Chapter 11: League of Thieves
This child, it seems that it is not simple, there is a gossip map mark on his seal, and his lips are painted with rouge, I don't know if he is a boy or girl, and he looks only five or six years old. The child stood in front of the door, and everyone was already stunned and whispering.
"You say this kid is the Ancestor of Heaven," the handsome official said contemptuously.
"The deity is exactly!" said the Celestial Light Ancestor.
After hearing this, the young master went over and grabbed the guide: "What kind of ancestor is that kid!"
"Young Master Qiu, you can't leave if you don't believe it!" The guide was pulled, but he didn't speak, and it was the voice of the Heavenly Light Ancestor.
The young master was stunned for a moment, then let go of the guide and walked in front of the Tianguang Ancestor: "Why do you know that I am the Qiu family?"
After the young master finished speaking, the Tianguang Ancestor smiled sinisterly: "I don't know who knows, you are Qiu Mingqian, the son of Yiqiu Yinliang of Fengxiang Mansion, the only son in the family."
After the Tianguang Ancestor finished speaking, everyone in the audience believed it, and Qiu Mingqian was already stunned and motionless, not knowing what to say. The Ancestor of Dawn shouted, and everyone entered the palace.
In that hall, it is still dark and dark, and the torches on the wall can only slightly illuminate the road, and there is no end in sight to this road, but the more and more you go up, it is like a road to heaven, and you can only see a bright and clear light not far away.
"Brother Han, do you think this Tianguang Ancestor can be reliable" Chu Xiang asked quietly beside Han Shengchen as he walked.
"Although this Tianguang Ancestor is a child, he is extremely mature, so you can know that he is no longer a child," Han Shengchen also replied quietly.
"Ah, then how did he do it?" Chu Xiang was surprised, but still whispered.
"There is an ancient technique in the Western Regions, soak a person into a special [bone shrinking water], the skull will shrink several times, and the flesh on the face will also become tender, but this process is very painful, and ordinary people will break the skin and die."
After listening to Han Shengchen's explanation, Chu Xiang immediately felt disgusted, so he taught Han Shengchen not to say it again. Now they had gone far, and they had come to a high platform, which was very vast, and at the end there was a throne of self-esteem, incomparably finely carved, and there were pools on both sides of the throne that they could figure out on the platform, and painted a pattern on the ground, but the pattern was so complex that they could not see one or two.
The Ancestor of Heavenlight sat on the throne, and the guide was now on the right side of the throne, and everyone watched: "Who are you, and where do you come from?"
Everyone answered one by one, the people present, there were people from the Western Regions, Da Liao, and all major sects, even the rivers and lakes and some famous thieves in the rivers and lakes, only Qiu Mingqian said with a proud face that he was the son of Fengxiang Mansion Yi, only that Han Shengchen did not speak.
"Who are you from that young man and that girl, where did you come from?" Tianguang Ancestor looked at Han Shengchen, Han Shengchen arched his hand and said: "Under Han Shengchen, there is no door and no faction", and Chu Xiang also introduced himself.
"Han Shengchen seems to have received a distinguished guest" Tianguang Ancestor smiled, "The deity originally welcomed thieves, but I didn't expect to usher in the world's first thief today" As soon as these words came out, the audience exclaimed, even Chu Xiang didn't expect it, except for some thieves and Qiu Mingqian, who was contemptuous.
"Don't dare to be, it's just stealing things and taking them to help the poor" Han Shengchen gave up.
"Hey, you are actually" Suddenly, Chu Xiang, who was beside Han Shengchen, whispered in his ear.
"Don't get me wrong, although I have this name, it's because I did a good deed by stealing, not as shameless as those thieves!" Han Shengchen whispered to Chu Xiang.
Chu Xiang nodded, and when everyone was talking, the Tianguang Ancestor began to get to the point: "Okay, you must be clear about this purpose, the deity will never tell you the answer you want to ask in vain."
"Then you have the problem, Ancestor!" shouted a big man.
After hearing this, the Tianguang Ancestor smiled coldly: "This topic is not difficult, the deity asked you to get something."
