I don't know how long it took before Jiang also woke up, and huddled up against the tree to sleep, making him feel uncomfortable. He opened his eyes and looked at the firewood that had been extinguished before meeting. He didn't know that Wei Lin had lit the fire last night. No wonder he didn't feel so cold, but he didn't see Wei Lin's shadow.
The snow had almost melted, revealing the bare ground. Jiang also looked around, wondering where Wei Lin went. He got up and moved his somewhat stiff body, and a strong sense of hunger hit him, Jiang also felt that Wei Lin's lesson was not unreasonable, and it was really a stupid act to go out without food. But Jiang can also laugh at himself, but Wei Lin can't say it. If Wei Lin said it, Jiang would be very angry.
Just as he was thinking about where Wei Lin went, Jiang Ye heard hurried footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, it was indeed Wei Lin. Wei Lin's clothes were bulging in front of him, and he didn't know what he was wearing.
"woke up?"
"Well, where have you been?"
"Here." Wei Lin took out the bulging thing from his arms, wrapped it in oil paper, and a scent wafted out immediately, "You're hungry." After speaking, he lifted the oil paper, and it turned out to be a Golden Roast Chicken. Jiang swallowed unconsciously, reached out and took the roast chicken and asked, "Where did this come from?"
"Are you still warm? There is a post house four or five miles ahead, and I got it there."
"It's cold." Jiang also said.
"Then don't eat it." Wei Lin rolled his eyes, "I jogged all the way back, and even put it in my clothes, so it's cold, I can't do anything about it."
"I didn't say not to eat."
"Then do you eat?"
"eat."
"Then you should eat."
Jiang was also really hungry, and he couldn't care less, holding the roast chicken and biting with his mouth open. Wei Lin couldn't help laughing when he saw how he was gobbling up. "Young master is hungry, it's no different from a wolf, tiger and leopard."
"Bah." Jiang also spit out the chicken bone in his mouth at Wei Lin, "No one will think you are dumb if you don't speak."
"whee."
"Do you have any money on you? You also buy roast chicken."
"No money."
"You stole it?"
"No, I bought it from you." Wei Lin said calmly.
Jiang Ye held the roast chicken in one hand and touched the belt with the other hand. It was really empty, and the purse had disappeared. He shouted at Wei Lin, "You still buy roast chicken if you don't have money?!"
"Isn't this your money? I think it's better to eat it better. If it's white flour steamed buns, I'm afraid it will taste like bricks after coming back in the cold weather." Wei Lin laughed and took out Jiang Ye's purse from his belt. " Don't worry, you still have money." Then he shook the money bag, and it was obvious that there was still some content in it.
Jiang also had nothing to say. Although Wei Lin took his purse, he also bought something for himself to eat. He hugged the roast chicken, wrapped it in greased paper and tore off a large piece of the chicken thigh, and handed the rest to Wei Lin: "You can eat, I've had enough."
"No, you eat more."
"Aren't you hungry?"
"I'm not hungry."
"How can beggars fight hunger?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Wei Lin suddenly became serious and stared at him: "This idea of yours is politically incorrect. Beggars are human beings, so naturally they will be hungry."
"Then you're not hungry."
"Because I've eaten it."
"what did you eat?"
"I ate... roast goose, braised fish, steamed hoof... forgot."
Jiang Ye's eyes were like copper bells, he held the chicken leg in his mouth, one hand held the remaining half of the roast chicken, and the other grabbed the money bag from Wei Lin's hand. As soon as the purse arrived in his hands, he already felt a profound unease. The weight was far different from when he went out. He shook his mouth downward and only a few pieces of poor silver fell out of the purse.
"I brought out twenty taels, and now there are seven taels of silver left, what the hell did you eat!!!" Jiang also roared.
"It's not... well, there are a few little beggars next to the inn, so I'll give them some."
"You bastards!!!"
"I'm a man, big man, do you want me to take off my pants and show you."
"Look at your head!"
"Okay, okay, do you want to look at the top head, or the bottom head?"
