Chapter 37 Chapter Thirty-Seven

When Lin Sangouzi crawled into the Ximen alley, the first thing he saw was a big curly-haired black dog with white spots on its head.The big black dog barked at him maliciously, retreated back, and lay its front legs forward, its paws scraped out puffs of white smoke on the dry ground.He crawled forward, and the big black dog backed up.He was tired from crawling, and when he stopped, the dog barked and tried to pounce in front of him. He saw the dirty fur under the belly of the big black dog, and saw a hot pepper-like thing dangling among the fur. something and two black pills. The big black dog and Lin San Gouzi are both male.A male animal has its own majesty, and the big black dog stared at him closely, forced him, bared its teeth and threatened him like a man loyal to the Qing court, trying to put him to death.It seemed to know that the rebel in front of him had come to an end, and it wanted to attract officers and soldiers, or righteous people loyal to the Qing Dynasty, to capture him by its cry.

It was very proud, it bared its teeth at him, raised its neck and howled twice. Lin San Gouzi has nothing to do with it.He was stabbed in the leg by the officers and soldiers, and he couldn't stand up.He kept thinking of death from time to time, and he decided he was finished!He decided that the dog had come to mourn him. Lin Sangouzi, who has always wanted to kill the rich and help the poor, is really confused.After breaking through the county seat, he followed Brother Ruan and a group of hard-core brothers surnamed Hong. He first fought with the officers, soldiers and righteous people in the east gate of the city for a while, and then flocked to the county government gate to participate in the last hopeless battle. fighting.He didn't expect to take advantage of the chaos after the city was broken to make a fortune, to kill the rich and help the poor. He was tricked by Brother Ruan and used as a gun by Brother Ruan.He still believed in Brother Ruan so much until he was shot at the gate of the county government office!It is also believed that Brother Ruan's great cause of opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty is bound to be accomplished!As a result, he missed this opportunity to kill the rich and help the poor. As a result, he was stabbed by the officers and soldiers and fell into the hands of this curly-haired big black dog. His, but seeing the officers, soldiers and righteous people behind him rushing after him, the two brothers couldn't care less about him.As soon as they sent him to the alley, they said they wanted him to find a place to hide, but they lost their legs.

He was almost completely desperate, and he didn't even know why he was still climbing?He thought: it was only a matter of time before he was captured and his head was cut off. The curly-haired big black dog was still howling. He was very angry, holding back all his energy, and also barking. The dog was surprised, and looked at him vigilantly. One front paw with white fur was lifted up, as if thinking: What does this kid in front of you want to talk to me about? "I... I slaughtered you beast!" At this moment, the door behind the dog opened, and its venerable and lovely mistress came out.Its mistress is a long-faced old woman in her fifties, who has been married to three men and loves to smoke hookahs.

The long-faced old woman looked at him carefully with her head down, and smiled with black and yellow die teeth: "Sure enough, he is a good man! Hey, good man, have you made a fortune?" "I, I'm not! I... I'm a guy who comes to Jinkou to handle goods! I..." "I'm afraid you didn't come to Jinkou to buy goods?" "Really...really! It's really a...dealer!" The long-faced old woman snorted and said, "You are dealing with the 60,000 silver goods of the county government?" Lin San Gouzi still wanted to defend himself, but the old woman looked around, bent down, lowered her walnut-like head and asked in a low voice, "How much did you steal?"

Lin Sangouzi instinctively saw a glimmer of hope from these words, and lied casually: "No... not much, just... just eight or nine hundred taels, I can't carry... I can't carry it, I threw it in the puddle on the other side of the street!" The old woman looked around again, and saw that the alley was still empty, so she hurriedly pulled Lin Sangouzi up, half-armed and half-dragged, into the yard, into her old bluestone house. There was also a boy about fourteen or fifteen years old and an old man paralyzed on the bed.Both the little boy and the old man were surprised and cried out almost at the same time.

The long-faced old woman stopped drinking: "Don't cry, he has eight hundred taels of silver!" The old woman took out an old dress and tore it up, wrapped up the wound on Lin Sangouzi's leg, arranged Lin Sangouzi to lie down beside the old man, and then told the child: "Mao Chun, go and see The black pond on the other side of the street, is there anyone by the pond?" Lin Sangouzi knew what the old woman was thinking, so he hurriedly got up and said: "I can't go, I can't go! Now... now it's very chaotic, this child will... will... have an accident when he goes out!"

The old woman thought for a while and asked, "When you threw the silver, did anyone see it?" Lin Sangouzi said decisively: "No...not a single person!" Only then did the old woman feel relieved, and murmured: "Then there is no hurry! Then there is no hurry!" Just at this moment, there was another dull sound in the yard, followed by another sound, as if two huge weights had fallen to the ground.Surprised and delighted, the old woman opened the door and went out. When she went out, she saw a bundle under the low wall, a pair of trousers with two full trouser legs, and the little bean sprout with its head stretched out.

