Chapter 45: The Old Courtyard
The silver hairpin was snatched away by the soldier, and the copper coin was not recovered.
"A bunch of bastards who eat people and don't spit out bones." Yun Qing secretly wrote down the appearance of several officers and soldiers, and followed the man to the entrance of Yonghe Alley.
"This is it." The man took a long breath and said to everyone.
"Is there a steamed bun to eat?" Xiao Mao asked with a raised face.
The man's heart was sour, and he touched the little beggar's sticky hair and whispered, "Yes, yes, everyone can eat enough." ”
Yun Qing didn't think so, the "iron rooster" in the soldier's mouth was not a compliment, and they were afraid that they would be disappointed this time.
Yun Qing secretly thought about the residence of Luojiao, it was really not good for such a few people to be small.
"Looking for Cao Xiaocao?" Yun Qing immediately suppressed this thought, he didn't want Cao Xiaocao to know that he had sneaked back to Zhongjing Mansion for the time being, unless he had to.
In fact, Yun Qing has already thought of a place in his heart, as for whether he can live there, he needs to investigate in advance to see if there are any guards over there, if not, it means that the government has completely abandoned the deserted mansion.
Yun Qing followed everyone to the depths of the alley, and his curiosity about the Han Zi and his party was aroused as Xiaodou exchanged the hairpin for himself to enter the city.
"Here we are." The man stopped in front of a house, looked at the haggard words on the lantern, and said happily.
The copper ring on the door knocked three times in a row, and the man stood aside with his hands down.
After a while, the vermilion gate "squeaked" and opened a crack, and a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties poked his head out, glanced at several people, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"Steward Zhou, it's me, Li Songhan, I came to the house a few years ago, and I bother you to report that the old man is visiting." The man stepped forward and said.
"Wait outside." The middle-aged man retracted his head and closed the door with a "bang", a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes but could not escape Yun Qing's eyes.
The man didn't notice the slight difference in the middle-aged man's expression, maybe he regarded this place as the only way back, and he didn't suspect anything else at all, he stood quietly at the door and waited for the butler to beckon them in.
Half an hour had passed, and there was no sound at the door. The man looked at everyone, and was about to step forward and knock on the door again, but Yun Qing couldn't stand it anymore and held down the man's hand.
"Big brother, don't knock, it's useless."
The man looked at the others in despair, and couldn't help but feel sad.
Now that the money and food are exhausted, and there is not even a place to fall at night, the man doesn't understand how the friend he once tried his best to help is closed?
Yunqing is from modern times, and deeply understands the truth that no one asks about the poor in the world, and the rich have distant relatives in the mountains, and comforted: "It coincides with the war, maybe it is not very convenient for the haggard here, I know that there is a place to stay, let me go and see it first." ”
Yun Qing turned around and walked towards the entrance of the alley, walked a few steps and then stopped and turned around and said, "Oh yes, there is a Heavenly Emperor Temple on the left side of the alley, you go there and wait for me." ”
The man was both grateful and wondered, why the little brother was more familiar with Zhongjing Mansion than him, but at this time, there was indeed no better way than to choose trust, he looked at the back of Yunqing leaving and nodded.
"Dad, I think this Qingyun can be believed." Xiaodou said seriously.
"Well, that's all there is to it for now, otherwise what should I do? Tomorrow morning, I will take them to the street to beg for some food, and you take care of Xiaomao. The man arranged, he lowered his head and thought about it, and when he raised his head, there was a smile on his face: "This is Zhongjing Mansion, it will always be easier to ask for than those poor and remote places." ”
Xiaodou's eyes turned red, and he quickly turned around and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes.
Out of the alley, Yun Qing Shi Xiuwei swept towards the old courtyard that had been monitored for three years on the edge of the city, and crossed a glazed roof ridge that reflected the cold light of the clear moon, a stinky ditch, a depression overgrown with wild grass, and the mottled dilapidated courtyard door came into view.
