Otherworld Qin

Chapter 31 Chapter 35
When he approached Yongji City, his heart felt cold for a while. He saw that everyone who entered and exited the city gate was being interrogated one by one, and the leading officer was checking the portrait carefully. This made him hesitate, so Strict interrogation, if I am recognized, I am afraid that I will really fall into the trap.

Just as he was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly heard the officer yelling loudly, "Hey, come here. If you're right, let's talk about you. Hurry up and come here, or I will use force. Come, surround me." Sheng Xuan looked up. The officer was staring at him, and couldn't help but sink, could he have been discovered?It wasn't that the officer recognized him, but the notice stated that a child in his teens was being arrested, so these soldiers would pay extra attention once they found the child.

I saw a group of soldiers rushing over to surround him, the officer walked up swaggeringly, stretched out his hand and slapped him, Cheng Xuan pretended to be afraid and raised his arms to block the slap, suppressing his anger and pretending to obey Shrinking his head and looking down, "What's the matter, Mr. Jun?" "What's the matter? Didn't I see that I was interrogating the criminal? Why didn't you agree when I called you just now? You must have a ghost in your heart." "Mr. There are so many people, how do I know that Lord Jun is calling me?" The officer just slapped Sheng Xuan on the elbow, obviously he suffered a secret loss, but it was hard to tell in front of his subordinates, so he said fiercely, "What's your name?" "My name is..." Just as I was about to say my name is Ye Chengxuan, I suddenly remembered that I must never say this name, so what should I call it?Suddenly thinking of Qin Yang, "Qin Yang?" "Mother, speak up, what's your name?" , the officer looked him up and down a few times, saw that his clothes were ragged and covered in mud, and his face had already been painted with muddy water, so he couldn't help but kicked his ass and cursed loudly, "Look at you bear!" Such a name is quite powerful, get out."

Sheng Xuan just wanted to follow the crowd into the city gate, but was suddenly stopped by the officer, "Did you go through the gate? Go over there." He pointed with his finger, and saw a drainage channel next to the city gate. Usually there are wild dogs coming in and out, so it is also called the dog hole, "See, that's the place you should go, and the smelly beggars want to go through the gate." After speaking, a group of soldiers laughed and went back to the gate to continue to check. Cheng Xuan walked slowly to the dog hole and took a look inside, only to see that it was dark inside, and the ground was full of muddy water mixed with ice, but it was not difficult for him, so he simply squatted on the ground and muttered They crawled in after a few strokes, and immediately caused the soldiers to burst into laughter, "Damn it crawls faster than a dog, he is born to beg for food, hahaha." You can see that he must have been drilling dog holes a lot just now, otherwise it would be impossible for him to be so fast."

Shengxuan didn't care at all, entered the city, stood up and wiped the muddy water on his hands twice on the city wall, and then quickly walked towards the city, only to find that there were so many beggars in Yongji City, seeing him When entering the city, they raised their heads to look at him, as if they were always on guard against his movements, Cheng Xuan walked forward slowly and carefully, those beggars gradually lowered their heads when they saw him passing by, apparently afraid that he would steal their territory.

The guards passing by on the street from time to time also pay special attention to the teenage children. Fortunately, he was dressed as a beggar and did not pay attention to him. Be a beggar once.

Finally found a place that was not occupied by beggars, Sheng Xuan hurriedly squatted down, then drew a circle on the ground with his hands, and whispered in his mouth, "Mother and Mother, please be pitiful." Although his appearance is ragged, he is still very attractive I like it, after a while, someone actually came over, took a look at him and said, "Oh, he came out to beg for food at such a young age." He dropped a copper coin while he was about to pick it up, when suddenly he stepped on it "Do you understand the rules, kid?" As he spoke, he reached out and picked up the copper plate and put it in his arms. Sheng Xuan felt furious and raised his eyes, only to see a beggar squinting at him. The fleshy face was covered with a beard, and the scorched yellow hair on the top of the head was covered with sores. It was disgusting to look at, so I couldn't help but glared at the man, who knew that the beggar reached out and grabbed his collar, "Why don't you kid?" Convinced?"