The old woman yelled angrily: "Wow, you dare to rebel against the thief and escape to my mother's house!" Little Bean Sprout dropped the knife, knelt down with a "plop", and kowtowed sharply and passionately: "Grandma, please! Grandma, forgive me! As long as grandma saves the little one, the little one will be your old son, your old grandson, and the little one." Guaranteed to eat delicious food and drink spicy food for the rest of your life! I will give you a small... I will give you a retirement pension!" The old woman went up to pick up the trousers, but she didn't pick them up. Knowing that another windfall fell from the sky, Dang even put on her arrogant and righteous face, and said with a smile: "Get up! Get up! Quickly carry the things to grandma." Go into the house, go into the house and hide!"

"Hey! Hey! Thank you grandma! Thank you grandma! You are really my real grandma! Good grandma!" After standing up, he still stretched his head and bowed his waist. "Quick, you carry that pair of pants, I'll carry this bag!" "Hey! Hey!" Little Bean Sprout responded, while picking up the heavy trousers, and entered the door. As soon as she entered the door, the old woman put on the hookah, with blue smoke rising from her mouth and nose, and said seriously, "Hero, do you know what crime should be for rebellion and looting?" Little Bean Sprout had just entered the room, seeing darkness in front of his eyes, before noticing that his beloved brother Lin was lying on the bed, he knelt down again, kowtowed, and said, "Grandma, dear grandma! You always know this, it's... it's murder." The crime of the head!"

Lin San Gouzi, who was lying on the bed, heard what Little Bean Sprout said, leaned his upper body up, and called out sincerely and emotionally: "Little Bean Sprout, eight brothers!" Startled, Little Bean Sprout raised her head, saw Brother Lin, and called out "Third Brother" in pain, got up and rushed to the bed. The two brothers and sisters with unfulfilled ambitions inevitably sighed, sighed, and wailed with great joy. After the ceremony, Lin Sangouzi reported the whole process of the fiasco to Xiaodouya, and scolded Brother Ruan, Master Qi, and Du Tianxing along the way.Only then did Little Bean Sprout realize that it was not just himself, but the entire uprising, and all the brothers had failed.In his depression, he had a little comfort and pleasure.Then, Xiaodou Sprout also told Brother Lin about his experience of getting rich, and when he talked about Brother Lu's heroic sacrifice, his eyes turned red...

