Chapter 362: The Dog Thief

Xiao Tao's eyes widened, for fear that this jade was a stone and not worth a penny.

The old shopkeeper opened his cloudy eyes, looked at Zhang Dafei, and said, "This piece of jade, if it is not urgently needed, the son will never sell it." ”

Zhang Dafei said: "The shopkeeper is right, at present, it is necessary to use money. Please ask the shopkeeper to make a price. ”

The shopkeeper said, "Then fifty taels." Childe, the price is fair?"

Zhang Dafei said: "The price is very fair. We sold it and waited for the money. ”

Zhang Dafei handed over all the fifty taels of silver to Xiao Tao's father, who had never seen so much silver in his life, and thought that in a dream, he pinched his arm a few times with his fingernails, walked far away outside the store, and asked with anxiety:

"Childe, this piece of jade is really so valuable!"

Zhang Dafei said with a smile: "This is urgent, if you don't use it urgently, one hundred taels, I won't sell it yet." ”

"Sold at a loss, sold at a loss......", following Zhang Dafei, Xiao Tao's father kept muttering.

Stay until noon and eat in the city. After dinner, Zhang Dafei borrowed pen, ink, paper and inkstone from the shopkeeper in the store, wrote a letter to his family, handed it to Xiao Tao's father, and said:

"You take this letter to my house, my father will give you ten acres of wheat fields, and I will go back when I have had enough. ”

Xiao Tao's father carefully hid the family letter.

Walked outside the city and the two sides parted.

Xiao Tao's father had these fifty taels of silver, and he had no doubts in his heart, leading a family of eight people, pulling the tattered two-board carts, and coming towards Hui County with his head held high.

Zhang Dafei was alone, riding a horse, and came to Anhui again. In the territory of Bozhou, travel east and west, regardless of the day. Those high-rollers in the rivers and lakes are digging ancient tombs everywhere, fighting every day, bleeding everywhere, making a lot of noise, and the place is restless, but which one can really dig up the "Book of Immortals"?

On this day, when he walked through a market town, he was seen by Wang Hui, where could he beat Zhang Dafei, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly lowered his head to dodge. Zhang Dafei didn't see him, and rode through the market town.

Walked to the east of the town, found a small restaurant and sat down, the shopkeeper came over, Zhang Dafei ordered a bowl of rice, a pot of wine, a plate of braised pig's head meat, I heard that the tofu here is very famous, I asked for a plate of fried tofu with green onions, a pot of stewed tofu soup. A man sits, eats meat and drinks wine. After eating, I drank a bowl of tea, and after resting, I got on my horse again and came in the northeast direction.

On the road, there was nothing to do, and when he walked into the evening, he saw a village in front of him and walked into the village. There is a large family, the door is strong, Zhang Dafei pulled the horse to the door and asked for a night, and the owner of the village walked out and warmly invited Zhang Dafei to come into the village.

Walk into the hall and sit down, and the servants offer tea. The owner asked the guest for his surname.

Zhang Dafei told the name, and told about the long trip, and then asked: "What is the owner's surname?"

The owner of the village said: "Your surname is Ni, and your name is humble." The world lives here. Which pedestrian will walk with a house, Zhang Gongzi came here, and treated this place as a home, don't be restrained. ”

It was getting late, and when the food was served, it was indeed the local rich man, the meat of chicken and sheep, and a table was set. Ni Ziqian got up and poured wine for Zhang Dafei.

Zhang Dafei saw that in the courtyard of the deep mansion here, those servants were majestic and fierce, and he was afraid of causing trouble, so he shook his hand and lied to him:

"I have a chronic illness, I can't get alcohol, and when I get some wine, I get pimples all over my body, and I itch unbearably. ”

Ni Ziqian persuaded him several times, but when he saw that the guests refused, he no longer persuaded him, accompanied the guests, and poured a few large bowls of wine at home.

After dinner, Ni Ziqian led Zhang Dafei to the bedroom, zigzag, walked to the backyard, and heard crying in the distance with the night wind. Zhang Dafei was so alert that he took the initiative to ask:

"Looks like someone is crying?"

Ni Ziqian said: "It's someone crying. It's a stupid girl who did something wrong, beat her, locked up in the house, and starved her for a day. ”

Zhang Dafei stopped talking, and was led by Ni Ziqian into a room. Ni Ziqian confessed a few words, left, and the servant brought hot water, washed his feet, and went to bed and lay down.

