Chapter 10 Ms. Li

Yangjiyuan is a large courtyard.

Or it used to be a large courtyard, but now it has become a ruin.

Although many houses in ancient times have been left to this day and have become an example of people marveling at the tenacious vitality of ancient buildings, they do not know that this is just a survivor's deviation. Most ancient buildings are actually not of good quality. If they are maintained from time to time, they will even persist for decades.

Of course, if someone maintains it on a daily basis, it may be able to be stored for a long time.

The Yangshiyuan is obviously a typical example of no one maintaining it.

The outer wall was already intermittent, so that Zhou Mengchen didn't have to go through the main entrance, but just needed to enter through the diminishing gap in the wall.

As soon as Zhou Mengchen entered the Yangji Academy, he felt like he was traveling to the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

There are wild weeds everywhere, covering up the houses and the collapsed bricks and tiles. There is also a deep feeling. It seems that there are ghosts and lonely people watching secretly.

However, Zhou Mengchen's eyes fell on the road and said to himself: "Someone."

There is no road in the world, and if you walk more people, it will become a road. This sentence can also be said in reverse. Even if there is a road in the world, but no one has walked for a long time, it will become a road. The wild grass and vines that grow freely everywhere will not know what road or what is not a road.

But in the grass, there is a clear road.

This shows a problem.

That is, there are still people in this Yangyuan.

Zhou Mengchen and Zhou Dazhuang walked along the trail to the backyard. Before they could see it, they saw ridges of land planted with all kinds of vegetables. These vegetables were well maintained, and there was not a single weed in the field.

It was carefully managed by someone.

Zhou Mengchen looked around and found that there was a row of yards deep in the Yangji Courtyard, which were actually intact.

After Zhou Mengchen approached, he heard the voices. However, he saw that the courtyard at the deepest part of Yangjiyuan had two rows of houses and was neat. Zhou Mengchen saw many traces of repairs on it. In the small courtyard inside, there were dozens of children of all sizes, and there were more than a dozen elderly people, who were already disabled, all of whom were missing their arms and legs.

However, Zhou Mengchen's eyes fell on one of them.

There is nothing else, this person is incompatible with the flag here.

Both the elderly and the children were pale and thin, and ragged. Seeing the beggars, Zhou Mengchen almost suspected that he had come to the base of the Beggars' Sect.

Among these beggars, there was a girl wearing white clothes. Although she was spotless among the group, she was covered with a gauze scarf. She didn't know how she looked. Just looking at her figure and eyebrows, she was a beauty. When she looked at her beautiful hair like a waterfall, she knew that she was an unmarried daughter.

The girl was wearing white clothes. Although Zhou Mengchen stood far away and couldn't see it clearly, she could also see that she was very thin and light, and it should be silk.

Although the Ming Dynasty produced silk a lot, not everyone can afford silk.

Generally, the people of the Ming Dynasty wore cotton cloth, and some people who were extremely poor wore sackcloths or had no clothes to wear.

From clothing to dressing, this girl was out of place with this group of people. There was also a maid behind her, who seemed to be two years younger than him, and was guarding next to a heavy box. Due to angle issues, Zhou Mengchen did not see anything inside the box.

However, he guessed that it should be the medicine box.

Because he saw an old man with white hair sitting next to the girl, stretching out one hand, the girl stretched out three fingers in a good manner, and putting it on the old man's wrist, was taking a pulse.

"Cough cough." The old man coughed for a while and said, "Miss Li, I have nothing to do. Even if there is anything, I will be a life-saving thing."

The girl said in a crisp voice: "Brother Zhao. You have nothing to do, you are just weak. This won't work. How many meals did you have today?"

The old man coughed twice, but refused to speak.

The girl sighed and said, "Isn't I eating again?" She turned her head to the maid behind her and said, "Give it Xiaohuan."

Xiaohuan said, "Miss, you came from where the eldest master has come. I haven't even warmed up yet."

The girl's voice slightly heavier and she said, "I'll ask you to bring it, you can bring it."

Xiaohuan could only carefully take out a small silver ingot from his arms. It was really a very small silver ingot. It was probably the size of an ordinary person's thumb. The color was a bit dark and not as dazzling as in the TV series.

The girl took the silver ingot and handed it to the old man, saying, "There is a tael of silver here. You can buy some salt, oil and grains."

The old man held the silver with his hands tremblingly and said, "Miss Li, I know your kindness, but you have paid several taels of silver. You can't let you pay any more, I'm really ashamed." Although he said this, the old man was already holding the silver and did not return it to the girl.

