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"There's a thief!"

If it were normal, he, a poor and weak scholar, would not dare to resist when encountering a thief, he would just want not to hurt him.

But now after drinking the elixir, Gu Xia's strength has greatly increased, and he thinks he can fight against the thieves. Besides, there are still forty taels of silver in the house, and he is determined not to be stolen.

So Gu Xia reached out and took out a small paper bag from the clothes he took off next to him.

The year before last, he was bullied by a gangster on the street. When he couldn't beat him, he grabbed a handful of mud and threw sand in his face. The gangster was stunned and he took the opportunity to escape.

Afterwards, Gu Xia was inspired and carried a pack of more sinister quicklime with him, which was probably the world's earliest anti-wolf spray.

He held the paper bag in his hand and pretended to be asleep, lying on the bed.

After a while, there was only a creaking sound, and the bedroom door was slowly pushed open.

Gu Xia squinted and vaguely saw a dark figure coming in under the moonlight. He quietly, holding a fire folder in his hand, used the dim light to look for valuables in the room.

"Huh!" Gu Xia couldn't help but laugh in his heart. His family only had a few boxes of worthless old classics, but this little thief actually stole them from a poor scholar's house.

The dozens of taels of silver that he had saved for a long time were all hidden in the straw under his bed sheets, and they could not be found without others uncovering them.

Gu Xia just stared at the thief silently with narrowed eyes. He didn't want to cause more trouble and planned to retreat after the thief was gone.

After a long time, the thief searched everywhere and found nothing, but he still did not leave. Instead, he turned around and walked towards Gu Xia on the bed.

The thief suddenly took out something from his arms. Under the weak firelight, Gu Xia saw that it was clearly a bright short knife.

"There's something wrong with him!"

Gu Xia was shocked, but did not move.

The thief walked to the bed, raised the steel knife and was about to stab it into the bed.

At this time, Gu Xia suddenly got up and threw the quicklime in his hand on the man's face.

"Ah! Ah!!" Caught off guard, the thief was splashed with quicklime in his eyes. A strong burning sensation instantly hit his fragile and sensitive eyeballs. He covered his eyes in pain and screamed in agony.

Gu Xia seized the opportunity and kicked the culprit hard in the crotch.

Although the thief is quite tall and strong, the finger-licking attack is a special attack on both men and women. Except for eunuchs, it can be a 100% critical hit.

"Ah! Ah! Die, you bastard scholar! Die!"

The thief fell to the ground in pain, curled up into a prawn, closed his eyes and clamped his legs, waving the steel knife in his hand wildly.

The cold blade made Gu Xia afraid to get close, so he got up and walked around, grabbed the chair next to the table, picked up the back of the chair and smashed it down.

After drinking the elixir, Gu Xia's strength was no different from that of ordinary people, or even better. He was not a scholar without the strength to tie a chicken, and the chair he swung was also very powerful.

With just a scream, the thief's arm was broken and the steel knife in his hand was knocked out.

But Gu Xia did not stop, but continued to swing the chair, and the hardwood chair legs hit the thief heavily.

"Ah! Ah... spare my life... spare my life..."

After a violent blow, the thief suffered muscle and fracture injuries in a short time, bleeding from all the orifices on his face, and the bridge of his nose was collapsed.

Soon he could only lie on the ground weakly begging for mercy and whining.

Seeing that the thief had no ability to resist, Gu Xia put down the chair in his hand with its legs broken.

Lighting the oil lamp, he lifted the thief's mask, and a deformed but vaguely identifiable face appeared.

"Tian Li! Why is it you!" Gu Xia was shocked to realize that this person was familiar to him. He was the guard who followed Zhao Wenjun every day.

Tian Li cried out: "Scholar Gu, please spare me! I was just greedy for a moment!"

"Greed? What do you want? Those twenty taels?" Gu Xia remembered that this man was watching when he won money today. He probably got rich by accident.

"No, I just want the opening pill... and the secret book of Xuan Gong... I am dedicated to practicing martial arts... but I have no choice but to learn some boxing and kicking skills from outsiders...

Without mystical power, I am just a mortal... That’s why I became greedy today..."

