Chapter 309 Beggar (I)

“Sell newspapers, sell newspapers!”

“Miss, please be kind and give me something to eat!”

“Shopkeeper, please be kind and give me something to eat!”

“Sir, please be kind and give me something to eat!”

“Madam, please be kind and give me something to eat!”

“Master, please be kind and give me something to eat!”

Qin Huai stared in amazement at An Youyou, who was kneeling and knocking all the way, performing smooth little combos all the way, his mouth opened wide in surprise.

An Youyou now looks like a child of about eleven or twelve years old. She is dressed in rags, with dirt and stains all over her face, body, hands and even hair. She is so dirty that it is impossible to tell her gender. She is dressed like a typical beggar.

Well, he knew that the first life of monsters was never ordinary.

Chen Huihong buried herself in the ground, Qu Jing wanted to hide in the mountains, Luo Jun was skilled and courageous and disguised himself as a rich young man who had returned from studying abroad, and Chen Gong worked steadily and steadily to earn his first pot of gold. These four types of Qinhuai can actually be understood and belong to different schools of different spirits.

But what is the beggar style of play like An Youyou?
What race is that? What on earth is written in the textbooks? It’s ok to be a child like Qu Jing, but why did he become a beggar?

Seeing An Youyou begging in a skilled way, if she gets anything, she earns money, if she doesn’t get anything, she slips away quickly, if someone tries to snatch food from her, she dodges as much as possible, and if she can win, she beats them up with her fists, Qin Huai knows that An Youyou must be a veteran beggar.

I have been begging for food a lot since I came to the world.

If nothing else, the entry into the WTO was quite successful.

It means that she was born in the wrong era, otherwise she would have been financially independent by now if she had just taken out her cell phone and shouted, “Brothers, it’s time for dinner.”

Qin Huai just watched An Youyou diligently asking for meals all day.

You know what, the competition is quite fierce.

Qin Huai was very familiar with the scene where An Youyou begged for food, it was in Shanghai. Because of her identity, An Youyou was unable to enter the concession and could only beg for food in ordinary urban areas and remote suburbs. However, Qin Huai had seen many buildings in Luo Jun’s memory before, so he could clearly confirm that An Youyou must have begged for food in Shanghai.

Big cities are different. An Youyou, Luo Jun and Chen Gong’s first lives were all here, but the time and identities were different, otherwise the three might have met in their first lives.

As a professional beggar, An Youyou is very good at reading people’s faces when begging for food and money.

When she met a rich lady who was obviously young and inexperienced, dressed decently and accompanied by a servant, An Youyou would pounce on her and roll on the ground crying, using exaggerated body language and miserable words to awaken the rich lady’s sympathy and make her throw some melons and dates out of her pocket.

Even when rolling around, An Youyou would deliberately keep a distance so that the rich lady could see her performance clearly but not get close to the audience to avoid being beaten by the servants.

When she meets a young man from a wealthy family who is traveling with his beautiful daughter, An Youyou kneels on the ground and launches a verbal offensive. Her little mouth is as sweet as honey, and she speaks in a variety of ways. If she can make the young master happy, she can even say something nice.

If she meets a naive girl, she will pester her.

When I meet students, I act pitiful like crazy, but I can’t act pitiful to a group of students. I have to catch those who are alone.

If I meet a tough guy who looks tough, I will stay away from him and just beg quietly on the side, hoping that I will be lucky enough to get some money.

Begging in restaurants should be done after mealtime, and you should choose restaurants that are doing good business. You cannot beg at the main entrance, but at the side entrance. You should be grateful, cry, and act as if you will starve to death tomorrow if you don’t eat today.

If you meet a soft-hearted waiter or shopkeeper, you can not only get a mess of unknown ingredients, but also some rotten leftovers if you are lucky.

Even ordinary people have target customer groups.

Laborers and labourers wearing short coats are definitely not allowed to beg, because not only do they have no money, they are also strong and can fight. If they encounter a situation where black people are robbing each other, it is not certain who will get the begging.

Rickshaw pullers are also not allowed to beg. Most of them are as thin as bamboo poles and seem to need to beg more than An Youyou, not to mention that they run fast. An Youyou does not have an advantage in skill points.

