven't been here for a long time, right?"

"Yes, I've been busy running business lately, and it's not easy to make money. Approaching the stove, Lian Cheng found a table and sat down, motioning for Gu Qing to come over.

The cook glanced at Gu Qing, and the wontons in the pot didn't have time to be fished, so he approached Liancheng and asked in a low voice: "Yo! The little lady looks good, what's the matter, your people?"

Lian Cheng raised his eyebrows, glanced at Gu Qing, and saw that she didn't know what they were talking about at all, and her big round eyes were blank.

"Yes, my people. A smile crossed his lips.

The cook gave him a thumbs up, then turned to his own business.

"What are you talking about?" The cook cast an inexplicable glance, as if there was some ulterior secret.

Liancheng shrugged his shoulders and crossed Erlang's legs, "Say you're good-looking." ”

Gu Qing frowned, if he said that he was the emperor at this moment, it was estimated that no one could be trusted, but he looked like a serious gangster.

"Then why did you tell that uncle just now that you are in business?"

"I'm a businessman, but it's a big business. ”

His appearance made Gu Qing unhappy, and he slapped it with a slap, and said falsely: "Answer me well." ”

"You're so bold that no one has ever dared to beat me?" Lian Cheng pointed at Gu Qing and pretended to be fierce and said.

"What do you mean that no one dares to beat you? Have you forgotten the lesson of being beaten by me on a stool back then?"

At this time, the cook personally brought two bowls of wontons, and talked about Liancheng.

The salivating oil and spicy seeds were sprinkled on the noodles, and the evenly length of green and white onions and coriander were floating on the oil surface, Gu Qing couldn't help but exclaim: "It's so fragrant." ”

Lian Cheng couldn't help but want to hug his head, which was the most humiliating thing in his life, and shouted: "What is not good? ”

Although Gu Qing was immersed in the food, he still didn't let go of any wind and grass at the tip of his ears, and after eating a bite of the piping hot wonton, his face was full of satisfaction, and he also asked, "Uncle, can you tell me what's going on?"

Just after the things in the store were busy, the cook saw Gu Qing asking, so he simply sat down, just like a scene of eating melon seeds and chatting in a teahouse, and there was unstoppable interest in his eyes: "Ah Cheng's parents died early, and I took care of him for a while, and he was only a few years old at that time, and he couldn't remember it when he was old." As for him, he has no other hobbies, but there is one that I can't tolerate the most, that is, he loves to lift the skirt of young girls. Once, he really angered me, he ripped off the skirt of a woman, and in front of my shop, the person had just finished eating the wontons and was about to leave. ”

Gu Qing didn't know whether to smile gently, or laugh boldly, the wontons in the spoon had time to put down his mouth, he couldn't hold it back, and he didn't care about Gu Liancheng's threatening eyes, he laughed, "What happened later?"

"It just so happened that the woman's husband was also here that day, and when he saw that his wife was being bullied by a little doll, how could he give up? As for me, I said that I would lose money, but they didn't want it, so I had no choice but to take off Ah Cheng's pants, let him pout his ass and lie on the stool, and slapped him twenty times under the watchful eyes of everyone. You don't know, my hands hurt so much that I couldn't hold a soup spoon for three days. This is the stool you sit on, and I have kept it for so many years. ”

Looking at Liancheng again, he hid his face and didn't listen to it, pretended to eat wontons calmly, and said very seriously: "Don't mention the past again." ”

Suddenly, Gu Qing's spoon fell to the ground, she bent down to pick it up, she didn't get up for a long time, Liancheng probe went down to look, it's okay not to look at it, it's not good to look at it, it's not okay to look at it.

Gu Qing sat on the ground with his buttocks, holding his sore belly and laughing until he was dumb.

And the spoon, quietly aside.

"Eh, I can't do it anymore, my stomach hurts. Gu Qing put one hand on the edge of the table and stood up with force, but as soon as her eyes swept to Liancheng, she couldn't stop laughing.

"Laugh again, don't look back at the house in the future. ”

After throwing out a sentence, Gu Qing looked at himself and paid for his laughter just now: "Who hasn't been an hour yet......? I wet my bed when I was eight years old. ”

Who still wets the bed at the age of eight? Gu Qing deliberately said it to Liancheng to make him smile happily, otherwise he would be embarrassed to keep staring at her.

