"Help?" Boundless chopsticks tap lightly on the tabletop.

"Yes! Help me! But when I went back to that place, they weren't there, and I never saw the mute little beggar with his severed hand since. I began to pay attention to the little beggars in the street, most of them were younger than me, and I secretly observed them, and found that most of them were very uneasy, hoping that anyone would notice them and look at them, but they did not dare to make eye contact, especially the so-called ' around me. My lord', I'm a little Hanako anyway, and no one pays much attention to me, so I pretend to squat next to them inadvertently occasionally, and talk to them from time to time, and they always ignore me, until one day a little beggar with a broken leg and disfigurement deliberately pretended to fall, and secretly wrote four words in my hand when I helped him up. I didn't read, I couldn't read, but I had a good memory, and then I found a word tester on the street, and rewrote it in his hand with a stroke from memory, and he told me that it was written about the broken temple in the east of the city. ”

Wujiang's eyes narrowed slightly.

Xiao Ci continued: "The eastern suburbs of the city are a very desolate place, there are very few people who go, people say that it is an ominous place, I inquired and knew that there was indeed a land temple there, and then it was dilapidated because it was haunted and no one worshipped, I guess it should be there, but I didn't dare to follow them during the day, so I touched them at night. ”

"Aren't you afraid?" Wujiang had been listening quietly when he suddenly interrupted her.

Hearing this, Xiao Ci seemed to think of something terrible, and a trace of fear appeared on her face, but it immediately turned into pain and anger: "I'm not afraid, what gods and ghosts are not terrible, the most terrifying thing is people!" I was lying in the corner, and when I saw what the villains were doing, I thought there was nothing else to be afraid of. ”

Xiao Ci was involved in the injury on her back because of her excitement, and she couldn't help but gasp: "I was lying in the corner and saw those adults punching and kicking the disabled children, saying that they didn't get the required money for a day, and raised a group of useless ugly and weird waste. The children could not speak, only babbling, snot and tears flowed to the ground, their heads were buried in the ground, and when they were raised, the corners of their mouths and nostrils were bleeding with dirt. At this time, a man who usually pretended to be their mother when he was begging suddenly stood up and said that he could cut off the ear of a child with a broken leg again, so that it would look more pitiful and maybe make more money. I thought I had heard it wrong, but I didn't expect that a man standing next to me really walked over with a knife, and with a wave of his hand, he cut his ear with a wave of his hand, and blood splashed on his face, and he was very angry and slapped it again, directly slapping the poor little beggar to the ground! I don't have a home, I live by begging, but I've never seen such cruel things, such bad people! ”

Her hands still trembled slightly as she said this.

"I was angry and scared, afraid that they would find out, so I ran away. I went back to report to the government and wanted the government to arrest them, but the government ignored me as a little beggar, and those gatekeepers directly blasted me out. I didn't know how to help them, I was worried that they wouldn't be able to get enough money to go back and be beaten, so I started stealing money from those little beggars who asked for it every day......" Xiao Ci couldn't help but lower her head when she thought that she had stolen her by pretending to be a little blind man today.

Wujiang didn't seem to care, and Zhengse said: "Maybe it's a good thing that the gatekeeper blasted you out, have you ever thought that even a melon seller feels strange when he sees those crippled little beggars on the street, isn't the Fu Yin who manages Xixuan unaware of it?" Dare to be unscrupulous at the foot of the capital, there must be strong forces behind it, you see that it is just the tip of the iceberg, the little beggar who writes the broken temple in the east of the city in your hand must have learned words since childhood, and a person who can learn words from a young age has at least a good family background, how can he fall to the point of begging on the street and breaking his leg and disfigurement. ”

Wujiang remembered that when she was a child, she was caught by traffickers and constantly resold, knowing that the guys who did these things had buyers, sellers and middlemen, organized and disciplined, and it was a strict group, definitely not as simple as Xiaoci saw, she thought about it and asked: "Have you seen the two people chasing you today?" ”

Xiao Ci shook her head: "No, I saw them for the first time today, but I always have a faint feeling that someone is following me recently, I have been very careful in the past few days, I have never been to the broken temple again, and I have constantly changed places to sleep at night, so that no one can find out." ”

Wujiang's eyes were dark: "They have noticed you, you often hang around next to them, you have been to the government, you give your money for no reason, you have no relatives and no reason, no one cares about the disappearance, arrest you and go back to do the same treatment for you, if you know something, you can be killed, even if you don't know anything, you just use you to make money, killing two birds with one stone." ”

Xiao Ci was afraid for a while when he heard this, if he was caught by them today......

