We passed Los Angeles safely.

We walked another two miles along the road and breathed a sigh of relief when we saw our families waiting for us ahead.

The two people on the cart lifted up the straw mat and vomited loudly.

What a smell these things have when mixed together!

Not only the yamen runners felt like vomiting after smelling it, but they also felt like vomiting.

The Lao Fu family is better off, after all, it's not smeared on them.

But these two men were about to vomit. They had suffered a lot over the years, but never this kind of hardship. If it weren't for something important that had to be done, they would have been willing to sacrifice themselves heroically.

Fu Dabai showed no sympathy for them and kept urging them:

"Ouch! Stop vomiting now, let's go quickly. In case they get too full and become mad, don't chase us.

If you two really can't do it, just swallow it back!"

Swallowing was impossible, so they both vomited out everything as quickly as possible, and even after picking their throats, there was still nothing left to vomit.

Then he rushed forward and walked for more than thirty miles in one breath. It was getting dark and he stopped when he could not walk any further.

They were unlucky enough not to have any decent place to live, and the two people in the car were not willing to go to some village or town to find a place to stay, so the whole family could only suffer and cold.

I was ready to sleep in the wild again, but when I looked up, I saw a dilapidated temple in front of me.

At that time, this group of people almost cried.

This is so good...wait!

After a brief moment of joy, everyone started to worry again. Was life trying to play a trick on them again?

"This is too good! How about we just sleep in the wild?"

Yuan looked at the tiles and solid walls of the temple that were strong enough to keep out the wind and rain, and he couldn't stop sighing.

"Look, the door can still be closed! The window paper isn't even damaged!"

Yuan opened the door several times and walked around the room as if he was seeing something strange.

Along the way, the best places they lived in were dilapidated houses, prison cells, and woodsheds. They spent the rest of their days outside in the cold, and they would be very happy if they could find a pavilion with ventilation on all sides.

Old Madam Yang was also unsure: "This is a nice house that is not broken or leaky. Can we live in it?"

Even the smartest ones, Fu Dabai and Fu Sanbai, couldn't help but say stupid things:

"Why don't we just leave? If the temple owner comes and beats us up and throws us out, it will be in vain, right?"

Others were just looking around and didn't dare to go in at all.

In fact, they know their luck and are worried about encountering some unfortunate things that they can't prevent.

But in the eyes of Eunuch Qian and Qin Mingyi, this was just a family that was used to being poor and they might have never lived in such a complete house before.

If you ask them, there is nothing good about this dilapidated temple. There is dust everywhere and the window paper is torn and leaks if you touch it.

The door creaking as it opened was not annoying enough, and they didn't even bother to look at the room as it was originally like this.

But this family can be so happy.

The two of them felt very uncomfortable. During the whole journey together, even though they were the one who blackmailed this family, they really developed some feelings for them.

I know that this family is not a bad person, and they really do their best to do what they promised.

Both adults and children are so smart. Although we are a little poor, the family has such a good relationship and trusts each other so much.

In short, no matter how you look at it, it's good. They really treat them as friends. Now seeing them like this, they both feel uncomfortable.

These are the people we love, the people we are close to, they deserve to live a better life. They are so clear-headed on weekdays, but now they have to think whether they are worthy of living in a dilapidated temple when they see one.

What kind of life did they live in the past? Just thinking about it makes me sad for them.

If you ask, there won't be such a big misunderstanding. When the old Fu family hadn't lost their luck, they didn't think about these things at all. Now they are mainly worried about their own lives.

What if the house collapses while I’m sleeping?

Then they will be in big trouble!

These two people didn't understand what they were thinking.

Eunuch Qian also promised:

"Just wait. When I return to the capital, I will definitely find you a nice house to live in. What's wrong with living in a dilapidated temple? I think this dilapidated temple is not worthy of us!"

Qin Mingyi rarely refrained from using clichés, and said directly to Fu Dabai and Fu Sanbai:

“Good brothers, when I return to the capital, you two will follow me.

I will arrange a good and peaceful job for you and ensure that you will have a good life."

Both of them thought that they must repay this family. Just thinking about it made them feel very moved.

The Lao Fu family didn’t take it to heart, but who knows what the two people were thinking at that time? They shouldn’t take unfulfilled promises too seriously.

But Eunuch Qian reminded them with one sentence: What's wrong with living in a dilapidated temple?

Could their luck really be so bad that they couldn't even live in a dilapidated temple?

The whole family was filled with anger. They carried the cart into the temple, thinking:

Damn her bad luck! We'll just live!

They got some water and cooked porridge. As they had no knife left, the meat was difficult to cut, so Old Yang hammered it until it was broken up, then pulled some of it out and either roasted it or cooked it in the porridge.

He took two sets of clean clothes for Eunuch Qian and Qin Mingyi to change into, and got some water to wipe their faces.

Although there is still some smell, there is no other way to deal with it in this cold and desolate mountain area, so we'll just have to make do with it for now.

Let’s talk about it after we get to Fucheng. By then, the two of us will be able to handle everything well when we go to the Zhenyuan General’s Mansion or the government office.

Then the two of them taught the children a few more words.

After the group had eaten and drunk their fill, they spread out their bedding and went to sleep, but the other two were still lying on the cart.

We finally had a house, it was a little warmer, and everyone slept soundly.

Everything was fine in the first half of the night, but in the second half a cold wind blew the door open.

Qin Mingyi's eyes suddenly opened, he started to sit up, fumbled around for a knife but found nothing, and next to him was a face as fluffy as a white flour bun.

"Hey! Qin Mingyi, what are you doing? You ruined my sweet dream. You are a grown man and you are not sleeping in the middle of the night. What are you doing?

You're still touching my face! You shameless bastard, you're still pinching me! If you were an old woman, it would be fine..."

Eunuch Qian started to talk a lot. He was particularly relaxed along the way and didn't care about being smooth or clear at all. The more relaxed he became, the more he looked like an old village lady.

"Oh~" Hearing the lively noise, the family who loved to watch the lively noise lost all sleepiness, and all got up, looking at them with their bright eyes.

Qin Mingyi was trying hard to explain:

"No, it's the door. The door is open. I don't think there's any danger..."

The two men were still arguing, and Lao Fujia also saw that the door was opened.

Fu Sanbai was closer to the other side, so he stood up and went to close the door, wondering:

"How come it's open? I remember it was tightly closed!"

As soon as he reached the door, he was stunned.

"This......" Fu Sanbai drew out a long tone, then leaned over and asked:

"Do you live here?"

Everyone fell silent and listened. No one knew who he was talking to, but there was probably someone outside.

Sure enough, a childish voice came in timidly from outside the door and said:

"This is our home, can we come in?"

The Lao Fu family quickly stood up and packed their luggage. Wow, they occupied someone else's house!

After cleaning it up for a while, everyone felt something was wrong and looked at the Buddha statue in the middle of the temple.

This is a temple, how could it be someone else's house? Is there a little monk outside?

Fu Sanbai had originally stepped aside to let the person in, but he suddenly realized something was wrong:

"You two are not monks, how can this be your home?"

A pair of children about six or seven years old came in, holding a broken bowl and a stick. They put down the stick and placed the broken bowl, which contained something unknown, on the altar in front of the Buddha statue.

He kowtowed to the Buddha statue first, then turned around to look at these people. One of the taller children stood in front of the child behind him and said timidly:

"We've lived here for a long time. This is an ownerless house, first come first served."

There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with what he said... but it also seems like there is something wrong.

Everyone looked at each other, and for a moment they were all a little dazed.

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