Luo Yangxing was walking on the street of Shiqiao Town. He felt very uncomfortable. No one would feel too comfortable in Shunzi's hateful eyes. Shunzi's eyes looked at Luo Yangxing with hatred. If

Looks can kill, Luo Yangxing's body must be full of bullet holes now.

Li Xiao followed Luo Yangxing for a walk like no one else. From time to time, he would choose some street snacks and swallow them in his stomach under Shunzi's horrified eyes. Shunzi swore that he would make Luo Yangxing look good after returning to the government office.

Shiqiao Town! This is a place similar to other small towns in the south of the Yangtze River. The small river passing through the town flows quietly. On the Shikong Bridge, children run across laughing from time to time. There are boatmen holding boats on the small river, and there are

A woman is washing rice and vegetables, and someone on the other side is desperately cleaning the toilet. Everything exists in such harmony!

The children smiled brightly, but there were no smiles on the faces of the adults. From Luo Yangxing's mouth, Li Xiao learned about another identity in Shiqiao Town, the head office of the Lianghuai Cao Gang.

Caogang! A group of people who live around the Grand Canal.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty opened the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. Although this huge project directly brought down the powerful Sui Dynasty, it also laid a solid foundation for subsequent monarchs to rule the north. From then on, grain from the south was continuously transported to the north.

As the material guarantee for the imperial court to rule the north, since the Tang Dynasty, there has been a group of people on both sides of the Grand Canal who have made a living by water transport, known in history as the Cao Gang.

Throughout the dynasties, Caobang has relied on this Grand Canal for a living. They have made a living by helping the imperial court transport grain from the south of the Yangtze River, but today the situation has changed. Corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes and other high-yielding crops are widely planted in the north, which is not only enough for people

There is even plenty of food to feed the pigs.

At this time, the harvests in the south of the Yangtze River were failing year after year, and the population fled everywhere due to lack of control. The water transportation, which had not stopped for thousands of years, finally stopped. Unlike previous dynasties, even if the water transportation was stopped, the people in the northern Ming Dynasty would not go hungry.

But without water transportation, the Cao Gang will starve. The Donglin Party in Jiangnan is actually behind the scenes to pay for the instigation. Most of the people who actually come out to risk their lives are members of the Cao Gang.

Without water transportation, there would be no food to eat. At this time, of course, whoever gave the money would do things for them. The Donglin bosses were originally landlords, and with the support of the Lianghuai salt merchants, it was not an exaggeration to describe them as wealthy as the country.

Jin Yiwei is not a free man. Luo Yangxing has been in Jiangnan for such a long time, so of course he knows who plays what role behind the turmoil.

"Little girl, why are you following me?" Li Xiao looked at a child with a dirty face. The child was about four or five years old. He was dragging his feet when he walked. He seemed to be lame in one leg. He had a prick on his head.

She wears two braids and has an interesting bounce when she walks.

"I'm hungry!" He looked at Li Xiao with big eyes and uttered Wu Nong's soft words. Li Xiao didn't understand, and Luo Yangxing next to him reminded him before he understood.

Look at the piece of rice cake in his hand, and then look at those big twinkling eyes. Li Xiao really doesn’t have the courage to eat the rice cake in front of this child. This is the first time in his life that he has eaten rice cake.

Feeling guilty.

The rice cake is delicious, and Li Xiao wants to eat it too. Moreover, this is the stall owner’s last piece of rice cake. If you really want to eat it, you have to wait until tomorrow.

Li Xiao, who was thinking about the battle between heaven and man, finally handed the rice cake in his hand to the little girl.

"Thank you, sir." The little girl's voice of thanks was more like a cheer. She almost grabbed the rice cake with her little paws and took it out of Li Xiao's hand. Naturally, his hand touched his waist, and he was thinking about asking for it.

Don't kill this little girl who robbed the handsome man.

The little girl grabbed the rice cake but didn't eat it. Instead, she ran away. This made Li Xiao curious as to why he didn't stuff the rice cake into his mouth immediately after finally getting it. Li Xiao was already ready to give instructions to Shunzi.

, go to the stall selling sour plum soup and get a bowl of sour plum soup to quench the little girl’s thirst.

Seeing the little girl running across the stone bridge in a hurry, and then turning into the alley. Li Xiao took two steps and followed into the alley. Under the stone archway, there was an even smaller boy lying. Li Xiao visually inspected that this little boy

The child should be only two or three years old.

