After dinner in the evening, Haibao came out alone, he wanted to see the night view of Yunzhou City.

Out of the door, out of the alley, out into the street. The lanterns in front of the shops on both sides of the street were all lit up and neatly arranged, and the stars in the sky were much dimmer. There are many fewer pedestrians on the street than during the day, passing by in twos and threes. The lanterns on the bridge in the distance outline the outline of the bridge, and the willow trees by the river are also lit up.

Hypertherm paced, unaware of the distance he had walked away. was walking carelessly, when suddenly a person sprang out of the side of the road and crashed into his arms, he was defenseless, and was knocked to the ground and shocked. Fortunately, he has always been strong and strong, and if he were an ordinary person, he would have to be knocked down. Hypertherm looked at it and saw that it was a monkey, and the monkey was lying on the ground at the moment. Someone chased after him, and without speaking, he raised his hand, and the whip in his hand was drawn towards the monkey. The monkey screamed and jumped to his feet, trying to run forward, but the man with the whip stretched out his long whip, hooked the monkey's neck, and dragged the monkey's grown body over.

Only then did Haibao see that the man was Yao Shunmin, a hawker who juggled on the street during the day, and the monkey was Xiaobai, who performed and wrote. At this moment, Xiaobai was quiet, but his eyes were full of fear.

Haibao asked suspiciously, "This big brother, this monkey...... What's going on?" he said, pointing at Xiaobai.

Yao Shunmin said: "It's okay, I'm training him to perform a show." As he spoke, he pulled Xiaobai away.

Xiaobai struggled desperately, squeaking at Haibao while struggling.

Yao Shunmin smiled helplessly at Haibao and said, "This monkey is not easy to discipline, and he goes crazy at night." After saying that, he pulled hard, dragged it and left.

Xiaobai struggled even more, and after a long distance, he turned around and yelled at Haibao.

Haibao's doubts were even more serious, he had heard since he was a child that some acrobats would steal other people's children, peel off the monkey's skin and stick it to the child, turn the child into a monkey, and cut off the child's tongue so that he could not speak, and then teach the monkey many tricks and force it to perform to make money. This monkey is so smart, it can't be the child of someone Yao Shunmin who stole it, right? Thinking like this, he quickened his pace and followed.

That Yao Shunmin drove the monkey with a whip all the way to a ruined temple. There are no lights in the temple, only a fire is lit, and the light is very dim. The little girl named Xiaoyue I saw during the day was sitting in the firelight and mending clothes.

Seeing Yao Shunmin and the monkey go back, Xiao Yue shouted timidly: "Daddy!" Yao Shunmin didn't agree, but just raised the whip fiercely and whipped at Xiao Bai, shouting as he smoked: "I'll let you run, I'll let you run! Xiao Yue was so frightened that she hid in the corner on the side, watching this scene in horror.

Yao Shunmin beat for a while, probably tired of his hands, stopped, took a breath and said, "Next time you dare to run, you have to peel your skin!" After speaking, he put a thumb-thick hemp rope around the monkey's neck, and tied the other end to a pillar. There are bells hanging on the rope, and under the pull, they jingle and ring. The monkey lay down against the pillar, his limbs curled up and shivering.

When Haibao watched this scene, he felt a wave of anger welling up in his heart. It's simply disgusting, there is such a person in the world! Even if it is a beast, it helps you make money, you can't be treated like this! Now it seems that the monkey Xiaobai is undoubtedly the child of someone else's family that Yao Shunmin stole became. That girl named Xiaoyue may have stolen it from him. Thinking of this, Hypertherm made up her mind to save the two children no matter what.

At this time, Yao Shunmin suddenly turned to Xiao Yue and said with a cold face: "Show me the trick of spitting fire." ”

Xiao Yue hurriedly put down the needle and thread in her hand, looked for a while in the baggage, took out a square box, grabbed a handful of powdery things from the box and stuffed it into her mouth, then picked up a piece of firewood with flames, raised her head, raised the firewood high, put it to her mouth a few times, and took it away.

Haibao didn't know what she was going to do, so she only heard Yao Shunmin say angrily: "Put it in!"

