Troubled Times: Start with 800 Dead Soldiers

"Mom, aren't you hungry?" the child asked.

"Mom, you're not hungry. Just buy one and eat it yourself."

Women are inherently weak, but mothers are strong!

How could this woman not be hungry?

Su Xia didn't eat much last night. When she heard the cries, she felt a little empty in her stomach. She called the child and said, "Xi'er, uncle will give you this money to buy steamed buns and come back, okay?"

After Su Xia finished speaking, she took out ten copper coins from her bag.

The woman hurriedly excused herself: "No, no, this won't work."

"Mom, who is this uncle!"

The child is still young, so he is naturally very curious about the strange men appearing at home. Although he often sees these strange men coming in and out of the house, he does not understand what they mean.

Su Xia hurriedly said: "I am your mother's hometown. If you pass by here, little baby, take it to buy steamed buns!"

Su Xia couldn't help but put the money into the child's hands, and the woman could only urge: "Thank you uncle quickly."

After thanking him, the child jumped out of the door, shouting: "Eat the steamed buns, eat the steamed buns."

Su Xia on the side turned to look at the woman. From this look, this woman was a bit more supple than last night, and she seemed to be completely different from the prostitute last night.

The woman felt a little embarrassed when Su Xia saw her. She subconsciously nodded to Su Xia and expressed her gratitude: "Thank you just now."

"You make dozens of pennies every day, why are you so reluctant to part with this steamed bun?" Su Xia asked her inner doubts.

"Are you kidding? I can't make a few cents a day as a laundry worker. In the past two years, my husband and my parents-in-law have passed away one after another. I owe a few taels of silver to take care of the funerals of these three people. I pay them during the day. People do laundry at night... just to pay off the money as soon as possible, so I don’t dare to spend any more of it!”

When the woman said this, she seemed to feel that what she had done was a bit embarrassing.

It's really pitiful that there are no bones by the river, no one is there, and the water is empty!

When the house leaks, it rains continuously all night, and the hemp rope is broken in small places!

Su Xia took a deep breath, what a hard-working and kind-hearted woman!

He couldn't help but feel sad for this woman's fate, and he also felt infinite sadness. He owed foreign debts for the funeral of his deceased husband and his deceased husband's parents! How many people today can do it?

It is true that suffering is everywhere in the world.

He looked up at the woman again.

The woman's eyes were a little evasive, she looked at Su Xia with a wry smile, and said no more.

At this moment, Tao Zongcai was also awake, and the big man came out of the house sleepily.

Almost at the same time, after the child came back with the steamed buns, Tao Zongcai naturally became energetic when he saw the food and ate six or seven in one go.

But the woman was vomiting and refused to eat the steamed buns.

Su Xia knew in her heart that she probably wanted to save some money and leave food for her children, so she whispered a few words in Tao Zongcai's ear.

Tao Zongcai nodded knowingly and went out.

At this moment, it was completely bright and the shops on the street were open.

The woman's porridge was also cooked, but Su Xia didn't drink it.

Seeing that her child was full from the steamed buns, the woman carefully drank some porridge.

All this was seen by Su Xia.

Outside the door, Tao Zongcai walked in holding a rice jar, placed it in the kitchen, and stammered: "Da, Da, sister-in-law, this is the rice I bought for you."

"Huh?" The woman was shocked.

Su Xia explained: "I asked him to buy it for you. It's not much. I only asked him to buy two buckets of rice. It should be enough for you two to eat for a while."

How could this be done? The woman was about to refuse, but Su Xia opened the lid of the jar, and there was indeed white rice inside.

He picked up the rice jar and poured the white rice into the rice vat. On the right hand side, ten taels of silver slipped out and were mixed into the white rice.

"Sister-in-law, this white rice should be good. I'll take care of it for a while and explore it carefully. Zongcai, let's go."

Tao Zongcai immediately packed his things and stood up.

He carried out Su Xia's orders resolutely, no matter what Su Xia asked him to do.

But this woman couldn't figure out what Su Xia was thinking: "Hey, what are you two doing?"

Su Xia didn't say anything more, but just asked again: "Sister-in-law, I have to check the rice carefully after I leave!"

After saying this, Su Xia said goodbye to the family.

Watching these two kind people leave, the woman seemed to be in a dream, never expecting that someone would give them rice.

She pinched herself hard and then confirmed that this was true. The prostitutes who usually came to her would blush for a few pennies and bargain with her!

But today, this handsome young man not only spent a lot of money, but also bought himself two buckets of white rice. It took a long time for Su Xia and others to leave before the woman remembered what Su Xia had told her.

When he reached into the rice vat, he touched two silver ingots worth fifty taels.

Ten taels of silver! Oh my God, not only can I pay off my foreign debts, but I can also provide enough for my family to survive for two years!

She couldn't believe her eyes. When she confirmed that all this was true, her eyes were filled with tears and she murmured: "I really met a living Bodhisattva!"

She grabbed Xi'er and said, "Child, remember, those two dolls yesterday were the benefactors of our family. Have you remembered?"

"Mom, I remember!"

Su Xia and Tao Zongcai said goodbye to the woman who gave them a "hiding place" and went straight to their destination, Daxiangguo Temple in Tokyo - looking for Lu Zhishen!

In front of the Daishoguno Temple in Tokyo, there is a large temple in the distance, with five main halls and monks' rooms on the four walls, surrounded by incense smoke.

Tao Zongcai, who was following Su Xia, couldn't help but widen his eyes and stammered: "Sir, this temple is... too big,"

After finding an attentive person to ask for directions, Su Xia led Tao Zongcai straight to the special vegetable garden of Daxiangguo Temple. Tao Zongcai was carrying a dozen roast chickens and a lot of lotus leaf packages just bought from the market. deli beef.

Walking into the Daxiangguo Temple, where people should be eating fast and chanting Buddha's name, Su Xia couldn't help but think of this sentence in her heart - wine and meat pass through the intestines, but the Buddha remains in the heart!

This wine and meat seemed incompatible with this big temple, so Tao Zongcai asked: "Sir, you asked me to bring so much wine and meat to this temple, who are you looking for?"

"Looking for a great monk, this person has great skills. If this person is willing to come to my Xiamen Island, my Shamen Island will definitely develop and develop!"

"Big, big, man, then why do you find a monk with so much wine and meat? These monks are all vegetarians!"

As soon as Tao Zongcai finished speaking, Su Xia smiled and said: "This monk only likes to drink wine and eat meat. Sometimes he also likes to kill people and set fires. He is a flower monk!"

The two of them walked under a low wall in the vegetable garden. Some gangsters were gathered around the table as if they were gambling. They looked like they should be the "little gangsters" disciples that Lu Zhishen had accepted at Daxiangguo Temple. The leaders should be Zhang San and Li Si. Two scoundrels.

(Rogue: a person who has no talent and has settled down, a scoundrel becomes a rogue.)

Otherwise, how could these people dare to live in Lu Zhishen's vegetable garden? Su Xia's mind was thinking rapidly.