Chapter 10 There are no new bullies on the street, and there are crazy children on the road
Let's say that the little beggar took Shi Ning to see the helmsman Su Hong, and received a broken bowl and half a bamboo pole, and Shi Ning was a member of the beggar gang. There are many wars in the country, famine is continuous, people often eat people, and the corpses of people who die of hunger are on the streets.
The war has led to the displacement of many refugees, and joining the beggar gang has become a refuge for refugees, but not everyone can join the beggar gang, and it must bring benefits to the beggar gang.
Among the few little beggars, there were two people who were limp and had their hands broken, they were lost with their relatives due to the war, and they had no names, and according to their characteristics, the lame person was called Ah Lame, and the person who lacked a palm was called Ah Que.
Ah Que was not born with a lack of palms, in order to win the sympathy of passers-by, Ah Que cut off his palms, and every time he begged, he exposed his severed palms with thick blood and flow, so as to get some things and copper plates, so as not to starve to death.
Ah Que was born lame, far less miserable than Ah Que, so he often used the blood of the dead to wipe his face, pretending to be a seriously injured one-eyed person, and acting pitiful.
Shi Ning saw Ah Lame and Ah Que's antics, and couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Ah Limp said: "Hey, Brother Shi, what are you laughing at, are you going to break your leg or your hand?" As he spoke, he picked up a thick wooden stick and slammed it at Shi Ningde's arm.
"Smack!" the stick broke.
Shi Ning covered his arm and said, "Hey, cripple, why are you breaking my arm?!" Fortunately, Shi Ning's internal strength is deep, and his arm will not be broken with the strength of Ah Limp.
"You have to break a leg or an arm!"
Shi Ning smiled: "Why do I have to break my leg and hand?
Ah Que explained: "Brother Shi, Ah Lame is for your good, you see that you are white and tender, healthy and healthy, and there is no disability in your body, you are not pitiful enough, no one will sympathize with you!"
Compared with this group of beggars, Shi Ning is a Caucasian bearded person, and he is indeed white and tender, Shi Ning said: "I am much more pitiful than you when I have internal injuries!"
There are more refugees and beggars on the street than passers-by, and the competition is quite fierce, and they naturally get very few copper plates, and the sun is about to set, if they do not give enough copper plates and food to the rudder every day, they will be expelled from the beggars according to the regulations of the beggars, and they will starve to death on the streets.
Hearing a scream of "ouch!", Shi Ning picked up a wooden stick and broke his arm, as a way to attract alms from passers-by.
Shi Ning also muttered in his mouth: "Uncle, it's okay, give me something to eat!"
All the beggars looked at Shi Ning, and for a moment he became the focus of all the beggars.
At the root of the broken wall not far away, a dozen or so beggars stood up and walked towards Shi Ning with bad intentions.
The beggar at the head said, "Boy, where are you coming from?" I have the final say on this street, you dare to rob me of my job!"
He is clearly a bully among beggars, relying on his strong body to often bully the old, weak, sick and disabled beggars.
Ah Que said: "Boss, Brother Shi's newcomer doesn't understand the rules, you can spare him!"
The bully beggar said, "You can spare him, and the copper plate that honors me today is doubled!" As he spoke, he asked the beggar to go forward and scavenge the copper plate of Shi Ning and Ah Lame, and half of the hard steamed bun fell to the ground, and the hungry beggar immediately swarmed to grab the food.
Ah Limp shouted, "That's the steamed bun I hid......!
Shi Ning pinched the two copper plates that Ah Que begged for, and shouted, "Why are we giving you the copper plates we begged for!"
Ah Que was afraid of the bully beggar, and whispered to Shi Ning: "The beggars in this area don't dare to offend him, so you can give him the copper coin!"
Shi Ning said: "He is not the master of Su Helm, why should he give it to him for nothing!"
The bully beggar laughed and said, "Boy, you dare to scare me with Master Su Helm?"
Shi Ning said: "Then let me teach you a lesson instead of Lord Su Helm!"
"Just you?" the bully beggar almost laughed off.
Ah Lian persuaded: "Brother Shi, how can you beat others if your hand is broken, you better run, they will kill you!"
As soon as Ah Limp's words fell, the bully beggar and his accomplices were already lying on the ground, all with blue noses and swollen faces.
Everyone didn't expect Shi Ning to be a master, and the bullies and beggars all kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Uncle Shi, we know it's wrong, I won't bully people anymore!"
Shi Ning said: "My master taught me to say, 'Knowing mistakes can be changed, and being good is great!', you have to beg for yourself in the future, just don't rob others of their hard-earned gains!"
The bully beggar nodded again and again and replied, "Yes, yes, yes!"
A beggar panted and ran over to report to the bully beggar: "Boss! There are people on West Street who are selling their arts and occupying the street, so that even the beggar brothers on West Street can't beg!"
The bully beggar said angrily: "He-milk-milk, he dares to perform on Lao Tzu's territory, go and snatch his copper plate!"
Suddenly, Shi Ning, who was a bully beggar consciousness, existed, and his posture disappeared immediately, and he said gently: "Brother Shi, now that you are the leader, what do you say?"
Shi Ning said: "Why don't you report to Master Su Helm?"
The bully beggar said: "Lord Su Helm is busy dealing with the affairs of the rivers and lakes, how can he have the leisure to take care of the affairs of our little beggars!"
Shi Ning had no choice but to say, "Let's go!"
At this time, the beggars of the beggar gang occupied all the streets, and those who did not join the beggar gang to beg without authorization, or to perform their arts, would be excluded by the beggar gang.
