Chapter 349: Small Temple Fair
That night, Feng Yishan, who was alias Akang, spent the night in a dilapidated shack.
There will be a curfew at night in any city, not to mention people like Feng Yishan who can't find a place to stay, even the caravans of various businesses that often come and go have to stay and will not leave easily.
If you dare to use the soldiers who patrol the city as decorations, they will tell you what a violent institution is.
Before dawn the next day, the beggars got up.
These people are all real beggars, not peripheral elements of the beggar gang, all of them are either deaf, mute, disabled, and sick, so although these people have heard the rumors of the imperial court's crackdown on the beggar gang, they are not too worried, they think that after all, the imperial court has not degenerated to the point of killing good and risking merit, and they should not do anything to them as real beggars.
Feng Yishan, who mixed well with them, was able to follow them into the city to eat.
Today, there will be a small temple fair in Xiangyang, and the villagers from ten miles and eight townships will come to catch up with the temple fair, one to sell some of the things accumulated in their hands for some silver, and the other is to take advantage of the low price of things in the temple fair to buy some goods needed at home, and many hungry villagers will rely on this small temple fair once a month to improve their lives.
Therefore, they set off early, and if they are lucky, they will not have to worry about a bite to eat in the next few days.
The way they entered the city was naturally not to go through the city gate, which was the territory of the beggars, and they, the beggars, could only go to some remote corners, and the city gate could not enter.
And there is a solution, which is a drainage channel at the foot of this section of the city wall.
This drainage channel was originally a passage left for rain and fire oil during the construction of the city wall, taking advantage of the height difference inside and outside the city, it can be drained when it rains in peacetime, and fire oil is poured out in wartime, and the ravines and earth dragons actively excavated on the ground outside the city can burn a sea of fire at any time.
It's a pity that Xiangyang City was built a long time ago, after the establishment of the Tianfu Empire, there were only a handful of battles here, and gradually people forgot about this special design, and now after the beggars secretly expanded, it became a secret passage for beggars to enter and exit Xiangyang City.
There are many such sheds outside Xiangyang City, almost all of them have various reasons, and there are all such people living in them, and the imperial court can't do anything if they want to help them, and if they want to drive them away, they will be reprimanded by the imperial officials, and in the end they can only let them continue to exist.
Seeing the poverty and desolation at the bottom of the Tianfu Empire, Feng Yishan knew that no matter how prosperous and peaceful the surface of Tianfu was, it was just pavilions, and the power that would shake the foundation of Tianfu in the future would definitely rise from these tents.
"Akon, hurry up, keep up. "It's Ah Da who speaks, the eldest in the family, and there were younger brothers and sisters below, but unfortunately he was separated when he came out to flee, and now he is the only one left in the family, and he takes care of Ah Kang, who is a few years younger than him.
It's a dark passage hidden under the weeds, and the smell of the smell fills the air, telling the unbearable feeling of it.
One by one, the beggars knelt down and slowly crawled through them.
My body was also stained with the smell of fish.
Feng Yishan dodged in fear, and was discovered by Ah Da, sighing, Ah Kang This guy is really a novice, and he must have been pampered before. "Don't worry, you can take a shower when you come out, we know a place in the creek outside, and we all go there to wash it, but now you need them, they can turn you into dirty garbage, and attract the pity of those young ladies even more, so that they will give you money, and we will not be interrogated, because those people dislike the smell and will think that we are sick." ”
Ah Da said as he climbed, leading the way in front, and Ah Kang followed behind, catering to them without saying a word, while thinking in his heart how to separate from them after entering the city for a while.
Entering the city, this is a small deserted courtyard under the city wall, Ah Da said that there have been dead people here, and those who live are disgusted and unlucky, and those who want to live can't afford it, and the location is remote, so it has been vacant.
However, they can't stay here, the soldiers who patrol the city here will come to patrol, and if they are caught, it will be troublesome, so they are just using this drainage channel.
Out of the small courtyard is a remote road, Ah Da said that the time is still a little early, the villagers who rushed to the temple fair have not yet entered the city, they first walk the streets and alleys to see if they can meet the early risers, and will go to the temple fair for a while.
And in the north of the city, there is a place to hold a temple, which is a Guanyin Temple, which is seven or eight points similar to the Guanyin Temple in the north of the city that Fengyi Mountain is looking for.
And the reason why it is thought to be Guanyin Temple is because the message left by Danchenzi has the word Guanyin, and Danchenzi must be flowing things in an open place like Guanyin Temple, and it is impossible to put it in a private mansion!
Locking on the target, Feng Yishan jumped into a nearby house in a flash as Ah Da and the others walked.
"Huh, where's Akang?" Da noticed the movement, and when he looked back, he saw that Akang was gone.
The others also turned around, and the guy in the lead suddenly had an idea, "What Ah Kang, there are so many of us, no one has ever seen it, do you know it." ”
"Yes, got it. ”
"Yes. ”
The beggars went on their way, but with each step they took cautiously.
On the side of Feng Yishan, in the courtyard where he jumped into, there were large vat and vat of beans, there was no one in the house, and there were a lot of clothes hanging on the clothesline in the yard, all of which were already dry.
I didn't see anyone around, Feng Yishan took a few clothes and tried them, some of them were not suitable, but the difference was not too big, but now there was no place to find clothes, so I could only take scissors and cut them, and make do with them.
After washing up after the cold water, Ah Kang, who looked sloppy, turned out of the courtyard and walked to the Guanyin Temple in the north of the city.
"Buns, buns. ”
"Steamed buns, steamed buns, big steamed buns. ”
"Old tofu, let's have a bowl of old tofu. ”
"Blessing bag, buy a blessing bag!"
"Fortune telling, fortune telling, seeking wealth and children seeking Guanyin. ”
Walking to the two streets near the Guanyin Temple, the street is already full of shops, although there are not many pedestrians, but they are all shouting hard, earning every penny.
Feng Yishan naturally brought money when he went out, and he was hungry, so he found a small shop to sit down, ordered a bowl of old tofu, asked for a cage of steamed buns, and slowly ate while waiting for the Guanyin Temple to open.
Outside the gate of this Guanyin Temple, there was a long queue, and Feng Yishan knew that it was the person who grabbed the incense.
These people spend a lot of money on sesame oil because they believe in this the most.
Feng Yishan estimated that there would be a lot of people for a while, so he would step on it a little bit, and he would be able to leave after coming to get it at night.
But it's not always easy.