Chapter 20: The First Beggar Gang in History
Xiao San successfully entered the big house he had worked so hard for, and he didn't go to the east wing or the west wing to see; I didn't look at the front yard, I didn't look at the backyard' but ran straight to the main house, went directly to the second floor, and found the master bedroom. A large bed, well bedded, messy but clean, with curtains.
Hahaha great, I finally have a bed, I am no longer afraid of back pain, and I will definitely be able to sleep the most restfully tonight. A group of people also followed, more than twenty. Seeing a small figure bouncing on the bed, very satisfied, their hearts were also put down, as long as this young master was satisfied.
Ma Face obviously has more leadership skills, and immediately instructed the younger brothers to clean up the beds and clean up, and Ma Mandan also sent his brother to pick up the eldest and the brother with the broken arm. Dinner, another feast. At night, regardless of the east chamber, the west chamber, and the first floor of the main house, there are people lying everywhere, of course, the second floor is just his brother, fortunately, it is just August, and the weather is not cold.
The next day, when Liu Chang woke up, he was depressed and found that the feeling of soreness was still there, and there was no improvement in the slightest. When I went downstairs to freshen up, I found a comb, and I also combed my hair, which had been messy, and only combed, or tied a ponytail, but not with a straw rope, but with a piece of silk cloth. He doesn't have to worry about the food, almost all of these people are poor people's children, and they are skilled in doing these jobs.
When eating, the boss's boss still didn't come down. People with tempers are like this, they will never sit if they can lie down, and they will never stand when they can sit. The boss of the boss has a big temper and has been lying down.
The meal was still delivered to his old man with horse manure and eggs. The eldest was much more accommodating, and ate with his brothers. After eating, they all found a place to sit or lie down, and went to eat. Ma Face and Horse Manure didn't leave, and talked to the boss.
"What's wrong with your legs?" Xiao San still knows how to care about people, this is the basic quality of being the boss, the ancestral secret.
"It's much better, I'll be fine after two days when the swelling goes away"
"In the future, you must remember not to be too impulsive in doing things, and to convince people when you have something. Look at the cost of your impulsiveness. ”
"Yes, what the boss said is" Ma Face immediately made a sycophant.
You old man won't forget who is lame in my leg, right? If I keep talking, I'm going to be moved, I'm a victim.
"Hey, why do you call it horse manure, what a terrible name." A child is a child, and the attention turns quickly.
"Who said, my father said, crops are a treasure, fertilizer is indispensable, when my father was a soldier, he was feeding horses, and when he saw the horse manure eggs all over the ground, he couldn't sprinkle them into his own field, and he felt a pity that every time he came back, he didn't forget the horse manure eggs. He said that on the day I was born, he dreamed that the front and back of the house were full of horse manure eggs, and he woke up laughing when he was happy. Saying that my birth would bring good signs to my family, he named me Horse Manure Egg. ”
"Then what is your name, won't it be called a pockmarked face" Liu Chang turned his face, looked at the pockmarked face that there were indeed a lot of pockmarks on his face, and said.
"I don't have a name, I had measles when I was a child, and I left some pockmarks on my face, and everyone called me numb, screaming, screaming, I called me pockmarked."
"Didn't your father name you? What's your real name? ”
"My dad said that it was too much trouble to choose a name, and I had to find someone. The pockmarked face is good, it is called a pockmarked face, and it saves money. ”
Liu Chang turned over, sat up, and said with great interest, "Your name is Ma Yan, and your name is Ma Dung Egg." There is a horse character, simply you will all be surnamed Ma in the future, what about you, called Ma Face, Ma face, Ma face in the head, it is called Ma Shou, Shou Ye Shou. What about you, horse dung eggs, horse dung eggs, in the tail of the horse, by the way, it is called Ma Wei, the mighty might. ”
"Thank you boss for the award, from now on, the two of us can be regarded as people with surnames" The two were very happy, in the Han Dynasty, surnames, only the patents of nobles, and very few commoners had surnames.
For ordinary people, it's good to have a name, and you don't need a surname at all. What a big dog, two pillars, whatever, it's good, it's smooth and easy to remember
。 "Don't be the boss in the future, the boss, I'm not big, let's be brothers in the future. How about I call you brother and you call me little brother? ”
"How's that going to work?" Ma Face, now should be called Ma Shou to oppose immediately,
"Big brother is big brother, this is the rule. Wouldn't it break the rules by shouting casually? Outsiders will laugh at us. ”
"What are you all doing?"