Zhang Dafei was lying on the bed, listening carefully, and there seemed to be a few shouts in the distance, and everything was calm. Zhang Dafei thought to himself:

"There is something strange in this village, you have to wake up at night, don't be fooled, otherwise your life will not be saved. ”

In the second half of the night, when I fell asleep, I heard a noise outside.

It turned out that there was a thief in the village.

The thief flew over the high wall, jumped into the courtyard, crept to the hen's coop, stole four fat hens, and put them in a cloth bag, and the housekeeper in the village was unconscious.

The thief ran to the wall, but there was a big yellow dog, which did not bark, but lowered his head and bit the thief's thigh. When the thief saw that the dog was fat, he rejoiced, drew his knife, and struck the dog on the head, and the dog fell to the ground, and the thief rushed forward, and struck him with a fierce knife, and the dog lay on the ground, motionless.

The thief let the four hens go and put the yellow dogs in their bags. The four hens were free, and fled in all directions, but the moon was shining tonight, and the chickens thought it was dawn, and clucked for joy.

At this burst of rooster crowing, the housekeeper in the village knew that the thief was coming, opened the door, took the knife, rushed over, saw the thief, made a sound, and killed him.

The thief carried the cloth bag on his back and flew up the wall, and several family members reluctantly chased after him from behind. The night was quiet, and after this shout, all the people in the village woke up, took their swords, and followed the cry, and chased them all the way out.

That Zhang Dafei was not sleeping soundly, and when he heard the shouting in front of him, he got up in a hurry, opened the door, and ran to the front yard. Ni Ziqian was already standing in the front yard, ordering all the people to rush out of the village and chase the thief.

Zhang Dafei asked, "What's wrong?"

Ni Ziqian replied: "It's okay, a thief came, and he went out to chase him." ”

Zhang Dafei said: "I also went out to have a good time." ”

Originally carrying a long sword in his hand, Zhang Dafei ran out of the village, and when he saw a group of people chasing in the northwest direction, he followed to catch up.

Zhang Dafei crossed these families and chased straight forward, chasing seven or eight miles away, and there was no one on the road. Zhang Dafei lifted a breath, the wind was under his feet, chased forward, under the moonlight, like a galloping wind, seeing two Zhuang Ding in front of him, Zhang Dafei asked:

"Where is the thief?"

The two Zhuang Ding said: "Follow this avenue and run forward." ”

Zhang Dafei left them, strengthened his feet, and chased after them like a gust of wind. After running about five or six miles, I saw a man in front of me, not very tall, carrying a large bag, running forward like a puff of smoke.

Zhang Dafei took a long breath, exerted force under his feet, ran quickly, and gradually caught up, separated by more than two miles.

The thief turned his head, and in the moonlight there was a round white face, and when he saw a man coming after him, he stopped running to the northwest, but ran along another path, toward the east. Zhang Dafei followed closely.

ran for about ten miles, but it was only seven or eight miles away from Ni Ziqian's village. The thief stopped, waiting for Zhang Dafei to arrive.

When Zhang Dafei approached, the thief sneered: "For a local dog, you chased for most of the night." I see that you are not weak in light work, so why not be a watchdog for the surname Ni. ”

When Zhang Dafei saw him swearing, he was furious in his heart, and shouted, "Good you little thief!"

The thief hurriedly took the knife away, took a few steps back, and shouted, "Let Grandpa see how your martial arts are?"

The two of them killed together. Back and forth, after killing more than 20 rounds, the thief was defeated, so he had to use dexterous footwork to avoid Zhang Dafei's assassination.

Zhang Dafei rose up and stabbed straight with his sword, but the thief was very slippery, like a loach, and he couldn't be stabbed in a thousand ways. Zhang Dafei was anxious, pulled the long sword into a sword flower, and stabbed the thief left and right. When the thief saw that he could not dodge, he rolled on the spot and rolled away.

"Great!" the thief got up, cried out, and turned and fled eastward.

Zhang Dafei is willing to do anything, and he is trying to catch up. The two of them ran one after the other, towards the east. In the far moonlight, there was a hazy figure in front of him, a small man with a big head on his neck, shaking his head and walking towards this side.