But women who look a little plumper than ordinary people, with some flesh on their cheeks and chins, who are not so dark and not so hardworking, are good candidates for begging.

All she had to do was lie down on the ground, pretending to be sick to death, and rolling around. Her face was covered in black mud and her hair was dirty and messy, so she couldn’t tell if she was really dying. Women would often back away in disgust, muttering how pitiful she was, and then take some simple food from home, such as porridge or cooked beans.

Of course, there are dangers in the process of begging.

He appeared many times in Luo Jun’s plot. The gangster brothers who acted as the background for his screams and the beggars who traveled with him were all potential dangerous factors.

The former will directly vent the evil in his heart because of his bad mood, and the latter will start a sinister game of robbing one’s fellow thieves because he is jealous of An Youyou’s performance that day.

For An Youyou, she would dodge the former if possible and beat the latter if possible, taking her flexibility to the extreme.

As the sun sets, the light has gradually dimmed. When the sun is about to set, An Youyou is humming a tuneless little tune and skipping towards the suburbs.

An Youyou’s begging route is obviously the route home. She begs all the way from the city to the suburbs. She starts her work in the morning, and ends her work after begging for the last order of black beans from a kind-hearted woman by the water, and goes home after get off work.

There are many families along the river, and at this time there are still many children playing by the water. The difference between the children of farmers and the wandering beggars can be seen at a glance. Although the children of farmers are not rich and their clothes are not clean, their faces and hands are dirty because of playing. The short coat is badly worn, but at least the clothes are intact.

Beggars were different. Only a handful of beggars could master begging skills as accurately as An Youyou. During the half day that An Youyou was begging, Qin Huai saw more than one beggar who was beaten, cursed, or even beaten because he was not good at talking, or because he did not act pitifully enough, or because he acted too pitifully and made the noble unhappy.

Ordinary beggars can afford the most basic clothing, and wrapping some scraps of cloth around their bodies is already good enough. People like An Youyou who can wear a complete short coat are absolutely the elite among the elites.

For most of the day, Qin Huai only wanted to rob An Youyou in the afternoon. He had seen a similar suit on the leader of the opposing small group who stole things from An Youyou.

By the way, there were 9 people in that team, 8 of them were pinned to the ground and hammered by An Youyou, and the boss ran away. An Youyou took away 6 of the 4 copper coins earned in the morning, leaving 2 to prevent the team from starving to death.

An Youyou looked at the ordinary children playing by the river from afar. There was no envy in her eyes. She just quietly found a shallow place and squatted by the river to wash her face, washing away all the black mud on her face and washing her hair casually as well.

The most important thing is washing hands. She washed her hands very carefully, over and over again five or six times, making sure there was no trace of mud in the cracks of her nails before she stopped.

“Boss, Boss, you’re back!”

In the distance, a beggar, his shirt torn to the point of being only a strip of cloth left, barely used as a belt around his waist, and his trousers worn to the point of being as worn as shorts, ran towards An Youyou excitedly. He looked like he had just crawled out of mud, and it was hard to tell whether his dark skin was from the sun or simply from being dirty.

“Thirteen… Brother Thirteen found a job today!” The beggar’s excited voice almost pierced the sky.

An Youyou had just washed her hands and took out a cloth bag wrapped in several layers from her arms as if it were a treasure. She ignored the beggar and counted the results of today’s battle.

There were a dozen copper plates, several French francs, a rice bowl with a missing corner, and a white pound in the cloth bag.

The person who donated this white pound was a naive and innocent young man who, seeing An Youyou crying so sincerely and acting so pitifully, took out his wallet and gave her a pound.

But An Youyou was uneducated and uninformed, and didn’t recognize the British pound. She only knew that this thing looked like money, but she didn’t know how much it was worth. She didn’t pay much attention to the British pound, but the bowl that the kind waiter gave her at noon was the most important.

An Youyou had finished the rice in her bowl, and also the cakes she had begged from the rich lady in the afternoon. An Youyou also had a bag made of rags around her waist, which contained beans, porridge, and rotten bran that she had begged for.

