"My name is Shi Xiaobao." The little Taoist patted the snow on his buttocks, stood up and replied to Zhanzhao, "I came here with my senior brother to do business, and accidentally broke into Zhong Lin's peach blossom forest by mistake, Zhong Lin seemed to be sick and delirious, and gave us the box, saying that it was very important, and he also turned some internal force to me by mistake, and then he died." This tiger looked scary at first, but it didn't bite, it had a good temper, and it always followed us, as if it had something to say. Senior brother and I found a lot of ...... in Zhong Lin's room Belch. ”

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

Shi Xiaobao scratched his head embarrassedly, "But we don't know why Lu Dao was targeted by a group of white-clothed people with super high martial arts...... I got separated from my brother, and the black tiger followed my brother, and I fell off the cliff. When I climbed up and came to the city to look for my brother, I found that the black tiger was following you, so I followed. I thought you had arrested my brother......"

Zhan Zhao nodded clearly, "You think that your senior brother was caught by us when he cheated, so he followed us?" ”

Shi Xiaobao scratched his neck in embarrassment, "...... It's hard to lie, we just eat with our mouths. Is it those who have done bad things to buy peace of mind, the so-called take what they need? ”

"I've caught ghosts so many times, have you finally encountered a ghost this time?" Bai Yutang asked.

Shi Xiaobao sighed, a little gloomy, "What should I do if my senior brother leaves...... Which bastard kills him, I must avenge him! ”

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang - take him back to the Baizhou Mansion and then talk about it, the scroll is also in hand.

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

Zhan Zhao touched his chin and looked at it for a while, frowning, "Huh...... Is this Master Zhong so sick that his eyes are not very good, and he only writes half of the words for Lu? ”

"It's called a half-character." Shi Xiaobao said, "Those who are biased will use it." ”

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Deviated? ”

"Oh, it's somewhere between what is right and what is wrong."

Shi Xiaobao smiled and said, "It's better to say that striking iron to buy tofu is the right way, then robbing and being a thief is crooked, and it is like saying fortune telling and feng shui...... You can say yes or you can say it's just a lie, it varies from person to person. ”

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Do you still have a lot of crooked reasoning?" ”

Shi Xiaobao looked at so many officials, and was a little embarrassed, "Can I not go to the government?" Otherwise, give me my brother's body, and I will burn him and take him back to his hometown. ”

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "That's not good, I want you to help solve the case, second...... Do you really think there are just a few killers in white? If these are gone, there will be nothing else? ”

Shi Xiaobao was embarrassed, "My master said, life is better than death in the official mansion and not in hell!" ”

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

"It's called Lu Shen." Shi Xiaobao replied, "Actually, my brother and I were both picked up by the master, and the two of us were orphans, and when we were children, we stole things together to make a living, and we were often beaten. Once we were caught stealing, an old man rescued us and started teaching us how to do it. ”

"What are you capable of?" Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Your internal strength was given by Zhong Lin, you should have been very poor in kung fu, but light kung fu is good." ”

Shi Xiaobao hesitated.

"Is your master's surname Xu?"

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

Bai Yutang pointed at his finger.

Zhan Zhao noticed that the middle fingers of Shi Xiaobao's two hands were very long and a little bent.

Zhan Zhao was also surprised, "Are you a thief?" ”

Shi Xiaobao hurriedly shook his head, "No! ”

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand, "Take it out." ”

Shi Xiaobao blinked, "What are you taking?" ”

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows.

Shi Xiaobao turned around and wanted to run, but Bai Yutang grabbed him by the shoulder, and dragged him to shake as if he wanted to shake his clothes, and then he heard a few "bangs" and dropped a money bag.

Zhanzhao looked at the money bags all over the ground, "You don't sink either?" ”

Shi Xiaobao raised his face and looked at the sky.

Zhan Zhao glared at him, "You stole it all the way?" ”

Shi Xiaobaoxin said - dead!

"You don't have it on your brother!" Bai Yutang asked.

Shi Xiaobao frowned, "No?" It's impossible, there are a lot of them on my brother...... Could it be that he was killed for robbery?! ”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other - Lu Shen's body had silver tickets on it, which meant that the person who killed him was not to rob money. What can be said that all the money bags have been taken away?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought of the same thing - did these two thieves not recognize the right person when they started, and in addition to this scroll, they also stole something terrible?

Bai Yutang squatted down and looked at the money bag on the ground, nothing special.

Shi Xiaobao looked at Bai Yutang's hand flipping through the money bag, huh! These fingers are long......

"Oops."

Shi Xiaobao was looking at it, and was knocked on the head by Zhanzhao, covering his head and looking up.

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

"Isn't it!" Shi Xiaobao hurriedly hid behind the tree, "I just stole silver, and I haven't done anything bad." ”

"Isn't stealing silver a bad thing?" Zhan Zhao made him happy.

