Chapter 4: The thief is stolen by the thief

The bazaar was very lively, at least in the eyes of the ancients, Xiujiao had a good time, I think it had something to do with my company, and she often took the initiative to take my hand, look at this and that, look at me and smile like a flower, her eyes are gentle and can drip water, so that I lost a lot of money, and I bought her bracelets, beads, flowers and sugar gourds.

In fact, I was guilty and wanted to please her first and then refuse her love, so that I might be able to make up for the damage to the greatest extent, but the result was just the opposite of the ideal, she seemed to think that I also liked her, and it turned out that she called me "Brother Liu" and drove me down from one episode to another, and became "Brother Dan", and finally became a word -- "Dan".

Looking at her figure like a butterfly, I said tentatively: "Actually, you are really a good girl who is loved by everyone, as the saying goes, a hundred women in a family begg, and there will be no shortage of young men who like you." ”

She looked at me with a crooked smile, her eyes shining like stars in the sky, and I stiffened my head and continued, "Actually, I ......"

"I know, I understand. She interrupted me with a red face, and ran to the front to look at the candy man.

I was stunned, I didn't know what she knew, so I quickly followed and said, "I want to say that I actually ......"

"I know, I understand. Her face turned even redder, and she ran to the front to see the fragrant flatbread that had just come out of the oven.

I opened my mouth wide and couldn't close it, but I couldn't help but say it, so I followed three times and said, "Xiujiao is actually ...... me."

"I know I ......understand," she turned her head and glared at me coquettishly, and I had to shut up and smile bitterly. When I thought of the dialogue between the Great Sage and Zixia in Journey to the West, I couldn't help but shudder. As a result, I didn't get to tell her clearly, and she was still in the "I know I understand" cognition.

As soon as I arrived at the village, I saw Uncle Zhao frowning and greeted him: "Liu Dan, a thief entered your house just now, go and see if you have lost something?"

I was taken aback and immediately rushed home. It doesn't matter if you lose anything, there is only one thing that you can't lose.

The bedroom was turned into a mess, but the strange thing is that everything is there, including the box, I picked up the box and sighed loudly, before I had time to turn my worries into joy, I found that it was wrong, the two locks on the box that the carpenter added were open, shaking hands to open the outermost box, I couldn't help but sigh again, the purple box inside was lying there, and then opened the purple box, my head "buzzed" with a sound--- Hetian Yuhuan was gone.

Uncle Zhao, who came over later, said with relief: "I saw that guy was sneaky and had a new face, so I followed him, but fortunately I had time to scare him away." Hey, today is the market day, most of the people in the village are not there, and there are only old and young women and children left, otherwise he would not have escaped so easily. Liu Dan, there's nothing missing. ”

I closed the box with a "snap", the more I encountered the crisis, the calmer it was my advantage, and asked Uncle Zhao urgently: "When did this happen?

Uncle Zhao saw that my face was different, and he knew that he had lost something, so he hurriedly said: "Half an hour ago, when I was chasing him, I saw him running north, which was the direction of Chang'an. ”

Half an hour is an hour, and there is hope! I asked the thief about his clothes and appearance, and borrowed a neighbor's horse and immediately chased him north.

Horses galloping along the loess road, the sky is getting late, the pedestrians on the road are scarce, I hold the luck mentality, hoping that the thief has been running to Chang'an, after all, the best Hetian jade, only in Chang'an kind of big city can be sold at a good price. If, if he didn't have a horse, he should be able to catch up.

God bless don't let him enter Chang'an City, and then try to find someone after entering the city, in this era of underdeveloped information, it is simply looking for a needle in a haystack.

Along the way, I didn't find the person described by Uncle Zhao, until sunset, riding a horse to the outside of Chang'an City, just in time to close the city gate, only one step away, even people and horses were locked outside the city. The guards at the Chang'an City Gate are the strictest, and once the city gate is closed, even if the emperor comes, he will not want to order the captain of the city gate to open the door.

