Chapter 195: Self-Knowledge
People should be self-aware.
As big a pot as you can cook; As much as you can, you can do as much as you can.
If you don't measure your strength, you will only bring about your own destruction.
The art of war is cloudy: only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles.
If a person does not have self-knowledge, how can he know himself and his enemy.
The most difficult thing in the world to understand is often oneself, so self-knowledge is not available to everyone.
Everyone in the rivers and lakes knows that Xue Qianhe, the head of the Kunlun faction, is a person who is extremely greedy for money. Of course, Xue Qianhe himself knows this.
But what he didn't know was how capable he was. Therefore, he had no idea what he could do and what he couldn't.
Although the Kunlun faction has always been regarded as a famous and decent sect in the rivers and lakes, when it was passed into the hands of Xue Qianhe, it had completely become a third-rate sect. Not only is it powerless to fight against the four major gates of the rivers and lakes, but even the likes of Qingcheng Emei are far above Kunlun's reputation.
Profit makes the wise faint, that is for the wise. A person who is already very mediocre and incompetent, interests will only hasten his demise.
Xue Qianhe got the help of the temple and had the audacity to rob the court's disaster relief official silver, which was already a great crime of rebellious head killing. But he succeeded after all, and although it was not perfect, it was still safe for the time being. So his courage grew again, and his ambition began to swell.
He learned from a friend that there was a peerless painting in the palace - Han Rong's "Five Oxen Picture". As soon as his mind moved, he had the heart to take it. But he knew that the palace was so master that he didn't have the ability to take it.
At this time, he thought of a person, his only son-in-law, Hu Daiwei, the slow sword god.
Xue Qianhe has only one daughter, named Xue Qingrou. Xue Qingrou and Hu Daiwei met by chance, and the two fell in love at first sight, and soon made a private decision for life. Because Xue Qianhe and this son-in-law didn't get along at all, he originally strongly opposed this family business. But Xue was gentle but didn't care about it, and in a fit of anger, he and Hu Daiwei stayed and flew together, and finally lived in seclusion in the cold forest of the capital.
Xue Qianhe naturally knew that he couldn't convince Hu Daiwei to steal the painting for him, but he could convince his daughter. It coincided with the fifteenth day of August of the next month, and his birthday was approaching, so he used this as an excuse to let Xue gently steal the painting to celebrate his birthday. The snow was soft and couldn't, so he had to blow the wind on the pillow and persuaded Hu Daiwei to enter the palace to steal the painting.
Hu Daiwei is actually a fine person, he naturally knows what this matter will mean if it happens? That's a disaster for all the people!
He also knew that this idea must have come up with his money-hungry old man, because Xue Qingrou herself was not very interested in these silver coins and silk things.
He had no intention of taking this risk, but he had always been gentle and fond of Xue, and he couldn't bear to go against his will, so he accepted it. Moreover, in his opinion, as long as he does it carefully, he will definitely be able to come and go without a trace, leaving no clues at all.
The theft of the painting is naturally very smooth, and it is the first master of the Ouchi, Wang Jinghao, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and he can't find any traces at all.
Hu Daiwei knew that his father-in-law, Xue Qianhe, was approaching his 65th birthday, so he thought that Xue Qingrou would present the painting in person on his birthday day, so he handed over the painting to Xue Qingrou for safekeeping without thinking.
After all, Xue Qingrou is a female streamer, and she doesn't know what is at stake, so she blatantly handed over this painting to the Tianwei Dart Bureau and asked them to escort it to the Kunlun faction. Although Yang Fuyou, the head of the Tianwei Dart Bureau, knew the stakes, he finally took the risk because of the snow and promised a lot of money.
However, the Tianwei Dart Bureau was not secret, and was found out by King Xiao's secret agent, and the matter happened.
Although King Xiao learned that the Five Bull Diagram was in the Tianwei Dart Bureau, he didn't know who the person who stole the painting was, because he couldn't find any clues at all. And he was sure that the case of stealing paintings must be somehow related to the case of Guanyin, so he decided to put a long line to catch a big fish, pretending not to know anything, and generously let the Tianwei dart game out of Beijing.
