Chapter 12 Opportunity ()

In a fire that burned for seven days, the sky became ruins and the Great Zhou Dynasty was completely destroyed.

After the demise of the Great Zhou Dynasty, all the princes in the world became kings one after another, and the world entered an era of war and chaos in a hundred countries.

This chaos lasted nearly one hundred and fifty years.

In nearly one hundred and fifty years, most of the small kingdoms were destroyed, and Yan, which only had three cities and eight towns, was such a small country.

When Yan State was still there, Yan City was the capital of Yan State.

Although Yancheng was the capital of Yan State more than 130 years ago, Yancheng was actually not big, only more than ten miles long and only seven or eight miles wide.

Yancheng is not big and is not a strategic location, so naturally there will be no war disasters.

On the day of the Chinese New Year, the wind and snow that lasted for eight days finally stopped, and this Yan City, which had not had a war in more than 30 years, became lively.

Although the New Year is a day for family reunion and a day when they work for a year, those who are in the position of officials, landlords, and rich peasants are very generous on the New Year. Not only are the shops in Yancheng open to do business, but the number of snacks and jugglings on the streets is also comparable to the most lively gatherings of the year.

As Si is approaching, the streets of Yancheng are already full of traffic and people are buzzing.

Among the lively crowds, there are dignitaries and nobles who are surrounded by them, there are groups of landlords and rich peasants, cautious poor tenants, and there are timid and inferior beggars who are not covered in clothes.

People will not explore how a beggar becomes a beggar. Those who have good intentions will give some charity to those beggars. Those who do not want to give alms will avoid them from afar.

Just like not all the people in groups of three or five, the landlords and rich peasants were walking on the streets, and not all those who were unwilling to give alms would avoid the dirty beggars on them from afar.

Next to a little beggar with a burn on his face, there were five men with a not-sturdy figure but fierce face.

The oldest of these five men is thirty-five or six years old, and the youngest is less than twenty years old. Although they are all wearing coarse cotton coats, they do not have patches like other poor farmers wearing coarse cotton coats.

The five people called themselves the Five Wolves of Yancheng, and were famous rogues in Yancheng.

The five wolves in Yancheng do not have the time to be in charge. They were notoriously famous throughout Yancheng because they showed the rogues bullying the weak and the strong, and bullying the poor and the rich to the extreme.

The little beggar did not provoke the five wolves of Yancheng, and the five wolves of Yancheng did not see anything interesting to them in the little beggar, but the five wolves of Yancheng still wanted to teach the little beggar a lesson.

The burn on the little beggar's face was quite serious, and the burn on the hands covered by his sleeves was even worse.

This little beggar surrounded by the five wolfs of Yancheng is just a stone.

The quiet mountain village is less than thirty miles away from Yancheng. When Shitou and the adults from the mountain village came to Yancheng to sell medicine, they also brought Xiao Ni'er to Yancheng to play.

After descending from the mountain behind the mountain village, Shi Tou moved his footsteps to Yancheng.

When the stone came down from the mountain, it was not yet dawn. When the stone came to Yancheng, it was already Si.

There are beggars in Yan City, so no one noticed someone like Shi Tou who looks like a little beggar.

After entering Yancheng, looking at the dense crowds of people on the street, Shi Tou, who was already unconscious, didn't know how to find Xiao Nier among so many people.

With instinct, Shitou moved his body that seemed to have lost consciousness towards the place where he and Xiao Ni'er had been before.

In front of a small stall selling osmanthus cakes, Shi Tou stopped.

Although the money Shitou earned from selling medicinal materials was not enough for him and Xiao Nier's daily life, Shitou once bought a small piece of osmanthus cake for Xiao Nier.

Last fall, Shi Tou bought osmanthus cakes at two old men's stalls, but at this time, the couple in their early thirties were selling osmanthus cakes in front of Shi Tou.

The man had some funny buck teeth when he smiled, and he was the kind of person who could never forget it at a glance.

Next to the couple was a little boy dragging his nose, probably the couple's son.

Maybe the osmanthus cake sold at this stall tastes very good, maybe the osmanthus cake sold at this stall is relatively cheap, maybe people are very generous on this day of the New Year, and this stall selling osmanthus cake is doing very well.

Seeing the osmanthus cakes on the stall getting fewer and fewer, the couple's faces were filled with smiles.

Shitou was not far from the stall selling osmanthus cakes. When there were fewer people in front of the stall, the couple who sold osmanthus cakes also noticed Shitou.

Seeing Shi Tou staring at their stall in a daze, the man with buck teeth looked at his wife, picked up half of the broken osmanthus cake on the stall and wrapped it in a piece of straw paper, handed it to the hand of the little boy standing beside them, and then pointed at Shi Tou.

After receiving the instructions from his parents, the little boy obediently delivered the small paper bag to Shi Tou.

However, when he placed the small paper bag on the stone's hands that were subconsciously stretched out, the little boy suddenly twisted a small piece of broken osmanthus cake the size of a little finger in the small paper bag.

After stuffing the small piece of osmanthus cake into his mouth, the little boy grimaced at the stone and ran back to his parents.

Shi Tou looked at the osmanthus cake in his hand, then looked at the couple who were smiling and preaching to the little boy, his lips moved but no sound was made.

Just as Shi Tou was stunned when he was holding a small paper bag and watching the couple in a daze, five men wearing coarse cotton coats appeared in front of the stall, blocking Shi Tou's view.

"Fan Liuer, I heard that your business is good today!"

The one who came to the stall was the Five Wolves of Yancheng, and the one who spoke was Li Er, the oldest of the five people, who was also the boss of the Five Wolves of Yancheng.

The man with buck teeth was named Fan, and he was ranked as Lao Liu. People who knew him in Yancheng usually called him Fan Lao Liu, and those who called him Fan Liuer were some of the rascals in Yancheng.
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