At this moment, two beggars, one old and one young, came running beside, and the old beggar hurried forward with a smile on his face, "Master Lai, this kid is with me, so he didn't know the rules when he came here, so don't be surprised." Lai Ye's beggar turned his head and took a look, "Oh, so it's old Xiami, since he belongs to you, teach him well." After speaking, he threw Sheng Xuan on the ground with a hard push, and then walked away.

The old Xiami came over and smiled, "Little brother, you're new here. That guy is not easy to mess with. You'd better stay away from him, otherwise you will be the one who suffers. Well, I'm leaving." The little beggar also came over and said "I'm Little Loach, you're new here, why don't you just follow Lao Xiami, he's very nice,,,,," Lao Xiami glanced at Little Loach, "You're the only one who talks too much, don't go fast, don't you want to be hungry? ?"

Shengxuan couldn't help being curious, seeing the two of them leaving, he also stood up and followed, "Old,,,, uncle, I'm not familiar with the place here, why don't you let me follow you." Old Xiami heard this He stopped, "This, this, alas, child, it's not that I don't want to take you, it's just that the two of us still don't have enough to eat, and you can only suffer if you follow me." "Are you afraid of suffering for begging? I want to follow Uncle is better than being bullied by others, and it’s better for us to eat together in the future.” Having said this, Cheng Xuan deliberately lowered his eyes with a sad look, as if tears were about to fall, and Little Loach said beside him "Yeah, old Xiami, anyway, we are already like this now, so you can agree to it." Old Xiami hesitated for a long time, "Oh, well, come along."

After saying this, he led them to turn around a corner, and sat down in a leeward place. Chengxuan looked around the environment and found that there were far fewer pedestrians on the street here, but the beggars were next to each other, so he couldn't help being curious. Asked in a low voice, "Uncle, there are so many beggars and so few pedestrians here, why don't we go over there?" Old Xiami smiled wryly, "You can just call me Lao Xiami, as you saw just now, that is Lai Ye's territory, Even if we go over there, everything we want will belong to him." Little Niqiu couldn't help but bawled, "What's wrong with you, that guy is a scumbag, and he can occupy such a large area with his own strength." Old Xiami pushed him quickly, "Stop talking, you go to the intersection over there and I will stay here with this little brother, hoping to get something to eat, remember to come back early."

Shengxuan was sitting there with Lao Xiami, begging and chatting with each other. Only then did he realize that the beggars in Yongji City were actually divided into several groups, one of which was the bruised head, and the other The stock is called Maoba, and the smallest is called Geliu. These three people occupy almost all the main streets in Yongji City. They have dozens of strong beggars under their command, so they want the most things and live the most comfortable life. In this contest, several of them have divided their ranges, and no one will cross the boundaries easily.

Until the evening, the three of them didn't ask for anything to eat, so Lao Xiami couldn't help but sighed, "Oh, we're going to be hungry together again today." He said and stood up, "Okay, let's go back." Shengxuan felt strange, " There are still people on the street now, why don’t you ask for a little longer?” Little Niqiu jumped over and said in a low voice, “You don’t know it when you’re new here, it’s very dangerous to beg for food at night, if you don’t pay attention, you will be gone.” “People are gone? Why not?" Old Xiami immediately became nervous and stretched out his hand to slap Little Niqiu lightly, "You are the only one who speaks fast, you are so hungry and you still have the strength to talk nonsense, hurry up." He said and led the two of them down the city wall.

In a dilapidated compound under the city wall, thousands of beggars had gathered at this time, and some people were fighting for a bite of food from time to time, but most of the beggars stayed in their places, and when they saw the old Xiami leading a newcomer back, they would Someone taunted, "Why does Lao Xiami want to return to a living person?" Lao Xiami laughed, "I met a poor child, so I brought it back. It's better than being bullied outside." Immediately someone beside him laughed and said, " Old Xiami, aren’t you just looking for trouble? Are you full? How dare you go back and pick someone up.” Little Niqiu didn’t like to listen immediately and wanted to argue with others, but Old Xiami grabbed him and said, “Don’t talk to him.”

