93, Zhuge Lao Xiao

Luo Dagou's actions made everyone blush, and several people wanted to help the pair of old and weak in their hearts, but they had their own reasons and were unwilling to reach out.

Some of them were still waiting for other people's opinions, and they were like the monks like Lin Xie who were compassionate, and they didn't ignore it like Luo Dagou.

The so-called where the heart desires and where the action goes, a few of them are not as transparent as a child.

Li Guxing shook his head helplessly, ashamed of himself, and also ran down and ran to Luo Dagou's side. The rest of the people also followed, leaving Xiao Han alone to accompany Sun Sanshi.

The old man was not young, his teeth were almost gone, the few hairs left on the top of his head were not as many as his beard, and the few scattered ones were also white from the roots to the top, and they were blown by the wind and scattered with the wind.

He was dressed in a very shabby fashion, a costume that had been torn and mended, mended and torn, and his clothes were shiny and shiny, and even the beggars of the beggars of the beggars were better than the old man.

The old man was very thin, and when he saw Li Guxing and the others with dry wood-like hands, he trembled and clenched his fists, "Adults, you have to listen to the music ......"

Li Guxing was stunned, and looked next to him, a cute girl of four or five years old was wearing the same shabby clothes, her face was black and stained, and the phoenix crown used for singing on her head was also dilapidated, but it seemed to be more dilapidated than the tomb burned for the dead.

The immature little hand held a bow, and the bow hair was scattered, and there was not much left.

But the girl's big eyes were clear and lovely, as if she could speak, and she was still full of hope for life.

The girl said: "Ladies and gentlemen, my singing is very good, I don't want much, I just want a copper plate and buy a cake for grandpa to eat." ”

Everyone couldn't bear it, Luo Dagou stretched out his hand and waved in front of Zhao Wuqian, and said, "Little miscellaneous hair, God of Wealth, what does it mean!" ”

Zhao Wuqian had already softened his heart, took out a piece of gold, and put it in Luo Dagou's hand.

Luo Dagou squatted down and put the gold in the broken bowl in front of the old man, "Old man, you can take this money and buy some things." ”

When the old man saw it, he was so frightened that he turned his head away, and exclaimed, "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Li Guxing glanced at Luo Dagou and said in a low voice: "The husband is not guilty, the old and the widowed, you give him such money, and he is not afraid of being taken away by robbers." ”

So saying, he took the gold back, took a copper plate from himself, and put it in the bowl.

"Girl, sing it, I'll listen."

When the girl saw the copper plate, she buckled her head to Li Guxing, pulled up the shabby erhu, and sang a song jerky.

The erhu has gone out of sound, and the girl is not good at using it, and the song is more like a funeral, Xu has not eaten for a long time, and the girl has no strength, and her voice is dumb after singing two sentences, and she looks at Li Guxing with tears in her eyes, for fear that he will not be satisfied, and then take the copper plate back.

Luo Dagou couldn't bear to see it, so he took out the dry food he brought with him and sent it to the girl's mouth, and said softly: "Don't worry, it's good to eat raw." ”

The girl looked at the old man, timidly took the dry food, broke most of it and handed it to the old man, "Grandpa eats first." ”

Before the old man took it, he couldn't cry, and glanced at the girl with infinite nostalgia, and kowtowed to Li Guxing and the others.

"A few adults, take this child away for me, be a maid, be a maid, be a girl in the room, give him a bite to eat, let him live well!"

Everyone was sad in their hearts, and they couldn't bear to see it, and they were stunned for a while, but Murong Yuan was used to seeing joys and sorrows when he traveled south and north, and took the lead in speaking: "Old man, you get up first, what kind of changes have happened to your family that have made you fall here?" ”

The old man cried for a while, and told people what had happened to him.

He was originally the housekeeper of a generation of large families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and followed the head of the family to do some business outside the border, and exchanged the silk brocade clothes in the south of the Yangtze River for border horses and then came to Jiangnan to sell.

