The wind rises in the west of Luoyang

In the darkness, Xu Han felt something sticky and hot hitting his face.

It was a mouthful of phlegm.

The old man left for a while, Chu Chu wasn't sure how long.

When he came back again, he kicked her on the waist: "You are still lying down, don't you plan to move the floor?" He didn't have much strength, but he came up one by one, "This is your grandfather and my place. Do you know? Huh?"

Chu Chu didn't say a word, didn't move, she looked like a dead person.After playing for a long time, the old man finds it boring.He spit again, and muttered to himself: "You are a fairy, a short-lived brat, it's not good to die, you have to die."

As he said that, he spread the firewood and sat down to tidy it up, and lit a fire.

He had just returned from begging for food, and there were still two pieces of steamed buns and one cake left in his small iron basin.He wiped his hands on the dirty trousers, grabbed the steamed buns and gnawed them.After the two pieces of steamed buns were eaten, he turned his head and glanced at Chuchu, and found that her eyes were opened a crack, and the dark eyeballs reflected the light of the fire, flickering, staring at the last piece of cake left in his hand. .

"Want to eat? I don't think you will live long, and you will eat for nothing if you eat it. Save yourself."

Chu Chu lay there, her face as green and black as a corpse did not change at all, but tears trickled down from the corners of her eyes, gurgle after gurgle, like blood coming out of that broken arm, dripping continuously.

The next morning, the old man took off the rags hanging from the awning, tied up Chuchu like firewood, and carried them all the way to the downtown market.He knelt on the side of the street crowded with businessmen and tourists, crying and begging.Chu Chu is like a dead person lying on his back on the rag, which is very suitable for his performance.In the shadows, she heard the old man's voice:

"My sinful granddaughter! Without father or mother, follow me, a crippled old man, out to beg for food!"

Bang bang bang bang, someone threw a copper coin into the bowl in front of his knee.

"My granddaughter who committed crimes! Her arm was broken by the villain, and she is about to go to the ground to meet the king of Hades!"

A young swordsman passed by, took out a weight of silver from his pocket, and threw it into a bowl.

"What evil did I do in my previous life! I'm just such a granddaughter!"

The copper coins bounced in the bowl, loud and harsh.

Chu Chu felt that more and more figures were gathering around, buzzing and discussing.Several women wiped their tears with handkerchiefs. Her near-death was too realistic, and the old man's howling performance aroused the pity of all the onlookers.

Lying there, she somehow recalled that year when she was performing on the street with Yu Zhuocheng, and there were many people watching.She watched Yu Zhuocheng standing there punching with admiration, winning bursts of applause from time to time.When the performance was over, she immediately flew all over the field with a copper bowl, and the copper coins jingled in the bowl.Really nice sound.

The old man's surname is Ma, and other beggars call him old man Ma.At that time, old man Ma took advantage of Chuchu's breath, and took her to beg for food in crowded places all day long.

A few times, she even ran into the team of people who came to her house to destroy her family. They were looking for her all over Luoyang City.But no one would have thought that this dirty and dying little beggar lying on the ground would be the person they were looking for, and no one took a look at her.

A few days later, the poison attack was over, Chu Chu also recovered her blood color, and became healthy again.

Old man Ma began to give her some food slowly, and sometimes when he met a rich man who gave him a lot of money, he would show kindness and take some medicine for her.She gradually got better.

Old man Ma has made money, but he still eats steamed buns and pies, and sleeps in tents in the suburbs.At night, old man Ma often didn't come back until midnight.Chu Chu secretly followed him and saw him enter Fengxiang Casino.Finally one day, he was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, five of his fingers were cut off, bleeding profusely, and he lay on the ground trembling.

"This is your grandfather?" The man kicked him on the head, looked up at Chu Chu and said, "He owes us money. Do you have any?"

Chu Chu looked at them without speaking.

Another person stepped on the old man's head, stepped it on the concrete floor, and crushed it vigorously.

Chu Chu went to see old man Ma again, but he was silent."I have," she said.

Then he took off his shoes and took out a few silver notes from the shoes.It was the money she got from the cellar when she sneaked home secretly, and it was the dowry her father saved for her.

Later she found out that old man Ma's hometown is from Sichuan. Because of his gambling habit, he gradually lost his family wealth and owed a large amount of gambling debts.Once I was so jealous that I even sold my son.Later, when he finally earned some money, he thought about redeeming his son from Ren Yazi, and inquired all the way to Luoyang.

Finally, after going back and forth to find the original Ren Yazi, he found out that his son died of illness on the way.

Ma Laotou had no face to go back to his hometown to meet Liezong, so he stayed in Luoyang and became a beggar.But he gets addicted to gambling every once in a while, and he still can't control himself to go to the casino.He was in debt to the gambling house, and was often beaten with black and blue noses.

