Xiuxian: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 26 Beggar
In the freezing cold weather, thoughts swept over him like a tide, and Xu Yang soon received all the information about this body.

He is indeed a beggar. I don't know how old he is. He doesn't even have an official name. People who know him call him Agou.

As long as Agou can remember, he has followed an old beggar to beg for food for a living, suffering from hunger, cold, and poverty.

The year before last, the old beggar died, leaving him to survive alone and be even more oppressed. Today, he died of cold and hunger, becoming an insignificant starvation death in the 20 years since the founding of the Sui Dynasty.

This is all the information in the memory of the little beggar.

"Da Sui?"

"Kaihuang?"

"Year 20?"

"A plausible world?"

"Or did you travel to the history books of China?"

Xu Yang muttered to himself, and propped himself up from the corner of the wall.

Before time travel, although he was just an ordinary person, he still had basic historical knowledge.

The founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty was the reign name of Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty Yang Jian. It was 20 years after the founding of the emperor and four years of Renshou. In other words, there were still four years left before Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang, the street guy, would come to power. The turbulent and troubled times of the late Sui Dynasty will also come.

Xu Yang is also not sure whether this Sui and Tang world is a paradoxical parallel world, or the Sui and Tang Dynasty in Chinese history, but this is not important. For him, power is fundamental. As long as this world has the power he pursues, Then he doesn't care about the world view and history.

So, does this world have the power he seeks?

It's not clear yet, after all, the original "Agou" was just a little beggar with limited vision and experience, except for the reign of Emperor Kaihuang of the Sui Dynasty passed down from mouth to mouth, and the fact that this place is Pengcheng, Xuzhou, I don't know about other things. One can imagine the understanding of this world.

"You still have to explore on your own."

Xu Yang patted the frozen ice shards on his body, and prepared to leave this place first, looking for a shelter, so as not to be frozen to death and starved to death if he fails to accomplish his achievements.

This body is very poor and weak. The scrawny young man's body is worse than that of seven or eight children. Even with Zhuang Zhou Mengdie's spiritual power to fill the gap, he can barely recover his mobility. If he can't find food, clothing and shelter, he will definitely suffer. Just three days, even tonight is enough.

So, first find a way to get some food, clothing, sleep, and shelter...

"How are you?"

Just when Xu Yang was thinking about his next move, he suddenly saw a person trotting in front of him.

That is... a little girl, a little girl carved in powder and jade.

She was wearing a snow-white coat and cloak, which you could tell at a glance was made of fine mink velvet. Although she was young and had not yet fully grown, she already had an alluring appearance. Between her brows, her expression was as bright as the rain from an empty mountain. So moving.

Seeing this, Xu Yang frowned.

This person...he didn't know him, or "Agou" didn't know him, and he didn't have the slightest impression in his memory. It seemed that the two parties could not have any relationship.

So what's going on?

Just when Xu Yang was surprised, the little girl handed over an oil paper bag: "It's still hot, eat it quickly!"

"..."

Xu Yang looked at her, feeling a little weird, but he still reached out and took the oiled paper bag.

When I opened it, the steam was steaming, and there were a few meat buns with a strong aroma and translucent oil.

"..."

"Thank you!"

Xu Yang was silent for a while, then bowed his head in thanks, picked up the bun with his dirty hands, and started to gobble it up like that.

He understood what was going on.

The little girl didn't know him well, so she came here out of kindness and treated him like a beggar.

Hmm...well, he's a beggar now!

Xu Yang didn't feel any resistance to this. On the contrary, he was very grateful. He needed such charity now.

"Eat slowly and don't choke."

Seeing him eating in such a hurry, the little girl hurriedly persuaded him, then looked around, and remembered something: "I was in a hurry just now, I forgot to buy water, wait a minute, I'll get it for you..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw Xu Yang grabbing a handful of snow beside him, stuffing it into his mouth and chewing it.

The little girl was immediately shocked by what he did, and it took her a while to realize: "How can you eat this snow? Come on, stop it, I'll buy you a bottle of water!"

"Need not."

Xu Yang shook his head, and quickly wiped out a bag of buns with snow water, warming his frail and cold body.

"Thank you."

After thanking him again, Xu Yang turned around and was about to leave this place.

This little girl was from an unusual family at first glance, it's better for him not to have anything to do with her now.

"Hey, wait!"

