Nightwatcher

Xu Qi'an sat on the big chair, took a sip from the teacup, and said slowly, "Tell me."

Miss Rong Rong pursed her red lips and said, "Since Mr. Xu has heard of my name, he must be familiar with the Snitch with Thousand Faces."

"I've heard of it." Xu Qi'an rubbed his chin and looked at her: "You mean, the one who stole my treasure was actually that thousand-faced female snitch?

"Min Yinluo, help me find the information about that female snitch."

Min Shan turned to order the official to look for it. After a cup of tea, the official came over with a booklet, opened the corresponding page, and handed it to Xu Qi'an.

There is not much information about the Snitch with Thousand Faces, only that the other party is a very powerful thief, who walks alone, does not know the background of her teacher and background, and has committed countless cases, big and small, and has never been caught.

This record provided Xu Qi'an with two pieces of information: First, the other party was not an ordinary thief, and he committed serious crimes repeatedly without missing a beat.

Second, the female snitch's field is limited to stealing, and she doesn't have much destructive power, so there are only a few records of the watchman's yamen, and she doesn't pay much attention to it.

"He's a highly professional snitch." Xu Qi'an closed the booklet, returned it to the officials, and asked the tied-up girl Rong Rong:

"Why did the Snitch with a Thousand Faces disguise herself as you?"

Miss Rongrong sneered and said, "Who knows, maybe I'm jealous of my girl's long sleeves and good dancing."

It seems that he was torn and forced, so he was retaliated against. Xu Qi'an grabbed the saber and hung it back on his waist, and said: "Min Yinluo, I will leave the person to you. Before I agree, I can't let him go. It's useless for anyone to come."

After the confession, Xu Qi'an hurried out of the yamen, rode on his beloved filly, and galloped towards the outer city.

Only Daoist Jinlian came forward in person. Fortunately, he knew where Daoist Jinlian lived, although he had never been there.

The sun is gradually moving westward, and the curfew will be in another hour. He has to find the female thief before the curfew and get back the fragments of the underground book, otherwise he can only go back to the Yamen and ask Wei Yuan to sign a search and arrest warrant.

Daoist Jin Lian lives in Beicheng, in a small courtyard facing the river. The feature is that this little scarecrow stands on the roof of the main house.

When Xu Qi'an arrived here, he knocked on the courtyard door, but it was very quiet inside and no one answered.

"Is the Taoist priest out?"

Xu Qi'an climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, and pushed open the door of the main room. The room was clean and tidy. On the bed, Daoist Jinlian was lying peacefully, as if he had passed away.

Xu Qi'an called "Taoist Master" a few times, and seeing that he was still asleep, he knew that this old man had gone out for a walk again.

Why did he develop such a quirk all of a sudden? What should I do? The Taoist chief doesn't know when he will come back. Xu Qi'an frowned and thought for a moment, paying attention.

He strolled to the side of the bed, raised his hand, bowed left and right, and slapped Dao Zhang across the face.

Daoist Jin Lian, as a mature Jianghu senior, should know how to protect his physical body, he must have left behind, as long as the physical body is hurt, he can immediately sense it, even

"Papa papa!"

There was only applause in the room.

After a long time, Xu Qi'an heard Daoist Jin Lian's unfeeling voice from the door: "What are you doing?"

The applause stopped immediately, Xu Qi'an came back to his senses in surprise, looked at the door, and said: "Prince Daoist, you are back."

An orange cat stood by the threshold, looking at him quietly.

Seeing that Priest Jinlian was silent, Xu Qi'an quickly explained: "I have something urgent to call on you, but you are not in the courtyard. I guess you must have left behind in the flesh, so you can only do something wrong."

Orange Cat's voice was still unadulterated: "Then, have you guessed that the moment you entered the yard, I already sensed it."

Even Daoist Jin Lian sensed that there was a guest when I was admitted to the hospital. Xu Qi'an said blankly, "I don't know."

The orange cat nodded, stepped into the room with an elegant cat, jumped onto the bed, and asked, "What's the matter."

"My book from the ground was stolen."

Immediately, he told Taoist Priest Jinlian how he encountered the female thief with thousands of faces and how he mistakenly captured Miss Rong Rong.

"After the shards of the Earth Book recognize the owner, outsiders will not be able to see the biography, nor can they take out the contents. You can rest assured." The orange cat is very calm.

"Then when I got it from you, it was ownerless?"

"The brand was erased by the Daoist head of the local sect."

Xu Qi'an nodded, he already knew about these things, "It's not too late, let's go recover the fragments of the book."

"Follow me."

The orange cat jumped off the bed and ran out of the house. After Xu Qi'an chased it out, he found it squatting on the horse's back, with its head sideways, quietly waiting for him.

Why didn't the Taoist priest come out physically? Even though getting cats is a hobby, but now he is going to do business. Is it true that for him, there is no difference between the physical body and the soul?

With doubts, Xu Qi'an untied the horse's reins, touched the face of the little mare, and said that he was wronged to let another man ride it once.

