Old Man's Begging Stick

A Heng followed Old Wentou out of Xiaoyan Town with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Old Wentou was walking slowly, but he was not fast either.

After they walked across a small stone bridge, dusk had already fallen, outside the small stone bridge there were luxuriant grass, and a winding dirt path led to the woods outside the town.

Not long after walking, a small dilapidated temple appeared on the side of the road.The roof of the small temple is covered with withered and yellow grass in a mess. In the early autumn wind, the broken grass is tossing around on the roof.

The ruined temple is ventilated on all sides, but the two door panels look the best.Of course, this is only relative, there are still a few gaps under the door panel.In the twilight, a little bit of fire shines through the dilapidated door panels of the ruined temple.

Before the two stepped forward, they saw the cracked door panel open.A thin, yellow-faced boy with some freckles poked his head out from the door panel and grinned, "You guys are back! I've been waiting for you for a long time! What's the matter, Ah Heng? Why was he beaten so wet?"

Old Wen waved his hand: "Don't mention it, quickly light a fire and let Ah Heng roast it. It will be terrible if you get sick."

The dejected Ah Heng walked into the ruined temple, and the dilapidated temple door was closed afterwards.

In the dilapidated small temple, there is only one statue of a god that is about to collapse. The mottled paintings have long faded, leaving a dusty interior.As soon as Ah Heng came in, he stared at the broken statue.Who is this statue?

Who cares, no one worships anyway.

Around the fire, Er Gouzi took out a duck rack with little meat from a dirty bowl, and the duck rack was still stained with sticky and unknown liquid.

The old man was overjoyed when he saw this cockiness: "It's still a dog. Where did it come from?"

Er Gou called Ah Heng to sit down: "Don't stand around stupidly, come and eat, and put out the fire after eating. Otherwise, monsters will take advantage of the fire to eat us." He moved away from the fire The nearest location greeted: "Come and roast, it's so rare to light a fire."

Ah Heng walked over and sat down stiffly. He put his begging stick by his side, and asked hoarsely, "Monster?"

"The monsters are particularly terrifying. Our ruined temple can't stand the claws of the monsters." Er Gou pulled the duck's neck from the shelf and put it in the Ah Heng bowl. The duck's neck had the most meat.

"Aheng, here you are..." Old Wentou picked up one of the whitest steamed buns and gave it to Ah Heng, "Eat it."

Er Gouzi chewed the bare meatless duck bones: "It's delicious, Xinghualou opened today, and I snatched it while Sanhu and the others were not paying attention."

Ah Heng was holding a broken bowl in his hand. In the bowl was a rotten steamed bun and a piece of duck neck with skin on it, which was the best food among the three of them.

After Ergou chewed up the duck bones, he picked up even the slightest crumbs that fell on the ground and chewed them carefully in his mouth.Old Wentou is getting old, he can't eat duck bones, and even the rotten steamed buns can only be soaked in water until softened before eating.

A Heng looked down at the food in the bowl. He put the duck neck into Ergou's bowl, then broke off half a steamed bun and put it into Old Wentou's bowl: "I eat this enough..."

"You are so big, how can you eat only a little?" Ergou and Old Wentou muttered to give in to each other, but they didn't hold back Ah Heng.

The taste of the rotten steamed buns soaked in warm water was not very good, but Ah Heng still tasted a little bit sweet. He drank two large bowls of water, and the bowls didn't need to be washed.

There was not even a trace of oil in the whole meal. Taking advantage of the slight light outside, Ergou put out the bonfire, and then used an old cart from the small dilapidated temple to block the gate of the gap.

There was a meter-wide distance between the back of the dilapidated statue and the wall, and some worn out clothes were spread on the floor. Once I lay down inside and was covered by the statue, I felt more secure.Here is where the three beggars slept.

