Ten days later, at the gate of Xiangyang City, a man with a disheveled head, tattered clothes, and a foul smell all over his body walked to the city gate.

"Slow, there is a life above, refugees are not allowed to enter the city, go quickly. The two guards stepped forward and stopped the man, and said viciously.

"Refugees, who said I was a refugee?" shouted the man, ruffling his hair and a look of rage.

The guard suddenly felt a foul smell coming to his face, quickly pinched his nose, stretched out his hand to push the man away, and said, "You dare to disturb here, be careful that we put you in prison!" ”

As he spoke, the guard next to him drew his saber.

Seeing the fierce appearance of the other party, the man took a few steps back, snorted at them, and had to turn around and walk to the open space on the side, and sat down to rest for a while.

This person is Jingfa, who came to Xiangyang to carry out the task of Dushengmen.

After Jingfa sat down, he took out a small piece of cake that had been shriveled into a hard lump from his arms, swallowed his saliva, and just wanted to open his mouth wide and bite it down.

At this time, he suddenly felt that someone nearby was secretly staring at him.

He stopped his mouth and looked up, and saw a little boy standing not far away, with a thin figure and a dark face, a pair of eyes staring straight at the dry cake in his hand, and swallowing saliva from time to time.

At this moment, Jingfa saw an adult man walking behind the boy, who, like the boy, was staring at the dry cake in his hand.

This frightened Jing Fa, he didn't say a word, grabbed the dry cake and bit it, thinking that this was Lao Tzu's hard work, if you snatched it away, I would drink the northwest wind.

After a few bites, he noticed that the man and boy had not left, still staring at his dry biscuits.

Looking at the boy's bony body and envious expression, Jing Fa sighed and beckoned to him.

The boy slowly walked over to Jing Fa with some fear, but his gaze remained on the cake, as if it was the only thing in the world that could attract his attention.

Jingfa stuffed the remaining dry cake into his hand and said, "If you want to eat it, eat it far away, don't let me see it." ”

After saying that, he turned his head, held back his saliva, and stopped looking at the boy.

The boy took the dry cake and immediately devoured it, and the chewing sound from time to time echoed in Jingfa's ears, like an aphrodisiac sound, which made Jingfa itch all over his body, and the itching was unbearable.

Finally, Jingfa couldn't bear it anymore, so he screamed, stood up, and ran to the side.

"His grandfather's, how did the way of the world suddenly change, and even the living can't afford to eat. Jing Fa shook his head and sighed, and began to recall what he had seen and heard in the past ten days.

Ten days ago, when Jingfa happily came down from Chihu Mountain and was about to enter the city to have a good meal, the dishes were not yet ready, and he was caught up by the officers and soldiers.

In this way, Jingfa greeted the eighteenth generation of Taoist ancestors several times in his heart, and then played a game of catching mice with the officers and soldiers for two days.

In the past two days, Jingfa has unleashed all his potential as an assassin, disguised, hidden, escaped, and various techniques took turns to finally allow him to escape.

But this tossing completely exhausted his energy, and he had no money on him, so he had to join the ranks of refugees.

Originally, when he saw so many refugees waiting for alms in front of Shi's house in Jiangzhou City, he thought that everyone was pretending to exaggerate in order to get benefits, but after getting along with the refugees during this time, he found that the flood in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River was really serious.

Natural disasters are relentless, floods are raging, destroying countless villages along the way, and countless people have been displaced and left homeless.

Not only that, but more importantly, the wealth accumulated over a lifetime of hard work was destroyed overnight.

There is no home, no land, no everything, originally many people stayed in their hometowns and waited for the imperial court to allocate money and food to rebuild their homes, but after waiting for a long time, they did not see a shadow at all.

Eventually, hopeless people began to move in droves to cities that had not been affected by the floods, and at first, well-meaning officials opened their gates to accommodate refugees.

But after a long time, they found that the endless stream of refugees had seriously exceeded the city's capacity, and they had to close the door and refuse all refugees to continue to enter the city.

In other cities, local officials saw that refugees who would not contribute anything to the city were going to enter the city, and not only stopped them from the gates, but also sent officers and soldiers to drive them out of their jurisdictions.

In this way, most of the refugees can only sleep in the wilderness, and when they are lucky, they can pick some wild fruits to satisfy their hunger, and if they are unlucky, they will starve to death on the side of the road.

In the next few days, Jingfa followed the refugee team, eating and starving along the way, and finally reluctantly arrived in Xiangyang.

He only hoped that the commission would still be valid, because after all, it had been a long time, and if the robbers that his employer feared had come to his door and ransacked their house, he would not only run away in vain, but also have no way to go home.

At this moment, he saw a man with a disheveled hair and tattered clothes who looked like himself slowly walking to the city gate, but was also stopped by the guards.

But he knocked on the broken bowl in his hand, and the guard took it and looked at it, and then let him into the city.

Jing Fa was surprised by this scene.

"His grandfather's, why is that man allowed to go into the city, and I can't. Jing Fa was a little angry and muttered to himself.

"Boy, that's a beggar's gang, and they have privileges. At this time, a male voice came from the side.

When he turned around, Jingfa found that it was an old man who spoke, with messy white hair on his head like a chicken nest, and his face was covered with a thick layer of dirt, as if he had never washed his face in his life.

A foul smell wafted from the old man's body one after another, instantly killing the smell accumulated on Jing Fa's body after ten days of not taking a bath.

Jing Fa hurriedly covered his nose and asked, "Beggars also have privileges?"

"Boy, I'm talking about the beggar gang, not the beggars! Do you see the broken bowl in his hand? That bowl is not available to everyone, only if you join the beggar gang, you will get such a begging bowl, and this bowl is a symbol of the status of the beggar gang's disciples. The old man approached Jingfa and said softly.

The old man opened his mouth, and an even stronger stench came to him, choking Jingfa who turned around and hurriedly breathed.

Seeing Jingfa's appearance, the old man smiled and said: "In these years, even those who ask for food have to be divided into three, six, nine and so on, you say it's ridiculous, look at those refugees, how many people used to look down on these beggars at all, but look at now, people can swagger into the city, and they can only sit outside and complain." ”

At this moment, a group of people came next to him, each holding a bamboo cane, holding a broken bowl, and smiled at the old man: "Old man Zong, I didn't expect to meet you here again, how about it?

When the old man heard this, his face was full of smiles, and he quickly knelt in front of the person in charge, stretched out his hand to carefully wipe the man's rag shoes, and said with a smile: "Master Qin, your shoes are dirty, let me wipe them for you." ”

After listening, the man laughed, stretched out a bamboo pole and knocked on the back of the old man of the sect, and said, "Wipe it carefully, wipe it clean, Qin Ye, I will take you into the city to take you for a walk." ”

This scene attracted the contempt of some of the surrounding refugees, who shook their heads and left the group of beggars far away.

At this moment, only to hear a plop, a figure rushed towards Qin Ye quickly, without saying a word, knelt on the ground, picked up his other foot, and wiped the cloth shoes vigorously.