stubborn thief

Chapter 48 Veterans
There are many beggars in Fucheng, and Liu Chengzong, the beggar, has seen so many beggars that he saw beggars in Fushi City as if he had never seen them.

But this beggar is different. He wears a pair of mandarin ducks. Even if his black face is full of stains, he is mixed with a group of beggars and is driven away by Xiao Er, Liu Chengzong can still recognize it. It is the clothes of cavalry.

This jacket is red on the outside and black on the inside, with narrow sleeves on the top and knee-length on the bottom. It is the most basic military uniform in the Ming Dynasty.

There are four types of collars for soldiers, including cross collar, coil collar, round collar and square collar;

Infantry jackets have a large front, and cavalry jackets are designed with a pair of fronts for ease of riding on horses.

This clothes made Liu Chengzong, who took the thick wine from Cao Yao from the wine shop, pay attention to this person. Just four horses were tied outside the wine shop. He was afraid of losing it, so he came out with a wine pot and a wooden wine cup and sat down On the stable railing, drinking and watching.

The man was among the beggars, and it seemed that he was being ostracized. It was also possible that he did not want to be in the company of the beggars, and stood at the outermost part.

His face was thin and unkempt, his hair was unkempt, and his eyes were drowsy and ruthless.

He was beaten a few times by Xiao Er from the Zhijiu shop, and he didn't get angry and beat others, but just hid and squatted at the base of the wall where the sun was shining, staring straight at Xiao Er. After a long time, he got up again.

Liu Chengzong looked in the direction of his movements. It was a group of merchants who walked out of the inn opposite, and he followed the beggars to beg for food.

The more scarce the living resources, the higher the cost of being a good person. Especially in a disaster year when there are many poor people, one person can not save a group of people, not to mention that everyone has difficulties in these years, and very few people feel that they should help other people.

The two merchants and their entourage walked out of the inn during the conversation. Before they took two steps, they were surrounded by a group of beggars. They covered their noses and sighed to avoid them. copper coins.

It attracted all the beggars and rushed to the ground to pick them up. The man also wanted to squeeze forward, but he couldn't compare to the beggars who were united. Carefully blow clean on hands and place into chest.

"Brother, look at Sa, why don't you go in?"

Seeing Chengyun coming out, Liu Chengzong recovered his senses, watched his cousin happy, patted him and said, "Go to the shop to buy some dry food, I'll use it."

Cheng Yun didn't know what the second brother was going to do, but he nodded in response, and walked quickly into the tower opposite the tower. After a while, he took out a package of steamed cakes and said, "Brother, the store's dry food is only cakes, it's a bit cold, I want to Don't let the shopkeeper get hot on the fire?"

Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said, "No need, get me some more silver."

After saying that, he took the paper bag and held it in his hand, asked for another five coins and broken silver, divided it into two parts in his waist bag, and walked towards the man.

"Are you a soldier?"

The man didn't know what Liu Chengzong was aiming for, so he stepped back slightly, bowed his neck, nodded and smiled, "General, this little old man has been a soldier."

His bowing action made Liu Chengzong see a hole in his right ear exposed in his messy hair, and he was more convinced of his identity as a soldier.

This is a sign of punishment in the army. A bow and arrow are used to pass through the ears. It is usually used to punish soldiers who drink alcohol, fight, and destroy common people's fields. However, only generals with extremely strict military discipline will use it.

"Where did you become a soldier, how did you become a beggar?"

"Beggar? I'm not a beggar."

This man took his words very seriously, but he seemed a little embarrassed after he finished speaking, and whispered: "Just pick up a couple of coins, I worked as a force in Shunyangmen, and I didn't live for several days. I can only go to the city to pick up something."

After hearing this, and contacting this person just now, Liu Chengzong understood.

No wonder the beggars pushed him away. The beggars were not pushing him, but he was robbing the beggars of their labor.

Bowing, he did not bow to others; kowtow, he did not kowtow to others; when people took the money and threw it on the ground, he leaned over and picked it up.

"Why don't you let you push the cart?"

The man stretched out his left hand and smiled. The smile was a bit complicated. The dirty hand was missing a thumb, which made even the most ordinary movements seem terrifying: "Actually, I can do it, but they think they can't push it."

"Have you fought Beilu?"

The man bowed his head and smiled, and didn't say any more. Seeing that he didn't want to say anything, Liu Chengzong didn't force him to ask. live."

His action stunned the man, and it took a moment for him to react. He quickly thanked him and asked, "Which battalion is the general commander?"

"I'm not a general, the armor of the past."

After that, seeing Cao Yao and Lu Bin drinking from the wine shop, and waiting for him at the door of the inn with Chengyun, they clasped their fists and said, "I'm Min Zhuang of Heilong Mountain in Beixiang, Liu Chengzong, let's just say goodbye."

Walking to the front of the inn, Cao Yao sneered: "Little Lion, you are quite kind. I think he is a soldier. If you give him pancakes, you will not be able to save him for a lifetime. If you really want to help him, you should give him a knife."

Cao Yao's brain is not the same as a normal person, which made Liu Chengzong smile: "You are afraid that the world will not be in chaos, why should I give him a knife, he wants to live a stable life.

In the south of the city, Lifu came to beg for food when he couldn't make a living, and gave him a knife to make him kowtow like Guo Zashi did? "

According to Liu Chengzong, he helped the veteran, and it had nothing to do with the veteran, but only with himself. He saw his own reflection in that person, so he wanted to help.

As for Cao Yao's intermittent gangster thinking, he should not have heard it.

A few people entered the inn, and their own little Er led them to the backyard to transport the room that was booked early.

Fushi County is a mountain city. The connecting room of the tower building is not upstairs or in the pavement. It has to pass through the backyard of the inn where the millstone is placed next to the warehouse. It is a cave dwelling. On the hillside next to the cave dwelling, there is enough firewood for half a year.

The kiln entrance is tall and deep inside, and the top is reinforced with thick log beams. Half of the kiln is a large earthen kang, and there are several thin mattresses on the bed.

In addition, there is only a wooden bucket on the stool behind the door.

"This room is really fucking for sleeping."

Cao Yao laughed, knocked and moved, and finally sat cross-legged on the kang, saying, "There is nothing but the bed!"

"It's good to sleep in a room. It's strange that you have tossed around in the old temple in the mountains for so many years, and you still pay attention to the place to sleep?"

Liu Chengzong's words made Cao Yao's mouth deflated: "What, I'm digging holes in the soil and rolling in the mud, so I don't want to live a good life?"

"Okay, okay, live a good life, go back to the cave behind my house and have a good life with my sister-in-law for a few days.

I'll roll around in the land of Laomiaozhuang by myself..." Liu Chengzong sat down on the edge of the kang with a smirk, frowned and waved his hands: "Chengyun, waiting for him to count 24 households of refugees to consume food, where to go up? "

He didn't notice.

However, Cao Yao had some guesses, so he leaned forward and said, "I really have to keep my mouth shut in the future. Most of the time it's your brother who listens to me and goes to chat with the shopkeeper to avoid suspicion."

(End of this chapter)