There is a way that "there is heaven above, and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou below", since leaving the swallow dock, Duan Xing dismissed the people on the boat, restored his original appearance, and came to Suzhou City leisurely, wanting to see the prosperity of ancient Suzhou. Different from the mysterious alien customs of Dali, walking on the ground of Suzhou, every few steps are small bridges and flowing water, and everywhere is filled with a gentle and watery atmosphere. It really responds to the fixed sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Du Xunhe, "When you go to Gusu, everyone sleeps on the river." There is little idle land in the Forbidden City, and there are many small bridges in water lanes. ”

Suspecting that the things on his body were too obstructive, as soon as he entered the city, Duan Xing bought a carriage and threw the wooden frame and sack into the carriage, while he sat side by side with Ah San, and Ah San drove the carriage around Suzhou City.

Duan Xing, who had already changed into an ordinary dart clothes, asked casually: "Ah San, do you know where there is a lock-picking master in Suzhou City?"

"Drive!" Ah Sanyi waved his horsewhip and said: "Hui Gongye, this small matter is not really clear, but don't worry, wait a little bit, and get the news for you immediately." ”

Duan Xing watched as Ah San jumped off the carriage and then turned into an alley. Not long after, he walked out of the alley again. got into the carriage and said to Duan Xing: "Son, I asked, there is a blacksmith shop in the south of the city, and there is an apprentice named Wang Jin in the shop, who worked as a pickpocket when he was a child, and now he is learning to make iron with the blacksmith master." It is said that when a pickpocket will rarely have a lock that cannot be opened, and later after learning to make iron jishu with the blacksmith master, the lock is even more amazing, and there is no lock in Suzhou City that he can't open. ”

"Oh, so powerful, let's go, go and have a look!" Duan Xing suddenly came to his senses. Now he is at a loss for the wooden shelf with a hole lock, trying to forcibly open the lock, and he is worried that if he uses too much force, the wooden shelf will be opened, and the cheats inside will be broken together, which is really worth the loss, so he has to put it on hold first. Now when I heard the news that there was a lock picker, hope was rekindled in my heart.

The sunshine is always so charming every morning, the business in the blacksmith shop is getting better and better day by day, and the relationship between himself and Xiuyun is also increasing day by day. For Wang Jin on such a day, even if he takes the heavenly immortals, he will never change it.

Wang Jin is 22 years old this year, and he has been studying blacksmithing with Master Zhang for three or four years. Except that when I first came, I was worried that someone would come and cut me. After all these years, for the first time, I felt unsteady, and I always felt as if something was going to happen. Recalling that since I joined the Wind Wolf Gang, a third-rate gang in Suzhou City, when I was seven or eight years old, I had only one homework to do every day, and that was to go to the street to pick up money.

This money pick-up is also knowledgeable, and the first thing to practice is not the hand, but the eye. What kind of people can pick up, what kind of people can't, what kind of money, what kind of money and what kind of no money have to be seen clearly. Otherwise, no matter how good Jishu is to pick up the people who shouldn't be picked, if there is no money, it's better, and then find someone to pick it up, if it can't be offended, it will be a burst of punches and kicks, and it will be sent to the yamen and closed for three or five years. What's even worse is that there are ruthless people who get angry and cut themselves directly, and no one will stand up for themselves. As for counting on the leader of the gang to come out, that is a shili villain, who doesn't treat his brothers as people, and looks forward and backward when he encounters things, and is very timid, and has not developed much in his life.

Fortunately, after the top gang of the Wind Wolf Gang, the big boss of the Black Tiger Gang was killed by the vendetta of the rivers and lakes, he helped the second boss pry open the private treasury of the big boss. The second boss is also a righteous person, and he just expressed his desire to leave the Wind Wolf Gang and live an ordinary life from now on, so he didn't say a word and forced the Wind Wolf to expel him from the gang. Now I don't have to lick the blood from the knife and be scared, I don't know how easy it is.