Seeing this, the little girl stopped him, took out an ingot from her belt, and said to him: "Here is some silver, you can use it to buy clothes, and find a place to live. Don't sleep outside, it will hurt you." Frozen to death."

After finishing speaking, he couldn't help but put the silver ingot into his hand, then turned and left the alley.

"..."

Looking at the silver ingot in his hand, Xu Yang fell into silence.

Immediately, he stuffed the silver ingot into his arms and walked to the other end of the alley.

But not far away, I saw...

"Agou, stop!"

A group of people rushed over aggressively, blocking in front of Xu Yang, they turned out to be a group of beggars.

Although they were beggars, they obviously dressed much better than the ragged Xu Yang, and their bodies were stronger. They stood in front of Xu Yang, looked at him coldly, then looked around, and finally asked sharply: "Just now What did that little girl give you?"

"take it out!"

"Get it out!"

"Otherwise you will suffer!"

"I've seen it all. That little girl is wearing a velvet jacket. She is very rich. She must have rewarded you with a lot of money!"

"take it out!!!"

Several people had wild eyes and shouted threats.

Xu Yang looked at them without saying anything, silently lying on the ground, holding his head and shrinking up.

"Yo?"

"Playing this trick with the man?"

"The business is good!"

"Hit it, hit me!"

"Find out that silver!"

When several people saw this, they were also furious. They cursed and tried to beat him.

but don't want to...

"Whoosh whoosh!"

In the wind and snow, several sounds pierced the air. Before the beggars knew what happened, they were knocked to the ground and wailed.

Xu Yang shrank on the ground, hugged his head, glanced out from the gap between his arms, and saw a dusty figure at the entrance of the alley.

It was a woman, dressed in white snow, with a light veil on her face. Although she didn't have a good appearance, she had a magnificent appearance just because of her independent air.

Several beggars who had been knocked down also saw her, and they immediately understood the situation. They quickly stood up and knelt down to kowtow as if they were pounding garlic: "Xiangu, please forgive me, Xiangu, please forgive me. We will never dare to do it again. We will never dare to do it again." …”

"roll!"

Seeing this, the woman didn't say much, and shouted coldly to drive everyone away.

"Yes Yes Yes!"

"Get out now, get out now!"

As if they had received an amnesty, several people propped up their bodies and fled outwards, rolling and crawling.

What is the most important thing when you are a beggar?

The ability to beg, the strength to yell, the kung fu to sell miserably?
It's not, it's the eyesight of people and the alertness when things happen!

If you don't have the ability to follow the wind, you won't be able to live long as a beggar.

Several of them were old beggars with fierce eyes and quick-witted in dealing with situations. They knew that this woman in disguise was definitely not an ordinary person, so they begged for mercy decisively and successfully escaped the catastrophe.

Several people ran away, and Xu Yang, who was on the ground holding his head and shrinking back, also sat up and looked at the woman with "surprise and uncertainty."

"Master!"

Sure enough, a small figure appeared behind the woman, it was the little girl from before.

I saw her trotting up to Xu Yang. Regardless of how dirty Xu Yang's body was, she reached out and helped him up: "Are you okay?"

"It's okay, thank you."

Xu Yang nodded, indicating that he was fine, then turned his gaze to the woman, and made a strange hand-over-hand gesture: "Thank you, fairy lady, for saving me!"

The woman covered her face with a light veil, she didn't know the expression on her face, she only saw indifferent eyes, stepped forward and said to Xu Yang: "Do you know where Jing'an Temple is?"

"Jing'an Temple?"

Xu Yang thought, and then said: "I know, this is the biggest temple in Xuzhou City, can Xiangu lead the way?"

"Need not."

The woman shook her head, took out an envelope and handed it into Xu Yang's hand: "Take this letter to Jing'an Temple and they will take you in."

Then, regardless of Xu Yang's reaction, he turned to the little girl and said, "Xuan'er, let's go!"

After saying that, he turned around and walked out.

Seeing this, the little girl could only take one last look at Xu Yang: "Be careful, take care!"

Then, he turned around and followed the woman's footsteps, walking further and further away in the wind and snow.

"..."

Looking at the figures of the two going away, Xu Yang was silent for a while, before finally turning around and heading towards Jing'an Temple.

……

In the wind and snow, the two figures, one big and one small, are extraordinary and refined, like fairies from the sky who have fallen into the world.

The little girl held the woman's hand, turned her head to look back from time to time, hesitated to speak.