Finally found a place near the wall, the three of them sat down next to each other, and then the old Xiami said, "The people here are all poor brothers. Although they don't speak well, they don't have any malicious intentions. If you come here, you have already left with Mamatou and the others, so you don’t have to suffer here.”

"Ah..." Hearing what Old Xiami said, the people around him sighed, and everyone lay quietly on the ground without speaking, but someone's stomach rumbled, and the sound seemed to be contagious, and immediately made everyone Everyone in the small film became hungry, so someone began to ask the people next to him, "Are you going to eat today?" "No, how about you?" I won’t have to worry about eating in two days.” “Why” “I’m starving to death.”

Little Niqiu sighed, "Oh, it's really easy to starve to death." Old Xiami slapped him lightly, "I'm not promising at such a young age, so I can't be better at it and learn some crafts to make a living by myself? I really intend to Do you want to live for a lifetime?" "Old Xiami, do you think there are any crafts that are easy to learn in this world? Our family used to have a few acres of land, but after a year, the grain harvested not only failed to pay the rent, but even the land was supplied to others. , the whole family can only beg for food, my parents are willing to sell to others as long-term workers in order to let me learn some skills, but after a few days of my learning, the shop has become yellow, and now even my parents don’t know where they are ,,,," Speaking of this little loach, the old Xiami also sighed, "Oh, who said otherwise, this Yongji is a place where grain is produced, but in the end the people here have to beg for food, I don't know When will the day end."

Hearing these words, Shengxuan couldn't help feeling sad for a while. It seems that Luojia Village is quite lucky. After all, it is located in a remote place, otherwise I might be like them. Suddenly remembering that there were still a few pieces of dry food in the ring, he secretly took out a piece and stuffed it I gave it to Lao Xiami, who was surprised when he saw it, "Where did you get it?" "I begged for it from other places a few days ago, and I can get it for a few days, so I haven't eaten it."

Old Xiami obviously attached great importance to this piece of dry food, and carefully held it in his hand for a long time before slowly handing it back, "This is precious food now, you should keep it for yourself, I don't think you have eaten anything today. "Little Loach stared at the dry food and was about to burst into flames, Sheng Xuan pushed the dry food back, "You guys should eat it, I'm fine." The old Xiami was immediately moved, "This, this..." Sheng Xuan Pointing at the little loach with his fingers, the old Xiami immediately understood and couldn't help but sighed, "Oh," then broke off a small half of the dry food and handed it to the little loach, and returned most of it to Shengxuan.

Although it was completely dark, the smell of the dry food still attracted hungry eyes from around. Seeing that Sheng Xuan didn't pick it up, the old Xiami was just about to stuff it in his hand, when suddenly a few hands stretched out beside him and snatched the dry food. When I went there, it was as if a hungry wolf had seen meat, and several beggars were fighting together.

Old Xiami spread his hand helplessly, and then carefully licked the dry food residue into his mouth, but Sheng Xuan patted him on the shoulder with a smile, "It's okay, life will get better."

After a whole night like this, the next day, the three of Shengxuan went to yesterday's place to beg early, but at the end of the day, they only got half a bowl of leftovers. It couldn't last for a while, seeing that the sky was getting dark again, Sheng Xuan finally couldn't bear it, excused going to the side for convenience, quietly took out a piece of silver as soon as he turned the corner, and went straight to a restaurant.

With his current status, he obviously can't go to the restaurant to buy things, so he walked around to the kitchen in the backyard, turned over and jumped in. Just in time, there was a basket of buns steaming on the stove. Seeing that there was no one around, Sheng Xuan hurriedly put the buns in a bag of basket cloth and put them in the storage. Jie, just when he was about to go out, he saw a roast chicken next to him, so he took it away politely, put the ingot of silver in a conspicuous place on the stove, thought for a while, then took out another ingot and put it there together. Only then jumped out of the restaurant.

