In a small mountain village outside the capital, there is a poor family that has been looking forward to giving birth to a big fat son, hoping that the son can help them clear their bad luck, but as soon as the child is born, the family is in trouble - adults have nothing to eat, what should they give the child to eat?

So when the child was four years old, they found the Ye couple in the same village who specialized in taking in the child, and wanted to sell the child.

The child sold it for twenty taels of silver, which was enough for them to live for a while.

They love this child very much, but they can't help it, life is too difficult, maybe it would be better to sell the child than to follow them.

The woman held her young child, but she still didn't control her tears: "You follow the Ye family, be obedient, they will be good to you." ”

"Alas! What are you doing crying? Let's go! The man was scolding on the side, but in fact, there were tears in his eyes.

The couple still took the money and left.

"Daddy, Daddy—" Watching the parents gradually walk away, the young child stretched out his little hand to their departing figure, shouting helplessly.

"Child, your mother will be me in the future, do you know?" An old woman squatted down and covered his gaze from his parents.

He was stunned for a moment, only to realize that he would never see his father and mother again, and cried heartbreakingly:

"Daddy, Daddy...... Why don't you want me......"

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"Daddy, Auntie, why don't you ......" The man lay on the straw mat, his mouth was vibrating and his words were pronounced, and he suddenly paused, he really couldn't remember what his name was, everyone else called him blind, since his parents sold him, no one called him by his real name.

The Ye couple was very good to themselves at first, eating meat and reading books for themselves, and he almost forgot the original home, and began to call the couple "Daddy".

There were many parents around him like him, and he thought they were as happy as he was, until he ran into the thatched hut behind the Ye family.

He was speechless by the shock—a group of children with missing arms and legs, some big and some small, lying on the ground, some sleeping, some chatting, and a few able-bodied people fighting for a bowl of porridge, a few babbling speechless, all dumb. During the scramble, the bowl of hot porridge was knocked to the ground, and the other people lying on the ground immediately crawled towards the hot porridge like reptiles, licking and eating frantically on the ground.

The scene frightened him so much that he couldn't even scream. He took a few steps back, and was about to turn and run away when he was tapped on the shoulder.

As soon as he turned around, he saw the old man of the Ye family squinting and staring at him: "Didn't you tell you that you can't come here?" ”

He shook his head in fear, and was picked up by the old man of the Ye family by the collar like a chicken.

"Don't, let go of me, I'm going home!" He struggled desperately, but it was just useless.

"Home? This is your home! The old man of the Ye family locked him up in a small room, and then several big men came in, clamped him down, and tied him to a wooden board.

He looked at the old man of the Ye family, holding a red-hot knife, and gradually approached his eyes-

"Ahh

After a scream, he fainted in complete pain. When he woke up again, he couldn't see anymore, and he only heard the old man of the Ye family say in a low voice: "In the future, your name will be blind." ”

The thick smell of dry smoke made him want to shed tears, and that was the first time he knew that people would cry without eyes.

After that, the Ye family and his wife asked him and a group of disabled children to beg for food on the street, and if they couldn't get it, they would be punished when they went home.

He didn't know how to beg for it at first, and he didn't want to do it, so every day he went back, he would inevitably be beaten and starved.

Once, he was beaten and thrown outside, he hadn't eaten for a long time and was very weak.

"Sleep when you're hungry, sleep and don't get hungry!" He remembered what his friends who asked for food together on weekdays said, so he curled up in a ball, planning to sleep well.

He fell asleep and was suddenly woken up by a person: "Wake up, I brought you steamed buns and porridge, get up and drink quickly!" ”

The blind man sat up slowly, he didn't know where the man was, but he felt that there was a big hot steamed bun in his hand.

"You must be hungry, eat!"

The blind man was stunned and muttered: "But A-Niang said that you can't eat ......."

"What are you afraid of, I'm her son, she won't blame me!"

"Son?"

"That's right, my name is Ye Yong, and the Ye family is just such a son as me!"

As soon as the blind man heard that the person was the son of the Ye family, he instantly relieved his heart, and desperately stuffed steamed buns and drank porridge in his mouth.

He choked on just two bites, pounded his chest hard, and coughed loudly.

The young man next to him looked at his embarrassed appearance and laughed: "Eat slowly, no one will rob you." ”

Ye Yong patted him on the back while watching him finish all the things.

After that, Ye Yong would always come to him, and often took him to a meadow, and the two of them slept together.

One day, Ye Yong had a straw in his mouth and said vaguely: "Blind, the yamen is about to be arrested, I want to try it." ”

The blind man smiled and didn't take his words to heart: "Just you? Can you beat people? ”

Ye Yong sat up suddenly: "Of course you can, I practice martial arts every day!" ”

The blind man's smile gradually disappeared, and he knew that Ye Yong was serious: "Why do you suddenly want to be a catcher?" ”

"Of course, it's for chivalry!"

"Then you become a catcher, do you want to arrest your father and mother as soon as possible?"

The blind man quipped, his tone full of ridicule, but his heart hated it to death: Why? Why can you be a fast catcher, but because of your family, I will be blind all my life and be called a flower child for the rest of my life? Why can people who harm others live so well?

