Fang Yu's mouth twitched when she heard that the princess disguised as a beggar was using gold leaves.
Ah this
He always thought that this kind of plot could only be found in story books, and the real world should be logical.
As a result, I never expected that there really are such "simple" people in this world!
Sure enough, reality is far more magical than words.
You're dressed like a beggar, how can you use gold leaves?
Isn’t this someone coming to snatch it?
In other words, does it increase the possibility of being coveted?!
Although he didn't understand it, the fact was that Chen Xue did just that.
After a few people went out, they followed the direction pointed by the restaurant boy and continued their investigation.
But the clues to the investigation were cut off after entering an alley.
Because, according to the clues, the princess walked into this alley at that time, but when Fang Yu and the others walked into this alley, they discovered that this alley was a dead end!
Looking at the towering wall in front of us, behind the wall is a street, and on the side of the street is the government gate of Jingzhao Mansion.
At the gate of the Jingzhao Mansion Office, there are two officials standing guard at the door at all times.
At that position, if someone were to turn over from here, it would be impossible to see unless both people in the government office were blind.
Through the yamen officer on duty that day, when the yamen officer learned that Qin Siyu was investigating a serious case, he was almost scared to death.
As we all know, once Jingyesi finds you, the person under investigation will either confiscate your family, exterminate your family, or exile you thousands of miles away. Even if the two of them gave him a hundred thousand courage, they would not dare to lie about this kind of thing.
Qin Siyu also judged that these two people had no trace of lying and no reason to lie.
Because of the disappearance of the princess, based on the current clues, it is obvious that she escaped on her own. Her route of action is uncertain and completely unpredictable. In this case, the probability of the two government servants being bribed is almost zero.
In this way, Chen Xue did not climb over the wall here, but there is no secret passage here, how could she disappear out of thin air?
The originally smooth search fell into a deadlock at this moment.
At this moment, in an abandoned mansion.
A group of little beggars, led by a few older beggars, pushed open the gate of the mansion.
Inside this mansion, there are ruined rocks and ruined walls and overgrown weeds everywhere. The image of decay makes the entire mansion look like a haunted house in the mountains in old modern movies.
I saw these big beggars entering this mansion. As soon as the door was closed, their originally submissive and hunched bodies straightened up immediately. A few minutes ago, their faces that were bowing their heads and pleading with people on the street seemed to show a look of off-duty get off work at this moment. Happy feeling.
They also let go of the hands that were supporting the little beggar, and the five big beggars walked behind, like herding sheep, leaving the dozen or so little beggars in front of them to just think about walking into the inner courtyard.
When I first stepped into the inner courtyard, I saw several people in beggar attire guarding the hanging flower gate of the inner courtyard.
After these little beggars came in, they lined up obediently and passed in front of these people.
Every time they passed one, they would dump a small bag they were carrying into the small wooden basin held in their hands.
"Qiang Ling Ling"
What came out of that small torn bag were coins one by one!
If he didn't pour one, the big beggar would count the number of copper coins, and then in the little beggar's nervous and pleading eyes, he would nod and pour them into a cloth bag next to him.
After seeing the big beggar nodding, the little beggar breathed a sigh of relief, then took a dirty wooden sign from the big beggar's hand, held the wooden sign in his arms like a treasure, with a look on his face.
Looking happy, he entered the inner courtyard.
If you look closely, you can see that this little beggar’s right arm is obviously twisted!
His walking arm, the small arm was actually stuck to the big arm, and two fingers were missing!
The tattered clothes he was wearing had no sleeves on the right side, leaving this deformed arm so nakedly exposed, which made people feel unbearable just by looking at it.
Looking further back, these little beggars queuing up to enter the inner courtyard all have some kind of disability.
Those disabled eyes are full of numbness.
Only when you get the wooden card will your face show an innocent smile.
Some little beggars did not get wooden cards because they did not have enough copper coins, so they could only be kicked in impatiently by the big beggar with a pitiful expression.
And these little beggars who didn't get the wooden cards were basically able-bodied. When they didn't get the wooden cards, what flashed in their eyes was an unspeakable fear.