"What to take?".
"Dragon's Tooth!" said the Tianguang Ancestor, and everyone present was immediately surprised and discussed.
This dragon tooth, in fact, is the name of the knife, is held by the king of the Xia Dynasty in that year, and the name of the dragon tooth knife has the tiger wing knife and the dog knife, all of which were cast by the people of the year, and were called the "three evil knives" by later generations, but the other two are lost, only the dragon tooth knife is still in Kaifeng Mansion, heavily guarded, very rare.
"Brother Han, what is this dragon tooth, why does everyone seem to be surprised?" Chu Xiang couldn't help but ask when he saw that everyone was so surprised.
When Han Shengchen saw it, he told Chu Xiang the origin of this knife, which made Chu Xiang also surprised.
"The deity will be divided into two teams, if one team gets the dragon tooth, the deity will give the team the answer they want, if anyone doesn't dare, they can leave now" Tianguang Ancestor said with a smile, there were already a few people who retreated, and there were only about ten people left.
"Okay, those who stay are those who have the courage, let's start grouping now!" said the Ancestor of Heavenlight, and the guide had already come to everyone with an iron box, "There are black and white chess pieces in this box, if you get a black piece, it will be a team, and a white piece will be a team."
Everyone understood, and was about to start drawing chess pieces, when the Tianguang Ancestor said: "In order to prevent you from greedy for small profits, take my knife away and not return, please be sure to leave something that you think is precious."
Everyone had no choice but to leave the things, Han Shengchen didn't know what to come up with, so he had to take out the dagger of Xiao Mosheng, and was stopped by the Tianguang Ancestor: "Han Shaoxia, this is not what you cherish the most."
Han Shengchen was surprised that he had nothing to do with him, so he asked, "I don't understand."
Tianguang Ancestor smiled and pointed at Na Chu Xiang: "She stays, and you can go!"
"Ah me?" Chu Xiang pointed at herself in confusion, not knowing what she meant.
"Don't worry, she will have a good life with me, and when you come back, she can leave" Tianguang Ancestor said, Han Shengchen also thought about it, this trip is full of dangers, it would be better to let Chu Xiang stay here, he came to Chu Xiang's side and explained: "This trip is dangerous, I don't want you to make any mistakes, you stay here for a few days, wait for me to come back!"
"But I want to be with you."
"You are obedient, your martial arts skills are not high, and this time you are going to Kaifeng Mansion, which is heavily guarded, I am afraid that your life will not be guaranteed" Chu Xiang saw Han Shengchen's worry, so he had to give up and nodded.
Han Shengchen drew chess pieces in the past and got Baizi, and he was accompanied by a handsome Tang Sect disciple and a scumbag-faced ronin, as well as two thieves, and the thief was not small, one of them was called "Empty-handed White Wolf" by the Jianghu people and "Void Ghost Hand" Luo Chong and "Void Ghost Hand" were nameless, and these two people actually came here to find the ancestor of Tianguang, which shows what difficulties they encountered.
"Okay, the alliance has been decided, I hope you can take back the treasure sword!" Tianguang Ancestor said, everyone left with their hands, and Chu Xiang looked at Han Shengchen's back gradually disappearing
Inside the Baihua Gate, Baihuaqin is wandering outside the Baihua Xiangning room, looking anxious, that Baihua Xiangning is the last thing, and now she has been in the house for a few days without eating, and she has not come out, the door has been locked by her, and Baihua Xiangning is wearing her hair in the house, her face is haggard, and she knows that she has been crying for several days at a glance, she is touching a humanoid doll in her hand, like a baby care, it can be described as deep love. Baihuaqin can't help it, these days, Baihua Sikun suddenly didn't know where to go, and her sister is like this, she has to take care of everything by herself, which is a lot of pressure for her for a few days.
After returning to the agency to rest for a few days, Xu Zhen collected his luggage and decided to go back to Tianshan, but Xu Baiyan couldn't stop him, didn't say anything, just helped him prepare a coil, and seemed reluctant: "You went to Tianshan, you have to take good care of yourself."