Before, Qin Huai wondered why An Youyou kept all the food since she didn’t want to eat it. Now that he saw that An Youyou actually had a younger brother, Qin Huai understood.

Brought food for my younger brother.

As a spirit, An Youyou would not be an ordinary beggar even if she became a beggar. She is the leader of the beggars and has many younger brothers under her who she relies on for food.

In the physical sense, you need to eat.

“Looking for a job?” An Youyou frowned, her face showing confusion. “Why should we look for a job? Don’t we already have a job?”

Qin Huai:……

6. Redefine what it means to have a job; this is true flexible employment.

The little beggar didn’t dare to refute the eldest brother’s words, and could only say weakly: “Third brother said that there is no future in being a beggar. The world is in chaos now, there are refugees everywhere, and the orphanage doesn’t give out porridge anymore. The number of beggars in the city increases every year, and most of them can’t survive the winter. Beggars either freeze to death in the winter, or are kidnapped to work day and night in factories and die of exhaustion in a few months, or are beaten to death for stealing.”

“There is no future in begging. When you grow up, you won’t have enough to eat. What’s the point of…” “Malnutrition.” An Youyou added.

“Yes, it’s something like that. It’s skinny and weak, and nobody wants it even if it’s a heavy laborer.”

“Being a beggar is not a long-term solution. I should find a stable job and learn a skill.” The little beggar said honestly.

After An Youyou finished listening, she asked, “You remember it so clearly and you speak so fluently. How many times have Xiaojiu and Shisan said this to you?”

“About half a month.” Xiaojiu said honestly.

An Youyou jumped up and hit Xiaojiu hard on the head, knocking him to the ground: “Is this the reason why you didn’t beg for food properly for the past half month?”

“I work so hard, getting up early and going to bed late, leaving home early and returning late, working day and night, day… day and night, anyway, I work so hard to come out to beg for food and fight, and you just listen to Thirteen’s nonsense and want to go out and find a job, right?”

“Have you forgotten how you survived? You all survived because I picked you up and brought you to this dilapidated temple. Is there any better job in this world than begging?”

“Aren’t you all supported by me begging for food?”

“And this Thirteen, he has a skill, it’s amazing, wasn’t he also picked up by me? Why was he picked up by me? It’s because his previous job was not good enough, he was worse off than begging, so he couldn’t survive.”

“Xiao Jiu, let me tell you, begging is the best job! There is no job more stable than begging. If you go to the dock to carry heavy bags, you may be needed one day and not the next. You can beg at any time!”

“What are you going to do today?”

Seeing the leader suddenly start to check the work, Xiaojiu shuddered: “One…one…a sweet potato.”

An Youyou sighed deeply: “No wonder Thirteen advised you to find a job. Your begging skills are really not as good as mine.”

An Youyou threw the bag around her waist to Xiao Jiu and strode forward with a kingly demeanor: “Let’s go, I want to see what kind of job Thirteen can find.”

Xiaojiu carefully took the bag, held it in his hand and followed An Youyou closely, reaching into the bag to secretly eat the black beans as he walked.

Qin Huai:……

What a fantastic plot.

Chen Huihong is me learning how to be a human being in the years of disaster, Luo Jun is me being a rich man in Shanghai, Chen Gong is me looking for a boss in the world, and Qu Jing is me saving my grandfather in the countryside.

When it was An Youyou’s turn, I became the boss in the beggars’ den.

It is true that you cannot judge a book by its cover. Even though An Youyou is working hard every day for promotion and salary increase, and has become Sister Carrot Cake, she was a boss in her first life and had 13 younger brothers under her.

It’s not easy for one person to support 13 younger brothers by begging. No wonder he looks so poor even though he is so successful in begging.

An Youyou and her 13 younger brothers lived in a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of the city.

It is a dilapidated temple in the physical sense. Half of the temple has collapsed, and there are only a few earth walls to shelter from the wind. When it rains or snows, everyone has to huddle in the corner to avoid getting wet or cold.

All of An Youyou’s 13 younger brothers, including Xiaojiu who followed behind her, were in the dilapidated temple.

