The old man, who was called the third master, nodded slightly, then his eyes fell on me, looked up and down, and said, "You are Bai Xiaoyi, the new apprentice of the eighth master?" ”

I didn't know how to answer, I didn't know whether the old man in front of me was friend or foe, so I looked up at Sister Yu.

The anger on Sister Yu's face eased a little at this time, and she said to the old man, "Exactly." ”

"Well, since ancient times, heroes have been young people, and since they have been favored by the eighth master, they must be extraordinary, come and change seats."

With the old man's command, a huge carved dragon round wooden table was lifted up, and five circle chairs were moved to line up around, and then beckoned everyone: "The weather is very good today, so don't be stuffy in the house, let's use the sky as a cover, the earth as a blanket, and then a cup of my seasonal tea from the Green Willow Villa, isn't it beautiful?" ”

The round table was set up in the bamboo garden, and the five people were seated, I thought that there was one less chair, but Sister Yu insisted on standing behind me, and I realized that the five people on the table were the leaders of the four major schools of thieves at the moment.

Although the thief door is famous and has many branches, there are only four main schools, namely: tomb, zang, shun, and wind.

"Tomb" refers to the tomb of the king, this line of work is to rob the tomb, in the door of the door is called "shovel line", the tomb robbery is called "inverted bucket" or "kiln". Those who do this business make holes and open coffins, and they make money from the dead;

"Zang" refers to treasures, all of which are ownerless treasures. Those who do this are called "basket shops" in the thief's door. In the south, it is called "Baobao", and in the north, it is called "Xiangling". This group called itself "the Soil Basket" or "Shepherd", and acted most secretively.

"Shun" is to steal, to transfer the house, to steal money and things, in the theft of the door is called "kidnapping", self-proclaimed "Lao Rong" or "small locks", to put it bluntly, is a thief. There are many ways to steal. There are also various ways to enter the house, the most common is "open peach orchard" (digging holes) or "turning high ridges" (upper rooms). Those who open peach orchards are generally called "earth rats", while those who climb high ridges are called "snitches".

"Wind" refers to stealing news or mouth, and there are some special tokens, which are called "forks" in the theft. This kind of person calls himself "Lao Zhou", often pretending to be a charlatan or a fortune teller, hired by people, listening to some top-secret news or stealing some confidential information, similar to a spy.

What puzzles me is that in terms of the number of people at the moment, it seems that there is one more person, but looking at everyone's tacit appearance, I vaguely feel that this helm conference will not be dull.

After everyone sat down, the third master personally poured out bowls of turquoise tea from a pottery teapot on the table and said, "Please use tea." ”

I really didn't study anything like tea, and I didn't drink any water all the way and the tension just now, so I was already thirsty, so I drank it all with a tea bowl that was a little bigger than a fingernail, and then began to look at the people on the table with the help of drinking tea.

The old man who sat in the first place in the house before was replaced by the third master, and there was a middle-aged man sitting on the left hand, with a resolute complexion and dark skin, which looked like the complexion formed by the sun all year round, and the right hand holding the tea bowl was withered and thin, but it looked very powerful, forming a great contrast.

Next to him was a big fat man in his thirties, with a fat head and a big belly, wearing a pink T-shirt, and he was also looking at me while I was looking at him, looking at each other, and the fat man nodded at me slightly, which was a kind of greeting.

Just as I was about to return the salute, a cold gaze crossed the corner of my eye, and I couldn't help but shudder, and when I followed my gaze, it was the old man sitting on my left.

The old man's body was dry, the whole skin was covered with bones, there was no flesh at all, the cheekbones were wide, the eye sockets were sunken, and a pair of eyes the size of mung beans swayed back and forth.

I was very uncomfortable to be looked at by him, but I didn't know why he looked at me like this, and when I was in a trance, I heard the third master point his finger on the table and said: "I think you have already learned that this year's helm meeting will be different from previous years, and before deciding the ownership of the Qingyang Seal, some people are afraid that they have to deal with some trivial matters." ”

When the third master was speaking, his eyes fell between me and the skinny bones intentionally or unintentionally, and I realized that this old man was very likely to be the old suo head of the Northern Sect.

Sure enough, after the third master's voice landed, the backbone of the leather bag coughed and stood up from the chair, and said in a hoarse voice: "Listed as, since we were divided into the Yellow River fifty years ago, it has been divided into two, divided into the so-called north and south factions, although these years have been peaceful, but because of the two factions of the complacency, resulting in the lack of craftsmanship, the north and the south can not blend, resulting in many good hands are folded in the deep mountains and sand, for a long time, I am afraid that the next helm meeting, it will become a three-door meeting, There is no longer a figure of the basket line. ”

The old man said, and saw the big fat man nodded his head thoughtfully and said: "Yes, the things of the world, together for a long time, must be divided, divided for a long time, the basket line is already scarce, and the stunt is beyond the reach of my generation, if it is because of the loss of craftsmanship due to the origin of its own mustard, it is too pity." ”

"I don't think so."

