The World of Martial Arts

Chapter 106 The So-called Gang of Beggars

Lian Xing hid in the shadows, watching Xu Zhengping suspiciously being extorted of 300 taels of silver for nothing, and then obediently leaving with a group of beggars.

Naturally, she would not think that Xu Zhengping was kidnapped, but she still followed, wanting to see what Xu Zhengping was going to do.

Xu Zhengping was taken to a ruined temple by the beggars, and the beggar who led him said, "There are laborers who live here for a period of time. As for the follow-up medical expenses, you directly report your family address to us, and we will take care of it for you." looking for."

Xu Zhengping looked around, there was a group of children behind the ruined temple, hiding in the corner shyly, except for those three pickpockets who were all sallow and emaciated, with twinkling eyes, and some were beaten into disabilities, broken Hands and feet, eyes gouged out.

In addition, there are even children who are kept in jars with only their heads exposed to practice singing.

A few of them sang in the wrong tune, and they were beaten up immediately, and they suppressed their crying and continued to hang their throats.

Xu Zhengping looked indifferent and did not speak. He looked at the somewhat broken clay Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara statue lying on the ground.

He said: "People should be in awe of the Bodhisattva. The temple can be very broken, but the Bodhisattva must be clean. You can help it up."

A crowd of beggars looked at me and you, thinking they had encountered a fool.

The leading beggar sneered, "You saw the ones behind, don't you know where we are?"

"I've seen a lot, it's just a hell on earth, so you should respect Bodhisattva even more."

As he said that, Xu Zhengping stepped forward, and with one hand he lifted up the clay bodhisattva, which weighed several hundred catties but hadn't been completely broken, and placed it on the lotus platform on his shoulders, as if he was lifting the weight lightly and effortlessly.

Immediately stunned everyone.

He ordered indifferently, "Go fetch water."

There seemed to be an unquestionable feeling in this sentence, that a beggar really ran to fetch water from the well in the backyard.

Xu Zhengping meticulously wiped off the cobweb dust and mud on Guanyin's body, and it took him an entire hour.

During this period, none of the beggars dared to leave, or even moved casually.

The monkey-cheeked beggar with a bad idea in the middle wanted to leave, but somehow his head exploded, turning into a pile of red and white ones within the threshold.

The beggars didn't see who made the move, but they already knew that the person they brought over was definitely not someone they could provoke.

This person behaved strangely, like a lunatic. A lunatic cannot reason, so they can only endure, wait, and fear.

Xu Zhengping managed to wipe clean the Bodhisattva's statue, but unfortunately the broken parts could not be repaired, and his own expensive clothes embroidered with gold and silver threads were also completely dirty.

But he didn't care, he bowed to Guanyin Bodhisattva three times in satisfaction, and then said: "You also come to worship Bodhisattva one by one."

How could the beggars dare not follow their advice, they crawled limply in front of the Guanyin statue like a mouse after seeing a cat, and howled wailingly.

"Miss Guanyin, we have done a lot of evil and deserved what we have done. Now we have sincerely repented and are willing to put down the butcher's knife. Please give us a chance to become Buddha immediately..."

"The little ones should be damned, the little ones shouldn't abuse those children like this, I beg Guanyin Bodhisattva to forgive me..."

Xu Zhengping sat by the threshold and asked softly, "From the Beggar Gang?"

The beggars nodded repeatedly.

In this world of comprehensive martial arts, there are a lot of people in the beggar gang, good and bad, there are heroes, benevolent chivalrous men, and there are also criminals, small and cruel people.

In the golden style of martial arts, the gang of beggars has a positive image, but in the ancient style of martial arts, the gang of beggars basically has no good things. Of course, Gu Long's is more realistic.

After all, if you are poor enough to be a beggar, how can you have so much energy to act chivalrously, and it is more human nature to commit crimes in order to survive.

Xu Zhengping is very clear that the beggar gang in this world does not refer to a unified gang, but as long as it is composed of beggars, it is called the beggar gang.

"This poor and run-down place, how much money can it make by raising a group of pickpockets and little flowers?"

A group of members of the beggar gang thought that Xu Zhengping had other ideas and had hopes of rebirth.

Hastily said: "Although this place is poor, the rich are really rich! The members outside the town did not see those big manors outside the town. They used to rely on the Shaolin Temple, and later relied on the Devil's Cult. They are all very rich.

These people also come to town often, we...we inevitably..."

"Nonsense, you don't have the guts to steal the local rich and wealthy, I'm afraid some outsiders and local poor people will suffer more from you."

All the beggars were shocked when they mentioned the vitals. Looking at Xu Zhengping's calm and kind eyes, which seemed capable of killing people at will, no one dared to argue.

"According to what you mean, the local rich are extremely rich, and the poor are extremely poor. They used to rely on Shaolin to do this?"

The beggar replied: "The outsiders don't know that the Shaolin Temple is the largest landlord in the area, and the big families and powerful families in Putian all look to them as their leaders.

Ordinary people can only cultivate land for them to live on, but they also have to bear court taxes and corvees, pay land rent, and even be ordered by monks to do many things, and they have to offer sacrifices to Buddha every year...

Throughout the year, there is nothing left in the family, and if we encounter a few illnesses or two disasters, we are afraid that the family will be ruined. If not, how could we get so many little flowers by just relying on abductions. "

"That's right! I don't know, if we hadn't raised these little flowers, they would have been orphans and would have starved to death in the wild.

Even if you follow us...although there are some mistakes in what we do, but we can still get food..."

A group of beggars talked in a hurry, saying that although they did evil, they also did good deeds indirectly, and even Guanyin Bodhisattva could understand it.

Xu Zhengping listened calmly, but glanced at the group of children who kept quiet. One of the pickpockets caught by him met Xu Zhengping's eyes at this moment.

Xu Zhengping nodded slightly towards him, secretly encouraging him.

The child gritted his teeth, put aside his companion who was tugging at him, and stood up.

"Heroes! They lied! In the past, Shaolin Temple lent loans to several big households, and they collected debts for monks and big households!

It was only because Shaolin and several big families were wiped out by the Demon Cult that they had no choice but to pretend to be beggars. The Demon Cult did not trust them, so they could not continue to collect debts, so they could only control the local gang of beggars to make money! "

This child was articulate and clear in thinking, although he was young, Xu Zhengping felt that he was a talent to be made.

The leader of the beggar gang immediately got up and rushed towards the child, preventing him from continuing.

With a flick of Xu Zhengping's fingers, the man's brains exploded immediately, and he fell to the ground, still twitching non-stop.

The beggars were terrified and did not dare to stop the child from continuing.

This child was not like other children, seeing the brains and blood, he was so frightened that he burst into tears, but his eyes flashed with intense joy, his fists were clenched, his whole body trembled, his breathing was short, showing extreme excitement.

"There are only half of the children here due to family bankruptcy, and the other half, including those whose limbs were cut off and kept in jars, were all kidnapped from other places.

Even the local orphans captured by them, like me, have already been tortured to death half by them! "

As he said that, he pointed to the backyard where vegetables were grown outside the temple, "Here, if you dig the field, you can see the bones of many children!

And they are not just cheating and begging locally, but traveling back and forth in various states and counties, the number is much more than what you have seen as a hero! "

Xu Zhengping nodded, but all the beggars present had collapsed to the ground.

(End of this chapter)