Da da da

The little mare galloped wildly in the spacious street, and the pedestrians retreated consciously. There was no unsightly block in the middle of the road.

This is an era when people give way.

"Turn left!"

The orange cat said suddenly.

Xu Qi'an turned the horse's head, controlled the filly to complete a beautiful drift, and turned to the left.

Under the command of Daoist Jinlian, Xu Qi'an transferred from the North City to the East City, and when he came to an inn, Daoist Jinlian said: "The fragments of the book from the ground are inside."

When he was speaking, Xu Qi'an felt a feeling of being connected by blood, mysterious and mysterious, and clearly sensed the location of the fragments of the underground book.

The ground book fragments and the host can have sympathy within a short distance.

In a room in the inn.

Wearing heavy makeup, a woman with big almond eyes and soft eyes was sitting at the table, resting her chin in one hand and playing with a small jade mirror with the other.

"Why can't I use this treasure?"

The counterfeit girl Rongrong looked at the fragments of the book on the ground. It looked ordinary at first glance, but as the only heir of the Daomen, she had a keen intuition for treasures.

Searching for treasures is the innate skill of the disciples of Pirates.

There are many strange lines on the mirror, boxes, silver tickets, military crossbows, and silver ingots. With years of "treasure hunting" experience, she quickly had a guess:

This is a magic weapon that recognizes the owner with a drop of blood, and it has a storage function.

"Rongrong" girl's heart was hot immediately, she didn't expect to catch so many big fish in one net, not only got a treasure, but also a huge fortune in it.

"How to get the stuff out"

The counterfeit Rongrong held the fragments of the book from the ground and banged on the table.

She has never seen the magic weapon that requires a drop of blood to recognize the Lord, and she is helpless about it. Of course, there is one principle that remains unchanged, but as long as the magic weapon is destroyed, the stored items will fall off automatically.

But this is a magic weapon to recognize the Lord with a drop of blood. Its value is incalculable, and it must not be done.

Suddenly, the door knocked "Dong Dong".

"who?"

"Rongrong" asked the girl with a frown. She didn't ask the waiter for hot water, and the rent was still sufficient.

"Check the water frame." A man's voice came from outside.

Hearing this voice, the girl "Rong Rong" changed her face greatly, without even thinking about it, she grabbed the small jade mirror and put it in her pocket, got up, took a step, and rushed to the window.

"Bang!"

She opened the window and was about to escape from here, but saw an orange cat squatting by the window, with amber pupils looking at her faintly.

"Rongrong" girl's brain seemed to be embedded by a steel nail, tearing her soul apart. She covered her head and sat down on the ground with a muffled groan.

The door was pushed open, and Xu Qi'an, who was pressing the knife with one hand, entered the room with steps that his relatives did not recognize.

The orange cat also jumped into the room from the window.

"It really is you!"

Xu Qi'an drew out a black gold long knife, put it on the neck of "Rong Rong", and hummed: "Thousand-faced female thief."

"My lord, what are you talking about?"

The girl "Rong Rong" turned her nimble eyes, as if she was thinking about countermeasures.

Xu Qi'an stretched out his hand, grabbed it lightly, and the fragments of the book flew out of the arms of "Rongrong" girl, and fell into his hands automatically.

The girl "Rongrong" said "Yeah" and stretched out her hand to hold her back, but when her neck hurt, she gave up her plan depressedly.

This man is powerful in battle, ten of himself are not enough to be hacked by others.

After checking the fragments of the book and confirming that the items inside were not lost, Xu Qi'an heaved a sigh of relief, and the big stone in his heart dropped.

The gold, silver and silver bills in the mirror are all his belongings. After coming to this world for half a year, he has managed to save his belongings through wind and rain.

It's all about my wife.

He put the fragments of the underground book back into his arms, then withdrew the knife, pulled a chair and sat down, looked at the frustrated female snitch with a smile, and said:

"Hey, why don't you quibble a little bit?"

"There's nothing to argue about getting stolen goods." The female snitch rolled her eyes and muttered:

"My old lady has been in Kyushu for many years, but she never thought that she would be planted in the capital. She deserves to be the most benevolent city in the world, and she is not wronged."

The tone of voice and demeanor, at first glance, is old Jianghu, hob meat. It is completely different from the green tea attitude shown in the restaurant before.

The restaurant was a disguise, but now it was her original temper.

Xu Qi'an was like a cat catching a mouse, jokingly said: "Let's argue a bit, maybe the uncle will let you go if his heart softens."

The female snitch changed her face as soon as she said she changed her face, showing a mournful expression, she was about to cry and said:

"The little girl is also a hard-working person. She was sold to a brothel by her parents at the age of three, forced to pick up customers at the age of ten, and accepted by the master as a closed disciple at the age of fifteen. I thought that the hard days were finally over, but the master was also a cruel person. , on a dark and windy night, he, he"

Xu Shi's acting skills were too realistic, Xu Qi'an couldn't tell the truth from the fake for a while.

"Okay, okay, I sympathize with what happened to you, but the law is not merciful. I have a few questions to ask you, and I will answer them honestly."