Last night, I drank two jars of wine with Master Zhang, and Master Zhang finally agreed to marry his girl Xiuyunxia to him. Thinking of that Xiuyun's figure, I couldn't help but feel blood boiling, and I was so happy that I didn't fall asleep until the early hours of the morning. But when I woke up early this morning, my left eyelid kept jumping. People say that the left eye jumps rich, but my heart is always up and down, inexplicably worried, I really hope that it will be so plain, and it is best not to happen again.

The carriage came to a halt in front of the blacksmith's shop, and judging from Wang Jin's many years of experience, the carriage was solid and not empty, and it must have been loaded with heavier items. One of the two people in the car was in his early thirties, and the other was only sixteen or seventeen years old. But looking at his clothes, although he was in his thirties wearing the clothes of a chivalrous man, the young man was only wearing the clothes of a dart, and it seemed that the young man was walking with a chivalrous man. But if you hide it from others, you can't hide it from yourself. These two must have been dominated by the young man, just because the young man's speech and demeanor were very casual, while the other one was respectful, which can be seen.

The two got out of the carriage and went directly to the blacksmith shop, and the knight took the lead and asked, "Who is Wang Jin?"

Master Zhang glanced at Wang Jin, and there seemed to be blame in his eyes, as if to say, "I'm here to pick the lock for you again." ”

Wang Jin stopped the man in his hand, stood up and said: "I am Wang Jin, I don't know what kind of iron tools the two guest officers want to buy? Is it for home use or to go to the rivers and lakes? In addition to military bows and arrows, knives, guns, sticks, sticks, we have everything here." ”

The knight didn't look at the various weapons in the room, but said: "I heard that your skill in unlocking is very good, we have a metal hole lock here, I want to help open it, the benefits will definitely be indispensable to you." ”

"I don't know what kind of lock it is, I haven't been doing that kind of business for a long time, and if I lose the key to the house, I can still help. If it is of unknown origin, please ask the two to find the locksmith elsewhere. ”

The young man said very shyly: "An elder in the next family is old, and his memory is not good. As he spoke, he deliberately took out a silver ticket of one thousand taels from his sleeve and put it on the iron shelf at the door.

Before Wang Jin could refuse, Master Zhang interjected and asked, "I don't know where the two guest officers come from?"

The chivalrous man replied seriously: "My son-in-law and I are from Yangzhou, and the first time I came to this Suzhou territory, I came with the elders who lost the key. I hope that your master and apprentice will help me, and I am grateful. ”

Master Zhang glanced at the young man's clothes, then glanced at the carriage outside, and said: "If a simple lock is easy to manage, I am afraid that it is a more difficult lock to open, then I may have to work hard to open it." ”

The young man reached into his arms again, and slowly took out a silver ticket of one thousand taels and stacked it on top of the previous silver ticket.

Wang Jin said anxiously: "Master......"

Master Zhang just replied lightly: "The guest officer is from a foreign land, and he helped out to fulfill the friendship of the landlord, so you can go and help the two guest officers to take a look." Also, your marriage to Xiuyun still needs a lot of silver. ”

At the mention of Xiuyun, Wang Jin gave up resistance, obediently followed the young man and the middle-aged knight into the carriage, and then dragged a wooden frame from the carriage to the blacksmith shop. Then he took out a small box from a corner, opened it with all kinds of knives, small screws, and all kinds of tools, and began to study the lock.

Duan Xing stared nervously at Wang Jin's upside-down metal wooden frame, and his helpless lock turned over and over in Wang Jin's hand. At about tea time, with a "snap", the lock was opened by Wang Jin, and Duan Xing stood up from the chair at once. Including the blacksmith Master Zhang and Ah San, they all looked at the wooden shelf that had been unlocked, curious about what was hidden inside.

Wang Jin didn't open the wooden shelf from the middle, but covered the unlock that had been opened with his hand and said to Duan Xing: "This guest officer, the lock has been opened, you can take it back and see for yourself." ”

Duan Xing looked at Wang Jin with interest and said, "Since the locks have been opened, aren't you curious about what's inside this wooden shelf?"

Wang Jin's face was straight, and he said: "The villain just wants to live a stable life, and he doesn't want to get into trouble for no reason, so he asks this guest officer to take things away." Then he stopped looking at the wooden shelf, and stretched out his hand to take the silver ticket from the iron shelf.