In recent years, the world has been peaceful, the people are rich, the border passes are stable, Renzong and Xuanzong have opened mutual markets with Mongolian Warat and other ministries, and there has been peace and quiet for more than ten years.

In the past few years when the young emperor Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, Zhang Kexing, the brother of the Empress Dowager Zhang, relied on his status as a relative of the emperor to do evil at the border. Every merchant who comes to the border gate must give him a big gift before he can do some business with peace of mind.

If he didn't give money, Zhang Kexing would send someone to obstruct it, and he wouldn't earn a penny.

In this way, the wind passed through the phonograph, the geese plucked the feathers, and more than half of the hard-earned money of the merchants was lost to filial piety.

However, these businessmen have long been surprised, as the saying goes, Taoist farmers and businessmen, businessmen have the last status, and they are also the most despised.

On weekdays, if you don't have to pay homage to the local government to make money, you won't have any business to do, they can't afford to toss, time is money, and if you don't have money, you will be hungry.

Backed by Zhang Kexing's big tree, it also saved a lot of trouble, and the businessmen also united with each other, although they lost a lot of silver money every year to feed Zhang Kexing's stomach, but it was still profitable, and they could also have enough food and clothing.

But that Zhang Kexing is not a responsible person, after a long time, seeing that the mutual market business is hugely profitable, he actually relied on his noble status to take all the business of the mutual market under his own hands, leaving almost no way for other traders to live.

A few people went to the border and walked a few times, so that they couldn't do a little business with a lot of money. After careful inquiry, I found out that these were Zhang Kexing's ideas.

That Zhang Kexing himself said, 'These merchants are very cheap, they don't do farming, they don't pay for grain. I am familiar with the Wara Tartars, and I will inevitably reveal some news about the Central Plains, teach them some iron-smelting techniques, and damage my Ming country, so I will go home and farm, so as not to be traitors again! ’

Cutting off people's money is like killing their parents, everyone has their own duties, these businessmen have been in business for most of their lives, where do they still have the strength to farm?

Most people had some expectations and gave all the money they brought to Zhang Kexing in the hope that he would open the net, but they didn't even leave the silver to go home, and there were not a few people who died of hardship.

The old man and the child were also left at the border at that time, and stayed there for most of the year.

If this is the case, it will not be wiped out, but it will only cut off a road, and you will not starve to death if you use money to buy some real estate and rent it out.

However, after Zhang Kexing was insatiable and monopolized the mutual market, he actually played with the Mongolian Wara and other departments with empty gloves and white wolves, and those border herdsmen handed over their cattle, sheep and horses to Zhang Kexing's hands but couldn't wait for the brocade seeds and other things to be exchanged.

These herdsmen also need to survive, and they also rely on the mutual market to survive, Zhang Kexing dragged on for several months, until the weather was cold, these herdsmen could not survive, so they started to act as bandits, venting their anger on other merchants who stayed at the border pass.

There were countless casualties in one moment, and those merchants had no money, and they had no way out if they were robbed by the Warats, so that nine out of ten merchants died at the border.

The old man and the child had no money at that time, and were robbed by the Warats, and walked back all the way by asking for food and singing.

It's just that the world is big, and all the people who went out of the customs and merchants have died, and there are only orphans and widows left in the family, and they have been gone for so long, even if they return home, they may not be able to live, so why drag these orphans and widows down?

In desperation, the old man planned to give the child to Li Guxing and others, so that he could give food and live.

Zhao Wuqian was silent for a long time after hearing this, and his anger rose to the sky, "If I am at the border pass, I will definitely kill that Zhang Kexing and eliminate harm to the people!" ”

Li Guxing was also indignant, but he understood Zhang Kexing's weight, and said: "If you dare to kill him, I am afraid that your Kunlun faction will never have peace in the future, and blood will flow like a river!" ”

He turned to the old man and said, "In that case, why don't you go to the government to report it?" There are many imperial court ministers and imperial history, and there will always be a solution. ”

The old man sighed, wanted to cry without tears, and felt desperate, "It's difficult, it's too difficult!" ”

Li Guxing thought about it for a while and also expressed the same emotion.