After traveling all over the country, he can be considered as having seen this. This may be the thinnest little boy Li Xiao has ever seen. Under the huge head is a thin neck. Under the ribs is a balloon-like belly. Two

The thin thighs had become skinny and skinny. The little boy was too weak to even stand up, so he could only stand in the sunlight under the archway.

Perhaps, he is relying on this ray of sunshine to survive.

This is the thinnest child Li Xiao has ever seen, bar none.

The little girl grabbed the rice cake piece by piece and put it into the little boy's mouth bit by bit. Seeing the little boy gobbling it up, the little girl swallowed the saliva in her mouth, but couldn't hold back the tears that fell.

"Sister! You eat too." The little boy finally noticed something and used his only strength to push a handful of rice cakes to his mouth.

"Sister, I'm full. The official just bought a dozen pieces of rice cakes for me. I ate them all and left one piece for you. Eat quickly, tomorrow is the temple fair at Thian Hock Temple."

The man will give out rice and porridge, so let’s go together and come back with a healthy belly.” The little girl once again put the rice cake in her hand into the little boy’s mouth.

How could the little boy not know that his sister would never eat until he had eaten something?

The little boy stuffed rice cakes into his mouth piece by piece. The little boy's mouth was filled with food and his eyes were filled with tears.

"Why are you crying! Today there are rice cakes to eat, and tomorrow there will be rice to eat. Taoist Tianfu Temple is not a monk temple. Maybe there is meat to eat!" Perhaps it was too realistic, and the little girl believed it herself.

.with a "gudu" sound, he swallowed a big mouthful of saliva.

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. The prosperous Jiangnan had turned into this. He really didn't know what to say.

"Get two bowls of wontons." Li Xiao pointed to the wonton stand not far away and said.

The two children must have been hungry for a long time, and soupy and watery food is still the best for their appetites. Little people, after being hungry for such a long time, would probably be strangled to death if they ate all at once.

The owner of the wonton stall was very quick with his hands and feet. He quickly got two bowls of wontons and brought them over with his hands.

"Eat!" Li Xiao placed two bowls of wontons on the ground and said to the two children.

"Who are you?" The little girl looked warily at the man in front of her who was wearing ordinary linen clothes and had a shaved head. This type of hair is rare these days. In her impression, it seems that only soldiers in the city carry big guns.

That’s why I have such a hairstyle.

So forgetful? Li Xiao pointed to the rice ball in the little girl's hand, and then pointed to himself, indicating that the rice ball was the one he had just given to him.

"I know you gave me the rice cakes, what are your intentions? If you want me to work as a maid in your house, I must bring my brother with you." The little girl pinched her waist and shook her braid upwards as she spoke.

of.

"Uh...!" Li Xiao scratched his head, but he didn't expect that he would turn into an unscrupulous uncle.

"I didn't want you to be a maid, I just wanted to give you a bowl of wontons." Li Xiao said that he was innocent and his starting point was simple.

"Tell me! Are you like the mangy Asan, who wants to get my brother's butt on his head, and then leave my brother on the street to make money?" The little girl took out a screwdriver from her arms and turned sideways.

He stood in front of his younger brother and bared his teeth at Li Xiao.

Li Xiao was almost dumbfounded, and Shunzi's eyes almost fell off. Luo Yangxing on the side hesitated whether to reach out and snatch the screwdriver away. After all, the screwdriver was also lethal. If it really hurt Li Xiao, the Liao army would

Those animals might cut the siblings into pieces.

In the end, Shunzi reacted and snatched the screwdriver out of the little girl's hand. Without even looking at it, she threw her only weapon into the river.

"Guardian, as long as you let my sister go, I will do whatever you want. I just ask you to let my sister go." After eating some rice cakes, he gained strength and the little boy sat up straight. He looked at Li with his big eyes.

The owl makes people think he looks like a monkey.

"No one wants your sister to be a maid, and no one wants your life. Who is Scary Asan?" Li Xiao thought there was a story in this.

"The name of our third master's name is also called by a foreigner like you?" A voice came from behind.

A dozen gangsters appeared at one end of the alley. These people were shirtless and had various tattoos on their bodies. A guy as thin as a stick stood up and pointed at Li Xiao and yelled. Behind him, there was a

The guy with the leprosy head has a strong build and a very ferocious look in his eyes. He is probably the leprous man named Asan in the little girl’s mouth.