The long-faced old woman got impatient, stopped at the table with a water pipe and shouted: "Hey! Hey! Are you still finished?" Little Bean Sprout and Lin San Gouzi didn't dare to continue, so they could only stare blankly at the old woman and listen to her advice. The old woman said: "Listen to me, both of you. Instead, you went to Jinkou City, plundered people's property wantonly, and violated the government's royal law. My mother will send you to the government. You will all lose your head!" The old woman probably worked as an actress when she was young. Speaking of this, she made a gesture, which was fierce and vicious. "If I hide you, I will have to take the risk. If I don't do it well, I will lose my head. At this point, you two heroes can handle it carefully!" Lin Sangouzi already understood what the old woman meant, and immediately donated his eight hundred taels of silver that did not exist: "Good grandma, I... I don't want my eight hundred taels! As long as you save my life, grandma!" The 800 taels are by the pond on the side of the street, beside the pond...there is a pile of watermelon peels beside the pond!" "Ok!" The old woman nodded, then turned her face to Little Bean Sprout again: "Hey, what about you, what do you say?" Little Bean Sprout hurriedly said, "Young one... the little one's money is all for you!" The old woman was not satisfied, she moved her chin to the place where her trousers were placed: "What about the pile?" It was only then that Little Bean Sprout understood how horrible the long-faced old woman was. This devil-like woman wanted to rob him of everything!This is unjustifiable anyway, he thought, he had to let her understand this: "Grandma, good grandma, the little one pays tribute to your elders, that's quite a lot of money, four or five hundred taels of money! My elder brother Lin’s eight hundred taels is 12,300 taels. You can’t spend it all your life. The silver in your trousers, you always pity us and reward us! Is that okay? " When Little Bean Sprout was talking, he seemed to have inadvertently grabbed the knife in his hand, and tried the blade with his thumb from time to time. The long-faced old woman obviously noticed the big knife in Little Bean Sprout's hand. Dang even felt some pity, and her conscience seemed to have discovered something. She sighed and said, "You two heroes, please don't misunderstand me. I will save you, and I will not save you. Picture two silver coins! I value your heroism! Since you say so, I don’t want the money in my trousers, but you can’t take it out of the city right now! In my opinion, you might as well stay here for a while After a few days, when the storm subsides and the officers and soldiers retreat, it won’t be too late for you to carry the money and walk!" Xiaodou Sprout was quick-witted, and immediately thought of the danger of staying here: Leaving aside the pursuit by the government, even this wicked old woman in front of her is not easy to deal with!For so much money, she would definitely dare to kill someone!Sleeping at night, she cut them one by one, and reported to the government, she was also innocent.Just don't use a knife, you don't know that she adds arsenic to soup and food, as long as you eat it, your life will be confessed. Little Bean Sprout approached the old woman with a knife in her hand, and solemnly expressed her opinion: "Good grandma, won't I implicate you if you live here? I think you should send our two brothers out of the city right away." I don’t know if grandma can do it?” The old woman thought for a while and said: "There is a way. My house is not far from the base of the city wall. There is a water hole under the city wall. You can go out from there. A while ago, my old lady led a foreign drug seller through. The water in the hole is only waist deep!" "Then... let's go now!" The old woman said again: "It's just that the money in these trousers is not easy to carry. You bring the money. Firstly, it will be a burden, and secondly, if someone sees it, it will also implicate me! If you lose your head, I will also have to be stabbed!" After going around in a circle, I went back to the silver on the two trouser legs. Little Bean Sprout was in a headache, he was reluctant to leave behind his own thousand taels of silver, but he didn't dare to live in this wicked old woman's house.After thinking painfully for a long time, he said: "If... what if I bring less money? I will send the rest to you, and our buddies will come to pick it up another day, how about it?" The old woman nodded quickly: "Alright! Alright!" A deal was negotiated, and the little bean sprouts, the old woman, and Lin Sangouzi were busy making preparations for their departure.The old woman first took out two clean clothes and changed them for Xiao Dou Sprout and Lin San Gouzi, and asked them to wash off the blood on their faces and bodies. Then she found an old blue furoshiki, which belonged to Xiao Bean Sprout. Picked out dozens of taels of silver from his trousers, wrapped it into a small bag, and let Xiao Bean Sprouts carry it in his arms, and then together with Xiao Bean Sprouts, they jumped out of the back window with Lin Sangouzi on their arms. Outside the rear window is a wall that is more than one person wide, and there is a stinky ditch at the end of the wall.After the old woman jumped out of the window, she asked Xiao Dou Sprout to support Lin Sangouzi. She went to the end of the wall to look around, and then waved to Xiao Bean Sprout. Little Bean Sprout stretched out her head, hunched over, and helped Lin San Gouzi pass. The old woman looked around and said, "Quickly, walk along this ditch, and you will find a water hole in the city wall 150 steps away. There are no people on either side of this water hole, and the area near Ximen Street is blocked by a charcoal factory. No one will!" After the old woman finished speaking, she wanted to move on again.Little Bean Sprout stopped her: "Good grandma, help me help my brother!" In order to send the two unkilled plague gods out of the city as soon as possible, the old woman stopped bargaining, strenuously raised Lin Sangouzi's other arm, panted for three steps, rested for five steps, and went straight to the water hole at the root of the city wall up. When we reached the entrance of the water cave, the old woman said, "Let's go, you two! I won't see you off!" Little Bean Sprout turned his face into a rage, kicked the old woman into the ditch, brandished a knife and shouted: "Old beast, you have a good idea! There is a saying that it is easy to ask God to send God away! Today, you old beast Send the uncles to a safe place, and the uncles will kill you!" The situation took a turn for the worse, and my grandma and grandma turned into old animals in a blink of an eye. The old animal was scared, she knew that her status had changed obviously, the two plague gods in front of her had found a way out of the city, and she was no