Chapter Forty-Five: The Flame Thief Sent Back

What is a flare thief? Li Chen heard Wukong talk about this term before, it was very strange, he had never heard this term in history.

The most famous thief is the Yellow Turban Thief at the end of the Han Dynasty. If you play a game, the most common one is probably a bandit, and if you are a professional, you can choose a thief. Good people have righteous thieves. There are water thieves in the water. These thieves, as the name suggests, can know what they do. The Flame Thief?

"The one who burns, who fights with open fire, is called a thief of fire." , Wukong explained. It turns out that the firelight thief means that this is a gang of gangsters. They are very arrogant, they haunt at night, rob and fight with open fire, and will storm some manors, or invade people's houses, which is almost like robbers.

"It's just a bunch of strongmen, is it that scary?" , Li Chen was puzzled. "How is it not terrible, how is it not terrible to dare to fight in the open fire at night and rob the house."

"It is common to rob homes, rob property, and kidnap people, and I have heard that they will eat people." , Wukong shuddered.

"I knew I would eat people, so you still came." Li Chen rolled his eyes, "I just didn't expect it." Wukong smiled bitterly, "The most terrifying thing about the firelight thieves is that no one knows who they are."

"Fire thief, dare to fight in the open fire at night, and rob houses. They come out at night, and even the government is afraid of them.'" , Wukong's words, Li Chen understood as soon as he heard it, "You mean, many of them are locals?" "Yes, that's what it means."

Li Chen knew that it was no wonder that many people were so jealous of the firelight thief. Although they are haunted at night, they dare to rob at the door of the open fire, which means that they are very arrogant and terrifying, and they are almost not afraid of being pursued by the government. In other words, at night, the government did not dare to come.

This means that they are very familiar with the terrain, and when the government comes, they will retreat if the situation is strong. If the government advances lightly, or if the strength is not enough, it may suffer a loss.

Familiar with the terrain, it is very likely that you will see the locals. So that even if they retreat, they will become good citizens at once.

They are all locals and are familiar with the local area, if someone does not know each other and dares to sue the official, I am afraid that the government has not killed them, and the fire thief will come to the door first.

"The government is also doing its best to exterminate the fire thief, and even in the law, there are special regulations for the fire thief." , Goku continued. Li Chen looked at this fire thief, and it was really troublesome.

"Let's not talk about the fire thief, what should this kid do?" , Li Chen changed the topic and said, "I can only go to the town first to see if there is anyone who knows this child."

"How long will he be unconscious?" "It's hard to say, Poor Dao didn't dare to start too hard. But...", before Goku finished speaking, the child woke up, and he, who was lying on Goku's back, straightened up and looked left and right, and suddenly, he seemed to be happy.

The kid seemed really happy, Ah Ad cried, patting Goku's bald head with one hand, "I said, he seems to like your bald head very much." , Li Chen laughed.

"I'm used to it, the children seem to like to touch the bhikkhus and get bald." , Wukong didn't react much, and let the kid shoot casually. It's better to shoot him than to cry.

The child, while patting Wukong's bald head, shouted something incoherently, Li Chen slowly followed, and walked to the town like this.

At this time, in the town of Cangfang, every household lit up the lights. The two scratched their heads, wanting to ask someone, but they didn't know where to start.

"Let's go to the wine shop first, there are many people in the wine shop, maybe someone knows this child." , Li Chen thought about it, he could only go to a place where there were many people to ask first, and Wukong heard that it was a way. Now, one can only pray that this child is really the man of town.

In the Tang Dynasty, there was a curfew at night. But that was for some cities, such as the new grass market like the Cangfang Array, which didn't even have a city wall, and was counting on curfews. And the so-called curfew, in fact, is only for Lifang.

Even in a big city like Chang'an, for example, if you go into the neighborhood and don't wander around the streets, there's no problem. So now, although most of the people in Cangfang Town sleep at night, there are still some places that are very lively, such as wine shops.

Li Chen and Wukong approached the wine shop, and from a distance, they could see the lights coming out of the curtain, gently illuminating the ground. The smell of wine and excitement in the air cannot be stopped.

Seeing the wine shop, Li Chen wanted to go over immediately and make a few glasses. In the past few days, he has been worried and frightened, and he has to be designed to run away, and he is really angry in his heart.

Then, just as he decided to run away, this incident happened near the ferry, which made him feel a little better. Seeing that he was pretending to be a ghost and scared a group of vicious fire thieves to run around with their heads in their hands, he was a little proud.

And then there's the bag of gold, though it's not decided whether to return it to anyone else. Not to mention engulfing, even if you return it to others, you can always get some rewards for your own merits. As long as there are dozens of runs, he can be used as capital to start a family, and one day he will come back to find out the person who calculates him today and give him a good look.

What do you do when you're in a good mood? Of course, I tried it. Li Chen walked briskly, thinking about entering the wine shop and having a few glasses first. As for asking the question of the child's identity, he was not worried. Even if no one knows him, as long as he spreads the news, someone will always give him something.

