The child and the old man got out of the thatched shed one after another—it turned out to be the two people who came here in the afternoon.

"Why are you here again?" The child looked at them warily, "I have already spent all the money, why don't you go back."

The old man was also trembling.Don't really come here to ask for money.

It was Li Shi and Luo Hua who came here.

Li Shi raised his eyebrows: "I'm not here to beg for money." He glanced at the old man, "I think you're a good match, and I want to take you as a disciple. Come with us."

The old man's eyes lit up when he heard this.

The child also stared wide-eyed in disbelief: "Accept, accept me as an apprentice?" He remembered the experience of being carried over the eaves and walls today, and eagerness immediately appeared in his eyes.

Li Shi nodded: "Exactly. If you come with me, all my martial arts will be passed on to you in the future."

Not to be a servant!It's not like going to the pickling place!It's about learning as an apprentice

The old man was overjoyed immediately: "Thank you cough cough cough, thank you nobleman! You are all good people cough cough cough!" He was so excited that he kept coughing, and after he finished speaking, he gave the child a push, "Come here, come here and kneel down!" Call me master, what are you doing standing there?"

But the child hesitated, looked at the thatched shed behind him, then at the old man, gritted his teeth: "Can you bring my grandpa and brother?" He looked at Li Shiluohua with eagerness on his face, "I Grandpa is good at sewing clothes, he, he can tell stories... and my younger brother, my younger brother is so good, he doesn't make trouble at all!"

Li Shi frowned: "Our family doesn't support idlers, you just go with us. What are you doing with them?"

The old man was also panicked: "You, cough, cough, what are you talking nonsense!" Turning to Li Shi and the two of them, he explained, "Don't mind your honor, he, he didn't want to understand."

The child was serious: "Grandfather, if I leave, what will you and Abao do?"

"I can, ahem, raise you up so much, can't I, ahem, not be able to support Ah Bao?"

The child frowned: "No. I can't leave you alone."

Li Shi pretended to be impatient: "There are so many things! Since you have a younger brother, let's take it away together, but if you are too stupid, we won't want it."

The old man became even more excited when he saw that even the little one had fun: "Ahem, lord, Ah Bao is very good and smart, but he is only three years old, ahem, he can dress and eat by himself, and ahem can also help sweep the floor. live."

"Oh?" Li Shi pretended to be hesitant to ask Luo Hua, "Why don't we take the younger ones too?" Luo Hua smiled, and then reluctantly said as if he was acting together: "It's okay. Anyway, there are not too many apprentices. One is teaching, and two are also teaching."

"Thank you nobleman, cough cough cough, thank you nobleman!" The old man immediately knelt down and thanked you repeatedly.

"Then what about my grandfather?" The child was not happy, and he asked again, "Can you bring my grandfather?"

Li Shi pretended to look at the old man, and said with distaste: "At such an old age, he looks like a sick child. He can't do much work, and maybe we have to spend money on medical treatment. Do you think we open a philanthropic hall? You This keeps asking, do you want to go with us or not to go with us?"

The old man hurriedly waved his hands: "Follow me! Cough cough cough, it is a great kindness for the nobleman to adopt the two brothers Abao. My old man, who has half a foot in the coffin, how dare he pollute the nobleman's door? Yan Wuji, my lord, don't take his words to heart."

"Grandpa!"

"Hurry up, take Abao out quickly, don't keep the nobleman waiting for a long time."

Li Shi also urged him: "Hurry up, it's almost dark today."

The child looked at the eager old man, then at Li Shi who was impatiently urging, and gritted his teeth: "I won't go with you!" After speaking, he seemed relieved.

"You!" The old man turned pale with shock, "What stupid things are you talking about?" After he finished speaking, he coughed violently.

But the child didn't talk to him, and looked up at Li Shi: "You guys go. I won't go with you."

Li Shi frowned: "Have you thought it through clearly, boy? You still want to stay here to beg and eat without a second meal? Are you stupid?"

Luo Hua thought for a while, then knelt down and introduced to the child in detail: "If you go with us, you can eat white rice every day, eggs and meat every few days. You can wear new clothes every year. You can still follow me Read and write. Are you really not going with us?"

Seeing that he didn't look angry, the child pursed his lips: "I want to raise my grandpa." He had hope in his eyes, "Why don't you take my younger brother. My younger brother must be smarter than me and able to learn faster."

The eyes of the old man who had just stopped coughing were reddened, and he wanted to speak, but another wave of coughing hit him.

Luo Hua looked up at Li Shi.

Li Shi shook his head: "I fancy you, your brother is just incidental. If you go with us, your brother will also enjoy the blessings. How?"

The implication is that either the two brothers go, or neither of them.

The child resolutely refused: "No."

Now, even Luo Hua couldn't help but change his mind about this kid.

The old man's throat was congested, and he slapped the child hard a few times, "Are you going? Are you going? Cough cough, take your brother and get out of here. I have raised you for so long, cough cough, I saw you The two are annoying, don't stay here and block my eyes."

Unmoved, the child said to Li Shi and the others: "Let's go." He turned around and helped the old man to go back to the hut.

The old man burst into tears: "You silly boy..."

Li Shi still didn't give up, and raised his voice: "We will stay in the county tonight and leave tomorrow afternoon. If you change your mind, take your brother to Jufu Inn to find us."

The old man wanted to turn back, but his physical strength was too weak, so he was pushed into the hut by the children.

