laughing saint

Chapter 4 One Night in the City

Yangcheng is surrounded by lights at night, everywhere is brightly lit, and everywhere is lively. On the small stalls along the street, all kinds of small accessories are very delicate and cute, but the prices are indeed extremely expensive.

Cute trinkets are always the favorite of cute girls. Of course, those girls who are not cute also love cute trinkets. The reason is very simple, because they hope to bring those little cuties to make the uncute cute. some.

Beside the girl, the boy who thinks she is cute is always very generous to pay for the trinkets she likes, and then he smiled coquettishly and said to the girl beside him: "You are so cute."

There are many such men and women on the streets of Yangcheng at night, and such affectionate men and women are also the favorite of little beggars like Chen Xiaofan.

Not long after Chen Xiaofan entered the city, he met such a pair of men and women. The woman was wearing a red peony dress, looking very luxurious, and the man beside him was wearing a black Hanfu, which set off his elegant elegance.

Chen Xiaofan walked towards the two of them, his waist was slightly lowered, his eyes revealed a look of pity.

Chen Xiaofan's skin is already fair, but he has entered the state of transformation, which makes his skin look more immature like a newborn baby. He has a handsome appearance, black eyes filled with hazy pupils, and at the age of 13, he really looks very good. Lovely.

"Sister, I haven't eaten tonight, it's so cold! You have to take pity on me, give me a few coins to buy something to eat." Chen Xiaofan didn't eat at night. Very real, because he really didn't eat.

The woman in red glanced at Chen Xiaofan, feeling pity from her heart, she said to the man beside her, "My lord, this kid is so pitiful!"

When Chen Xiaofan heard the woman's words, he secretly rejoiced, this is the rhythm for men to pay!So he performed even harder, and whispered in a slightly crying voice: "Big brother and big sister, take pity on me."

There was a slight tremor in the voice, and the trembling voice made it easy for the listener to think of the hunger and cold of the child in front of him.

The man glanced at Chen Xiaofan, although he didn't have much pity for young children, it was enough for him to love beauty, if the beauties around him said he was pitiful, then he was naturally pitiful.

The man said sympathetically, "Really poor kid."

The man casually took out a piece of broken silver from his clothes, handed it to Chen Xiaofan and said, "Hurry up and buy some food, let's add another piece of clothes."

Chen Xiaofan took the broken silver, his heart was naturally ecstatic, he weighed the broken silver in his hand probably weighed one or two pieces of silver, one or two pieces of silver was equivalent to a thousand copper coins!Can you not be surprised? !

Chen Xiaofan is a very professional beggar. He has been a beggar for as long as he can remember. He has been in the industry for a long time at a young age, so of course he knows when to say something.

Chen Xiaofan held the broken silver in his hand, his hands were shaking constantly, he was really excited, he raised his head, looked at the man with tears in his eyes and said: "Brother, you are really a good person, whoever will marry such a kind person in the future must be will be very happy."

When the man heard this, his face beamed with joy, and he thought to himself: "It's worth the money!"

The woman's cheeks were slightly red, and she looked even more charming under the red firelight.The woman looked at Chen Xiaofan with an innocent face, she felt that such an innocent child would not know how to lie, so the woman looked at the man with bright eyes, and really felt that the man in front of her was a hard-to-find mate.

Those who pay are happy, and those who receive money are also happy. This is a win-win situation!The win-win result is due to Chen Xiaofan's ability to specialize in art.

The god of luck will not come twice in a short period of time. Chen Xiaofan, who is contented and happy, decides to accept it as soon as he sees it. He goes to look for Li Dazhuang, tells him about meeting the big fish tonight, and shares the joy in his heart.

Chen Xiaofan walked a few streets and looked for a few lively avenues, all of which were places Li Dazhuang often went to, but for some reason he was nowhere to be seen.

"Could that guy be full at noon and sleep late at home at night!" After muttering in a low voice, Chen Xiaofan decided to go to Li Dazhuang's house.

No matter how prosperous every city is, there are always some rotten dark corners. In these unknown corners, there live rats and rat-like people who are used to darkness, and of course beggars are among these people.

Li Dazhuang's home is in a dilapidated mansion in Xicheng District. The dilapidated mansion is very large. Unfortunately, there are many people here, so it is a bit crowded. Li Dazhuang occupies a place in this dilapidated mansion. The real place can only be paved. A place for a straw mat.

Before Chen Xiaofan lived in the ruined temple, he also lived here, he was very familiar with everything here, smelling the not-so-familiar stench, Chen Xiaofan came to the place where Li Dazhuang was sleeping.

Li Dazhuang was lying on the straw mat for sleeping. Although the sky was very cold and the ground was cold, Li Dazhuang seemed to be sleeping soundly.

"Hey, why did you go to bed so early?"

As soon as Chen Xiaofan squatted down, he noticed Li Dazhuang's abnormality, because his very sensitive nose smelled bloody smell, and this smell came from Li Dazhuang's body.

Chen Xiaofan hastily shook Li Dazhuang's body, Li Dazhuang seemed to be in a deep sleep, Chen Xiaofan shook for a long time before he woke up with a hoarse grin.

