That morning, it was cloudy and overcast. The wooden door of an earthen house on the western outskirts of Puqi City was open, and the male customer hurriedly walked in and threw the bag of soybeans he was carrying in front of Wu Daodao, who was smoking a hookah.

Wu Daode asked, what's wrong? Didn't sell?

The male customer said, I shouldn't listen to you, mix sand in the soybeans at the good end, and people don't want to find that the bag of soybeans is not clean.

Wu Daode took a sip of hookah, smiled slyly, and said: Hu Xiangcai, don't you want to get rich? I told you to mix sand with soil to increase the weight of this bag of soybeans, and the weight increases, and the value naturally increases.

Hu Xiangcai said, but no one else is a fool, can they get away with it?

Wu Daode said, brother, you are too stupid, you have to speculate to get by.

Hu Xiangcai shook his head and said, there is no chance to invest.

Wu Daode smiled coldly and said, Then you have to wait for the opportunity, while many people are selling soybeans, and the people of the Cao family who are doing this business are busy, you can go and sell this bag of soybeans mixed with a little sand, and you will be able to get by. Because when people are busy, they are relatively sloppy in doing things, and they will not check so seriously.

Hu Xiangcai said in a tone of "raising the bar", if there are not many people who sell soybeans, and the people of the Cao family who do this business have always been serious, I will not be able to fool around.

Wu Daode said, then you have to be honest, hide aside and pick up the dregs in this bag of soybeans, or pick seven or eight percent clean, you can also sell it.

Hu Xiangcai turned his head and said, I don't have the patience to pick the dregs! Alas, Angkor. So I approached him and said, I found Cao Yang of Caojia Distillery today carrying a bag of money to buy soybeans.

Wu Daode lowered his voice very sensitively, do you mean that you want to ask me to bring that bag of money?

Hu Xiangcai nodded and smiled, exactly. I also want to call Qian Wanguan, Wu Liangjin, Kan Nenglai, Xiang Lai Zao and Cai Wanmin, who often work with us to do that together.

Wu Daode said, not necessary. Me and you, we can do it. If there are too many people, if you don't get much money, you will get less share.

Hu Xiangcai said, that's too. Is it theft or robbery?

Wu Daode looked scheming, he didn't answer immediately, and said after a long while, it depends.

Wu Daode put the hookah on the table, went to the inner room and took out a dagger and shook it in front of Hu Xiangcai. He said that when the time comes, it will be better to be able to steal the bag of money, and if he can't steal it, he will use this to force the owner to hand over the bag of money.

Hu Xiangcai said, your idea is good! I'll go home and get the dagger with me.

Wu Daode went into the house again and took a hat with a dog hole to put on, and pulled the brim down to cover the entire head, only showing two holes in the eyes that did not affect his eyesight. He also said to Hu Xiangcai, you also have to get a dog with two eye holes to burrow the hat and cover your face, so that when you hold the owner hostage, you will not let the owner recognize it. It would be troublesome if we recognized it, and we would not want to stay in this place for long. Maybe something happens, the owner will report to the official, and we may be in danger of being arrested. So you have to be careful with every move, and don't show clues, otherwise the bowl of rice of the gentleman on the beam will be eaten.

Hu Xiangcai couldn't wait to say, is it okay to act left and right tonight?

Wu Daode replied, whether it is okay or not, we have to find out the situation before talking. Let's go and step on it again during the day today! Look where it is easier to turn into the Cao family wine shop.

Hu Xiangcai said impulsively, okay, I'll go to step on it in the afternoon.

At this moment, the Ghost Judgment Hall of Hades is gloomy. Zhong Kui held a red pen in his hand, ticked the case files of a group of newly deceased ghosts one by one, and stamped the official seal of the palace. Several envoys standing next to him took the case file in turn.

In front of the temple knelt a row of newly dead ghosts. After Zhong Kui finished distributing the case file, he waved his hand towards the door of the hall, and several envoys issued an order: Come over. I saw a row of newly dead ghosts immediately get up and rush out of the temple gate.

Several envoys bowed to Zhong Kui one after another, and then walked out of the palace gate.

The part of the Yin Hall between Zhong Kui's eyebrows suddenly opened a divine eye, shining with golden light, and the golden light passed through the yin and yang realm and shot directly at the North Street of Puqi County. He looked closely and couldn't help but be surprised.

Hu Qin was selling a cross-stitch of Zhong Kui's ghost hunting to a female customer, and then he was embroidering another cross-stitch of Zhong Kui's ghost hunting.

Zhong Kui excitedly laughed haha, there are still people in the yang world who believe in my merits in catching ghosts and driving away ghosts, and since I am a judge in the yin and yang worlds, I don't have the time to hunt ghosts and exorcise ghosts for the people in the yang world, I'm ashamed! Ashamed!

That afternoon, there was a different scene outside the Caojia Distillery in Puqi County, and the customers were carrying a load of soybeans into the gate of the Caojia Distillery from the outside.

Hu Xiangcai secretly observed outside the Cao family wine shop, the courtyard wall is two meters high, arching the houses of the Cao family, except for the front archway gate can enter, there is no other back door or side door to enter, the top edge of this closed courtyard wall is also staggered and upside down like a knife blade of broken glass slag, and the cold light is shining.