Xiao Yue's hands trembled, and finally put the torch into her mouth and quickly took it out, and then sprayed the powder out of her mouth vigorously.

The powder shone like stars in the sky, and fell one after another.

Yao Shunmin said: "Why is it still like this? I eat white food every day, and I can't even learn a trick." With that, he stretched out his hand and picked up a piece of bread, and began to eat it by himself. After eating one, he picked up another one, looked at the girl, kicked her and said, "Don't eat tonight", and then said to the monkey in the corner: "Brute, don't eat tonight!"

The more Haibao looked at it, the more angry he became, and he only felt that Yao Shunmin was simply inferior to a pig and a dog!

Yao Shunmin finished eating the cake, picked up a bowl of water and drank it, then put the bowl down, took out a sword from the baggage, wiped it gently, and poked it hard at the chest, and the sword immediately only had the hilt left.

Haibao was taken aback, and saw Yao Shunmin pick up the sword, but he still saw the hilt of the sword but not the body of the sword. It turns out that this sword has a mechanism, and the entire sword body is retractable. It dawned on Hai Bao that this was the secret of his performance of the living man swallowing the sword during the day!

Yao Shunmin played with the sword for a while and lay down, and after a while, he snored like thunder. Haibao crept in and beckoned to the monkey. Xiaobai saw Haibao, her eyes suddenly lit up, the girl was dozing, she seemed to feel abnormal, she raised her head and saw Haibao, she opened her mouth to scream, Haibao hurriedly waved her hand, she finally didn't call out, just a pair of eyes staring at the boss. Hypertherm walked up to the monkey, holding the bell in one hand to keep it from making a sound, and with the other hand, he grabbed the rope and slammed it in two. Haibao gently placed the bell on the ground, pulled up the monkey, and motioned to Xiao Yue, but Xiao Yue shook her head. Haibao only said that she was afraid that she would be caught by Yao Shunmin if she ran away, but she couldn't comfort her at this time, so she had to grab her arm, drag her with a tow, and go out.

When I got out, I ran all the way, I went around and around, ran a long way, and when I heard that there was no movement behind, I slowed down. His hand kept holding Xiao Yue's arm, and when he let go, Xiao Yue ran out of breath, and one of them didn't stand firmly, almost fell to the ground, and was grabbed by Haibao again.

Xiao Yue said, "Who are you, why did you pull us out?"

Haibao said: "My name is Zhang Haibao. Go as far as you can, and I will go back and entangle him, lest he come after you again. ”

Xiao Yue pushed Xiao Bai and said, "You go quickly, I won't go, I want to go back." ”

Haibao was taken aback and said, "He's so fierce, you still want to go back?"

Xiao Yue said: "Although I am afraid that he will resent him and hate him, but he is my father after all!"

Haibao was even more surprised: "Is he really your father?"

Xiao Yue said: "Yes." I can't leave him. ”

Haibao looked at her expression and knew that she would never leave, and she would no longer be reluctant. said to Xiaobai: "You hurry up!"

Xiao Bai looked at Haibao, and suddenly his two front paws landed on the ground, kowtowed three times to Haibao, and then got up and bowed to Xiao Yue.

Xiao Yue said with tears in her eyes: "Xiaobai, go quickly, I know that you hate my father, he often beats you and scolds you for not giving you food, I hope you don't remember his grudges in the future." ”

Xiaobai nodded and glanced at Haibao, that look was clear and full of gratitude, which was completely a look that only a person with rich feelings could reveal. Although Haibao had always thought that this monkey had become a human, when he saw that look, he still felt a tremor in his heart.

Xiaobai turned around and was about to jump away, but a net went down and covered Xiaobai in it. Yao Shunmin laughed and jumped down from the tree above his head.

"What a young hero! He wants to steal my monkey and kidnap my daughter!"

Haibao said: "Do you still have the face to say that she is your daughter?

Yao Shunmin said: "You can't control how I discipline my daughter!" said and shouted to Xiaoyue: "Stinky girl, you come over for me!"

