"Smelly boy! Coward! Get out of here! Ha ha!"

"Go away, go away! Poor man! Don't let me see you again!"

The men behind him laughed sarcastically, and their voices hit Gu Feihua's eardrums like giant thunder.

"Why? Why..." Gu Feihua asked in a voice that only he could hear.

If he didn't go out with Nangong Waner and be attacked, he had to jump into the canglan River and fall here. Gu Feihua might live in the palace with dignity all his life and never see such an ugly side of human nature.

This situation of man-made knife and man-made fish makes him eager to become strong. Perhaps only in this way can he protect his loved ones.

"Wan'er, you must wait for me." Gu Feihua secretly vowed that he must be strong and no one can bully and laugh at them again.

Ten days later, outside Longzhou city.

"Feihua, you must study fencing carefully, so that when you grow up, you can become a man who protects your country and stands upright."

"When I grow up, I want to travel around the world, enjoy the boundless scenery and absorb hundreds of knowledge. Would you like to go with us?"

"Of course I'd like to wait until that day."

"Yes!"

The scene in front of me became more and more blurred, and the shadow of my sister Gu Changge became more and more distant, but her instructions still echoed in my ears for a long time.

"Sister, don't go... Feihua misses you so much..." Gu Feihua sleeps in a broken temple outside the city. He has no money and lost his only horse. He can only walk here step by step on his two legs.

Tired and hungry, he fell asleep in the temple. In his dream, he saw his long missed sister Gu Changge and dreamed of the big yard and a big tree in the yard. Nangong Waner sat down on the swing under the tree and shouted to him with a smile.

But soon the dream woke up. He was still in the broken temple. Beside him, there was nothing but an abandoned statue.

"Grandpa immortal, please, please bless me. I must find Wan'er and bless us to go home safely." Gu Feihua knelt down, kowtowed three heads to the statue, then got up and left the temple and walked to the city.

The street was very busy. Gu Feihua dragged his heavy steps and continued to inquire about Nangong Waner's whereabouts from the surrounding vendors. He held a pink hairpin tightly in his hand.

Along the way, he found here with the clues left by Wan'er, sometimes a hairpin, sometimes a silk scarf. This is the most prosperous capital of the state of Wei, Longzhou.

But people seem to avoid him now. Before he gets close, they hide. Gu Feihua looks at his clothes, which are dilapidated and smelly. It seems that they regard themselves as beggars.

"How do you sell this steamed bread?" Gu Feihua asked the aunt who bought the steamed bread, standing in front of a steamed bread shop.

"Two for a penny. Do you want them?" aunt glanced at him.

"I have no money, but I can work. I can help you wash the dishes. Can you give me two steamed buns?" Gu Feihua said and rolled up his sleeves to get ready to work.

"No, no, you're so dirty. My guests are scared away by you. Go, go!" aunt waved her apron to drive him away.

"Wait, I can sweep the floor and chop firewood. And I haven't eaten for several days. Could you give me two steamed buns?" Gu Feihua asked.

"If you say you can't, you can't! Go to another house and don't hinder me from doing business!" aunt angrily pushed him. Gu Feihua had no strength. After being pushed, he stepped back several steps and bumped into passers-by in the street.

"Hey, do you have eyes? Smelly beggar!" the other party was a drunk with a wine pot in his hand.

Gu Feihua got up from the ground and was ready to leave, but the drunk grabbed his sleeve. "Why? You want to run when you hit someone? You don't even have an apology? How did your mother teach you, smelly beggar?"

Gu Feihua clenched his fist and fiercely waved it to the man's face. Although his strength was soft and weak, he still beat the man sideways. Gu Feihua tolerated all the way. Up to now, he didn't get angry even when they called him a beggar, but he felt that these people were not allowed to speak ill of his mother. This was his inverse scale, and no one could touch it.

"Beggar, you want to die!" the drunkard jumped up, lifted Gu Feihua from the ground, threw himself aside and hit a stall selling vegetables.

The vegetables rolled all over the floor, and the uncle pointed to him and scolded, "where's the unlucky guy? Look, you've made a mess of my vegetables. You'll compensate me! You'll compensate me!"

"What's the ghost's name? How can this smelly beggar have money?" the drunkard came forward and kicked Gu Feihua, and they wrestled together again.

Gu Feihua couldn't beat the man naturally. He forced him to the ground, and his fist rained down. The sweetness of the scarlet in his mouth became heavier and heavier, and the pain from his body became more and more blurred, so that he couldn't feel it. Gu Feihua felt soft all over, like floating in the clouds.

"Stop fighting, stop fighting, you'll kill him!" the vegetable seller finally couldn't see it and went to stop the drunkard.

