Chapter 16 Kaifeng

We passed by a farmer's house, and Sakura said she was going to steal clothes. I said what's wrong, she said that the people of the beggar gang knew what we were wearing, and they couldn't prevent it when they entered Kaifeng?

I think it makes sense. Sakura Ling said that your light skills are too poor, so I'll go.

After waiting for a long time, Sakura finally came out and took a few tattered clothes. said that fortunately, there was no one at home, and they might all go to the ground. Let's go to the grass for a change.

Sakura Ling walked far, far away, I shouted, why did you go so far?

Sakura shouted: I have to be ten feet away from you.

We were both dressed in tatters and patches all over the place, and Sakura bent down again, wiped her hands on the ground, and wiped my face and herself. The two of them suddenly looked no different from Hanako.

Sakura Ling said that we don't look like nine bags of disciples now?

I said that I have a few hundred taels of silver and dozens of taels of gold on me, so how can I arrange three or four bags?

Sakura Ling said "puff" and said I don't care, you are a nine-bag disciple, and I am a three-bag disciple.

I said okay, okay, you have the final say.

Sakura Ling said again, you wrap up the whole handsome and receive it in your bag. With the hilt of the sword exposed, others can tell at a glance that it is not from the beggars.

I thought it was right, and quickly hid the handsome man in his backpack.

When I was about to enter the city, I happened to meet a few beggars at the city gate. We had nowhere to hide but to bite the bullet and walk through the gates.

Those beggar disciples followed us from afar.

Sakura glanced at me and pulled me into the alley. They followed not far away.

Ying Ling suddenly turned around and asked, "How many bags of disciples are you beggars?" Everyone is asking for food, what are you doing all the time?

One of them took a step forward and said: We are eight bags, seeing that your eyes are raw, and there are no dog sticks in your hands, it should not be our beggar gang.

Sakura asked: What if not?

As soon as the man heard that we were not beggars, as if a dog heard the call of his master, he immediately came over and laughed, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, this is my business card.

As he spoke, he took out two pieces of bamboo from his bosom and handed them to me and Sakura Ling.

I looked down and saw that it was engraved with thirteen words: "Zhu Xiuquan, the eight bags of disciples of the beggar gang Kaifeng rudder".

Sakura said, what do you want to do?

Zhu Xiuquan said: Are the two of you interested in joining the beggar gang? Our gang is very profitable, after you join, hurry up to develop the downline, and raise their success, the stipulation is to raise one percent. If there are dozens of downlines, you can make a significant amount of money every day. Really, you look at me, I now have forty-two downlines in various towns and villages in Kaifeng, Kaifeng is rich, and it is easy to beg for money. They can earn me more than two dollars a day, brother, and it will only cost me four or five dollars a year to grow crops.

I pretended to ask: Really?

Zhu Xiuquan shook his face and said of course it was true. The most important thing for our beggars is to be honest and not to coax people. You don't know, yesterday our Qian helmsman was punished by the gang leader for not being honest, and it is said that he can't afford to climb this year.

Sakura muttered that the news was spreading so fast.

I feigned hesitation.

Zhu Xiuquan continued, don't hesitate, as long as you join the beggar gang, wealth is no longer a dream. This year you are dressed in tatters, and next year you will be well dressed, and now you are in a foreign country and have suffered the eyes of others, and in the future you will return to your hometown with a lot of money in your pocket. Join the beggar gang here and give the beggar gang disciples a bronze medal for certification, a two-foot bamboo stick for beating dogs in Kaifeng Long Live Mountain, a ceramic begging bowl for Kaifeng Shunhe, and a copy of the Beggar Gang's entry to the dog beating stick method. So, what are you waiting for?

Sakura nodded and said, Okay. By this time next year, I won't make twenty taels of silver, and I'll quit the gang.

Zhu Xiuquan said, don't worry, you haven't earned twenty taels, I will supply you. Come, give me your name.

I said my name was Zhao Xiaoer, and Ying Ling said her name was Niu Qi.

Zhu Xiuquan took out two bronze medals from his arms, and said while carving words with a dagger: Listen to your names, you know that there are brothers and sisters, hurry up and develop them into the downline, your good days will be coming soon.

After speaking, he gave me the bronze medal, and I saw that it read "Nine Bags of Zhao Xiaoer", and on the reverse side was the words "Beggars Kaifeng Helm" that had been cast when the bronze medal was cast.

Zhu Xiuquan said excitedly, congratulations on officially joining the beggar gang. We beggars don't have too many rules, just don't kill, don't steal, don't rob, don't rape. Remember to ask me on the last day of each month to hand over 10% of your monthly income to me as my commission, and I also have to pay a membership fee of 30 yuan. When you hand in fifty taels, you will immediately be promoted to eight bags of disciples. Enjoy more discounts on eight bags of disciples.

Where to find you, I ask?

Zhu Xiuquan said South City Gate, didn't you meet me there when you came in just now?

I put the bronze medal in my arms, touched the bronze medal given to me by Hong Zhuoli yesterday, took it out, and said to Zhu Xiuquan I passed by the suburbs yesterday and picked up this brand, and saw the word beggar gang and some patterns on it, I don't know what it is for. Why don't you take it?

Zhu Xiuquan took it in his hand and looked at it carefully, and said that it was strange, this was a bronze medal given away by the beggars, how could anyone lose it?

I asked what is a free bronze medal?