On this day, a father and daughter from the north came to Danyang County, claiming to be from the former Qin and Prefecture. My father was about thirty-seven or eighteen years old, playing with a big long knife, with his eyes open and his beard, and he had the style of Guan Yunchang back then.
The daughter is about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a good face and charming eyebrows, she is wearing a pink thin sand coat, white fabric lining, narrow and elegant cuffs, but there is a mixture of northern ethnic minority costumes and southern Hanfu.
The daughter held the pipa and sang it, the sound was like a nightingale, like a melodious turn, and suddenly she put down the pipa again, dancing, with a beautiful body and superb dancing skills, which attracted the onlookers to applaud again and again.
After a performance, most of the audience rewarded copper coins, only the beggars who carried broken bowls and bowls without a penny sneered at the father-daughter performance, and kept scolding in their mouths.
Suddenly, a group of people opened the onlookers, walked over viciously, and the leader said fiercely to the father and daughter: "Ran San, you owe us the money in the gambling house today, you have to pay it back today!"
His father's name is Ran San, it turns out that Ran San is a good gambler by nature, and a few days ago he used the silver taels he earned from his performance to lose a fine light in the Danyang Gambling House.
Ran San said: "You are cheating! I don't owe you any money!"
The shopkeeper of the gambling house sneered: "We cheated it? Obviously, you lost money that day and wanted to make a profit, so you borrowed fifty taels from the gambling house, but you lost again, do you dare not admit it? Ran San, look at your poor and sour appearance, I can't afford to pay it back, I'll think of a way for you, you sold your daughter to pay off the debt!"
Ran San said: "Shopkeeper, I admit the debt, just ask you to give more grace, I will definitely pay back the money, my daughter must not be sold!"
The shopkeeper of the gambling house grabbed the copper coins in Ran San's iron basin and said, "How much time will you be given as long? You earn every penny a day, and you will only earn fifty taels in what year and month? You have time, but I am not patient! Use your daughter to pay off the debt, and you have to agree today!"
As soon as the shopkeeper of the gambling house finished speaking, several strong guys surrounded him and robbed Ran San's daughter.
I saw a person jump up in the air, jumped in front of the father and daughter, and said: "A group of people bullying a weak father and daughter in the field, are you ashamed?"
This person is Shi Ning, who originally came with the beggars to drive away the outsiders who occupied the begging territory, but he was attracted by the performance of the father and daughter and watched in the crowd. But he didn't want to come to this group of people to rob the people's girls in broad daylight, so Lu saw injustice and pulled out a knife to help.
The shopkeeper of the gambling house pointed at Shi Ning's nose and scolded: "What kind of thing are you little beggar? You also deserve to teach your grandfather a lesson in front of everyone?
The guys rushed up, Shi Ning's body flashed, and he dodged behind the guys, the guys threw themselves on the ground, and Shi Ning snapped a few times and beat them to the ground.
Shi Ning accepted it when he saw it, and said, "I don't want to fight, you guys should leave quickly!"
The shopkeeper of the gambling house saw that the guys were useless, and he couldn't even hold a little beggar, so he blew his nose and glared and scolded: "You waste, I raised you for nothing! Boy! You wait for me!"
The shopkeeper of the gambling house led a few men who had been beaten, fled in embarrassment, and moved the rescuers.
Through dialogue, Shi Ning learned that Ran San's daughter was named Ran Shu, who was originally a wealthy family in the north, but wandered to the south due to the war in the north, and only relied on street art to beg for a few copper coins to live.
Ran San said: "Engong, you better run, the gambling house shopkeeper is powerful in Danyang, Engong just beat his men, he will definitely bring more people!"
Sure enough, the gambling shopkeeper brought rescuers, it was a team of heavily armed officers and soldiers, even the officers and soldiers could move, how hard is the backstage of the gambling shopkeeper!
The officers and soldiers didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and as soon as the long sword was extended, it stabbed Ran San's heart.
Ran San fell in a pool of blood, Ran Shu knelt on his chest, crying, "Father!"
The long sword had stabbed Ran San's vital part, he pointed at Shi Ning with a trembling finger, and said weakly: "Engong, please protect the little girl, don't be plundered by those people!" After speaking, he passed away, his eyes wide open, and he couldn't blink to death.
Shi Ning closed his eyes with his hand to the dead Ran San, and said sadly: "Uncle Ran, rest in peace!"
The officers and soldiers at the head said disdainfully: "Shopkeeper Wang, this beggar is the one who knocked down your four guys?"
The shopkeeper of the gambling house said: "It's him, Master Jun, you teach him a good lesson." As he spoke, he smiled and stuffed a bag of silver ingots into the officers and soldiers at the head.
The officers and soldiers at the head of the group shook the weight of the silver and said with a smile: "With this thing! It's easy to say! Do you want him to die or be crippled?"
The shopkeeper of the gambling house smiled and said: "As long as this little beggar kowtows to me and begs for mercy, he will only be mutilated and his cheap life will be spared!"
In recent years, it has been common for officers and men to indiscriminately kill innocent people, and for officers and soldiers, there are many people who have died of war and starvation on the streets, so what about how many people have been killed or injured?
Shi Ning said: "I don't want to fight, let's go!"
The officers and soldiers at the head teased: "Little beggar, you are not small-tempered, your grandfather is the one you say to leave? Believe it or not, I will stab you to death with a sword, just like stabbing to death this ignorant pariah." As he spoke, he kicked Ran San's corpse.