Madam, protect me!

After a good sleep, the fatigue from the days of traveling was swept away.

Li Nuo got up from the bed and stretched.

Looking through the window, he saw Yiren still practicing in the yard.

This small yard, in addition to being more private, can also provide a place for practicing.

Li Nuo walked into the yard, and Song Yiren looked back at him and said, "You're awake."

It was still early, Li Nuo stretched his body and said, "Do you want to go out for a walk?"

Song Yiren was thinking about this, so she put away her sword and said, "Okay."

She glanced at Li Nuo and reminded him, "But before going out, you'd better wash your face, your face... is a little dirty."

Li Nuo didn't think much about it, and drew a bucket of water from a well in the corner of the yard to wash his face.

Then, the two walked out of the embassy together.

The prosperity of the capital of Zhao State is similar to that of Chang'an, but the overall feeling it gives people is very different.

The most direct feeling is that the streets of Chang'an are very clean and tidy.

The streets of Zhao can only be described as dirty and messy.

However, this is also because of the "Health Management Regulations" promulgated at the beginning of this year. Before that, the sanitation conditions in Daxia were not much better than those in Zhao.

The people of Chang'an were quite dissatisfied with this at first, but later they began to actively maintain it.

In addition, Li Nuo found several free porridge distribution sites along the way with Yiren.

Each porridge distribution site was hung with a different royal flag.

This kind of scene is rarely seen in Daxia.

Even if the princes of Zhao are just putting on a show, the people of the capital can at least get some real benefits.

Compared with Zhao, Daxia's regent system is just a form.

The princes fought for power and used the simplest means of forming cliques and attacking dissidents.

Yiren saw a unique silver hairpin on the street, put it on her head, and asked Li Nuo: "Does it look good?"

Li Nuo nodded and said: "It looks good."

With her face, she would look good even if she put a chopstick on her head.

Li Nuo paid the money and bought the hairpin for her.

Yiren was shopping while shopping, while Li Nuo was responsible for carrying the bag and paying.

Song Yiren bought a bag of cakes, and when she looked back, she saw that Li Nuo's hands were full of things, so she took the initiative to pinch a piece of cake and feed it to him, and Li Nuo opened his mouth naturally.

She jumped all the way, feeling more relaxed than ever before.

There were only two of them here, and finally they didn't have to practice with Song Jiaren on odd and even days.

Here, he was hers alone.

Li Nuo was shopping with Yiren, who was in high spirits, when he suddenly felt something in his heart and looked at a certain place on the street.

At the corner of the street ahead, a woman holding a child was walking hurriedly, and she didn't notice that when she passed by a short man, a cloth bag on her waist had disappeared silently.

From the professional perspective of the thieves, this person's selection of targets and grasp of the timing of cutting hair were very accurate.

If he had to rate his smooth behavior, out of a full 100, Li Nuo would give him more than 80. This man is a natural thief.

After the short man succeeded, he walked a few steps quickly and weighed the weight of the cloth bag in his hand. He was not very satisfied, because he had obviously stolen from a poor guy.

Just as he was about to look for the next target, he was suddenly kicked from behind. He staggered and fell at the entrance of an alley on the street.

He fell hard, and when he turned around, he saw a handsome young man.

He was about to speak, but the man said, "You bastard, there are ten things you shouldn't steal from a thief, but you didn't take it to heart at all. When you were a thief, didn't your manager teach you?"

The short man's heart skipped a beat. Who on earth was the other person? Not only did he know about thieves, but he also knew ten things you shouldn't steal from a thief?

He looked at the young man and asked nervously, "May I ask which senior in the sect you are?"

The young man did not answer his question, but said, "Since you have entered the Thief Sect, you must abide by the rules of our Thief Sect. I will forgive you this time. If you dare to break the rules again next time, you will be punished according to the sect rules!"

The short man knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Disciple knows!"

The young man said, "Remember, there is a way to steal. I have confiscated the things you stole. Go back and copy the ten things not to steal in the Thief Sect a hundred times. Do you hear me?"

The short man kowtowed like pounding garlic, and said repeatedly, "I know, I know..."

When he raised his head, the young man had disappeared.

He stood up and touched his waist, and found that the purse he had just stolen was gone. Not only that, his own purse was gone too!

He was shocked. As a senior thief, his skills were not inferior to the manager, but his purse was stolen silently by someone. The other party must be a master of the Thief Sect.

I am afraid that only the chief monks and above have such skills.

Feeling extremely anxious, he immediately walked out of the alley and left in a hurry...

On the street of Zhao State, Li Nuo returned the small cloth bag to the woman and said, "Sister, your purse fell off. Count it and see if there is any money missing?"

The woman took the purse, opened it and looked at it, and said gratefully, "Thank you, thank you so much. This is the money to buy medicine for the child. It took a long time to borrow it. If it is lost, I really don’t know how to live..."

Li Nuo gave her another purse and said, "Take this money too."

The woman waved her hand and said, "No, no, no, I can’t take it."

Li Nuo stuffed the purse into her hand and said, "Take it."

The woman's lips moved, but she didn't refuse in the end. After she accepted the purse, she knelt on the ground with her son and said, "Thank you, benefactor. May God bless you and your wife, and may you live a life without illness and disaster, grow old together, and have many children and grandchildren..."

Song Yiren was just standing beside Li Nuo and watching. After hearing this, she was stunned for a moment, took out a silver ingot from her arms, stuffed it into the woman's arms, and said, "Use this money to buy medicine for the child..."

