Jiang Haiyang held a banquet in honor of Tian Long, Mou Rongtian, Yang Youfu, Su Sanniang and others to express his gratitude. At the banquet, there were many people and Mou Rongtian did not mention the century-old turtle shell to prevent the news from leaking.
That night, Jiang Haiyang rented a large inn and everyone stayed there. Mou Rongtian went to the guest room to find Jiang Haiyang and saw that there was no one else in the room, so he brought up the matter of the tortoise shell.
Jiang Haiyang said: "I don't have anything like this in my hand. I have caught several turtles that are over a hundred years old before, but the shells were all sold."
Mou Rongtian asked: "Who was it sold to?"
Jiang Haiyang said: "They were all sold to the 'Little God of Wealth' Shen Kuo."
Mou Rongtian said: "About me asking you about the tortoise shell, please do not reveal it."
Jiang Haiyang said: "Don't worry, Mr. Mou, but I will keep your mouth shut."
Mou Rongtian said: "That's very good. Gang Leader Jiang, please rest." He stood up and was about to leave.
Jiang Haiyang said: "Master Mou, please stay."
Mou Rongtian asked: "What else can I do?"
Jiang Haiyang took out a red envelope from his arms, handed it to Mou Rongtian, and said: "Mr. Mou helped us defeat Guo Suo and Wei Qi. I am very grateful. It's just a small thing. I bought a bag of tea for you."
This red envelope has been prepared a long time ago. If Mou Rongtian does not come to him, he will go to Mou Rongtian later. There are five red envelopes in his arms, which are for Tian Long, Yang Youfu, Su Sanniang, Wu Kunshan and Shihuang, these four people.
Mou Rongtian did not accept the red envelope and politely refused. The next morning, he and Shi Yi left Haizhou City on horseback. A few days later, they arrived at Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing. After asking around, they found Shen Kuo's house. The door led them to sit down in the flower hall.
Shen Kuo is the richest man in Jiangnan, known as the "Little God of Wealth". He mainly engages in the salt industry, and also does tea, raw silk, medicinal materials and other businesses. Among the eight major salt merchants in Jiangnan, Shen Kuo has the strongest financial resources.
It was not long before Shen Kuo walked in and said with a smile: "What a distinguished guest." I saw that he was in his fifties, of medium build, and very fat. He must have weighed more than 200 kilograms at least."
After he sat down, he asked: "I wonder why Mr. Mou came to the little old nursery school?"
Mou Rongtian said: "Executive member Shen, the thing is like this. The queen is suffering from a serious disease and needs to be treated with turtle shells that are more than a hundred years old. According to Gang leader Jiang of the Giant Whale Clan, he once sold several turtle shells to Mr. Shen. I don't know about these turtle shells." Are you still at home?"
Shen Kuo rolled his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said: "The little old man did buy several turtle shells that were more than a hundred years old from Gang Leader Jiang, but these turtle shells had long been boiled into a nourishing soup and taken by the little old man. Now The little old man doesn’t have anything like this in his hands.”
Mou Rongtian observed his words and felt that Shen Kuo was not telling the truth, so he said calmly: "In that case, I won't bother you anymore." He stood up and left.
Shen Kuo saw them out of the gate. Mou Rongtian and Shi Yi led the horses and walked on the street. Shi Yi said: "It's really unlucky. This trip was in vain."
Mou Rongtian said: "It may not be in vain. When I mentioned the tortoise shell just now, I found that Shen Kuo hesitated. If he really doesn't have this thing, why would he hesitate?"
Shi Yi said: "You mean that old guy is lying to us? He has this thing and deliberately doesn't give it to us."
Mou Rongtian said "hmm" and said, "I think that's probably the case."
Shi Yi shouted: "This old guy dares to lie to us. He is too courageous. Brother Tim, what should we do next?"
Mou Rongtian said: "Find an inn to stay first."
Shi Yi said: "Why waste money by staying in an inn? It would be better to live in a branch office."