Xiao Yue lowered her head and walked timidly to him. Yao Shunmin raised his leg and kicked Xiao Yue's ass, Xiao Yue's body shook and almost fell.

"Stinky girl, dare to come out with this stinky boy! Won't you seduce men with hard wings?

"You ......" Haibao was angry for a while, he didn't know what to say, he was not a good speaker, and he couldn't find the right words to express the anger in his heart at this time. Xiao Yue was even more ashamed and angry, sobbing and crying.

"What's wrong with me? You seduce my daughter, I haven't settled accounts with you yet! In the middle of the night, the lonely men and widows are pulling and pulling, tarnishing my daughter's reputation, hurry up and get the money!"

The more he talked, the more unbearable he became, and he had to slander people! Haibao couldn't bear it anymore, and smashed his fist into his face, and his left eye socket instantly swollen and bruised.

Yao Shunmin took a punch, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and rushed towards Haibao like crazy. Hypertherm kicked the dagger away, grabbed one of his arms with one hand, and slammed it to the ground with a hook of his foot.

Yao Shunmin saw that Haibao easily knocked him down, knowing that he was far from being the opponent of the young man in front of him, he didn't dare to make a mistake, got up from the ground, and said, "Damn, I fell into bad luck today, and I ran into a nosy broom star." After scolding, he ran away.

Haibao untied the net from Xiaobai's body and said, "Let's go!" Xiaobai gestured in the air with his paws, and Haibao shook his head in confusion as he didn't understand what it was doing. It gestured again, and this time it understood, and it turned out that it was writing the word "thanks". Haibao smiled: "Don't thank me, let's go, if you don't leave, I'm afraid that something else will happen." Xiao Bai picked up his two front paws, waved to Haibao, and turned to leave.

Seeing Xiaobai disappear, Haibao turned around, only to find that Xiaoyue was still on the sidelines. Haibao said: "Miss Xiaoyue, your father is talking nonsense, don't be angry." ”

Xiao Yue said: "Alas, thank you, I'm used to it, don't be angry." My dad is, actually, quite pathetic. ”

Haibao didn't expect Xiao Yue to excuse his father, knowing that she had something to say, so he listened quietly.

"Although my father looks fierce, he actually hurts me a lot, but he has a grudge in his heart, so he has a bad temper. I heard my dad say that when I was three years old, because he made a very serious mistake, my mother hated him very much. One day, my mother ran away with someone after leaving a letter at home. Since then, my father has raised me alone, wandering around with me looking for my mother. In order to make a living, they invented those tricks to deceive people. ”

It turned out that such a story happened to Xiaoyue and his father. His father was not good himself, and he deserved it if he provoked his wife to run away, but he suffered Xiaoyue. Haibao thought for a moment and asked, "What's going on with Xiaobai?"

Xiao Yue said: "Xiaobai was caught by my father about five years ago. At that time it was still small, fluffy and cute. Once we went to a village to perform as an artist, and I was sick and couldn't walk, so we stayed in a ruined temple. The temple has long since run out of incense and is used as a village school. During the day, my father went out to beg for something to eat, and I watched the children read through the window in the ruined temple. I noticed that there was a little monkey standing under the window like me and peeking in, and I thought it was funny, so I threw it a nest head, and it wrote a 'thanks' on the ground with a branch. I told my father about this, and he was very happy and said he wanted to catch the monkey and play with me. And then I really caught it. ”

It turns out that Xiaobai is really a monkey. Hypertherm relieved himself and laughed at his thoughts.

"After all these years, is there any news of your mother?" asked Haibao.

Xiao Yue sighed and said, "No." I think my dad should die too. ”

Haibao wanted to say something to comfort Xiaoyue, but knew that Xiaoyue had experienced this, and those empty words were useless, so he said to her: "My name is Zhang Haibao, and I live in Zhuxiang Hutong in the east of the city. ”

Xiao Yue said: "Okay, thank you! If there is a need, I will go." After saying that, he turned around and left, waving his hand at Haibao as he walked.

Haibao also smiled and waved at her, watching her thin figure turn around and disappear before walking in the direction of home.