[Old Nine Gates] The concubine is polite

In the winter of [-], on the streets of Changsha City——

"Dabao, are you sure it's this way?" The baby girl of the Zhang family, who was wrapped like a meat ball, followed her brother slowly, raised her head and carefully looked at the surrounding environment. The road I walked when I went out.

"It should be this road." Zhang Dazu looked up at the signboard flag of "Xu Ji Tea Lao" hanging on the street, turned his head and recalled the signs of the shops leading to Qijia Road in his memory, and made sure that his private car They always stopped at the intersection of Laochaying, and then walked inside on foot, "I remember my mother took me along this path when I paid New Year's greetings at the beginning of the year."

"Okay, then continue." Zhang Erbao, who acted decisively, continued to move forward with his short legs after hearing his brother's explanation.

"Erbao, are you tired, why don't I carry you?" Zhang Zuzong looked back at his sister who was so far away from him in an alley, and saw her walking hard step by step. A sense of responsibility as a brother.

"No, you can't carry me. I'll go by myself." Zhang Erbao is very self-aware. With his brother's small arms and legs, if he wants to carry himself, he may have to wait until he grows up and finishes martial arts training.

"Then are you tired?"

"Isn't this nonsense?" Zhang Erbao pursed his lips and rolled his eyes towards the sky, "Since you accidentally smashed father's favorite blue and white porcelain, we haven't slept almost all night. We got up at three o'clock in the morning just to keep Take the food delivery truck at [-] o’clock, then sneak out with the car at [-] o’clock, and arrive at the town street at [-]:[-], do you know what time it is?”

"Let me take a look." Zhang Zuzong lowered his head and turned out the small pocket watch hanging around his neck. "It's seven o'clock, so we've been walking for more than an hour. No wonder my legs feel so sore."

"It's more than just sore legs, my stomach is almost flattened by hunger now." Zhang Erbao reached out and touched Gululu's screaming belly, pouted aggrievedly, that pitiful little appearance, wearing cute cowboy clothes on his body With the blessing of the puppet coat, the brother who was traveling with him felt very distressed.

"Erbao is not sad. After passing this small alley, walk another temple street, and behind it is the godfather's incense hall." Zhang Zuzong ran to his sister in small steps, and softly comforted his unlucky family. The implicated girl said, "When you get to Xiangtang, whatever you want to eat, godfather will definitely buy it for you."

"Hmph, it's all your fault for talking about it." Zhang Erbao poked his brother's forehead with a chubby little finger, and complained in a childish voice: "As soon as I arrived in town, I suggested to take a rickshaw. Old Bajia, but you have to use your temper to say that you need to experience life. This is all right, I haven’t experienced the good life, and the two money bags I finally brought out all went into other people’s pockets. The best way to walk in the world What we are afraid of is being penniless, not to mention rickshaws, even cabbage steamed buns, we can only look at them but not eat them.”

"This, this is not what my mother taught us. Going to the streets is to integrate into the life of the city. We spent so much effort to sneak out, of course we have to enjoy the fun of private trading, otherwise we will take a rickshaw as soon as we go out. Godfather's house, what's the difference between this and our usual travel route?" Zhang Zuzong rubbed the place where his sister poked him, then took his sister by the hand and walked slowly towards the exit of the alley, "Also, my one The money bag was stolen, but your money bag was sent out by yourself, so you can’t blame me for that.”

"My mother said that there will be a war in [-], and countless civilians will be displaced. But look at our Changsha City. There are still two years before the war, but there are already many refugees from outside. Come in. Although my father has set up a refugee camp outside the city and assigned them a lot of work, there are still old and weak women and children begging on the street in thin clothes. I don’t know how to evaluate this phenomenon, maybe As my mother said, "The heaven and the earth are not benevolent, they treat all things as dogs, and the sages are not benevolent, and they treat the people as dogs." Individuals have their own destiny, and our help is limited. The most important thing is to rely on their own wisdom and ability. Keep them to themselves."

"That's why you decided not to give the purse directly to them, but to the owner of the tailor shop, and asked him to distribute quilts and thick clothes to the beggars?"

"Troubled times have always been a world where the weak prey on the strong. Since we have the ability to help them now, of course we can help a little bit. Rather than giving them money directly to cause scrambles and troubles, it is better to turn money into a must-have for the winter. After all, mother I just organized an event to give away winter clothes a month ago, and if I make up some more this time, I will take it as an answer to Mother's call."