longer needed, so naturally they dared to kill her.Where did she dare to argue, so she obediently waited in the waist-deep dirty water. Little Bean Sprout carried Lin Sangouzi into the water, and the three of them got through the stinking water hole one by one, and reached the outside of the city.Outside the city is a forest of miscellaneous trees, and the ditch becomes very wide in the forest of miscellaneous trees, turning into a small river, which twists and turns and leads to nowhere. "Old beast, what do you think we should go?" The old animal thought for a while and asked, "Where are you two heroes going? If you arrive at Qingpu, walk along this ditch for a while. There is a big stone bridge called Huilong Bridge in front of you. The official road to Qingpu." Little Bean Sprout said impatiently: "If you don't go to Qingpu, if you go to Qingpu, we two brothers must be caught! If you catch us, your old bitch will be in trouble too. We will confess you and let the officials go to your kennel Searching for stolen silver!" The old bitch suggested: "Then...then go straight along the river, but not the bridge. This river leads to Sancha Bay, and there are boatmen in the bay. You two can take a boat into the canal, go down the Yangtze River, and arrive at Linlin. Jiangfu may go upstream to reach the interior of Sichuan." Little Bean Sprout thought for a while, and then asked Lin Sangouzi: "Brother Lin, what do you think we are going?" Lin Sangouzi said: "Go to Linjiang Mansion first by boat! There is an old aunt of mine in Jiangcheng. Naturally, I can't go to Qingpu!" Little Bean Sprout made up his mind: "Let's go, old beast! Come with us to Sancha Bay! When we find the boat, arrange for us to board the boat, and you come back! Otherwise, the uncle will kill you!" The old animal had no choice but to admit that she was unlucky, and agreed with her nose. She wanted to make a fortune, so naturally she should pay something for it. I walked dodging all the way for a long time, and arrived at Sancha Bay when it was dark.Sure enough, there are many boats moored in the bay. The old animal came forward to inquire about a sand boat that was about to sail to Linjiang Mansion, so he boarded the boat and discussed with the owner, saying that his brother brought a clerk to handle goods in Jinkou, and was arrested. The rioters robbed them, and even got stabbed in the leg by the rioters. Nowadays, the city of Jinkou is too chaotic, officers and soldiers arrest people blindly, fearing accidents, they want to take a boat and rush back to the shops in Linjiang City, etc.Knowing about the turmoil in Jinkou City, the captain of the Ministry was a little puzzled, but he didn't ask any further questions. He only said that the boat could not be used for nothing, and that he had to pay thirty taels of silver for the boat.Knowing that the captain was extorting money, the old beast refused to follow suit, so he made the decision for Little Bean Sprouts and agreed to the captain's request. Little Bean Sprout became angry when he heard it. He had to pay the boatman thirty taels of the tens of taels of silver he managed to bring out, and he had only a few taels left. This day and night was a waste of work.He quit and let the old animal board the ship to talk. The old animal persuaded: "Brother, don't be so fussy! Don't you still have a lot of silver in my house? It's not worth fighting with him for ten taels or eight taels!" Little Bean Sprout was right when he thought about it, so he pointed his knife at the old animal's waist and threatened, "You have to save those silver for us brothers! We will come to pick it up in ten or eight days, if you dare to cheat , we will destroy your whole family! If you dare to escape, we will..." The old animal said: "Brother! Brother! Don't say such words! Run away? Where can I run away? My old thing is paralyzed on the bed, and the child is young. If we want to run away, there is nowhere to go! I'll wait You! I must wait for you! But you have to be careful along the way, and don’t be caught by the government! Even if you are caught, you can’t admit that you participated in the conspiracy!" Little Bean Sprout repeatedly replied, "That's right! That's right!" After the two had a hasty conversation, the old animal told Xiao Dou Sprout to throw away the knife, and then, together with Xiao Bean Sprout, came out from the dark with Lin Sangouzi on their backs, and boarded the sandboat bound for Linjiang Mansion. The boat propped out of the river bend and slowly floated onto the wide river. Little Bean Sprout, who was standing hunched over the bow of the boat, saw the old animal on the bank turn around and leave.Little did he realize at the time that he was saying goodbye to the old beast; it never occurred to him that the old beast would run away with all the money he had looted. For this, he regretted it all his life. While standing on the bow of the boat, Little Bean Sprout made a new discovery—he found that his waist could no longer be straightened up, and his head could no longer be retracted. As long as he raised his face and stretched his waist, all the bones in his body would break like pain.How strange!This is so fucking weird!He was a good little bean sprout, but he didn't know when he turned into a hunched prawn!Since when did this damn waist bend down, he really didn't know!No matter how he recalled, he couldn't remember when his waist was injured. It's true that nothing hit his back--and it's absolutely true that nothing else hit his back.His waist has always been law-abiding.This is strange, the waist of the law-abiding man bent down all of a sudden, mother's! later…… ——It was only later that I remembered the more than a thousand taels of silver riding on my neck, and the heavy burden on my back, and only then did I find the reason for the pain and joy.It turned out that his waist was not broken by other things, but bent by silver, heavy gray silver!No one will feel the weight of fourteen five hundred taels of silver on anyone's back!When the little bean sprouts are pressed by it, they don't feel heavy!I didn't feel it at all! This is also something to be proud of. There were fourteen five hundred taels of silver on the thin back of his little bean sprouts, and it was bent by the silver.This kind of thing doesn't happen to everyone!Not everyone's waist is worth a thousand taels of silver. However, after a strong sense of pride rushed over like a tidal wave, Xiao Bean Sprout felt the pain in her spine and the soreness in her neck more definitely.The fourteen five hundred taels of silver no longer existed, but the pain and soreness stuck to his body like a dog's skin plaster, making him unable to shake it off even if he wanted to.This pain and soreness have accompanied his pale life and boring time since then, often evoking happy memories of Yinzi in his despondency, until he died of old age and buried in the loess 42 years later.