After killing Ding Hong, Xiao Yao put his fingers in his mouth and blew a loud whistle.
After a while, Lu Shaolin heard the whistle and rushed over.
"Look, who is this person?" Xiao Yao pointed to the dead body on the ground and said to Lu Shaolin.
Only then did Lu Shaolin see Ding Hong lying on the ground. He quickly rushed to Ding Hong, leaned over and stretched out his fingers, pressing down on Ding Hong's neck.
After a while, Lu Shaolin let out a long breath. He raised his head and said to Xiao Yao standing next to him: "Yes, that's him."
The stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, and Lu Shaolin said to Xiao Yao with a face full of joy: "Very good, you have made a great contribution."
"What do I need to do next?" Xiao Yao asked Lu Shaolin.
After Lu Shaolin thought for a while, he said to Xiao Yao: "If you can trust Mr. Lu, then continue to stay in the Beggar Clan.
Only you and I know what happened tonight.
King Cheng needs talents like you, and similarly, the Beggar Clan needs people like you.
If you can continue to be in the Beggar Clan, it will be more useful than following me.
As for future contact, I will come to you. If there is something urgent, you can also come to Hangzhou to see me."
"Okay." After Xiao Yao heard what Lu Shaolin said, he didn't mention anything else. He nodded and left alone.
When I was riding on horseback just now, I didn't know how to ride a horse, and my shoes were too loose. One of the worn shoes on Xiao Yao's feet fell off. Now one foot has a shoe and the other is bare. There are some unevenness on the road.
So Xiao Yao simply took off his other worn shoe and threw it away. He identified the direction while walking, and finally reached the official road.
Afterwards, Xiao Yao walked along the official road for dozens of miles with bare feet, and it was almost noon when he arrived outside Luoyang City.
Sleepy and tired, Xiao Yao finally returned to the shabby shack where he lived. He opened a door made of wood, then bent down and got in. Then he fell on the rotten straw mat and fell into a deep sleep.
Xiao Yao woke up after not knowing how long he slept. When he opened his eyes, he looked at the sunlight leaking through the cracks in the roof. It was already afternoon.
"Brother Xiao Yao, you're awake." A girl's voice sounded in his ears.
Xiao Yao turned over and sat up. He looked around and saw that all the little beggars who usually huddled here were gone, leaving only a little beggar named Lihua.
"Where are Lihua, Sizhu, Tieshan and the others?" Xiao Yao asked Lihua.
"They went out to beg for food." Lihua said to Xiao Yao.
When Xiao Yao heard this, he immediately became furious. He shouted angrily at Lihua: "Didn't I tell them not to go out alone?"
Many people know that it is difficult for beggars to survive, but they do not know that it is even more difficult for little beggars to survive.
There were many little beggars who disappeared while walking in the alley.
There are some extremely vicious beggars. When they want to eat meat, they don't care what kind of meat it is.
No one cares about a beggar. A beggar is worse than a dog with an owner. In unknown corners, many beggars just disappear.
What's even more frightening is that these guys only prey on living people and don't eat dead bodies.
It must be said that this should be an excellent survival experience: it can effectively avoid contracting any strange diseases.
(This is the true memory of many old people about the old society. When I was a child, they used this to scare me, so that I was afraid of beggars when I saw them since I was a child.)
Therefore, when Xiao Yao heard that all the beggars had gone out, his anger immediately rushed to the top of his head.
After sulking alone for a while, Xiao Yao felt that he should not lose his temper with the most well-behaved Lihua, so he suppressed his anger with the guilt in his heart.
"Brother Xiao Yao, come and eat." Lihua handed a broken bowl to Xiao Yao, which contained half a piece of hard black bun.
"Come on, Lihua, you eat, brother Xiao Yao is not hungry." Xiao Yao pushed the hard black bun in front of Lihua, and Lihua shook her head and said repeatedly.
"Brother Xiao Yao, eat quickly, you must be hungry." Lihua insisted on giving the black bun to Xiao Yao, and said, "You have been sleeping for two days."
!!!
Xiao Yao was shocked. He turned over and said to Lihua: "Lihua, how long do you think I have been sleeping?"
