The sun is thin, and the boundless night carries the cold wind to the earth, sweeping away the last trace of warmth.

Lingding Alley, old houses, mossy low walls, and dilapidated wooden windows creaked by the wind add a little more to this poor man's alley.

Bai Gu looked up at the sky, the black hole was hollow, and there seemed to be a beast that chose to devour people behind the dark curtain, waiting for an opportunity to move, which couldn't help but make people feel a kind of panic.

Feeling the gusts of cold wind, Bai Gu shivered.

Late autumn has arrived, and the cold winter is coming.

"It's this annoying weather again, annoying to death!" Bai Gu scolded in a low voice.

Not only Bai Gu, but the poor people in Lingding Alley, and even all the poor people, don't like winter very much.

Because of poverty.

I can't afford to eat to warm my stomach or buy clothes to warm up.

It's better in summer, after all, it's too hot to stand, and you can wear less, or even no wear. If you can't do it, you can go to the river to take a bath and have a good time, which can be done without spending money.

But not in winter.

Just the pervasive and biting wind, even those rich and noble families wearing robes and holding stoves, I'm afraid they can't stand it, right?

How much more are these poor people who have only one or two clothes all year round?

It's like scraping their bones with a knife.

Moreover, Lingding Lane is sunny, does not gather heat, and it will be much cooler than other places in summer.

This seems to be a good summer factor, but it becomes a life-threatening scythe in winter.

Over the years, most of the time of the people who died in Lingding Lane was concentrated in winter.

Died of cold.

There is nothing to eat, and they are starving; There are no clothes to wear, and they die of cold; There is no place to live, and I am frozen to death...... Common.

There are frozen bones on the road, and Zhumen wine and meat stink.

That's pretty much it.

Bai Gu walked down the street, lazily walking. The big toe of his left foot poked his head out of the cloth shoe and ate a gray face.

"Don't think about it anymore, they're going to be hungry today."

Bai Xiaoxiao is the second sister of the teenager.

Bai Gu sighed helplessly.

I don't even have a copper plate on my body, so I can't buy something if I want to.

The last time I bought that big bag of buns, the two copper plates were picked up by Bai Gu from the cracks in the road.

It's quite immoral, but it can't be helped, it's important to fill your stomach.

Morality? That's what only those who can eat can talk about! When you're hungry, you can do anything.

Bai Gu had seen a down-and-out scholar who was once full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and full of economic prosperity, lying hungry in Lingding Alley for several days. One day, I was so hungry that I couldn't do it, so I lay directly at the mouth of Lingding Alley and competed with several leper dogs for a steamed bun that was torn to pieces.

The usual insulting behavior in his mouth has become a straw for his life.

In the end, the scholar's sleeves were torn, half of his face was scratched, and even one of his fingers was bitten off, so he snatched out a small half of the steamed bun in the mouths of several leper dogs, and squatted at the mouth of Lingding Alley to gnaw with relish. He also stared vigilantly at the people passing by from time to time, for fear that someone would snatch the steamed bun in his hand.

When you are at the end of your rope, you see humanity the most.

The streets were bustling with people, and the cries of shop vendors and the bargains of the people were noisy. Bai Gu, a broken boy, walked on the street, like a feather drifting in the wind.

If there is none, it is optional.

There is not much of him, and it doesn't hurt to have him.

Bai Gu's footsteps suddenly stopped.

He tilted his head and looked in one direction.

Under an old locust tree, an old beggar lay sideways, his face covered with an old leaf, as if he were asleep. There was also a broken bowl with a missing corner next to it, and there were several small copper plates lying horizontally in it, like the old beggar's hair.

Bai Gu looked at the old beggar, or rather, at the copper plate in the old beggar's broken bowl, and a malicious smile appeared on his lips.

He crept over and slowly crouched down beside the old beggar.

He held his breath, his eyes fixed on the old beggar, but his hand went straight to the broken bowl. With a copy of his wrist, several small copper plates in the bowl were all in his palm.

Bai Gu smiled, stood up and turned around and wanted to run, but he heard an old voice behind him: "Put it back." ”

"Uninteresting." Bai Gu pursed his mouth, turned around and returned the copper plate to its place, and then sat down next to the old beggar with a hard ass, deliberately stirring up a burst of dust and raising the old beggar's face.

"Ahem, stinky boy! Ahem, you're going to die! The old beggar jumped up at once, wiped the dust with his hands, and jumped to his feet in a rage.

"Who told you not to let me take it, stingy." Bai Gu grinned gloating and grimaced.

"Damn, you want to steal my copper plate, you still have a reason, right?"

