It was another late night, Tang Shengxian was still meditating, and at this moment, thirty miles away from Qingyunguan, in a place called Monkey Town, located in the east of Longmen County, something unusual happened.

Monkey Town is a large town, overseeing large and small villages within a radius of ten miles, after all, it is so close to Longmen County, the population and housing density are several times higher than that of Gejia Village, a towering building in Monkey Town is more conspicuous in the middle of the night, this is a church, yes.

The earliest church in China was established in the Tang Dynasty, and in 635 AD Roman Catholicism was introduced to Chinese mainland, when it was called Jingjiao, and the imperial court established Jingjiao monasteries, that is, Catholic churches in Chang'an, Luoyang and other places.

In the Qing Dynasty, there were more churches in China, and the three major denominations of Christianity all established churches in China.

It seems that the church was only thirty or forty years old. But it is very tall, although it is only two floors, but each floor is at least four meters high, and there is a spire that rises two stories high, this is a combination of Chinese and Western churches, with a church stacked with locally fired green bricks, although it has a Gothic style, but the internal structure is closer to the Chinese style.

The iron cross fixed to the church is projected to the ground in the moonlight, and the motif projected onto the ground is a black diagonal cross. At this time, two black shadows quietly rolled into the backyard of the church, these are two thieves, two thieves born and raised in Monkey Town, one is called Li Si, and the other is called Lai Fu, who is usually lazy and lazy, but I didn't expect to hit the church with the idea today.

There are now only five nuns, and the first two Western missionaries to open the church have returned to their God's arms and taken in five nuns locally, so the church looks like a nunnery in the town.

After decades of preaching, we have accumulated a lot of congregation, so that on Sundays, there will be some people who come to church with pigtails in tow. It's funny, like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which was originally recruited everywhere under the banner of Christianity.

The old Taoist priest of Qingyunguan was a little indignant about this opponent, and this outsider robbed him of a lot of business. Needless to say, the eyes returned to the church, the two thieves had already pried open the window and came to the inside of the church, although they wanted to do something to the five nuns, they still wanted to find something valuable first, which was the main purpose of coming.

"Si'er, do you see the value of the cups on that table?" As he spoke, Lai Fu picked up the "cup", felt that there was still water in it, and poured it aside, the material of the big cup was like copper and gold, maybe it was copper gilt.

"Hurry up and pack up the good things." Placing the cup in the bag on their backs, the two continued to sweep downward, unaware that they had stolen the cup containing holy water.

Sweeping along the way, like some candlestick, I took off my hands and everything. A bag was full, but the two of them felt that it was still too little, and continued to grope inside,

The two of them felt the entrance to the cellar in the kitchen, "Lai Fu, how many good things do you say there will be in the cellar?" Li Si looked at the dark cellar mouth, and couldn't help but shiver on a hot day, he was a little unnatural, not scared, just more sensitive.

"Si'er, aren't you afraid, hey, hey, hey." Lai Fu, who was born with little roots, did not feel the weirdness of the atmosphere, but began to laugh at Li Si.

"your fart, I didn't blink my eyes when I dug up the ancestral grave of that old thing outside the Huang Yuan, I would be scared." Li Si began to give himself courage.

The two thieves walked down one after the other, and at this time they could light a fire, and each of them lit a candle and walked forward slowly, this cellar has not been used for a long time, the ground is full of ashes, and the two of them do not give up, what if there is something good sealed here? Isn't that just a post?

When I went to the innermost, I saw a bookshelf with books that were not full, only three rows. Lai Fu looked at it and wanted to look elsewhere to find the previous things, but Li Si slapped Lai Fu on the head, "Why are you beating me." ”

"If you don't believe it, it's not normal to have this thing in this cellar, maybe there's money in the book or something! Hurry up and rummage through it. ”

"Oh." Lai Fu looked reluctant, in the combination of these two people, the person who spoke was still Li Si, he wanted to listen to Li Si's words, although he was reluctant, he still walked to the bookshelf.

This is a Western-style bookshelf, completely different from the domestic bookshelf, Lai Fu, a person who has never turned a book in his life, began to flip books, and he began to flip a book and jump a book, so that his life was twice as easy. Just when he was lamenting his cleverness, he was smoking a book, but he couldn't smoke it halfway through.

Anyway, he started to fight with the book, and suddenly the wall next to him started to rattle, and the wall was turned over, revealing a dark room. A burst of filthy gas erupted, and Lai Fu, who opened his mouth in surprise, was caught off guard and took a sip, "cough cough cough ~~~ hi cough cough hi ~~~" The violent cough was very loud in the silent underground.

"Idiot, you're going to die! How-" Li Si, who rushed to the scene when he heard the sound, looked at the dark room and was stunned, and only swallowed a mouthful of saliva after half a sound. His eyes also lit up in the darkness, not the light reflected by the candlelight, but the light when he saw the silver beckoning to him.

"Let's go, maybe there is a great wealth waiting for us." He was the first to enter the dark room, and the faint candlelight illuminated a part of the dark room, and the middle was still clearly visible.

In the middle was a coffin, a coffin much smaller than all the coffins he had ever seen, and there was a person on it, no, it was a dried corpse, looking at the decoration, like a foreign devil who had come to preach. Throwing himself on it, it looks like he died on the coffin.

Li Si looked at the ground again, there were more than a dozen strings of garlic scattered on the ground, and now the bucket turned black, I don't know if it was rotten or what's wrong.

The focus is not on the ground, but on the coffin, Li Si and Lai Fu's eyes are straight, staring directly at this coffin, although it is not as big as a common coffin, and it is still a thin wooden board, but in terms of refinement, this is definitely the highest they have ever seen.

This coffin is inlaid with a circle of gold on the outside alone, which shows that it is not bad. They worked together to remove the bones from the coffin, and for people like them, who eat both the living and the dead, they would go to hell if they were disrespectful to the corpse, and as rude as they were to the corpse.

The two of them threw the dried corpse on the ground, and then leaned over and groped around on the corpse, hoping to find something, but there was no fart, no ring, and no gold teeth, this is a poor man. After giving the missionary this definition, the two put their minds on the coffin.

The coffin is not a lid type, but a clamshell type that can be lifted, and the two walked around the coffin with a candle, and found that the coffin was not nailed, and the two easily opened the coffin lid by holding the handle.

"Wow~~~~" There is also a dried corpse inside, but in addition to the different costumes, the chest of the dried corpse is also inserted into a cross, this is a silver cross, even if it is smelted, it will only be a dozen taels of silver, but the top of the cross is inlaid with two gems, which are two rubies.

Although the two had never seen a ruby before, they could still tell at a glance that the ruby was the most valuable item among them, although they couldn't figure out how this person could be killed by such a good treasure, but it didn't matter, the important thing was that they were about to get rich.

I tried to pull it out, "Huh? "Why can't you pull it out," Lai Fu, you pull it out, I'll press it. Saying that, Li Si got out of the way, came to the head position of the dry corpse, pulled the posture and pressed the shoulder of the dry corpse, this bone is really handy.

"Okay." Lai Fu spat twice in his hand, grabbed the handle of the cross with both hands, stepped on the stone platform with one foot and pulled it back sharply. I used all the strength to feed, but I still didn't move an inch, as if I was growing with a dry corpse.

Lai Fulai, who was stronger, still couldn't pull it out, but both of them were sweating. Li Si lost patience: "Let's go, if you don't leave, it will be dawn, let's carry the coffin back with this dry corpse, go back and get it slowly, I don't believe it can't be made." ”

"Okay, let's go."

The two of them closed the coffin, and then put the previous "harvest" on it and prepared to carry it away together.