"Easy! It hurts!~"

"What's going on? Isn't it all right at noon?"

"A broken leg."

Chen Xiaofan was taken aback, and hurriedly checked Li Dazhuang's legs with his hands, and found that his left leg was obviously deformed.

"Who did it?" Chen Xiaofan helped Li Dazhuang sit up.

"Those people like Cai San'er."

"Cai San'er and the others usually fight, but they have never shot so hard!" Chen Xiaofan felt a little surprised.

"Recently, they found two newcomers from nowhere. The new kid was very good at fighting and started occupying territory. He designated the streets where it was easier to get copper coins as their territory, and other beggars went there. To ask for a living, you have to pay them management fees, and if you don’t pay them, you have to beat them.” Li Dazhuang explained.

"When did it happen? I never heard you talk about it."

"It's just what happened two days ago." Li Dazhuang said halfway, and there was a heart-rending pain in his left leg, which made him croak.

"Okay, let's not talk about this first, I will help you find the doctor Zhizhi first."

"Look at the doctor, there is money there!"

"Don't worry, I have."

"Where did they come from?"

"I got it just now, so stop talking nonsense, I'll carry you." Chen Xiaofan carried Li Dazhuang on his back, and walked out of the dilapidated mansion.

Chen Xiaofan carried Li Dazhuang to Huang Langzhong's house two streets away. There was a shop in front of Huang Langzhong's house, and a place to eat and live in the back. The not spacious place exuded the smell of medicinal herbs.

Speaking of Huang Langzhong, the neighbors all say that he is good at medicine, he has good medical skills, the price is fair, and he has the smell of hanging pots to help the world.

Chen Xiaofan entered Huang Langzhong's store, put Li Dazhuang down and said: "Huang Langzhong, please take a look, my friend has a broken leg."

Huang Langzhong saw two children in ragged cotton clothes. He didn't ask them out because he was worried that they couldn't pay the consultation fee. Instead, he immediately stroked Li Dazhuang's left leg with his hand to check Li Dazhuang's injury.

After a while, Huang Langzhong said: "The broken place is too dislocated. If the treatment is timely, it can be recovered in about a month."

As soon as Chen Xiaofan heard that Li Dazhuang's leg problem was not serious, he said happily: "Mr. Huang, then I will trouble you to treat him with your skillful hands."

Huang Langzhong said calmly: "It is estimated that you will need five hundred copper coins for the consultation fee, but seeing that you are small, I will not charge you for the consultation fee, but the medicine fee cannot be saved, and it is estimated that it will cost 450 copper coins."

"Thank you doctor, we have the money, you can start the treatment." Chen Xiaofan replied.

"You are crazy, where did you get so much money?" Li Dazhuang was a little emotional when he heard that he wanted so much money, and Chen Xiaofan also promised to seek medical treatment.

"I told you that I just got it last night." Chen Xiaofan took out a piece or two of silver from his sleeve and handed it to Huang Langzhong.

Huang Langzhong usually has a lot of hooligans who come here for medical treatment because of being injured in fights. Of course, they have to pay for medical treatment, and some of these people's money comes from legitimate sources, so Huang Langzhong has developed a habit of collecting money for medical treatment and not asking much. Therefore, when he took Chen Xiaofan's money, he didn't care where Chen Xiaofan's money came from.

Huang Langzhong collected money to do business, and quickly found a piece of bamboo, split the bamboo into two pieces with a hatchet, clamped the broken part of Li Dazhuang's left leg with two pieces of bamboo, applied medicine to the red and swollen area, and then used a cloth strip to With the bamboo pieces fixed and tied, all movements were completed smoothly.

"Change the medicine every three days, and don't move around until the bamboo pieces are removed." Huang Langzhong ordered, returned Chen Xiaofan's 550 copper coins, and signaled them to leave.

Chen Xiaofan carried Li Dazhuang on his back and walked towards the dilapidated house. After walking for a while, Chen Xiaofan said: "Why don't you follow me to live in the temple. You won't be able to leave during this time. It's convenient for me to take care of you in the temple."

"Now the gate of the city is also closed at this time, I will let you go back to my place first, let's talk about it tomorrow morning."

Chen Xiaofan heard that Li Dazhuang still didn't want to live in the temple, so he persuaded him: "Living in the temple is really not a Taoist priest, you can marry a woman if you live in the temple."

Li Dazhuang was silent for a while and then said: "I really don't like Taoist priests."

"They said they didn't make you a Taoist priest! Why can't they always make sense!" Chen Xiaofan was a little annoyed.

"It's not that I should be a Taoist priest or not, but that I feel uncomfortable when I see a Taoist priest, and I hate it very much!" Seeing that Chen Xiaofan was annoyed, Li Dazhuang quickly explained.

"If I really become a Taoist priest, are we still friends?"

Li Dazhuang was silent for a long time, until he returned to the dilapidated house, he didn't speak again.

Chen Xiaofan always thought that when Li Dazhuang hated Taoist priests, he was just talking about it, but tonight he felt that Li Dazhuang really hated Taoist priests. Although he didn't know why, he could be sure that this hatred came from the heart.

An embarrassing question, the two little beggars were silent all night until the cocks and birds twittered.

(End of this chapter)