"Occupy the territory, fight."
"Why the fight?"
"Occupy the territory?"
"Occupy the territory? What do you do with the land? ”
What do you do with the land? Don't you know, boss? Do you not know, or do you really not know? Didn't you just occupy our territory? You don't know what you're doing on the territory?
If I say at this time, I really don't know what to do with the land, he just wants to change the bed to sleep, Ma Mandan said, there is a good bed here, so he came, will the original hemp face go crazy.
"Boss, you don't know, those who were raided have a lot of good things left. After the government has copied it once, we will continue to copy. ”
Speaking of copying the house, both of them had their eyes shining: "You don't know, the government generally pays attention to those valuable things, and many things that are not very valuable don't care very much. The rest is ours, and with a bit of luck, we'll be able to find wine and meat. Those who have money like to dig holes and bury their money, and sometimes, we can dig up money too. ”
"And this good thing?" Liu Chang also became interested.
"How not! Especially those who are officials, they like to hide money the most, and many people like to bury their money under the thatched house. We dug a lot under the hut. ”
"You" Liu Chang pointed to the house they live in now: "In this house, have you dug up any money?" ”
"No" Ma Yan said dejectedly: "Horse dung eggs, Ma Wei, Ma Wei, called Ma Wei, you first found here, did you dig it?" ”
"We didn't dig it either"
"Nothing, you two are still bleeding from the head?"
"I don't have money, but there are a lot of things," Ma Shou said: "There is a lot of grain in the granary, and there is also sorghum meat, I don't know why the government didn't take it." ”
"It's not like it's been raided, it's like it's like a refuge and ran away." Liu Chang made his own judgment.
"Then he's back, what should I do, will he send us to the official?!"
"Ma Wei, you came first and what did you find?"
"Didn't find anything? It's pretty well equipped."
"Where's the door? Is it locked? ”
"It's locked."
"Is there a seal from the government?"
"Nope."
"No?!" This time, it was Ma Shou who was excited, the Ma Shou named Ma Shou with a hemp face: "People lock the door, you dare to come in?" Hurry up, the master is back, we are dead! ”
"Don't panic first, don't panic first" Liu Chang hurriedly calmed the rampaging Ma Shou.
"Tell me" Liu Chang motioned to Ma Wei and asked him to tell him why he dared to enter here, this is not taking advantage, this is burglary, two completely different concepts.
"That day, I walked around the streets with a couple of brothers to see if we could find anything." Ma Wei began his recollections: "When I passed by this house, I saw a carriage parked at the door, although there are many carriages in Chang'an City, but they are also rare, so we stopped to watch.
'What to see!' Go away! A man who looks like a steward reprimands us loudly when he sees us.
'Can't you see?' I'm so angry, I'm going to die."
'Butler! What are you rubbing? Hurry up, hurry up' A man who looked like a merchant stepped out of the courtyard, carrying a bunch of things in his arms, put them in the car, and when he saw the butler driving us, he scolded him. The butler couldn't take care of us anymore, and followed the man who looked like the master in.
We also felt that something was wrong, so we didn't go far, so we quietly hid next to us to see if we could catch anything.
I saw the two of them carrying a box out, very heavy, and putting it on the car with great difficulty, I guess it must be gold and silver treasures! ”
"Don't say those who don't have it, hurry up and say" Ma Shou is very urgent, so he doesn't care what they carry.
"Okay, I'll continue," Ma Wei gasped and continued, "The butler also came out, holding a jar, 'What about the rest?' He was asking the master.
'Let's go, let's go. Let's talk about those things that have escaped this. ’
In a hurry, they forgot to lock the door. The housekeepers got into the car and jumped down to lock the door. Then all four of them got into the carriage and hurried away. The master himself drove the carriage. A few of us guessed that this must be a stall problem, and it is a big deal, and it ran away! The brothers pried the door open. ”
"Now, who cares who drives the car!" Ma Shou scolded Ma Wei, and then looked at Liu Chang: "Boss, look... ”
"Don't panic, let's think about it."
"What time?"
"It's almost noon!"
"I mean, how long has this been happening?"
"It's been more than a month."