Gu Xia: "That's it! I'll teach you a lesson today. From now on, you have to bring me tea and water every day! Otherwise, I will tell Mr. Zhao about this!"

snort! A guard actually turned into a thief! Who will ask you to look after homes and homes in the future? "

Tian Li quickly begged: "Don't! I know I was wrong! Don't tell the young master! I will listen to you from now on!"

Gu Xia asked again: "That's pretty much it! Where do you live? Is there anyone at home? I'll help you go back."

Tian Li: "My family lives in the third house at the entrance of Fu Street in the north and south of the county... Because my mother is old and sick, I have never married. However, my mother passed away last year... Now I am the only one at home."

"Then let's go." Gu Xia carried the seriously injured Tian Li out.

After burning incense for about a while, the two came to a street. Because it was late at night, it was dark and no one was around.

Tian Li, who had blurry eyes, asked, "Scholar Gu, this doesn't seem to be the way to my house?"

Gu Xia: "I know, you are injured like this, go to the hospital first!"

Tian Li: "You are so kind, Gu Shusheng! I have bad thoughts about you, but you are still willing to help me."

Gu Xia smiled: "We Confucian believe in repaying evil with kindness. Besides, you have been punished. Next, you have to correct yourself and start a new life!"

"Scholar, you are more like a Confucian scholar than those old officials and white-bearded scholars. How could you fail to pass the Tongsheng examination?"

"Alas! Some things are very helpless! I just want to maintain my integrity and show my Confucian style..."

As they talked, the two came to a river in the county town.

Gu Xia said: "We're here!"

"Are we here?" Tian Li was puzzled.

Gu Xia showed a weird smile: "Yes, the river is a good place for dumping corpses, don't you think?"

"Ancient scholar! Woo...woo...woo!"

When Tian Li wanted to say something, Gu Xia took out the short knife he had used before and stabbed it into his heart. Puff, puff, seven or eight times in a row.

Puff!

Tian Li opened his eyes, which were full of bloodshot from the lime, and fell to the ground.

"Huff, puff, puff..."

Looking at the dead body, Gu Xia panted heavily, his heart was beating wildly in his chest, and for a moment he was inexplicably excited and excited.

After a long time, he calmed down and wiped the bloody steel knife on the body, and then took out a bunch of keys from the body.

Wow!

Gu Xia kicked the body into the river and sneered.

"Humph! The saint said: Repay grievances with virtue, how can you repay virtue?"

Since Tian Li took out the steel knife, Gu Xia didn't want him to live, but it was troublesome to deal with the body if he died at home.

Throwing it into the river, with the efficiency and technology of Gaoning County Court in solving cases, it would probably be an unsolved case.

Even if it was found out.

The law of the great culprits: Anyone who kills a burglar is not guilty.

Gu Xia just doesn't like dealing with the county government, there are too many trivial matters.

He put away the steel knife and followed Tian Li's instructions. After a while, he sneaked into Tian Li's house.

As expected, there was no one inside. After searching for a while, Gu Xia found a small wooden box under the bed. He opened it with the key and saw that it was full of silver coins.

Roughly speaking, it was no less than twenty taels, which should be his wife's money.

"I'm rich! I'm rich! No wonder so many people are doing it, the money comes so quickly!"

Gu Xia muttered.

There was also a bottle of unknown ointment and two books under the box, one of which was "Eagle Claw" and the other was "Iron Skin Kung Fu". When they were opened, they were probably some secret manuals of external martial arts.

"Tsk! What kind of three-legged cat kung fu is it? It's useless to practice it. I still knocked it down with a chair!"

But Gu Xia didn't throw it away. He planned to take it back and see it first.

He walked out with the box in his arms, and did not forget to take the pot of lamp oil from under the bed. After all, lighting is very expensive in this world.

When he came to the main house, Gu Xia saw the spirit tablet of Tian Li's mother placed in front of the hall, and there were traces of recent incense burning and worship on the table.

"It seems that he is still a filial son!"

Gu Xia walked to the spirit tablet with a bad taste, raised one hand to make a palm, and drew a cross on his chest with the other hand, muttering: "Old Taoist, congratulations on your reunion!"

After speaking, he closed the door and left.

When he returned home, it was dawn. Gu Xia, who had not slept all night, lay on the bed and soon fell into a sweet dream.

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