Dragon Pattern Roll Set

"My name is Shi Xiaobao." The little Taoist patted the snow on his buttocks, stood up and answered Zhan Zhao, "I went here with my senior brother to do business, and accidentally stumbled into Zhong Lin's Peach Blossom Forest. Zhong Lin seemed to be delirious. Yes, I gave us the box, saying it was very important, and transferred some internal energy to me by accident, and then he died. This tiger looked scary at first, but it doesn’t bite and has a good temper. They always follow us, as if they have something to say. Brother and I found a lot in Zhong Lin's room...uh."

"I found a lot of books and peach trees to exorcise ghosts, and there was a black tiger, so I felt that the opportunity to make a fortune has come. Your brother drew a black tiger on his chest to pretend to be a descendant of Maoshan Taoist priests, right?" Zhan Zhao ask.

Shi Xiaobao scratched his head embarrassingly, "But for some reason, we were targeted by a group of white-clothed men with superb martial arts... I got separated from my senior brother, and Hei Hu walked with my senior brother, and I fell off the cliff. Wait for me I climbed up to the city to look for my senior brother, but found that Heihu was following you, so I followed. I thought you arrested my senior brother..."

Zhan Zhao nodded clearly, "You thought your brother was caught by us when he cheated, so you followed us?"

Shi Xiaobao scratched his neck in embarrassment, "...It's not easy to lie, we're just eating and drinking. Is it the so-called peace of mind for those who have done bad things, the so-called take what they need?"

"After catching ghosts so many times, did you finally encounter a ghost this time?" Bai Yutang asked.

Shi Xiaobao sighed, a little dejected, "What should I do if the senior brother is gone... I must avenge the bastard who killed him!"

Zhan Zhao looked at Bai Yutang—let's talk about it after taking him back to the Yanzhou Mansion, the scroll is also in his hands.

Bai Yutang reached out and took out the scroll in the box, and opened it.

Zhan Zhao stroked his chin and looked at it for a while, then frowned, "Hey... this Master Zhong is ill and his eyesight is not so good, why is he only writing half of the words?"

"This is called a half-character." Shi Xiaobao said, "People who are partial will use it."

Zhan Zhao blinked, "Way?"

"Oh, it's a line of business between righteous and crooked."

Shi Xiaobao smiled and said, "It's better to say that blacksmithing to buy tofu is the right thing to do, and then robbing and being a bandit is crooked. It's like fortune-telling, Feng Shui... You can say it's true or it's just a lie. vary."

Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Are you quite unreasonable?"

Shi Xiaobao looked at so many yamen servants, he was a little embarrassed, "Is it okay if I don't go to the government? Why don't you give me my brother's body, I will burn him and take him back to his hometown."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and looked at him, "That won't work, since I asked you to help solve the case, and secondly...do you really think there are only a few white-clothed killers? If they're all dead, there's nothing else to do?"

Shi Xiaobao was in a dilemma, "My master said, life is not as good as the government, and death will not go to hell!"

Bai Yutang suddenly asked, "What's your brother's name?"

"It's called Lu Chen." Shi Xiaobao replied, "Actually, my senior brother and I were both picked up by the master. We were orphans. We stole together to make a living when we were young, and we were often beaten. Once we were caught stealing, and an old man rescued us. Start teaching us what to do."

"What kind of ability?" Zhan Zhao looked at him, "Your internal strength was given by Zhong Lin. You should be poor in kung fu, but light kung fu is pretty good."

Shi Xiaobao hesitated for a moment.

"Is your master's surname Xu?"

Shi Xiaobao looked up at Bai Yutang in surprise, "How do you know?"

Bai Yutang pointed at his finger.

Zhan Zhao noticed that the middle fingers of Shi Xiaobao's hands were both extremely long and slightly curved.

Zhan Zhao was also surprised, "Are you a thief?"

Shi Xiaobao hurriedly shook his head, "No!"

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand, "Take it out."

Shi Xiaobao blinked, "What are you taking?"

Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows.

Shi Xiaobao turned around and wanted to run, but Bai Yutang grabbed his shoulders and shook him as if he wanted to shake his clothes, then he heard a few "crash" and dropped the purse all over the place.

Zhan Zhao looked at the purses all over the floor, "Aren't you sinking?"

Shi Xiaobao looked up at the sky.

Zhan Zhao glared at him, "Did you steal it all the way?"

Shi Xiaobao said in his heart - dead!

"Your senior brother doesn't have any!" Bai Yutang asked.

Shi Xiaobao frowned, "Isn't there? Impossible, senior brother also has a lot... Could it be that he was killed for robbery?!"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other—there was a bank note on Lu Chen's body, which meant that the person who killed him was not trying to rob money.But why were all the purses taken away?

What Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang thought at the same time was—could it be that the two thieves didn't identify the person when they attacked, and stole something other than this scroll?

Bai Yutang squatted down and looked through the purse on the ground, there was nothing special.

Shi Xiaobao looked at Bai Yutang's hand turning over the purse, hey!These fingers are long...

"oops."