Turning around and coming to the place where Lao Xiami was begging, the two of them were waiting for him to go back together, Sheng Xuan hurried over to pull them and ran into the alley, this surprised the two of them, and kept asking him What are you going to do, wait until there is no one around, then Shengxuan takes out the steamed stuffed bun and roast chicken, startled the little loach, opened his mouth wide and pointed at him, "You, how did you make it?"

Of course, Shengxuan couldn't explain it to him. He could only say that he didn't see it. In fact, he hid it here beforehand. The two of them were skeptical, but the temptation of buns was obviously greater than this point of doubt. Old Xiami stopped him, "Brother, although we are poor, we can't eat things that come from bad sources." Little Niqian had no choice but to put the buns back reluctantly.

Shengxuan talked for a long time, but the old Xiami refused to eat it. In desperation, he had no choice but to tell the truth, "Actually, I am not really a beggar, but I was forced to do so because of my enemies." He secretly took out a few Put the ingot of silver in the sleeve, and then took it out generously, "Look, I have silver on me, I bought these things myself, God will testify, if I stole these things, let me... ,"

Old Xiami hurriedly blocked his mouth, "Brother, I believe in you, I have already seen that you are not a beggar." Cheng Xuan smiled and pouted his mouth, only to see that the saliva of the little loach had already flowed down, "Let's eat quickly "Okay, eat." The three of them hurriedly worked together, and like a storm, they disposed of a roast chicken and a basket of steamed buns.

When the three of them returned to their residence after eating and drinking, they heard moans in the courtyard. Shengxuan hurriedly raised his vigilance and walked in carefully, but saw a bunch of beggars lying on the ground. A few of them were obviously beaten badly , hurriedly asked the old Xiami, "What's going on?" Here they come again." Saying that, the old Xiami lowered his head and rubbed his stomach with his hands in shame, obviously ashamed that he could eat enough but these brothers were beaten severely, and the little loach suddenly became furious, "These bastards, we will fight him. "Can you fight hard? Look at who they are? They are taken care of by officials. Even if they beat you to death, they don't have to pay for their lives."

A few people were talking and walked past a beggar, looked carefully, and saw that it was Lao Xiami, and then said, "Old Xiami is you, and this little brother is also there. Fortunately, you came back late, otherwise I'm afraid Both the little loach and this little brother will be taken away." Old Xiami hurriedly asked, "Why are they here to arrest people again?" "No, our children were taken away again, alas, it would be better It will save my worry to catch my old bones." Old Xiami sighed suddenly, "Oh, it seems that those children are in danger again."

Find an open space to sit down, and then Shengxuan asked, "Why are these people still arresting people? Could it be that they are extorting money?" "Extorting money? Do you think we have anything worth extorting?" It was sold to a big family, otherwise,,,,,, alas, there will be no good results." Then the old Xiami began to talk about this matter in detail, the reason why he asked Shengxuan for the first time Going back early at night is because Mamatou will lead people to catch those little beggars at night, and all the beggars caught have never been seen again.

Shengxuan couldn't help feeling chills when he heard this. There must be something strange about it. Now that he knew it, he should check it out, and his curiosity was aroused again. Although he didn't know exactly how to check it, the only thing he could do now was to give Treat these wounded people.

The big and small earthen pots and broken pots were quickly set up in the courtyard. Sheng Xuan quietly went out of the courtyard to take out all the herbs that could be used, and then resisted coming in from the outside, and then pressed Dose put various herbs into the cauldron, and soon a pot of medicinal juice was boiled out, and everyone helped to drink it for the injured beggars. Obviously, these medicinal juices are still very effective, and these people will no longer drink it. Pain, the concoction is hot soup at any rate, temporarily relieving their hunger, and everyone together lifted them to a leeward corner to let them have a good rest, and then hurriedly put out the fire, the city is controlled by candles, so it will be later I'm afraid it will attract the investigation of the city defense army.

Through this incident, Shengxuan's prestige has been improved a lot. All the beggars in the yard respected him a lot the next day, but only Lao Xiami and Xiao Niqian knew his identity to some extent, and the others just thought he was Very mysterious, not like a beggar and nothing more.

