Chapter 121 Entanglement

The door was shaking and looked like it was about to fall down at any time.

The older boys pushed hard against the door, while the younger ones gathered around Ah Xing: "Brother Ah Xing, so many people are here!"

"How many are there?" Ah Xing asked the disciple.

The doorman's face was not very happy: "I estimate there are thirty or forty people."

Ah Xing frowned after hearing this.

There were only a few people the previous two times, but today there were so many. There were quite a few people on their side, but they were all old and young, and none of them could fight.

Looking at the loudly banging door, Ah Xing felt a little worried and turned his head to persuade Lin Hao: "There are too many of them. You should stay inside."

Lin Hao's face was calm: "Since I'm here, it's a good time to take a look."

"What if there's a conflict later and they hurt you?"

Looking at the crumbling gate, Lin Hao said calmly, "They didn't come here to fight."

A child who came over asked curiously: "What are they doing here?"

Lin Hao looked at the child who asked the question.

He was a boy of six or seven years old. Although he was thin and small and wore coarse cloth clothes that were a little too big for him, he was clean and tidy, and there was no sign that he had been a beggar.

"I'm just here to disgust people." Lin Hao rubbed the boy's head and gave an explanation.

After hearing this, Ah Xing pursed her lips slightly and strode over.

When the teenagers at the door saw him coming, they all looked at him for help.

"On the count of three, you will immediately pull out the bolts and move to the sides. Do you understand?"

Several teenagers nodded.

"one two three--"

When Ah Xing called out "three," several teenagers quickly dodged to the side. The door suddenly opened, and like a flood breaking through a riverbank, a stream of people rushed in instantly.

These people piled up on top of each other and fell into the gate like dogs eating shit.

"Hahahaha——" This scene made many children clap and laugh.

Ah Xing looked outside the door expressionlessly, and saw the beggar who had led the way the last two times standing outside the door, about half a foot away from the threshold.

"What do you want?" Ah Xing walked around the beggars who were struggling to get up and came to the leading beggar.

He was a middle-aged beggar, dressed in rags, with cloudy eyes. Facing Ah Xing's questioning, he suddenly wiped away his tears: "Please let us move in. It's so cold outside that we will freeze to death..."

When he cried, all the beggars who followed him started crying too.

Ah Xing was unmoved: "I told you the first time you knocked on the door that we only take in beggars under the age of twelve and over the age of fifty. You don't meet the requirements."

"They are human beings. Are we not human beings? Should we freeze to death in the streets?"

The middle-aged beggar's words immediately aroused the indignation of his companions, who all said at once: "That's right, we are also homeless and pitiful people. The snow has been falling non-stop these days and we can't bear it anymore. Since you are doing a good deed, why don't you be a good person and give us a way to survive!"

Lin Hao watched coldly and whispered a few instructions to Baozhu.

Baozhu nodded, stuffed the fire stick into Lin Hao's hand, and slipped out in the chaos.

The beggar's pleading made Ah Xing very angry.

Ah Hao is right, these scoundrels don't dare to take action, they are just here to disgust people.

It is not an exaggeration to call these beggars who clearly refuse but still come to harass us scoundrels. They are neither ignorant children nor frail and sickly old people. Most of them become beggars because they don't want to work.

Of course, there are a few who are forced to do so, such as the Ah Xing brothers. Initially living on the streets, Ah Xing tried to find work to support his younger brother, but discovered that his good looks had become their greatest misfortune. Not only did he repeatedly encounter those with ill intentions, but his younger brother, left alone, was targeted by kidnappers, and Ah Xing fought tooth and nail to get him back. With nowhere else to turn, Ah Xing disgraced himself and his brother by becoming beggars. For better or worse, at least they were together.

At that time, his biggest wish was that his younger brother would grow up quickly so that they could work hard to make a living.

Therefore, Axing particularly looks down on people who have hands and feet but don't want to do anything.

"You mean if you freeze to death, you'll blame my family for not giving you a way to survive?"

The middle-aged beggar pleaded with a sad face: "If it really doesn't work, at least give us a corner of the roof to shelter us from the wind and rain."

Ah Xing understood very well that these pitiful-sounding words were just a means of coercion by these beggars. If he really softened his heart and let these people stay, they would turn around and ask for free food.

"What can a corner of the eaves do to protect you from the wind and snow?" Ah Xing said with a sneer on his face. "Isn't there a fire house for beggars? It only costs one penny to stay overnight. You can't even beg a penny in a day?"

"Oh, we are beggars, not workers. There is no fixed amount of money we can beg for." The middle-aged beggar explained aggrievedly.

Ah Xing bluntly exposed the issue: "It doesn't snow every day. If you save the money you beg when the weather is warm, you can pay for the fire room."

He had seen many beggars who had gotten money get together to drink, eat meat and enjoy themselves.

The middle-aged beggar paused, wondering how this guy knew so much.

Naturally, he could not recognize that the young man in front of him, who looked like a nobleman, was once one of them.

"Sir, how could you understand the hardships we beggars go through? We occasionally beg for a few more copper coins, but if we get sick, we'll lose all that. How could we have extra money to live in a fire house?"

Ah Xing didn't want to get entangled with these scoundrels, so he said coldly: "Then you can go to other people's homes and ask if they are willing to give you a corner of the eaves to shelter you from the wind and rain."

Seeing Ah Xing turn around, the middle-aged beggar suddenly knelt down and hugged his legs: "Sir, please have mercy on us. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda!"

As he knelt, more beggars knelt down and begged.

Ah Xing's face darkened and he resisted the urge to kick someone.

At this time, a group of officers and soldiers came over, and the leading officer shouted, "What's going on?"

Whether it was Ah Xing, the beggar who refused to leave, or the onlookers, they were all stunned.

Don’t the police only appear after things are over?

Everyone looked at the officers approaching in bewilderment, and heard the leading officer ask, "Who reported this officer?"

Lin Hao stepped forward and said calmly, "It's me."

Ah Xing's face showed a strange look.

Ah, how to solve the problem...is it so direct?

The middle-aged beggar was a scoundrel. Unlike ordinary people who would be embarrassed when meeting officials, he knew the benefits of striking first. He immediately changed the direction of his knees and cried, "Officer, we have done nothing wrong! This owner has taken in many beggars, and we are here to ask you, a kind-hearted person, to give us a way out."

Kneeling and begging isn't against the law, so what if the police come? At most, they'll just disperse them. If they disperse now, they'll come back tomorrow to see who can outlast the other.

Other beggars chimed in: "Yeah, it's so cold, we're going to freeze to death, woo woo..."

As the middle-aged beggar expected, the leading official simply waved his hand and said, "Disperse, disperse! It's inappropriate to gather in front of someone's door!"

The beggar who was kneeling on the ground stood up and was about to leave.

"Wait, we can't disperse."

Everyone looked at the girl who spoke.

Lin Hao looked at the leading officer in shock: "Officer, they broke into a private house and you guys didn't do anything?"