Chapter 6: A Chance Encounter with a Thief

After Zhang Chuan ran out of the city gate, he waved gratefully at the guards at the other end of the gate, and then turned his head and chased after the official road to the east outside the north gate.

Hopefully, the big army is not far away.

If it is usual, whether it is Zhang San, who has no concern, or Zhang Chuan, who grew up bathing in the spirit of science, he does not have the courage to watch such a thing as a demon, after all, the gods fight, mortals suffer, maybe because they don't stand far enough to be affected by the battle, or because they are really too close, they are taken hostage by monsters, it is possible.

But now he seems to have eaten the gall of a bear's heart and a leopard, and he has to witness how Wang Baochang and his party subdue the demons, and even Zhang Chuan ran more and more energetically, and soon saw the shadow of the demon subduing team, you know, they traveled on horseback, and Zhang Chuan ran on two legs.

Wrong!

Zhang Chuan forced himself to stop.

And the large army in front, led by Wang Baochang, glanced back at Le Ma at this time, but soon continued to move forward, by the way, he deliberately slowed down the riding speed, so that the prefect who was not good at riding could keep up with them who practiced martial arts, and Liu Daring and Master Huiming were at the tail of the large army, and even suddenly disconnected from the team from time to time.

Zhang Chuan, who stopped, leaned against a big tree next to the official road at this time, and he didn't dare to come out, and he stuck to the trunk of the tree motionlessly.

"What's wrong with me? How do you seem to be enchanted, and you have to run to the land of right and wrong! "Just looking at tonight's fun, Zhang Chuan feels that he is less and less like himself, and even less like Zhang San.

Zhang Chuan, who was about to calm down for only a few breaths, did not feel uncomfortable in his lungs at all because of the violent running, but there was a fire burning in his abdomen, urging him to move quickly!

Zhang Chuan touched the position of his belly button, and it was a little hot, especially in comparison with the temperature of other body surfaces.

'Could it be that there is something wrong with the bowl of soup medicine that Chen Changshou gave me? Zhang Chuan's first thought was this.

Immediately, he quickly denied this idea, because Chen Changshou is by no means a hypocrite, and he has a good reputation near the East China Sea, not to mention, tonight when everyone was eating melons, he quietly gave medicine to the sea caterpillar, which was a sea caterpillar full of phosphorus thorns, and Chen Changshou did not react at all after taking the medicine.

The most important thing is that he has no grievances with him, and he will not put a big tonic medicine in his bowl in the medicine boiled out of the same casserole.

Although Chen Changshou proposed to go with Wang Baochang and others to remove the demon at the beginning, but later Wang Baochang and the prefect asked him to stay in the city, and after they triumphed, they simply bandaged their hands. At the same time, Chen Changshou gave a few pairs of secret gold sore medicine to the city guard soldiers, saying that it could be used to relieve injuries for a short time, and also gave Wang Baochang an additional pill of Beginner Xiao Huandan.

Only the medicine, not the money.

This is also the reason why Wang Baochang and the prefect are unhappy with Qingfeng Guan and Luofumen, see how many people know how to do things.

Excluding the reason for Chen Changshou's side, Zhang Chuan remembered his adventure with Shen Shu in a submarine cave, and after the two came out, Shen Shu learned the beast language without a teacher, and chatted skillfully with the sea caterpillar, which obviously benefited from the inheritance of the Shadow Turtle.

And what about yourself?

If you don't die in a great calamity, you will have a blessing in the future, what is my blessing?

And as soon as he heard that there was a monster appearing, he was very excited, and before the sea caterpillar could tell Shen Shu the location of the place where the incident occurred, Zhang Chuan couldn't help but look north, which was also the direction in which the sea caterpillar came to Huairentang later.

Zhang Chuan thought about it, and the feeling of dryness and heat in his abdomen just now disappeared, and it was replaced by a refreshing feeling that spread throughout his body, as if it was as cool as being blown by the evening breeze on the seaside in summer.

The sudden change of cold and heat, Zhang Chuan disagreed, and now he has two choices;

First, continue to rush in the direction where Wang Baochang and the others disappeared to see what is going on;

The second is to turn back to Taoyuan Village, go back to his dilapidated thatched hut to sleep, and continue to be a young man in a fishing village the next day.

How to choose, Zhang Chuan already has the answer in his heart, from the various deeds that happened after he fell asleep, it seems that there is a kind of providence that is pulling him forward, will he not be aware of it?

I just don't know where I will go if I follow the path that God has shown him.

After adjusting his breathing, Zhang Chuan continued to run to the northeast, in order to catch up, he no longer continued to take the official road, turned around and jumped into the bushes to take a shortcut, the East Bay is so dozens of miles in a radius, more than ten years down, he has already walked all over, and it is not difficult to move forward by moonlight.

"Bang bang."

After Zhang Chuan left, he stopped where he was hiding, and suddenly a group of people rushed out.

This group of people all wore black scarves, big shoulders and thick waists, bowed and held knives on their backs, and there were some scars of different sizes on their bodies.

The leader was a one-eyed dragon, wearing a red hat (fu two sounds), carrying a golden-backed machete, and looking at the direction of Zhang Chuan's journey with a fierce light.

