Chapter 34: Catching the Thief
As night falls, the whole of Songmu County is enveloped, and people go home and lock their doors, especially those who have daughters at home.
As expected, Xu Zhutou really found the whereabouts of the flower thief, and took people to ambush him late at night, wanting to arrest the flower thief.
"Anyway, how did this Xu Zhutou know the whereabouts of the flower thief, if it weren't for the feeling that this Xu Zhutou is a good person and has a wanted warrant, maybe I would still think that he is the flower thief!"
Lin Qi naturally didn't go with Xu Zhutou, after all, the two met for the first day, who knows if Lin Qi would betray them to report to the thief.
So Xu Zhutou took people alone, and he was sneaky.
If it weren't for Lin Qi's abnormal reaction to see Xu Zhutou today, he might have been fooled.
Lin Qi didn't know when Xu Zhutou planned to set off, so after the sun went down, he kept hiding on the roof of the yamen and staring at every move here.
There are seven or eight catchers with him, looking at this scene, eight or nine are not far from ten, and they are going to ambush and prepare to catch the flower thief!
"Okay, I'll follow them and see where they are!" Lin Qi rose into the air on the roof of the yamen, moving quickly on the roof of the house on the street with light and grace.
Following Xu Zhutou and his party from a distance, with Lin Qi's light skills, it was impossible for them to find that there was another person hanging behind them.
After walking for a while, Lin Qi found that they had sneaked to an inn.
Xu Zhutou tiptoed to the door, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door, and then a suppressed voice came from the inn, "Heavenly King Cover the Tiger!"
"I'm rubbing, it's actually this code, can you be a little creative!"
Lin Qi, who was hiding on the roof of the house, almost fell off the roof when he heard this familiar code name, his face was speechless!
"Heavenly King Gaidi Tiger, isn't the next sentence the river demon of Pagoda Town!"
Lin Qi was waiting for Xu Zhutou to come to a pagoda town river demon to form a perfect couplet code, but Xu Zhutou's answer made Lin Qi roll his eyes again for a while.
When Xu Zhutou heard the code, he said a bullshit code that made people laugh and cry. I saw that he also lowered his voice and said something to the inside of the door.
"Xu Yan fights tigers!"
Okay, I was wrong, I admit that you are creative, and I will not question your ability to create new code words in the future, Lin Qi said, is there a worse code in the world than this?
Xu Zhutou didn't know what Lin Qi thought, even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care, anyway, the code is for the convenience of the joint, what he wants is that others can't guess it, no matter what he doesn't listen to or not!
The door of the inn creaked open, and a young man with a short stature came out of it, this person Lin Qi recognized, was one of the catchers who appeared at the scene when he was in the courtyard of Wang Yuanwai today.
At that time, there were only about a dozen catches, and Lin Qi's memory was good, so he wrote it down at a glance.
Xu Zhutou and his party entered the inn, and the young man who came out to greet him turned his head to look around, and only after finding that there was no one did he retreat into the house and close the door.
Seeing Xu Zhutou and them enter the inn, Lin Qi also followed, and with a light effort, his figure suddenly turned into a shadow, which was fleeting, and appeared on the wall on the second floor of the inn in a blink of an eye.
Use light skills to reduce your weight to the point where you are as light as a swallow, and at the same time clasp your hands tightly on the protruding wooden edge, and the whole person hangs there very easily.
The ears are close to the wall, and the internal force of the green is attached to the ears, listening to the situation inside......
"This is the case, hasn't the flower thief come yet?" Lin Qi knew that this voice was from Xu Zhutou.
"Rest assured, the brothers, who have been here all night, nothing has happened, and he has not come. ”
"Okay, continue to guard, he must be arrested tonight, remember, Miss Fang must be protected. Xu Zhutou's voice came out again.
"Hehe, it's still the leader's brain, I don't think that the thief would have imagined that we were actually ambushing in the inn opposite Fang's mansion, and the rooms on both sides of Miss Fang's boudoir were guarded by our people, this time he couldn't fly."
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After listening to it for a while, Lin Qi also understood that Xu Zhutou came here to ambush, and that was just right, he found the right place, and he didn't have to follow them sneakily like a thief, so he had to look around first.
In terms of light work, Lin Qi said that he had never been afraid of anyone at all, after years of hard practice, "Breeze Willow" has already been perfect, in this remote area, if you want to find Lin Qi, there is a little possibility in your sleep.
Relying on his own light skills, Lin Qi shuttled through the dark night like a ghost, and his dark clothes perfectly blended into the endless darkness.
In this way, even if you don't catch fast in the future, being a snitch is a good choice.