Lihua said to Xiao Yao: "You have been sleeping for two days."
Xiao Yao was shocked after hearing what Lihua said.
Xiao Yao is not a sleepy person, and he has been practicing martial arts for many years, so he is very familiar with his body functions. He just felt that he took a nap for so long.
How is that possible?
Xiao Yao realized immediately that when he returned to the city during the day today (yesterday), his state was very wrong.
At that time, Xiao Yao only felt very sleepy, sleepy to death. He relied on forcibly operating his internal energy to withstand the sleepiness and not fall down.
However, after all, he had stayed up all night and walked dozens of miles, so Xiao Yao did not realize that he was unusually sleepy.
After Xiao Yao returned to the shack, he relaxed on the mat and fell asleep almost instantly.
Xiao Yao realized that he had been poisoned by some kind of smoke. This kind of smoke should be colorless and odorless and could make people fall into drowsiness after inhaling it.
Xiao Yao thought about it again, and he knew how he got into the smoke.
What a Ding Hong, if I had listened to him say a few more words, I might have been the one who died last night.
If Xiao Yao guessed correctly, Ding Hong should be talking to himself in ventriloquism. When he stood up from the bushes, he had a smoky nozzle in his mouth.
So, while Ding Hong was talking to attract his attention, he was blowing smoke on himself gently, making Xiao Yao unknowingly poisoned.
What a vicious person.
Xiao Yao is the spy who knows how to have a double identity and how good he can be.
Perhaps, if it were Xiao Yao in the past, he might really be hesitant after listening to Ding Hong's words, and even have to argue with Ding Hong for a few more words.
So you are bound to be fooled.
Fortunately, Xiao Yao was so angry last night that he didn't listen to Ding Hong's nonsense and slapped him to death, otherwise.
After figuring out the cause and effect, Xiao Yao sighed and shook his head.
Xiao Yao found that he was really ridiculous. On the way back, he still felt a little sad about Ding Hong's death.
After all, Ding Hong died on duty, he just did what he should do.
This was not Xiao Yao's first time killing people, but the ones he had killed before were all damned villains.
Today was the first time that he killed a person with no evil deeds because of different ideas (Xiao Yao didn't know about Ding Hong's torture of the Beggar Gang disciples).
So, on the way back to Luoyang, Xiao Yao, with his groggy head, was reflecting on whether his behavior today was inappropriate.
Haha, hahaha!
Ridiculous, ridiculous, so ridiculous.
Xiao Yao laughed so hard that tears almost came out. After wiping them with his hands, he sat on the bed and gently hugged Lihua next to him.
He finally took that step and became a castrated dog that everyone despised, but for these children, he needed to find a good place for them.
…
Xiao Yao gently held Lihua in his arms.
Pear Blossom is very light because her body is only the upper half.
Lihua was plundered from her hometown by the person who photographed her. She didn’t know where her hometown was, she only knew it was called Gouzitun.
After those people robbed Lihua, they took her everywhere to beg. In order to get more money, those people cruelly broke Lihua's leg and refused to treat her, deliberately letting the injured leg fester.
After Lihua's left foot became useless, they broke Lihua's right foot again until both of her useless legs were chopped off with a knife, leaving Lihua without a leg.
After Xiao Yao arrived in Luoyang City, he was mistaken by the group of people for being a colleague who was trying to grab territory.
After beating away the group of evil beggars, Xiao Yao realized that they had left such a group of children behind.
So, Xiao Yao took the children to beg on the streets of Luoyang. He also knew that this was not an option until that day when Xiao Yao saw Huang Xiaoshi.
Holding Lihua in his arms, Xiao Yao thought about many things. He understood that the person he is today is no longer the person he was yesterday.
Yesterday I could spend all my energy and time on small benevolence and small righteousness, but today I must do greater things.
In the evening, at the entrance of Shennong Baicao Gate.
The beggar who came on time to get food a few days ago came again today.
"Hey, little brother, you came a little late today. I thought you wouldn't come again." The doorman said to Xiao Yao very kindly.
Anyone who can serve as a gatekeeper will not be a person without discernment. This gatekeeper can tell that this person has an extraordinary relationship with the Huang Clan Master.