"Daddy and I" sounded reluctant, so he said.
"Alas, I have only one son in my life, and I don't know when I will meet today," he said, his heart full of sting.
After hearing this, he hugged Xubaiyan with tears in his eyes: "Daddy is not filial."
Seeing it in a hundred words, he smiled and gently stroked Xuzhen: "That's it, your mother went early, you have not had the love of your mother since you were a child, and I, as a father, can be content to watch you grow up."
"Daddy's child will definitely come back" Xuzhen cried loudly, as if exaggerating the sadness of the entire organ city, "The child will not leave his father alone to treat the child to do the affairs of the Tianshan Mountains, and then bring his daughter-in-law back to live with you."
"If you say so, Dad will be happy," Xubaiyan said, and then took Xuzhen out of the main hall, and was sent off by all the disciples along the way, and the whole organ city catered to the wind, like a farewell song.
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At this moment, a carriage was driving on the avenue, although the carriage was bumpy, but the people in the carriage were unusually calm. Han Shengchen sat on the left side, flanked by Na Luo Chong and the Tang Sect disciples, and the opposite corner was the other two, Han Shengchen carefully observed a few people in the car, the Tang Sect disciple was wearing a sword, with an immature face, and seemed to be taciturn, and Mo Deming had a stubble face, and iron gloves in his hands, and it was indeed a "Void Ghost Hand". The prodigal son on the opposite side has long hair fluttering, a sloppy face, and drinks the pot of wine in his hand from time to time, and the long sword in his hand is also held at his waist.
"I don't know why you want to participate in the topic of this Heavenly Light Ancestor?" Seeing that the scene was dull and not conducive to cooperation and stealing, Han Shengchen asked.
Ben was not cared about at first, but then Mo Deming beside him smiled: "I'm strange, the world's first thief will also encounter problems?"
Han Shengchen could hear that Mo Deming was deliberately provocative, and also smiled and said: "This void ghost hand is said to be able to take things through the wall, and now it can encounter problems, why can't Han?"
"Hey, we know each other, why are we so unhappy, we still have to steal things" The ronin heard the contradiction between the two, and immediately cleared the siege.
"What you said is extremely true," Luo Chong, who closed his eyes at this time, said slowly, "You two are only a handful of thieves in the rivers and lakes, whether this theft will be severely punished by the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, or you can make a good name in the rivers and lakes."
Speaking of the laws of the Great Song Dynasty, the twenty-four thieves' laws divided into the "Law of Thieves" are very severe, and the thieves will be severely punished by the laws of Pyro, Coffin, Nail, Yi Clan, and Ling Chi. However, everyone is not afraid, they have been thieves for many years, but the people present looked at the Tang Sect disciple suspiciously, this person is very young, and he is a disciple of the sect, why did he want to steal?
The Tang Sect disciple naturally saw everyone's suspicions, so he said, "You don't have to worry, although I am young, I will never give you trouble."
"It's better to be like this" Mo Deming glanced at the Tang Sect disciples, "In the next Mo Deming, I hope to go hand in hand with all the heroes and heroes!"
"In Xia Han Shengchen, I am honored to work with you today!" Han Shengchen bowed his hand to everyone.
The ronin took a sip of wine and said lazily: "In the lower Wangchuan!".
"Rakucho!" Rakucho said with his eyes closed.
After listening to what everyone said, the Tang Sect disciple hesitated for a moment, and also arched his hand and said, "It's in the next turmoil!"
In this way, everyone already knew each other, so it was naturally better to cooperate in stealing, and soon they arrived in Tokyo, and after they got off the bus, they found a famous Tokyo building, ordered a few dishes, and ate together. Sure enough, it was a gathering of thieves, and the dishes on it were all the Tokyo barbecue roasted cheeks, roasted ducks, and scorched bones, and then to Shih Tzu tongue, Zhaojun chicken, Dengying beef, Taibai chicken, etc., all kinds of things, and everyone was going to eat, at this time, another group of people came up downstairs, it was the sunspot team, and Qiu Mingqian, the leader, saw the baizi, and said with a smile: "Isn't this the group of baizi, it's quite weighty, and they came here to eat."
