Luo Yangxing walked on the streets of Shiqiao Town, and he walked extremely uncomfortably. Anyone who is in Junko's hateful gaze will not be too comfortable. Junzi's two eyes looked at Luo Yang and were full of hatred. If eyes can kill, Luo Yangxing's body must be full of bullet holes now.

Li Xiao followed Luo Yang as if he was fine, and from time to time he chose some street food and swallowed it in his stomach under Junko's frightened gaze. Junzi swore that after returning to the mansion, he would make Luo Yangxing look good.

Shiqiao Town! It's a place similar to other small towns in the south of the Yangtze River, with a small river flowing quietly through the town. On the Shikong Bridge, children run by laughing and laughing from time to time. There are men supporting boats on the river, women washing rice and vegetables by the river, and there are people on the other side of the river who are desperately cleaning the toilet. Everything is so harmonious!

The children were smiling brightly, but the adults were not smiling. From Luo Yangxing's mouth, Li Xiao knew another identity in Shiqiao Town, the head hall of the Lianghuai Cao Gang.

Cao Gang! A group of people who lived around the Grand Canal.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty opened the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, although this huge project directly dragged down the powerful Great Sui, but also laid a solid foundation for later monarchs to rule the north. Since then, grain from the south has been continuously transported to the north. It has become the material guarantee for the imperial court to rule the north, and since the Tang Dynasty, there have been a group of people on both sides of the Grand Canal who have relied on Cao Yun to make a living, known as the Cao Gang.

In all dynasties, the Cao Gang has relied on this Grand Canal for a living. made a living by helping the imperial court transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River, but today the situation has changed. High-yielding crops such as corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are widely cultivated in the north, which not only have enough food for people, but also have rich grain to feed pigs.

At this time, the harvest in Jiangnan was poor year after year, and the population fled in all directions because of lack of control. The luck that has not stopped for thousands of years has finally stopped. Unlike previous dynasties, even if the luck is stopped, the people in the north of the Ming Dynasty will not go hungry.

But without Cao Yun, the Cao Gang will be hungry. Those Donglin parties in the south of the Yangtze River are engaged in wind and rain, but in fact, most of them are instigated behind their backs. Most of the people who really came out to fight for their lives were the gang members of the Cao Gang.

If there is no luck, there will be no food, and at this time, of course, whoever gives the silver will do things for whom. The Donglin bigwigs are landlords, and with the support of the two Huai salt merchants, it is not an exaggeration to describe them as rich and rival countries.

Jin Yiwei is not a dry eater, Luo Yangxing has been in Jiangnan for so long, of course he knows who plays what role behind the turmoil.

"Little girl, what are you doing with me?" Li Xiao looked at a little child with a dirty face, this child was almost four or five years old, and he walked and dragged it, as if one leg was still a little lame. He has two pigtails on his head, and he walks up and down very interestingly.

"I'm hungry!" His big eyes looked at Li Xiao, and Wu Nong's soft words came out of his mouth. Li Xiao didn't understand, and Luo Yangxing next to him reminded him before he understood.

Look at the piece of rice cake in your hand, and then look at the big twinkling eyes. Li Xiao really didn't have the courage to eat rice cakes in front of this child. For the first time in my life, I felt guilty about eating rice cakes.

The rice cakes are delicious, and Li Xiao also wants to eat them. And this is the stall owner's last rice cake, if you really want to eat it, you have to wait until tomorrow.

Li Xiao, who was at war with heaven and man in his mind, finally handed the rice cake in his hand to the little girl.

"Thank you, official." The little girl's voice of thanks was more like a cheer, and her little paw almost snatched it out, and pulled the rice cake out of Li Xiao's hand. The executioner naturally touched his waist, and he was thinking about whether to kill this handsome little girl who robbed her.

The little girl snatched the rice cake but didn't eat it, but ran away with a smoke. This made Li Xiao very curious, how could the rice cake that he finally got in his hand not be stuffed into his mouth for the first time. Li Xiao was already ready to tell Shunzi to go to the stall selling sour plum soup to get a bowl of sour plum soup to quench the little girl's thirst.

I watched the little girl run across the stone bridge and then into the alley. Li Xiao took two steps and walked into the alley, and under the stone steps archway, there was a smaller boy. Li Xiao visually estimated that this little boy should only be two or three years old.

