beggar prince

Two years later, it happened to be a disaster year, with severe drought in spring and flood in autumn.The grain was not harvested, and rice was sold at a high price. The people of Li were starving.

The life of the beggars is even more difficult. The copper coins and food donated are not enough to fit between the teeth. Four beggars starved to death in a row in the beggar's house.

The beggars who starved to death were eaten by the living beggars, and the rare smell of meat wafted from the dilapidated thatched cottage.Lin Heng and Qi He were also ready to eat, but they couldn't eat the meat no matter what. Lin Heng ran outside the house and vomited acid water.

The business in the brothel is bleak, the girls barely have enough to eat, and the old bustard strictly forbids giving food to the beggars.

Miss Cuiyan occasionally secretly delivered some food to Lin Heng, but was caught by the bustard once, and even Lin Heng was beaten.Since that day, Lin Heng has not seen Miss Cuiyan.

Lin Heng was hungry every day, and the beggars caught bugs, mice, and snakes to feed their hunger, and sometimes went to Beishan to hunt hares and roe deer to eat.

Hunger tortured Lin Heng to the brink of death, his stomach was empty.

The new festival is approaching, and although the people of Liaodong have encountered natural disasters, they are still full of joy.Lin Heng knelt on the street begging for food, but only got one steamed bun.People buy special purchases for the New Year, but they can’t go out behind closed doors.

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, Lin Heng was begging along the street, sitting on a cold bluestone with a broken porcelain bowl in front of him.

I didn't even get a grain of rice all morning, my stomach was growling, and I was sighing and worrying.

At this time, a carriage came galloping, and the handsome horse pulling the cart neighed for no reason, and galloped towards Lin Heng, kicked its heels, and lifted its hooves into the air.

Lin Heng saw a strong black horse on top of his head, about to step on him.He rolled around in fright, and the horse fell to the ground with a bang, and Lin Heng felt the street shake.

Lin Heng lay under the horse, trembling unceasingly.The coachman jumped out of the carriage to appease the handsome horse.

Zhao Yuanjian opened the curtain of the car and poked his head out to look. He was also frightened by the horse.

The coachman picked up Lin Heng's ragged cotton jacket, and slapped his hands cracklingly: "Where are you bastards, dare to block our young master's carriage!"

Lin Heng scolded angrily: "Fuck you, mother, I'm here to beg for food, your horse is crazy, it must be because you didn't drive the horse well, it's on me."

The coachman still wanted to quibble, but Zhao Yuanjian told him to shut up, and then got off the carriage.

Zhao Yuanjian saw an extremely ugly little beggar, wearing a torn robe with sour smell and cotton wool, his face was covered with thick mud and dust, and he had a big hideous tumor.

He pinched his waist and stared at the coachman with one sharp eye.

Zhao Yuanjian turned around and said, "Continue on your way."

But Lin Heng pinched his waist, refused to let go, and jumped to scold the coachman: "You son of a bitch."

He is not shy at all, after two years as a beggar, he has no shame at all.At this moment, Lin Heng's stomach made a loud rumbling sound.

Lin Heng stopped to look at Zhao Yuanjian. He directed the anger in his chest towards Zhao Yuanjian. He jumped and scolded: "What are you looking at? Have you ever seen a beggar? I hate the son who looks like a dog the most, young master." Already!"

Zhao Yuanjian said angrily: "You are really hateful, and I didn't mess with you!"

The coachman scolded him back: "Where is the wild dog, dare to scold our young master?"

Lin Heng pointed at Zhao Yuanjian and scolded: "Why, sir, I'm scolding this dog, animal, and animal."

After he finished cursing, he was a little embarrassed, and his stomach growled again.Lin Heng sat back on the big bluestone in distress, bent one leg and leaned on his chest, and put his hands in the ragged cotton robe to keep warm, but he was still shivering from the cold.

Zhao Yuanjian was very angry, but for some reason, he felt that the beggar looked familiar.

He looked at the little beggar, his thin body was very pitiful in the cold wind, his hair was gray, he had frostbite on his hands and face, and there was yellow water dripping from a horrible purple tumor on his face.

At this time, the little beggar frowned his gray eyebrows, a little tear came out of that eye, and he pursed his thin lips, looking very sad.

Zhao Yuanjian's heart softened, and he felt sympathy for the little beggar. He turned around and asked the driver to buy some food.

Lin Heng thought he was unlucky today, and met a turtle driver.

The coachman returned with food in his arms, and Zhao Yuanjian handed [-] steamed buns and a roast chicken to Lin Heng.

Lin Heng stood up stupidly, he asked in surprise, "For me?"

Zhao Yuanjian said with a cold face, "It's for you."

Lin Heng turned his anger into joy. He smiled and said, "Thank you, young master, you are really a good person. A villain just now shouldn't scold you, you are different from other young masters."

He knelt down gratefully and touched Zhao Yuanjian's fox fur boots.

Lin Heng found that his hands were covered with dirty snow. He touched Zhao Yuanjian's shoes just now and soiled his precious shoes.

