The Devil's Tribulation

Looking at the tall city gates and the endless stream of people, no matter whether they were entering or leaving the city, everyone was in a hurry. Pan Chengfeng took out his pass and followed the crowd into Fancheng. Looking at both sides of the street, Pan Chengfeng thought to himself: "It is indeed a big city, not comparable to the small county town of Lixian." Pan Chengfeng looked around and saw more than a dozen buildings with six or seven floors, and countless buildings with three or four floors. There was also a very tall tower, which was estimated to be hundreds of meters high, as high as thirty or forty floors. It was unclear how the building was built so high with the level of architecture in this world. However, Pan Chengfeng felt that it should be related to the immortals. Otherwise, it would be impossible to build a building so high.

Pan Chengfeng was like a countryman entering the city, walking and looking along the way, dazzled by what he saw. Just as he was sighing, he heard a noisy voice: "Dead cripple, get out of here quickly, don't do business here in front of me." Pan Chengfeng turned his head and saw a shopkeeper and three or four clerks pushing a dirty, filthy, ragged little beggar out of the store door. The little beggar limped back and begged: "Please, just give me some leftovers, I haven't eaten for several days." The shopkeeper shouted viciously: "Get out quickly! Don't disturb the guests' meals!" As he said that, he pushed the little beggar to the ground. The broken bowl in the little beggar's hand was thrown out, and it broke all over the ground with a bang. The shopkeeper was furious when he saw the little beggar had made the floor dirty. He shouted, "Break his other leg too! See if he dares to come again!" Several shop assistants rolled up their sleeves and pulled the little beggar up. Another shop assistant took out a stick as thick as an arm from the kitchen and hit the little beggar's other leg hard.

The little beggar closed his eyes, waiting for the impending end. However, after waiting for two breaths, the imagined pain did not come, so he bravely opened his eyes and looked. He saw a tall figure blocking in front of him, grabbing the wooden stick in the hand of the waiter with one hand, and said lightly: "Boss, please forgive others when you can." After that, he directly threw a silver ingot over. The shopkeeper subconsciously reached out to catch it, and when he looked closely, wow! It turned out to be a ten-liang silver ingot. Pan Chengfeng said: "Give me a table of good wine and food, I want to treat this little brother to a meal." The shopkeeper was blinded by the money and flattered: "Please come in, please come in, waiter, bring a table of good wine and food, hurry up!"

Pan Chengfeng helped the little beggar sit down and asked, "Why are you begging in the city alone, girl? Where are your family members?" The little beggar said nervously, "I'm not a girl, not a girl!" She wanted to stand up and run away, but she hadn't eaten for a few days, and she collapsed to the ground after exerting so much force. Pan Chengfeng was quick-witted and hugged the little beggar's waist. The little beggar felt embarrassed when she found herself being hugged, but she had no strength at all. Pan Chengfeng supported the little beggar's waist and asked her to sit down again. As soon as his hand left the little beggar's waist, he saw the torn part of her clothes there. Pan Chengfeng felt it just now, and thought to himself: "What a thin and smooth waist~" As soon as he finished thinking this, he immediately came to his senses: "Why the hell would I think of this?" He quickly put away his dirty thoughts, looked at the little beggar's face and said: "Girl, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person." The little beggar obviously didn't believe what Pan Chengfeng said, but there was nothing she could do. She couldn't fight or run away, so she could only tremble in fear. Thinking of the possible ending of being sold to a brothel, tears flowed down her face. Pan Chengfeng was speechless for a while and said: "I'm doing good things, but from the look on your face, why do you feel like I'm forcing good people into prostitution?"

The little beggar didn't hear what Pan Chengfeng said at all, she just kept wiping her tears. But soon the little beggar didn't have the heart to think about anything else. Three or four waiters served more than a dozen delicious dishes one after another. The little beggar looked at the food on the table and temporarily forgot that she was going to be sold to a brothel. Her saliva flowed all over the table unconsciously. Pan Chengfeng had a deep understanding of being hungry. Looking at her, she must have been hungry for at least three or four days. So he picked up a pair of chopsticks, handed them to the little beggar and said, "Eat." The little beggar looked up at Pan Chengfeng's face. Pan Chengfeng showed a smile that he thought was very kind, nodded and said, "You must be starving, eat quickly." How could he know that the little beggar only had eyes for the table of delicious food now, regardless of the smile, he directly pushed away the chopsticks handed by Pan Chengfeng, reached out with both hands, grabbed the big fat chicken, picked it up and started to eat, he looked like a starving ghost.