The woman thanked him again, holding the child, and left with a look back every three steps.

Li Nuo looked at Yiren and said, "Take the things and go back first. I have something to do."

Song Yiren asked, "What is it?"

Li Nuo said, "Wait for me at home, I'll tell you when I get back."

Song Yiren didn't ask any more questions, nodded, and said, "Then I'll wait for you at home."

After Yiren left, Li Nuo walked on the streets of Zhao State and soon caught up with a short figure.

I didn't expect that Zhao State also had a thief door.

The thief's technique was very sophisticated, not something that a thief could master, and his method of cutting hair was exactly the same as that of the disciples of the Daxia Dao Sect.

This made Li Nuo determine that he was a disciple of the Dao Sect when he saw him for the first time.

Just like he could judge the opponent's faction by the moves of a warrior, Li Nuo knew whether these thieves had received professional training as soon as they made a move.

Zhao State obviously also had a Dao Sect.

If we can follow the clues and eradicate the Dao Sect of Zhao State, our life span can be increased by at least a thousand days.

Although the life span of each of these thieves is not much, they are many.

With his fourth realm of cultivation, catching hundreds of thieves will not encounter the bottleneck of cultivation like last time, and of course, he will not encounter the bottleneck of life span, and the harvest will be much greater than that time in Chang'an.

Zhu Liu walked on the streets of Zhao State. When he came to an alley, he looked back and found nothing unusual, so he walked into the alley with confidence.

Today was really a ghost. Not only was the stolen money bag confiscated, but even his own money bag was taken away.

He didn't feel bad about the silver.

Money is something outside of one's body. If he doesn't have it, he can steal it back at any time.

But the way the senior took away all his belongings silently amazed him.

Being a thief to this extent, can he be called a thief saint?

Fortunately, the senior was one of us and let him go, otherwise he would definitely be sent to the government today.

With the amount of money he stole, if it was all found out, he might be exiled...

Zhu Liu turned seven or eight corners in the alley before he came to a dilapidated courtyard.

It was daytime, and other colleagues in this base should be working outside. Zhu Liu walked into a room, borrowed paper and pen from the clerk, sat in the yard, and began to copy the ten things not to steal.

Don't steal from the old, don't steal from the young, don't steal from the sick, don't steal from the disabled, don't steal from the poor, don't steal from the good, don't steal from the beggars, don't steal from the lonely, don't steal from the officials, don't steal from the powerful.

In fact, when he entered the door, the manager in charge of him told him these.

But rules are rules, and whether to follow them depends on the actual situation.

How can you get performance if you don't steal this or that?

Without performance, you can't get a promotion. If you have the worst performance for three consecutive months, you will be directly expelled from the thief door.

At the beginning, Zhu Liu also recognized the principle of thieves also have their own way in his heart, but after two consecutive months of the lowest performance, he had to bow to reality and completely abandoned his ideals at the time.

Although the senior didn't know whether he would copy these or not, Zhu Liu still chose to keep his promise.

As time passed, several figures came in one after another and handed the stolen goods to the clerk who was responsible for counting the property. Seeing Zhu Liu copying the ten things not to steal in the thief door in the courtyard, they all expressed their confusion.

"Zhu Liu, what are you doing when you have nothing to do? Why are you copying these?"

"Did you steal a fat sheep today? Why are you so idle?"

"Seeing that he is so interested, he must have done something big..."

...

Outside this stronghold, in the corner of a small alley, Li Nuo leaned against the wall and watched another figure walk into the small courtyard.

He is no longer the same person as last year, and he does not need to go undercover in the Daomen.

Li Nuo knows the operating mechanism of the Daomen better than anyone else.

There is no use in finding this stronghold.

He needs to find the manager of this stronghold, and then follow the clues from bottom to top to find the chief seat in charge of him, the guardian of the chief seat, and the messenger in charge of the guardian.

After finding the messenger of the Daomen, he can know the identities of all the guardians, chief seats, and managers from top to bottom, and as long as all the managers are arrested, the bottom-level thieves will have nowhere to hide.

Li Nuo waited for a long time, but the manager of this stronghold did not show up.

So he went back to the embassy first. Yiren had been waiting for him in the room for a long time. After Li Nuo walked into the room, she couldn't wait to ask, "Where have you been?"

Li Nuo told her about the discovery of the Zhao State Thieves.

Song Yiren's eyes lit up slightly when she heard it.

Sister Fenghuang said that Li Anning and he pretended to be a couple for a few days when they were eradicating the Thieves, and then they got together.

She looked at Li Nuo and asked, "Do you want to catch them?"

Li Nuo nodded and said, "Just treat it as a gift to the fourth prince of Zhao State, and it can also increase a lot of cultivation."

Eradication of the thieves is also a political achievement. If we can follow the example of Daxia and set up a thief-hunting department to continuously supply anti-theft talents from all over the country, it will be a great achievement. It can not only be regarded as the political achievement of the Fourth Prince, but Li Nuo can also gain additional cultivation from it.

Let’s not talk about other things for now. As long as this thing can be accomplished, his trip to Zhao State will not be in vain.

Song Yiren straightened her chest: "I'm ready!"

Li Nuo was surprised and said: "What are you ready for?"

Song Yiren looked at him and said expectantly: "Pretend to be a couple with you. Didn't you and Li Anning pretend to be a couple to solve the case before? In order to solve the case, I can also make some sacrifices..."