Chapter 4: The International Cultivation of Thieves
Half a year after Ning Xin left, Tang Yu was adopted by a Mi Guo couple, and he was twelve years old that year.
In the eyes of the vast majority of Chinese people, it is synonymous with prosperity and happiness, Tang Yu was adopted by the United States couple and brought to the United States, and should have ushered in a beautiful and happy life.
However, what greeted Tang Yu was a miserable purgatory on earth!
After arriving in San Francisco, Tang Yu found out that the identity of the Mi couple was fake at all, and the adoption was naturally fake, and the couple sold him to a theft organization with their backhand.
Except for a few leaders, most of the group is a group of half-grown children who roam the surrounding neighborhoods and specialize in pickpocketing on the streets.
At first, Tang Yu was arranged to train some simple stealing skills, but due to his good understanding, the learning progress was completed quickly, and he was honorably inducted into the post only a month later.
His immediate boss, that is, the watcher, was a big black man, George, a tall man of 1.9 meters, and his arms were thicker than Tang Yu's thighs.
The object of work is the pedestrians passing by on the street, of course, mainly outsiders, or tourists or business trips.
Tang Yu relied on that simple technique to pickpocket on the streets, and his daily income was as little as he could, but it was all handed over to George, and sometimes he even failed to complete the task and was severely beaten by George.
Tang Yu's life is not good, but he has a friend, and that is an old beggar.
They were able to become friends, mainly because the old beggar was also from Huaxia, and before Tang Yu learned to communicate in English, this old beggar was the only person in Tang Yu's activity area who could chat patiently with him.
Perhaps it is the closeness of the same Chinese people, Tang Yu Dan always gives half a bite to this old beggar whenever he has a bite to eat.
The old beggar, to a certain extent, pinned Tang Yu's longing for his hometown.
After more than a year of getting along, Tang Yu never thought that this down-and-out beggar, who was too old to look good, turned out to be a reclusive master-
Maybe it was the pity of Tang Yu's experience, or maybe it was a reward for Tang Yu's long care, the old beggar taught Tang Yu three skills, lockpicking, makeup and fighting!
The old beggar spent a year teaching him the three skills, and he didn't care if Tang Yu really mastered the essence or not, and then suddenly disappeared, and never appeared from Tang Yu's world again......
Half a year after the old beggar disappeared, Tang Yu finally made up his mind to leave the organization, because he clearly knew that if he continued to stay in the organization, he would never have a bright future.
So, one drunken night in George, he sneaks into George's room and steals all his money.
Then, hiding overnight on a train from San Francisco to New York, he crossed the country and fled from the West Coast to the East Coast.
Relying on the money he got from George and his own stealing skills, Tang Yu quickly gained a foothold in New York.
At this time, Tang Yu began his career as a burglary.
Make-up allows him to hide his true appearance, and now Interpol's wanted photo of him is a Southeast Asian face that has nothing to do with him.
Lockpicking made him feel like no one in the homes of the rich, and the safe in the rich's home was more like his ATM.
Martial arts, on the other hand, allowed him to solve a lot of troubles and greatly improved his survivability.
Relying on his superb skills, Tang Yu opened a health club in New York two years after he came to New York, that is, when he was seventeen years old.
Of course, the fitness club owner, just a cover for his identity, is his side hustle.
Stealing is his main business.
After a year of this, he set his sights on a wealthy Arab businessman, whom he had heard had just received some time ago, worth more than a million dollars.
Tang Yu infiltrated the rich merchant and spent half an hour figuring out the safe, which contained some gold bars and dollars, as well as a richly packaged box.
Inside is a miniature carving, the size of a grain of rice, engraved with thirty-six action drawings, each of which has an ancient Chinese annotation next to it, which can only be seen clearly through a high-powered microscope.
Although he didn't know if this miniature carving was an antique, Tang Yu knew that even in the current era, it was not easy to carve so many things on this grain of rice.
It took Tang Yu half a month to transcribe the drawings and ancient texts on the miniature carvings, and find someone to identify the ancient texts, but the words after recognition and confirmation were condescending and obscure.
So, Tang Yu spent another two months flipping through a large number of Taoist Buddhist scriptures, and finally understood the content of the ancient commentaries.
This turned out to be the breathing and breathing method, that is, the internal strength in the traditional Chinese sense, the thirty-six movements have corresponding breathing and breathing methods, and the six movements are one layer, which is divided into six layers.
As a Chinese, Tang Yu is naturally no stranger to internal strength, but whether internal strength really exists, he will be skeptical.
Tang Yu had the mentality of experimentation and began to try to cultivate, the first six movements, ten minutes each, one hour a day.
After more than half a year of hard work, just when he was about to give up, he finally reached the first level of cultivation and sensed the qi sense mentioned in the ancient text.
He felt a faint flow of air in his body, like a little mouse, burrowing inside him.
And he obviously felt that he had become deaf and clear-sighted, and his strength had become much stronger.