The woman's eyes were indifferent, and she said calmly: "Don't worry, that little beggar is alert. Jing'an Temple is not far from here, and he will arrive soon if there is no accident."

"Thank you, Master."

The little girl felt relieved a little, but looking at the wind and rain in the sky and the desolation around her, she couldn't help frowning and asked doubtfully: "Master, didn't you say that the emperor of the Sui Dynasty is now the emperor of the Sui Dynasty. Will there be a new generation of enlightened masters? Why..."

The woman's expression remained unchanged and she asked: "Why what?"

The little girl hesitated for a while, and finally raised her head and asked her doubts: "Why are there so many beggars under his rule, so many people are not full enough to eat, not warm enough to fall on the street, freezing to death and starving?" Death, shouldn’t everyone have no worries about food and clothing?”

"..."

These words caused the woman to fall into silence, and it took a long time before she replied softly: "Even if you are a wise lord, there are still difficulties. If you want the world to be prosperous and the world to be rich, you have to plan it slowly, and you can't do it overnight."

"Is that so?"

The little girl nodded, but then doubts surfaced again: "Then why are some people suffering from hunger and cold, with no clothes all over their bodies, while others are rich and rich, enjoying endless things?"

"..."

After hearing these words, the woman was silent again, and she said after a long time: "Because people in the world are selfish and human nature is self-centered. The world cannot be harmonious and the four seas can be equally divided. This is an eternal thing of humanity and cannot be changed!"

Hearing this, the little girl also understood, and murmured: "The way of heaven is to make up for what is lacking, and the way of man is to make up for what is not enough?"

"That's it."

The woman nodded and said faintly: "It is precisely because of this that we must spread Buddhism widely, educate people's hearts, and guide humanity well. Only in this way can the world be united and all living beings be equal. Do you understand?"

"Ming, I understand."

The little girl nodded half-understood, but soon couldn't hold back her doubts: "Since Buddhism can bring harmony to the world, why didn't the emperor of the Sui Dynasty promote Buddhism widely? Doesn't he want a world where the world is harmonious and all living beings are equal?" ?"

"..."

The woman was silent again, and then said for a long time: "It's not that I don't want to, but that I can't. The emperor is already implementing Buddhism, but there are still obstacles, so we need our help to put an end to the chaos in the world!"

"It's not that you don't want to, but that you can't?"

The little girl was a little disbelieving. She puffed up her face and said, "I think he not only can't, but also doesn't want to!"

"..."

The woman stopped and turned around, with a hint of surprise in her indifferent eyes: "How to say?"

"Because the Son of Heaven is also a human being."

The little girl said as a matter of course: "As the master said, people have selfishness, human nature is selfish, and the emperor of heaven is even more self-respecting. Naturally, he does not want the world to be harmonious and all living beings to be equal, right?"

"..."

The woman was silent, and then laughed: "Xuan'er is right, the emperor is also a human being, and he is also subject to the selfishness of people's hearts."

"Then master, why do we still support such an emperor?"

The little girl was even more puzzled: "Can't we be the emperor ourselves, use Buddhism to save the people of the world, and create a world where the world is unified and all living beings are equal?"

The woman shook her head, her words were light but firm: "No!"

"Why not?"

"Because we're human too!"

"This……"

The little girl raised her head and looked at the master in front of her who was otherworldly and different from ordinary people. She seemed to understand something. The doubts in her eyes gradually cleared up and turned into determination. She said to the woman in an innocent and childlike voice: "Master, wait for Xuan'er When I grow up, I will definitely choose a Shengtian son and help him govern the world well!"

The woman smiled, stretched out her hand, and fondled her little head: "Master believes that Xuan'er can do it."

"Uh-huh!"

The little girl nodded, with a hopeful look on her face: "At that time, no one will freeze to death or starve to death, and everyone will be able to eat and wear warmth, be happy, and live happily..."

"Then Xuan'er must grow up quickly."

"..."

In the wind and snow, the two gradually drifted away without a trace.

On the other side, Xu Yang walked around in front of Jing'an Temple, and after confirming that no one was following him, he turned around and left decisively.

If you are in the first world and have no accumulation, then joining this temple is indeed a good choice. You can get effective shelter and enough time to quietly accumulate strength and grow slowly.

But if this is not true, Xu Yang, who has already made his first pot of gold, now has sufficient foundation to support him. This background is extraordinary, and the Jing'an Temple with many rules is no longer the best choice for him.

and so……

(End of this chapter)