Everyone didn't pay attention to it, but just looked at the group of sunspots, there were more than a dozen people over there, and there were many masters among them, but there was Situ Nan who had stolen the treasures of the Song Palace, that person was very vicious, and where he stole someone would die, and that strength was not lower than a few here. Some of the rest of them are also almost disciples of the sect.
"Hey, no one pays attention to me, no matter what, you people are just here to know that there are tigers in the mountains, and you are just going to the tiger mountains!" Qiu Mingqian smiled contemptuously, and then led people downstairs, "Let's go! This place is better for their own use, I know that there is a better place in Tokyo City than this place!"
When the group of blacks left, Mo Deming was not convinced: "Qiu Mingqian's father, who is a corrupt official, has collected a lot of money from the people!"
"Well, it's just that the current emperor is an unscrupulous lord, and there are naturally many corrupt officials," Wangchuan drank wine and said slowly, "We are just grass people, and these major events in the court and China are still worried about those civil and military officials."
"Now you still have to think about how to enter Kaifeng Mansion!" Han Shengchen said, eating the vegetables.
At night, Kaifeng Mansion has been depressed, except for the sound of wind blowing grass, there is no noise, at this time under the moonlight, a person is watching on the high wall, taking a closer look in the blurred darkness, it is that Mo name, he looked at the house, saw that there are many officers and soldiers here, and it is not so easy to enter. Mo Deming had already finished observing, so he left the high wall, went to an inn without anyone noticing, went upstairs to a guest room, opened the door and entered, Han Shengchen and the others were already waiting there.
"The officers and soldiers of Kaifeng Mansion handle it, if you break in, you will definitely die," Mo Deming said, closing the door. "The top priority now is to destroy all those officers and soldiers!"
"It's not necessary to exterminate it, that will only attract more officers and soldiers," Luo Chong sat on the side, his eyes closed, "In fact, there is still a plan, there is no need to startle the snake."
After that, at this time, everyone looked at Ling Fengbo, and Ling Fengbo took out a few hidden weapons from his clothes: "This matter will be handed over to me, our Tang Sect is a secret weapon, these hidden weapons are attached to the [Xiangxiang San], the person who hits it will be instantly unconscious, and this secret weapon is our Tang Gate's [Impenetrable] secret weapon, which is invisible to the naked eye when thrown."
"But we don't know where Nafuyi put the dragon's teeth in the mansion, and this will consume our time a lot," Han Shengchen pondered.
"Also, when we find that place, reinforcements may arrive," Mo said.
At this moment, Wangchuan was drinking, and when he heard everyone discussing, he smiled and said: "I still have something to say" Everyone was a little surprised, and he said, "Today I went to the city to buy wine, but unfortunately I heard the man say that the master of Fuyi wants to build a rockery in the mansion, we might as well."
After hearing this, Han Shengchen immediately let out a sinister smile: "I already have a plan."
On the second day, outside the south city gate, a carriage walked slowly, it can be seen that there is a rockery on the car, and there are two people sitting on the car, it is chatting about the sky, the scorching sun is in the sky, and the head is already full of sweat, just at this time, two masked people came on horseback, the two were shocked, the two masked men pulled out machetes and ordered the carriage to stop, the helpless coachman had to stop, the masked man got off the horse, one of them said: "Stay the carriage, spare you from death!"
The two men were frightened, and were already trembling, leaving the carriage, and fled together, and the two masked men saw this, so they took off their masks, and it turned out to be Na Luo Chong and Mo De Ming.
Mo got on the carriage and saw the goods, the rockery was made of sea coral, which was very precious, and said: "This Kaifeng Mansion really has Yaxing, and it can get this thing!"
Luo Chong didn't care about Mo Ming, just got into the carriage, and said, "We still have important things to do, let's go!"