"I only steal from the rich!" Shi Xiaobao explained, "We stole the silver and did good deeds!" You also know that my teacher has rules. ”

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao glanced at each other—yes. The thief door is a very mysterious sect, and the head Xu Yeyang is known as the world's first thief, and he is haunted. However, he has three non-steals, not stealing from poor people, not stealing life-saving money, and not stealing innocent money. In other words, he only steals from those who make ill-gotten gains, and is notorious for stealing the rich and giving to the poor.

Bai Yutang stood up, tilted his head slightly, and said in Zhanzhao's ear, "Xu Yeyang is a friend of my master, he died a few years ago, and before he died, he wrote to his master to ask him to help take care of the two apprentices, but then the master didn't find them. It was mentioned in the letter that the two apprentices, one named Shen'er and the other Xiaobao, were not very old. ”

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and nodded-according to this, in fact, Lu Shen and Shi Xiaobao were also pitiful.

"I'll talk to you." Zhan Zhao said to Bai Yutang, "Forget about playing two boards, he said this time that he sent back the scroll to make up for his merits, but it is not a way to steal it like this in the future, does Tianzun want to accept him as an apprentice?" ”

Bai Yutang frowned and looked Shi Xiaobao up and down, shook his head and said with certainty, "No talent, in Master's eyes, this is a monkey-level ...... It's still just a little monkey with no qualifications, and he definitely can't look down on it. ”

The corner of Shi Xiaobao's mouth twitched-monkey......

arrested a large group of people in white, and everyone returned to the state mansion together.

After hearing about Shi Xiaobao's situation, Master Bao asked Bai Yutang and Zhanzhao, "Is this young man also a thief?" ”

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang glanced at each other, and hooked Shi Xiaobao's hand together, which means - take it out.

Shi Xiaobao was helpless, so he took out a money bag for the two of them.

Master Pang was taken aback, "Ah! My money bag! ”

Bai Yutang returned the money bag to the Taishi.

"You just entered the door, when did you steal it?" Taishi looked at Shi Xiaobao depressedly, "Why did you steal me?" ”

Shi Xiaobao scratched his chin, "If you are a corrupt official, who do you steal?" ”

Taishi raised his eyebrows, his beard was cocked, and he said to Bao Zheng, "Old Bao, beat him on the board!" ”

Who knew that Lord Lu Daobao reached out and patted Shi Xiaobao's shoulder, "There is a future!" ”

Master Pang was so angry that his nose was crooked.

"But it's a pity to be a thief with such ability! Be on the right path. Bao Zheng thought for a while and said, "Why don't you stay in Kaifeng Mansion and do a quick catch?" ”

Everyone looked at each other, Shi Xiaobao plucked out his ears and asked, "What are you doing in Kaifeng Mansion?" ”

"Do it fast." Bao Zheng smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "Usually you are not allowed to steal, and you can steal again when the government allows you to steal." ”

Bai Yutang looks at Zhanzhao.

Zhanzhao couldn't cry or laugh - make the best use of things!

"Ahem." Shi Xiaobao coughed twice, "What, of course I shouldn't shirk it if adults think so highly of me, but ...... Adults also know that I am used to the cranes of idle clouds and wild ......"

"Oh." Master Bao interrupted him with a long tone, "Then can't you make up for it?" We'll have to do the math. ”

"What?" Shi Xiaobao was nervous.

"All the silver you stole is here." Master Bao took a tray handed over by Ma Han, with various silver bags in it, "The silver is less than fifty taels, and the silver tickets are nearly five hundred taels, and ah, in the Taishi's money bag just now, there are at least a thousand taels of silver tickets, and you also know that he is a corrupt official."

Master Pang's eyelids twitched when he heard this.

“…… Then do the math, it's not enough to play the board, at least ten years in prison. Master Bao's face sank, "I still have to be distributed!" ”

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

Bao Zheng shook his head helplessly, "Since you don't want to make up for it, you also know that this government has always been fair and does things according to law......"

"Isn't it?!" Shi Xiaobao exclaimed, "Are you slandering me?" ”

Bao Zheng was serious, "I'm giving you a chance to make up for it, whether you steal the rich and help the poor, or if you are forced by life, breaking the law is breaking the law, do you think that's it?" Giving you the opportunity to make up for your mistakes is to let you use your useful body to do more good deeds and make up for your previous mistakes, and this government will not intercede with you. ”

"I'll make it up!" Shi Xiaobao admitted it and hurriedly agreed, "I'm going to catch it soon!" It's okay to be a cow or a horse, don't let me go to jail. ”

Bao Zheng nodded with satisfaction, "Very good, I have to learn well from today." ”

After speaking, let Shi Xiaobao prepare a room for him to live in the mansion temporarily.

Pang Ji asked Bao Zheng, "Kuroko, what are you playing?" Leave a thief on an errand in the house. ”

Zhao Pu also nodded, "It's just that I met once, and I'm not sure about the character." ”

Bao Zheng nodded and smiled faintly, "This mansion has the obligation to take care of this young man, in fact, this mansion also knows Xu Yeyang." ”

Everyone was surprised - Master Bao also knew him?