In the evening, Shengxuan tried to find a way to get back a batch of food, and distributed all the food to everyone according to the head, which immediately caused the compound to explode. These hungry beggars finally had a full meal, and they couldn't help but regard Shengxuan as Like a god, Sheng Xuan also felt the subtle feeling of being worshiped for the first time.

That night, Shengxuan summoned the people in the courtyard to express his thoughts, "Currently, most of our predicament is related to the gangsters, because our compound is under the jurisdiction of the gangster, so he will They came to us to arrest people. From the perspective of time, I think they are definitely not as simple as arresting people. There must be some conspiracy behind them. I want you to have the opportunity to contact several other beggar yards like ours and see what they are doing. What's the situation on the other side, if I'm not wrong, there must be a lot of young beggars taken away from them." Looking around, I saw some beggars whispering something to the side, and then they all raised their hands. He started to look at him, and then he continued, "Since this incident was caused by a few people, we will start to investigate from them. From now on, we will send people to watch them every day. I want to see what they are doing." What are you doing? Since we are all poor brothers, we need to help ourselves. From now on, what we beg for should be divided evenly, so that we can survive without starving to death. Only in this way can we free up manpower to keep an eye on the mottled people. I think everyone should agree."

Unexpectedly, no one objected, and not long after Shengxuan finished speaking, several prestigious old beggars had already arranged the manpower. I was quite surprised. It seems that there are many talents among the beggars. I don't know what surprises they will have next.

Sure enough, within a day, everything has been investigated clearly. There are three beggar courtyards in Yongji City, with a total of three to four thousand beggars. Every courtyard will regularly arrest some young beggars, and these people are very likely was handed over to the City Defense Army.

"City defense army?" Upon hearing this, Cheng Xuan suddenly felt that the problem was not that simple. If this matter had something to do with the city defense army, it might involve the general's residence, "General's residence? Could it be which little princess? Probably not, because catching beggars happened long before I came here, and the little princess has been chasing me at that time." Thinking of this, he couldn't help shivering, and then remembered that there was still this big enemy staring at him , it seems that we have to be extra careful in the future, otherwise we may run into it suddenly in the city one day, and it may be too late.

In the next few days, Shengxuan tried to avoid going out as much as possible, firstly, to avoid being discovered, and secondly, to heal his injuries as soon as possible. At the same time, he secretly arranged for someone to find a clean yard in Yongji City, because many houses were vacant due to the war. , so I bought a large compound with a little money, and then found a few reliable people to gather all the young beggars in the city secretly here, and let a few people put on clean clothes to take care of their food and drink every day, but absolutely They are not allowed to move around outside, so as not to be discovered.

Since they want to catch little beggars, it won't be long before they start again. When they find that there are no more little beggars in the city, they will search frantically. At that time, as long as they release the bait, they will naturally be fooled.

Sure enough, within a few days, they saw Mamatou, Mao Ba, and Ge Liu leading a group of people frantically searching. In order to find the little beggars, many beggars who were begging on the street were beaten, but they all They didn't say it out, not because of their loyalty, but because very few people knew about it. Even if they knew that they were hidden, they didn't know where they were hiding.

For the next two days, all the beggars in Yongji City were thrown into chaos, and groups of beggars could be seen frantically looking for them everywhere.

Chengxuan's injuries have also mostly recovered, and when he saw that the time had come, he swaggered onto the street. It was almost dusk at this time, and he happened to bump into the leprosy head. When he saw him, he immediately smiled, "How is the little brother today? How much did you buy?"

"You want to take care of it? Anyway, there is enough food and drink." He deliberately protected the broken bowl as he said, as if he was afraid that the other party would snatch it.

Lin Matou chuckled, "What's so delicious about those leftovers, why don't you take you to a good place like this, and keep the delicious and spicy ones for you."

"I'm not going." Saying that, Sheng Xuan ran away, and when he saw it, he immediately shouted "Chasing me." He led his men and chased after him.

(End of this chapter)