"More than a month, that is, when I entered Chang'an, what happened at this time?"
"I don't know!" Erma shook his head at the same time, our biggest thing is where to eat tomorrow, and the rest is trivial.
Liu Chang didn't know that he hadn't arrived in Chang'an City yet.
"Regardless of him, it seems that the family has indeed escaped, and all the valuable things have been taken away, which is also evidence. It doesn't matter why he ran away, we will stay, come back, count us as showing him the house, and then ask him to collect some housekeeping fees. ”
"So ... All right? ”
"Why not! Didn't you see that the locks were blown off by the wind? We are to look after his home, we look after his home all day long, how hard, too hard. Aren't you hard? ”
"We seem to have a hard time."
"Okay, don't care about him, where did you just say?"
"We'll look after his house"
"No, before that"
"The owner of this house has run away."
"No, before that!"
"Before, occupy the territory? Fight? ”
"Yes, yes, yes, occupy the territory and fight. Why are you fighting? ”
"Occupy the territory?"
"Why do you occupy the territory?"
"Ah?!!h
"Looks like I just said that?"
"Uh-huh" The heads of the two nodded like chickens pecking rice.
"You have to do something when you occupy territory. Otherwise, the territory will definitely not be saved. ”
"As long as there is a big brother. Who dares to come and grab our turf! ”
"What about the eldest brother's absence?"
"Big brother, you're leaving? We're with you. ”
"Big brother, I'm not here, we all have to do something."
"Yes, yes, what the eldest brother said is, we will do whatever you say."
Ma Wei's mind is more lively, after all, he has a father who is a soldier, and he has more knowledge: "But what about our current people, most of them are beggars, fatherless and motherless, usually, most of them walk the streets and alleys to beg for some food, and sometimes they also do some petty theft, and they don't know anything." ”
"If you want to change to another profession, we can't, beggars can change careers, who can be beggars?" Ma Wei was a little frustrated.
If his father and mother had not died in this witch incident, he would not have become a beggar. As soon as he remembered the scene at that time, Ma Wei couldn't help but be afraid, almost overnight, the streets were full of dead people, soldiers killing soldiers, soldiers killing civilians, civilians killing soldiers, civilians killing civilians, all crazy, crazy killing. He escaped by hiding in a well.
It took more than ten days for the catastrophe to gradually subside, and tens of thousands of people died in the entire Chang'an City. The few people who are following him now are all people who survived the catastrophe, their father is gone, their mother is gone, their home is gone, and they have no way out except to beg.
As he spoke, he couldn't help but cry. Ma Shou's situation is a little different, he was originally a family slave, the horse raiser, is a horse slave, grew up in the master's family, the master is also good to him, the situation is similar to Wei Qing back then, the master's family was wiped out, he was sold to a merchant, and this businessman also died in this disaster, he lived on the street.
With his strength, he made a small name in this place, and several brothers gathered around him. His situation is still relatively special, once he is caught, because he is a slave, his punishment will be heavier, if he is considered a fugitive slave, he will be beheaded.
Looking at a contented commoner's child and a happy slave, I can't help but sigh a little. The initiator of all this is his father. Even you have become a victim, daddy, daddy, you have an arrogant identity, but you don't have the capital to be arrogant! He was originally a happy little prince, but he slowly mixed into a happy little prince, and in the future, he happily drove dogs and eagles, took a group of slaves to flirt with women from good families on Chang'an Street, bullied and bullied the old farmers who sold vegetables, and lived a lot of leisure.
Now, it's flattened, you're gnawing on dry bread in prison, and your son is all mixed up as slaves and beggars.
"Don't expect Ai Ai, since we are still alive now, we have a reason to live, happy, we have to live for a day, unhappy, we have to live for a day, since, whether we are happy or not, we have to live, then we live happily every day" Xiaobu dotted, jumping barefoot to the short table
"Since the Lord has made us beggars, let's be happy beggars. Now, I declare that we will be called the Beggars Gang from now on!! I'm the leader of the beggar gang!! Xiao Budian pinched his waist with his left hand, clenched his fist with his right hand, raised his hand upward, and slanted his eyes 45 degrees to the right.
"Good, good, beggars! This name is domineering, we call it the Beggar Gang! ”
"Helper, who are the period and Ai Ai?"
"It's your uncle!"