() July of the 20th year of Shaoxing.

The air is unusually hot and unsettling. The more times like these, the more things have to happen.

Liu Wufeng had already told Zhao Gou about my return to Lin'an, and also conveyed to him my willingness to surrender.

However, the news was like a stone in the sea, and I never got a reply from Zhao Gou. Lou Qin said, Zhao Gou will not be so easy to see me, I disobeyed him back then, resisted the decree and disrespected, with his character, even if he wants to see me, he always has to give me a dismount first.

Lou Qin knows Zhao Gou very well. I am convinced of this. Although, I don't know what happened between the two of them, I can feel that Zhao Gou has always been the one Lou Qin is worried about and unwilling to let go.

If you don't want to let go, why do you want to separate?

I asked Lou Qin, is this painful?

Lou Qin said that it is not painful to separate, but it is painful to want to be together but find it difficult.

I waited for Zhao Gou's mood to be almost anxious. I see him as the only person in this world who can help me find Shu Yao. I also told Yu 13 that he would definitely be able to help him find Yu Qing'er.

Yu Thirteen's eyes were full of anticipation. He, like me, longs for Zhao Gou like a starving man on the verge of death, craving for food.

One day. Two men slowly walked into Lou Qin's inn. The two of them had cold faces, half hidden under the hats, each holding a short knife in their hands, and their steps were heavy and powerful when they entered the door. It can be seen that these are two masters with deep internal strength.

For such a master, Lou Qin has always been very polite. It's not because she's afraid of anything, it's just that most of the people in this Jianghu who have some skills have a bad temper, and Lou Qin likes tranquility and doesn't want to cause trouble. She greeted him with a smile, led the two of them to sit down by the window, and asked, "What do the two guest officers want to eat?"

The two sat opposite each other, and did not take off their hats, not knowing if they could see each other. But the words are really boring politeness.

"Senior Brother Li, please. ”

"Alas, Senior Brother Liu came first. ”

The two of them gave way to the left and right, and it was a few rounds at a time, and Lou Qin stood aside in a daze, with a look of disgust gradually on her face. Finally, Senior Brother Li stopped being humble and said, "Okay, then the foolish brother is welcome." After speaking, he turned sideways to face Lou Qin, thought for a while, and said: "Let's have a Dongpo meat ......" After some chatter, he actually ordered more than a dozen dishes, which made several of us stunned.

After Lou Qin finished remembering the last question, he asked carefully: "The guest officer ordered so much food, can he use it up?"

"Come up, and ask the rest. "Senior Brother Li is very impatient.

The kitchen resounded with the busy sound of Lao Zhang's joy. If there are guests, he will have a job to do, and if there is a job to do, he will make money. This is the pleasure of ordinary people, very prosaic, but also very precious.

The food was still in the pot, and the two of them had already drunk a few cups of tea. Suddenly, Senior Brother Li said: "Senior Brother, you haven't finished talking to me, what is the result of the competition between the thief king Li Xiaohan and the thief Chen Yuanbiao?"

Thieves, thieves.

In the few years that Xiaoyue and I have traveled in the rivers and lakes, I have also heard of Li Xiaohan and Chen Yuanbiao.

Both of them came from burglary, and although they were not a gang, they were doing the same thing. Li Xiaohan came from the Jiangxi God Thief Gate, claiming to be the king of thieves, and often said that everything in the world is stealing, but love is not stealing.

Chen Yuanbiao came from the Guangnan Thief Gang and was known as the thief. His title was given by the people, not by himself. Therefore, I have always felt Chen

Yuan Biao's skills are probably stronger than Li Xiaohan. The reason why Chen Yuanbiao is called a thief is because he is very domineering and almost unpopular. With his insinuation and the kung fu of the monkey over the wall, he steals all over the world and is omnipotent. He also used to say to people, "There is nothing in the world that does not exist, and there is nothing that I cannot steal." ”

Although the two are far apart, there is inevitably competition among their peers. Especially after the two became famous on the rivers and lakes, they became more disdainful and dissatisfied with each other.

It was the senior brother surnamed Li who asked this, Senior Brother Liu clapped his hands, raised it for a while, and then told a story about the battle between the thieves in the rivers and lakes.

In other words, it was the winter of the nineteenth year of Shaoxing. One cold night, on the Yangtze River, a merchant ship arrived in Jiangning Province in a hurry.

The Jiangning port has long been fully armoured, and many soldiers are ready for battle. The merchant ship docked, and more than a dozen people carried several wooden boxes on board one after another. They moved quickly, as one of the wooden boxes was very well guarded. The other wooden boxes were all carried by two people, and the wooden box was indeed carried by two people and four people took care of them. What was placed in the wooden box was the birthday gift that Wei Shixun, the then superintendent of the imperial history, was preparing to give Qin Hui, the prime minister of the dynasty.

No one knows what's in there. But judging by everyone's nervousness, it must be an extremely precious treasure.

Take good care and sail at night. When everyone thought it was foolproof, two pairs of eyes were fixed on the ship at the same time in the darkness of the night, or more precisely, the wooden box that had been closely guarded.

These two pairs of eyes did not meet by chance.

Chen Yuanbiao and Li Xiaohan once made a gambling contract in Qingfeng, and the two decided to compete in a showdown, and the winner was named the thief saint.