Sneaky and sneaky, Lin Qi passed directly through the high wall of the Fang Mansion in a flash, not to mention, although this wall is high, but in the eyes of those who can do light work, it is just a piece of cake.
Hiding behind a rockery in the Fangfu Garden, he was about to use light skills to inspect the terrain in the Fangfu, but unexpectedly, a woman's scream suddenly came from a room in the Fangfu, followed by a crackling sound.
The sound of shouting and the metal collision of weapons also followed, and Lin Qi even heard the sound of porcelain breaking on the ground, in short, a very chaotic sound mixed together, and it was a mess.
"Oh no, something happened!"
Lin Qi's heart was shocked the moment he heard the sound, and he hurriedly used the "Breeze Willow" and ran towards the place where the sound came from......
The entire Fang Mansion was already brightly lit, and when Lin Qi arrived at the place where the accident occurred, a shadow flickered, and appeared on the roof in the blink of an eye, facing a group of people who were staring at the ground and laughing: "Fool, do you think that I will obediently walk through the main gate, is it for nothing to practice Lao Tzu's light skills!"
The Fang Mansion was not very big, Xu Zhutou had already run over when he heard the sound, and now he happened to be here, but when he saw the flower thief jumping on the roof, his teeth were about to be crushed.
After a lot of hard work, did he let him escape easily this time? Unwilling, really unwilling!
The figure didn't care what Xu Zhutou's mood was, he jumped directly, and in the blink of an eye, he rose into the air, jumped into the air, and his body spread out like a goshawk, and he was about to break out of the encirclement of the catchers and fly away!
Just when the figure was triumphant, a sound of breaking the sky suddenly came, mixed with strong wind pressure, and the flower thief was immediately shocked, he didn't know what was going on, and he didn't know what was coming to him.
But the only thing that is certain is that if you can't avoid it, you may have to drink it on the spot.
However, the light skills of this professional who steal incense and jade are different, his body twisted in mid-air, his body flashed, and he actually dodged the attack that flew towards him, and then landed firmly on a roof.
"Who's it, come out!"
As soon as the words fell, there was a dense sound of breaking the air again. Naturally, it was our Lin Qida who attacked, he saw that the flower thief was leaving, and the fact was not as he expected, Xu Zhutou couldn't stop it, and raised his hand to throw out a hidden weapon.
Lin Qi didn't practice the martial arts of hidden weapons very well, but he couldn't stand Lin Qi's internal strength enough to make a fork, he didn't need any good secret weapon techniques, as long as Lin Qi held a copper coin in his hand, poured into the internal force and sent it out directly, as long as he hit someone, it was enough for people to drink a pot.
However, this kid's light skills are still good, he was able to dodge Lin Qi's hidden weapon in mid-air, seeing that the blow missed, Lin Qi was not polite, and directly took out a large handful of copper coins, regardless of whether he could hit it or not, he threw it all away.
Under this dense attack, the flower thief immediately rushed to avoid embarrassment.
However, Lin Qi didn't intend to let him go like this, his body jumped into the air, the internal force in his palm was stimulated, and he opened and closed, and the flower thief only felt an extremely violent wind coming from in front of him, and then a large dense palm shadow overwhelmingly pressed towards him.
The flower thief was suddenly shocked: "How is it possible, there is such a master here!"
In fact, everyone including Xu Zhutou didn't know that this flower thief actually came from the Central Plains Martial Arts, because there were too many masters there, and they couldn't mix it up, so they came to Songmu County to steal incense and steal jade.
However, this does not mean that he is a scumbag, on the contrary, his martial arts are not bad, and his light skills are better, otherwise he would have been chopped into pieces by virtue of his flower picking in the Central Plains martial arts where masters gathered.
How did you expect that there would be a master like Lin Qi here.
Lin Qi used the wind phantom in the iron palm skill of opening the stele, this move is extremely fast, and it is even more powerful in Lin Qi's hands, one move after another, directly approaching the vital points of the flower thief, if he is a little stunned, his life is not guaranteed.
Lin Qi has already practiced a little bit of the Phaseless Qing Secret Technique, it is a completely unfamiliar martial art, Lin Qi can also simulate it after taking a look, not to mention the Iron Palm Skill of Opening the Monument that has been cultivated for many years.
Between flipping and moving, Lin Qi took a fancy to an opportunity, and when he dodged Lin Qi's palm, his other hand accelerated violently, as if he was wearing flowers and picking leaves, and it was fiercely imprinted on his chest.
The flower thief only felt as if he had been hit by a thousand pounds of boulder, his throat was sweet, a mouthful of blood spit out, and flew upside down like a kite with a broken string, and then fell heavily to the ground......