Hu Xiangcai set his eyes on a locust tree near the courtyard wall to the north. Rows of Ming and Qing style houses are also standing around the courtyard wall, as if forming a larger encirclement of city buildings, and the gaps between them naturally form a series of colluding alleys, and the endless shops on the other side of the alley are lively and lively.

Hu Xiangcai saw that there were few people walking in this section of the alley, so he suddenly stretched out his hands and hugged the locust tree and climbed up, only climbed half a meter high, and jumped down.

And in the Caojia Distillery, the transaction is booming. Cao Hongyou was busy weighing the customers who sold a load of soybeans or bags of soybeans.

Cao Yang pressed a money bag, also came to look at the scales, and after verifying that it was correct, he picked up the sheep's hair brush and made a note on the open account book on the desktop.

In order of weighing, the customers carried a load or bag of soybeans into the storage house and poured it on the drying mat on the ground. The purchased soybeans had been piled up in the shape of a pagoda, getting taller and taller, and it was only a meter from the roof of the wooden building.

Customers who come out of the house with empty baskets or empty cloth bags can receive their due copper coins from Cao Yang, and then leave satisfied.

Hu Xiangcai walked slowly towards that side in the courtyard of the Cao Family Liquor Factory, and saw the scene of the customers selling soybeans clearly, and Cao Hongyou, Cao Yang, father and son, who were busy buying soybeans, did not notice him yet.

On this night, the remote corner of Puqi City, shrouded in haze, was unusual. At that time, Hu Xiangcai and Wu Daode respectively pulled down the edge of the hat where the dog drilled the hole, covering their faces, and they became masked people.

The two of them came out of the alley in the north one after the other, walked to the door of the archway of Caojia Liquor Fang, saw that the iron gate was locked, and went straight to the locust tree with dim street lights.

Hu Xiangcai glanced up and whispered, Angkor, you can't directly climb over the courtyard wall, the wall is full of broken glass slag, be careful to hurt it. Wu Daode was stunned for a moment, and then asked, how to climb over the wall? Hu Xiangcai replied, see how I turn it, you can turn it.

Hu Xiangcai stretched out his hands to hold the locust tree pole and climbed straight up, and when he climbed above the courtyard wall, he stepped on the courtyard wall with his feet in green cloth shoes, and the broken glass on it was trampled on. Hu Xiangcai looked back in the dim night, and saw that Wu Daode was also climbing the locust tree, so he jumped into the yard. About a few minutes later, Wu Daode also jumped into the courtyard.

Suddenly, Hu Xiangcai, who was lurking in the night, stood in the courtyard and shouted: Catch the thief-

Wu Daode asked in horror, thinking about wealth, what's wrong with you? Why doesn't it sound like your voice anymore?

It turned out that Zhong Kui, who had supernatural powers, sensed that something was wrong, so he rushed from the underworld, and when he met Hu Xiangcai, he possessed Hu Xiangcai, and he became Zhong Kui's possession. At this moment, Zhong Kui replied loudly, I don't want to make money, I am Zhong Kui who hunts ghosts, I don't catch ghosts tonight, I specialize in catching thieves...... Catch the thief -

Wu Daode was so frightened that he turned around and ran to the courtyard wall, but he couldn't climb over.

Zhong Kui chased after Wu Daode and shouted: Catch the thief-

Footsteps rang out outside the courtyard wall, and some people echoed the cries of thieves caught inside the courtyard wall: Where are the thieves?

Wu Daode couldn't jump out of the courtyard wall, so he knelt on his knees in front of Zhong Kui's possession and kept kowtowing. Then lowered his voice, Grandpa Zhong Kui, spare your life! Don't scream, I'm not going to be a thief, let me run for my life?!

Zhong Kui shouted loudly, there is no such good thing.

Wu Daode kept kowtowing like a chicken pecking rice, and begged in a low voice, spare me! I haven't started stealing yet, give me a chance to admit my mistake!

Zhong Kui's possession was touched, and he said, you have to swear to the sky, from now on you will not be a robber, if you become a robber in the next life and become a pig, I will let you go.

Wu Daode got up and said respectfully, okay! I swear to heaven that I will not be a robber from now on, but if I become a robber, I will become a pig in the next life.

After Zhong Kui commanded him to recite it three times in a row, Hu Xiangcai woke up, and he heard someone shouting loudly inside and outside the courtyard: Catch the thief...... He was about to escape, but he couldn't climb the deep courtyard either.

Wu Daode pushed Hu Xiangcai to the courtyard wall in a panic, then jumped on his shoulder, grabbed the edge of the courtyard wall, raised his leg and stepped forward, his hand was punctured by glass shards, and he didn't care about the pain, and then reached out and brought Hu Xiangcai up from the courtyard wall and turned out of the courtyard wall together, flashing away like a ghost.

The door of the house in the courtyard opened, and Cao Hongyou, Cao Yang, and Jia Ding rushed to the courtyard to look for the thief with machetes, wooden sticks, fire forks and other instruments respectively, but at this time they did not hear the cry of the thief, and the silence in the courtyard was restored.

Hu Qin followed behind Cao Yang with a lantern, and first walked to the door of the house where soybeans were stacked, and the door was locked well, and there was no trace of movement.