Xu Qi'an said: "How did you manage to steal my treasure without anyone noticing it?"

"This is the housekeeping skill of a little girl. Under the fourth rank, I can steal as much as I want."

"Then how is it so easy?" Xu Qi'an leaned over, pinched her chin, looked at her carefully, and said:

"It's not a human skin mask, but this face is definitely not yours."

"This is the unique secret technique of our Pirates. It is called the technique of deceiving the sky and crossing the sea. It really changes the appearance, and it is not comparable to the ordinary disguise technique."

"etc!"

Daoist Jin Lian interrupted suddenly, his amber eyes staring at the female snitch: "What did you just say, what sect are you?"

The female snitch, who suddenly sensed a murderous intent, said weakly, "Stealing the door"

Daoist Jin Lian looked at Xu Qi'an, and said coldly, "Let's kill this female snitch."

This was the worst time the Taoist sect was hacked. Xu Qi'an restrained the corners of his mouth from rising, and said seriously: "Do you know who this is in front of you?"

The snitch shook her head.

"The boss of Daoist sect."

"From now on, I will change the door of the thief to the door of the thief." The female snitch has a strong desire to survive.

Does the sect change as soon as it says it will? Xu Qi'an was stunned for a moment, seeing that Priest Jin Lian stopped talking, and continued the topic just now: "Hand over the secret book."

The female snitch had a pitiful expression: "This is a child's skill. I have practiced it since I was a child. The master taught it hand in hand. There is no secret book. I started practicing at the age of four, and it took more than ten years to become a teacher."

"Didn't you just say that you entered the brothel at the age of three, received customers at the age of ten, and became the exclusive "untouchable" for the master at the age of fifteen?"

"Maybe your lord heard wrong?"

Xu Qian said with confidence that such old-fashioned fritters really couldn't believe even a single punctuation mark.

"Hand over the cheat book of the disguise technique."

The female snitch nodded resignedly: "The secret book is in the closet, I'll go get it right away."

Seeing Xu Qi'an nodding her head, she got up and walked to the closet, took out a bundle, and said, "The secret book is inside."

Xu Qi'an took the bag, and the moment he opened it, a puff of green mist gushed out, caught off guard, he and Daoist Jin Lian took a few breaths, and immediately passed out.

The female snitch, who had already held her breath in advance, took out a porcelain bottle from her bag, took the antidote inside, and then breathed calmly, humming:

"Fight with aunt, you are still far behind."

As he spoke, he kicked Xu Qi'an a few times to vent his anger, reached into his arms, groped a few times, and found the small jade mirror.

Suddenly, she felt something hard pressed against her buttocks, and Xu Qi'an's voice came from behind: "Sure enough, let's kill it."

The girl "Rongrong" lowered her head in amazement, and found that the silver gong that had been lying before was gone.

She didn't dare to move, knowing that there was a knife on her hip.

"I reminded you, this is a big brother of the Taoist sect, you don't even know when you got the illusion." Xu Qi'an said with a smile: "The buttocks are pretty up."

The female snitch completely resigned to her fate.

"By the way, what's your name?"

"Ge Xiaojing."

Xu Qi'an sealed the hole of the female snitch Ge Xiaojing, tied her up, threw her on the horse's back, and bid farewell to Daoist Jinlian.

The orange cat nodded slightly, and said: "Be careful all the way."

Leaving with graceful steps.

Xu Qi'an untied the rein, and was about to ride his beloved filly, but the filly suddenly went berserk, turned the horse's head, turned around at a 45-degree angle, kicked Xu Qi'an away with a beautiful back kick.

Then he let out a long hiss and walked away.

"???"

Xu Qi'an chased after it disheartened, subdued it before it collided with pedestrians, and calmed down for a long time before the filly regained its meekness.

"Little mare, don't you love me anymore? After you were ridden by that bad old man Jinlian, did you like the new and hate the old?"

Xu Qi'an sat on the horseback and said to himself that I will not play tricks anymore, Jiang is still old and spicy.

Returning to the policeman's yamen, Xu Qi'an put the female snitch into prison, and warned the jailer not to do unnecessary things, this person is still useful to him.

At this time, the curfew had already started for a quarter of an hour, and it was getting dark. But for a silver gong, the curfew is useless.

"Ecstasy hand Rongrong can be released, but there is a curfew right now, and you can't leave the inner city. Let's deal with her tomorrow."

The next day, Xu Qi'an rode a horse to the Daganren's Yamen, there were already officials waiting at the door, seeing him coming, he trotted up to greet him, and said:

"Master Xu, a group of people from all walks of life came to the Yamen to redeem someone. It is the girl you brought back yesterday, and she is at Min Yinluo's place."

Come to redeem people now? If I were a womanizer who bullies boys and girls, the children's bedroom would be filled several times. Xu Qi'an said "tsk":

"I see."

PS: Hahaha, there is a bug in Rongrong’s name, which does not match the previous text. I changed the previous text. The tragedy is that no one seems to see it.

I suddenly had the feeling of being in a nest, hahahaha.