Chapter 69: Grievances (1)
I subconsciously asked, who are you?
The man next door also asked, "Who are you?"
I said I was a Shaolin disciple, Zhishan.
The man asked, "You are young, how can you be a Zhizi generation?" Who are you the apprentice of the Huizi generation?
I said that I was the apprentice of Hui En and Abbot Hui Neng.
The man said, could it be that you are the one who represented Shaolin in the martial arts league main bidding tournament this year?
I said yes.
The man hurriedly asked, is the game over? Did the Buddha faction win, or did the Taoist faction win?
I paused and said that the Dao faction had won.
The man laughed and said, Huineng, it seems that your time is running out. Then the man asked, "What month is it?"
I have been staying at the foot of Wudang Mountain for these days, and I don't remember what month it is, I pinched my fingers and calculated, and said, I don't know if it's August or September.
Xiao Yunmei replied, the second day of September.
The man sighed, but it was a pity. Huineng has been given death, and the old man will never see him again.
I was shocked, and then I remembered that the old abbot was given death after losing in the last martial arts league master bidding competition, and hurriedly stood up.
Xiao Yunmei asked, Master, what's wrong?
I said I had to go back to Shaolin quickly, and I haven't been back to Shaolin since the game.
That man, since he has been given death, what is the use of you rushing back now? Besides, he was given to die because you lost the game, who of the Shaolin disciples does not resent you? You are only humiliating yourself when you go back.
I was stunned for a moment, remembering that the reason why I lost the game was not because of my lack of strength, but because I messed up the situation due to the Sakura Spirit incident and directly abandoned the game. How can Shaolin not resent me? Thinking of this, he sat down weakly.
I asked, who the hell are you?
That man, I am your master's enemy, and I can't wait to eat your master Huineng alive. Your master is a scoundrel!
Why, I asked?
That's man, why are you and I here? It's been ten years, I've been imprisoned here for ten years, and it was your master who killed me. You are young, you may not have heard of my name, my name is the Night Detective King.
When Xiao Yunmei heard this, she jumped up with excitement and said You are really the King of Night Detectives? The King of Night Detectives has been famous for a long time, and he is almost sixty years old.
And the man said, Do you listen to my voice like a young man, and besides, there is no honour in taking on that name.
Xiaoyunmei said, very glorious, very glorious, you are a model in our industry.
I frowned and asked Xiaoyunmei, what kind of industry model?
Xiao Yunmei said excitedly, legend has it that more than 30 years ago, there was a mysterious person in the rivers and lakes, and his nickname was the Night Detective King. He travels hundreds of miles a day......
I interrupted Xiao Yunmei and asked, what's so unusual about traveling hundreds of miles a day?
Xiao Yunmei said seriously, the key is the next sentence, travel 100 miles in a day, and explore thousands of households at night. Wherever the king of the night detectives went, there was no house that was not robbed, as small as a stitch and a thread, as large as a bowl and a plate...... Stealing all over the country, never missed. But I don't know why, after a few years of theft, it suddenly disappeared.
I said I was just like you, but a thief.
Xiao Yunmei argued, the Night Detective King is different from us, he takes anything, but he never takes money. After many years, there are still many people competing to imitate, stealing without taking money, only stealing items, for a while we are widely praised in the stealing industry, and the night detective king is called a model in the industry by our insiders. It was the appearance of the Night Detective King that changed the bad atmosphere of stealing only real money and silver in the thief world.
I "hummed" and said, everything is a thief, and what is good or bad.
Xiao Yunmei said Master, you don't understand this. For example, if a certain family has three coins of silver, and it happens to need this money to save their lives, and it is suddenly stolen, isn't it just waiting for death? If it is only a bowl or plate stolen at this time, what does it matter?
When I think about it, there is some truth to it.
More than 30 years ago, when the country was in turmoil, there were rebels, Ming soldiers, and Yuan troops everywhere, and they were fighting all day long. The reason why they can steal thousands of households at night is that most people know that they don't need to rummage through the boxes and cabinets to find silver as soon as they enter the door, they are really too poor, but the rule of our thieves is that they can't go out empty-handed, so they take some good ones and go out to change the next one.
I looked at Xiao Yunmei's expression of disbelief and couldn't help laughing.
Xiao Yunmei asked, ...... Then you stole for a few years, why did you disappear?
Exploring the royal road at night, and later Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor, everyone's life began to become rich, I think this is a good opportunity to show off your skills, and you don't have to steal some rags to get by. I didn't never miss a shot, as the little girl said, but the last time I was caught, the whole village hung me from a tree and beat me until I vomited blood three times. Then I was sent to Yamen by the villagers, Zhu Yuanzhang focused on governing the country, the heaviest criminal law, I was sentenced to thirteen major punishments in Yamen, and only half of my life was left when I was released. It took three or five years to recover. After I got better, I thought that I couldn't do this business anymore, and if I missed again, I would still be alive if I entered the government? I flipped through the "Da Ming Law" and found that the lightest punishment related to money was only fraud, so I started my career of cheating. Later, he joined a gang by chance, and slowly became the boss of the gang, and the gang's nickname was "Hide God".
When Xiao Yunmei heard this, she said in a trembling voice, "What? You are the boss of the famous God of Concealment?"
I said what's wrong with it?
