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87 [After the Thief](1/2)

"My name is Shi Xiaobao." The little Taoist priest patted the snow on his butt, stood up and answered Zhan Zhao, "My senior brother and I came here to do business and accidentally broke into Zhong Lin's peach blossom forest. Zhong Lin seemed to be sick and was confused. He gave us the box and said it was very important. He even accidentally transferred some internal force to me, and then he died. The tiger looked very scary at first, but it didn't bite and had a good temper. He always followed us, as if he had something to say. My senior brother and I found a lot in Zhong Lin's room...uh."

"I found a lot of books and peach wood to exorcise ghosts, and there was a black tiger, so I felt that the opportunity to make a fortune was coming. Your senior brother drew a black tiger on his chest to pretend to be the descendant of the Maoshan Taoist priest, right?" Zhan Zhao asked.

Shi Xiaobao scratched his head embarrassedly, "But we were stared at by a group of white-clothed men with super high martial arts... My senior brother and I got apart. Heihu followed his senior brother, and I fell off the cliff. When I climbed up and came to the city to find his senior brother, I found Heihu followed you, so I followed him. I thought you had caught my senior brother..."

Zhan Zhao nodded, "Do you think your senior brother was caught by us when he was cheating, so follow us?"

Shi Xiaobao scratched his neck awkwardly, "...It's hard to say that we can just make a living. Those who have done bad things buy peace of mind, so what they call each other's needs?"

"I have caught so many ghosts, have you finally met a ghost this time?" Bai Yutang asked.

Shi Xiaobao sighed and felt a little sad, "What should I do if my senior brother is gone... Which bastard killed him? I must avenge him!"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang - let's talk about it before taking him back to the Yizhou Prefecture, and the scroll has also been obtained.

Bai Yutang reached out and took out the scroll in the box and opened it.

Zhan Zhao touched his chin for a while and frowned, "Wow... Is this Master Zhong so sick that his eyes are not very good? Why are he only half of the words written?"

"This is called half-character characters." Shi Xiaobao said, "those who are a little wise can use it."

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Perhaps?"

"Oh, it's a business that is between a righteous move and a wrong move."

Shi Xiaobao smiled and said, "It would be better to say that buying tofu is a good thing, so robbery is a wrong behavior and a partial behavior. It's like fortune telling and Feng Shui... You can say that there are really, or you can say that it's just a lie, which varies from person to person."

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Are you quite a lot of fallacies?"

Shi Xiaobao looked at so many yamen runners and felt a little embarrassed, "Can I not go to the government? Otherwise, give me my senior brother's body. I will take him back to my hometown after I burn him."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "That won't work. I've asked you to help solve the case. Secondly... do you really think there are only a few white-clothed killers? If these are dead, there will be nothing else?"

Shi Xiaobao was embarrassed, "My master said, life is worse than death in the government and never go to hell!"

Bai Yutang suddenly asked, "What's your senior brother's name?"

"Call Lu Chen." Shi Xiaobao replied, "Actually, my senior brother and I were picked up by our master. We were orphans. When we were young, we were stealing things together to make a living and were often beaten. Once we were discovered stealing things, an old man saved us, and then we began to teach us how to do it."

"What ability?" Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Your internal strength was given by Zhong Lin. You should have a poor skill in your kung fu, but your light skills are good."

Shi Xiaobao hesitated for a moment.

"Is your master's surname Xu?"

Shi Xiaobao looked up at Bai Yutang in surprise, "How do you know?"

Bai Yutang pointed at his finger.

Zhan Zhao noticed that Shi Xiaobao's middle fingers on both hands were very long and slightly bent.

Zhan Zhao was also surprised, "Are you from the thief?"

Shi Xiaobao shook his head quickly, "No!"

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand and "take it out."

Shi Xiaobao blinked, "What are you taking?"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows.

Shi Xiaobao turned around and wanted to run away. Bai Yutang grabbed his shoulder and pulled him as if he wanted to shake his clothes. Then he heard a few "slams" sounds and all the wallets fell off.

Zhan Zhao looked at the wallets all over the floor, "You're not heavy either?"

Shi Xiaobao raised his face and looked at the sky.

Zhan Zhao glared at him, "Did you steal all the way?"

Shi Xiaobao thought to himself - Dead!

"Your senior brother doesn't have it!" Bai Yutang asked.

Shi Xiaobao frowned, "Isn't it? It's impossible, my senior brother also has a lot of them... Could it be that he was killed to rob him?!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other - Lu Chen's body had silver notes, which meant that the person who killed him was not to rob money. But why were all the money bags taken away?

What Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang all thought of was that they didn’t recognize the person when they started the attack. Besides this scroll, they stole something amazing?

Bai Yutang squatted down and looked through the purse on the ground. There was nothing special.

Shi Xiaobao looked at Bai Yutang's hand flipping his purse, wow! His fingers are so long...

"oops."

Shi Xiaobao was looking at it when Zhan Zhao knocked his head and looked up with his head covering his head.

Zhan Zhao hooked his finger at him and said, "Take you back to the yamen."

"No!" Shi Xiaobao hurriedly hid behind the tree, "I just stole the money and never did anything bad."

"Isn't stealing money called doing bad things?" Zhan Zhao made him happy.

