Chapter 108 Beggar
Jiang Shu and Tan Yu turned around and were surprised to see Zhui Yun Yuzheng and the others.
"Why are you here?"
Yu Zheng stepped forward and said, "We are here to do something, why are you here?"
"Tan Yu's money bag was robbed by a little beggar, and we followed him here." After Jiang Shu finished speaking, he caught a glimpse of Zhao Manying behind Yu Zheng.
This was the first time Jiang Shu saw a woman walking beside Yu Zheng, so he was inevitably curious.
In particular, this woman has a graceful figure and a beautiful face. She is a rare beauty.
His apricot eyes darkened, and Jiang Shu suddenly felt a little clogged in his heart.
"I didn't expect that the prince has friends in Lin'an Mansion, but the accent sounds like they are from Beijing?" Zhao Manying looked at Jiang Shu with the same curiosity.
After following Yu Zheng for several days, this was the first time she saw Yu Zheng talking to someone so pleasantly.
The relationship between this man and Yu Zheng must be extraordinary.
This person's delicate features and slender figure, coupled with Zhuiyun's voice of "Miss Jiang", Zhao Manying already had a guess in her mind.
"It has nothing to do with you." Yu Zheng's words contained a warning as he glanced at Zhao Manying with a cold look.
In one sentence, he showed his relationship with the two people.
It not only made Zhao Manying understand the importance of Jiang Shu, but also made Jiang Shu understand the unimportance of Zhao Manying.
Zhao Manying was bored and said no more.
At this time, the investigating guard came back: "My boss, there are five abandoned houses in the alley, and they are all occupied by beggars."
"What?" Jiang Shu was surprised.
Lin'an Mansion is really strange. Beggars are everywhere, but they still live in the same alley.
Yu Zheng and others were equally surprised and decided to go find out together.
The group walked into the alley and looked in through the open door. Those sitting, standing or playing in the courtyard were all beggars in their early teens.
Jiang Shu looked shocked and asked puzzledly: "Why are there so many beggars in Lin'an Mansion?"
Yu Zheng came to An Mansion for the first time and didn't know much about this matter. The group looked at Zhao Manying.
Zhao Manying sighed and looked at the scene in the courtyard with an unbearable expression: "Floods occur almost every year in the south of the Yangtze River. They are all children who survived the floods but unfortunately lost their parents and relatives. They can only make a living by begging."
"I heard someone said that there is a Beggar Alley in Lin'an Prefecture. It used to be a residential alley, but later a massacre occurred in the alley. The people who lived there said it was haunted, so they all moved away."
"Later, these homeless beggars all gathered here and turned the ghost alley into a beggar alley."
Although she had heard about it before, Zhao Manying saw it for the first time today.
The shock of seeing it with one's own eyes is completely different from hearing it in an understatement.
The abandoned houses were dilapidated and the courtyards were overgrown with weeds. The children, who couldn't bear the lack of food, randomly pulled the weeds and put them in their mouths to chew in an attempt to relieve their hunger.
These children were half-clothed, unkempt, and some even had no shoes and were running around barefoot.
But they know how to hug each other for warmth and cling to each other. The eldest children took the initiative to take care of the younger ones, bought food with the money they collected, and cooked porridge to share with them.
"They are so young and they are victims of the disaster. Doesn't the governor of Lin'an Prefecture care about them?" Jiang Shu's eyes turned red and he couldn't bear it.
"Who cares? Why don't you care?" Zhao Manying mocked: "This Beggar Lane is the shelter given to them by the governor, and they will be given a bag of disaster relief food every month."
"A bag of food every month?" Tan Yu suspected that she heard wrongly.
With so many children, how many days can one bag of food last? No wonder they want to beg and rob.
A sneer appeared on Zhao Manying's lips: "For corrupt officials, giving them a bag of food and a place to stay is already a great kindness."
Even moldy old food or a haunted abandoned house are life-saving straws for these beggars.
Jiang Shu walked to the deserted house at the end of the alley and saw the little monkey teasing him in front of Lingyin Temple, and the little beggar whose bowl was broken by her trampling.
She walked in and called out softly: "Little monkey."
The little monkey who was making porridge over a fire was startled and jumped up like a frightened bird. The little beggar who was sitting on the ground counting money was also frightened. He quickly put the money bag into his arms and protected it tightly.
"What are you doing here?"
The little monkey used his thin body to block a group of children and stared at Jiang Shu and his group with vigilance.
Few people come to Beggar Alley on weekdays. Now that Jiang Shu and the others are in such a big group, combined with the little beggar who just ran back in a hurry, the little monkey already understands what is going on.
He knew something was wrong, but there was no other way to survive.
Seeing the panic and fear of the little monkey and others, Jiang Shu tried his best to soften his voice and said: "I'm not here to embarrass you, but there are valuable things in that purse, and you have to return it."
The little monkey felt very funny after hearing this. The money bag was full of money, how could it not be valuable?
After taking a look at the clothes of Jiang Shu and others, the little monkey said angrily: "You all come from a wealthy family. That little money means nothing to you. Why don't you let us go?"
"I told you there is something important in it, don't you understand?" Tan Yu is not as good-tempered as Jiang Shu.
It was true that she sympathized with these little beggars and could give them all the money, but the earrings her mother left for her must be returned.
"Chasing the clouds, chasing the wind." Yu Zheng ordered.
The two men immediately stepped forward and took back Tan Yu's money bag from the little beggar who was guarding his chest with a guilty conscience.
"What are you doing? A group of adults are bullying children. It's shameless. Why don't you give it to us..."
When a group of beggars saw their money bags flying away, they were sad and angry, and tried to snatch the money bags back from Zhui Yun with red eyes.
In desperation, Zhufeng pulled out the hook from his lower back and threatened in a fierce voice: "Don't blame me for being rude if you use your hands or feet again!"
A group of beggars were frightened and huddled together, not daring to move.
Zhuiyun handed the money bag to Tan Yu: "See if the things are still there."
Tan Yu poured out everything in the bag and picked out a silver earring and several silver notes from a pile of copper coins and broken silver.
Putting the earrings and banknotes back into her purse and keeping them away, Tan Yu gave all the money in her hands to the little monkey.
"The earrings are a relic left to me by my mother, and the money bag was embroidered for me by my sister, so I can't give it to you. There is also a banknote, do you know what it is? You can't exchange it at all, it's just a piece of waste paper." "
After hearing this, the little monkey and the others became less angry and still stared at them warily.
"Although your feelings are merciful and excusable, blackmailing people and stealing is wrong after all." Jiang Shu warned with sincerity.
Fortunately, it was them who met him, otherwise they would definitely have been beaten again.
But the little monkey and the others couldn't listen at all, and said unconvinced: "We just want to live, what's wrong with that?"
Jiang Shu opened his mouth, not knowing how to reason with a group of children who had no relatives, no one to protect them, no one to teach them, and who were trying their best to just feed themselves.
They are indeed right. What is wrong is the world and the corrupt officials.
Her original intention was to remind them not to do dangerous things, otherwise they might lose their lives.
But then I thought about it, they couldn't survive, so how could they talk about right or wrong and danger?