When the two made a gambling contract, many people in the rivers and lakes witnessed it, including many disciples of famous schools such as Ku Cang and Qingyun.

After the two made a gambling contract, they have been looking for a target to commit the crime. When passing through Jiangning Mansion, he happened to see this scene, so he decided to target Qin Hui's birthday gift and steal the treasures in the wooden box before the merchant ship docked.

After the decision, the two "Wang Ba" immediately posted as evidence, signed and drew the pledge, in duplicate, and each party held one copy, and then launched the theft operation.

No one knew how the two of them got on the ship and how they escaped the strict supervision of the soldiers on board. In short, this camouflaged merchant ship entered the canal and the canal entered the Qiantang again, when it docked in Lin'an Mansion. The soldiers lifted the box to leave, but suddenly found that the box was much lighter, and hurriedly opened the box to check, only to see that the wooden box was empty, and the treasures in it were missing.

Just when the ship was in chaos and everyone was busy searching for the robbers, two figures flashed on the shore. The two of them rushed directly towards the crowd not far away, one after the other.

When the people on the rivers and lakes got the news, they were already waiting in the wide alley not far from the Qiantang Port, waiting to witness the name of the thief.

When the two approached, the curious people surrounded the two of them, and couldn't wait to inquire about the results, but they saw that the two frowned, looked at each other, and showed displeasure, disdain, and dissatisfaction...... In short, emotions are complex.

Everyone was even more curious and asked again and again. The two of them took out an object from their respective backpacks one after another, and it turned out to be a golden-silk jade beast with exquisite workmanship, one of the two beasts turned back to the left and the other turned back to the right, understanding that it was a pair.

Everyone marveled at the priceless treasure and was not perplexed. In the end, the name of this thief belongs to Li Xiao

Han or Chen Yuanbiao?

The outcome is, of course, impossible to judge. Because, according to the descriptions of the two, the two of them attacked at the same time, and almost at the same time they each took a jade beast.

The Jianghu people were disappointed. They don't care how exciting and exciting the process of theft is, they only care about winning or losing, and they only care about the result. They felt that the draw had failed their deepest expectations.

Someone started to heckle, do it again!

Everyone responded one after another, clamoring for Li Xiaohan and Chen Yuanbiao to compare again. And Chen and Li are also very difficult to accept such a result. At the instigation of everyone, the two of them immediately decided to compete on the spot!

"Compete on the spot?!" Senior Brother Li couldn't hold back, opened his mouth and asked, "What is the content of the competition?"

Senior Brother Liu said, "Senior Brother Li, don't be impatient, and listen to me slowly!" He took a sip of tea and continued: "At that time, I was at the scene. The two immediately decided to compete and compete in the presence of everyone. This time they're going to steal from each other. The two stole a personal object from each other, and the heroes present were judged. ”

"What kind of object are you stealing?" asked Senior Brother Li.

Senior Brother Liu replied: "The two of them didn't say it explicitly at all, they only said that they were their belongings. Li Xiaohan and Chen Yuanbiao stood opposite each other, ten feet apart, and everyone watched around. The atmosphere was unusually tense, and everyone held their breath almost at the same time. Suddenly, the figures of the two shook at the same time, and the two of them actually exchanged positions. No one could see exactly what was going on in that moment. It's just that after that moment, Li Xiaohan stood there unscathed, and Chen Yuanbiao** had only a pair of bottoms left on his upper body and lower body. ”

"Wonderful!" Senior Brother Li clapped his hands and exclaimed, "This thief king Li Xiaohan is really not a waste of fame! The name of the thief saint is really well deserved!"

"Hey!" Unexpectedly, Senior Brother Liu sighed and said, "At that time, we also thought so. ”

"Oh?" Senior Brother Li wondered, "Could it be ...... And the changes?"

Senior Brother Liu nodded and said, "Just when everyone was about to applaud Li Xiaohan for winning the name of the Thief Saint, they saw that Chen Yuanbiao was not in a hurry, and he opened his palm, but it was a pair of bottoms as white as snow!"

I gasped. Senior Brother Li was also so excited that he couldn't help himself, he almost stood up, and exclaimed, "What, how can this be?!"

yes, how so?

Senior Brother Liu, who was caught in the memory, was silent for a long time, he sighed again, and said slowly: "As Chen Yuanbiao said, there are only things in this world that do not exist, and there are nothing that he can't steal. The results were particularly shocking and stunned everyone present. Even though Li Xiaohan's methods are amazing, Chen Yuanbiao, who stole in an instant, only has a pair of bottoms left. And Chen Yuanbiao is even more shocking, he was able to steal only the opponent's underwear without the slightest damage to Li Xiaohan's coat!"

Whether it is Senior Brother Li or Senior Brother Liu, they are just a hurried passer-by on the road of my life, just like the guest officers who come and go in the Louqin Inn, and they did not impress me too deeply. I don't know what kind of sect they are, whether they are good or evil, and the reason why the two of them are remembered by me is because of what they said about Li Xiaohan and Chen Yuanbiao.

Especially Chen Yuanbiao, this name is firmly in my heart. At that time, I had a strong urge to get to know this person who could steal someone's bottoms in an instant.