Because for some people, money is just money, but for some people, money is fate. Although they are guilty, they really cannot expel the lives of more than a hundred old and young people.

The girl was about to say something, but she heard a loud voice shouting: "Old man Zhao, why haven't the money you should pay yet?"

Before the sound of the person arrived, the old man's heart trembled. Soon several beggars had arrived.

These beggars were so strange. Although they were ragged, their faces were red and their waists were big. There were even one or two, as if the torn clothes on them could no longer cover their big belly.

This is abnormal.

In this era, beggars are hungry and full, and it is better to survive. How can they develop such a body shape?

Zhou Mengchen immediately knew that this was the so-called Beggars' Sect.

In the opposite way to Jin Yong's novels, the Beggars' Sect was very kind. There was no unified Beggars' Sect organization in history, but there were beggars everywhere, which was to rule all beggars, squeeze oil and water from these beggars, and eat this bloody meal. Just think about it, it was already extremely difficult for these people to become beggars.

Every penny is their life.

These beggars are naturally extremely cruel to squeeze oil and water from them. They are unbearable to write. They cheat and even kill and kill lives, trafficking, etc. As long as they have money, they don’t do anything they don’t want to do.

As soon as these beggars came over, they saw the girl. The money in Old Man Zhao's hand was already in her eyes, and they immediately said, "Oh, I didn't expect that Old Man Zhao, you gave us a big gift. I took both the silver and the woman."

Dozens of young and old men immediately stopped in front of him, and Old Man Zhao said, "What are you going to do?"

A beggar's head said, "Of course you want everything." As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed up and knocked several old men over with three punches and two kicks.

Although one side has a large hand, it has a round waist and a rosy complexion. Although the other side has a large number of people, it is young and old, and it cannot even eat enough food. It is weak all over. Even when you stand up, you will be staggering and naturally you will not be able to resist.

At this moment, Zhou Mengchen shouted: "Da Zhuang."

Dazhuang understood, so he strode out, clenched his fists, like a drumstick, from top to bottom, and punched him hard at the face of these beggar heads. The two beggar heads who were hit suddenly fell to the ground, feeling the stars running around, and the ups and downs of the forehead were gushing out, and tears and snot flowed.

It's impossible to control at all.

The remaining beggars immediately supported the injured and said, "Who are you?"

Zhou Mengchen snorted coldly and took out a waist card from his waist, which was not a gold medal or a silver medal, or even a bronze medal. It was not that the Ming Dynasty did not have gold, silver and bronze medals, but that Zhou Mengchen's level was not enough. It would be good to have a wooden card if it was just a ninth-rank official, but it was a brush with red paint as the base, and the black paint was used to write down Zhou Mengchen's position and grade.

It also looks a bit imposing.

This is a symbol of Zhou Mengchen's official status. It is brand new.

It was made by the county government after Zhou Mengchen attacked his post.

Others like beggars who are mixed on the streets may not be easy to use, but their eyesight must be easy to use. Otherwise, they would not know how to die. They may not be able to read, but they have definitely seen such tooth cards from the government. They didn't dare to move immediately.

Zhou Mengchen walked up, held the tooth card in his hand, and played the beggar's head's face one after another, and said, "Did you see clearly?"

The beggar didn't dare to move his head, but just smiled and said, "Did you have any misunderstandings?"

Don’t look at the beggars with great prestige, and even these people come together, Zhou Dazhuang may not be the opponent. But Zhou Mengchen was sure that they would not dare to take action. If a ninth-rank official died in a place far away from the sky and the emperor was not a big deal, but where was this?

It was in Wuchang, the capital of Huguang Province. If a beggar dared to attack officials in such a place, all civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty could go home to sleep.

These gangsters are certainly powerful in front of ordinary people, but in front of the imperial court officials, they are just a dog, even if the imperial court officials are only a ninth rank.

This is why Wang Daozhi is determined to be a hereditary official, even if he is a ninth-rank official. It is really too different from Bai Shi. It is a good student, but who can guarantee that his family can pass the exam for scholars from generation to generation?

Zhou Mengchen knew that such people were bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. The more arrogant you were, the less he dared to be presumptuous. He talked to them in anger, but instead thought you were weak.

Zhou Mengchen kept hitting the tooth cards in his hands, and it became heavier and heavier, making the beggar's head and face red, and even hit his nose, causing bleeding. The beggar's head to move even though he didn't dare to move.

Seeing that the tooth sign was stained with blood, Zhou Mengchen stopped and said, "The Yangjiyuan is now under my jurisdiction. Who would dare to enter the Yangjiyuan again? I will send you to the river repair work and get out of here."
Chapter completed!