Pan Chengfeng sat aside, watching the little beggar eat, and suddenly he felt hungry. However, this amount of food was not enough for him to eat, not even enough to fill his teeth. Pan Chengfeng stood up and shouted to the shopkeeper: "Give me two roasted suckling pigs! Now! Immediately!" The shopkeeper hurried over and asked: "Sir, do you have other guests coming? There are private rooms upstairs, otherwise..." Pan Chengfeng said impatiently: "Hurry up, why are you talking so much nonsense!" After that, he threw another ingot of silver over. After receiving the silver, the shopkeeper immediately went to make arrangements. Not long after, a roasted suckling pig came up. It weighed at least 100 to 180 kilograms. Pan Chengfeng rolled up his sleeves and ate it directly. The little beggar and the people around him were dumbfounded. Is this still a human being? It seemed that he swallowed the meat without chewing it. The little beggar had not finished the table of food, and Pan Chengfeng had already finished the two roasted suckling pigs. Pan Chengfeng picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. Seeing the little beggar staring at him blankly, Pan Chengfeng said embarrassedly, "Are you full?" Upon hearing this, the little beggar quickly lowered his head and continued eating.

Half an hour later, the little beggar finally finished the food. With a big belly, she drank a sip of tea, and then burped. She hadn't had a full meal for a long time. She really missed this long-lost feeling of happiness. Pan Chengfeng looked at the little beggar with some surprise. She actually finished the meal on the table without leaving any. He thought to himself, "She's such a big eater? Who can afford to feed her?" Pan Chengfeng ordered more than a dozen dishes. He thought it would be good if he could eat half of them, but he didn't expect that he actually ate them all. Pan Chengfeng looked at the little beggar and said, "Are you full?" As soon as he asked, he saw the little beggar get up and run. He just took a step and heard "Aiya~". The little beggar fell directly to the ground. Pan Chengfeng covered his face with one hand and said, "What are you doing? I won't hurt you. Are you so afraid of me?" The little beggar lay on the ground, not knowing what he was thinking. He was too hungry and didn't have the strength to run. Now he is too full and can't run.

Pan Chengfeng stood up, helped the little beggar up, and asked, "Okay, don't be afraid. I just know that you are a girl, are you so scared? Just now, people wanted to break your legs, but you were not so scared." The little beggar lowered his head and said nothing. Pan Chengfeng said helplessly, "Forget it, if you don't want to talk, I won't force you. I'm leaving." After saying that, Pan Chengfeng stood up and left. Pan Chengfeng walked out of the store, and the little beggar dared to look up. He turned his head and looked at Pan Chengfeng's back, thinking to himself, "He just left like that? He's not going to sell me anymore?"

Pan Chengfeng left the restaurant, thinking: "I wanted to treat her to a meal and ask her some questions, but she turned out to be dumb, so the meal was wasted." As he walked, he found someone following him. He was shocked: "I just came to Fancheng, why am I being followed?" Then he extended his perception and found that it was the little beggar who followed him. He sighed: "What is she doing? I asked her a question just now, but she didn't say anything. Now she is following me? Does she think of me as a free meal ticket?" So he turned around and walked directly to the little beggar hiding behind the stall and said: "What? Have you found your next meal?" The little beggar was startled and ran away in a hurry. How could he look like he was inconvenient to move? Pan Chengfeng reached out and grabbed her by the collar, and pulled her back to his side, saying, "What? Don't leave unless you explain clearly!" After being caught, the little beggar struggled for a while and yelled, "Let me go! Let me go! You scoundrel!" Pan Chengfeng's eyes burned with anger, and he directly picked up the little beggar and said, "Why didn't you call me a scoundrel when we were having dinner just now? You beat the cook after you were full? Now you are following me, and I am the scoundrel?!"

The little beggar was lifted up, her feet off the ground. After hearing what Pan Chengfeng said, she gave up struggling a little embarrassedly. Pan Chengfeng did not continue to lift her. After letting go of her hand, he asked, "Why are you following me?" The little beggar said a little embarrassedly, "The next meal..." As she spoke, tears came out. Pan Chengfeng could not stand women crying the most. He said reluctantly, "Even if I solve the next meal for you, what about the meal after that? What about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow?" Looking at the little beggar who bowed his head and said nothing, Pan Chengfeng said, "You can't always follow me, can you? I'm just passing by Fancheng, and I may be a bad person." The little beggar hurriedly said, "Sir, I'm not a bad person." Pan Chengfeng smiled and said, "If I treat you to a meal, you're not a bad person?"

The little beggar nodded subconsciously, then immediately shook his head and said, "Young Master doesn't look like a bad person." Pan Chengfeng laughed, "Just now you were worried that I was a bad person and didn't say a word, but now you think I'm a good person? Why did you change your opinion of me so quickly?" The little beggar hesitated for a long time before whispering, "Before, someone found out that I was a girl and tricked me with some food. Then they sold me to a brothel. I escaped several times, but was caught every time. They beat and scolded me, didn't give me food, and forced me to receive customers. In the end, I jumped into the lake to escape."

Pan Chengfeng felt sympathetic after hearing this. He didn't expect that the little girl had such an experience. After a moment of silence, Pan Chengfeng said, "How about this, I'll give you some silver, and you can find a way to make a living. I won't stay in Fancheng for too long." After that, Pan Chengfeng took out ten taels of silver from his bag, handed it to the little beggar, and touched her head. The little girl looked at the silver in her hand, her heart warmed, and when she looked up again, Pan Chengfeng was gone. The little beggar looked around, and walked around nearby, but still couldn't find Pan Chengfeng. Pan Chengfeng hid aside and laughed, "See how you can follow me."