As soon as I was reborn, my fiancé came to propose marriage!

"Hey, brother, don't tell me, I didn't think Lao Li's noodles were that delicious before, but now I'm drooling when I think about it!"

"When will this day end? There were several robberies this morning. I really don't want to deal with it anymore."

The young yamen runner sat on a dusty wooden bench and complained.

"Be content. There are a lot of robs now, just don't cause any deaths. Like the one who stabbed someone a while ago, we brothers were scolded by the master and it wasn't over yet."

"It's so hard to live in this town now!"

The older bailiff sighed.

I originally wanted to say something, but after thinking it over I decided not to add to my panic.

"Let's go, we can finally take a break today."

As they were talking, they were about to finish their mission and go home.

Suddenly, another person came running over from a distance, shouting breathlessly, "Xie Ge, Xie Ge!"

The older yamen runner turned around and frowned, asking, "What's the matter?"

His intuition told him that something must have happened again.

"A grain store was robbed!"

If it happened a dozen days ago, such a thing would have been really rare, but by now, the two of them are no longer surprised.

The middle-aged yamen runner called Brother Xie followed the messenger and asked casually, "How many people are there this time? How many kilograms of food did they steal?"

The messenger stammered, "It's all chaos!"

"The door of the grain store on Fulin Street was smashed and the entire store was looted."

"At first, more than a dozen people went in to rob, and then it got chaotic, and anyone who could walk on the street went in to rob. The boss is still sitting in the store crying and shouting."

"Several people were trampled to death in the store. When the doctor came over, they were all dead. Only an old lady was left lying in the store, gasping for breath, but her ribs were broken..."

There is an eight out of ten chance that he will not survive.

Brother Xie stopped talking completely. His brows were furrowed, and he didn't know what to do for a moment.

........

"Hurry up!"

Shopkeeper He ran back quickly, shouting the word "quickly" for a long time, but he couldn't utter the next sentence.

The shop assistants all gathered around when they saw this. The few customers scattered around the store were still hesitating whether to buy or not. When they heard the noise over there, they stood on tiptoe to look outside the door.

Shopkeeper He ran back, sweating profusely, and hurriedly asked the remaining customers to leave.

Then he immediately ordered the store door to be closed and nailed shut from the inside with wooden boards, and then told the employees to move all the stock in the lobby to the backyard.

The guys looked at him in confusion and started moving things at his urging.

Now there are only three guys left in the store besides the shopkeeper, and the proprietress is one of them.

I really don't have the money to hire anyone...

"What's wrong? Why are you in such a hurry? There are still a few customers in the store."

The proprietress came out of the counting room, counting on an abacus.

Shopkeeper He looked at his wife's leisurely look and said anxiously, "You still have the mind to settle accounts. There is no business these days!"

"Hurry up and keep the money. Let's go back to our hometown to hide tonight."

"No, I can't go back to my hometown, to the new house I bought in town."

He quietly pulled the proprietress to one side and said, "Let's hide there. No one will know what we are doing."

Looking at her husband's anxious expression, the proprietress felt something was not right.

He has a good temper. This is the first time I've seen him so anxious in all the years since we got married. "What's the matter? Tell me!"

"I'm afraid of scaring you!"

"You won't be scared if you don't tell me? I'll find out by asking around this afternoon."

"The grain store on the next street was just robbed!"

"Oh, I thought it was a big deal. Didn't our family also have several bags of food stolen a few days ago?"

This woman still has time to talk nonsense here, he is getting so anxious that he is almost getting angry.

Manager He slammed the wall hard, but he couldn't slam the table, otherwise all the employees would know.

"The entire store was robbed, and many people died! There's not a grain of rice left in the store now. The store owner is lucky to have survived. Do you think we can continue to run the store in this world?"

After hearing this, the proprietress felt a chill on her back and broke out in a cold sweat.

It’s just across the street. If they hadn’t closed the store just now, what would they do if that group of people rushed into their store?

The more she thought about it, the more scared she became. She grabbed Manager He's hand tightly, holding it tremblingly, and walked towards the backyard while comforting herself.

"Yes, you are right..."

"Let's move, right now!"

"The food must be hidden, it must be hidden!"

The two remaining guys in the store were both relatives of ours, so we would just use a few bags of food to seal their mouths, and then move to a new residence overnight without anyone knowing.

But this store must never be reopened.

..........

In a dilapidated temple outside the town, a few beggars gathered together and laughed at the bags of food they had just snatched.

They set up a broken pot and poured white rice into it.

This time it’s not a one-time thing, it’s a whole pot full!

Among them was a beggar with the most ferocious look and a scar on his face. He greeted loudly.

"Come and have a look, we have looted so much food today, brothers, eat your fill and don't treat yourselves badly, we have become famous in the town today!"

One of the younger brothers asked fearfully, "Brother, will we be caught by the government if we do this?"

"Humph!"

The scarred man said with disdain.

"Although we were the first to start it, most of the people on the street went in to rob today. Can we really arrest them all one by one?"

“Everyone knows everyone outside that store!”

He directed the beggars under him to cook the food in the pot, stood up, pulled up his belt, and shouted loudly.

"A few bags of rice and flour have frightened you like this. Let me tell you, we brothers didn't have enough food to eat before, but things will be different from now on."

"From now on, don't even mention white rice and white flour. We brothers will be able to eat all kinds of fish, meat, and delicacies from the mountains and the sea!"

"As long as you have a strong fist, you don't have to worry about not living a happy life!"

He walked around the brothers and nudged one of the dirty, smelly, skinny beggars with his shoulder.

When their eyes met, they both laughed obscenely.

"Don't even mention these things to fill your stomachs. Even if you want women, you can get them in large quantities!"

"Enough!"

"Boss, I want to marry two!"

The thin beggar thought about the beautiful women he had seen on the streets in the past, their figures and faces, and he almost drooled unconsciously.

The scarred man slapped him hard, and he staggered and almost fell into the fire.

The scarred man laughed loudly, "Humph, you useless thing, you want to marry two? I'll marry you ten or eight, and keep twenty of them in the temple. You can choose whichever one you want!"

"Hahaha!"

A bunch of beggars were gathered around a broken pot in a dilapidated temple, laughing obscenely, all immersed in beautiful dreams of the future.