Ah Heng was tall, and he took up more than half of the room when he lay down.He curled up in embarrassment, his head against the wall, and Ergou's feet stretched out behind his back.Old Wen was lying with his head slanted, and the three of them were crowded together to fill the place behind the statue.

"Aheng, you and I will go grab food waste tomorrow." Er Gou whispered, "There should be more tomorrow, so let's go early. Grab more and come back."

Ah Heng was silent and refused to speak, he didn't want to beg for food, nor did he want to grab things.He felt that it didn't matter if he ate it or not.

The old Wentou chuckled: "Go to sleep, we'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Sleep, sleep! Be quiet, don't attract the monster!" Gouzi grunted, and soon fell asleep.

The light outside the house was swallowed by the darkness little by little, and the insects in the grass began to chirp.Ah Heng stared at both eyes, listening to Er Gou and Old Wen Tou's snoring like thunder.

He touched the begging stick and was speechless. Didn't he say to be quiet?

The sun rose in the east, and the golden morning light passed through the dilapidated roof and fell on the beams full of insect eyes.

Ah Heng leaned on a begging stick and opened the door of the ruined temple early. At this moment, he was sitting on the threshold basking in the sun.Hearing the voices of Ergou and Old Wentou, he turned to look at them.

Er Gou wiped his face with a ball of cloth indiscriminately, and he casually threw the cloth on the wooden stand beside him.The poor cloth ball was not hung properly, and fell to the dirty ground again.

Ergou didn't care about this at all, he took a broken pot carelessly: "Aheng, Aheng, come with me! The Xinghualou opened yesterday, and there must be a lot of food waste this morning! Let's go get some! "

Ah Heng was sitting on the threshold, and Er Gou dragged him by the hand: "Hurry up, hurry up, you're so slow, you can't keep up with hot shit!"

Ah Heng's body was so stiff that Ergou finally pointed him in a direction: "Over there! Hey, you are slower than Old Wentou, what will you do in the future!"

After speaking, the thin boy turned a corner and disappeared on the path.Ergou has been in Xiaoyan Town for many years, and has long known that the road can reach the back door of Xinghualou the fastest.

Old Wen Tou walked tremblingly beside Ah Heng on crutches, and he looked at A Gou with a smile: "Er Gou is a good boy. Old Li Tou gave him to me before he died, but all these years, he has been Ergou is taking care of me, a useless old man."

Ah Heng looked sideways at Old Li Tou, there seemed to be a layer of gray on Old Li Tou's face, Ah Heng said: "Old Wen Tou, I didn't wipe my face clean."

Old Wen rubbed his face indifferently: "Are we beggars? If it's too clean, it's not good."

Ah Heng nodded, before he had time to say anything, he was taught by the old Wentou: "You are too clean. Look at you, what a begging life, it would be better if you were a little more downcast, come on Come, let me put some mud on you."

Before Ah Heng could react, a handful of ashes hit his head and face, and his already withered face suddenly turned gray.

Ah Heng looked at Old Wentou again, he felt that the ash on his face was different from that on Old Wentou's face.The ashes on his face could be washed off, but the gray on Old Wen's face seemed to come out from his body, giving him an ominous feeling.

Ah Heng and Old Wen walked slowly towards Xinghualou. They made an appointment with Gouzi to meet in the alley outside Xinghualou.In this way, they can go home with the food waste, and Gouzi can lure Sangou and the others away.

The Xinghua Building is located in the center of Xiaoyan Town. There is a huge apricot tree at the door. It is said that it has a history of a hundred years.When Xinghualou was refurbished and opened yesterday, the owner of Xinghualou also invited great experts from the comprehension world to come.Daneng showed his hand, and the apricot tree blossomed on the spot, causing a sensation in Xiaoyan Town.

To this day, there are still remnants of flowers on the apricot tree.