"Excuse me, is Master Huang here? Please let me know, Xiao Yao wants to see you." Xiao Yao said to the doorman.
After a while, Xiao Yao was invited into Shennong Baicao Gate by his disciples.
"Master Huang, I, Xiao Yao, have thought about it a lot, and I have no choice but to ask you for help." Xiao Yao said to Huang Xiaoshi with sincerity.
Then, Xiao Yao told Huang Xiaoshi his request, and Huang Xiaoshi sighed heavily.
Xiao Yao's heart tightened when he heard Huang Xiaoshi sigh.
Xiao Yao also knew that even for a large portal like Shennong Baicao Sect, if there were twenty mouths to open at once, there would definitely be a lot of pressure.
Huang Xiaoshi sighed, not sighing about anything else, but sighing about the world.
They say that when a building collapses, the world is turned upside down. In fact, the situation does not deteriorate from peace to the point where people can no longer survive.
The development of worldly affairs is bit by bit, bit by bit, slow and unstoppable, as if there is an invisible hand pushing behind it.
Being in the middle of the situation and not knowing the situation, when many people finally discovered to their shock that the world was in ruins, the situation was actually corrupted and no one could turn the tide.
There is not much time left for yourself.
If you can't get the key to the temple and leave here, you have to be prepared to survive in troubled times.
What Huang Xiaoshi said to Fang Yunhua that day was all the truth from the bottom of his heart.
As long as you can return to your own world, even if you don't have hundreds of millions of wealth, it will be a peaceful world with extremely abundant material resources, and even dogs will live with more dignity than the people here.
After sighing, Huang Xiaoshi nodded, and said to Xiao Yao: "I will take over what Brother Xiao has asked me to do."
Xiao Yao stood up and saluted Huang Xiaoshi, then turned and left.
After walking out of the Shennong Baicao Gate, Xiao Yao returned to the outside of the beggar's shack and hid in the dark until he saw Huang Xiaoshi leading several disciples into the smelly shack and raising a string of small beggars like catching mice.
Son.
After everyone dispersed, Xiao Yaofang emerged from the darkness. He knelt down in the direction of Shennong Baicao Gate and kowtowed three times.
Xiao Yao then stood up and followed the last wave of people out of Luoyang City while the city gate was not yet closed.
…
In the hall of Shennong Baicao Gate, more than twenty children were standing in several rows, waiting nervously for Huang Xiaoshi's announcement.
After these little beggars were captured, Wang Pingzui, who used to be a knife maker (pig groomer), came over with a sharp butcher's knife.
Wang Flatmouth first caught the frightened babies, then pushed them to the ground, then stripped off their clothes and shaved their heads, and finally threw them all into a bucket of hot water filled with medicine.
After soaking once, washing twice, and flushing three times, after finally getting clean, there was someone nearby to check the health of these little beggars.
Finally, there was a big pot of stewed and heated rice. The children who were full after eating finally gradually lost their panic, and then they were sent to the hall.
Huang Xiaoshi listened to Lao Zhang's report. There were twenty-five beggars in total, including eight boys and seventeen girls.
Among these twenty-five children, the youngest is a girl named Lihua who is only five years old, and the oldest is twelve years old and is named Si Zhu.
What makes Lao Zhang feel troublesome and embarrassed is that all these little beggars are disabled people.
Because it is easier for disabled people to win sympathy, and children with disabled bodies can win more sympathy, so each of these little beggars has varying degrees of disability, from disfigurement, broken hands to broken legs.
The most severely disabled person was the little girl named Lihua.
"What a sin, what a sin!" Lao Zhang sighed and kept shaking his head.
Huang Xiaoshi has no experience in dealing with this kind of thing.
But since it was entrusted by Xiao Yao, and since he agreed so readily, he must be the only one responsible to the end.
After Huang Xiaoshi stood up, he said to these beggars: "My name is Huang Xiaoshi, and I am the sect master here.
I was also born as a beggar, so I know the suffering of beggars.
Nothing else, I think it would actually be better for you to die early and be reincarnated early.
This world is not worth your nostalgia."