Xiaoyunmei said, according to legend, more than 20 years ago, there was a deception group in the rivers and lakes, nicknamed the god of concealment. Thousands of people have been deceived by his gang, and their boss is even more omnipotent, and it is said that many people have seen him, some say that he is a child, some say he is an old man, and some say that he is a woman...... In short, everyone said that he could change his appearance, as long as he was targeted, there was no one who was not deceived by him, that is, when the gods came down to meet him, he could also hide from the heavens and seas and deceive the gods of their money. I also listened to his legend, so I studied the disguise technique, and it is still a small success, it is easy to change the face, but it is much more difficult to change the body shape.
Night detective Wang said, little girl, you are really amazing, spanning the two industries of theft and fraud.
Xiao Yunmei said modestly, how can you be a powerful old man, and your name is loud.
Night Detective King's Road, you are still powerful, and you can disguise the technique.
Xiao Yunmei said curiously, don't you know how to change your face, so how did you do it and become a child or a woman?
Night Detective King, you listen to me slowly. One day I dressed up as a fortune teller in Lotus Town, and wanted to cheat some money by looking at my face. I hadn't walked a few steps in town when I happened to meet a man. When I saw his sad face, I thought that this man must have something troublesome, so I grabbed him and said that I could tell his fortune for him, so that he could turn evil into good fortune. After the man heard this, he asked me to show him his face, I casually Hu Zou, said that his seal hall was black, and the misfortune fell, the man asked me how to calculate it, I said that the heavenly machine should not be revealed, the man sneered after hearing it, and said, you are a fake fortune teller, come out to cheat, and you must be familiar with the I Ching, and when you deceive, you can cite the content of the I Ching, so that the deceived person can be convinced. How easy are you to be a liar?
When I heard this, I panicked and said that I don't care about your life, don't spew blood, and call me a liar.
Don't panic, I won't arrest you and report to the police. I just ask you, I have a fraud gang here, I wonder if you would like to join it? I saw that you have some foundation and a good psychological quality, so I have a heart of love.
I asked, what is the income after joining? Is there a risk?
That human, you just have to rest assured about this. I led a group to cheat, and the cooperation was seamless, and I have never been caught. As for income, I won't tell you, I earn ten taels a day for more time, and three or four taels for less time. I don't know if you dare?
As soon as I heard that I had so much money, I said, "How can I dare?" As long as you can bring me so much money, I will join your gang now.
Xiaoyunmei said, what happened later?
The night detective king said, later I did better and better in the gang, not only clever, but also loyal to the boss, five years later I was promoted to the second in command of the gang. The gang is also growing day by day, with more than 200 members. Unexpectedly, the boss had a short life, and it didn't take long for me to die, and I became the boss of the gang. I have been the boss for two years, I have a lot of money, and people are also proud, thinking that no matter how much money we cheat, we will be unknown after all, so I married the team with a nickname, called Hide God, often after cheating, ask the team members to leave a note, claiming to hide from God. The number of thieves increased, and gradually his reputation grew, and he recruited more and more people, so he was jealous of many peers. At that time, our fraud industry will hold a selection every year, according to the amount of money defrauded, to judge the best fraud award of the year, from the first session, every year we hide from the gods to win the award, in order to prevent the same industry from remembering the face of malicious reports, every year with different members of the group to pretend to be the boss to attend the event. Everyone saw that the appearance of the boss who hid from the gods was different every time, so they asked the members if we had changed the boss, and the members of the group shook their heads and vetoed, insisting that the boss of our gang had the ability to change his appearance, and this time he came out, but he changed his appearance again.
Xiao Yunmei said, it turns out that you can become all kinds of people, but you are afraid of being caught, and every time you show up, you are impersonated by others.
Night Exploration King's Road, of course.
Xiao Yunmei said discouragedly, I still have a disguise for you, and I have been groping for all these years.
The king of the night detective said, little girl, you have to remember that those disguises are all sideways, and the deception relies on trust, and it is difficult to believe you without trust. Only with more people can deceive the sky and the world, and even peers can play in the palm of their hands.
I asked, how did you end up with my master and be imprisoned here for ten years?
One day ten years ago, our gang was drinking tea in a teahouse, waiting for an opportunity to cheat, and when we were worried about not having a partner, two monks suddenly came to the teahouse. After the two monks sat down, they just sighed, and one of them was Huineng.
I listened to Hui Nengdao, after all these years, I still haven't seen a child with high talent, how is this good?
The monk said, don't worry. The martial arts league main bidding tournament is still ten years away. As long as we find it in two or three years, we still have a chance to win.
Huineng said, if you can't find it, you won't lose the game again.
That monk Dao, junior brother, if this is the case, it is also fate. It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen, and we do our best.
As soon as I heard it, I immediately understood the meaning, it turned out that Shaolin wanted to find a child with high martial arts talent, and taught him martial arts to represent Shaolin in the martial arts league master bidding competition, but he never found it.
I winked at the second child, and moved my mouth to the palace of Dingjiaying Town, the second child was newly brought up by me, and his brain was very smart, he understood what I meant, and he no longer listened to what Hui En said, just talked nonsense with other members at the table, but secretly used sign language to discuss ways to cheat.
Xiaoyunmei said that the deception industry in the past was really professional, and even sign language was possible. Nowadays, except for the deaf and mute, no one knows sign language. After speaking, he sighed.