"I only steal the rich!" Shi Xiaobao explained, "We steal the money and do good things! You also know that my master has rules."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other - but the thief is a very mysterious sect. The head of the sect, Xu Yeyang, is known as the most thief in the world, and is elusive. However, he has three things to do, he does not steal poor families, does not steal life-saving money, and does not steal innocent money. In other words, he only steals those who make ill-gotten wealth, famously steals wealth and helps the poor.

Bai Yutang stood up, turned his head slightly, and said in Zhan Zhao's ear, "Xu Yeyang is my master's friend. He died a few years ago. Before he died, he wrote a letter to his master to help take care of his two apprentices, but later his master did not find them. The letter mentioned that one of the two apprentices was Chen'er and the other was Xiaobao, and they were not old."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and nodded - in this way, Lu Chen and Shi Xiaobao are actually pitiful.

"I'll tell you, sir." Zhan Zhao said to Bai Yutang, "Forget it. This time he said that sending the scroll back is considered to make up for the merits, but it is not a solution to steal it like this in the future. Will the Tianzun accept him as his apprentice?"

Bai Yutang frowned and looked at Shi Xiaobao up and down, shook his head and said with certainty, "I don't have talent. In the eyes of my master, this is a monkey-level... or a little monkey without any qualifications, he will definitely not look down on it."

Shi Xiaobao's mouth twitched - Monkey...

A large group of men in white were captured and everyone returned to Wuzhou Prefecture together.

After hearing Shi Xiaobao's situation, Mr. Bao asked Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "Is this young man also a thief?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other and hooked Shi Xiaobao together, which meant - take it out.

Shi Xiaobao had no choice but to take out a purse and gave it to them.

Master Pang was shocked, "Oh! My wallet!"

Bai Yutang returned the wallet to the Grand Master.

"When did you steal it just after you entered the door?" The Grand Master looked at Shi Xiaobao depressedly, "Why did you steal me?"

Shi Xiaobao scratched his chin, "If you are the corrupt officials, who will you steal?"

The Grand Master raised his eyebrows and his beard raised. He said to Bao Zheng, "Old Bao, hit him on the board!"

Who knew that Lord Bao reached out and patted Shi Xiaobao on the shoulder, "There is a future!"

Master Pang was so angry that his nose was crooked.

"But it's a pity to be a thief so capable! You have to go the right way." Bao Zheng thought for a while and said, "Why stay in Kaifeng Prefecture and be a constable?"

Everyone looked at each other, Shi Xiaobao cleaned his ears and asked, "What are you doing when you stay in Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Be a constable." Bao Zheng smiled and patted his shoulder again, "I am not allowed to steal things normally. This mansion allows you to steal again when you steal."

Bai Yutang visits Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao couldn't laugh or cry - use everything for the best!

"Cough cough." Shi Xiaobao coughed twice, "What, I shouldn't refuse if I look down on me so much, but... I also know that I am used to being idle and wild crane..."

"Oh." Lord Bao interrupted him with a long tone, "Then you can't make up for it? Then we have to do it carefully."

"What's that?" Shi Xiaobao was nervous.

"The silver you stole is here." Mr. Bao took a pallet handed over by Ma Han, with all kinds of silver bags inside. "The silver is at least fifty taels, and the silver bills are calculated to be nearly five hundred taels. Also, there were at least a thousand taels of silver bills in the Grand Master's wallet just now. You also know that his corrupt official came."

Master Pang's eyelids twitched when he heard this.

"... Then, it's not enough to beat a board. You have to be in prison for at least ten years." Mr. Bao's face sank, "I'll have to be sent off!"

Shi Xiaobao opened his mouth wide, "Ten years..."

Bao Zheng shook his head helplessly, "Since you don't want to make up for your merits, you also know that our government has always been fair and unfair to act according to the law..."

"No?" Shi Xiaobao screamed, "Are you cheating me?"

Bao Zheng was serious, "I am giving you the opportunity to make up for merit. Whether you steal wealth to help the poor or because of life, breaking the law is breaking the law. Do you think that's it? Giving you the opportunity to make up for merit is to make you do more good deeds with a useful body and compensate for your previous mistakes. This mansion will not talk to you about mercy."

"I'll make up!" Shi Xiaobao admitted his defeat and quickly agreed, "I'm ready to be a constable! It's okay to be a cow or a horse, don't let me jail."

Bao Zheng nodded with satisfaction, "It's great, I'll learn it from today."

After saying that, someone asked someone to prepare a room for Shi Xiaobao and let him stay in the mansion temporarily.

Pang Ji asked Bao Zheng, "Heizi, what are you playing? Leave a thief to work in the mansion."

Zhao Pu also nodded, "I just met once, and I'm not sure about my character."

Bao Zheng nodded and smiled faintly, "I have an obligation to take care of this young man, but in fact I know Xu Yeyang too."

Everyone was surprised - Master Bao also knew him?

"He has done this mansion a favor. It happened more than 30 years ago. When we were still studying in the academy, we were suspected of stealing and wanted to go to the yamen." Mr. Bao said that year, "It was cold that year. I was punished by my master to kneel in the yard and kneel for a night. No matter how I explained it, no one believed that I didn't steal anything. I knelt down late at night, just like now, it was snowing. An old man suddenly sat on the roof of the yard wall and asked me, 'Scholar, why do you have to kneel?'"
To be continued...
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