Shi Xiaobao was watching, when Zhan Zhao knocked on the head, covered his head and looked up.

Zhan Zhao hooked his fingers at him, "Take you back to the Yamen."

"No way!" Shi Xiaobao hurriedly hid behind the tree, "I just steal money, and I haven't done anything bad."

"Isn't stealing money a bad thing?" Zhan Zhao made him laugh.

"I only steal from rich people!" Shi Xiaobao explained, "We steal money and do good deeds! You also know that my school has rules."

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao looked at each other—yes.The Thief Sect is a very mysterious sect. Xu Yeyang, the head of the sect, is known as the number one thief in the world.But there are three things he doesn't steal: he doesn't steal from poor people, he doesn't steal life-saving money, and he doesn't steal innocent money.In other words, he only steals from those who make ill-gotten gains, and is known for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.

Bai Yutang stood up, tilted his head slightly, and said in Zhan Zhao's ear, "Xu Yeyang is my master's friend. He died a few years ago. Before he died, he wrote to master to help take care of two apprentices. But then the master couldn't find them. It was mentioned in the letter that the two apprentices are named Shen Er and Xiao Bao, and they are not very old."

Zhan Zhao raised his eyebrows and nodded——according to this, Lu Chen and Shi Xiaobao actually had poor backgrounds.

"Let me tell my lord." Zhan Zhao said to Bai Yutang, "Forget about playing two boards, he said this time that he made up for his mistakes by sending back the scroll, but it's not a way to steal it like this in the future, will Tianzun accept him as an apprentice? "

Bai Yutang frowned and looked Shi Xiaobao up and down, shook his head and said with certainty, "No talent, in Master's eyes, this is monkey-level...or just a little monkey with no qualifications, he definitely doesn't like it."

The corner of Shi Xiaobao's mouth twitched—the monkey...

A large group of white-clothed men were arrested, and they all returned to the state capital together.

After listening to Shi Xiaobao's situation, Master Bao asked Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao, "Is this young man also a thief?"

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at each other, and hooked Shi Xiaobao together, which meant—take it out.

Shi Xiaobao had no choice but to give them a money bag.

Grand Master Pang was surprised, "Ah! My purse!"

Bai Yutang returned the purse to the Grand Master.

"You just came in, when did you steal it?" The grand master looked at Shi Xiaobao depressedly, "Why did you steal it from me?"

Shi Xiaobao scratched his chin, "If you are a corrupt official, who do you steal?"

The Taishi raised his eyebrows, raised his beard, and said to Bao Zheng, "Old Bao, beat him!"

Who knew Master Bao stretched out his hand and patted Shi Xiaobao on the shoulder, "There is a future!"

Grand Master Pang was so angry that his nose was crooked.

"However, it's a pity to be a thief with such ability! You have to follow the right path." Bao Zheng thought for a while, and said, "Why don't you stay in Kaifeng Mansion and be a fast arrester?"

Everyone looked at each other, Shi Xiaobao pulled out his ears and asked, "What are you doing in Kaifeng Mansion?"

"Be a fast catcher." Bao Zheng smiled and patted him on the shoulder again, "Stealing is not allowed in normal times, and you can steal when the government allows you to steal."

Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao couldn't laugh or cry—make the best use of everything!

"Cough cough." Shi Xiaobao coughed twice, "Then what, of course I shouldn't shirk my lord's respect for me so much, but... Your lord also knows that I'm used to idle clouds and wild cranes..."

"Oh." Master Bao interrupted him with a drawn-out tone, "Then we can't make up for it? Then we have to do the math."

"What is it?" Shi Xiaobao was nervous.

"All the taels you stole are here." Mr. Bao took a tray handed over by Ma Han, and there were various silver bags inside. There was at least a thousand taels of silver bills in the Grand Master’s wallet just now, and you also know that he came from a corrupt official.”

Grand Master Pang's eyelids twitched.

"...Then do the math, it's not enough to beat the board, at least ten years in prison." Master Bao's face darkened, "There is still a distribution!"

Shi Xiaobao opened his mouth wide, "Ten years..."

Bao Zheng shook his head helplessly, "Since you don't want to make up for your mistakes, you also know that this government has always been fair and lawful..."

"Isn't it?!" Shi Xiaobao exclaimed, "Are you blackmailing me?"

Bao Zheng said seriously, "I'm giving you a chance to make up for your mistakes. Whether you steal from the rich or give to the poor, or life forces you to do so, breaking the law is breaking the law. Do you think that's all? I'm giving you the opportunity to make up for your mistakes. It's for you to do more with your useful body. Good thing, to make up for previous mistakes, this government will not show affection to you."

"I'll make it up!" Shi Xiaobao admitted his failure, and quickly agreed, "I'll be a catch soon! I can be a cow or a horse, don't make me go to jail."

Bao Zheng nodded in satisfaction, "Very good, we must learn it well from today on."

After finishing speaking, ask someone to prepare a room for Shi Xiaobao and let him live in the mansion temporarily.

Pang Ji asked Bao Zheng, "Heizi, what are you playing? Leave a thief as an errand in the mansion."