Miaoshan

For a period of time after that day, she went out to beg alone, while old man Ma stayed in the dilapidated tent to recuperate.

She has gone out with old man Ma a few times, and she knows that beggars are also a small river and lake. A few people or a dozen people form a small gang. The young, strong and crowded are naturally entrenched in the bustling area, like old man Ma. Old men with half a foot into the coffin will also communicate with each other, form a loose alliance, and be active in places where there are few people.

Old man Ma also has his own fixed begging place, and he spends most of his time near Nanshan Lane in the west of the city.Because she appeared several times with old man Ma, and the old beggars who followed her didn't bother her.However, the old man Ma hadn't recovered from his injury, and her poison had flared up again.

The old man Ma ran around anxiously with a hoarse voice, but he had no money to hire a doctor for her, so he could only keep slapping himself: "I'm useless, I shouldn't bet all my money."

"Girl, is it because you have this strange disease that your parents don't want you anymore?"

Chu Chu lay on the ground unable to move, she just shed tears silently.

Old man Ma stood up, found out his cleanest clothes, and put on a special hat, and said, "Girl, don't cry, I'll go out and find a way to make you live."

He didn't come back until the second day.She was accompanied by a middle-aged woman in beautiful flower bouquets and heavy make-up, and several young adults dressed as thugs.

The old man Ma's eyes wandered, he didn't dare to look at her, and he flattered the middle-aged woman, "I'm not lying to you, isn't it good looking, it will be a big deal after a few years."

The middle-aged woman looked at the tent in disgust. Apart from the iron pot and a pile of dirty clothes on the ground, there were only a few rotten vegetable leaves left.She covered her nose with a brocade handkerchief, condescendingly inspected her whole body, and said, "I'm a beggar, I can tell by her appearance, but this look looks like a dead body, I'm afraid I'm about to see the King of Hades soon." Right? You are an old lady who runs a ghost shop here."

Old man Ma beat his chest and stamped his feet, and hurriedly explained: "My own granddaughter, can I expect her to die? If she is really about to die, how can I still send her to that fire pit?! She is a strange disease brought from her mother's womb since she was a child. It happens every few months. I’m so poor that I can’t cure it, my poor granddaughter, I’ve done something wrong in my life.”

The middle-aged woman said: "Oh, you won't fool me, right? Is she really your granddaughter? You really can't tell from your looks at all."

Old man Ma hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "It's not my own birth that made me die from lightning strikes. I don't want your money anymore, I just ask you to find a doctor for her to treat her illness. This child really won't live long if she dies." years."

The middle-aged woman turned around and turned her eyes to Chu Chu who was lying motionless on the ground, knelt down and pinched her dirty face, checked her up, down, left, and right sides carefully, and said to herself: "The bones are not bad", and then Lifting off her clothes, she smiled with satisfaction when she saw the snow-white skin: "This layer of skin is indeed passable."

She stood up slowly, thinking mentally, and said in a tone: "I'll just believe you once, if you lie to me, I won't forgive you."

The old man knelt down with a grunt, and kowtowed to the woman in gratitude.Then he moved to Chu Chu's side and whispered in her ear: "Girl, don't blame me for being cruel, at least you can survive if you go to the brothel. My old man is too addicted to gambling, he can't quit, sooner or later he will die on the street. If you follow me sooner or later, you will be implicated by me, so go, ah."

Chu Chu stared at him intently for a long time before blinking at him twice.

The old man Ma knew that she agreed, and his eyes were a little wet. He turned his back, went to the thugs and said, "Take it away."

The middle-aged woman took out a few gold ingots and a contract of sale from her sleeve, and old man Ma pressed his fingerprints on them.After he was done, he raised his arm and put it on his eyes for a long, long time without taking it away.

Several strong men put Chuchu on a stretcher and carried her away.

He didn't look back.

This brothel is called Shuiyunfang, and the middle-aged woman is the old bustard of Shuiyunfang, and the girls all call her Mother Liu.As expected, she kept her promise, so Dantian invited a doctor to treat Chu Chu.But the doctor couldn't find out the root cause of the disease, and after a dose of strong medicine, Chu Chu vomited a lot of black blood, and the disease was relieved, she no longer looked ashen as a dead body, and the pain was not so unbearable, but she still left every day. The root cause of blindness every time the disease occurs.

Simply being blind is harmless and will not affect her appearance.What's more, she is not completely blind, and she can still see the outlines of some objects vaguely.After a few days of moaning and sighing, Ms. Liu, who had never done business at a loss, came up with a plan and boasted about her blindness as a special selling point.

Mother Liu named her Miaoshan, and released the news that she was Miaoshan Bodhisattva descended from the mortal world.