Seeing the confused look in Xu Luo's eyes, Yang Liang smiled bitterly.
“This area was originally the site of the Man Mo Temple and the Empress Dowager’s Concubine in the old city. A few decades ago, it was still very popular and crowded with people.
But the situation has become increasingly dilapidated in recent years, and the people can hardly even fill their stomachs. How can they still have the money and food to pay homage to those clay and wooden statues?
The prince was worried about how to accommodate the increasing number of refugees, so he simply packed them all here, out of sight but out of mind!
As time goes by, this place has become a place where refugees gather, and now, even us head catchers are reluctant to run here."
At this time, two people and a car had passed the corner.
A middle-aged man with a dirty face and disheveled hair was holding a half stick and banging on a wooden door. Watching the two people coming, he smashed it twice more, and then looked at the two people helplessly.
To be precise, he looked at the public uniform Yang Liang was wearing.
"Look! That's it. For these people who are homeless and whose family members are all dead, they would like to be taken into prison by us. At least there will be no wind or rain. After all, they still have a mouth to eat. They will definitely not starve to death.
!”
Xu Luo's eyes became cold, and with just one glance, the middle-aged man shuddered involuntarily.
The big car slowly passed by him, and then drove away. But until the big car drove far away, Xu Luoruo felt something and looked back.
I saw the middle-aged man, still standing by the wall like a clay and wood sculpture, watching the cart go away as if he was watching the only hope go away, and did not move for a long time...
Yang Liang let out a long sigh and said no more.
He couldn't help these people, not even Xu Luo, not even the county government!
But in his heart, the world shouldn't be like this, and he couldn't figure out what went wrong.
"Why, you can't figure it out?"
Xu Luo put away his somewhat complicated emotions and looked at his distressed look. He first chuckled and then sighed.
“I come from a small place, and although the days in my memory are not good, as long as I have hands and feet and don’t collapse on the bed, at least no one around me will be hungry.
Although most of the children are sallow and thin, they can finally grow up safely, but why can't they do it in the county? Is this popular and cultural place more dangerous than the wilderness outside the city? "
Seeing Yang Liang frowning as if in deep thought, Xu Luo smiled coldly again.
"In other words, I'm asking you, how many of your so-called brothers are married, have families, and have settled homes, why don't they become like this?
Although the situation in this world is getting worse day by day, the imperial court is still taking care of some things.
The Quanye Division has never closed its doors. It's no problem to find jobs to fill their stomachs. Why don't they go?
Now tell me, is such a person worthy of your pity?"
Quanyesi is a yamen that was born only more than ten years ago. It was specially established by the Yan Dynasty court to serve the increasing number of poor and unemployed people in various places.
Although most of them are hard work that serious people don't want to do, there is still no problem in hanging around.
This is one of the reasons why Xu Luo still has a good impression of Dayan until now.
Yang Liang touched his head and suddenly grinned.
"I still can't figure it out, but since Mr. Luo said that these people are not worthy of pity, why am I still struggling? It's better to think about how to earn more silver baht and marry Hehua home. That's the real thing!"
Xu Luo was stunned for a moment, and then he slapped his buttocks with the cane in a dumbfounded manner.
"Hurry up and lead the way. I still need to fight the monsters tomorrow. Find someone as soon as possible so that I can go back and rest early."
Thinking of this, his expression suddenly turned cold and solemn, and he looked back at the alley the two of them had just walked out of.
"Have you ever checked whether there is a mixed bag of good and bad people in a place like this? Is there anyone who is eager to engage in the despicable business of picking and harvesting vegetables?"
"It was there before, but it's definitely not happening now!"
Yang Liang didn't know what he thought of, and his voice was slightly murderous.
"A few days ago, I took my brothers and chopped off the hands and feet of several people. I just cleaned them. Damn it, if you don't want to be a human being, then don't do it!"
Xu Luo was also startled by his sudden murderous intent, and then nodded with satisfaction.
"Let's go! I remember that there are two more alleys ahead, which is Osmanthus Alley!"
If this is the case, I'm afraid this boy Shuju will be in some trouble!
Yang Liang nodded.
"Yes, if you pass the ruined temple in front of you, you should be able to see the brothers who are on guard duty at night. There is no one in these places at night, and I don't know what those bastards can do. It's just a pain for those brothers."
Broken temple?
Xu Luo thought to himself and said casually: "You can go to Tong'an Street later and pick up some wine and meat to send to you. Don't be reluctant to spend the silver baht given to you."
While the two were talking, a tall and majestic shadow appeared in front of them.
Xu Luo's eyes flashed, and he saw clearly that it was a large courtyard with three entrances. He couldn't help but feel a little strange, it didn't look like a temple at all?
"Are you sure this is a temple?"
Seeing his doubts, Yang Liang couldn't help but laugh too.
"This is indeed an earth temple, but its incense has long since faded. Even the temple's blessings have long since disappeared, and it has become a shelter for those foxes, rats and beasts.
It is overgrown with weeds and in disrepair. Most of the roof has collapsed. There are so many snakes, insects, rats and ants that even the homeless people in the city are unwilling to live there.
I heard that some people who did not believe in evil tried to spend the night in it, but they were bitten to death by snakes and insects the next day."
He only told it as a joke, but Xu Luo frowned, and his intuition told him that there was something wrong with it.
Xu Luo slowly stepped off the cart and came to the two red wooden doors swaying in the wind.
After so many years of exposure to wind and rain, the vermilion paint has long turned into a solidified dark red bloodstain.
The writings carved on the lintel were also blurry, and only two air-dead wind lanterns hung feebly on both sides. When the night wind blew, pieces of decayed white flakes scattered.
Xu Luo stretched out his palm and took some white scraps. After confirming that they were ordinary scraps of paper without any sinister aura, he gently opened the wooden door.
A white shadow jumped out of the gap in an instant, but the next moment, a heavy wooden crutch pressed it to the ground.
Chirp, chirp...
A little white fox bared its teeth and cracked its mouth at Xu Luo with a fierce expression, but when Xu Luo looked over with a cold look, he covered his eyes with his paws in fear and did not dare to make any sound again.
Xu Luo laughed silently, raised the wooden crutch and walked to the steps. The white fox took the opportunity to get back into the wooden door again and disappeared.
As Yang Liang said, the courtyard was full of chest-high thatch trees, so densely packed that it was airtight.
Xu Luo's eyebrows swelled, and the blue roots that no one could see spread like a spider web to the entire yard in an instant.
In an instant, the ever-present chirping of insects and ants in the yard disappeared.
After a while, he realized that there was indeed no abnormality in his spiritual perception, except that there were a little more snakes, insects, rats, and ants. Xu Luo then withdrew his spiritual consciousness and walked back to the cart step by step, secretly laughing at himself.
If I was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of straw ropes for ten years, maybe I really thought too much.