As for the disabled little beggars who received the wooden plaques, after discovering these people, their faces showed a happy smile, as if they knew what "good things" would happen to these people later.
After entering the inner courtyard, you will find that there are actually some beggars guarding the inner courtyard with sticks and other things in their hands.
These beggars actually have an air of discipline about them.
When the little beggar came in, they glanced at him and then continued to stand guard.
The little beggar holding the wooden sign ran to the right wing of the house with a happy face.
After they handed the wooden sign to the beggar guarding the door of the right wing, they opened the door of the right wing with happy faces.
Through the crack in the door, you can see that the room is filled with tables, and now on these tables, there are actually large pots of white steamed buns, and there is a large vegetable basin next to them.
It's just that the vegetables in those vegetable pots are all mixed vegetables.
You can see there are meatballs, vegetables, and even some meat bones inside.
The whole vegetable basin is like a hodgepodge.
If you look closely at those meatballs, you will find that there is a missing bite on it, with complete teeth marks, and a chicken wing with no skin and flesh on it, even turning white from being chewed, and there are still some bitten meat scraps inside.
These are all leftovers!
Leftovers from various restaurants and restaurants poured into swill buckets!
And those little beggars who ran into the side room rushed towards the table one by one. After occupying a position, they stretched out their black hands and grabbed a steamed bun, and then grabbed the leftovers bucket with their other hand!
Most of what they reached out to grab were relatively complete leftovers, and after grabbing them, they stuffed them directly into their mouths.
Although these are leftovers, it happens to be that these meals are leftovers from restaurants, so apart from the slight odor, the taste is actually not bad.
At least this bucket of food, after ignoring the psychological nausea, can actually be said to be nutritionally balanced.
Therefore, these little beggars enjoyed their meals very happily, chewing the leftovers in one hand and the steamed buns in the other.
The children who had not yet entered were a little anxious, and they ran over one after another.
One of the children was accidentally bumped by the steps in the courtyard and fell directly to the ground. There was a bloody mark on his arm and the wooden sign he was holding tightly in his hand accidentally fell out.
When the wooden sign fell out, the child's face changed instantly, and he immediately wanted to get up and grab the wooden sign.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he stood up, another little beggar rushed over from behind him and pushed him down again. Several other little beggars went with him.
The little beggar went up and picked up the wooden sign.
When he got the wooden sign, the little beggars behind him who originally wanted to grab it suddenly noticed that the big beggar, who was still watching a show, immediately stared at him.
Can't grab it!
This is the rule
The little beggar who picked up the wooden sign almost had a happy look on his face. He stepped forward quickly, gave the wooden sign to the beggar guarding the door, and then joined the army of people grabbing food.
The little beggar who fell down and lost his wooden sign was a poor person himself. His right ankle had become 90° deformed, and the sole of his foot was almost close to the side of his calf. It was precisely because of the inconvenience in his legs that he fell.
When he stood up, his eyes were filled with tears, and tears fell in large drops, but he did not dare to cry out.
He walked slopingly and twisted to the right wing. He seemed to want to explain to the beggar guarding the door that his wooden sign had been robbed, but his experience did not win the sympathy of the beggar guarding the door.
After waving, the little beggar hadn't left yet. When he looked at the food in the crack of the door with eager eyes, he reached out without hesitation and gave the little beggar a loud slap in the face!
The little beggar was slapped to the ground. Tears streamed from his eyes, but he still gritted his teeth and did not dare to cry.
this is mine
This is my wooden sign!
!
I finally begged for the money and got the wooden sign!
mine!
!
The little beggar cried silently, his body trembling as he cried, but no one around him paid attention to him.
Including other little beggars.
No one came to sympathize with or comfort him.
All his actions seemed like a silent mime, with the "audience" nearby reacting to his "performance".
indifferent
After crying until there were no more tears, the little beggar could only limp to the main entrance of the inner courtyard again.
Without the wooden sign, it means that he can only go hungry today, and then continue to work hard tomorrow and ask for more money, so that he can get the meal sign again tomorrow.
