The old man in black was woken up by severe pain.

He struggled to open his eyes, and the joints of his hands and feet and the back of his head ached, and he felt sick to his stomach and vomited. He concentrated and saw the same man in black squatling in front of him, also masked in a black scarf, staring at him coldly.

This man in black is, of course, Leng Yi.

He pretended to be asleep on the table, and while the old thief was crouching down to be loaded with gold, he knocked him unconscious, and then carried him out of the hole in the roof and placed him on the roof. When he returned to the house, he opened the door and arranged everything, pretended to go out on errands, made a detour to the place where the old thief had gone to the house, went up to the house with the rope left by the old thief, returned to the roof, dislocated his hands and feet, and woke him up in pain.

The old thief wanted to move, but only then did he find that he couldn't move his hands and feet, and it seemed that they were all twisted and dislocated, and his heart hurt. It was pitch black all around, the wind was biting, and it was cold underneath, as if lying on the ice and snow, with the head tilted back, and the head was empty, as if there was nothing to do. When I looked around, I realized that I was on the beam of the roof, and half of my head was hanging out of the beam at one end of the beam, hanging in the air!

The old thief was horrified and stammered: "A good man spares his life!" ”

Leng Yi's voice was cold and a little hoarse, he deliberately held his throat to speak, so that the other party could not hear the real voice: "As long as I push you gently, you will fall headfirst and hit your head on the bluestone slab below, but there is snow cover, guess you, will you die?" ”

"Heroes spare their lives! I ......, I was wrong! Beg the good man to spare his life! I have a pawn ticket in my arms, a pair of wine bottles that I stole from me, very valuable, and this thing was stolen thousands of miles away in the north, no one in Bazhou will know, give it to a hero, in exchange for my old life, how about it? ”

Leng Yi ignored it and said, "I have a few questions for you, and you must answer them truthfully!" If there's a lie, I'll push you off the roof!" ”

"Yes, yes! I'll be honest! ”

"What do you do?"

"I'm ......, I'm a ...... Thieves steal for a ......living, but I steal from the rich, never from the poor! It's true! I could swear! ”

"Who told you there was gold here?"

"No ......, no one!"

Leng Yi pushed him forward, half of his body left the roof, hanging in the air, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly said: "Spare your life!" Heroes spare their lives! I say, I'll be honest! -- I was told by a catcher from the prefect's yamen. ”

"Who?"

"Tang Yao! He is the deputy head catcher of the Yamen of the Bazhou Governor's Office. He often asked me for clues to solve the case, so he turned a blind eye to my theft, but it was only outside Bazhou. ”

"Why did you tell you there's gold here?"

"I, I don't know. It was in the afternoon that he came to me and told me that there was a deal here, and that there was a small box of gold, and that I should steal it. I'm coming, and I wouldn't have dared to come if I had known that a good man was here and would have killed me. Hehe, the hero's martial arts are really powerful, it's not that I'm talking big, I've been doing this for 30 years, and no one has ever come close behind me and I haven't noticed it. You're the first! Your martial arts are so high, it is rare in your life! The old man never missed to let the people in the house hear the movement, and the hero seems to have known that I was on the roof and hid in advance, I am curious, how did you know that I was on the roof of the house? Can you tell us about it? ”

"You're going to be on guard in the future?"

"No, no! As long as the heroes let me go this time, I will wash my hands in the golden basin and never do this business again, I swear to God! I asked, just curious. Because I feel that I have been very careful, and with the cover of the sound of the wind and snow outside, the people inside should not be able to hear it! ”

Leng Yi sneered: "It doesn't hurt to tell you, - that's right, your light skills are very high, I didn't hear your voice, if the roof is not covered with snow." However, no matter how high your light skills are, there is no way to step on the snow without a trace! Therefore, the characteristic squeak of your feet stepping into the snow is not the sound of the wind and snow, listen carefully, you can still hear it, it is this sound that makes me understand that there are people on the roof! ”

The old thief sighed and said, "Admire! Unexpectedly, it was the snow that betrayed me! ”

"Okay, without further ado, let me ask you, where is Tang Yao waiting for you?"

"Under the big elm tree behind the City God Temple."

Leng Yi took out a small bamboo pipe from the old thief just now from his arms, and said, "This thing is a misty incense?" ”

The old thief nodded awkwardly.

"How to use it? How to match? ”

"Just pull out the plug and let the incense out."

"How long can a fascination last?"

"Two hours!" In order to survive, the old thief took the initiative to say: "This recipe is not complicated, as long as the hero goes around the surname of the old man, the old man is willing to tell the hero this formula." ”

"You're still bargaining with me? Say it! ”

"Yes, yes!" The old thief told him the recipe, and Leng Yi remembered it carefully, which was a good thing.

Leng Yi put the incense into his arms, lifted the old thief up with his left hand, grabbed the flying claw rope when the thief went to the house with his right hand, and easily hung upside down from a rope between the two adjacent roofs. The old man in black immediately recognized that he had made this rope, and he was like this, taking advantage of the darkness of the snowy night, from one roof to another, and finally to the roof of the upper room of the inn, opening the roof and entering the house of Nazhi County, but he did not expect to be subdued by this master who was ambushed in the house.

Judging from the fact that he was carrying a person upside down and climbing over the rope, the figure in black was very flexible, and the force in his hands was very strong. I couldn't help but admire the old thief secretly.

After leaving the roof of the inn, Leng Yi got off the roof from the rope that the old thief had laid when he came, and connected the dislocated joints of his old thief's feet, leaving one hand unconnected. He said to the old thief, "Take me to the soup catcher!" Don't play tricks, or you'll be killed! ”

The old thief could only agree with his head, and walked slowly in front with two dislocated hands, Leng Yi followed from afar. Walking through the streets and alleys, I finally came to the City God Temple.

There are a lot of people here during the day, but it is quiet at night, especially at night. Not even a ghost.

The old thief couldn't hear the footsteps behind him, he turned back slowly, and the man in black who followed was really gone, he stood in place, hesitated for a moment, he knew that the man in black must be watching him nearby, and said that he would take him to see Tang Zhutou, he knew that this person was capable, not to mention that his hands were useless, there was no way to use the flying rope to escape high and high, even if he could, he was afraid that he couldn't escape from the palm of the man's hand, he could feel the murderous aura contained in the man's cold gaze, he said that he wanted to kill himself, he could definitely do it!

Therefore, the old thief could only go forward honestly, enter through the side door of the City God Temple, and come to the backyard.

In the distance, I saw the old elm tree, in the empty backyard, like a dying old man, trembling in the wind.

The old thief lowered his head and walked slowly, until he reached the old elm tree.

He stood under the great elm tree, looked around, and saw no one. It seems that the soup catcher has not yet come. When he looked back, the mysterious man in black was nowhere to be found, and he didn't know where he had gone. The wind and snow were heavy, and he felt severe pain in the dislocated joints of both arms. He wanted to run, however, he did not have the courage and could only wait quietly in the wind and snow.

Finally, he heard footsteps, creaking through the thick snow, and he immediately thought of what the man in black had said, which made him exposed, and sure enough, it sounded so special.

The person who came came to him until he stopped, it was Tang Zhutou. He carried a waist knife in his waist.

Tang Zhutou was obviously a little surprised, and smiled: "I thought you would wait until late at night to make a move, but I didn't expect it to be so fast." Did you? What about things? ”

The old thief said in a low voice: "Tang Zhutou, if you want to live, don't make any unusual moves, listen to me!" - I missed, and was restrained by a black-clad master who was ambushed in the house, dislocated both of my hands, and he asked me to bring him to you! ”