The dart team of the Tianwei Dart Bureau was robbed, and the dart master did not survive, and this matter hit a thousand waves with one stone, and everyone involved in this matter immediately became nervous.
As for why the Thousand Worms Church got this news, it was actually King Xiao who was doing something wrong, because he deliberately released the news.
King Xiao was able to find out where the treasure painting was because among the Tianwei dart masters, there were his spies. He deliberately quietly spread the news to the rivers and lakes, just to let the people who stole the paintings mess up with themselves, and they actually showed their flaws. The case of painting theft is not trivial, once it becomes known to the world, the mastermind must know that a catastrophe is coming, so it is likely to be messed up.
The development of things was all expected by King Xiao, and it was the temple Sheng Lingren, who had nothing to do with the theft of the paintings, and became panicked because of this. If the Xue Qianhe incident happened, then he Sheng Ling and the entire temple would also be implicated because of the official silver case.
On Kunlun Mountain, Sheng Zhiqiang, who sang and danced at night for days and days, suddenly received a letter from his father, in which he was scolded, and then knew what was at stake.
So he turned over and got up, and went directly to the Kunlun Hall to find Xue Qianhe and asked, "What's going on with the Five Bull Diagram?" ”
Xue Qianhe said a little embarrassedly: "I thought it was a trivial matter, so I asked my son-in-law Hu Daiwei to steal it, but I didn't want to cause such a big mess." ”
"At this juncture, you caused me this trouble, I think you really don't want to live." Sheng Zhiqiang shouted angrily.
"Don't worry, eldest prince, maybe there is a remedy?" Xue Qianhe persuaded with kind words.
"What kind of remedy, you say? Do you want to make up for your head? Sheng Zhiqiang still didn't have a good face for him.
"Look, isn't the painting in my hands yet?"
"Where?"
"I heard that it was the Thousand Insects Sect that robbed the Tianwei Dart Bureau, so the Five Bull Diagram was naturally in the Thousand Insects Sect." Xue Qianhe whispered.
"But how did I hear that Luo Baikong, the leader of the Thousand Insects Sect, has suddenly disappeared." Sheng Zhiqiang said in a questioning tone.
"That's right, let's throw this black cauldron to him." Xue Qianhe suddenly laughed.
"Do you think it's possible?" Sheng Zhiqiang asked sharply.
Xue Qianhe was asked by him, and immediately thought about it carefully, and then said, "This doesn't seem to be very appropriate. ”
"Nonsense. To put it bluntly, Luo Baikong is at most a robber who robbed the dart master, and your son-in-law Hu Daiwei is the real culprit who entered the palace to steal the painting, and you are the mastermind of this matter. Since there are already people in the rivers and lakes who know that it is the five bull pictures escorted by the Tianwei Dart Bureau, do you think no one knows that it was the painting stolen by you and your son-in-law? ”
"This ......"
Sheng Zhiqiang said a word, and Xue Qianhe was speechless.
"There is no impermeable wall, since the incident has happened, then you should also find a reliable one to find the one who is behind the black pot, right?" Sheng Zhiqiang then said very meaningfully.
"With all due respect, I don't really understand what the eldest prince means." Xue Qianhe was not a smart person at all, and he had not fully grasped the deep meaning of Sheng Zhiqiang's words.
"Then I'll give you another heads-up. Who did you let do these two things? ”
"Yun Dayou...... Oh! I understand. The eldest prince is to make ......" Xue Qianhe immediately came to his senses.
"Hey! That's what you mean, it's not about me; What you do is none of your business with me. There is one more thing, I will go back tomorrow, and you can take care of the rest of the things yourself. If there is a little fork, I'm afraid your daughter and son-in-law ...... Hehe! You know my father's temper, and the people who offend him never end well. Sheng Zhiqiang's assertion is very threatening.