The girl who wears fast

Ao Shiyan took his younger sister who had become Ao Shituo out, and began to inquire about the Rong'an Hou Mansion.

They are not familiar with the capital city at all, and if they want to inquire about news, they can only try their luck to go to teahouses and taverns to listen to customers, or find someone to inquire about it, but these two methods are not good, because the former is time-consuming and laborious, and the latter is easy to cause others to be vigilant .

"Brother, we are wandering around like headless chickens, can't we find out about the situation of the Marquis of Rong'an?" Ao Shichu said to Ao Shiyan.

Ao Shichu nodded: "We just came to the capital, we don't know the place well, we don't have contacts, we can only try our luck."

"Why don't we ask some older beggars? Give them some food, and they should be willing to talk to us?" Ao Shichu suggested. She remembered the small town where she met the robbers before. , Through the chats of the beggars, I guessed that the robbers colluded with the magistrates and bandits.

"Okay, that's a good idea." After Ao Shiyan thought about it carefully, he knew how clever his sister's proposal was. Beggars would walk all over the capital to beg for food. It's easy to know what's going on in the streets and alleys of the capital, and it will be favored by the emperor one day Which concubine was married, or a certain butcher was caught out of the brothel by the lady... There is nothing they don't know, and asking them for news will be twice the result with half the effort.

So the brother and sister bought a lot of steamed buns and found a place where beggars were most concentrated, commonly known as a beggar's den.

It was daytime now, and many beggars had gone to beg everywhere, only some old, weak, sick and disabled beggars who could not get up and move for the time being stayed here.

Ao Shiyan took a closer look and saw a young beggar about seven or eight years old whimpering sitting next to an old beggar lying on the ground, so he pulled Ao Shichu over.

"Don't cry, you kid, you're like a little girl! Your uncle won't be dead for a while, so don't howl for me!" Although the old beggar was lying down, his breath was weak when he cursed, but he still didn't let anyone cry. .

"Old man, did you hurt your leg?" Ao Shichu squatted down and asked when he saw the old beggar's twisted left leg still stained with brown blood.

The old beggar immediately stared at her vigilantly: "Who are you? What do you want to do? Don't try to do bad things. As long as I yell, other people will come running over!"

"Old man, don't be nervous. We just want to get some news, and we won't do anything bad." Ao Shiyan said, and opened the oiled paper bag, and the smell of meat buns came out. The old beggar immediately stared at the buns in his hand , swallowed his saliva.

The seven or eight-year-old beggar had green eyes, wishing he could stick his eyeballs to the meat buns, and even made a gurgling sound in his stomach.

It's just that even though he was very greedy, he didn't rush forward to grab the buns. He just covered his stomach with his hands and stared longingly at Ao Shiyan's meat buns.

Ao Shiyan handed a meat bun to the little beggar. Just as the little beggar was about to reach for it, he suddenly remembered something, and then looked at the old beggar eagerly.

The old beggar nodded, and he couldn't wait to take the steamed stuffed bun. Then, regardless of whether the stuffed bun was still hot, he quickly stuffed it into his mouth, eating until he rolled his eyes.

Ao Shiyan handed another bun to the old beggar. The old beggar took it with a snort, and muttered, "Anyway, the old man is dying. It's useless for you to do anything to me. You can have a full meal before you die." Yes, the old man died in peace..."

Ao Shichu and Ao Shiyan did not start asking them immediately, but patiently waited for them to finish eating the buns. Ao Shiyan left two meat buns for each of them, and took the remaining buns The steamed buns were distributed to the older, weaker, sick and disabled beggars around.

The old beggar finally finished eating three meat buns, his stomach was full, his mood improved a lot, and he was not so wary of Ao Shichu and his sister: "Tell me, what do you want to ask the old man?"

"Old man, do you know the Marquis of Rong'an's Mansion?" Ao Shiyan asked straight to the point.

"Rong Anhou Mansion? Huh!" The old beggar showed disdain when he heard about Rong Anhou Mansion, then looked Ao Shichu up and down and asked, "Who are you from Rong Anhou Mansion?" ?”

Ao Shiyan was just about to answer, when suddenly his sleeve was pulled by his sister, and then Ao Shichu said to the old beggar, "Enemy."

The old beggar sneered and said, "No wonder you are going to the beggar's den to find the old man's news about Rong Anhou's mansion! Rong Anhou's mansion has many enemies, what kind of enmity do you have with their family?"

"The family's field was taken by people from their house. My parents went to ask for an explanation and failed, but were beaten to death by their servants instead!" When Ao Shichu was speaking, he did not forget to show hatred, his eyes were red up.

When Ao Shiyan saw his sister's ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense, he was so surprised that his eyes widened. If he didn't know the truth of the matter and saw his sister's expression now, he would really think that his home was really robbed by the Rong'an Hou Mansion They ruined the fields and killed their parents.

The old beggar immediately believed it and said, "I'm not surprised that people in their mansion would do such a thing. In fact, you should not be the only one whose land was robbed by them."

"How many other people's fields have they occupied? How many families have been ruined? Could it be that no one can control them? Can the high officials and emperors in the capital have nothing to do with their houses?" Ao Shichu resentfully cursed .

The old beggar sneered and said, "Young man, haven't you heard of officials and officials protecting each other? The officials and lords are all in the same group, and the emperor is also in the same group..."

Ao Shiyan was so frightened that he quickly booed the old beggar and said, "Old man, you can't just say that casually!" Then he looked around vigilantly, for fear that if the old beggar's words were heard, the siblings would be in danger.

"Don't worry, no one will come here except beggars." The old beggar said, then paused, "except you."

"Old man, isn't there a good person in the Marquis of Rong'an's mansion? Even if there is a good person, he can't allow his family to do evil, right?" Ao Shichu continued to ask.

"Hmph, a nest of snakes and rats! A good man in the Marquis of Rong'an's mansion can't survive. The first eldest daughter-in-law of the Marquis of Rong'an is a good person, but unfortunately she didn't live long. She only gave birth to a son, who died when he was one year old. It's gone, and now her son doesn't know what's wrong, there's never been any news about it, so he's probably gone long ago..." said the old beggar.

Ao Shichu did not expect to be able to hear the secret of the Marquis of Rong An's Mansion. She thought about it carefully. After the original owner and her brother defected to the Marquis of Rong An's Mansion, it seemed that she had never heard that the current eldest daughter-in-law of Marquis Rong An was actually a stepwife, and that the original wife I have never heard of that son. Could it be that he really died a long time ago?

"Marquis Rong An himself is not a good person. The old man is still raising his wife at such a young age. He is really disrespectful!" The old beggar shouted again indignantly.