Zhao Pu also nodded, "I just met him once, and I'm not sure about his character yet."

Bao Zheng nodded and smiled faintly, "This government is obliged to take care of this young man. In fact, this government also knows Xu Yeyang."

Everyone was surprised—Master Bao also knew him?

"He did a favor for the government. It happened more than 30 years ago. Back then, the government was still studying in the academy. He was suspected of stealing and had to go to the Yamen." Mr. Bao said of that year, "It was very cold that year. , I was punished by my master to kneel in the yard for a whole night. No matter how I explained at that time, no one believed that I did not steal anything. I knelt down late at night, just like now, when it snowed, an old man suddenly sat down On the roof of the courtyard wall, ask me, 'Scholar, why are you kneeling?'”

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, Mr. Ganqingbao also had such an experience when he was young, no wonder he was most afraid of wronging good people.

"Then what happened next?" the fourth son raised his face and asked.

"I told the old man that I didn't steal anything. They said I stole and I was punished here." Master Bao smiled faintly. Kneeling here, how about finding out the real thief and clearing yourself up?'”

Everyone nodded, feeling reasonable.

"I went to find the murderer, and found out that the real thief was a classmate, but he was the son of the county magistrate, and all the wives flattered him. In fact, they all knew that I didn't steal it, but they all turned a blind eye. Bao Zheng said, "Under my questioning, the master of the academy persuaded me to be patient, saying that if I offend the county magistrate, I won't be able to get along in the local area."

Hearing this, the corners of Pang Ji's mouth twitched—the county magistrate is squatting in a prison somewhere.

"You just forget it?" Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, "It's not like your character."

Master Bao laughed, and nodded to Bai Yutang, "Does Young Xia Bai know this house well? This house didn't do anything, just collected the criminal evidence of the county magistrate's corruption and perverted the law. A few days later, he went to the state and handed over all the evidence to the government. Lord Ya."

Pang Ji pursed his lips - sure enough, this black guy has held grudges since he was a child and is not easy to provoke.

"Actually, it's another thing that makes me happy." Mr. Bao said with a smile, "That night when I knew the real murderer was helpless, the old man came to me again and asked how I was, so I told him the truth. He listened, he said 'you wait, I'll avenge you tomorrow!'"

Everyone was curious - what kind of revenge method?

"Early in the morning of the next day, the family property of several masters in the academy was looted, and only a pair of underpants were left, and all the property was distributed to the homeless outside the city." Bao Zheng smiled, "The next day is a big one. Those masters ran out wearing only a pair of underpants, with a few big characters written on their bare backs, misleading their children and making them their teachers, that scene is something I will never forget."

Everyone laughed, Shi Xiaobao happened to come back from a stroll at this moment, he was still eating a bun given to him by a girl, when he heard half of it, he stomped his feet with a smile, "It's what the old man did."

"Later he told me that it is difficult to raise dragons in shallow water, so go to Kaifeng and take the exam for the number one scholar!" Master Bao smiled when he said this.

Everyone was amazed. Everyone knew that Bao Zheng was the number one scholar in the examination before he entered the court and became an official.

Zhao Pu asked, "The old man is Xu Yeyang?"

Bao Zheng nodded.

Pang Ji grinned—I said, why did you have so many mouths back then, old man?

Gongsun sighed with emotion - oh, the old man is so discerning, it is a blessing to all people.

"When did your master pass away?" Zhan Zhao asked Shi Xiaobao.

"It's been a long time. He died of illness. He said that he has entrusted his friend to take care of us and let us go to Tianshan." Shi Xiaobao spread his hands, "But my senior brother and I didn't believe anyone except Master, so we started wandering the rivers and lakes. We are very happy and free. I didn't expect... to break up like this in Yanzhou Mansion, and I will never see you again."

……

Before dark, Gongsun took Shi Xiaobao to identify Lu Chen's body first. Shi Xiaobao recognized Lu Chen, asked about what happened, and squatted in the yard wiping tears when he went out.

The fourth son comforted him, Shi Xiaobao wiped his tears and looked at the fourth son, thinking that the people in Kaifeng Mansion were really far from the rumors.Mr. Bao looks dignified, but he is quite funny, and he can blackmail people; Zhan Zhao imagined that he was a hunchback, but he didn't expect that he was a handsome young man with a strange temper. It's even more strange, it's colder than the snow in Baozhou Prefecture, and it melted when he was with Zhan Zhao; Gongsun Ce thought he was an old pedant, so young, and he has a son who looks like a dumpling...Zhao Pu is a big The big, domineering hooligan; Pang Taishi is a big dumpling, but he is actually quite cute, and has been bullied by Master Bao all the time.

In the evening, Bao Zheng called everyone into the study room, spread out the scroll, and asked Shi Xiaobao, "Can you understand?"

Xiaobao nodded, "I've read this scroll, and Zhong Lin used several unusual methods to write it, probably for the sake of keeping it secret."

As he said that, Shi Xiaobao told everyone the contents of the scroll one sentence at a time... It turned out that the main thing he was talking about was--Tianmu really exists!Moreover, it is not a monster!