Mou Rongtian said: "There are many people in the sub-office and there are many eyes and ears in Dongchang. In order to prevent the news from leaking, it is better for us to stay in an inn."
After arriving and staying at the inn, Mou Rongtian said to Shi Yi: "Shen Kuo has a place where gold and silver treasures are hidden. I guess the turtle shell is among them. Let's go there tonight and see if we can steal the turtle shell."
Shi Yi said: "What's Fei doing? Just arrest Old Shen and torture him. If you don't believe him, he won't hand over the turtle shell."
Mou Rongtian said: "This is not possible. If he really doesn't have this thing, wouldn't we be in vain for a good person?"
Shi Yi said: "Yes."
Mou Rongtian said: "We can't go wearing official uniforms, we have to change clothes." They went to the street and bought some casual clothes.
At three o'clock that night, the two of them masked themselves and sneaked into the Shen family's mansion. The house was not small, with several courtyards and hundreds of houses. Mou Rongtian only heard that Shen Kuo had a treasure trove. It was a courtyard. After all, Where it was, he didn't know.
The two of them ran across the ridge of the house, looking in the east and west of the house. There were dozens of martial arts guards in the house. To prevent them from being discovered, the two of them were extra careful.
After searching for more than half an hour, Mou Rongtian saw a strange courtyard ahead.
The courtyard is square, 100 meters square, with only one house. In the center of the courtyard, the surrounding walls are about three meters high and two meters thick. The top of the wall is densely covered with iron caltrops, and the courtyard door is hung with a big lock.
Mou Rongtian said softly to Shi Yi: "It's probably that courtyard. Let's go and have a look."
Seeing no one around, the two of them floated down outside the courtyard gate. Mou Rongtian took out a thin wire from his treasure bag, inserted it into the keyhole, and tried to open the padlock. His lock-picking skills were professionally trained, and he was very good at it. Smart, but after poking for a long time, I still couldn't get the padlock open.
Mou Rong added: "This lock is extraordinary. It seems that this courtyard must be where Shen Kuo's treasure is hidden."
Shi Yi said: "Brother Tian, don't bother, we can just jump in. Why bother?"
Mou Rongtian said: "I'll go in and take a look. You stay outside and don't go in."
Shi Yi said: "Why is this?"
Mou Rongtian said: "I heard that Shen Kuo paid a lot of money to hire the European missionary Matteo Ricci to build this courtyard to prevent his treasures from being stolen. There is an ambush in the courtyard, which is extremely dangerous. I have an iron cloth shirt to protect my body, so I am not afraid. Just go in. It's too dangerous, so just wait for me outside."
Shi Yi said: "Well, Brother Tian, please be more careful."
Mou Rongtian flew up to the top of the wall and stepped on the sharp spikes of caltrops. The soles of his shoes were instantly pierced and stabbed into the soles of his feet. He protected himself with an iron cloth shirt and was not injured.
Mou Rongtian floated into the courtyard, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, there was a "click" sound, the soles of his feet were empty, and he fell. It turned out that he had stepped on a dark board, which cracked from the middle, and there was a deep pit below.
The bottom of the pit was densely covered with extremely sharp short spear heads. Mou Rongtian stood still with his feet on the spear heads. After the dark plate cracked, it would not close automatically. Mou Rongtian took a breath and jumped out of the pit. As soon as he landed, there was another "click" With a sound, he fell into the deep pit again, and the bottom of the pit was still the short spear head.
There were dark boards all over the courtyard. Mou Rongtian stepped on several of them and cracked them. After a moment, he landed in front of the door of the house. What greeted him this time was not the dark boards, but crossbow arrows as dense as locusts.
The crossbow arrows were shot from the courtyard wall, more than a hundred of them, at extremely fast speeds. They hit them in the blink of an eye. Mou Rongtian had no time to dodge. Fortunately, he had an iron shirt to protect his body, otherwise he would have been shot like a hedgehog. The clothes on his back were almost
It was badly damaged by crossbow arrows and was covered with arrow holes.
Mou Rongtian thought to himself: "Fortunately, the swallows didn't come in."
