Chapter 20: Stealing the Box
The little beggar rolled his eyes, muttered and ate the cold steamed bun, and then he got into the straw and yawned comfortably.
"Master is going to sleep, if you want to do it, go back quickly!"
Hou Debao also fell into the straw pile with a comfortable face,
"Boy, you don't understand this, let the master teach you to be a good man, every night around three watches is the time when people sleep the most soundly, this time is the best time to get out, like you want to sneak in before the lights are out, do you think your own family died fast enough!"
"Whew!"
The little beggar rolled his eyes at the roof among the straws,
"You know...... You know best! How to do the corpse of the road upside down! ”
Hou Debao was so angry with him that he rolled his eyes,
"If you don't poke Lao Tzu's heart for a day, you will be uncomfortable for a day, right?"
Thinking that he Hou Debao has been crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for decades, he planted a big heel like this, which led to a great shame in his life, but let this kid turn out twice in three days and say, I am afraid that the blood vomited in my heart has been several liters!
The two of them quarreled a few words, and then nested in the straw pile to sleep, although the firewood room is cold and dark, but it can finally shelter from the wind and rain compared to the city gate hole is a lot better, Hou Deding is only the internal strength of the body, but the little beggar is the body has long been used to it, and they all sleep very sweetly in this firewood room.
When the drum outside played the second watch, Hou Debao woke up with his eyes open, turned his head to look at the little beggar, and slept with saliva at the corner of his mouth.
Hey! Boy, sleep a little longer and wake up again when I come back from stealing!
Hou Debao was afraid that this kid would make trouble for himself, so he stretched out his hand and connected three acupuncture points on the little beggar.
"You ......"
The little beggar was asleep, and he woke up when he heard a louder sound, and he was trying to pretend to be asleep and then take advantage of Hou Debao's action to break his good deeds!
But he didn't expect Hou Debao's skills to be superior and actually click on his acupuncture points, Hou Debao saw his angry eyes, and couldn't help but smile proudly,
"Stinky boy, don't you know the little calculations in your stomach when you look at grandpa, you still stay here obediently, and come back to deal with you after I get my things!"
So saying, he got up and took a large handful of straw to cover the little beggar, opened the door of the firewood room, and slipped out like a wisp of smoke.
Leaving the little beggar to stare angrily at the black roof above,
What kind of tricks did this old ghost get, why can't I even move at all!
Hou Debao walked out of the firewood room, stood in the shadow of the porch and looked, and there were four rooms upstairs that were the rooms of the group of people.
He had quietly inquired when he went out to steal steamed buns, and it was windy and snowy near the end of the year, and the town inn occupied a small area, all of which were tamped with earthen walls, and two connected courtyards were built, and each room was equipped with a kang, and in such a cold season, he burned the kang in the house to keep the guests warm.
Due to the cold business, there are only two groups of people living in this inn now, one courtyard is a merchant with two servants, and the other courtyard is Fang Kui and others.
Hou Debao hid his figure in the shadows under the corridor, pricked up his ears to listen carefully to the movement of the courtyard, the two leaders of the four rooms lived in one, and the rest were next to each other in four rooms, a total of fourteen people, all of them were highly skilled.
He pricked up his ears and listened carefully, there were a total of twelve long and steady breaths in the courtyard, but there were two people walking around in the courtyard to keep vigil, Hou Debao thought about it and reached out and pressed his head on the pillar, and his body was like a fallen leaf blown by the wind and floated up to the room.
On tiptoe, the man turned over the ridge of the roof to the other side, and when he went out in front of him, he had already inquired into the house where Fang Kui and the others were, and after a few steps, the man had already crouched on the roof, and reached out to pull the tile.
"Click......
At this time, it was windy and snowy outside, and although there were some sounds above, they were already masked.
Hou Debao looked down through the hole in the roof, although ordinary people could only see the black rumbling in the house, even the kang couldn't see anywhere.
Hou Debao is different, his eyes have been trained, no matter night or day, he can distinguish clearly, this probe looked down, but saw that there were two people sleeping on the kang, and the one on the left was the person who gave them the cake.
Hou Debao was born in Qianmiaomen, thinking that the ancestor Wantong Zhenren was a genius in the Taoist Gate, Qimen Dunjia, organ news, medicine and poison creation, and wonderful hands to pick up stars, in his later years, he accepted a few apprentices, and gave a few people the ability to a body, and the big apprentice created this Qianmiaomen, specifically to be a gentleman on the beam, a sneaky strongman.
However, Qianmiaomen is not comparable to the thieves who steal petty on the rivers and lakes, this door also has three thieves and three don't steal, steal the rich, steal the expensive and steal the strong, don't steal the poor, don't steal the urgency, don't steal life-saving money.
However, there are thousands of kinds of people in this world, there are those who have swollen faces and become fat, there are those who love to wear brocade clothes and walk at night, there are those who collect good things and dig holes and bury them, and there are also those who have big treasures and put them in the hall to invite people to take a look......
Q: How do you know if the other side is really rich or falsely expensive, whether you are pretending to be poor or really poor?
Therefore, the first thing to practice is eyesight, to see how people are dressed, how they look, how they speak, how they sit, stand, walk, how they eat, etc., and only then can we see the origin of people.
Hou Debao's eyes have been floating in the rivers and lakes for decades, whether it is a person or a ghost, and if he walks in front of him, he will be stripped of the skin below!