Zhu Xiuquan said that a rich man is afraid that when he travels, he will meet us beggars to help his disciples beg for money, and if he doesn't give money, he is afraid that others will say that he is rich and unkind, so how can he bring so many copper coins with him? Even if he brings enough, it is very annoying to be pestered by our beggar disciples to beg. Therefore, the beggar gang created a bronze medal for these people, which is valid for ten years and sold for twenty taels. Rich people will give the bronze medal to the steward after buying, and when the steward encounters our beggar gang disciples, as long as the card is displayed, we will avoid it one after another, and do not ask this person for it.

After Zhu Xiuquan finished speaking, he patted me on the shoulder and said that seeing that you are carrying your bags, there should be nowhere to go. Now we're all family. Do a good job, go to Kaifeng City to find a fixed point of begging, it will be convenient to contact in the future, remember not to beg by the river. If you develop a downline, go to the South City Gate to find me, I will give you a bronze medal, and by the way, help them register.

After speaking, Zhu Xiuquan took out two bamboo sticks, two broken bowls and two books from the bag behind him, gave them to us, and took people away.

I smiled at Sakura Ling, now it's okay, I'm really a beggar.

Sakura Ling said what did he mean when he told us not to beg by the river?

I said how do I know, whatever, let's go to dinner first.

Sakura Ling and I held a bowl in our left hand and a bamboo stick in our right hand, trying to find a hotel to eat.

As soon as we walked to the door of a hotel, someone threw a copper coin into each of our broken bowls, saying that you should go to another house.

We went to more than a dozen restaurants, but we didn't finish the meal, but we made a dozen dollars.

I told Sakura that this would not work, and that I would have to change my outfit, or I would have to go to the stall and buy some baked cakes to eat.

Sakura Ling said okay, let's find a place where no one is there to change clothes.

We searched and searched until we reached the moat at the east gate, which was lined with reeds as tall as a man. Sakura Ling said to change it in the reeds.

After saying that, Sakura Ling got into it first. I'm out there to wind her.

Sakura Ling said in the reeds that you should go farther away, ten feet away from me, or you will be seen again.

I smiled and asked what I saw?

Suddenly, a man's voice came from the reeds: Don't move. Kill you again.

When I heard this, my soul flew out of the sky and rushed into the reeds.

But I saw Sakura Ling standing by the river, being held by two people with knives around her neck, and next to a small boat.

Sakura Ling hurriedly said: Didn't you say that you can see it within ten zhang? Why didn't you see two robbers?

I said, aren't you going to change your clothes? I'm embarrassed to look at it.

Someone said to me don't look at it, if you don't want her to die, jump into the boat.

I hurriedly jumped onto the boat, and the two of them held Sakura Ling with their knives and jumped onto the boat together.

The two of them said that you tie yourself up, and if you don't tie me, you will go down with a knife and separate her body.

I said don't get excited, don't get excited, I'll tie it myself, tie it myself.

I picked up the rope from the cabin and tied myself up, wrapping the rope around my body a few times, and when I got around my hands, I found that I couldn't tie the knot. I said two good men, you see I can't tie the knot.

One of them put down his knife and walked three feet away from me and said don't play tricks, just move it and I'll make sure your friend's head hits the ground.

I said of course, you just have to tie it up. As long as it doesn't hurt her life, everything is easy to discuss.

The man took the rope lock and tied me like a rice dumpling. After tying up, I tied Sakura Ling again, pushed Sakura Ling over, stuffed a cloth in our mouths, and put a black cloth cover on our heads.

And they said, Please go to the helper, and you have offended.

After saying that, I felt something hit on my head, and the person fainted.

When he woke up, he found himself tied to a stake in an iron chain with a ball of cloth in his mouth.

It was a cave, dark and damp, with a few torches in the distance illuminating a tiger skin seat.

I looked left and right, but I didn't see Sakura. I don't know if she's tied behind her back.

I closed my eyes, but I couldn't get the picture in my head. This is the first time since the descent that the sixth sense has failed.

I was in a hurry, struggling to get up, and the chains clanged and clanged.

A knife reached over and was close to my neck, chilling.

Someone in the back said: Don't move, be careful of the dog's life.

At this moment, the cave was brightly lit. The oil lamps on the walls were lit one by one.

Someone shouted: "The helper is here!"

The man behind me put the knife back and knelt on the ground and said see the helper.

I saw that there was an extra bearded man on the tiger skin seat. is in his forties, wearing an upper body, a body of muscles and bones, and wrist guards with steel nails in both hands.

The man pointed at me and said that he had taken the cloth from his mouth.

The man from behind came over and tied me up and pulled the cloth out of my mouth, and when I saw that the man was one of the two people who had grabbed us.

I shouted, "Sakura!

The bearded man said that he was not calling your companion, wasn't he called Niu Qi? I didn't expect her to be a girl. She is now locked up in other places, and I will marry her in the evening.

I say you dare.

He smiled and said, "Is there anything else in this world that I don't dare?" You are a little bit bold to talk to me like this.

I said I wasn't a beggar.

He pointed to Shi Zhuoshang in front of him, and said that these things are all on your body, the bamboo stick for beating dogs, the bowl for rice, the bronze medal, and the beginner stick method for beating dogs are all here, as well as the broken sword you stole and the savings you begged for. Zhao Xiaoer, what else do you deny?

I said even so, why are you trying to embarrass the two of us?

The corner of his left mouth jumped, and he said, "Because of your wolf-hearted helper."