Chapter 12: The Beggars of the East City

There is never a shortage of new things in Chang'an City.

Shortly after the theft of the Wudao Pavilion was solved, Li Hu vigorously attacked and arrested more than 30 Khitan spies and traitors who collaborated with the enemy, including palace guards, wealthy merchants in the city, people in the rivers and lakes, and even court officials, who were widely implicated.

The Khitan army and the Dayan army were fighting fiercely in Jizhou, and the capture of so many spies this time greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Khitan and boosted the morale of Dayan.

The saint dragon Yan Dayue rewarded Li Lingwu, who was directly in charge.

Li Lingwu is already a very popular minister, unable to continue to be promoted, and received a reward of 10,000 taels of silver, for the Li family, this is not a lot of money, but you must know that it is a supreme honor to reward a hundred catties of copper coins on weekdays.

All of a sudden, the Li Mansion shone brightly again.

......

The East Courtyard of the Li Mansion, the study.

"You say this is the trial of that bastard boy of Impermanence?" Li Lingwu frowned after listening to Li Hu's report.

"Yes, I didn't expect that kid to be able to break the mouth of a Khitan who looked at death as if he were home. After I secretly arrested An Jinxi and Sun Si, I went along the vine and dug up the others. Li Hu sat opposite Li Lingwu and answered the question.

"Impermanence?" Li Lingwu was silent for a long time and asked, "What is he looking for you for?"

"Huh. Li Hu sneered and said, "That kid said that you trained him because of his martial arts skills, and asked me for my martial arts experience, saying that he was pretending to fool you." ”

After a pause, he continued: "But this kid seems to be a lot more cheerful, and he is not afraid of me, that day he was close to me, and the fart was shocking, I couldn't be annoyed, so I gave him a chance, I wanted him to retreat, but I didn't expect him to come out of trial, that means, tsk......"

Then he carefully talked about the confrontation between Li Wuchang and the Khitans, sighed with emotion as he spoke, and finally concluded: "Big brother, don't say it, the reason why you can catch so many people so smoothly is thanks to the blood-dripping method, many hard bones are trembling with fear. ”

Li Lingwu listened carefully, half-squinted, and did not speak.

Li Hu took a sip of water, and then said: "I thought this kid really wanted to practice martial arts, I also compiled my martial arts experience over the years into a book for him, who knew that he would throw it at home, saying that if you go to see him on a whim one day, he will take out that book to show you, proving that he is practicing martial arts...... Oh, this kid, I'm probably messing around on the street again at this time, alas, it's really blind to my hard work. ”

Li Lingwu shook his head and laughed.

It's really easy to change, his nature is difficult to change, he is quite helpless about Li Wuchang, obviously quite clever, but he always likes to mess around, remembering to eat and not remembering.

......

Li Wuchang didn't mess around.

He got a gift from Li Hu, a booklet, which recorded Li Hu's experience in practicing "Cangyan Jue" for many years, Li Wuchang roughly flipped through it, and threw it in the dark compartment of the room, without practicing immediately, he still had to act.

Sure enough, the next day, the eldest lady received the news and sent a housekeeper to deliver the medicine, saying that it was to send medicine, but it was actually to investigate the situation, and that the eldest lady wanted to introduce Master Xi Wu to Li Wuchang.

Li Wuchang was on guard in his heart, and he was scheming, so he fooled the money housekeeper in three or two clicks, and by the way, he also asked the money housekeeper for money, saying that he was going to visit the Qinglou and asked the money housekeeper not to tell the eldest mother and father.

Steward Qian took out a few hundred taels of silver tickets on the spot and handed them to Li Wuchang, saying that the eldest lady had prepared them, and if it was not enough, he would go to him again, and patted his chest and promised never to tell him about going to visit the Qinglou, Li Wuchang took the silver ticket, smiled like a fool, patted Steward Qian's shoulder, and looked like he was going to lead him as a confidant.

In the past few days after sending away Steward Qian, Li Wuchang secretly studied Li Hu's experience in the study every day.

The experience is indeed very exciting, and the entry alone is written in great detail, including what to pay attention to, how to quickly enter the state, and so on.

In the evening, Li Wuchang got up and practiced secretly, Li Wuchang had a strong spirit of study, and was very diligent, making rapid progress, and it only took four nights to practice for two hours every night, and he felt that the true qi in his body was increasing day by day, automatically circulating, and reaching the realm of endless life.