"Mind your own business. If a beggar like this dies, you'll lose one. What are you afraid of?" the drunkard stood up from Gu Feihua, kicked him again and left.

"How pitiful it is. It's so small. How can it become like this?"

"Yes, yes, it's too poor." Gu Feihua fell asleep amid the divergent opinions.

When she woke up again, she was in a small, damp room, but what made Gu Feihua unbelievable was that Nangong Waner was sitting opposite him. Although she was embarrassed and scared, Gu Feihua recognized her at a glance.

"Wan'er, Wan'er..." Gu Feihua reached out to Nangong Wan'er and forced a smile at her. Anyway, he finally found her.

The child kept his head buried in his knees and his body trembled. Suddenly he heard someone calling his name and shouted, "don't catch me! I'll work hard! Don't catch me!"

Gu Feihua's eyes gradually widened. He looked at everything in front of him incredulously. There were some unkempt people sitting with Wan'er. They all lowered their heads and couldn't distinguish their faces.

"Wan'er, what's the matter with you? I'm Feihua. Don't you know me?" how could Nangong Wan'er, whom he knew, become like this?

Nangong Waner finally heard this sentence. She looked up at the beggar sitting opposite her and found that her face was Gu Feihua.

"Feihua!" Nangong Waner cried and jumped at Gu Feihua. Regardless of the bad smell on him, she hugged him tightly and cried bitterly.

Several other people saw this scene, but sighed heavily, "sin, they don't even let such a small child go!"

Gu Feihua looked at them for unknown reasons. He was hurt everywhere. He had no strength. He was attacked by Nangong Waner so hard that he was about to faint.

When Nangong Waner was too weak to cry, she looked at Gu Feihua carefully. He looked like paper, his lips were white, and bean sized sweat droplets appeared on his forehead. It seemed that she was trying her best to bear the pain and immediately got up from him.

"Feihua? What's the matter with you? How did you get so badly hurt? How did you get caught?"

Gu Feihua shook his head and asked in a stiff voice, "where is this?"

"This is a private coal mine. We were all caught here to do hard work. They caught homeless tramps and beggars everywhere, and then locked them here to work for them."

Nangong Waner bowed her head and then said, "when I woke up that day, I was very worried to see you away, and then I went out of the woods to find you. But when I was walking alone on the road, a carriage passed by. When the carriage passed by, they forcibly took me away."

"Then you were brought here?" Gu Feihua inhaled. He didn't believe that in broad daylight, someone was so bold to catch people and force them to work.

"Yes, here, if you don't work, you have no food to eat. If you work slowly, you have to be beaten. There are often dead people in the coal mine. Some are killed by smashing, and others are killed alive. It's terrible..." Nangong Waner covered her head with fear. She didn't want to recall those terrible scenes, but they seemed to be printed in her mind and couldn't be erased.

"Don't be afraid, we will find a way to escape!" Gu Feihua hugged Nangong Waner.

"Son, I advise you not to run away on impulse. If you are caught back, you will end badly," interrupted a tramp.

"That also wants to escape, can you live in such a place all your life?" Gu Feihua is unwilling. He will never give up. He must take Wan'er home safely.

"Alas, newborn calves are not afraid of tigers. When you know their power, you won't think so."

"Feihua, you must be hungry. Come on." Nangong Waner took out a nest from behind and handed it to Gu Feihua.

"Didn't you say you often don't have enough to eat here? You eat, I'm not hungry."

"It's all right. We're half alone." Nangong Waner broke off half and handed it to Gu Feihua. She sent the other half to the entrance and chewed it slowly.

Gu Feihua sighed, took the Wowotou and chewed it up. Only with strength can he find a chance to escape. He can't die here, and Wan'er can't die here. They all have to go back alive.

Gu Feihua's injury hasn't healed yet, so he is pulled out to work by the caretaker. He has to go to the mine every day and move a basket of blue stones out. If the speed is slow, he will be beaten and cursed. He hasn't eaten yet.

As Nangong Waner said, this is hell. They are all demons. They eat people and don't spit bones.

He saw a man beat a woman to death with a whip, and then the woman's body was carried to the back mountain to throw away. Here, human life is like grass mustard, dispensable. After three or four days, they will catch some new beggars and drag the dead out and throw them away.

Gu Feihua experienced all this personally. He was beaten and hungry, but he survived. He had to wait for an opportunity. After so many days of observation, he finally found the opportunity. He must escape, escape from this cage and escape the control of death.

"Feihua, there's only so much today." Nangong Waner said to Gu Feihua with half a steamed bread and a bowl of rice soup in her hand.

"Why only half?" Gu Feihua frowned. Today, he provoked a whip because he had a few words with the caretaker. Fortunately, those people wanted to work hard at him, so they didn't throw him to the back mountain to feed the wolf.

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