Standing outside the city in a daze, I finally found out that my luck had plummeted since I came to ancient times, and today it has fallen even lower. Glaring angrily at the closed city gates, I couldn't help but look up to the sky and howl: Oh my God! Are you really going to trap me in this bastard where the birds don't lay eggs, and watch me cry and stain the loess with the blood of the earth? Oh my God! How unjust you have treated me!

Alack!!!

I really want to cry, but no, now is not the time to cry, Liu Dan is so big, except for Xiao Jian, he will never retreat without a fight when he does anything.

"Until the last care, never give up lightly, until the last moment, never sacrifice lightly. This is Liu Dan's motto, even if it is five years, ten years, twenty years, or even a lifetime, I don't believe that I can't find the turtle king bastard stinky thief who dies 10,000 times is not enough to appease my anger!

Gritting my teeth and making an oath in my heart, facing the dusk sunset, I used all my strength to shout wildly: "No matter the ends of the world, I must find you!! you wait, I will not admit defeat, never admit defeat!!"

After venting, I was about to lead the horse, but I found that a few people who had not entered the city like me were staring at me stupidly, and glared at me viciously: "What are you looking at?

After calming down and thinking for a moment, I decided to observe the terrain outside the city walls before returning to the mountain village.

In terms of time, that guy arrived at most an hour earlier than me, and it is unlikely that he will get rid of Yuhuan in an hour, now that the sun has set, the days in early spring are not long enough, and in another hour, Chang'an will enter the curfew.

According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, there is a system of nocturnal nocturnal, the night is the hotbed of evil, in order to prevent adultery, the Han Dynasty prohibits nocturnal travel, not only ordinary civilians are not allowed to travel at night, even if you are a general, it is not an exception, it is recorded that the flying general Li Guang was once drunk because of the nocturnal walk, and had to stay under the pavilion. Therefore, there is no possibility of trading at night.

The question now is whether he will find a suitable buyer to get rid of the jade in the remaining hour, and then run away on his own. With my years of experience as a thief, it's unlikely that I'll be able to do this in such a short period of time, unless the buyer is contacted early in the morning.

So now there is a fifty percent chance, which makes me believe that at least tonight and before dawn tomorrow, Hetian Yu will not be able to get out of the hands of that stinky thief, in fact, even if there is only a one percent chance, I will not let it go. This piece of jade is more important than my life.

But what if that dead guy didn't enter Chang'an at all?

I shook my head and ruled out this possibility, because from the mountain village to Chang'an City, there were no villages and towns on the way, and there was only one inn and tea shop.

Thinking of this, I feel much more at ease, and I still have one night to prepare, and tomorrow I will be the first to enter Chang'an City.

So he galloped back to the mountain village, found Uncle Zhao, asked in detail about the appearance of the stinky thief, and immediately painted a portrait of him, Uncle Zhao saw me scribbling on the paper with a pencil, and after a while he drew a realistic image of the person, and his mouth was not closed, in the Han Dynasty, not to mention the pencil, even paper had not been invented, but now the eyebrows are burning, and I can't care about so much.

I have thought of many ways to find people tomorrow, but the fastest thing is to post a search notice, offer a reward to find people, and the wealth will always move people's hearts. At this time, I don't know how grateful I am to the guy who was kicked out of the car, thanks to his blessing to have this excellent snow-white B5 paper available, maybe because the early appearance of the paper will mess up the original historical order, but the weight of the two interests is the heavier, the lesser of the two evils, in comparison, going home is more important to me, and I don't care if history will be messed up.

I painted more than 50 portraits in two hours, then boiled the paste, took the necessary tools and all the coins, put them in my backpack, rode on a fast horse, and at dawn, came to the outside of Chang'an again.

Of course, I can't wait until the city gate is opened before I go in, so the daylily will be cold after posting the notice, and I am going to climb into the city. In order to facilitate my movement, I changed back into my original clothes, wearing special short leather boots on my feet that were easy to climb, and put on an ancient coarse cloth coat to hide people's eyes.