"I screamed, what's the matter?" Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. He really agreed with what he said. Where there is sunshine, there are shadows. Dark and evil forces are really everywhere. I didn't expect that such a small Jiangnan town would have such

Lots of messing around.

"Hey! Our third master's font size is not just called casually. Brothers, let them know how powerful our third master is." The thin guy was like a clown, fully carrying out the principle of "I win when quarreling, and you win when fighting"

. He took a step back and waved his hand to beat up Li Xiao, Shunzi and Luo Yangxing.

They are all veterans of street fights all year round. Although the three of them don't seem to be very easy to mess with. But with so many people surrounding and beating the three of them, it is certain that they will win. As long as they beat the other three guys, their outfits will definitely be...

Rich master, maybe you can get a lot of money by blackmailing me when the time comes.

Shiqiao Town is really a small place, and these people don't get along very well on weekdays. They often miss a meal but don't have a meal at all. Now that they have the opportunity to blackmail outsiders, it's like pie falling from the sky.

More than a dozen big men rushed over. Before they could get within five meters of Li Xiao, they heard gunfire. The gangsters were shot in the legs one after another and fell to the ground screaming. These were still Li Xiao's men.

Be merciful and tell Shunzi. Otherwise, these dozen people plus the leprosy-headed third master should be lying on the ground twitching right now.

"Sir...sir, what should I do?"

Li Xiao walked up to the scabby Ah San and looked at the guy covered in scabies. He now understood what the scabby Ah San was doing! This guy was really boring and plundered children and made them sick.

If you are disabled, you will be put in a temple fair or pretend to be a beggar in a busy city to collect money.

This is indeed a good business with huge profits, so this immoral business has always existed from ancient times to the present. Li Xiao saw people with weird bodies more than once in temple fairs and other places. He was also curious about how deformed a person needs to be.

Only then can he be deformed like this.

After making inquiries later, I found out that this was not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster.

There used to be a lot of people like this on the overpass, mostly children. After Li Xiao understood what was going on, he sent people to keep an eye on the guys who picked up the disabled beggars every night. He kept watching for half a month, and they were a little impatient.

, I want to go out of Beijing and visit Shandong.

That night, all members of the Liao army in the capital were dispatched. Facing the fierce Liao army, all evil forces were like tigers in the darkness.

The largest anti-gang and anti-evil operation in the capital had begun. Before the big guys had time to perform, they were thrown into the eighteenth level of hell by the Liao soldiers and the officials from the Ministry of Justice who rushed over. Fifty-three guys from all over the country came to the capital to cause trouble.

fell into the hands of the government.

The gangsters who usually gave people the image of tough guys were tortured by Shuntian Mansion until they were like noodles. In the end, they were all tied up in the West City and asked to be beheaded. They were not officials, and the treatment of beheading in front of the Meridian Gate was not suitable for them.

Now that he saw such a person again, how could Li Xiao let him go?

Scary-headed Ah San is now feeling green in his intestines. The boss has told him not to mess with guys with crew cuts. There are three people standing here, and two of them have crew cuts.

Today, they originally wanted to catch these two little brothers and make them look like adults and throw them out on the street to beg. As long as they raise ten or eight people like this, they will have enough food and clothing in this life. There will always be fools who will give

These people have money.

Li Xiao stepped on the blood and walked up to a group of squirming men, looking at them with disdain.

"Shunzi! Break their legs and hang them from the trees along the street until they are hanged! Send more people to constantly report their crimes to the people." Li Xiao felt that letting these dozen guys

Acting like kids for a second time can be considered as letting them use their spare energy.

It is hoped that the dilapidated corpses of these people can deter this kind of evil spirit that harms children.

"You are so powerful, are you the Liao Army?" I don't know when, the little girl walked up behind Li Xiao. That is, this unarmed little girl, if it were another person, she would have been shot in the head by this time!

"I am Liao Jun!" Li Xiao nodded.

"My father said that the Liao army was all bad people. It was you who beat away those gentlemen, so that we people had no food to eat. You don't need to pretend here, even if we starve to death, we will not eat the food of the Liao army."

The little girl looked at Li Xiao fiercely.
Chapter completed!