Chapter 3 Beggar
Chapter 3 Beggar
Lush green mountains and long ancient roads.
The teahouse beside the dusty ancient road is now bustling with activity.
The waiter's feet were smoking as he served tea and water to the merchants and travelers coming and going.
During a break in his busy schedule, the shopkeeper turned his head to glance at the entrance of the teahouse, and saw a ragged beggar curled up in a ball, holding a bamboo stick and sleeping against the steps.
There was also a bowl with a hole in it, but it was empty now.
"In troubled times, people's lives are cheap, and they are all miserable."
The shopkeeper sighed, stretched out his hand to call a waiter over, and nodded towards the door.
The second brother suddenly realized and rolled up his sleeves:
"Just wait and see, boss. I'll chase him away right now."
Before he could leave, the shopkeeper slapped him on the head:
"Go to the back and get two pieces of bread and pour him a bowl of water."
The second brother was stunned for a moment, then left in embarrassment. After a while, he came to the beggar with two palms of bread and a bowl of water in his hands, squatted down and put the bowl of water aside:
"Wake up, wake up."
He kicked the beggar.
The beggar opened his eyes, his pupils were slightly cloudy, he looked at the second brother in surprise, and immediately said:
"I'm leaving now, I'm leaving now..."
"Don't go. My boss is kindhearted and can't bear to see others in pity. I'll give you these two cakes. If you don't have enough water, you can ask for more. Eat and drink enough before you leave."
The waiter threw the two cakes into the bowl and walked into the teahouse without looking back.
The beggar was so grateful that he kept crying and thanking the man.
But when he lowered his head again, a gleam of brilliance flashed across his eyes.
He put one of the two pancakes away and then wolfed down the other one.
He wasn't actually very hungry... he had just eaten a wild duck in the morning and had a duck leg hidden in his arms.
But since I want to play a beggar, I naturally have to look like a beggar.
Chu Qing is actually very confident in her acting skills.
This is not because Chu Qing had studied acting in his previous life, but because the original owner himself had learned this from a master.
If you want to be a good killer, acting skills and disguise are necessary.
To play a woodcutter, you have to look like a woodcutter; to play a doctor, you have to have the temperament of a doctor.
A top killer must not only be able to control his murderous aura freely, but also have the ability to have many faces and change in a variety of ways in order to appear and disappear at will.
With proper disguise, the assassination can be unexpected and the success rate of the assassination can be increased.
Moreover, if one has mastered this skill, even if the assassination fails, one will not be defeated and killed easily.
It is often said that if you miss the target, you should flee a thousand miles away.
There is a lot of knowledge involved in "escaping" here. It not only requires running fast, but also hiding fast.
If you fail to kill the target, you will inevitably suffer backlash. If the other party is surrounded by many forces and is chasing and blocking you, how can it be easy to escape?
So you have to hide.
Hiding in a corner is hiding, but it is the worst option. Standing in the crowd without anyone recognizing you is the best option.
Hide and run, then no one can catch you.
This is the real "escape", coming without a trace and going without a trace.
Therefore, for a killer, disguise skills are sometimes even more important than martial arts.
Of course, Chu Qing's disguise was not to assassinate anyone. Although he got an assassin system, he had no commission at this time.
After he escaped half a month ago, he had no time to feel sorry for himself for traveling through time, but instead began to think about what to do next.
In fact, according to Chu Qing's own plan, he wanted to escape thousands of miles away, find a place that no one knew, and use the system to develop himself first.
When I become invincible, I will tear down the foundation of this evil mirror stand and leave him with nothing left.
But the secret letter made him change his plan... Chu Yunfei had already been priced and put on the list of the Evil Mirror.
Although as a time traveler, he does not have any father-son feelings for Chu Yunfei.
But as it carries the memories of the original owner, he has complicated feelings towards Chu Yunfei.
On the one hand, she doesn't like the fate he has arranged for her, and on the other hand, she can't bear to see him in danger.
There were also some small thoughts hoping to gain his approval... All these thoughts, along with the memories, fell into Chu Qing's heart today. Although he was not so upset because of the secret letter, he could not help but have some distracting thoughts and was always worried.
It is expected that if Chu Yunfei was really killed by the people from Nie Jingtai, this matter would probably become a source of worry.
Then the gain outweighs the loss.
Only then did he make up his mind and decided to secretly return to Tianwu City to remind Chu Yunfei.
With Chu Yunfei's reputation as the Iron Palm to Overcome Disasters, plus the power of Tianwu City, if he is prepared in advance, even if the Nie Jingtai is in Tianwu City, it will be difficult to do anything to him.
As for himself...he had no intention of showing up.
Not to mention whether Chu Yunfei still remembers the engagement, just the system itself is not suitable for having any concerns.
The rain half a month ago washed away all his traces, and his sneaking along the way was relatively peaceful. Now he was almost reaching the territory of Tianwu City.
As I was thinking this, I heard the sound of horse hooves approaching from afar.
This place is considered a transportation hub. If the Daqian Dynasty was still around three hundred years ago, there would have been a post station here.
Although it seems a bit desolate nowadays, there are still many people coming and going.
Chu Qing had not taken the sound of horse hooves seriously at first. He just knew that they were two horses. Soon they were approaching. After the people on the horses got off, they chatted casually, calling each other "brother and sister". It was obvious that they were brothers and sisters from the same school.
It was not until a 'ding-dong' sound came from the bowl that Chu Qing looked up in surprise.
I saw a young man and woman standing in front of me. The man was about twenty years old, wearing a green robe with a waist belt, and hand guards on his wrists. His palms were broad with prominent joints.
You can tell at first glance that he is good at boxing and palm fighting.
The woman seemed to be a little smaller than the man, but her clothes were not much different from his, except that they were changed into women's clothes.
She had a delicate face, but no expression.
In contrast, the man's expression was somewhat complicated.
For some reason, Chu Qing found this man's appearance pleasing to the eye...
But he quickly responded, changing his voice and speaking:
"Thank you, thank you very much, young lady."
His face was covered in black mud and his true features could not be seen. His voice was hoarse and he sounded like a middle-aged beggar.
After hearing his voice, the young man's complex expression disappeared. He was a little disappointed, but also a little relieved. He shook his head slightly:
"It doesn't matter."
"Brother... you have been giving money to beggars all along the way. Why do you do that?"
When Chu Qing heard the woman speak, her voice was not cold, but not warm either, as if they were not very close.
The man sighed:
"Junior sister, you don't know that my younger brother left home when he was young and has not returned for many years. There has been no news from him since then.
"In the past half month, I have often seen him begging on the roadside in ragged clothes, starving and naked, looking emaciated... Every time I see him in my dreams, I am awakened from my sleep.
"After that, when I looked at the beggar on the street again, I was always worried that it was him, but at the same time I hoped it was him..."
Chu Qing's head was buzzing for a moment when he heard him speak.
After not seeing each other for seven years, his appearance has naturally changed, but after all, we are still connected by blood.
No wonder I felt he was pleasing to the eye when I saw him just now...this man turned out to be my cheap second brother, Chu Fan!
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