Something magical happened, Li Wuchang found that his eyes became particularly sharp, and the whole world seemed to become brighter, like a highly myopic eye suddenly equipped with a pair of high-definition glasses.

In the past few days, I have only slept for less than two hours every night, but I have never felt tired during the day.

In addition, Li Wuchang felt that his body had become much lighter, and he walked as if he was carrying the wind, which felt extremely wonderful, and he felt like "light as a swallow".

What's even more amazing is that Li Wuchang once woke up at night, wearing single clothes, and on a winter night, he didn't feel cold, but his whole body was warm.

These changes lifted his spirits.

A few days passed in a flash, Li Wuchang once again happily drank the soup with ingredients sent by the housekeeper, and after drinking, he praised it for being delicious, and a pompous performance was indispensable.

Of course, it is also essential to secretly induce vomiting afterwards.

After vomiting, Li Wuchang decided to take a day off and go for a walk.

If Li Wuchang doesn't go to the street to mess around, is he still "Li Erstunned"?

So with a few hundred taels of silver tickets given by the money housekeeper, he went out of the house and walked out of Chongyi Fang.

There are one hundred and eight squares in Chang'an City, each of which is quite a small community with complete facilities, including various restaurants, shops, streets, and houses, which are quite prosperous.

However, in terms of prosperity, it is the two cities of the east and west, restaurants, shops, green buildings, countless, the key is lively, people come and go, and the traffic is busy.

Dongshi is where Li Wuchang often goes.

Li Wuchang wandered on the street alone, and unconsciously walked to Dongshi, looking at this familiar place, Li Wuchang was in a good mood, and he didn't come out to shop for several days, but it was a pity that Han Dazhi was not there.

"You little beggar, get out of the way, don't get in my way. ”

An arrogant voice attracted Li Wuchang's attention, and following the sound to look at the past, in front of a bun shop, a little beggar looked at the meat bun in front of him pitifully, and his saliva almost flowed out.

Li Wuchang was stunned in his heart, and only felt that this scene was so familiar.

I was an orphan in my last life, and when I was a child, I often begged on the street, and I was often scolded and beaten, and I suffered all kinds of difficulties and white eyes, and sometimes I could get several kicks for a steamed bun.

Thinking so, he stepped away and walked over.

"Yo, Li Gongzi, it's you, please take a seat, please take a seat. "The guy obviously knows Li Wuchang, Li Wuchang often comes to Dongshi to hang out, and most of the businessmen on Dongshi Street know Li Wuchang, but Li Wuchang usually goes to restaurants and green buildings, but it is the first time he has come to this steamed bun shop.

The guy didn't dare to slack off, immediately took off the towel on his shoulder, wiped the tables and stools in the shed vigorously, and asked Li Wuchang to sit down, looking flattering, nodding his head.

Then he walked up to the little beggar, waved his fist, and drank: "You little beggar, don't you get out of here, you collided with Li Gongzi, I don't know how you died." ”

Li Wuchang didn't sit down, walked up to the guy, and said, "You go get some delicious food first, get more." ”

The guy immediately went to prepare, and said in his heart, he was worried about how to get rid of this little beggar, but Li Er was stunned.

There are also many people waiting to watch the play, and some people are a little unbearable, and they say that this little beggar is most likely vicious and unlucky.

This year, the snowstorm was severe, and many victims went into the city to beg for food, and many beggars died every day, and then every morning people from the government pulled the bodies to burn them.

The little beggar was only five or six years old, and could not tell whether it was a boy or a girl, his little face was dirty, his lips were blue from the cold, he was wearing a tattered little dress on a cold day, his arms were as thin as firewood sticks were exposed in the air, and on his feet were a pair of very torn cloth shoes, his toes were exposed, and he was frostbitten and unusually shabby.

Li Wuchang squatted down and looked at the little beggar, and the little beggar also looked at Li Wuchang, with a deep fear and numbness in his dark and bright little eyes.

With a sour heart, Li Wuchang showed a smile and said gently, "Can my brother invite you to eat steamed buns?"

The little beggar looked stunned, looked at Li Wuchang with a look of hope, and muttered, "I want to eat steamed buns......"

Li Wuchang took out a handkerchief, wiped the little beggar's face, held the little beggar's hand, put it to his mouth, blew a breath of heating, took off his coat, wrapped the little beggar's body, picked him up and sat on the stool.

The little beggar looked confused, looked at Li Wuchang blankly, couldn't say a word, only felt that the big brother in front of him was really a good person, and his body was warm.