When Huang Xiaoshi said this, the other disciples standing in the hall felt a little embarrassed.
Huang Xiaoshi is telling the truth.
Looking at this large number of beggars, Huang Xiaoshi felt that his life was really good.
If he were "reincarnated" into such a mutilated body, or if he didn't meet Gong Guangjie but met Paihuazi first, then his life would really be worse than death.
Oh, no way.
If Gong Guangjie hadn't appeared at that time, Huang Xiaoshi would have killed himself.
In this world, life is not easy for everyone. It is only after joining the Shennong Baicao Sect that life becomes easier.
It is not an easy task for capable people with sound hands and feet to really live a good life.
And these beggars are all disabled.
Not to mention how to grow up, even if they grow up, they may not be of much use. There will be more hardships waiting for them in the future.
For them, life has long lost its sweetness, and all that remains is bitterness, and more bitterness.
Xiao Yao grew up in a beggar gang. Although he was taken care of by the gang leader, he also knew how cruel the real life of a beggar was.
Even Xiao Yao now often goes hungry because he can't get food.
If you don't want to go hungry, you have to exploit other weaker beggars.
Many beggars not only have enough food and clothing, but also wear gold and silver. However, every bit of wealth they possess is squeezed out of the beggars by throwing them into a millstone of flesh and blood.
The evil of the beggar's head is too numerous to describe.
The main function of the beggar gang is to restrain these beggars, so that they don't do too many evil things, don't do things too cruelly, and find ways to make more beggars live longer.
However, even if there is no beggar head, how long can an ordinary beggar live?
So Xiao Yao bit the bullet and came to Huang Xiaoshi, hoping to give these little beggars a way to live, a real way to live.
…
"Lao Zhang. We have a branch in Luoyang. How much money can we get from a share of red every year?" Huang Xiaoshi asked Lao Zhang.
Lao Zhang opened his mouth and said without even thinking: "The dividend at the end of last year was 482 yuan."
"So much?" Huang Xiaoshi was stunned for a moment. Has inflation reached this level?
"How much does it cost to raise a child per year? Is two thousand enough?" Huang Xiaoshi asked Lao Zhang and others.
When Huang Xiaoshi asked, everyone spoke one after another. Some said it was enough, some said it was not enough. Huang Xiaoshi listened and said more.
"Okay, that's it." Huang Xiaoshi said to Lao Zhang, "Pull out some dry shares from my stock (only dividends), give four shares to each child, and then take away whoever you like.
It doesn't matter whether you are an adopted son, an apprentice, a child bride, or a self-supporting wife.
Whoever accepts it will get the dividends from the shares, and will raise them until the child dies, and then I will withdraw the shares.
We agreed in advance, first come first served, once purchased, no returns."
When Huang Xiaoshi said this, everyone in the hall burst into laughter.
"Okay, let's start choosing." Huang Xiaoshi said this, and the disciples rushed to grab the child.
The question of whether two thousand dollars is enough to raise a child is like asking a college student whether two thousand dollars a month is enough for living expenses.
There are definitely some college students who say enough, and some who say not enough.
But if it is the parents who make mandatory budgets and expenditures, the money will definitely be enough. Not only is it enough, but there is also a surplus.
In the end, all the children were robbed, except for the pear blossom whose lower limbs were missing.
"Look at you, you are too picky. You have picked out all the good ones, leaving me with this top one." Huang Xiaoshi teased rudely at the disciples who had snatched the children, and then he turned around and looked at "Last night's meal"
Old Xu fell down when he was drunk, and then said: "Old Xu, you are going back to Shuzhong. Otherwise, will you accept this well-behaved girl?"
When Lao Xu heard this, he hurriedly took a few steps out to pick up Lihua, nodded and bowed to Huang Xiaoshi, and said: "I have four sons at home, and I just need a daughter. I will take this daughter in. From now on, I am her father."
, if I have a bite to eat, I will never treat this child badly."
Seeing Lao Xu like this, the uninformed disciples burst into laughter.
Outside the Shennong Baicao Gate, which was full of laughter, there were countless beggars clinging to each other to keep warm and resist the severe cold in early spring.
