Chapter 14 I'll Take Him Away
Some beggars gathered around and were unwilling to disperse, so the soldiers took out sticks and beat them directly. Only then did the beggars disperse and disperse in all directions.

The children who were among the beggars also followed the adults, their faces filled with fear of being abandoned.

They can still survive in the city, but when they go to the wild, they not only have to compete with humans for survival resources, but also with wild beasts.

Pan Yun stood in the crowd and watched quietly. After a long time, when the crowd dispersed and the beggars ran away, she turned and walked west.

A little beggar about three or four years old was lying on the ground. He was the one who was left behind. He didn't get up after being knocked down repeatedly. Fortunately, no one stepped on him.

Otherwise, with this small body, he could crush someone to death with just one kick.

Pan Jun walked past him without looking at him, and walked from outside the city to the north. It might take a day, and she would have to go back and ask someone for directions to Datong.

She couldn't enter the city, and couldn't rent a car or take a ride at the carriage and horse shop. It would take a long time to walk to Datong. So she had to find a way to enter a city. It would be great if she could get a fake pass. No, she was too young, and a pass would be too conspicuous. A fake household registration would be even better...

She thought a lot, but when she saw him grab a handful of soil and stuff it into his mouth, she couldn't help but stop.

She paused for only a moment before turning back, reaching out to pick up the little guy lying on the ground, brushing the dirt off his hands, lifting up his tattered clothes and wiping the dirt and stones off his mouth with a look of disgust, then picked him up and walked away.

The child kicked and struggled for a while, but perhaps because he was too hungry, he didn't have much strength and soon stopped moving.

She carried the person away, and when the people at the city gate were out of sight, she put the child on the ground and took a bun out of the paper bag and gave it to him.

The child was stunned for a moment, then quickly took it and started to eat it.

Pan Jun sat on the grass nearby and watched him eat. The black cat meowed in her arms, "Why are you giving him buns?"

[Because I am kind.] Pan Yun looked at the child, and when he finished eating the bun without choking to death, she got up and left.

The child was stunned for a moment, then quickly grabbed her sleeve.

Pan Yun looked back at him and said, "I can't take you with me. Go find a bigger town to beg. If you're lucky, you might meet a good family who will take you in. Then you'll have a home."

The child pointed to the city wall and said, "I know how to get in."

The little guy spoke very clearly and didn't look like he was three or four years old at all.

Pan Jun looked down at him, met his big eyes, and after a moment of silence asked, "How do I get in?"

Pan Xiaohei laughed in her mind: [Go in through the city gate.]

Unexpectedly, the little guy led them along the city wall, and gradually bushes and weeds separated them from the city wall, and they were getting farther and farther away from the wall...

Just when Pan Jun was about to get impatient, the little guy stopped, compared several nearby trees, selected two, and buried his head in the grass.

Pan Yun: …

The child managed to crawl out a path with his body, pressing the weeds under him, and disappeared in the grass.

"Here!" came the child's happy voice.

Pan Yun went in and saw a hole at the base of the city wall. It was not very big, just enough for a thin person to pass through.

There were weeds and vines on both sides of his head. Pan Yun couldn't stand up, so he simply put the black cat on his shoulder and crawled over.

Pan Xiaohei: "Meow, it's a dog hole."

Pan Jun ignored it, looked at the hole carefully, and shook his head, saying, "No, this was dug out by a human."

When the child saw her following, he quickly crawled in, sat in the cave and said, "It's warm here."

Pan Yun followed and crawled in. When the child saw that she was following him, he quickly went in and led her to crawl out.

This side was also overgrown with weeds, and there was a haystack at the entrance of the cave. She pushed the haystack open with difficulty and crawled out, and found that it was a wasteland, all covered with weeds. Not far away were fields, and further away were scattered houses and vegetable plots.

Pan Yun looked back at the hole hidden behind the haystack, covered it again, took the child and left.

"How did you know there was a hole there?"

"The bad guys brought me here. I hid myself and they couldn't find me."

What he said was a mess and Pan Jun didn't understand much. She moved the child a little further away and squatted down to face him.

Look from his eyes to his forehead, facial features and the entire face shape.

She was not good at face reading, but she knew the basics. The child was too dirty before, his hair was as messy as a bird's nest, and his facial features could not be seen clearly.

At this time, push his hair back to reveal his forehead, and then wipe it with a handkerchief to reveal his delicate facial features.

The black cat also raised its neck, took a look and meowed, "What a good face."

Pan Yun also murmured: "What a good face! Even a half-baked person like me can tell it's a good face."

A person with such a good appearance would not be born to become a beggar.

Her fingertips slid across his eyebrows. Unfortunately, it seemed that he was a short-lived man. Although he was born into a noble family, he died young.

Pan Yun pulled his hair down again and smeared a handful of dirt on his face, making the boy, who was originally handsome, dirty again. The child accepted it well because when he was among the beggars, his older brothers and sisters also liked to smear things on his face.

