There is a small river in Yuxi City.
There is a bridge over the river.
There are many homeless people living under the bridge.
But with the arrival of winter, most homeless people are no longer willing to live under the bridge. The bridge spans east and west, and passes through north and south winds. It is undoubtedly a place with extremely low temperature in winter. Those who stayed under the bridge were almost immediately pierced by the north wind through their thin clothes, so the place was already empty.
But when I passed by this time, I found that the bridge was actually very lively.
I put my hands in my hands and walked over quietly. When they got nearby, they found that three men surrounded a person lying on the ground. One of the men said to the leader:
"Brother, will this person..."
Dogleg No. 1 didn't finish talking, and Dogleg No. 2 went on to say:
"After all, it's cold now. It would be bad if people were killed."
The elder brother in the lead had a fierce face, went up and kicked the guy lying on the ground, and said fiercely:
"Hey! Are you dead? Get up quickly if you're not dead!"
The thin sheet on the ground was lifted, and a petite figure in a coir raincoat slowly got up. She turned her face and looked at the three big men surrounding her, without saying a word. I originally planned to go forward to help, but the moment I saw the girl, my movements stopped naturally.
It's the assassin!
The assassin who snuck into my room in the middle of the night and planned to send me into the palace with one knife!
Although it was the first time we met, I couldn't mistake her lifeless eyebrows and eyes. It's no wonder that she was able to hide in the city for so long. Since the homeless man moved away, the bottom of the bridge can be said to be a place that no one cares about. If I hadn't happened to pass by on a long detour today, it would have been impossible to think that there was still a person quietly hiding in such a place.
So what's the situation now, are you being threatened
I saw that the assassin was in a trance, his face was flushed, his eyes were blank, and I couldn't help feeling a little strange.
Dogleg No. 1 smiled and said:
"Hey, pretending to be dead doesn't work for our eldest brother."
Dogleg No. 2 echoed:
"That's right, listen up, our elder brother has something to ask for you."
The eldest brother who took the lead stood casually, looking like the eldest brother among young and Dangerous boys, and said:
"What's the matter, are you sick? Do you think you don't have to pay protection fees if you're sick? Huh? Let me tell you, this piece of land belongs to our gang of three. Do you think you can sleep in vain? Huh? You're sleeping with your mother, get up quickly."
The assassin watched them silently.
Dogleg No. 1 leaned over to the elder brother's side and said in a low voice:
"No, brother, this man looks very sick."
Dogleg No. 2 also whispered:
"Yeah, brother, why do I think she's going to die soon?"
The leading elder brother drank in a low voice:
"Shut up, didn't I tell her to get up and have a look?"
The assassin looked at the three of them coldly. The leading brother also looked at her. After the two sides looked at each other for a while, the leading brother took the initiative to squat down, stretched out his calloused dirty hands and touched the assassin's head, and then jumped half a step back, saying in shock:
"What the hell is this? Whose fucking stove is so good that it came here or something?"
Dogleg One said:
"Brother, look at her wearing so little clothes, and the place is drafty, she must have caught a cold."
Dogleg Two said:
"But there's no way. She's allowed to owe protection money for several weeks, but she still can't afford anything."
The three of them got together to discuss for a while, and finally the elder brother who took the lead was cruel, scratched the thorny hair on his head, put his hands in his pockets, fumbled for a long time, touched the three copper coins, sighed, and handed them to Dogleg No. 1 hand, saying:
"The three of us have survived all the hard times and haven't saved any money. To be honest, I feel sorry for the two of you. I was thinking about this little money. Let's buy a few steamed buns and eat them. Don't follow me, you guys just go your separate ways."
"But you have also seen that this girl is only twelve or thirteen years old at most, and now she has a high fever and is in this state. I think it is probably not good enough. That's why I always say that this woman is troublesome, with delicate skin and tender flesh. Yes, if you are not resistant to cold and hunger, you are a loser. But who let us meet, buy two buns for her to eat, and save her from being a starving ghost."
The two doglegs said one after another:
"Brother benevolence."
The leading elder brother said irritably:
"I'm benevolent and righteous. Don't blow it up. Hurry up and buy it. Let's make a deal first. If anyone steals it, I'll be the first to kill him."
The two dog legs ran away obediently holding the money.
I watched in admiration from the side. I didn't expect that the spiritual civilization construction of the beggar gang is so good now.
The two dogs ran away, and the elder brother who took the lead sat down and said to the assassin:
"Which family is my little sister?"
The assassin watched him warily.
The leading brother threw a stone into the river and said:
"If you don't say it, don't say it. I used to be from Cangzhou. Do you know the lord of Cangzhou? The one who led the uprising in the early years and was suppressed by the lord Yunyang and the king. I was originally a chess piece buried in Yuxi City in Cangzhou. This step After playing chess for ten years, the internal situation in Cangzhou was changing. The bosses of our group all died in the internal strife. In the end, we were homeless and could only wander. We are all from Anbu. I believe you know that there are When people like us look for the same kind, once we find the right one, we have a feeling. So I guess you are also an assassin raised by someone, but unfortunately I can't save you this time, so I can only send you on the road."
The eldest brother in charge is in his thirties, with a beard and looks a bit sinister, but he speaks very melancholy:
"You, remember, don't enter the Anbu in your next life. It's not worth it. Live in the dark, die in the dark, no one pays attention to it, and no one remembers it. My boss back then followed the Lord of Cangzhou wholeheartedly and led him Ma, planned for him and killed countless hostile people for him. In the end, he died with a piece of imperial edict. It is said that the corpse was hacked into pieces, and the people rushed to buy it. Heh. The mess is thrown to my boss, the blame I also threw it to my boss to memorize, one is to memorize while alive, and the other is to memorize after death. People in the sun, whether life or death, merit or demerit, can be judged by the people of the world and history. But we people live in the dark, and what the superiors say about us is what we are Sample."
The young assassin didn't answer.
She remained silent throughout.
At this time, the two younger brothers bought buns, held them in their hands, ran to their boss, and said with a smile:
"Brother, we bought the steamed stuffed bun. The owner of the steamed stuffed bun shop specially gave us an extra one, saying that it doesn't look good and can't be sold."
As he said that, Dogleg No. 1 handed the steamed bun that was said to be not good looking to the leading brother, and then handed the remaining two buns to the young assassin's hand, and said with a straight face:
"Don't think about it too much. If it weren't for our big brother's kindness, how could we get you to eat such good food? Hurry up and thank our big brother!"
The assassin clenched the bun in his hand. Her white and tender hands were flushed red from the cold, and it was only when she held the steaming buns that she felt a little bit of warmth.