Traveling south and north can be regarded as having seen it. This may be the thinnest little boy Li Xiao has ever seen, with a thin neck under the huge head. Underneath the rib bones is a belly like a balloon. The two thin thighs have been skinny and skinny. The little boy was too weak to stand up, so he could only let himself in a ray of sunlight under the archway.

Perhaps, he is relying on this ray of sunshine to continue his life.

This is the thinnest child Li Xiao has ever seen, and there is no one.

The little girl grabbed the rice cakes one by one and sent them into the little boy's mouth little by little. Looking at the little boy's gobbling up, the little girl swallowed the saliva in her mouth, but she couldn't hold back the tears that flowed down.

"Sister! You eat too. The little boy finally realized something, and with all his strength he pushed a handful of rice cakes to his mouth.

"Sister Ah is full, just now the big official bought a dozen rice cakes for Sister A. I've eaten it all, so I'll leave you a piece. You eat quickly, tomorrow is the temple fair of Tianfu Palace, the Taoist masters will give porridge and rice, and then we will go together and come back with a round belly. The little girl stuffed the rice cake in her hand into the boy's mouth again.

How could the little boy not know that his sister would never eat until he had eaten.

The rice cakes were stuffed into his mouth one by one, and the little boy's mouth was stuffed with food, and his eyes were moistened with tears.

"What are you crying about! Rice cakes are eaten today, and rice is eaten tomorrow. Daoye's Tianfu Palace is not a monk's temple. Maybe there's meat to eat! "Maybe it's too realistic, and the little girl herself believes it." grunt" and swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly, the rich Jiangnan actually became like this, he really didn't know what to say.

"Get two bowls of ravioli." Li Xiao pointed to the wonton stall not far away and said.

The two children must have been hungry for a long time, and the soup and water were still the best for their appetite. A small person, who has been hungry for so long, is likely to be strangled to death if he eats violently at once.

The owner of the wonton stall was very nimble, and quickly brought two bowls of wontons and brought them over with his sucking hand.

"Let's eat!" Li Xiao put two bowls of wontons on the ground and said to the two children.

"Who are you?" The little girl looked vigilantly at the man in front of her, dressed in ordinary linen clothes, with his head shaved to a platen. This type of hair is rare these days. In my impression, it seems that only those who carry big guns as soldiers in the city have such hairstyles.

So forgetful? Li Xiao pointed to the rice ball in the little girl's hand, and then pointed to himself, indicating that the rice ball was the one he had just given him.

"I know you gave me the rice cake, what are your intentions? If you want me to go to your house as a maid, you have to take my brother with you. The little girl pinched her waist and shook her braids as she spoke.

"Uh......!" Li Xiao scratched his head, but he didn't expect that he would become an unscrupulous uncle.

"I didn't want you to be a maid, I just wanted to give you a bowl of wontons." Li Xiao said that he was very innocent and his starting point was very simple.

"Say! Are you like the leper Ah San, thinking about getting my brother's ass on the head and throwing my brother on the side of the street to make money. The little girl took out a cone from her arms, leaned sideways in front of her younger brother, and bared her teeth at Li Xiao.

Li Xiao almost looked stupid, and Junzi's eyes almost fell off. Luo Yang on the side hesitated to reach out and snatch the cone over. After all, changing the cone is also lethal. If Li Xiao is really injured, the Liao army's cattle may be able to dismantle the two sisters and brothers.

In the end, Junko reacted and snatched the cone from the little girl's hand. Without looking, she threw her only weapon into the river.

"Official, as long as you let my sister go. I will do whatever you want, and I beg you to spare my sister. After eating some rice cakes, the little boy sat up straight. Looking at Li Xiao with big eyes, it makes people think that he looks like a monkey.

"No one wants your sister to be a maid, and no one wants your life. Who is the leper Ah San? Li Xiao felt that there was a story in it.

"The name of our third master is also called by you as a foreigner?" A voice came from behind him.

A dozen thugs appeared at the end of the alley, shirtless and covered with various tattoos. A guy who was as thin as a hemp pole stood up and pointed at Li Xiao and roared. Behind him, there was a guy with a leprosy head, a very strong man, and a very fierce look in his eyes. It is estimated that it is the leper Ah San in the mouth of the little girl.