Those who did not get the wooden sign could only line up one by one and enter the main room.
Among them, there was a little boy with sound limbs and a relatively normal appearance. When he was about to enter the main room, the beggar guard who had not moved at all suddenly stretched out his hand to stop him.
Then, he took out a red wooden sign towards him!
I saw that there were five lines on this wooden sign!
When the boy saw this wooden sign, his face instantly froze, and his eyes revealed a strong aura of fear!
He turned around and wanted to run away, but was kicked to the ground by the beggar behind him. He wanted to scream loudly, but when he opened his mouth, he could only make a hiccup sound.
He has no voice in his throat and is mute
Another beggar then stepped forward and kicked the little boy on the ground several times. Then he put the little boy who was too frightened and in pain and dared not move on his shoulders, and stepped forward to take the red card.
, leading the little boy out of the inner courtyard and heading to the warehouse at the back.
Along the way, the little boy's face showed endless fear, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't cry, only tears kept flowing down.
The other little beggars all turned pale after seeing all this.
The queue, which was quite orderly at first, is now even more orderly. No beggar has made any extraordinary move.
One by one, they lined up to go in, eat, or go back to the main room to rest.
In the main room, the entire main room was cleared and then filled with bed frames.
These bed frames are all made of wood and have three floors. The height of each floor is enough for the little beggar to bend down and sit up.
On the bed frame, there were strips of worn cotton pads that still gave off the smell.
These cotton pads seemed to be discarded cotton pads collected from a certain home.
The little beggars who entered the main room found their own beds one by one, then curled up and lay down on the beds, just lying there.
Someone got a red card again today.
The threat of the red card put them in no mood to communicate.
This made it seem that there were more and more people in the main room, but everyone was lying on the bed and not talking, as if they were corpses. The whole main room was filled with a strange silence.
After all the little beggars entered the room, the big beggars who were the gatekeepers closed the door of the abandoned mansion and locked it, leaving the two gatekeepers behind. The others also walked in the same direction.
I saw them walking along the path of the abandoned garden in the garden towards the backyard.
After walking to the backyard, they walked on a path through overgrown grass toward a dry well.
After arriving at the dry well, these people actually jumped into the dry well one by one!
If you follow their gaze, you will find that the dry well is only more than two meters deep.
And there are protrusions on the edge that look like small steps used for rock climbing.
The person who jumped into the dry well bent down towards the wall of the well and disappeared into the dry well.
There is actually a secret passage under this dry well!
Following the secret passage, these big beggars walked all the way to an underground room.
In this room, they began to take off their clothes one after another, and one by one happily walked to a bucket arranged nearby.
They were naked and didn't care at all, just chatting and scrubbing themselves with water from the bucket.
After washing, they came to the rows of wooden cabinets next to them. They found their own cabinet according to the serial number, took out their normal clothes from the cabinet, changed into them, put the beggar clothes in, and walked in one direction.
go.
Along the way, they could also see people wearing the same plain but normal clothes as they did, walking towards where they came from.
After the collision, these people said hello to each other and passed by each other.
Those who came to the previously clean basement wearing normal clothes went to the wooden cabinet one by one, took out the beggar clothes inside, took off their normal clothes and put them in, then put on the beggar clothes, and then walked towards the dry well.
After drilling out of the dry well and climbing up the wall, they transformed from ordinary people into beggars with disheveled hair and a strange smell!
And those who put on normal clothes walked to the end, walked out of the basement, opened the door, and appeared in the backyard of a brothel.
After they walked out of the utility room in the backyard of the brothel, they greeted the gatekeeper familiarly, and then walked into the courtyard's hall along the back door of the courtyard. They looked at ease and rubbed shoulders with the prostitutes and singers in the courtyard.
And passed.
Some people went directly to the second floor, hugged Sister Hong, found a room and walked in with a slutty smile on their faces.
But some of them walked directly towards the gate. Like prostitutes who had just had a good time, they walked out of the brothel's gate openly, and finally disappeared into the crowd of people in the capital.