After Tang Yu broke through the first layer, it was a great help to his 'work', and he could even basically get out of the equipment when he opened the safe, and he could also unlock it with just his own ears.
In more than two years, his criminal footprints began to radiate from New York to all parts of the United States, and finally all over the world.
The name of the thief night charm has also become a frequent visitor to police stations in various countries, and has recently fully attracted the attention of Interpol, and even set up a special task force for him.
On the one hand, he was forced by the pressure of Interpol, and on the other hand, he was indeed a little tired of this kind of life, and he had seen too many examples of his predecessors in this industry being caught.
No one dares to guarantee that he will be able to steal for the rest of his life without being caught, at least Tang Yu does not have such self-confidence!
And he has made a lot of money over the years, and he has a hundred million dollars lying quietly in his account in a Swiss bank, which is enough for him to squander the rest of his life.
Therefore, Tang Yu returned to China, returned to Dongjiang City, returned to Qingyang Town, and returned to this orphanage!
It's a pity that the orphanage is gone, and all the people who were once familiar with it are gone!
Tang Yu didn't get Ning Xin's whereabouts from the eldest sister in the end, but he got a mobile phone number, the mobile phone number left by Ning Xin.
Before leaving Qingyang Town, Tang Yu went to the supermarket in the town to buy a lot of things, tobacco, alcohol, tea and sugar, all of which were the best, and then sent them to the eldest sister of the flower roll, he sincerely thanked the eldest sister.
Tang Yu said goodbye to the eldest sister and left Qingyang Town.
He was driving back to Dongjiang City, but he couldn't calm down for a long time!
In the end, Tang Yu drove the car to the side of the road and stopped, he took out his mobile phone and found the number he took from the eldest sister of the flower roll, but he was still a little entangled-
Fingers lingered on the 'dial' button, and finally I couldn't make up my mind to press down.
Tang Yu suddenly smiled bitterly, he is really, isn't it just a phone call, as for being so entangled!
His finger finally pressed on the 'dial' button!
And his heart, with the press of his fingers, suddenly lifted, his breathing couldn't help but slow down until he completely held his breath, and he nervously waited for a response on the other end of the phone!
When he was chased all over New York by more than a dozen police cars, he was never so nervous as he is now!
A beautiful woman's voice sounded on the phone, but the brilliance in Tang Yu's eyes suddenly dimmed,
Sorry,the subscriber you dialed is power off,please......"
Tang Yu couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, he can be regarded as a person who has seen a big scene, but now he is suffering from gains and losses because of a phone call!
That's it, now that you know Ning Xin's phone, there is always a time to get in touch, and there is no need to rush at this time!
Tang Yu first found a place to have lunch, and then he followed the navigation guide to his university, China Binhai University, he did not want to report in advance, but to buy a house near the school.
Although Tang Yu has given up his previous career, he knows that there is still a difference between himself and real ordinary people, and he needs to have a personal space of his own.
He has done some preparation work in advance, and now it's time for the site visit and finalize the transaction and move-in.
Tang Yu's pre-selection has three places, and finally selected the Yulongwan community, on the one hand, the environment here is very elegant, and the community is all single-family villas, and there are relatively few idle people.
On the other hand, and most importantly, there are ready-made properties in this community, which can be moved in directly!
According to the address guidance on the billboard at the entrance of the community, Tang Yu found the sales center.
After Tang Yu walked in, he found that it was still relatively quiet inside, only two guests, accompanied by a staff member, and there were five young girls chatting in a low voice behind the workbench!
The two guests, one is a fashionably dressed woman in red with a sexy figure, crisp breasts, long legs, and tight skirts, this is a woman who makes a man think of a bed at a glance.
The other one is a man, a man who looks really flattering, in his forties, with squinted eyes, a garlic nose, a catfish mouth, and very little hair on his head, but he has made a very complicated hairstyle, maintaining the last stubbornness of an uncle!
And the most unacceptable thing is that the woman in red is holding the arm of Uncle Xie Ding, and her breasts are rubbing and colliding intentionally or unintentionally......
Such a combination is easy for people to sigh or curse like this, good cabbage TM let the pig arch!
Or, to see it more thoroughly, to sigh at the power of money!
Of course, if anyone sees great love, especially those who are similar to this uncle, they must have a restless little fire burning in their hearts.
Tang Yu has seen a lot of this situation, he doesn't despise those women who sell themselves for money, and maybe people don't think they are selling at all, but they enjoy it.
Everyone has their own pursuits, and giving up something for money is not a heinous thing!
Tang Yu felt that there was no right or wrong problem, one was for money, the other was for enjoyment, and everyone just held what they needed.
Tang Yu didn't care about the pair, but focused his attention on the sand table model in front of him.
He was dressed simply, short-sleeved, shorts, sneakers, and his youthful face, which made it easy to see him as a student party, and not very rich.
The five girls in the small talk obviously had no intention of coming over to receive them!