Chen He carefully moved to the side under the cover of night, hiding in the shadow of the corner, shrinking his body silently and hiding himself behind the stone wall.
It was quiet at night, and the dilapidated temple was also silent. It started to rain outside, and Chen He didn't know how long he had been hiding. The rain hit the tree beside him, and the falling rain soaked his clothes. He felt cold all over and hid inside.
When I heard the sound of night watchmen knocking in the distance, I saw that the dark and dilapidated temple suddenly lit up, and under the clusters of torches, people came out from inside.
"Didn't you say that Chen He would come back? Where is he?" Master Zhang said angrily.
The two children beside him trembled: "He comes back every day, and we don't know where he went..."
Bang!
"waste!"
Master Zhang slapped one of them to the ground and said, "You said you could find the person who killed my son, and you even took money from my Zhang family. Now you dare to tease me."
"Come here, beat him to death!"
The servants of the Zhang family rushed forward and started punching and kicking the child, who was only seven or eight years old, screamed and fell to the ground. Another one was so scared that he knelt there.
"Master, please spare me, Master, please spare me. We really don't know where he went, but Master Zhang must have been killed by Shen He."
"Aqi has been with Chen He for several years. He was the one who rescued him from the scumbag crowd. Chen He loves him the most. Master Zhang beat Aqi to death, and then he was murdered two days later. Moreover, Shen He came back very late that day with injuries on his body. It must be him who did it!"
"I know Chen He, I can help you..."
Mr. Zhang spat upon hearing this: "You better not lie to me!"
He waved his hand to stop them, and kicked the child at his feet away with disgust:
"Find him for me as soon as possible, or you won't live anymore!"
The two children burst into tears.
Master Zhang's face was filled with gloom. "Take them away. Start looking for them tomorrow. I don't believe a little beggar can fly away!"
The people in front of the dilapidated temple came suddenly and left quickly. After Mr. Zhang got into the carriage and left, the others also left the dilapidated temple with their children in the heavy rain.
Chen He hid in the shadows and did not move. He did not leave until those people left for a while and no one came back. Then he left quietly in the cover of night.
…
Chen He almost became a lost dog. The two children had been with him for more than half a year. Before that, he often competed with others for food in Beijing, and many people knew what he looked like.
It is very easy to find beggars who are eleven or twelve years old, injured and have nowhere to stay.
Although the Zhang family was not a big deal among the powerful people in Beijing, they were rich. Not only did they bribe the officials in the government office to arrest people everywhere, but the Zhang family's servants and the bribed people and beggars turned the entire west side of the city upside down.
He couldn't go back to the dilapidated temple, and he would be easily caught in any place in the west of the city that could accommodate people. There were too many nobles and countless guards in other places in the capital, and he couldn't even avoid the night curfew patrols. Chen He was forced to stay in the most complicated west of the city and hide.
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