The 11 little brothers gathered together, all of them were half-grown children, the youngest was only three or four years old, and the oldest looked about the same age as An Youyou. The boy who looked the oldest was in the middle surrounded by the 10 children. Not only was he older, he was also tall. It was obvious that he came from a well-off family, with a good foundation. He was thin but not out of shape, and even looked quite sturdy.

“Brother Thirteen, you are amazing. You actually managed to get a job as a handyman at Fu Ji Restaurant! We don’t even dare to go to Fu Ji Restaurant to beg for food. The waiters there are so fierce. They will hit us with sticks when they see us approaching. Last time, Xiao Qi’s leg was broken by a waiter from this restaurant. The boss spent a lot of money to treat him.”

“Yes, yes, the guys at Fu Kee are really bad!”

“They never throw away their leftovers or sell them to the swill collectors. They just dump them directly into the river. They say that even if it’s a nobleman’s leftovers, they can’t let others eat them, because that would pollute the nobleman’s leftovers.”

“I saw Fu Ji dumping leftovers into the river. They smelled delicious. After the Fu Ji people left, I jumped into the river to fish, but I didn’t catch anything.”

“Brother Thirteen, is the salary at Fu Kee very high?”

“Brother Thirteen, how did you get into Fu Kee? Can I go to Fu Kee too? I want to be a waiter at Fu Kee.”

“Didn’t you just say that Fu Kee’s was bad?”

“That…that’s different.”

An Youyou strode towards the younger brothers at a brisk pace. When the younger brothers saw that the boss was back, they all gathered around An Youyou and said excitedly, “Boss, boss, you’re back!”

“Boss, Thirteenth Brother has joined Fu Kee as a handyman!”

“Boss, Thirteenth Brother brought back some steamed bread today! There were only two of them, and we didn’t dare to eat them, so we saved them for you!”

“Boss, I got a bowl of meat soup today. I drank the soup and brought back the meat for you! It’s a whole piece of meat!”

“Boss, I got a bag of black beans!”

“Boss, I got a lot of leftovers, but they’re all rotten. I don’t know if I’ll die if I eat them.”

The younger brothers were chattering, but An Youyou ignored everyone and stared at Thirteen, asking, “You actually found a job at Fu Kee?”

“How much is the salary?”

“One meal a day, one dollar a month. If you can become a butcher, you can get three dollars a month, with two meals a day.”

“Fuck.” An Youyou blurted out, “There are actually better jobs in this world than begging.”

Thirteen:……

“Are you leaving then?” An Youyou asked.

Thirteen hesitated for a moment and shook his head: “You saved me half a year ago. I will not leave, but I cannot give you all my monthly salary. I can give you half of it.”

An Youyou thought about it and felt that earning half a dollar a month was not bad, so she nodded in agreement: “Okay, then I’ll still have a share of your meal when I come back in the future.”

After saying that, An Youyou took out her precious cloth bag, picked out the copper coins and French currency and stuffed them into the younger brother who was second only to Thirteen in age: “Go buy something, as usual, I want to eat salted fish.”

I took the money and ran away. It was getting dark soon. If I didn’t run fast, I would be in danger.

“Xiao Shiyi just said that you brought back two steamed buns. Where are the steamed buns? I haven’t eaten steamed buns for a long time?” An Youyou asked.

A younger brother hurried to get the steamed bread.

An Youyou ate the steamed bread contentedly and looked at Shisan in confusion: “Shisan, I really don’t understand why you don’t want to beg for food like me?”

“You are so well-equipped, strong and good at fighting. If the two of us go out to beg, we will definitely be invincible in the city.”

“Although the job at Fu Kee is also good, I still think begging is better.”

Thirteen:……

“Maybe it’s because I wasn’t a beggar before.” Thirteen said speechlessly, “and I have a name.”

“My name is Jiang Weiguo.”

“I know, but Thirteen is easier to pronounce. We all have numbers, you can’t be the only one with a name, otherwise I would have to come up with 12 names, how tiring it would be.”

Jiang Weiguo looked at An Youyou even more speechlessly: “So this is why you named yourself Boss?”

“That’s right!” An Youyou raised her head proudly, “What a great name! I’ve thought about it for a long time, and this is definitely the best name in the world!”

(End of this chapter)