The capital was home to dignitaries, students were everywhere, and the literary style was flourishing. Many poetry collections were unavailable even in Jiangnan, where literati gathered.

Chen Qingyun bought his favorite poetry collection and couldn't put it down. As soon as he went out, he saw someone selling his body to bury his father not far from the door of the bookstore. But it was not the frail beauty mentioned in the play, but a dark and skinny little boy.

The boy was about five years old. He was dressed in rags and dirty. It was hard to tell what he looked like. He had big, wet eyes and was pitiful.

He knelt next to a man wrapped in a mat. Only the top of his head and a pair of black feet were exposed. He was also dirty and shapeless. There was a stench around him, and flies were buzzing back and forth.

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The boy cried miserably, "Please kindhearted people, give me some money. My father died of illness and I don't have money to buy a coffin. If I don't want a good one, I will just have a thin coffin. One tael of silver will do it! Please, gentlemen,

Please do your best and join in. I wish you will be the top scorer in high school, become a high official, and make decisions for the people."

He kowtowed "bang bang bang", and soon blood oozed from his forehead, which was still stuck to the gravel and soil on the ground. It was very pitiful.

Many scholars who came and went around the bookstore had in their hearts family, country, world, benevolence and justice. Seeing this, they all felt compassion.

One tael of silver was not much, so some people opened their purses and threw a few taels of silver to the boy, "Take it and bury your father properly!"

Others were a step slower, but they had already taken out the money and did not put it back. They gave it to the child, "Take it to buy a shroud to make your death more dignified."

Someone else gave him a bunch of copper coins and "took them to hire someone to carry the coffin."

Someone gave me a handful of copper coins and said, "Take it and buy some clothes for yourself."

Chen Qingyun also took out a handful of copper coins from his purse, thinking about buying some food.

A hand stretched out and grabbed Chen Qingyun's hand, "Brother-in-law, I'll do it."

Chen Qingyun took a look and saw that it was Sanlang, Silang and Wulang, followed by Shangguan Ruoli and Ling Yue, holding boxes in their hands.

Sanlang grabbed a few coins from Chen Qingyun's hand and walked towards the child, but 'accidentally' kicked the 'corpse' on the ankle.

The bump on the ankle was so painful that it felt very sore. Suddenly the 'corpse' screamed and jumped up, and the mat fell apart, revealing a dark and thin old man.

Sanlang was so frightened that he shouted: "Mother! I've cheated my body!"

There was a commotion in the crowd: "You are so old and you have such a young son?"

"Ah! That's a lie!"

"Liar, give me back my money!"

"Kill them!"

When the boy who sold his body to bury his father realized that he was wrong and wanted to be beaten, he very experiencedly threw the money and copper coins in his pockets into the crowd, and while people were looting the money, he and the old man ran away.

Ling Yue smiled and said: "He ran pretty fast."

Wulang smiled and said: "You can practice it by escaping often."

Chen Qingyun blushed with shame and asked Sanlang, "How did you know they were liars?"

Several people nearby looked over and looked at Saburo expectantly.

Saburo looked blank and innocent, "I don't know, I just accidentally touched his leg."

Chen Qingyun didn't believe it, but he knew that his brother-in-law was a weirdo. But he didn't ask much on the street and waited until he got back.

Shangguan Ruoli took several children back and went to the shop next to the bookstore to buy paper. Unexpectedly, he happened to see this scene.

After returning home, during the meeting after dinner, Sanlang told the story, "I saw that they were liars, so I deliberately kicked the old beggar to make him reveal his secret."

To be honest, if Chen Qingyun wasn't fooled, he wouldn't mind his business. They were new here, and they couldn't even offend the gangsters on the street. A thousand-mile embankment was destroyed by an ant nest, so don't underestimate the role of little people.

Chen Qingyun blushed and asked, "How did you tell?"

Sanlang proudly raised his chin and said to his buddies: "You guys say it."

Erlang said: "First of all, how did he, such a small and skinny child, drag the body to the door of the bookstore? The streets of the capital are patrolled by people from patrol camps everywhere, and no one is allowed to carry the body on the street.

Go up."

Shiro said: "Secondly, the exposed feet look like the feet of an old man over fifty years old, unlike the child's father."

Wulang said: "When I saw the fly landing on the soles of the old man's feet, his legs shook a little."

Chen Qingyun said ashamedly: "Oh, I am too... naive."

Wulang said: "It's not that you are naive, it's that you haven't experienced the darkness of human nature. We haven't seen anything on the way to escape. This kind of little trick is the lowest level."

Chen Qingyun: "..."

Shangguan Ruoli said with a smile: "Those scammers are very good at catching people's psychology, and they are also very good at finding targets to deceive. But you are not the only one who was deceived. Those scholars took out a tael of silver and a tael of silver."

So, everyone talked about the deceptions they saw on the way to escape.

Especially Shuan Zhu, he had been doing this before, and what he taught was more advanced, and he knew all the tricks inside, which made several children listen with gusto.

After the after-dinner discussion ended, Dongming Ziyu called Shuan Zhu to the study.

Shuan Zhu was a little worried, "Fourth brother, did I talk too much tonight? I won't teach them bad things, right?"

Dongming Ziyu chuckled and said: "That's not why I'm looking for you. It's good for them to gain some knowledge. I want you to buy an inconspicuous yard in the outer city. You can be a kid who can sneak around among beggars secretly.

, took him in and trained him to be a person who does things secretly. Things must be done secretly."

When Shuan Zhu heard this, his spirits were shaken, he patted his chest and said: "Fourth brother, don't worry, leave this matter to me, I will definitely handle it! I am good at dealing with people like them."

In the past few days since he came, in addition to walking around the capital to get familiar with each other, he followed Dongming Ziyu to the Hanlin Academy for duty. The adults were working there, but they were obedient and couldn't go in. They waited in the concierge, which was quite boring.

Dong Youliang has started to open branches of its really delicious dim sum shop in the suburban counties around the capital. It is doing so vigorously that Shuan Zhu is a little jealous and is anxious to find something to do.

I didn't expect it to happen so quickly, and it was something secret, which was even more important.

Early the next morning, he put on beggar's clothes, painted himself black and dirty, and went out. If you want to understand a person, you must become the same person as him and interact with him on an equal footing.

He was holding a dog-beating stick and a broken bowl, walking around the back streets of restaurants and restaurants. He found that the beggars here also had gangs and territories. Several groups of beggars pointed at him and showed their displeasure.

Fierce Light must be looking for an opportunity to deal with him.

He won't mess with adult beggars, his target is children.

On the third day of wandering around, I saw an old man and a child at the back door of a house. They looked like they were deceiving.

Just as he was about to walk over, he saw the door open, and a thin man walked out. The man was stunned for a moment when he saw the two beggars, and then he said to them: "Beggar, there are steamed buns inside. Come in and I'll give them to you."

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When the two beggars saw that this man did not look like a good person, they turned around and wanted to run away.

The man ran a few steps and caught the old man, "Come on, I'll give you something to eat. You don't know how to behave!"

Shuan Zhu hid behind the corner, saw the man's appearance clearly, and was shocked, "It's him, he's not dead!"
Chapter completed!