"Oh yes, and bedwetting, don't you really say it, Ah Cheng also wetted the bed at the age of eight, you two ...... Haha, absolutely not!" the cook clapped his hands and laughed. Gu Qing just said casually, she can also meet, no, no, no, she doesn't want to laugh anymore, she has to hold back.

Liancheng was already full of black lines, and he thought, maybe he should look at the yellow calendar before going out today.

In front of him, the old and the young laughed happily, without considering his feelings in the slightest.

Picking up a piece of wonton and putting it in his mouth, he said coldly: "Your guests are here, and if you don't cook, they will have to go next door to take care of business." ”

The cook turned his head to look, and sure enough, a few guests came, Xiao Er was greeting, yes, he stretched his waist and got up, and he had to continue to be busy.

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, you were already a little pervert when you were a child, and now there are three thousand beauties in the harem, which is enough for you to enjoy, right?"

As soon as Gu Qing finished speaking, Lian Cheng hurriedly covered her mouth, seeing that the cook was concentrating on making wontons, he didn't pay attention to this, so he said with a straight face: "We are outside, don't just put the emperor's harem in your mouth and say it, it will cause trouble." ”

He became serious, as if he had changed a person, Gu Qing didn't dare to resist his words, nodded stunned, ate a mouthful of wontons and asked, "So Uncle doesn't know your identity?"

"Yes, I kept lying to him that I was out and about for business. When he first ascended the throne, he also came to the shop to eat wontons, and he also laughed and said that my name is good, and I have the same name as the Son of Heaven, and I will have the blessing of making a fortune in the future. ”

"It can be seen that the uncle is a good person. ”

Liancheng's eyes darkened, "If it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would still be living on the streets, and I wouldn't have the power I have now." ”

"That's not necessarily, everyone has their own creation, maybe you are born with a good fate. ”

"Heh, both parents are dead, is this still a good life?" His chopsticks stirred in the bowl, and suddenly he put them again, and he lost his appetite and couldn't eat anything.

Gu Qingzhen felt that he didn't have a brain, how could he talk and hit people's wounds?

"Even so, what's so difficult? I'm never willing to be subservient. "It's because I have experienced the darkness of officialdom and seen through the heat and coldness of the world, so I want to become strong, invincible, and invincible.

The wontons have bottomed out, but they don't taste good in your mouth. Gu Qing felt a little guilty, put down his chopsticks and said weakly: "I'm full." ”

Liancheng was not affected by her words, he was still the same ruffian, he threw the money bag on the table, and shouted: "Old man, let's go!"

The cook was so angry that he almost threw a soup spoon over, he was only in his forties, where was the old man?

The two had already left first.

It's already noon, it's a hot summer day, and the sun shines on your face, and a burning sensation makes you want to stomp your feet. Gu Qing covered the light with his hand, looked around and asked, "Where are you going next?"

"Have you ever been to the slums?"

really asked Gu Qing, she really hadn't been there.

Slums, as the name suggests, are places where the poor live.

Gu Qing never knew that there was such a desolate place in the capital, where the silk and bamboo orchestra flourished, and where the defeated place was mournful and screaming.

The small low-rise thatched huts are located in the most remote places of the capital, where there is no government to maintain order, and the view is full of ruins.

There were barefoot children running in the narrow alleys, their dirty faces no longer showing the clarity of children, and women holding swaddling babies timidly to see who was coming.

"Here...... Doesn't anyone take care of it?" Gu Qing was emotional for a while, thinking of himself, he was still restless with enough food and clothing, but look at them, what kind of scene is it?

Liancheng has long been accustomed to the desolation here.

Since his accession to the throne, he has been given silver taels several times for various reasons, just to enable them to live a good life. However, after all, the treasury is limited, and the slums are numerous, and the long-term distribution of silver taels is not a long-term solution, but will only encourage some unhealthy tendencies of stealing and cheating.

In addition, the silver taels distributed were exploited from the treasury to the poor people, and in the end, there was not much left of what was actually obtained.