At night, Kaifeng Mansion Yi was reading in the study, and at this time Kaifeng Mansion was already surrounded by many officers and soldiers, at this time, two people dressed in the appearance of coachmen came with a carriage, it was Luo Chong and Mo Deming, they came to the door and wanted to enter, but they were stopped: "What do you want to do!
Mo Deming smiled with a smile on his face, stepped forward and said: "This big brother soldier, we are sent by Master Fuyi to put this rockery, you see" Mo Deming said, lifted the cover of the carriage, and there was a rockery inside, "This horse traveled overnight and didn't eat, so there was a lot of delays on the road today, and now it's only here, can Brother Bing let us go in and put the rockery, and then come out."
"No! It's already night today, and according to the regulations, no one is allowed to enter, so see you tomorrow!" The officer and soldier looked serious and refused to let them in.
"Look, we came here overnight, and the boss urged us to return as soon as possible, you are fine, we will go back after putting the rockery" Mo Deming begged frankly.
When the officer and soldier saw this, he didn't want to embarrass anyone, so he said, "Then you wait here, I'll go and report to the lord!" After saying that, the officer and soldier walked in, and Mo Deming and Luo Chong waited outside.
Not long after, the officer and soldier came out, pointed to Mo Deming and Luo Chong and said, "The master has approved, you go in and put the rockery, and come out immediately!"
"Yes, thank you for this big brother soldier" Mo Deming said, and he and Luo Chong began to move the rockery, all of which were seen by Han Shengchen and Ling Fengbo who were on the other side.
Entering the backyard of the house, the big brother had been following them, and at this time, another person came at the gate of Kaifeng Mansion. That Wangchuan staggered as if drunk, and went crazy at the door, and the officers and soldiers stepped forward to stop him, but he resisted, and the officers and soldiers who were staring at Mo Deming and the two in the backyard heard the movement, so they also ran to the door, and at this time Mo Deming and Luo Chong took the opportunity to leave the backyard and look for the dragon's teeth.
Outside the door, Wangchuan used his drunken fist to fight with the group of officers and soldiers who attacked, seeing that the number of officers and soldiers was increasing, Han Shengchen and Ling Fengbo immediately came to the high wall, at this time the officers and soldiers were dealing with Wangchuan, no one paid attention to them, and as soon as Han Shengchen instructed, Ling Fengxuan threw a hidden weapon and went towards the group of officers and soldiers, and in an instant, all the officers and soldiers were knocked down and there was no movement.
Seeing this, Wangchuan entered the mansion and said to the two people on the high wall: "If you are late, I may be in Huangquan!"
Han Shengchen and Ling Fengbo jumped off the high wall and did not speak, at this time, Mo Deming and Na Luo Chong had already come out, holding an iron box in their hands, Mo Deming smiled and said, "No effort!"
Everyone nodded, and was about to go out, at this time, a group of people entered outside the door, it was the sunspot team, I saw Qiu Mingqian in the leading position, holding a short sword in his hand, pointing at Han Shengchen and saying, "Thank you for stealing the dragon teeth, now hand him over and spare you from death!"
"This dragon tooth is something we have worked so hard to get, how can we just hand it over?" Mo Deming held the iron box in his hand, unconvinced, and at this time the two parties confronted each other, already holding weapons.
"Hmph, you are obviously inferior to us in numbers, how can He De rob us?" Qiu Mingqian said, showing smugness from time to time.
"Oh, just because there are a lot of people doesn't mean you can grab this thing!" Wangchuan didn't wake up and yawned on the side.
After hearing this, Qiu Mingqian shouted sharply: "Since you don't want to toast and eat! Don't blame us for being polite!" As he spoke, the people of the sunspot were about to step forward, when suddenly, a lot of officers and soldiers rushed outside the door, all of them were full of armor for self-defense, holding sharp weapons, which made everyone exclaim.
"Dare to enter this mansion and steal!" The speaker was Kaifeng Fuyi, and at this time he had already arrived in the courtyard, surrounded by officers and soldiers around him.
"It seems that you can't outwit it, you can only force it out!" Mo Deming said, the knife in his hand was already unbearable, and at this time, the Kaifeng Mansion was windy, chilling, and harsh