Lin Heng quickly used the cleanest corner of the torn cotton robe to carefully wipe off the dirty snow on Zhao Yuanjian's leather boots.

Zhao Yuanjian looked down at Lin Heng's flustered appearance, and felt even more sympathetic. He said, "I have a big heart. If you scold me, I don't hold grudges. Get up quickly, and you will wait for me here tomorrow."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, boarded the carriage, and left.

Lin Heng swallowed two steamed buns and looked gratefully at the carriage going away.He ate two steamed buns first, and then returned to the hut with the remaining steamed buns and roast chicken, and distributed them to the beggars in the house.

Lin Heng told Qi He about meeting Zhao Yuanjian, and Qi He said, "You have met a good man."

The next day, Lin Heng rushed to the alley early, he was looking forward to seeing Zhao Yuanjian.

At noon, Zhao Yuanjian's carriage stopped beside Lin Heng. Lin Heng stood up happily and looked at the curtain of the carriage.

Zhao Yuanjian lifted the curtain of the car and jumped out of the carriage. He carried two big packages to eat and walked towards Lin Heng.

Lin Heng looked at Zhao Yuanjian. Zhao Yuanjian was a handsome and elegant young man with a green hairpin stuck in his hair.He was wearing a shiny mink fur cape and a pair of fox fur boots.

He has a pair of peach blossom eyes, with a warm smile in his eyes, which makes people feel like a spring breeze.Lin Heng looked familiar to him.

Zhao Yuanjian squatted down, handed the package to Lin Heng, and said, "From tomorrow's New Year's Eve, I will not be able to go out, so you should save food."

Lin Heng was grateful and kowtowed ten times to him.

Zhao Yuanjian said: "It doesn't have to be like this, just accept it."

Lin Heng got up, took out a piece of snack and chewed it, it was sweet and delicious.He asked while eating: "Brother Immortal, if it weren't for you, I would still be hungry, I would be a fucking ugly beggar, dirty and smelly, you can still treat me so well, you are the worst in the world Good son. By the way, what's your name?"

Zhao Yuanjian said: "Zhao Yuanjian."

Lin Heng put down the package in his hand, patted his thigh, and said, "What a fucking coincidence, no wonder you look familiar to me."

He stood up and asked, "At the gate of the Qin Mansion, a boy bumped into you and scolded you. Do you remember him?"

Zhao Yuanjian looked at him and asked in surprise, "You hit me?"

Lin Heng didn't want to give up the chance to make friends, his instinct told himself that this is a noble son of noble birth, maybe this son can save himself from the fire pit.

He said: "It's me, Brother Immortal, waiting for you to go far away. I picked up a piece of jade on the ground and wanted to return it to you, but I couldn't find you."

As he spoke, he took out the piece of jade from his tattered chest pocket and handed it to Zhao Yuanjian.

Zhao Yuanjian took it, took off the dirty mud on the jade, and saw that it was really the jade.Zhao Yuanjian put away the jade and said: "Little brother, you are a real gentleman who picks up gold. I appreciate people like you."

Zhao Yuanjian was a little worried when he saw Lin Heng's face, and felt sorry for him. His face was once beautiful.

Zhao Yuanjian thought that the white jade was given to him by the crown prince. It is said that the two had a very good relationship when they were young.Although he only has a vague memory of the prince, he loves this piece of jade very much.

He took a liking to the beggar.

Seeing that it was getting late, he said, "I'm going first, I'll come to you when I'm free."

He jumped into the carriage, smiled at Lin Heng, and let the coachman drive away.

Lin Heng felt that he was a fool, how could he return the priceless jade so easily.If the young master doesn't want to save himself, what's the use of returning the jade to him.

But he also thought that since he was a member of the beggar gang, he might be threatened by the boss for the rest of his life, and it would be useless to keep the jade, and let the boss find out that he had been snatched away.

Instead of taking it away, it is better to return the jade to the young master.He thought this young man was really a good man.

He hid two parcels of food and gave them to the beggars in the house, who lived on them for half a month.

On the 15th Lantern Festival, the sound of festive firecrackers spread into the dilapidated house, and the beggars were aggrieved. There were fifteen beggars in the house, but now there are only five left.The blind old beggar and the beggar with a broken leg were starving to death.

If the five of them can't beg for copper coins and food, it means that all of them will starve to death.

Qi He ran to the thatched hut where no one lived, caught ten mice and came back.The skin of the mouse was boiled and the meat was eaten.

Qi He farted while eating, he said: "In the future, I want to be a general and get out of this damn place."

The big guy thought it was funny, so he laughed at him.

Lin Heng looked at the closed shops around with hatred, and said, "I will definitely take revenge in the future!"

Smelling the smell of meat, Lin Heng pulled a mouse leg with his dirty little hands and chewed it in his mouth.When I was half full, I wrapped my cotton robe tightly, lay down and fell asleep.

Lin Heng dreamed that Zhao Yuanjian came to visit him and brought him a roasted pig. His mother also came and gave him candied haws to eat.