"Sure enough, it's a deserted house, and no one is used to smelling here." Yunqing pushed the door in, and in a few months, the green grass in the yard grew into an adult.
Walking inside, a few more side rooms are still the same as before, Yun Qing looked at them one by one, there is no problem in settling those people temporarily, and the surroundings are quiet, it depends on whether they want to smell this smell.
After making up his mind, Yun Qing rushed to the Heavenly Emperor Temple, and brought a group of people to the old courtyard in less time.
"For the time being, there is only such a place, I don't know if you can't live there?" Yun Qing took out his wooden sword and cut a path out of the grass on the ground, stood at the door of the wing room and asked.
Before the others could make a sound, Xiao Mao said indifferently: "I just rushed through the door and I wanted to vomit, but now it's much better." ”
The man thought that he was going to say something nonsense and was just about to stop it, but when he heard the latter sentence, he smiled and continued: "Well, Xiao Mao is right, it's better to have a place to live first than to sleep on the street, isn't it?" ”
Everyone nodded yes, the smell of this thing is used to it, there is indeed a place to shelter from the wind and rain is indeed a hundred times stronger than sleeping on the street!
"I still have something to do in the evening, big brother, you settle them first, and I'll come back with some rice and noodles tomorrow morning." After Yun Qing left a sentence, he hurriedly went out.
"Where is he going so late?" Xiao Mao asked curiously.
"Don't ask so much, little ones!" The man reprimanded.
In his eyes, this young man is becoming more and more mysterious, definitely not like a serious beggar, more than 30 years of life experience tells him that only by not asking should he ask can he get along with each other, especially this young man has saved Xiaodou, and he can't see Sihao's malice.
He told the others about this idea, and arranged for everyone to stay in the house first.
Yun Qing jumped out of this place and jumped straight in the direction of the south gate, he ripped off a strip of cloth from his clothes and covered his face, avoiding the groups of soldiers who were patrolling the night.
"The south of the city is indeed more heavily guarded than the north." Yun Qing slipped down the eaves, followed the shadows under the eaves to a small barracks that he had come with Cao Xiaocao, and after easily putting down a guard, Yun Qing dragged him to the edge of a pond.
"You're bold!" The soldier who had fainted was immediately awakened by the water in the pond after being soaked in this way, Yun Qing's palm pressed against his mouth, and the soldier groaned, reaching out to touch the knife on his waist.
"Here!" Yun Qing pulled out his waist knife and put it on his neck, his voice colder than the blade.
"Heroes spare their lives." The soldier could not speak clearly.
Yun Qing threatened: "I'll let go of my hand, I'll ask you a question, if you dare to say a word out loud or say a lie, the guy who eats will be gone immediately, hear clearly!" ”
The soldier was frightened and nodded repeatedly.
Yun Qing let go of the hand on his mouth, the blade pressed down, and the soldier was even more afraid, "Daxia, you ask, don't dare to lie at all." ”
"Okay, I'm just looking for money, where is the tea money collected at the south gate every day?"
"Seeking wealth? Wouldn't it be better to rob the rich in the city? When the soldier heard that he was seeking wealth, he immediately relaxed and was puzzled.
"Say another nonsense!" Yun Qing said impatiently, this thing has to be done cleanly, as long as you ask where those people are, take things and then extinguish them, there will definitely be no loophole that the soldier asked.
This is indeed a loophole, but Yun Qing doesn't want to kill indiscriminately, even if it is understandable that as a citizen of Nan Cheng killed enemy soldiers during the war between the two countries, but for a person who is not a threat, Yun Qing suddenly can't do it.
The soldier did not know that he had already been closed by the Ghost Gate, and he replied without thinking: "Yes, at the commander's place, the money collected every day is with him." ”
"What if I take something else?" What Yun Qing wanted was to get back the silver hairpin for Xiaodou, so he asked more.
"All of them must be handed over to the commander, and they will be distributed to the brothers from top to bottom at the end of the month." Thinking of the tea money, the soldier's eyes lit up.