Jiang was also so angry that he took a big bite on the chicken leg, as if he was going to swallow Wei Lin alive.
"Don't look at me like that, as if you want to eat me."
"???"
"Okay, don't be angry, let's eat chicken."
"roll."
Mixed with bickering and arguing, Jiang did not live up to Wei Lin's expectations and ate the whole roast chicken cleanly, and vomited all the bones on Wei Lin's body. Although Wei Lin suggested that it was naive, Jiang also rubbed the oil on Wei Lin's sleeve by the way.
According to Wei Lin, as long as you walk four or five miles, you can have a good night's sleep in the post house. Jiang also regretted that he was rash and went on the road. If he had thought of this earlier, he would rent a carriage and sleep in the open without having to eat and sleep last night. Oh no, not even meals, just rough sleep. Thinking about it this way, Wei Lin is amazing. He seems to think about everything. He is worthy of being a beggar, and he seems to have a lot of knowledge in this regard.
Jiang also always felt that something was weird in his heart, and he didn't know if the remaining seven taels of silver would be enough to live in the inn, nor could he spend all the money in the inn. Jiang also thought about it for a long time before he could figure out what was wrong, and then he directly asked Wei Lin who was walking in front: "How do you know that there is a post house in four or five miles?"
"Um?"
"You don't know that you dare to go out and wander around?"
"I've been to Yanzhou."
"Go for what?"
"I've been in Yanzhou for the past two years, and I only came to Xiangcheng this year." Wei Lin said casually.
"Then what are you doing in Xiangcheng?"
"Looking for a job."
"Find begging?"
"Oh, Brother Jiang won't understand. Yanzhou is not rich and the basic salary is low. How many people go to Xiangcheng."
That said, it is true that there are many people from outside who do business in Wangdu. The Jiang family was also thirty years ago. Mr. Jiang came to Xiangcheng empty-handed, and then started from scratch to have today's Jiangfu.
When Mr. Jiang was young, it was not easy and he complained, but he did not give up hope. He thought about himself countless times.
If he wouldn't be poor and destitute after a famous family, he would be tortured and gambled, and he didn't want his descendants to be so miserable, so he insisted on letting Jiang Ye inherit the family's business.
"What does this have to do with your begging?"
"People in the capital are stupid and have a lot of money. Even begging, they make more money than Yanzhou."
"Then you almost died."
"The so-called man doesn't fight with the sky. If the gods want me to die, I will die. If they don't let me die... Didn't I meet you?"
Wei Lin said it very lightly. If he hadn't known what kind of thing he was, he would have sounded like an expert who could see through the world.
"Ghost knows what kind of wishful thinking you are playing."
"Okay, we'll arrive at the inn in half an hour," Wei Lin said.
Thinking of going to the inn for a good rest, Jiang also felt a little better.
The two were walking when two masked men suddenly appeared in front of them. One of them just said, "I will drive this road, and I will plant this tree. If you want to..."
"Shut up, you're real shit."
The other person just slapped the back of the man's head with a slap, causing him to stagger, and then he said, "Don't make any ink, quickly take out the money!" Then he took out a cloth wrapped around his back The thing looks like a dagger, pointing at Jiang Ye, vicious.
"You two, this is..." Wei Lin hurriedly stepped forward a little bit, bent down, and looked like he was bowing his knees with a smile on his face. Jiang also disliked his appearance the most, and kicked him at the socket of his knee, making him almost unable to stand firm: "Come on, you're robbery."
"Yeah, can't you see it? Is robbery easy to cut?" The masked man with the weapon also followed Jiang Ye.
"The accent is from the South," Wei Lin said.
The person who was slapped before said without thinking, "Yeah, how do you know?"
"Are you a fucking idiot? Just answer what he says!" The weapon was so angry, he kicked the man out after raising his leg. "Stop talking nonsense, pay the money, and leave, or, eh?" He also took a step forward, the murder weapon was only one step away from Wei Lin, Wei Lin said with a sad face: "We have no money."
