After reading my mind, Daddy, why don't you smile?

Chapter 479 That's Your Grandfather's Life-Saving Money

Shangguan Shu turned around and saw a little beggar running away, shouting, "Help! Help!"

"Water ghost?" Shangguan Shu frowned and looked around, "Where did the water ghost come from?"

After a while, he didn't find it and sneered, "You have such bad eyesight, and you still want food?"

After saying this, he came to his senses and continued walking towards the Duke's Mansion.

The little beggar ran a long way and stopped when he found that the water ghost had not caught up with him. He patted his chest in shock.

Every morning, he would go to the vegetable market in front to pick up some rotten vegetables that were thrown away the night before. If he went too late, the rotten vegetables would have been picked up by other beggars, and he and his uncle's family would go hungry.

But having just encountered a water ghost, the little beggar didn't dare to go this way again, so he had to take a detour through a small path. However, the small path was time-consuming, and when he arrived, as expected, all the rotten vegetable leaves were gone.

The little beggar then took the broken bowl and started begging. After begging for a whole morning, he finally got two stale steamed buns and two cents!

The little beggar was very happy. He hid the two cents in his worn-out shoes and went home.

In fact, it was not really a home, but just an abandoned temple on the outskirts of Beijing with a few houses filled with beggars.

The house was leaking and was crumbling. The stronger beggars lived in the better houses, while he and his uncle's family, including the old, the disabled and the young, lived in the most dilapidated house.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as my uncle is there, that is their home.

When the little beggar returned to the dilapidated temple, it was already afternoon. At this time, ambitious beggars were still begging outside, so only his uncle's family was in the dilapidated temple.

It’s not that my uncle’s family is lazy and gluttonous, but they are really miserable!

My uncle is over fifty years old and is so thin that his bones are visible. He recently fell ill and the doctor said it would cost five taels of silver to cure him.

My great uncle has a daughter who is paralyzed and crazy. She always quarrels with my great uncle and says she is a dragon girl or something like that.

As for his uncle's granddaughter, she is a few years younger than him and is the most unruly and greedy. The mother and daughter always bully his uncle, and he dislikes them very much!

But they are my great uncle's relatives, and my great uncle saved his life, so my great uncle's relatives are also my great uncle's relatives.

He will take good care of them for his uncle.

"Uncle, I encountered some dirty things today and didn't pick up any vegetables, but fortunately I begged for two steamed buns."

When the little beggar entered the house, he saw a skinny, white-haired old man lying on the ground, who looked like he would not live long.

There was a woman on the kang. When she heard his voice, she scolded him, "You came back so late. Do you want to starve me to death?!"

The little beggar sighed, took out a steamed bun from his arms and threw it to the woman. The woman seemed to be very hungry, so she hurriedly took it, put it in her mouth, and gobbled it up.

There was a sour smell when it entered her mouth. The woman paused for a moment, then swallowed it whole while whimpering and crying, with a hint of forbearance in her collapse.

The little beggar was used to it and ignored her. He walked up to the old man, broke the steamed bun into small pieces and fed them into the old man's mouth.

The old man had blurry eyes, thick film on his mouth, and a fishy odor all over his body, like rotting raw meat. It was midsummer, and there were many insects and flies. When the little beggar approached, the swarms of flies were startled and swarmed over, and the little beggar fanned them away with his hands.

The old man opened his mouth with difficulty and chewed the steamed bun in his mouth.

The woman on the kang screamed, "Don't give it all to him, leave some for my Zihua!"

The little beggar was not convinced and asked, "Why don't you leave some for your daughter?"

The woman was about to curse again, but the little beggar's hands were patted. The little beggar looked back and saw the old man shaking his head at him, saying hoarsely, "I... am not hungry..."

"You eat...you and...Zihua...eat."

The woman snorted smugly upon seeing this.

The little beggar suppressed his anger, hid his red eyes, and said, "I'm not hungry either. I've eaten."

"You stinky beggar, you're actually eating outside!"

The little beggar ignored the woman's sharp insults, fed the old man half a steamed bun, and went out to fetch some water and fed it to the old man.

After the woman finished eating, she asked him to take her out to bask in the sun. The little beggar did as she wished, then fetched a basin of water, took a cleaner rag, and went into the house.

The clothes on the old man were stripped off, revealing the horrific skeleton underneath.

Yes, the skeleton.

It was covered with rotten flesh, and the internal organs were exposed.

Huge maggots were crawling and drilling inside.

The little beggar picked out the maggots with an expressionless face, and then wiped the areas where the old man's skin and flesh were still there.

After finishing everything, he leaned close to the old man's ear and whispered, "Uncle, I got another two cents today. I am still 50 cents away from the five taels of silver. I will be able to collect it soon, and then I will help you find a doctor to cure your disease."

Hearing the voice, the old man raised his hand and touched the little beggar's head, tears welling up in his cloudy eyes, "Thank you...thank you..."

"Uncle..."

After the woman finished basking in the sun, she was carried into the house by the little beggar. Then she began to talk to herself, "Didn't you say that the emperor was ill and wanted to find Zihua to prolong his life? Why haven't they come yet?"

[I heard that, too.]

"Why are you so useless! Since you can't help me, why do you come back to do this?"

[I don't want to come back either, but I have nowhere to go now. I can only try my best to help you get back to the storyline. You think I'm useless, but I think you're useless too! ]

"!@￥%...&*!!!"

The woman started cursing wildly again.

The little beggar watched the excitement for a while, and finally walked out in silence.

He would put together the new copper coins he had collected today and the ones he had saved before.

The little beggar walked to a corner, looked around, and after making sure that there was no one around, he removed the loose bricks and found a piece of oil paper inside, which contained his silver.

He opened the oil paper, and the next second, he stood there in a daze.

There was nothing inside; his silver had been stolen!

The little beggar was immediately panicked. This was his uncle's life-saving money. Who was it! Who was it!

Just at this moment, a little girl came skipping from a distance, holding maltose in one hand and a few bags of cakes in the other.

If the little girl is not Zhao Zihua, then who is she?

The little beggar's eyes went dark, and a terrifying anger rushed straight to his head. He rushed over without thinking and grabbed Zhao Zihua's hand, "Did you steal my money?"

"Let me go! You stinky beggar, you're hurting me!"

"If you don't let go, I'll let my mother beat you up!"

"Mother! Mother!"

The little beggar couldn't listen to anything else. He yelled with bloodshot eyes, "Did you take it?!"

Zhao Zihua pushed him away and asked sharply, "So what if I took it?"

The little beggar looked at Zhao Zihua in disbelief, "That was your grandfather's life-saving money!" He pointed at the cakes in her hand, "For these, you even ignored your own grandfather's life!"

Zhao Zihua's eyes were filled with madness and cruelty. She gnashed her teeth and said, "He is not my grandfather. My grandfather is the emperor. He deserves to die! If he hadn't stopped my mother, how could we be living a life worse than death here? It's all his fault! He deserves to die!"