Many shopkeepers, guys, and passers-by who knew Li Wuchang around were also dumbfounded.

They thought that Li Wuchang was going to beat the little beggar, but they still thought in their hearts that this little beggar must be dead, who knew that the plot would develop like this.

The guy at the bun shop was stunned, and he didn't dare to step forward with a snack.

"Why are you stunned?" Li Wuchang shouted.

Only then did the man put the things on the table, and said tremblingly: "Li Gongzi, use it slowly, use it slowly." ”

The things were very rich, there were meat buns, steamed buns, millet porridge, all kinds of dim sum, tea soup, the little beggar stared at the round eyes, looked at the table full of delicacies, swallowed his saliva, but did not dare to take it, and glanced at Li Wuchang.

Li Wuchang picked up a large meat bun, broke it in half, handed it to the little beggar, showed a smile, and nodded at him.

The little beggar carefully stretched out his little hand from his robe this time, took the half of the meat bun and stuffed it into his mouth, devoured it, ate half of the meat bun in an instant, and raised his head to look at Li Wuchang.

"Take whatever you want, eat slowly, don't choke. Li Wuchang said gently, took a coarse grain steamed bun and chewed it slowly.

The little beggar picked up a meat bun again, and bit it hard, his eyes glowed with green light, he was really hungry, Li Wuchang was afraid that he would choke, so he took a bowl of hot soup and put it in front of the little beggar, and said, "Drink the soup first, don't choke." ”

On the second floor of the restaurant opposite the bun shop, a window seat, there are two eyes that have been looking at the scene opposite downstairs, and the owners of the eyes are two young girls, dressed as tomboys, wearing samurai uniforms, and wearing heroic male buns on their heads.

Most of the people in the restaurant know these two tomboys, that is Guo Yunling, the eldest lady of the Guo family, and her maid.

In the city, everyone knows Guo Hongyi, the richest man in Chang'an, who has a pair of children under his knees and is very famous.

His son Guo Yunlei is one of the "Five Sons of Chang'an" and is a well-known young talent.

Daughter Guo Yunling is a number of beauties in Chang'an City, and more importantly, women are not allowed to have eyebrows, both civil and military, she likes to dress up as men on weekdays, mix the streets, and act chivalrous, many gentlemen have been taught a lesson, "Han Dazhi" and "Li Erstunned" The two difficult brothers and sisters were repaired by her no less than ten times, and Li Wuchang secretly called her "female devil" in private.

"Isn't that Li Er stunned, why is he so kind?" Guo Yunling looked at the abnormal scene downstairs, frowned, pursed his lips, and asked his maidservant Xiaocui suspiciously.

Xiao Cui obviously had a very bad impression of Li Wuchang, pursed her lips, and said, "Miss, the slave maid estimates that this Li Gongzi has no good intentions, and he is holding back some bad water." ”

"Miss Ben wants to see what he wants to do, hmph, I was taught a lesson by the Third Highness, and I thought he could settle down for a few days...... Let's go ahead and have a look. Guo Yunling was very angry, she felt that Li Wuchang was a bad seed who didn't remember to eat, and after not seeing him for a few days, he came out to make waves again.

After that, he got up and went downstairs, took Xiaocui to a shop next to the bun shop, and secretly stared at Li Wuchang.

She saw Li Wuchang looking at the little beggar with a gentle smile, waiting for the little beggar to eat meat buns, and serving soup and water.

In her impression, Li Wuchang always walks with his head up, always squinting at people, even if he is beaten, he has a rebellious face, how can he ever see Li Wuchang have such a gentle time.

Xiao Cui is right, this kid is absolutely holding back, maybe he wants to sell this little beggar, otherwise he will be so good?

Guo Yunling thought hatefully and continued to observe.

After waiting for a while, Li Wuchang muttered to the little beggar for a while, too far away to hear clearly, and then watched him take out a silver ticket from his shirt and hand it to the shopkeeper of the bun shop, patted him on the shoulder and ordered something, the shopkeeper and the guy bowed their hands again and again, bowed and saluted, and the guy took out a cloth bag and packed a lot of steamed buns and buns, tied them up and handed them to Li Wuchang.

Li Wuchang got up, picked up the little beggar with a smile on his face in his right hand, and walked towards the east of the city with a cloth bag in his left hand.

Guo Yunling hurriedly greeted Xiaocui and tiptoed over.