That was the first time he and Ye Yong fought, Ye Yong was physically strong, and soon beat him, who had no eyes and was hungry all year round, so that he lay on the ground and couldn't move.

After beating him, Ye Yong didn't say anything and ran away.

This time he was lazy, Ye Yong didn't help him block it, and he was beaten again.

Perhaps because of his uneasy conscience, Ye Yong still came to him: "Blind, I'm going to catch fast." ”

"Oh." The blind man lay with his back to Ye Yong, not wanting to deal with him at all.

Ye Yong continued: "I promise you, I will definitely fulfill your responsibilities and be a good catcher." ”

"Will your father and mother become good people?"

The blind man didn't wait for an answer, he knew that Ye Yong was gone, and Ye Yong didn't have the face to answer this question.

Since then, Ye Yong rarely came to him, but he heard a lot of good words about "Ye Catch", either helping the neighbors find things for free to catch thieves, or volunteering to help the illiterate people in the village write letters. Ye Yong has indeed become a good catcher, but he just turned a blind eye to what his parents did.

Later, when they spoke again, it was when Ye Yong planned to marry a wife. After the blind man finished a day's meal, Ye Yong found the blind man and said, "Blind man, I want you to see someone." ”

Ye Yong took him to see a girl in a neighboring village, he couldn't see the girl's appearance, but listening to the voice, she should be a gentle and demure woman.

The blind man is jealous again, jealous that the son of the trafficker can marry a beautiful woman, but he himself will be a poor blind man for the rest of his life.

"Blind, she and I are going to live in the city, and the children here, please leave it to you."

Ye Yong used the savings saved by the Ye couple from buying and selling children to buy a house in the city and live a good life, but he wanted to stay here and help the Ye couple get food.

After that, the blind man completely became lonely, and when he heard that Ye Yong had a child, he sneered in his heart: "Why didn't anyone steal your child and sell it?" ”

Another year later, the old man Ye brought back the last child here, Yue Lang.

Yue Lang is very well-behaved, very obedient, listens to others, and looks very beautiful.

However, he was also huddled in the corner alone, sighing for the child: "Alas, another poor child who is going to be sold to the Qinglou. ”

Sure enough, not long after, the child was taken away by the old bustard of the Moon Tower, and when he left, the child kept asking the old bustard: "Are you going to take me to my aunt?" ”

Four years later, the two old men became seriously ill, and after they died, Ye Yong took his wife and children to bury the two old men.

After taking care of the aftermath, Ye Yong found the blind man again and said, "Son, look, that's the blind uncle, it's my father's best friend when he was a child, go and say hello." ”

A small hand gently grasped his hand, and the blind man could feel the smile on the child's face, very bright and innocent, and said to him, "Hello blind uncle! ”

The blind man was stunned for a moment and nodded.

The boy let go of his hand and ran back to his father, saying, "Daddy, shall we go?" It's so dirty here. ”

Ye Yong left, this time he really left, and never came back, and the blind man became the "boss" here, with a group of children, calling himself the "beggar gang".

He carefully selected a stick, figured out a set of "dog sticks" by himself, and taught the children. It was difficult at first, but he has been blind for so many years, what difficulties have he not encountered?

The strength of the "beggar gang" gradually grew, and later in addition to asking for food, they would also go out to rob some passers-by, and some people sued the officials, but the people sent by the government were beaten back by them, and over time, the government didn't care about them.

"That's it for the rest of my life."

The blind man scratched his belly, rolled over, and fell into a deep sleep again.

God does not have insight into the world at all times, but most of the time, black and white will be reversed, so that the bad people will enjoy a lifetime of happiness, and the real poor people will only suffer a lifetime of losses. The blind man often wondered if he would make life a little better if he brought his "beggars" to do evil.

This year's "market" is not good, the blind man and his brothers rarely eat enough, perhaps because people are well-studied, and people who pass by know to avoid them. There was really no way, so the blind man sent a man to guard the door every night to see if anyone was secretly passing by at night.

I didn't expect to really meet him, and I came two at a time.

He originally just wanted to rob them of their things and let them go back, but he didn't expect these two people to have something to do with the Ye family.

As soon as he heard the word "Ye family", he couldn't control his temper, the Ye family was all liars and traitors, and now he still had the face in front of him, and said that the Ye family was a good person, what a joke!

He was furious and said that he would cook the two of them and let the others take good care of them. Unexpectedly, the little rabbit cub was too stupid, so he let the two run away, and he was so angry that he punished the little rabbit cub for not being able to eat for a day.

But soon he was not angry, but still embarrassed-

For the next morning there was an extra bag of silver and a bag of dry food at his door, and he listened to his men count the silver, and nodded with satisfaction.

Just as he was planning how to spend the money, he heard one of his men shouting, "Boss, there's a note in there!" ”

The blind man wondered, "What is written on it?" ”

"'A gentleman does not take ill-gotten gains, if you want to repay it, tomorrow at noon, bring all the brothers Zhou Martial Arts Hall together'."