"So that's it." Zhang Zuzong nodded with some understanding, but then he thought that his mother always took Er Bao to teach him carefully, but for himself, he always left it to his unsmiling father. Compared with this, he suddenly felt so pitiful , Mother is very biased.So Zhang Zuzong, who was unbalanced in his heart, turned his grief and anger into strength, pulled his sister to walk faster, and urged: "Erbao, let's hurry up, father usually leaves for the military camp at eight o'clock, so mother My dear, I always like to drag us up at 07:30 to accompany my father to eat and then go back to sleep. It’s [-]:[-] at the moment, and I guess Xiaojing and the others probably found that we were not in the house and started to search for us whereabouts."

"Yes, hurry up, you have to get to Lao Ba's house before they go to Qi's mansion, otherwise we both will be beaten up." As soon as he thinks of his mother's slender and slender hands, Zhang Erbao's heart beats It's all about speeding up.

Suddenly two sneaky footsteps came from behind him, Zhang Erbao turned around vigilantly and scolded: "Who? What are you doing sneaking behind us?"

"Hey, the little doll is quite alert." Two men in shabby gray cotton-padded clothes came out from the corner of the alley casually, one of them took two steps forward and tried to approach the babies and coaxed him: "Come on, come with me." Brothers go home together, there are a lot of sweets waiting for you to eat at my brother's house."

"Back, or don't blame us for being rude to you!" Zhang Erbao lifted his coat with his right hand, revealing a continuous crossbow made of fine steel on his left arm, aiming at the man who was close to him.

"Hey, don't, baby, how can you play with this kind of toy casually at such a young age? It's not good to hurt people." The man nervously put his hands in a gesture of surrender, and slowly took two steps back .

"We are not afraid of hurting bad people, as long as they are plotting against us, mother taught us to kill them with confidence!" Zhang Zuzong also followed his sister and pointed the crossbow on his arm at another man who followed, "I advise you It's best to stop and retreat immediately, otherwise, you will offend the members of the Nine Sects, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to continue messing around in Changsha City."

"Nine Gates?" The two men looked at each other suspiciously, and they both saw puzzlement in each other's eyes, "Little baby, we don't know what Nine Gates are. We only know that if we bring you back today, our this year's It’s much better in winter.”

"Are you refugees who just came to Changsha?" Zhang Zuzong frowned and looked at the two men with treacherous eyebrows, feeling uneasy began to spread in his heart.My mother said that when you go out, you will inevitably meet all kinds of people. What is terrible is never those people who play tricks, but those walking corpses who are so fearless that they dare to eat people.

"Hey, amazing, you all know this?" The younger refugee who was standing behind took a few steps forward curiously, "Then guess again, how many days have we been in Changsha City?"

"Less than two hours, the city gate opens at five o'clock, and it is only two hours away from now." Zhang Erbao looked at the two adult refugees expressionlessly, and said coldly: "And you followed us all the way for nearly an hour. Hours, it can be seen that you are not only trying to make money."

"Hey, Brother Liu, these two little dolls are serious." The young vagrant was full of excitement at discovering the value of the prey, and turned his head to propose to the leader: "If this is caught and sold to a rich family, maybe We're still going to get a lot of money."

"Catch them first." The older one glanced at Zhang's baby, turned his head and explained to his companion cautiously: "These two dolls seem to have a lot of background, we'd better make a quick decision. Leaving here, I always feel that the nine gates they talk about are not good."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." The young refugee pulled up his sleeves and said, "Then let's do it now?"

"Well, but be very careful, first disarm their weapons." The elderly refugee picked up the broken bamboo basket at his feet and covered Zhang Zuzong's head. The movement was so fast that Zhang Zuzong was caught off guard and shot at will. With an arrow, he was still avoided by the opponent.

"You are not allowed to bully Dabao!" Seeing that the elderly refugee was about to succeed, Zhang Erbao quickly shot an arrow at him. He intended to shoot him in the arm to scare the opponent away, so he turned around and shot at the young refugee who was close to him. Second arrow.

"Wow, it's so dangerous." Relying on his nimble body that has been sneaking for many years, the young refugee hastily dodged Zhang Erbao's deadly arrow. He glanced at the place where only the tail of the arrow remained on the wall, and turned his head to the mastermind in panic. : "Brother Liu, this girl is not a good stubble."

"It's up to you to say that. Didn't you see that my arm was also hit?" The elder angrily covered his arm that was scratched by the arrow's point, and shouted at the young refugee: "Still stunned!" What are you doing, hurry up and help catch them!"

"Oh, oh." The young refugee rushed forward to hug the backward female treasure, but saw that the male treasure shot an arrow at him again, so he was so angry that he changed from hugging to pushing, one sideways dodged the arrowhead, and pushed down the heavy one The girl rolled twice on the ground.

"younger sister!"