Li Shi and Luo Hua were thrown outside like this.

The beggars who came back one after another hid in the dark and looked at them. Li Shi glanced around coldly, and everyone looked away.

Afterwards, Li Shi and the two left the desolate house where the smell became stronger and stronger.

"How?" Li Shi asked Luo Hua's impression on the road.

"He's a loyal one." Luo Hua nodded, "He's quite independent at such a young age."

Li Shi was proud: "I have a good eye, don't I?"

Luo Hua laughed: "Yes, yes." After a pause, he was curious, "Now wait for him to come to the door tomorrow?"

Li Shi shook his head: "If he comes, I don't want it." After all, this kid has done some shameful things. Although he is forced to survive, he wants to be accepted as an apprentice, and he always has to see if he is crooked.

If he even gave up on the old man who raised him, he wouldn't need to worry about this child.

When Luo Hua thought about it, it was indeed the same reason.

Li Shi rubbed his chin: "If he really comes here, I'll send him to another place. He's so young, if he doesn't teach him, he will definitely grow up in the future." Just treat it as a good deed every day.Who made this kid remind him of his past?

Naturally, Luo Hua would not object.

The two are here to test the character of the child.

The old man in the thatched shed coughed and tried to persuade the child.

It's a pity that the child insists on going his own way.

"Grandpa, you don't need to persuade me. You saved money and raised me and Abao. Now that you are old and sick, I and Abao will not leave you alone."

The old man was moved and impatient, and wanted to persuade, but the child lay down directly: "Grandfather, I have traveled a lot today, I am tired, and I want to sleep."

The old man had no choice but to keep his mouth shut—Ah Zhuang was only a little old, and he was at the age of lack of sleep. It was not easy for him to go out early and return late to make a living, so let him rest for a while.

He sighed and lay down.

But with today's matter in his heart, how can he sleep?

He looked at the sallow and thin Ah Zhuang lying beside him, and then at the obedient Ah Bao who was sleeping soundly on the other side.

Such two good children, filial and smart, how could they become beggars?

If they were born in a good family, maybe, maybe they can make great achievements in the future!

No no, it's not too late!

As long as Ah Zhuang Minger takes Ah Bao to find those two nobles...

But Ah Zhuang didn't want to go!

Don't even go!This silly boy!

Thinking of the reason why Ah Zhuang didn't want to go, the old man wiped away his tears.This silly boy.

If it wasn't for him, if it wasn't for him...

Covering his mouth and coughing a few times, the old man tossed and turned.

Ah Zhuang has already fallen asleep.A tiring day made him snore slightly in his sleep.

If he was in better health, Ah Zhuang could leave with peace of mind, right?

It's all his fault, old and useless and sick...

Suddenly, the old man didn't know what to think, his eyes lit up for a moment, and then he hesitated.

After thinking about it for a long time, he seemed to have finally made up his mind.

Gently caressing Ah Bao's cheeks, and then tucking Ah Zhuang in the worn-out blanket, he reluctantly looked back and forth at the two children for several times, and then suppressed his cough, and slipped out lightly... …

The next day, Luo Hua took Li Shi to buy some fruits and ran back to the bookstore to thank the store owner, and then through the store owner left gifts for the few scholars who helped yesterday, and then they carried the store owner to help The seasoning left behind, Shi Shiran, wandered around the county.

After wandering around for a whole morning, they had a good lunch and took a short rest—cough cough, the two of them had sex in the daytime without being ashamed—then they ordered tea and sat in the Jufu Inn to wait with.

I told the kid, Ah Zhuang, to leave in the afternoon, but it was already past noon, and there was no sign of the kid here.Satisfied Li Shi made a final decision: "That's him."

Luo Hua also felt that this child could be taught.

The two went straight to the deserted house again.

Unexpectedly, I got an unexpected news...

The two looked at each other.

Luo Hua immediately blamed himself: "It's all our fault..."

Li Shi's face was serious, and there was regret in his eyes.

Following the instructions of the other beggars, the two came to the foot of the dwarf mountain outside the west of the city.

The cry of a child could be heard from a distance.

Bypassing a big rock, the scene on the slope ahead is clear at a glance.

The kid Ah Zhuang from yesterday was digging a pit beside several old beggars.

A straw mat next to it seemed to be wrapped in something, and a two- or three-year-old child knelt on the side and cried.

Before they got close, one of the old beggars saw them.

Ah Zhuang, who lowered his head and tried his best to plan the soil with a wooden block, was pushed down by the old beggar, and then slowly raised his head, revealing his red and swollen eyes.

As soon as he saw Li Shi and the two of them, he immediately dropped the wooden block from his hand, picked up a stone at random, jumped up and rushed towards them.

Seeing his eyes swollen like walnuts, Luo Hua felt even more regretful and guilty. When he saw him coming, he subconsciously apologized first: "Is that right—"

A stone the size of a child's fist flew towards him, and Li Shi slapped it away with a slap.

Luo Hua was still a little dazed, that Ah Zhuang had already run in front of Li Shi, and punched and kicked Li Shi desperately without saying a word.

Li Shi kept silent and lightly blocked.

"Brother——" the little boy Ah Bao over there stopped crying when he saw Ah Zhuang's actions, and called out ignorantly.

I don't know where this call hit Ah Zhuang, tears came out of him instantly, and he opened his mouth to cry hoarsely and sternly: "It's all you! It's all you! You pay my grandpa! Pay my grandpa! Woooo Woo-"

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