The middle-aged man sitting next to the big fat man said: "What color of clouds and what color of rain, why bother twisting together, we shovel line is divided into two major gates in the north and south, touching the gold and turning the kiln in its own way, thousands of years like this, there is no such thing as destroying the sect, but it is to put two handfuls of people with ghosts together to act, in the end something really happened, I don't know if it was a human doing, or a ghost." ”

"Hmph, the villain is a relative, fifteen years ago, your northern and southern factions fought with countless corpses and injuries, destroyed several tombs, and even lost the dust beads, this is your own way?"

Before the big fat man's words fell, the middle-aged man slapped the case suddenly, glared at the beads of his eyes and said, "You are embarrassed to say, if it weren't for the wind blowing the two families at the beginning, and instigating them in the middle, how could they do it even if they met in the main tomb, and at once they broke me several Touching Jin Lieutenant and Faqiu Tianguan, since you mentioned it today, shouldn't we also calculate this account." ”

The fat man didn't care about Boss Long's accusations, leaned back in his chair and said with a smile: "Boss Long, we have always been giving money to the wind, and you don't care what you are from the south and the north. ”

Boss Long laughed angrily, pointed to the nose of the big fat man and said: "In this case, if one day my subordinates accidentally hear the wrong wind and mistakenly take your Jin Dafa's ancestral tomb as the mausoleum of the great eunuch of which dynasty, is it also a discipline that has no way?" ”

"Alright."

Seeing that the smell of gunpowder between the two of them was getting stronger and stronger, the third master raised his hand to stop the big fat man's words, "The matter of the year has already been decided, so there is no need to bring up the old things again, let's listen to what the old Suo Tou Er has to say first." ”

Lao Suo Tou'er nodded at everyone present, and then said: "Without him, according to the rules of the ancestors, re-elect a person with both ability and political integrity to lead the entire basket shop, there is no longer a boundary between the north and the south, and the two factions are combined into one. ”

Lao Suo Tou'er didn't leave the third master when he said it, and the third master nodded thoughtfully after hearing it, "What the old Suo Tou'er said is right, everyone is a thief, especially your Xiaozi line is the same ancestor master, what is the division between the north and the south is really not good, the long of ten thousand thieves, the treacherous thief is respected, if the two sides can really abandon the previous suspicion and merge the two into one, not only for you to benefit and harmless, but also to look at the whole thief, it is also a great joy." ”

"What the third master said is right, what kind of division is there, now there is talk of reunification everywhere, we have to keep up with the pace, and I also agree with the old Suo Tou'er's proposal."

The big fat man still had a grinning expression, and hugged his fist towards the old suo boss to show goodwill, and the dragon boss had not recovered from what had just happened, hugging his shoulders and twisting his face to the side, everything that happened here seemed to have nothing to do with him.

The third master seemed to be very satisfied with the effect of the scene, nodded and said: "Okay, since this is the case, we will finalize a time, use the four uniques of the green forest as a pole, and relaunch the basket line at the helm." ”

Seeing that the three of them directly ignored me and Sister Yu and settled this matter in a few words, I realized that today's so-called helm conference is a red-faced drama prepared for me and Sister Yu.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but sneer, the third master seemed to sense my thoughts, and his eyes turned to me and said, "What, Xiao Youyou seems to have something to say?" ”

I shook my head and was about to speak, but I felt my shoulders sinking, and Sister Yu stepped forward from behind me and looked at everyone lightly: "The eighth master left an order before leaving, and all matters related to the Xiaozi line must wait for him to come back before making a decision. ”

"It's ridiculous, I can't do things without him? Maybe you look too high at yourself, right? ”

Jin Dafa glanced at Sister Yu angrily, and then said to the old Suo Tou'er: "Suo Lao, if I'm not mistaken, what does it say that you have a door rule in the Basket Shop, go into the water for three days and enter the mountain for seven years, if there is no news during this period, you can conclude that this person is no longer alive, right?" ”

The old Suo Tou nodded and said, "That's right, our line of people lingers outside the suburbs and wastelands all the year round, often for a piece of heaven and earth treasure for decades without a trace, and I don't know whether it is dead or alive, among these people there are some elders or heads, the ancestors in order to avoid disputes in the door for this, have left a testament, where the treasure hunters, there is no news within three days of going into the water to hunt for treasure, then it will be judged to be dead, no news for seven years in the mountain, and the same death, if there is a leader or helm, its position must be re-elected." ”

"Isn't this over, as far as I know, Ji Zongbu went down the Yellow River, but there is no trace for more than half a month, according to the rules, this southern faction should have re-elected the leader, today you happen to be at the helm, to the "Tibet" word door to be a witness, re-elect a new helmsman, lead the north and south factions, and magnify me to steal the door, isn't it beautiful? ”

When I saw this Jin Dafa, I almost said directly to let the old Suo Tou replace the eighth master in charge of the treasure line, and I hated it so much that my teeth itched, and I looked up at Sister Yu and wanted to ask him if he really had this rule, but I saw that Sister Yu's face was sinking like water at this time, and her eyes were about to erupt into flames when she looked at Jin Dafa, and she said with a slight heaving chest: "Then according to Jin Ye's meaning, how should this matter be good?" ”

"Paddle the way."

The third master, who had been silent, opened his mouth at this moment, "Blood sees blood, flesh sees meat, frying people's heads in the oil pan, and drawing life and death lots." ”