Chapter 18:

"It looks like someone is ahead!" The person who walked in front passed back.
Lin Yuan's face changed. They didn't have weapons. To ensure safety, he let a few thin people walk in front and act as scouts. Once there was any trouble in front of him, he had to report back immediately.
But after all, it was the first time that they didn't know how to convey the news. There was a vague sentence, and they didn't even see what these people were wearing.
"Stop." Lin Yuan gave orders.
Everyone stopped, they looked blank, not knowing what happened.
Jiang Gui was also very scared. He asked, "Fourth brother, what should I do now?"
"Don't worry," Lin Yuan said, "wait for the news ahead."
There are so many of them, they can’t hide in hiding, and it’s impossible to retreat. With so many grains, they can’t run fast. If they are not a last resort, Lin Yuan is really reluctant to bear the grains. These grains represent the lives of so many people before the autumn harvest next year. capital.
News came from the front.
"It's a group of beggars."
Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. The physical quality of the beggars was not as good as those of the people he had just bought. At least these people had eaten enough before selling themselves, and beggars generally had no good lives.
Soon, they encountered the group of beggars.
A group of old, weak, sick and disabled walked in the mountains and forests. They almost caught what to eat, all of them ricketed, with yellowish faces and thin eyes, and their eyes were like walking corpses.
When they saw the grain sacks on the cart, they looked like wolves, with green light in their eyes.
The people around the grains are like a big enemy. They know that these grains are also the basis of their lives. Winter is coming. As long as they follow the new owner to the owner's village, they can live.
If this group of beggars took the food and injured the new owner, they would be over.
But the group of beggars did not rush forward. They just stood and stared at them, motionless, like a stone statue. Changes in the outside world cannot affect their behavior.
Lin Yuan didn't move either, the two sides were in a stalemate like this, and the cold wind blew across the trees and the grass, and there was an illusion of a peerless master facing each other.
After half an hour, Lin Yuan really didn't want to waste time doing it here, so he shouted: "Is there a leader over there? Come out and speak!"
The beggars changed their expressions. They seemed to be discussing something, and a young man walked out after a while.
Lin Yuan also walked over.
Jiang Gui grabbed Lin Yuan's wrist: "Fourth brother, you..."
Lin Yuan patted Jiang Gui comfortably on the shoulder: "Brother, don't worry, I have my own plans."
The young man wore ragged clothes, but he rarely had a rickety figure. His skin was slightly darker, his figure was strong, and his face was spotted. He couldn't be said to be good-looking or ugly. He walked to Lin Yuan: "This man Son..."
Lin Yuan interrupted him: "I have limited food, and I am rushing back, and I can give you only limited."
It means that they are willing to buy food for the road, but the other party cannot open their mouths.
Lin Yuan and the others don't have weapons now, and they don't want to really fight these beggars. There may not be a fixed number of who will win or win.
When he said this, Lin Yuan thought about the existing grain in the granary, and he felt better.
The young man was quite witty. He suddenly said, "We are going to the south of the Yangtze River."
Lin Yuan looked at the man again and asked strangely, "Why go to Jiangnan?"
The man smiled and said, "Hit your luck."
In recent years, droughts, locust plagues, plagues, many farmers have fled, and the people are not living. Lin Yuan sees the other party as being polite, as if he has read a book, so he said: "Jiangnan is afraid it is a bit dangerous..."
He was also out of kindness.
Young man: "Where is it not dangerous in this world?"
"I haven't consulted the name of the son." The young man asked.
Lin Yuan asked the people behind to bring in a bag of grain, one bag was not many, and the blood could still afford it.
"My name is Lin, Lin Yuan." Lin Yuan asked him again, "Brother, what's your name?"
The young man smiled, showing his white teeth: "Zhu Ba Ba."
Lin Yuan: "..." Will anyone in this world name his son Daddy Pig? Is this taking advantage of pigs or being taken advantage of by pigs?
The man said again: "You can also call me Zhu Chongba."
Lin Yuan softened his knees and knelt.
Zhu Chongba, dressed as a beggar, thought that Lin Yuan was tired from walking and his feet were weak, but he still smiled and said, "Why did Young Master Lin give this gift when he first met?"
Lin Yuan: "..." I said you are Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, do you believe it?
I said it was you who defeated Chen Youliang in the end and they got Jiangshan. Do you believe it?
I said that the Queen of Ma is dead, do you believe that you killed all the heroes?
Hey, knowing too much is sometimes a pain.
Lin Yuan was a little confused, but he still quickly weighed the pros and cons.
Zhu Yuanzhang went to Huangjue Temple near the village to be a monk since the fourth year of Emperor Yuanshun. He was sent out for dozens of days. After four years of wandering, Emperor Yuanshun returned to Huangjue Temple in eight years and continued to be a monk.
Because of being a monk, Zhu Yuanzhang has a culture.
Because of wandering, I have gained knowledge.
Because he married the Ma family, he became a landlord class and had the capital to recruit soldiers and buy horses.
It is now the seventh year of Emperor Yuanshun, and there is only one year left before Zhu Yuanzhang returns to Huangjue Temple.
Lin Yuan thought for a long time, but didn't think of anything. He just said: "Brother Zhu is strong, and I really lack talents like you. If you don't dislike it, you can go with me. I dare not say anything else. It’s not difficult to have a full stomach."
So what... can help, he doesn't have to hold his thigh.
And Zhu Yuanzhang could not necessarily agree. After all, there were a group of beggars behind him. He shouldn't be the kind of person who can leave the beggars alone to survive.
"Brother Lin is so kind!" Zhu Chongba's eyes flashed. He hasn't eaten his stomach for many days. Regardless of his youth, he can't rob those experienced beggars, Zhu Chongba, "Just leave now!"
Lin Yuan...isn't it... who said that he loves the people like a son and only kills corrupt officials?
Love people like children?
I don't know when Liu Futong's rich second generation rebelled. Lin Yuan remembered such a person and didn't remember the time.
He didn't remember when Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang rebelled.
Anyway, one step is one step.
Zhu Chongba suddenly asked Lin Yuan: "Brother Lin?"
Lin Yuan pointed at the beggar behind him: "So these people?"
Zhu Chongba: "When we meet in peace and water, gathering together is fate."
Lin Yuan: "..."
Zhu Chongba whispered: "I haven't eaten enough for a long time, don't look at them thin, they are rushing to eat."
Lin Yuan had complicated eyes, and he must have encountered a fake Zhu Yuanzhang.
Maybe it’s just the same name and surname?