"How did you go for so long? What the hell is going to do it?' , it's still that house, that arhat bed, and the owner is losing his temper, "If you don't use it, you can't do anything." The maid was standing in the distance with a cower.

"There's no tea, pour me a bowl quickly, just eat dry rice and be a cheap maid, and I don't have any eyes at all." , the man didn't want to think about it, just like him, he often hit people, and no one dared to approach him when he was angry.

"Master, please use tea." The maid on the side quickly poured hot tea for the night, and the man picked it up and took a sip, "Poof." Immediately a mouthful of hot tea squirted out, and then the tea bowl reached the maid's head, "You are going to burn me to death." , the man was furious.

Then, he began to beat the maid. The maid gritted her teeth, didn't dare to say anything, and was very aggrieved in her heart, obviously it was the same temperature as the bottle that was often drunk, where was it hot.

"Lang Jun, stop fighting. Stop it. Calm your anger.'" When the maid was beaten, the hostess came out to slow down, and slightly blocked the maid with her body, "Go to the door and wait, Gong Chen will come back and report quickly." The woman sent the maid out so that the man would not continue to beat him.

"Fuck off." , pushed his wife away, sat down in a huff, and the woman also sat on the other side, and said worriedly. "Lang Jun, let's report to the official."

The old servant of their family, who was respectfully called Chen Gongde by the woman, went to change people with the ransom according to the instructions of those fire thieves, but he didn't bring the child back so late, not only his husband was anxious, but she also had a bad premonition.

"Stupid words, can you report to the official?" The man was visibly embarrassed, "Besides, are those government offices useful? Knowing that it was a firelight thief, they probably didn't even dare to touch it. If you have nothing to do, they will come to you and say that you are colluding with the fire thief.'"

"But, Bao'er..." At this, the woman began to sobble again. "Don't cry, Bao'er is the only seedling in our family, don't I want to save him back?"

"Buddha, please bless our family treasure for a safe return." "Buddha, what is the use of the Buddha. Buddha is useful, I will be here.'" , Hearing the woman whispering to the Buddha for protection, the man was even more angry.

"Buddha, Buddha, Buddha is the clay statue in the temple, I was wrong, it was still cast in bronze, it is strange to ask for that one to be useful." The man seemed to be very difficult to get along with the Buddha and slandered the Buddha, "If you make someone unhappy today, you will smash him tomorrow."

"Master, madam...", just as the man scolded and insulted the Buddha, he had just been beaten, and then the hostess dared to go to the door to look at the maid, and ran back happily, "The young master is back."

"Master, mother", a child had to run in quickly. The woman moved quickly and picked up the child in one fell swoop, "Bao'er, my child, you miss your mother." , lost and regained, the woman hugged her child tightly.

"Where's Lao Chen?" Seeing his child come back, the man's tense face finally loosened, and he leaned up and touched his child's head, and thought, the child is back, what about the old servant who went to redeem people?

"This..., the slave only saw the young master, not Chen Gong. The young master was sent back by two people.'" "Two people?" The man's face tightened, how could the firelight thief send people back.

"Lang Jun, invite someone in first, and then ask." , the woman's mood stabilized, and she proposed to invite people in first, no matter what, it was a blessing or a curse, and it was a disaster that could not be avoided.

The maid immediately turned around and went out, and invited the two people who had to be sent back to the young master in, in fact, she had already invited people in, but the two of them were now waiting in the side hall. Of course, ordinary people don't have such rules, but if you get a little bigger, there will be a place for the guests to wait, so that the servants have time to invite the master.

Anyway, how did the two of them find this place? It's not the wine shop that asks, it's the children who know the way. When Li Chen took Wukong with a brisk step, preparing to balance public and private, while drinking a glass of wine, he asked whose child was the time.

The child seemed to be out of the vicinity, slapping Wukong's bald head and pointing to a square statue, "Home, where is home?" Along the way, the two didn't think about asking the child, did he recognize the way home. But neither of them has a talent for coaxing children.

Either they didn't understand what he was talking about, or they made him cry. made Li Chen and the others sweat profusely, and they didn't dare to ask anymore. This experience made Li Chen feel that these children were all from Mars.

Finally, the child recognized the way home, and the two followed the child's strokes, groped, and finally returned here.

"Finally, I sent the person back." Li Chen pondered, looking at this family, it seems that they are doing well, and they don't know how much bounty they can get.

"Two distinguished guests, my master and lady are invited." , The maid came, invited the two of them to go in and meet with the master, Li Chen was thinking in his heart, how to tell the story, lest people think that he didn't make any effort, just to make soy sauce.

On the one hand, I thought that the old man who died didn't know what his relationship was with others, what tone he should use, and reported to others that his father-in-law was not saved.

It's just that everything is stuck in the stomach after entering the main hall.