"Don't you know? That's not stealing, is it? ”

"Hey, you kid!" The old beggar gently kicked Bai Gu, and then sat next to Bai Gu, "You guy is so thick-skinned, thicker than the East City Wall!" If you can scrape off your skin and eat it, you will definitely be able to feed the people of this city. ”

"Cut, pull it down! You're not bad, last time you peeked at Widow Liu taking a bath......" Halfway through his words, Bai Gu was directly covered by the old beggar and interrupted the conversation: "Eh, you kid can eat nonsense, you can't talk nonsense!" I was just passing through! I just happened to see it, you know? Luckily! Pass by! Got it? ”

"Okay, good, passing by. And that time, you went into Liu Caizi's house in the middle of the night, and you said to pick grapes, the ghost believed it, the grapes that Liu Caizi's family only planted this year, how could they bear fruit so early! ”

"Cut, can't I go and see it in advance? Really! The old beggar tilted his head and nodded Bai Gu's head with his fingers, "Boy, the pattern is small." ”

Bai Gu rolled his eyes, "As long as you have a big pattern, why are you still a beggar in this bird place?" Why don't you become a city lord and an emperor? ”

"I'm not uncommon to see that kind of thing! Hard-shoved to me I don't want it yet! It's so nice now, it's free, it's free, it's not inhibited, and I like this kind of life. ”

"If I had the chance, I wouldn't want to live this rotten life again. I can't eat enough, I can't wear warm clothes, I'm muddy all day long, I don't have any hope for life, what's so good! Bai Gu grabbed a yellowed grass and held it to his mouth depressedly.

He also snorted twice in frustration.

The old beggar glanced at Bai Gu and didn't say anything, just took off a gourd on his waist that looked very old, and took a sip.

Took another sip.

A pair of somewhat cloudy eyes looked at the sky, and a few white clouds could only reflect a few vague shadows in the eyes of the old beggar, like people and non-people, like things and not things, I don't know what I was thinking.

Bai Gu saw the old beggar like this, and he didn't bother him.

He has known the old beggar for a long time, and it is not the first time that the old beggar has looked like this, and Bai Gu is no longer strange.

He lay down and looked at the sky, thinking about what to do with today's food.

In this way, the old and the young, sitting and lying down, all look at the same sky, but in different moods.

The streets are noisy, and there is silence under the trees.

Sometimes Bai Gu feels strange, when he stays with the old beggar, he always feels that the time will be very long, and it will become ...... It's a lot slower. The surroundings will also become much quieter, as if they are isolated from the world.

It's a strange feeling, but it's also good.

Bai Gu still enjoys this feeling a little.

A sixteen-year-old boy will still retain the playfulness of childhood, and this novel feeling is right in the heart.

I don't know how long it took, the old beggar came back to his senses, his expression was inexplicable, he stared at Bai Gu with a very strange look, and he didn't speak, but just looked at Bai Gu in a daze, with an indescribable meaning in his eyes.

Bai Gu felt that there was a strange gaze on him, and he didn't care about it at first, just as some idle and bored passer-by squatting on the side of the road to watch the fun.

But as soon as his gaze stopped at him, he didn't move, and Bai Gu didn't bother to pay attention to it.

There are always strange people in this world.

The old beggar is one of them, and it is not surprising that others are like this.

It's just that as time goes by, this gaze seems to take root in itself and does not leave.

Bai Gu was puzzled.

Have you grown gold on your body? Or is it flowering?

What's so nice about a poor boy in Lingding Alley?

Bai Gu felt that if the line of sight was changed to two drill bits, he was afraid that his small body would be poked out of the two big holes.

So, he turned his head to look at the source of that strange sight.

Then, the corners of his mouth twitched.

"Hey, old fellow, you're not a pervert, are you? Why are you staring at me? ”

As he spoke, Bai Gu didn't forget to take two steps back.

But this time, the old beggar didn't go back to Bai Gu very abnormally, but picked up the gourd, took a sip gently, and then slowly spoke: "Everything in this world, thousands of people, each has its own way of living, each has its own hope, and each has its own meaning. How to live and how to live are all their own things. ”

His gaze that stayed on Bai Gu did not take his eyes away, but became even more intense.

"Just ask what is going on at the moment, each according to his own heart. There's no need to strive for perfection, just be happy. Stinky boy, you say yes? ”

For a moment, Bai Gu felt that the image of the old beggar was suddenly much taller, as if he had become a knowledgeable, kind and benevolent old gentleman.

If he didn't say the following sentence, Bai Gu would regard the old beggar at this time as an idol.

"Just like me, in this city, I drink a little wine every day, make friends from all walks of life, how happy and good my life is, right?"

can talk about such a thing as turning over people's walls in the middle of the night so fresh and refined, Bai Gu feels that in this city, the old beggar is the only one.

There is absolutely no second person to be found.