"Who are you confused? Wearing such beautiful leather, how can you have no money?"
"No!" Wei Lin hurriedly retreated to Jiang Ye's side, stretched out his hand and dragged the fox fur to show the gangster, "Look, this is a high imitation, but it's actually a weasel skin, do you know how to cut a weasel? If it's worthless, just take it out. Install the facade!"
When he spoke to the villain, his accent changed.
"How is that white?"
"Oh, it's dyed!"
"Leave the money, leave the leather, and leave." The villain said, "I won't be beeping with you."
Jiang also pondered that he might not be able to beat the gangster holding the murder weapon with his bare hands, and if he lost his life, it would not be worth it. Before Wei Lin could continue to say anything, Jiang also took the lead: "You stand back, I'll throw the money and the leather for you."
"You're smart."
Jiang Ye found his purse from Wei Lin's trousers belt, and threw it to the gangster together with the fox fur on him.
While the gangster was bending over to pick it up, Jiang also grabbed Wei Lin's hand and ran away: "Run!"
Wei Lin was dragged so much by him, and the two of them ran away in a panic.
I don't know how long it took to run, but Jiang Ye slipped on the soles of his feet and fell directly to the ground, tripping Wei Lin as well. It just so happened that the terrain was a small hillside, so the two of them fell and rolled down the hillside.
Along with the rolling momentum of the two of them, there was a scream from Wei Lin that cut through the sky.
Wei Lin rolled quickly, but was stopped by a tree, and his waist hit the trunk of the tree. He bared his teeth in pain. Before he had time to cry out, Jiang also rolled over and slammed into Wei Lin. Wei Lin was in pain. He didn't even have the strength to scream.
"You...you...get up...I'm going to faint..."
Jiang also felt pain all over his body. Hearing Wei Lin's words in a daze, he finally got up and fell to the ground, only to find that his face was wet, and when he reached out to touch it, he found that a big hole had been knocked on his forehead, and blood was running down his face. face all the way down.
Wei Lin took a while to get up before getting up, panting heavily and sitting on the ground, seeing Jiang Ye's head injury, before he could check himself, he tore off a piece of cloth from his sleeve and carefully wiped it off for Jiang Ye. blood on the face.
"Does it hurt..." He asked while wiping, Jiang also didn't say anything, just inhaled, it must be very painful.
The clothes on the two people have no good place left, and there are openings and tatters everywhere. There were also many large and small scratches on his face, and the wounds were still full of mud and gravel, which was extremely dirty.
Wei Lin wiped the sand from Jiang Ye's wound little by little, and then changed Jiang Ye to help him clean up the wound.
There is no stream or anything around, so I can only try to make it a little cleaner.
"I now know what it means to be close to the vermillion and the close to the ink to be black." Jiang also said.
"Um?"
"Those who are close to beggars become beggars."
"The confrontation is not neat, don't force it." Wei Lin pouted, looked at himself, and then looked at Jiang Ye. Before, Jiang also kept his face cold and dressed so well. He looked really weak, but now it looks more pleasing to the eye: "You look better this way."
"Did I show you?"
"Then forget it."
"When will you pay the money you owe me?"
"When did I owe you money?"
"In the mansion, talk about a couple of taels of silver."
"Wow, are you so rich and stingy?"
"Pay back the money."
"I have no money."
Jiang also thought to himself, even if this person was rich, with his prodigal tactics, he probably spent all of it.
"It's alright now, there's no money left." A little bit broken, Jiang also waved his hands and fell directly to the ground.
Wei Lin sat on the side, thought for a while, and said, "It's alright, so let's go near the post house and I'll beg. What if I get rich?"
"If you don't have a post house in front of the village and you can't have a store in the back, no one will give you money."
"Didn't I give the little beggar money yesterday? Trust me, good people are rewarded."
Jiang also closed his eyes and stopped paying attention to Wei Lin.
"Okay, don't be mourned, rest for a while, and when the pain isn't so bad, we'll go to the inn."
"Do you know the way?"
"I don't know, but I have a way."