Chapter 49: CH 49

It had only been a few days when a problem popped up with their business again.

They had just set up shop when a little beggar who didn’t sound local came over. He looked seven or eight and was incredibly dirty. He stood in front of their stall and didn’t walk away, staring straight at the meat on their chopping board.

Even they were reluctant to eat this meat, so how could it be given to him? But he kept standing here, which was affecting their business, so Mo Ling took a piece of flatbread, put some vegetables in it and handed it to him. The little beggar took it and ran away.

After a while, several child beggars ran out from behind the road and came to surround their stall. They didn’t speak,just stood there, and blocked the people who were buying food.

Giving each person a piece of flatbread would be too much, who knows how many people there were. Mo Ling said, “Let’s just close shop for the day!”

Mo Yan said, “We can’t. If we close shop today, what will we do tomorrow? Besides, we have business documents and are operating legally.”

“But they-!”

Mo Yan’s mind was spinning quickly, thinking of ways to deal with the beggar.

At this time, Zhou Liangsheng came over and said, “Why are you here? Leave, or I’ll call the street patrol to drive you out of Qianshui Town!”

He just finished speaking when the group of beggars ran away. Mo Yan was overjoyed and asked, “Zhou Liangsheng, why are they afraid of you?”

He replied, “They aren’t afraid of me, they’re afraid of the street patrol. You haven’t paid for your business document for nothing. If you’ve encountered injustice, you can ask the governing official to step in to mete out justice; and if someone’s making trouble, it’s better to call the street patrol to come over.”

That’s right! The governing official is in charge of security. Shouldn’t we find him if we encounter any issues with that?

It was really pitiful for the child beggars to have to beg at such a young age.

“Their accents weren’t local. Did a disaster happen somewhere?” Mo Yan asked.

Zhou Liangsheng said, “I heard that two hundred miles to the north, a river burst its banks in the Upper Valley, flooding houses and fields.”

The Upper Valley…didn’t Lu Junming come from there?

Zhou Liangsheng bought something and went back, and Mo Yan was thinking about how to help these people while tending to the fire.

However, Mo Yan herself could only eat watery porridge every day. It wouldn’t be easy for her to care for these people.

Dinner was as simple as before, and it had just been put on the table when they heard a continuous series of ringing bells.

The reason why Chenzong Village was called that was because there was a very special and large bell in the village. It was said that it floated over in a flood many years ago.

This big bell is hung on the large tree in the threshing field. Whenever there is an important or new event in the village, where it was necessary for the whole village to gather and discuss, the big bell would ring.

Did something major happen?

While busy eating, Mo Feng said, “I heard that there’d be a dancing monkey in the village.”

Mo Yan had never seen dancing monkeys before!

“Sis, let’s go see it too!”

“Let’s go, it’s rare for the village to be so lively.”

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After eating in a hurry, Mo Ling collected the dishes, and dragged Mo Yan to the threshing field.

In the distance, they saw a light from a bright lantern on the large tree, and there was a circle of people around it. Mo Yan was short and couldn’t see what was inside even on tiptoes. She circled around, trying to find a spot where she could squeeze in.

She was carefully looking for the spot when a person pulled her into the crowd, and squeezed her to the front. A familiar smell, and a familiar strength. Aside from Lu Junming, who else would it be? Cao Zhang would not be so ‘impolite’, after all.

From the light of the lantern, Mo Yan saw a family of four was sorting things around a cart, and a monkey was tied to a bench next to it.

The couple looked to be in their thirties. They had a little girl about the same age as Mo Yan, with her hair in twin buns, and a three or four-year-old boy sitting on a bench with a small straw hat on her head, looking at the monkey.

Their clothes were bright, but because they were too old, they weren’t eye-catching.

Seeing that there were quite a few people watching, the man picked up a copper gong and tapped it a few times, then said, “People of Chenzong Village, our family came from the Upper Valley, but because of a disaster, we went out to do business and earn money to rebuild our home. Please take care of us.”

The man put down the gong and led the monkey over. He shook the rope that was tied to the monkey, and the monkey did somersaults, and then cartwheels.

After some somersaults, the woman handed over a straw hat, and the man took it and put it on. The monkey looked around and wanted a hat, but he didn’t dare to grab the man’s. It saw at a glance that the child sitting on the bench was also wearing a small straw hat, jumped over and quickly took the straw hat from the child’s head and put it on its own head.

The child immediately jumped off the bench to chase the monkey, but it was extremely agile, jumping on the man’s shoulder and hiding behind him. How could the child catch up with it?

The child couldn’t get the hat back, so he went to his mother crying. The woman pulled the child over and made an angry expression at the monkey, who obediently took off the hat and put it on the child.

The three of them saluted together and stepped back. The little girl stepped forward, did some flips, and then stood firm. The crowd clapped and applauded for a while. The little girl smiled and saluted, and waved behind her as the man moved the bench over.

The little girl stepped onto the bench and began to perform a series of moves which kind of looked like modern gymnastics.

After performing the movements on the bench, the little girl performed another series of highly difficult movements.

The little girl’s waist was soft and boneless, and it looked easy to do those movements, but sweat was already streaming down her face, which she didn’t even bother to wipe.

The crowd clapped and applauded. The little girl finally finished her performance and went back to sit on the cart to rest.

The man took off the straw hat on his head and held it in his hand, and with the other hand he took the monkey and started to collect money around the field.

The monkey sometimes did somersaults, and sometimes bowed to the crowd, looking very funny. The man circled around halfway and looked down at the few pennies scattered in the straw hat, when his eyes suddenly turned red.

“For the sake of the little girl’s hard work just now, please help us out!”

This man didn’t seem like he often travelled the world, he didn’t even speak the language of performing artists. Isn’t what he said just begging?

Mo Yan had no money on her body, so she turned around and asked Lu Junming, “Did you bring any money?”

Lu Junming reached out and touched the purse around his waist, and found a small string of copper coins. The man’s straw hat was raised in front of him, and Mo Yan put them into the man’s straw hat. The man repeatedly bowed, thanking them, and even the monkey bowed along with him.

“It’s not that the people in this village are stingy. It’s just that everyone is poor and has no money. In times like this, it’d be nice to be able to receive wheat from each family.”

This sentence reminded the man, and he bowed to everyone again, “We hope that you can give food instead if you don’t have money, to feed the children. Our whole family is very grateful!”

Post-edit notes: You think the beggars will be expanded upon?

[1] …I thought they stayed silent? So why does she know their collective accents?

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