Before the leader of this group of villains could speak, a strong man with a bare body holding a mountain axe stepped forward and asked, "Big brother, why didn't you kill that kid just now?" The people in the government have already gone away. ”

The one-eyed dragon only had one eye left, and when he glared at the person, he looked even more ruthless, and he hummed: "Kill you big-headed ghost, do you think that kid is a simple person?" That group of officers and soldiers didn't know what medicine they had taken wrong, and they still went out to patrol the city at night, and we were only two or three hundred zhang apart, and if that kid's shouting alarmed them, wouldn't it be a bad thing! ”

The words of the one-eyed brother, the axe-wielding man did not have the patience to listen: "Isn't it just a hairy boy in his teens, what can be not simple, not just two axes." ”

Looking closely, the hair of this axe-wielding man is no more than two or three inches more than that of a monk, and he does not look like a monk who has nothing to do with the Buddha, but looks like a wicked person who has just been released from the prison not long ago.

"What the eldest brother said is that this kid is indeed not simple, from the north gate of Jianye City to here, although it is only two or three miles away, but that kid runs as fast as a horse, and he doesn't take a breath after stopping." On the other side, a thin man with two daggers at his waist explained.

"Cut, how capable I am, I can do it." The axe-wielding man snorted disapprovingly.

"That's why we can't do it easily, our purpose tonight is very clear, that is, to dig up the ancestral grave of the Li Shan family, for this treasure map, how much effort we have spent, but we can't fall short!" The one-eyed dragon took out a crumpled cloth, looked at the pattern painted on it, and locked on the only remaining hook, which happened to be the area where the ancestral tomb of Li Yuanwai's family was located in Jianye City.

But after everyone trekked all the way from the Central Plains to the East China Sea, and tried all the wrong answers, there was only one last hope left.

In addition, the people in the city said that since the Li Yuanwai family moved the ancestral tomb, the business has been booming, so from this point of view, that place is indeed a treasure of feng shui.

The group has been wandering on the rivers and lakes for so many years, and they are counting on making a fortune this time, and for this treasure map, they even tried all kinds of hard work to find out some clues, and even worked as a stonemason, miner, and dock porter......

In the past, before he was caught by the government, he could still get away with it, but after he was caught, there was a tattoo on his arm, even if he was released by the amnesty of the new emperor, he couldn't live a good life, and he returned to his old business, don't even think about it, now how good the security of the Qiantang government is, there are many strong soldiers and strong horses who practice martial arts, and they dare to commit crimes on their heads, isn't that a meritorious achievement for others.

Besides, what is the difference between the matter of occupying the mountain as the king in peacetime and waiting for death.

It's better to dig up treasures, earn his votes amicably, and then break up and find a place to retire.

For them, compared to robbing their homes, digging treasure is a low-risk and high-reward thing.

The rumored Bai Xiaosheng in the rivers and lakes is a god operator, who knows five hundred years before and five hundred years later, and can know the secrets of the world and the buried treasures, and I don't know when he began to make many half-truths and half-truths of the treasure map, causing waves related to this to appear on the rivers and lakes every once in a while.

There are even more speculators, making a fuss about the treasure map that is already true and false, and making many copies of the treasure map in the name of Bai Xiaosheng for sale, the price is less than one thousandth of the genuine Bai Xiaobao map, but the seekers are still endless. Because the speculator is very shrewd, how many copies are sold at a regular time every month, and the trading locations are different, resulting in a situation where supply exceeds demand for decades intermittently, and I don't know if Bai Xiaosheng is still alive, anyway, the treasure map he published must still have been undug up, after all, every year there is news that someone has dug up diamonds and ancient clothes and gems and other treasures.

At present, the five people in the woods were originally bad people in Hongzhou, except for gangs fighting with each other, they have never done murderous deeds, most of them are taking money to do things, but they were arrested for provoking people who shouldn't be provoked. After being released from prison, he was restricted from returning to his hometown, and could only go to the nearest town near Chang'an to make a living. Once, when a few people were drinking and chatting in the tavern, the shopkeeper Xiao Er revealed the latest news about the treasure map to them in addition to entertaining, and even the message fee cost thirty taels of silver.

Where did the five of them get so much money, and finally bargained, and spent less than ten taels of silver on the treasure map, and left while they were drunk, and followed the treasure map all the way south to Jianye in the East China Sea.

After several people came to Jianye from the north, they were not accustomed to the water and soil, and the silver on their bodies was almost spent, and they were afraid that they would be severely punished after being caught in this crime, so they continued to pretend to be masons and stonemasons to make a living, and inquired about the local situation while saving start-up funds.

After being familiar with the local environment and important people and events, a group of people targeted the area where the ancestral tomb of Li Yuanwai's family was located, and originally wanted to take advantage of the second half of the night to do the work in the second half of the night when the lively days of worshipping the Xuan Turtle and the Immortals in various parts of the East China Sea today, but in the middle of the night, somehow a team of officers and soldiers came out of Jianye City to go with them, and they were so frightened that they quickly hid in the wilderness, hiding, and found that there were people like them who wanted to avoid the group of city guards led by Wang Baochang.

The one-eyed dragon put away the treasure map, looked at the little five at the back, and asked, "Old five, did anything strange happen when you went to step on the spot today?" ”

Known as the old five, compared with the other four strong men, it seems a little thin, and it is good to gamble on weekdays, and came to Jianye City as a carpenter for a few days, the gambling house has fallen a lot, ten bets and nine losses, the more you lose, the more you lose, the more you lose, the old five seems to lose no money to eat, and the body is thin. I don't know if it's because I recently worked the night shift to clean the gambling house, and the eyes of this old five are black and similar to ink.

Hearing this, Lao Wu slowly shook his head and said dryly, "No." ”

The one-eyed dragon nodded, tightened the knot tied at the back of his head, held a knife in one hand and a small shovel that was a specialty of Luoyang City in the other, and waved it in the direction where Zhang Chuan was walking: "Go!" Let's go! ”