Wujiang saw that her face was pale, put the dish she had sandwiched the most in front of her, gently knocked on the edge of the plate, and smiled softly: "Eat more, don't waste it." ”

The candle flame was bright, burning and crackling, Xiao Ci saw through the candlelight, the pair of dark eyes as deep as a deep pool smeared with a layer of light warmth, obviously smiling, but never provoked any emotion, did not distinguish between joy or sadness, but such an unpredictable pair of eyes made her feel inexplicably relieved. She has encountered countless eyes on the streets of the glorious and prosperous capital, facing a beggar like dust and mustard, who is undisguised because of their condescension, putting away the disguised gentleness and humility and goodness, revealing the truest desires and hearts under her nose, although there is pity, but more contempt, disgust, and indifference, which makes her feel alienated and fearful.

She silently ate the meal in front of her, which was her first full meal after leaving the village, but she ate and ate inexplicably with a sense of sadness and uncertainty. She has been in the tension and oppression of begging for life in the past, and she has no time to think, but at this moment, she has a kind of uneasiness under the beams and pillars of the roof, what happens after eating, and what happens the next day?

Wujiang noticed the change in her expression and said, "Hurry up and go to bed after eating, you have to recuperate, we will be very busy tomorrow." ”

Xiao Ci looked up in surprise, feeling as if the person in front of her knew what she was thinking, and then remembered what she said, and asked, "What are you busy with?" ”

"Busy saving people." Wujiang turned around and picked a candle flame.

When she woke up the next day, Xiao Ci was a little worried about saving people, and asked Wujiang how to save it before going to bed last night, thinking that she would say a rescue plan, or come to a long-term plan, who knew that she said a sentence to smash Huanglong and rushed directly to the temple to save people...... Who said last night that it is organized and disciplined, with a tough backing, a complex chain of relationships, and a tight-knit group? You can't easily reveal your identity, and you can't even report it to the official...... Wouldn't it be a surprise to go directly?

"It is necessary to startle the snake in order to lure the snake out of the hole." Wujiang fiddled with her hair while returning to her, and when it was over, he asked, "What do you think?" ”

Xiao Ci sat and looked at himself in the mirror, braided a few strands of braid on his forehead and sideburns, and tied it and the hair behind his ears with a blue satin at the back of his head, which was not monotonous and neat, and he was dressed in a dark blue narrow sleeve waistband, like a capable boy.

Without waiting for her to answer, Wujiang put down the comb and walked into the screen, and a voice came from behind the screen: "Today's crescent moon, compared to black, dark blue is even less contoured. ”

As soon as the words fell, Xiao Ci saw Wujiang walking out from behind the screen, already dressed in men's clothes, with a word of kung fu bundling hair and changing clothes, and even changing a face, this face is extremely ordinary and difficult to remember.

Even though Xiaoci has an excellent memory, after taking a look, she turned her head and forgot about it.

Out of the door, the street was bustling, Wujiang stood in the middle of the traffic, looked around, frowned slightly, and then suddenly bent down and stared at Xiao Ci very closely, and asked.

"Where do you find the most appetizing dim sum?"

"Where can I sell the safest and loudest firecrackers?"

"Where do you sell the warmest and lightest futons?"

"Where do you find the strongest rope that is hard to break?"

"Where can I find the fastest and smoothest carriage?"

"Where can I sell the most effective and expensive wound medicine?"

Xiaoci: ......???

Isn't it to save people? How do you buy something?

Xiao Ci finally led her to buy all the above things, crawling around the streets, although she didn't have the money to buy them, these shops were very familiar.

"In the mouths of the people of Xixuan, which of the big officials in the capital have better reviews?" Wujiang sits in a carriage with snacks, firecrackers, bedding and rope at his feet.

Xiaoci mixed in the restaurant teahouse, and the two people passed on by word of mouth are none other than the prime minister's knowledgeable and worried about the country and the people and the brave and brave and chivalrous general Yanwu.

"Whose mansion is more in a prosperous area, the prime minister or the general?"

The Prime Minister's Mansion is in a secluded place in the north of the city, and the General's Mansion is in a prosperous part of the city.

The two sat in the chariot, slowly passing through the bustling streets of the royal capital, it was already noon, and the winter sun finally ushered in the most intense time, and the golden sprinkled on the Xixuan Wangcheng was even more rendering the appearance of wealth in the world.

Wujiang drove the carriage, looking at the bustling streets, all kinds of people, the little beggar was unclothed under the corners of his clothes, kneeling on the cold ground, the people on the side looked impatient, breathing heavily, his steps were shaky, and his movements were loose.

No martial arts.

She put the horsewhip in Xiao Ci's hand and said, "Do you want to learn how to drive a carriage?" ”

The sunlight slanted from the top of their heads, and finally disappeared into the carved beams and painted buildings on the west side, and they slowly shook through the streets and alleys of the capital, the prime minister's mansion in the north of the city, and the general's building in the city.

The gatekeeper in front of the general's building, standing tall, his eyes firm, the hand holding the sword at his waist is calm and powerful, he is a first-class good hand, even the gatekeeper is still like this, what about the people inside.

Young General, don't let me down.