"He did the government a favor, more than 30 years ago, when the house was still studying in the academy, he was suspected of stealing, and he had to go to the yamen." Mr. Bao said that year, "It was freezing that year, and I was punished by my master to kneel in the courtyard and kneel for a night. No matter how I explained it, no one believed I wasn't stealing. I knelt down late into the night, just like now, when it was snowing, an old man suddenly sat on the roof of the courtyard wall and asked me, 'Scholar, why are you kneeling?' ’”

Everyone looked at each other, and Lord Bao had such an encounter when he was young, no wonder he was most afraid of wronging good people.

"And then?" The little fourth son raised his face and asked.

"I told the old man that I didn't steal, they said I stole and I was punished here." Master Bao smiled faintly, "The old man said, 'You kid is so honest, why didn't you steal and get punished?' Instead of kneeling here, why don't you find out the real thief and return your innocence? ’”

Everyone nodded, feeling reasonable.

"I later went to find the murderer and found that the real thief was a classmate, but he was the son of a county official, and all the masters scolded him, in fact, they all knew that I didn't steal it, but they all turned a blind eye." Bao Zheng said, "Under my questioning, the master of the academy advised me to be patient, saying that if I angered the county officials, I would not be able to mix in the local area. ”

Hearing this, the corners of Pang Ji's mouth twitched - the county magistrate is now squatting in the prison where Lu Dao is.

"That's it?" Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, "It's not like your character." ”

Lord Bao smiled and nodded to Bai Yutang, "Bai Shaoxia knows this mansion very well, and this mansion didn't do anything, so he collected the evidence of the county official's corruption and perversion of the law, and went to the state a few days later, and handed over all the evidence to the mansion." ”

Pang Ji pouted - sure enough, this sunspot has been holding grudges since he was a child.

"Actually, there's another thing that makes me happy." Master Bao said with a smile, "One night when I knew that I was really murderous but helpless, the old man came to me again and asked me how I was, I told him the truth, and he said, 'You wait, I will avenge you tomorrow!'" ’”

Everyone is curious - what kind of revenge law? “

"Early the next morning, the family belongings of several masters in the academy were looted, and all that was stolen was the underwear, and all the belongings were distributed to the homeless people outside the city." Bao Zheng couldn't help but smile, "Early the next morning, those masters ran out wearing only a pair of pants, and a few big words were written on their bare backs, 'Misleading people are teachers in vain', that scene, I will never forget." ”

Everyone laughed, Shi Xiaobao happened to come back at this time, and he was still holding a bun that a girl gave him to nibble, and when he heard half of it, he stomped his feet with a smile, "It's what the old man did back." ”

"Later, he told me that it is difficult to raise a dragon in shallow water, you go to Kaifeng and take the top prize!" Mr. Bao smiled when he said this.

Everyone was surprised, everyone knew that Bao Zheng was the champion in the examination before he entered the court as an official, and since then he has been on the rise, it turns out that this has something to do with the old man.

Zhao Pu asked, "Then the old man is Xu Yeyang?" ”

Bao Zheng nodded.

Pang Ji grinned - I said, what did you do with that old man?

Gongsun sighed - oops, the old man is too far-sighted, and it is simply for the benefit of all people.

"When did your master pass away?" Zhan Zhao asked Shi Xiaobao.

"It's been a long time, I've been sick and died, and he said that he had entrusted his friend to take care of us and let us go to Tianshan." Shi Xiaobao spread his hands, "But my senior brother and I didn't believe in anyone except the master, so we started to explore the rivers and lakes, and we were very happy to be free, but I didn't expect it...... It was scattered in the Baizhou Mansion and never seen again. ”

……

Before dark, Gongsun took Shi Xiaobao to recognize Lu Shen's body first, Shi Xiaobao recognized it as Lu Shen, asked roughly what happened, and squatted in the courtyard to wipe his tears when he went out.

Xiao Sizi comforted him on the side, Shi Xiaobao wiped his tears and looked at Xiao Sizi, and said in his heart that the people in Kaifeng Mansion were really far from what was rumored. Lord Bao looks very majestic, but people are quite interesting, and they will slander people; Zhanzhao imagined that he was a tiger with a bear's back, but he didn't expect to be a young man with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and his temper was quite strange, and he was immediately beaten when he looked at Bai Yutang more; Bai Yutang is even stranger, it is more frozen than the snow in this Baizhou Mansion, and the ice and snow melted when he was with Zhanzhao; Gongsun Ce thought he was an old pedant, so young, and a son like a ball...... Zhao Pu is a big, domineering rascal; Pang Taishi is a large group, but he is actually quite cute, and he has been bullied by Lord Bao.

In the evening, Bao Zheng called everyone into the study, spread out the scroll, and asked Shi Xiaobao, "Can you understand?" ”

Xiaobao nodded, "I've seen this scroll, Zhong Lin used several biased techniques to write it, probably for the sake of secrecy." ”

As he spoke, Shi Xiaobao told everyone the contents of the scroll sentence by sentence...... It turned out that the main thing was that the Heavenly Mother really exists! And it's not a youkai!