64, kindness (shuttle)

"Ha, ha, you're right, that's what I wanted. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info When I saw you, I thought: since you can get six million and make a fortune by denunishing this person, then I have to hide him quickly. ”

Sowin certainly didn't believe that he would denounce himself and be so calm, and Sowin followed the poor man.

They went into a jungle where the beggars' huts were. It was a room left for him by a tall oak tree, dug under the roots and covered with branches. The inside is dark, low, and hidden, and it is not visible from the outside. The room can sleep two people.

"I thought about the possibility of a guest. The beggar said.

In fact, in the Qi country, this kind of underground dwelling is not as rare as generally believed, and the peasants call it a happy home, and this name can also refer to the hiding place in the middle of the thick wall.

There were several jars in the room, a bed made of straw or washed and dried seaweed, a thick blanket, and a few grease wicks, flints, and hollow bear's milk, which were matches.

They stooped down, climbed a few steps, and entered the room that had been cut into strange shapes by the thick roots, and sat down on the seaweed, which had been used as a bed. There was a gap between the two roots at the entrance, from which a ray of light shone in. Night has come, but vision always adapts to the darkness and finally sees a glimmer of light in the darkness. The reflection of the moonlight gives the entrance a hazy white. In a corner there was a jar of water, a piece of wheat cake and some chestnuts.

"Let's eat. The poor man said.

They share chestnuts, and Sowin pulls out his biscuits. They nibble on the same piece of compressed bread and take turns holding the jar and drinking water. They talked.

Sowyn began to question the man:

"It seems that it happened or didn't happen, and it was the same for you?"

"Pretty much. You guys want GE's life, that's your business. ”

"But, it happened... ・・”

"That's on it. ”

The beggar continued:

"Besides, there are other things up there, the sun rises, the moon waxes and wanes, and that's what I care about. ”

He took a sip of the jug and said:

"What good fresh water!"

He went on to say:

"What do you think of the water, sir?"

"What's your name?" Sowin asked.

"My name is Gao Yijia, and people call me Fairbe. ”

"I know. It's a local dialect. ”

"It means beggar. I also have a nickname: Old Man. ”

He went on to say:

"People have called me old man for thirty years. ”

"Thirty years! But you were still young. ”

"I've never been younger. And you, Lord Sowyn, you are eternally young. Your legs are like those of a twenty-year-old man, and you climb the big sand dunes, and I can't walk anymore, and I'm tired after walking less than half a mile. But we're all the same age. Rich people are better than us, they have delicious food every day, and they can keep healthy by eating green food. ”

After a pause, he added, "What poor, rich, this is a nuisance, and it leads to many evils, at least that's how I feel." The poor want to be rich, and the rich don't want to be poor, and I think that's probably the substance. I don't care about that. Whatever happens, I am neither on the side of the creditor nor the debtor. I know I have to pay my debts. That's it. I don't want the emperor to be killed, but I can't say why. And they said to me, "But once upon a time you were hung from a tree for a little thing." No, I've seen a man hanged because he kicked the county magistrate's dog, and he had a wife and seven children. The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable. ”

He was silent again, and then said, "You know, I don't understand what the hell is going on. People come and go, one thing after another, and I, I'm here, under the stars. ”

Gao Yijia paused, stared for a moment, and said: "I know a little bit about bones, I can be regarded as a doctor, I am familiar with all kinds of grasses, and I can use herbs." When the peasants saw me staring intently into the air, they thought I was a priest, and I liked it, and they thought I knew everything. ”

"Are you a local?" asked Sowyn.

"I haven't left this place. ”

"You know me?"

"Of course. The last time I saw you was ten years ago. You pass through here, and from here you go to Hongguo. Just now I saw a tall man on the top of the hill. The people here are all small, very few tall and big. I looked closely, and besides, I saw the notice first. I said, "Oh, when you come down from the dunes, I'll recognize you in the moonlight." ”

"But I don't know you. ”

"You have seen me, but you have not seen me. ”

Lao Gao continued:

"I see you. The gaze of a beggar and a pedestrian is not the same. ”

"Have I met you before?"

"I often meet, because I am your beggar, and I am the poor man at the top of the road in front of your shop. Sometimes you give me alms, and the giver does not look at it, but the receiver watches attentively. A beggar is a secret agent. I stretched out my hand, and all you saw was that hand, and you threw alms into my hand, and I had it in the morning, so that I would not starve at night. Sometimes, I didn't have anything to eat for a whole day and a night. Sometimes, ten dollars is life. You saved my life, and I repay you now. ”

"You're really saving me. ”

"Yes, I'm saving you, sir. ”

Lao Gao's voice became serious:

"But there is one condition. ”

"On what terms?"

"You're not here to do evil. ”

"I have come to do good. Sowin said.

"Sleep. ”

They lay side by side on a bed of seaweed. The beggar immediately fell asleep. Sowin was tired, but he still thought for a moment, and then, looking at the poor in the dark, fell. To sleep in this bed is to sleep on the ground. He took the opportunity to put his ears to the ground and listened. There's a faint hum underground, and we know that the sound can travel far deep underground. That's the bell.

The alarm bells continue. Sowyn fell asleep.

When I woke up, it was already dawn.

The beggar stood there, not in the shack, where he did not stand straight at all, but outside, at the door. He was leaning on the stick, and there was a ray of sunlight on his face.

"Sir," said Lao Gao, "the bell tower of the Kouhe River has just struck four o'clock in the morning, and I have heard four bells. The direction of the wind must have changed, and now it's coming from the inland. There is no other sound. The alarm bells stopped. The manor and the town are uneventful. Qi Jun was sleeping, or he was already gone. The greatest danger passed. We'd better break up. It's time for me to go. ”

He pointed to a spot in the distance and said, "I'm going here to beg." ”

Then he pointed in the opposite direction: "You go that way, you go from that side safely." ”