Around dawn is the time when people are most likely to get sleepy, the city is quiet, I abandoned my horse and jumped down the moat three meters deep and eight meters wide and ran to the opposite side, it was the twilight of winter, the ice accumulated on the surface of the moat through the cold winter has not yet melted, and I used the flying catch to climb up quickly, and found a remote corner of the city wall, I was sure that it was the least easy to attract attention from here, so I put on the Flying Tiger hat (that is, the kind worn by the Hong Kong Flying Tigers only leave the eyes, mouth and nose, Take out the flying grab firing gun, shoot towards the city wall, (thank you again for the unlucky flying master) "ding" faintly came, I listened attentively, there was no movement, reached out and pulled the steel rope hard, to make sure that there was no problem, so hands and feet together, struggle to climb up along the city wall.

As a "thief", wall climbing is a compulsory course, and my grades in this area have become excellent, and my speed is comparable to that of a wall creeper. But the city wall of Chang'an is really too high, climbed ten kinds of climb to half, I stopped to rest, looked up, hey, saw a strange scene, before dawn although it is the darkest time, but you can still see a black shadow from the city wall quickly from the top to the bottom of the slide will come down, it turns out that I am not the only one who is good at this way. I pulled out a dagger made in Switzerland and prepared myself for self-defense.

The man really chose the same route as me, and soon slid up to me, and smiled at me, looking at his short and lean body, but he was also a man, and the strange laugh of this "coo" was really chilling, and goosebumps fell.

He praised: "Good skills." ”

I politely replied, "Each other." ”

His face was covered with black veil, and I was wearing a flying tiger hat, and everyone only showed two bright eyes, and no one looked at each other without suffering. (It seems that I am more at a loss because I have one more mouth and one nose than him.) )

After looking at him more than a dozen times, he said, "Your Excellency, take care, take your leave!"

I said, "No." So the two men quickly separated.

Finally climbed to the top of the city with both hands and feet, and just put away the flying catch, the lights suddenly brightened all around, and the messy footsteps came from far and near, accompanied by bursts of shouts: "Arrest the assassin!" "Hugh has gone the assassin!"

I immediately realized that I had hit bad luck again, and I was afraid that I would be the scapegoat of that guy just now, and whoever stayed to explain to them in this case would be a real idiot, and I would not do such a stupid thing if I were as smart as I am.

So I turned and ran, but the officers and soldiers with torches and swords soon rushed up from the stairs of the city gate on the left and right, and I had no way to escape, but fortunately my kung fu was not given in vain, so I knocked down two soldiers, took a long sword, and fought and retreated until I reached the western corner.

About five meters away from the city wall, there is a stout and tall locust tree, although the tree is not as high as the city wall, but there are more than ten meters, enough to use safely, this tree is also a back road I chose for myself, when I observed the surrounding environment and saw this tree earlier, I wondered why the captain of the city gate would allow it to exist, if the war started, it was really a good use of the natural tool to attack the city.

A sword forced back a fat soldier, kicked another thin soldier away, and quickly shot at the locust tree, then rushed up the battlements of the city wall, and jumped downward. In the exclamation of the crowd, he performed a wonderful trapeze act, and then landed safely, and it was too late to take back the flying catch, so he had to cut it off and throw it away, and then flew to the moat.

The three-meter-deep moat was hard for me, but it was much slower to crawl without a catch. At this time, the officers and men had already bent their bows and shot arrows, and sharp arrows flew towards me like rain, but fortunately, with the cover of darkness and the moat, and I was dexterous with my hands and feet, and quickly climbed out of the moat. (Fortunately, the city gate guards are strict, and they can't easily open the gate and chase me out, otherwise my situation will be worse)

When I came up, I immediately looked for my horse, but it was gone.

I'm dizzy!!

I immediately understood what had happened, that fellow bastard had stolen my horse and had escaped. At this time, I only heard a strange sound of bowstrings, and when I looked back, it was not good. By the light of the fire, I saw a row of officers and soldiers bending their bows and arrows, and the next round of arrow rain was coming, I never wanted to run thousands of miles to ancient times, and ended up being shot into a hedgehog so miserable, so I fled for my life.

At this moment, a man and a rider came to me, and the horse looked very familiar, and it was my neighbor's horse. Immediately the man stretched out his hand, I did not hesitate, grabbed his hand and jumped on the horse's back, he urged the horse to raise his hooves, and left the Chang'an city gate with me like the wind.