"I called, what's the matter?" Li Xiao shook his head helplessly, he really responded to that sentence, where there is sunshine, there is shadow. The underworld forces are really everywhere, I didn't expect that there would be so many gangsters in such a small Jiangnan town.

"Hey, hey! The name of our third master is not called casually. Brothers, let them know that our third master is powerful. "The skinny guy is like a clown, and he fully carries forward the principle of fighting me and fighting you. took a step back, and with a wave of his hand, he wanted to beat up Li Xiao, Shunzi and Luo Yangxing.

They're all veterans of perennial street fights, although none of them seem to be easy to mess with. However, so many people beat up three people, and it is certain that they will win. As long as you win against these three guys on the other side, you will definitely be rich in their work. When the time comes, you may be able to get a lot of money by extorting it.

The place in Shiqiao Town is too small, and they don't mix very well on weekdays, and they often have a meal but not a meal. Now there is a chance to blackmail outsiders, it's like pie falling from the sky.

More than a dozen big men rushed over, and before they could get within five meters of Li Xiao, they heard gunshots ringing out continuously. The thugs were shot in the leg one after another, and one by one they fell to the ground screaming. This is still Li Xiao's subordinates showing mercy and ordering Shunzi. Otherwise, these dozen or so plus the third master with dysentery should be lying on the ground and convulsing at this time.

"Big ...... What should I do, my lord? ”

Li Xiao walked up to the leper Ah San and looked at this guy with a head full of dysentery. He now understands what this leper Ah San does! This guy is really bored and robbed children, made them physically disabled, and then put them at temple fairs, or pretended to be beggars in the downtown to collect money.

This is indeed a good business with great profits, so from ancient times to the present, this lack of virtue has always existed. Li Xiao was in a temple fair or something like that, and he saw people with strange bodies more than once. He was also curious about what it would take for a person to be deformed to be like this.

Later, after inquiring, I learned that this was not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster.

There were many such people on the flyover, and most of them were children. After Li Xiao understood the truth of this, he sent people to keep an eye on the guys who picked up the disabled beggars every night. I have been staring at it for half a month, and I am a little impatient, and I want to go out of Beijing to Shandong for a turn.

That night, the Liao army in the capital was fully dispatched. In the face of the fierce Liao army, all underworld forces are tigers in the dark.

The largest anti-gang and anti-evil operation in the capital began, and those bigwigs didn't have time to perform, and they were beaten into the eighteenth layer of hell by the Liao soldiers and the officials of the criminal department who rushed over. Fifty-three guys from all over the city who came to the capital to make trouble fell into the hands of the government.

The gangsters who usually give people the image of tough guys are tortured by Shuntianfu to become noodle-like people. In the end, they were all tied up and beheaded. They are not officials, and the treatment of beheading before the noon gate is not suitable for them.

Now that he sees such a person again, how can Li Xiao let it go.

The leper Ah San is now repentant, and the boss has explained, don't mess with the guy with the flat head. There were three people standing in it, and two of them had flat heads.

Today they originally wanted to come and arrest the young brothers and throw them into the street to beg as adults. As long as you raise ten or eight people like this, you will have no worries about food and clothing in this life. There are always fools who will give money to these people.

Li Xiao stepped on the blood and walked in front of a group of squirming big men, looking at this group of people with disdain.

"Junko! Break their legs and hang them from trees along the street. Until hanging! And some more men were sent to report their crimes to the people. Li Xiao felt that letting these dozen guys look like babies could be regarded as letting them exert their residual heat.

I hope that the broken corpses of these people can deter this evil wind of mutilating children.

"You are so powerful, are you Liaojun?" I don't know when, the little girl walked behind Li Xiao. That is, this defenseless little girl, if it is replaced by another person. At this time, you should have been shot in the head!

"I'm Liaojun!" Li Xiao nodded.

"Daddy said that the Liao army is all bad guys. It was you who beat those old men away, so that our people had no food. You don't need to pretend here, even if we starve to death, we won't eat the Liao army's things. The little girl looked at Li Xiao viciously.

Li Xiao shook her head helplessly, and now the little girl was still holding a piece of rice cake in her hand. Li Xiao wanted to say that the rice cake was bought by Lao Tzu.