Hou Debao stayed with Fang Kui and others for a night, and others couldn't see it, how could he not see it?
Fang Kui has something hidden in his body, although he has an ordinary demeanor, but his right hand caresses the hilt of the knife on his waist intentionally or unintentionally, and his left hand occasionally caresses his chest, and it is better for others to talk and look at his face, if it sweeps his belly, he immediately tightens the handle of the knife, such a demeanor must be very tight on the things on his body.
Hou Debao thought to himself,
That stinky boy named these two leaders, the one on the left is the best, and there are important things hidden on his body, I might as well touch him, show that kid, so that he can be convinced!
Thinking of this, I already had a plan in my heart, but this compartment was re-covered with tiles, and turned over from the roof down, down to the back of the stove room, at this time the stove room was empty, the fire in the furnace was already pressed, Hou Debao smiled in the past, opened the door of the stove, and played with it, and the dark fire borrowed the wind power to immediately brighten.
Hou Debao took the firewood on the side and added a handful of it to it, and then smoked the partition of the flue, the room where Fang Kui and the two lived was closer to the stove, and they were the first to heat up when the fire burned.
When the fire burned more and more, the kang in the room gradually became hotter, and because of the cold in the middle of the night, the four windows were closed and the heat did not dissipate, and the inside became hotter even faster.
Hou Debao saw that the heat was almost over, so he turned over into the house again, lifted the tiles and looked, and the people in the house really felt hot.
The first two turned over a few times, and the quilt on their bodies was lifted, and at this time people were not hot enough to wake up, but according to the vigilance of the martial arts practitioners, the kung fu people who had not been able to make a pillar of incense would wake up.
What Hou Debao wanted was the time for this pillar of incense, and when the two of them on the kang kicked the quilt on their bodies apart, they could see a protruding piece of Fang Kui's thin shirt when they exposed their chests.
Hou Debao smiled and took out a ball of things from his arms, but it was a silver shining, not hard or soft ball of silk thread, this thing was a good thing passed down from the master.
In the early years, the ancestor deliberately traveled all over the Western Regions and the Southern Barbarians, and found the smooth silk made of fire silk and Tianshan iron together, which can be hard or soft, straight or bent, and is the treasure at the bottom of Hou Debao's box.
Hou Debao put down the smooth silk from the hole in the roof, to Fang Kui's chest, and with a slight flick of his wrist, the wishful silk swept to Fang Kui's chest, and with a slight touch, the already crooked box slipped out of the collar of his clothes and fell silently beside Fang Kui.
Hou Debao collected the silk, and the person had turned over with a harrier, turned down from the eaves, and gently landed under the window lattice, opened the window, revealing a crack, and immediately a cold wind poured into the house, sweeping away the heat inside.
Hou Debao had already entered the house by the cold wind, and he didn't need to approach the kang, he just shook the smooth silk and wrapped around the box, and gently pulled it in front of him, and the box flew up and fell into his hand.
Hou Debao didn't look at the things in his hand, the person had turned over and walked out of the house again, and then returned to the stove room to extinguish the fire, and closed the door before Shi Shiran returned to the back firewood room.
When he came back, the little beggar was already tired and fell asleep, Hou Debao came back and woke him up and said,
"Stinky boy, stinky boy, wake up...... Wake up......"
The little beggar was woken up by him and immediately glared angrily, Hou Debao smiled and took out the small box and turned it up and down.
"Look! Stinky boy, how is grandpa's means? ”
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to untie his acupoint, and the little beggar turned over and sat up.
"Dead old ghost, do you want to suffocate the master!"
After that, he didn't care about scolding him, so he covered his head and hurried out, Hou Debao laughed and listened to it for a while before he finished his work.
The little beggar came in with a gloomy face, touched the box, turned it up and down, left and right, and looked at it for a long time.
"What the hell is this, the box is not like a box, and the wood is not like wood!"
Hou Debao swept over,
"Stinky boy didn't see it! This is also me, if I meet someone else, I really can't tell you! ”
This heavenly clothes box is made by the skillful grandson, who is also a person with a hundred hands. The Hundred Hands Gate and the Thousand Miao Gate are from the same source, both of which were created by the disciples of Wantong Zhenren.
Baishoumen is good at making news, building houses and tombs for people, and making various facilities to protect the owner's valuables. Qianmiaomen is a thief with a good hand, and he loves to take sheep by hand, stealing stars and picking the moon, claiming to steal everything, breaking the news of people's organs, and finding the hidden treasure in the secret room is a common thing.
Everyone is mixed in the rivers and lakes, one protects and one steals, there are those who do not fight, and the two sects are not said to be the same for several generations, but they are also fighting openly and secretly.
I think that this Tianyi box was made by the skillful Sun in order to compete with the people in Qianmiaomen, and the production of this box is really ingenious Six boxes, three of which belonged to the palace and three were in the rivers and lakes, which made the people of Qianmiaomen have a headache for a while.
Master Hou Debao is also the amazing person, bothered to get one of the boxes, and it took five years to crack the box, but unfortunately the skillful hand Sun died due to his advanced age, and this gamble still does not know which one loses and which one wins!
Hou Debao has been with the master since he was a child, and naturally he also knows the way to crack it, but he didn't expect to see this thing again many years later, and immediately told the little beggar the origin of the box, and the little beggar was aroused by listening to it, and threw the box into his arms.
"Dead old ghost, you should open it and take a look!"