Shi Yi lay down on a room and looked into the courtyard. When he saw the scene just now, he broke out in a cold sweat.
There was a lock on the door. Mou Rongtian was not confident that he could open the lock. He didn't want to bother anymore, so he pulled out his tiger head knife and tried to chop off the lock. He tried cutting it, but it didn't work. There wasn't even a knife mark left on the padlock.
Only then did I realize that the lock was made of fine steel, and even a sword that could cut iron like clay would be useless against it.
At this time, several martial arts guards in the house heard the commotion and came to check. They couldn't enter the yard and couldn't peel off the wall, so they had to jump on the roof of a nearby house, looked into the yard, and found Mou Rongtian.
Among them was a martial artist named Zhao, who was the leader of these people. He did not want to alert the enemy, so he ordered everyone to ambush.
Martial Master Zhao still had some knowledge. Seeing that the random arrows failed to harm Mou Rongtian, he expected that the opponent would know the golden bell and iron cloth shirt and must be a master. He was afraid that he would not be able to defeat Mou Rongtian, so he went to call other martial arts masters to come and help.
Mou Rongtian couldn't cut the padlock open, so he used a small iron wire to poke it. The padlock was also specially made, and with his unlocking skills, he couldn't open it at all.
The door was made of iron. It opened outward and could not be broken open. Mou Rongtian inserted the knife into the connection between the door frame and the wall and tried to remove the iron door, but the tiger head knife could not be inserted at all. He pried off a wall brick.
When I poked it in with the tip of the knife, it made a "嘡塡" sound, and I thought: "It seems like this is a sandwich wall. The outer layer is made of bricks, but the inner layer is made of steel."
The house had no windows, so Mou Rongtian couldn't get in through the door, so he came up with the idea of building a roof. He jumped up to the house, squatted on the slope of the front room, uncovered a piece of tile, and found that there was actually a piece of iron under the tile. He was dumbfounded.
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Mou Rongtian didn't want to be in vain anymore, so he returned the same way and jumped out of the yard. As soon as he landed, dozens of martial arts masters rushed over and surrounded him.
The leader said to Mou Rongtian: "You are a thief who is very courageous. You dare to come to Shen's house to steal. Are you tired of living?"
Mou Rongtian saw that the man speaking was about fifty years old, with a medium build and a square face. He recognized him as Gu Zhongli, the director of the home's nursing home, "Zhen Bafang", and thought to himself: "This man has great martial arts skills, and I may not be his opponent.
If I were caught by mistake and my identity was exposed, wouldn't it be ridiculous? I'd better grease the soles of my feet and leave quickly."
Thinking of this, Mou Rongtian jumped onto the courtyard wall and jumped into the courtyard.
None of the martial artists had iron cloth shirts to protect their bodies, and no one dared to enter the courtyard. Gu Zhongli shouted: "Hurry up and surround the courtyard, don't let him escape."
Shi Yi stood on the ridge of the house not far away. Seeing that Gu Zhongli was about to lead people to chase Mou Rongtian, he shouted, "What are you calling a bird?" He took off his dart and shot it, hitting Gu Zhongli on the shoulder.
Gu Zhongli heard the wind behind him and hurriedly turned aside to avoid it. With a "bang", the dart stuck into the wall.
Gu Zhongli suddenly turned around, saw Shi Yi, and shouted: "There's only one more. You quickly surround the yard, I'll deal with this one." As he said that, he jumped towards Shi Yi.
Shi Yi wiped his head and ran away, throwing Gu Zhongli away in a few jumps. When Gu Zhongli returned, a martial artist said: "Master Gu, that kid is very tough. We didn't stop him and let him run away."
The next morning, when Shen Kuo was having breakfast, Gu Zhongli reported to him about the thief in the house last night.
Shen Kuo thought to himself: "If there is no thief earlier, there will be no thief later. How come Mou Rongtian came here and there was a thief that night? The thief knows the iron cloth shirt, and Mou Rongtian can also do this kind of kung fu. It seems that the thief is probably Mou Rongtian." .”