Who is Zhang Kexing, the biological brother of the Empress Dowager Zhang, the uncle of the country during the Renzong Dynasty, according to the generation, the current little emperor Zhu Qizhen wants to call him Zhang Kexing's grandfather.

The Empress Dowager Zhang and the three Yang lords are auxiliary to the government together, and one person in the court is above 10,000 people, who doesn't give Zhang a few thin faces?

Besides, Zhang Kexing did such a business, where did he get the tacit approval of the superiors.

Every year, the silver money spent in vain was sent to the hands of Wang Zhen, the eunuch who was the master of ceremonies, and for the sake of the silver's face, where did Jinyiwei and Dongchang still find trouble with Zhang Kexing.

Over time, even Wang Zhen has become Zhang Kexing's person, blowing wind in the emperor's ears and saying good things when he has nothing to do.

The two forces in the DPRK and China have let Zhang Kexing occupy it, but they don't dare to show off their power so much, even the Empress Dowager Zhang has been contained, but no one has restrained him Zhang Kexing, as long as he does not openly rebel and shout for the royal family in the Ming Dynasty, who dares to take him.

Those imperial historians want to admonish, but they also want to see how many heads they have, who dares to put their beaks in half a sentence, the light ones lose the black yarn, and the heavy ones are put in prison, and they may inevitably be guilty of cutting off their heads and robbing their homes.

After a long time, that Zhang Kexing was arrogant and domineering, and even the Warat, Tatar and other departments did not dare to shout, so they could only swallow this breath.

It is said that the officials crushed people to death at the first level, and how could they do anything to Zhang Kexing, so they had to be crushed to death by him, and they didn't even dare to say a few more words.

Li Guxing said these things, which only made people's hearts depressed.

Murong Yuan said: "He Zhang Kexing is only one group, choose a few good people in the rivers and lakes to go away with their faces and kill him, God doesn't know it, isn't it also a way?" ”

Li Guxing said: "I am grateful for your kindness, killed a Zhang Kexing and Wang Kexing, Song Kexing, Wang Zhen received the silver, and he will never let the silver break, without him, he can cultivate others, don't forget, he Wang Zhen is much better than the Queen Mother in the court." ”

Everyone was silent, but there was no way to solve this problem from the root, and they only hoped that Zhu Qizhen, the little emperor, would grow up soon and become a virtuous and benevolent monarch like his father and grandfather, and smooth out these things one by one, and restore peace to the people at the border.

Luo Dagou was silent for a while, and said: "Let's take these two people with us, find a place to settle down, and do some good deeds." ”

Murong Yuan said: "It's not that I'm afraid of trouble, our business is already drifting, how can we save others if we are too busy to take care of ourselves?" Besides, how many people like them can save one person and save them all? ”

Lin Xie folded his hands and said the Buddha's name, "Don't take kindness as a small thing, the people in Buddhism are compassionate, helping one and helping the world are all good deeds, and helping each other in the future is to help each other." ”

Zhao Wuqian also nodded and said: "I think the same way, although we are fluttering, but compared to them, it is more than ten million times better." ”

While speaking, several people looked at Li Guxing, hoping that he would have an idea.

Li Guxing pondered for a while, and asked the old man, "Who else is in your family?" ”

The old man said: "There are more than 20 people, all of them are orphans and widows. ”

"I have an idea, the disciples of the Beggar Gang are all over the world, there are always things that these people can do, let's take them forward and hand over the rudder of the Beggar Gang, I think that the benevolent heroes of Fang Dingfeng will be able to take them in."

When everyone heard this, they applauded, but Li Guxing's idea was very right.

Li Guxing asked again: "Dare to ask my father-in-law, who is your surname, and you can also know your fate." ”

The old man said: "My name is Zhuge Zheng, this is the pearl of the palm of the master, Zhuge Meng." ”

Everyone was shocked, and Li Guxing almost shouted, "Your surname is Zhuge ? Zhuge Xuance's Zhuge ?! ”