The child was much more familiar with Shexian County than she was. He skillfully took him around left and right, and soon they got out of that area with a strong rural atmosphere and arrived at a street with shops and pedestrians.

But the child did not dare to go directly over. Instead, he hid in the alley and looked around. When no one was paying attention, he took Pan Yun and quickly crossed the street, passing through the shadows of the corners of the streets.

After a while, he went into a small alley.

The alley is only about one meter wide. In fact, it is a passage between the walls of two houses, and only one person can pass through.

But there was a lot of firewood piled up in the narrow alley, and it was a bit damp. Both families had opened a small door facing the alley, obviously using the alley as their own storage space.

There were tiny noises coming from the firewood pile, and the child quickly slipped inside. Then Pan Jun heard a muffled voice from inside, "Qiqi?"

"It's me, it's me, Brother Xiaohua. Brother Dazhu has been driven away."

"Just come back. Did you eat some buns? I can smell some buns."

Pan Jun coughed lightly, and the sound from the firewood pile disappeared instantly. After a long time, a child's voice was heard saying, "Brother Xiaohua, it was my sister who sent me back. She gave me some buns to eat."

Baozi gave the other party unlimited power, and the pile of firewood was finally pushed away. A small head stuck out, looking even smaller than her.

He saw the paper bag in Pan Yun's hand, and came out with a swish, pulling the lying child out as well. He pulled him to stand in front of her and thanked her like an adult, "Thank you for sending him back and giving him the buns. Good people will be rewarded, and God will bless you with success in everything and a peaceful life."

Pan Yun took out a bun and gave it to him. "Who taught you to say such auspicious words?"

He quickly took the bun, but did not eat it immediately. Instead, he stuffed it into his arms and kept it: "The old beggar teaches the big beggar, and the big beggar teaches the little beggar. We have received the kindness of our benefactors, so we must pray for them."

Pan Yun was in a good mood. He took out two buns from the bag, gave one to each of them, took one for himself, and sat on some firewood to chat with the two of them.

"Why are you the only one here?"

Xiaohua, whose real name is Xiaohua, said, "I am the only one who ran back. I don't know where they are hiding. They may have been driven out of the city."

Xiaohua learned that a few days ago, the yamen runners notified these beggars to leave the county and not to enter the city again for at least one month.

But no one took it seriously.

If they don't beg in the county town, where can they get food outside?
So no one left.

The bailiffs had notified them several times, but today, seeing that they still refused to leave, they dispatched soldiers to drive all the beggars seen on the streets out of the city, and also searched the dilapidated temples and houses where they usually lived.

Xiaohua is quick and agile. When he saw that the situation was not right, he ran to this alley.

This alley is deep and they don't usually live here. They only wander around in the alley when they are being chased and can't escape, and then hide here.

There was plenty of firewood here, and as long as they hid inside and didn't make any noise, they could always escape. Over time, this place became a refuge for children, and even the big beggars didn't know about it.

Only because Pan Yun was the same age as them and generously shared her buns with him, did Xiaohua agree to tell her.

Pan Jun nodded, pointed at the child and asked, "You call him Qieqie?"

"He said his name was Che."

The child next to him said anxiously: "Qie'er, my name is Qie'er."

"Yes, yes, your name is Qieqie." Xiaohua nodded perfunctorily.

Although the pronunciation was correct, the child always felt that something was not right and looked at Pan Yun with some grievance.

Pan Jun seemed to be thinking about something, and asked, "Do you know where he came from?"

"He escaped from the hands of human traffickers," Xiao Hua said. This was no secret. "Before the Chinese New Year, the government was arresting human traffickers near the hole in the wall, and he took advantage of the chaos to escape."

"Since he was abducted by human traffickers, why didn't they send him to the government? Through the government, maybe he can find his parents."

Xiao Hua shook his head: "Third Grandfather took him there. It's hard to say. Someone in the government was looking for the child, but it didn't look like they were going to take him home properly, so they brought him back."

He glanced at the child, raised his head and said to Pan Yun: "Miss, you are a good person, do you want him? If you are willing, take him away."

Pan Jun smiled and asked him, "What if I don't want to?"

Xiao Hua sighed and said, "If you don't want to, then I will take him away. I have already found a new owner. The Zhang family in Tongluo Lane has no son. They have always wanted to adopt me as their son. I didn't want to before, but now I can't survive, so I want to be their son."

He said, "If you don't want to take him away, then I will take him as my brother. I will share half of my food with him, and kowtow to Zhang's father and mother more, and they will definitely agree."

Pan Yun lowered his head and looked at him carefully. If he really took the child over, the Zhang family might not be willing to adopt him. After all, this child named Qie'er was prettier and younger than him.

If the Zhang family only wanted one son, they would definitely choose someone who was younger and better looking.

But she didn't say it out loud, instead she smiled and said, "When he grows up and knows, he will definitely be very grateful to you."

She turned her head to look at the ignorant child and said, "I'll take him away."

(End of this chapter)