Chapter 654: The People Are Suffering
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At the entrance of the 'door' of Cuiyue Building, Zhu Neng, who was already drunk, was lifted into the sedan chair by Nengwen Nengwu and the two of them, and he was still shouting unrelentingly: "Brother Bao, don't go!" Brother will take you to Xiangcui Pavilion, there are a few fifteen or sixteen-year-old chicks there tonight who want to pick 'flowers', and my brother will take pictures of them all for you!"
Xiaobao smiled bitterly and said, "Another day, my brother is too strong to drink today, and I want to go back and rest early!"
Zhu Neng said with a big tongue: "You brother, everything is good, but the amount of alcohol is not good! Tomorrow night, you must wait for me tomorrow night, let's have a good time!"
Xiao Bao shook his head and smiled bitterly, telling Nengwen Nengwu to take care of Zhu Neng, and then sent him away!
Danniang was holding a clay pot in her arms, wrapped in a layer of cotton tires, and filled with cold crystal wine. The god of war had no eyebrows and wanted to take it, Danniang shook her head and said to Xiaobao: "I want to go to the broken ancestral hall!"
Xiaobao stopped, looked at Danniang strangely and said, "Now?" his eyes fell on the clay pot in her arms, patted his head, and suddenly said, "You want to..."
This is on the street, there are many people, and Xiaobao has not clicked it through, but he has already understood that Danniang wants to use cold crystal wine to treat the heart fire of the ghost hand!
Originally, I wanted the Shengong guards to go back to the inn first, but seeing that they were not leaving an inch one by one, I also knew that this was impossible, so I simply bought some buns and pastries on the street, and the group went straight to the north of the city.
The ruined ancestral hall was pitch black, and there was no sound of crickets in silence. Xiaobao thought that there was no one, but when Tu Die'er lit the lantern she bought with a fire fold, she found that there were four or five children hugging each other in horror in the corner of the wall!
"Little Tooth, why are there only a few of you left?" Tie Yi recognized the little guys and asked them curiously.
The lantern was hung up, and the inside of the broken ancestral hall was much brighter, and the innermost little 'girl' child stared timidly at these people with a pair of big eyes, and kept shrinking behind others in fright.
Xiaoya recognized these people and shouted happily: "Sister Yi'er, Sister Dan'er, Brother Xiaobao! It turned out to be you, but it scared me to death, and I thought it was a bad guy passing by!"
The ghost hand once said that some passers-by were reluctant to 'spend' some silver taels to live in the hotel, and sometimes they would come to this broken ancestral hall to play sharp, and they used to take advantage of the ghost hand's absence, and actually kidnapped a few children!
These kidnapped children are generally 'girl' children, most of them will be sold into the Qinglou, raised since childhood, taught them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and when they reach the age of picking 'flowers', that is, the days when they break their bodies for girls, they can be sold for a good price!
Tie Yi looked at the pitiful appearance of the little 'girl' child hiding behind, felt pity, and stretched out his hand to her, "You are Sheng'er, right?
Xiaoya said to Sheng'er: "Sheng'er shouldn't hurry up to see Engong, your illness is cured by them!"
Sheng'er was very well-behaved, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Xiaobao and the others, and said in a decent manner: "Yun Sheng'er, thank you for saving your life!"
Tie Yi happily walked over and picked her up, turned his head and said, "Die'er, take out all those things and give them to eat!"
Tu Die'er put the suitcase in her hand on the ground, opened the lids one by one, and said to a few little guys: "Come over and eat it!
A group of little guys couldn't stare dryly, stretched their necks one by one, swallowed hard, but didn't dare to come forward to take it. Danniang smiled and said, "Come and eat, we promise not to tell you Brother Ghost Hand!"
Hearing this, a group of little guys were a little bolder, squirmed over, took the pastries handed to them by others, and pretended to be Sven and took small sips, but they couldn't withstand the attraction of deliciousness, and they devoured it after eating two bites!
"Slow down! There is more!" Tie Yi and Danniang greeted a group of children, and Xiaobao asked curiously: "Xiaoya, where did the ghost hand go?"
Xiaoya's mouth was stuffed full, holding an osmanthus 'flower' cake in both hands, and his mouth was full of pastry foam when he spoke: "Brother Ghost Hand took the beggar gang to find the god's 'chicken' mother-in-law! Maybe he won't come back tonight, do you have anything to do with him?"
I didn't expect the ghost hand to be so concerned about this matter, of course, it was also because of his own illness, but then he would directly track down the Yuanbao divine doctor, and find the god's 'chicken' mother-in-law, it was completely out of retribution, thanks to Xiaobao for taking care of them and friends!
Since this is the case, then I have to come again tomorrow, Danniang originally wanted to leave the cold crystal wine, and wait for the ghost hand to come and drink it, think about it, forget it, there is not even a 'door' here, if there is really a passing pedestrian sword wine intention, it will also bring trouble to these children!
"When the ghost hand comes back, we must let him go to the auspicious inn to find us immediately, do you hear?" Danniang told Sheng'er, these wines may not be able to cure the heart fire of the ghost hand, because there are not many cold 'jade', 'flowers' and 'essence' contained in it.
