At dusk, near a village near Sanhe on the east bank of the Tongzhou River, Chang Yu and his entourage dismounted their horses to rest. Under the scorching sun, they were beating horses and running wildly, and everyone was sweating. The clothes were sticky and uncomfortable to stick to the body, especially the crotch, which was simply unusable. Verbal description.
When they met the river, everyone drank heavily and then took off their clothes and went into the river to take a good bath. They were hanging clothes by the river and chatting. To their surprise, Li Muxian was also among the team. This trip was extremely secretive. Chang Yu ordered his personal attendant Qiao San. Xiu, Wu Zhong led dozens of personal guards, but Li Muxian took the initiative to ask Ying to accompany him. There were many people on the road who spoke well, so Chang Yu agreed.
Li Muxian was twisting his Taoist uniform and hanging it on a branch by the roadside: "The weather is too hot, I think it's better for me to travel at night and rest during the day."
Chang Yu hummed and looked west to see that the sky was about to set and the sun was about to set. He then ordered a fire to be cooked on the spot. After eating and resting for a while, he took advantage of the cool night and went on the road. The guards immediately got busy.
"Sir, you see a group of refugees have arrived." Chen Suole whispered to Chang Yu while he was busy. He raised his hand and pointed towards the east. There is a village a hundred meters away. In the past few days, the Tatars have withdrawn and many people have returned to their hometowns. There are also people in the village. Chang Yu's military discipline is strict and he does not approach the village in order not to cause panic among the villagers.
At this time, twenty or thirty ragged refugees came from the southwest, including more than a dozen young adults, two or three boys, girls, and old people. They slowly approached the village, but they seemed to notice the movement on Chang Yu's side and stopped to look around. Yes, we sat together on the spot and didn’t come to disturb them.
"Do you want to get them some food?" Chen Suole asked. Chang Yu was about to speak when he saw Li Muchian walking towards the refugees with narrowed eyes. He was a little confused and said to Chen Suole, "Wait a minute."
After a while, Li Muxian came back with a cold look on his face: "They're not refugees." Chang Yu frowned and asked, "Could it be that the army was defeated?"
"No" Li Muchian shook his head: "It's a beggar gang."
Everyone was startled. "What's the difference between a refugee and a beggar?" Chen Ruxin asked curiously.
"The difference is huge." Li Muchian chuckled and looked at Chang Yu: "Is that right, sir?"
Well, Chang Yu nodded.
There is an old saying that people who work in car and boat shops should be killed even if they are innocent. It means that most of the people who make a living in these businesses are swindlers and traffickers. The first four professions are easy to understand. Teeth are all kinds of intermediaries, and of course they also include human traffickers.
If these people deserve to be killed if they are not guilty, then the professional beggars these days should be ripped off because they really do all kinds of evil! As for the beggars seen in TV series who all come from well-established families, that's all nonsense.
A person who is so poor that he is begging for food and thinks about committing crimes every day, do you expect him to act chivalrously and righteously?
Dream on.
Li Muxian said that there is a difference between refugees and beggars, which is the experience gained from traveling around the world for many years. Refugees are mostly people who have been displaced by natural disasters or wars. They also make a living by begging, but they will return to their hometowns to rebuild their homes after the disaster.
But these professional beggars are different. They make a living by begging and enjoy doing evil. It is common for gangs to break into houses, rob, gang rape and kill. They rob and kidnap young children and either sell them or maim them to beg (this There are also many later generations (a little less in recent years) who did heinous things.
These beggars are extremely mobile, and it is very difficult for the government to catch them after they commit crimes. This also arouses the arrogance of these beggars. They can commit more than ten crimes in a day, causing harm to the Tatar army and intimidating the people.
These are by no means fabricated. Interested friends can check out the evil beggar cases in the early Qing Dynasty, especially the Huainan Beggar Gang, which has a bad reputation.
"Are you sure they are evil beggars?" Chang Yu's face already had a murderous look on his face, and Li Muchian nodded: "There are three suspicions. He wants to go to the village to beg in the dark. Generally, beggars do not go to the village to beg in the dark, so as to avoid the suspicion of Li Xia in the melon field. Firstly, seeing us here and stopping to watch without entering the village or coming to beg is too abnormal. Secondly, this group of beggars are all men with hideous and hateful faces, and there are young children and all four of them are disabled."
"Is it considered suspicious if there is no woman?" Kuang Ren asked curiously.
Li Muxian hummed: "Generally, refugees or beggars will have old, weak, women and children, mostly one or more families, but evil beggars don't do that. They are mostly single ruffians who gather together, and the abducted children are either sold or beaten. Damn, the women you snatched won’t be kept, they will be destroyed and sold or killed!”
"What the hell." Wu Zhong, who had been silent all this time, stood up and said, "Kill them all when I get there." He picked up the knife and left.
"Keep the child," everyone thought Chang Yu would stop him, but unexpectedly he said this instead.
"I'll help you." Chen Suole drew his knife and followed.
"I'm going too..." Several personal guards followed closely behind.
Soon, screams came from the entrance of the village, which scared the villagers to close their doors and tremble. The hateful bastards came to kill people again. God, please bless them and let these bastards let us poor people go.
The hearts of the villagers are almost broken. This is really an age where people can eat people without spitting out their bones. They have escaped the thieves and Tatars, but they have encountered the Ming Dynasty's own soldiers!
God showed up, and these gangsters did not enter the village. At dawn, the villagers found the bodies of seventeen beggars outside the village.
After killing these evil beggars, the guards came back to eat and rest for a while, then broke camp and left. Azig was confused the whole time. He couldn't understand why the young eunuch suddenly drew his sword and killed so many ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty.
"Are we going to put the blame on the Qing army?" Azig couldn't help but ask. As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped by the little eunuch with a backhand, and his front teeth almost flew off. Azig was very angry, angry with himself, and even wanted to slap him. You slapped yourself, why are you so arrogant? Isn't it good to play autistic? You have to talk to get beaten.
But even if he was beaten, he would still say something: "Little eunuch, I will make a deal with you as the prince of the Qing Dynasty." Azig covered his face with his hands as he spoke, and Chang Yu glanced at him with a frown.
"Be kind to me on the road, and we can make friends." Azig chuckled: "Although the Ming Dynasty won this time, the Qing Dynasty's vitality was greatly damaged, but the Ming Dynasty is now declining and cannot defeat our Qing Dynasty, so The two countries will live in peace in the next few years, and if you want to do any business, it will be much more convenient to have a prince as your friend."
"It makes sense." Chang Yu nodded slightly: "Then I will bring you the whole carriage?"
Azig chuckled: "It is indeed more comfortable to ride in a car than to ride a horse."
"Can I get you some food and wine?"
"I haven't had a drink for more than a month and I'm so hungry." Azig couldn't help but wipe his saliva.
"Can I get you another girl to calm the fire?" Chang Yu asked again.
Azig didn't quite believe it: "Are you kidding me?"
Bang, Chang Yu slapped him like lightning, causing him to stagger and almost fall off his horse: "You were the one who made the joke on me first."
The night was windy and lightning-fast. Although it was difficult to see, it was not as hot as during the day. The pace was also much faster. By daybreak, we had entered Yutian County. After running for hundreds of miles, we were tired and tired, so we ordered to rest next to a pond in Daubian. Everyone got off their horses, drank water, and fell asleep.
Chang Yu suddenly heard loud shouts in his confusion and stood up in excitement, only to find that he was surrounded.
