On that day, less than half an hour after the brief fierce battle at Shilong Martial Arts School, Yangzhou's former top master "Mountain Pusher" Shi Long died. His body was buried by Yu Wenhuaji's soldiers.

His best friend, the Confucian scholar Tian Wenjia, who was famous for his poetry in Jiangdu, was fished out of the well.

However, it is a pity that Yu Wenhuaji's men did not find the crucial "Secret of Immortality" on the body of Shi Long, and Tian Wen happened to be missing as well, so Yangzhou City's general manager Yu Chi Sheng immediately

They sent troops to cooperate with Yu Wenhuaji's men to blockade the four gates of Yangzhou's southeast, northwest, and began to search for Yangzhou. They quickly caught the old Confucian scholar who was sneaking out and wanted to escape.

However, things went wrong. On the way to escape, that damn Confucian scholar Tian Wen was cut open by pickpockets in Yangzhou City and stole the secret book without knowing it?

Then, after a frantic and rapid investigation, especially after Yu Wenhuaji's men cooperated with the Yangzhou soldiers to arrest all the thieves and pickpockets in the entire Yangzhou city and tortured them, they

I quickly got a clue, which is:

"Secret of Immortality" was probably stolen by two of the best thieves in Yangzhou City who were fifteen or sixteen years old. One of the two men was named "Kou Zhong" and the other was named "Xu Ziling"

, some people saw that the two people had been around Tian Wen before Tian Wen was arrested, and thought that those two people have not been captured yet, so there is no other possibility except that the secret of longevity is with them.

then!

After locking in the target, the general manager of Yangzhou sent more troops to blockade Yangzhou and began to dig three feet into the city, searching house by house, seemingly determined to kill the two before dark.

Will the daring thief capture Gui Yu and take back the stolen "Secret of Immortality"?

However……

What the arrogant Yangzhou Governor Yu Chisheng and the Sui Dynasty Imperial Guard General Guan Yu Wenji didn't know was that snakes have their own paths and rats have their own paths. They thought that as long as they blocked the two of the four main gates of Yangzhou City,

Pickpockets are unable to fly, but the two people who usually crawl around Yangzhou City know Yangzhou well and have already escaped from Yangzhou City through a sewage culvert. At this moment, they are in the city more than ten miles outside the city.

Playing in a clear stream and feeling proud!

"Ha ha!"

"Those big guys still want to arrest us, Yangzhou Shuanglong. How can it be so easy?"

"okay."

"Kou Zhong, stop talking and wash up quickly, we will stink to death!"

"Too!"

"Next time, I, Kou Zhong, will never get into that cesspool, never!"

"Don't drill?"

"Hey!"

"If we hadn't dug in, we would have been arrested by now, and maybe all of us would have been killed!"

"ah!"

"makes sense……"

"That Ziling, if there is need next time, can we drill?"

"Okay, okay!"

"Wash up quickly..."

"Then get out of here quickly, otherwise it will be terrible if they find out and chase you out!"

In this way, in this clear stream hidden in the mountains and dense forests, Xu Ziling and Kou Zhongzheng were scrubbing away the stench that had stained their bodies and hair due to drilling in the latrine sewage ditch, while drying the rinsed clothes, and at the same time

Don’t forget to show off proudly.

"Speak!"

"Kou Zhong, what on earth is that book?"

"Is it worth sealing off the entire city of Yangzhou for this?"

While washing, Xu Ziling suddenly thought of something important and asked quickly.

"have no idea……"

"But it's definitely not something simple!"

"look!"

"This thing is neither gold nor jade. It has been soaked in manure pits and water for so long, and now you wash it, and it's not rotten?"

Hearing Xu Ziling speak, Kou Zhong hurriedly picked up the tattered book from the stream that caused them to be wanted all the way in Yangzhou and was almost captured and cut into pieces, and quickly read through and commented on it.

"Unfortunately……"

"It's all filled with ghostly symbols and characters that we don't recognize, and there are also some humanoid images. We can't understand them at all!"

However, although Kou Zhong was usually known as a man of learning and talent, pickpockets were always pickpockets, and his knowledge of characters was really limited, and he obviously didn't know much about hieroglyphs and pictures.

"never mind!"

"Ziling, take a look, I'm still more interested in this!"

Saying that, the bored Kou Zhong directly threw the "broken book" in his hand that Yangzhou Chief Manager Wei Chisheng and Yu Wenhua had been looking for for a long time into Xu Ziling's arms, and then possessed him again and went under the stream.

I quickly pulled out a heavy cloth bag from the pebble river bed.

"It's so heavy!"

There is no doubt that the bag is what Kou Zhong and his wife found in the pocket of a gorgeously dressed little girl after they touched Tian Wen's "Secret of Immortality".

Originally, they wanted to find a place to open it, but before they had time, they were wanted by the whole city. Then the leader of their group of pickpockets was arrested. They were so frightened that they quickly sneaked out of the city through the sewage channel of the cesspool.

coming.

But now, this place is more than ten miles away from Yangzhou City, and some fools must still be aimlessly searching for them in the city. Therefore, they now have time to slowly count the results of today's victory.

"What the hell is this?"

"whispering sound!"

"Why are you still tied with a knot?!"

Kou Zhong tried to untie it several times, and even bit it with his teeth, but in the end, he found that he could not open the heavy cloth bag that contained something unknown.

"Still can't open it?"

"impossible?"

"Kou Zhong, aren't you still known as the most powerful pickpocket in Yangzhou? Why can't you even open a knot?!"

Seeing that Kou Zhong couldn't even open the bag he got, Xu Ziling also felt a little strange.

So he first threw the "Secret of Immortality" in his hand on a big pebble on the shore to dry in the sun, then swam to Kou Zhong's side, snatched the bag from his hand and tried to

Solved it on my own.

"!

"

"How evil!"

"What kind of knot is this and why can't it be untied?"

"have no idea!"

"Anyway, it's so heavy, it must be a good baby!"

"Um!"

"It seems to be heavier than silver!"

"Isn't it?"

"You also saw the little girl in the red dress at that time. Not only did she have tender skin and tender flesh, but the workmanship of her pants and boots were also first-class. A person like that must be a lady from a wealthy family, and she is not an ordinary wealthy family.

So I guess the stuff inside must be amazing!"

"!

"

"But it can't be opened!"

"Hello!"

"Kou Zhong, do you have a knife?"

"Knife?"

"No!"

"At that time, we were just running away. How could we pack our things when we had time?"

"or……"

"Let's smash a rock and cut the rope?"

"good idea!"

After trying it for a while, Xu Ziling found that he, like Kou Zhong, could not do anything about the exquisite cloth bag with a knotted knot, so he suggested that Kou Zhong smash one or two pebbles and then use sharp stone edges to cut them.

Try the bag rope.
To be continued...