However, it will definitely be able to suppress the disease of the ghost hand, so that it can buy a longer time to find the cold 'jade' and 'flower', and the cold 'jade' and 'flower' will definitely cure the heart fire of the ghost hand, although this is Danniang's speculation, but Danniang believes that it is the right treatment plan!
Coming out of the broken ancestral hall, everyone seemed a little worried. Xiaobao, Danniang, and Tie Yi had already been here in the afternoon, so they had already accepted these in their hearts. But everyone else is here for the first time, and they all have a feeling of being depressed and blocked in their hearts.
"Why don't you open a few rooms for them at the inn? We don't lack this money!" Yu Xiaofen looked at Xiaobao strangely, he knew that his master was not a stingy person!
He was born in a family, but later his family fell into decline and tasted all kinds of hardships, and he knew that what these children needed most was actually a place where they could shelter from the wind and rain, and a meal that they didn't have to go to the garbage dump to pick up the leftover fish bone leftovers that others ate was not too luxurious!
Tie Yi snorted and said, "You think we don't want to? But tonight it's open, what about tomorrow night? What about the day after tomorrow? In the afternoon, we bought candy for them, and the ghost hand didn't let them eat it! Because I was afraid that they would get used to eating these things, they would never eat those usual meals again!"
Yu Xiaofen stopped talking. There is an old saying that it is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality! After tasting delicious and delicious things, let them eat shriveled dry food without oil stars, they will not be able to swallow it!
After sleeping easily, they are warmed 'bed', not the comfortable environment they get by their own hands, they will develop a lazy 'sex' character, mistakenly thinking that even if they don't work hard, there will be pitiful people, and they will have no worries about food and clothing, so that they become unmotivated, this is what the ghost hand is most afraid of taking over!
He founded the Beggar Gang, on the one hand, he wanted to unite all the beggars to form a force, and there was a deeper meaning, that is, to make the laziest thing in the world become a profession, to tell everyone that what you eat and wear comes from your own hands, even if it is someone else's charity, you must use your mouth to say, use allegro and singing to obtain!
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old child understands such a profound truth, and everyone is already an adult, how can they not figure it out? They all shook their heads helplessly.
Hu Mei let out a long sigh and said softly: "I really don't know that the peaceful and prosperous era preached by those ministers in the past would be such a scene!"
Since Hu Mei was awakened by the sound of awakening the world, and was rescued by Xiaobao from the Yinjun prison, she has become accustomed to seeing the hot and cold state of this world, and the warmth and coldness of people. However, in the face of these homeless and ragged children, her heart was still shaken!
This is just a drop in the ocean. How many such children are there in the Yin Dynasty, and how many people are ruined by heavy taxes like Old Man Huang, no one can say an approximate number!
"Therefore, if you really want them to live a good life, it is not to buy them these pastries and open a few first-class rooms in the auspicious inn, but to exempt them from the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes that are pressed on the people, so that they can have income from their labor and have no worries about food and clothing!" Xiaobao looked at the brightly lit town in the distance, sighed and said: "Otherwise, you will always be 'blinded' by the glitz on the surface and cannot see the desolation behind this!"
Seeing that they were about to enter the city, Wumei and Earth Kite stopped and said to Xiaobao, "Let's not go back to the inn first, just walk around the city." The army is coming, and we want to 'feel' the situation. ”
This is very necessary, at least to know how many defenders there are in Nanping City, and what is their defensive capability? How many city 'gates' are there, and how are they opened? The more detailed you know, the more helpful it will be for the Xuanjun army to attack the city!
So Xiaobao didn't stop them, nodded and said, "You must be careful, don't conflict with people, come back and report anything first!"
Back at the inn, everyone was also tired and went back to the room early to rest. Tie Yi and Dan Niang did not sleep in the same room with Xiaobao, although the relationship between the three has been very close, but after all, there is no Ming media to marry, and this is not Xuanying, what should be avoided still needs to be avoided, and the province is seen to be a horse.
I don't know how many hours I've been asleep, but suddenly there was a cry in my ears, and Xiaobao suddenly opened his eyes!
The cry came from outside the inn, and the voice was small, as if it was very depressing. If it weren't for Xiaobao's heavenly hearing skills, he would almost be unable to hear!
Soon the cry was interrupted, as if someone had come to talk to the weeper, Xiaobao was not an eventful person, and he didn't like to spy on other people's private 'secrets', so he didn't listen carefully.
But the man knocked on the inn's 'door' and walked upstairs! Xiaobao sat up from the 'bed', and sure enough, after a while, someone stood outside and knocked on the 'door', and at the same time shouted softly: "Childe!"
Xiaobao heard the voice of Wumei, popped out a finger, lit the oil lamp, and then walked over to look at the 'door', sure enough, it was the god of war Wumei standing outside, and behind him, Xiaoya ran over and cried and threw himself into Xiaobao's arms!
"Brother Xiaobao, hurry! hurry up and save Xiaodouzi, he's dying!" Xiaoya cried in Xiaobao's arms with a handful of snot and tears, which startled Xiaobao and asked in surprise: "What did you say?
Xiaoya cried and said, "He is injured, his whole body is covered in blood, and he has been carried back by others! Now he is dying, brother, go and take a look!"
The god of war said solemnly with a faceless face: "When I came back, I saw him outside, and it is estimated that the shopkeeper did not open the 'door'." The kite has passed, I see a fire in the south of the city, something may have happened!"