And say I'm thick-skinned? It's not bad to be on your own, right?

Bai Gu rolled his eyes, and threw the dog's tail grass in his mouth to the old beggar: "You can have a face, I won't give you a long memory when I broke my leg by Zhang Liuqi's guy that time." ”

Zhang Liuqi is the blacksmith in charge of the lantern road in this city, and he is extremely powerful, and he is also a somewhat famous figure in this city. Once, the old beggar turned into his house, not knowing what to do, but unfortunately he was discovered by Zhang Liuqi, and directly broke his leg and threw it on the road, like a dead dog.

The old beggar raised his legs for more than half a year before he could barely stand up.

Of course, it was Bai Gu who took him in.

Otherwise, the old beggar would have died in the winter of that year.

The old beggar seemed to be choking on saliva, and coughed violently twice. He picked up the gourd and took a sip, feeling a little dry in his throat, and took another sip.

Still feeling dry, the old beggar took another sip.

"Zhang Liuqi, that stupid big man, can only brute force, unreasonable! With, I can't get along with this kind of person! "When it comes to Zhang Liuqi, the old beggar is like a cat that has been stepped on by its tail, and it is fried.

The trembling between his tones was more like breaking the defense.

Zhang Liuqi is a nightmare existence for the old beggar.

Therefore, Bai Gu likes to use Zhang Liuqi to provoke the old beggar.

Looking at the old beggar breaking his defense, Bai Gu felt very funny.

"Who told you not to change your life, this hobby of climbing people on the wall in the middle of the night is not a normal person. Liu Caizi and those people are okay, you still go to provoke Blacksmith Zhang? Your thighs are not as thick as his arm, are they? It's good that he didn't hold you and twist you. Bai Gu glanced at him, his eyes full of contempt.

The old beggar was so angry that his face turned red, but he was powerless to refute anything.

What Bai Gu said is indeed the truth.

At least to outsiders.

In the end, I could only hold back one sentence: "Forget it, I have a lot of adults, don't worry about you stinky boy!" ”

"You're an old and unscrupulous person, don't you have anything to say?"

The old beggar snorted twice, didn't refute anything, just poured out a few copper plates from the broken bowl, swept his hand, and pushed the copper plates in front of Bai Du.

The old beggar ignored Bai Gu, got up and took a sip of wine, then tied the gourd back to his waist, patted the dust on his buttocks, smiled, and went east, in the direction of Huangli Road.

With a single step, the old beggar hummed an unknown tune in his mouth.

"The blue waves of Luoshui are far away, and there is muttering on the unkempt boat.

It turned out to be a pretty woman, stealing secrets from the boudoir.

The tip of Xiaoyu's tongue is dripping, indescribable, unclear, and many daughters are in a mood.

Purple lotus root, green wall root, white-faced scholar red pillow mat.

Ashamed! Ashamed! Ashamed! It's just that when I sit in the pavilion, I say Wushan, plum blossoms embroidered silk scarves.

The smoke of the cooking drifted up, the Qinghe was dressed, and there was a rooster crowing under the mulberry and hemp trees.

If you want to say it again, it is already rouge dyed white jade.

The two looked at each other, and they both smiled at the green skin of the mang.

There is ink on the inkstone, and the stone is chiseled in the mountains but it is light.

It's a fireworks thing in the world, and it's unspeakable deep in my heart, weird, weird......"

The old beggar's voice slowly faded and became far away.

Although Bai Gu couldn't understand what the old beggar was humming, he couldn't hear that this song was a bit serious from the old beggar's tone.

"It's not serious!" Bai Gu scolded with a low smile, then put away the copper plate in front of him, stood up and patted his buttocks, and left.

Buy bread and go.

It's all about filling your stomach.

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After a long time, Bai Gu asked the lady who sold the cake to spare him two more black gnocchi.

Burn the cake for the two younger sisters to eat, and eat the black gnocchi yourself.

You just have to eat.

Bai Gu carried a bag of cakes in his arms, and hurried quickly into Lingding Alley.

Lingding Lane is a little far away from the city, if it weren't for Bai Gu's natural fast steps, otherwise it would take more than half a day to walk as an ordinary person.

But it still does not affect Bai Gu's early departure and late return.

After all, I don't have any money, so I have to rack my brains to find something to eat.

It's normal to take some time.

Didn't have to eat, more normal.

Bai Gu remembers the last time he ate baked cakes, it seems to be a month ago, right? They should be very happy!

Thinking of this, Bai Gu's steps were a little faster and a little more cheerful.

"I'm back!"

Bai Gu stretched out his hand to open the door, but this time he was greeted not by Bai Xiao's cheers, but by her crying voice.

"Brother, Ah Yue, she ......"