Early in the morning, a group of people gathered under the apricot blossom tree. Ah Heng, who came to enjoy the flowers, looked at the group of people suspiciously. He saw that their actions were not for viewing the flowers, but for...fighting

"Please forgive me, please forgive me...I don't dare anymore! Help me!" Ergou's voice came from far away.Old Wentou and Ah Heng were taken aback.

It was Ergou who was beaten under the apricot tree! !

"Second dog! Gouzi!" Old Wen's legs went limp all of a sudden, and his whole body trembled.Gouzi and him depended on each other for life. Seeing Gouzi being beaten, Old Wen was heartbroken.

Old Wentou cried and ran to the apricot tree: "Don't hit him! Don't hit him!"

Running too fast, Old Wen fell heavily on the ground, not even caring about the few baby steamed buns rolled out of the tattered cloth bag.

"Old Wentou..." Er Gouzi stretched out his hand, his face was covered with blood and tears from crying, he wanted to speak, but his breath was stuck in his throat and he couldn't speak.Sangouzi's foot stepped on his chest, and he felt so painful...

"Dog..." Old Wen's head was bruised, he got up and ran down the tree, but he was old and his speed was really not fast enough.

The group of little beggars who beat Gouzi were led by Sanhu.The begging range of the three tigers is in the area of ​​Xinghualou. Yesterday Gouzi pulled out his teeth, and he is still here today!

As soon as Sanhu saw Old Wen, he sneered: "Heh, it's just in time, I'm sending you two bastards to the west together today..."

A black whirlwind blew past, and the beggars who beat people under the apricot tree really went to the sky, and after they went to the sky, they fell heavily again.

Ah Heng held a black begging stick in his hand. Standing beside Er Gou, he was a bit surprised, but he soon became expressionless.This expression is quite oppressive, at least Ergou who was lying on the ground was a little scared to see Ah Heng like this.

Er Gouzi coughed up bloody saliva, then held his chest and panted for a while. He lay on the ground and looked at A Heng in disbelief, as if dreaming: "A Heng"

"Can you stand up?" Ah Heng slowly propped the begging stick on the ground, as if he wasn't the one who hit four or five people flying with the stick just now.

The three tigers fell in a daze, he felt that his internal organs had been displaced, and when he struggled to get up from the ground, his little brothers were still rolling on the ground.

"You...you wait for me..." Sanhu's eyes showed fear. Where did this tall, yellow and thin man come from? He must be with Old Wentou and the others. Sanhu was still pretending to be calm. I will come to you, just wait!"

Ah Heng frowned, and the begging stick in his hand fell to the almond blossom tree beside him.

There was only a loud noise, and the whole apricot tree burst, and the cracked wood fell on the surrounding roofs, and the broken branches were all over the street.The broken branches and leaves fell on a group of people like heavy rain.The huge cracking sound awakened many residents who were still in their dreams.

Sanhu was trembling with fright, his trousers gradually became wet.

"Get out." Ah Heng said a word lightly, if the three tigers dared to make trouble, Ah Heng thought he would give them a stick each.

Sanhu and the others were so frightened that they couldn't stand still, and ran away without daring to turn their heads. "Aheng..."

Old Wentou and Ergou stared blankly at Ah Heng who was standing there, and the tall and tall Ah Heng looked particularly strong and reliable.The tears in Gouzi's eyes are rolling, old Wentou will pick up all kinds of garbage and go home, Ah Heng must be the best thing he picked up!

Look at Ah Heng, who looks skinny, broke the apricot blossom tree with one stick!

almond tree...broken

almond tree...

Gouzi's eyes darkened, feeling like he was struck by lightning.

"Die!! Run!" Er Gouzi struggled to get up and dragged Ah Heng and Old Wentou to run, "A Heng, you interrupt the town shop tree in Xinghualou, they will interrupt you later! Hands and feet!"

Ah Heng: ...

Gouzi, weren’t you half dead just now? What’s going on like you’ve been slapped with chicken blood now? And you old Wentou, who was unable to move just now, why are you running so fast now?