52 The thief of Jiangyang(1/2)
Su Chen's body skills were agile, like a silent wild cat walking between the courtyards and pavilions, avoiding the Taoist priests patrolling and guarding the Taoist temple and coming to the courtyard wall.
He turned over and walked outside the wall of the Taoist temple and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
It seems that the trip tonight is quite smooth.
As long as you sneak back to Yanyu Tower in Gusu County, it will be completely safe.
Su Chen saw that there were already drops of fresh blood on the ground outside the courtyard wall, extending towards the direction of the Ximen Wharf river and disappearing into the river.
This is the fresh chicken blood sprinkled by A Chou at the third day of the day. It has not solidified yet and is used to confuse and seduce the enemy. Others should have returned to the Tianyingmen Hall.
Su Chen immediately headed to Gusu City.
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As usual, Director Qinghe went to the toilet and returned to the wing room, he planned to sleep and rest.
As soon as he stepped into the room, he frowned.
Top experts are very sensitive to aura.
Especially this is his dormitory room, he is extremely familiar with the table, chair and book here, even the dust in the corner.
Few outsiders allow them to come in in the room, and abnormal external auras are easily noticed.
Although everything in the room was as old as before, his instinctive intuition was something wrong. It seemed that a fresh breath had penetrated, making the familiar breath in the room a little more disordered.
Director Qinghe's sharp eyes swept across the wing room.
There was no abnormality on the bookshelf in the room, and there was no sign of turning it around.
Maybe it may have been turned, but it was carefully restored to its original state and could not see any traces of movement. Because he often wiped it, there was no dust on the table, and nothing could be seen after turning it around.
Suddenly, Director Qinghe's eyes fell on a candlestick in the corner of the wall.
This candlestick often lights the lamp, but he never wipes it at will, leaving a little dust on the countertop. But now, the dust has traces of lightly rubbing by the cloth.
Although the visitor was careful not to leave fingerprints, it was obvious that someone had moved it soon after that after erasing the candlestick.
"Someone has touched this candlestick and opened the secret room?"
The Master Qinghe looked shocked and walked to the candlestick. He wanted to open the secret room and go inside to see if there was any stolen thing.
"Wait, could it be that it was to lead the snake out of the hole?"
Director Qinghe thought of another possibility, hesitated for a moment and stopped.
Even if someone touched the candlestick, without turning and trying again for one or two hours, the mechanism would not be opened. He was worried that someone would hide in the dark and peep, so he deliberately tempted him to open the candlestick secret room so that he could remember the method of opening the secret room.
But there are dozens of first-class masters in this Hanshan Taoist Temple, who dares to be arrogant here~!
Principal Qinghe decided to open the secret room immediately to see if there was anything lost. He quickly turned the candlestick three and a half circles and a half circles and a half circles and a half circles and a half circles and a half, and pressed it down.
"Click!"
The door of the secret room opened, and there were ten treasure chests filled with gold, silver and jewelry, and they could hardly fit them.
Master Qinghe couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that the ten treasure chests were filled with ten taels of gold.
The gold, silver and jewelry did not move at all, and no one should have entered the secret room.
If a thief turned the candlestick and opened the secret room, how could he not be greedy when he saw these tens of thousands of gold, silver and jewelry? He would definitely take away a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry in his ecstasy.
However, when Director Qinghe saw that the treasure chest was still there, he was not completely relieved, so he opened a more hidden dark cabinet on the wall of the dark room.
There is a rare spiritual treasure hidden here, which is the most important treasure of the entire Hanshan Taoist Temple. It is an unparalleled thing in the world, the master's heart. The gold, silver and jewelry in the other ten treasure chests are not so important.
Director Qinghe carefully opened the dark cabinet to check.
At this glance, his scalp was numb, and a terrifying look flashed through his pupils.
The jade slips and spiritual books in the dark cabinet disappeared.
"The spiritual book is stolen!"
Director Qinghe's hair stood up all over his body, and his soul was so scared that he was so scared that he was full of souls.
He had just gone out to the toilet and had a cup of tea, but the secret room was stolen and the most important treasure was lost.
If something else is lost, even if a treasure chest of ten thousand taels of gold is stolen in the secret room, it will be a general loss. He can make up for it with his own private money.
However, that jade slip is a heirloom of Master Hanshan Zhenren and a peerless treasure.
Even in the thirteen counties of Wu County, there is nothing, which is more valuable than this treasure.
Every time my master goes out for a long trip, he will definitely remind him to take care of this secret room and not to be missed by spiritual books.
If the master comes back from a long journey, study the spiritual book, and finds that the jade slip has been lost, how can he explain to the master?
I am afraid that if I apologize for death, it will be difficult to redeem this sin!
"Damn it!"
Director Qinghe couldn't help but feel shocked and angry.
This thief was so crazy that he dared to take advantage of his short tea in the toilet and enter the secret room and steal the jade slip and spiritual book.
It would take some effort to open the secret room, and it would definitely not escape yet.
Send someone to chase him immediately and you will definitely be able to recover it.
"Come quickly, the Taoist temple was robbed!"
The Qinghe Director rushed out of the wing room with a whirlwind, and a roar that shook the sky.
The entire Hanshan Taoist Temple was alarmed by his angry shout.
Many Taoist priests who were originally preparing to go to bed in each courtyard and room were awakened and rushed out of each courtyard and room. There were also those Taoist priests patrolling and guarding the night, holding torches and rushing to the Qinghe Daoist Principal's room, with bright lights on.
"Senior Brother Qinghe, what happened?"
"Master, what's theft?"
All the Taoist priests were filled with shock and anger.
The reputation of Hanshan Taoist Temple has been so powerful that it has been the world for decades. All thieves of all sizes are frightened by the news. There has been no theft case in at least ten years.
The leaders of the Taoist priests were four of the five generations of disciples of Hanshan Taoist Temple, Qingshan Taoist, Qingyun Taoist, Qingshi Taoist and Qingmu Taoist.
Including the eldest disciple of Daozhu Qinghe, the five of their fellow disciples are the five personal disciples of Hanshan Zhenren.
The rest are more than 20 young Taoist priests and more than 70 young Taoist priests. They are second-generation disciples and third-generation disciples of Hanshan Taoist Temple. Their cultivation is different from first-class light skills. Among them are also top first-class light skills masters.
Taoist Master Qingshan and others saw the distorted face shrouded by anger of the senior brother Taoist Master Qinghe, which was unprecedentedly ferocious and terrifying.
"My brothers and sisters, an important item in the secret room just had just been stolen. The disciples of the whole audience immediately divided their troops and chased them in different directions! Do not let go of any clues or suspicious people along the way. Detain them immediately and investigate them strictly. Be sure to recover the stolen items!"
The Master Qinghe's face turned pale and looked at the Taoists and said in a deep voice.
"Brother, what did you lose? So panic?"
Taoist Master Qingshan and other brothers asked one after another.
"My master's spiritual book is lost."
Director Qinghe gritted his teeth and did not dare to conceal it from other brothers.
This spiritual treasure is lost and will not be retrieved. Once the master comes back, he is afraid that a great disaster will come. Only by recovering the spiritual book and making meritorious contributions can he escape this disaster.
"ah!"
"What I lost was the spiritual book,... How do we explain this to the master?!"
Priest Qingshan and four other personal preachers held up torches, and they were so scared that they took a breath of air conditioning, and their faces changed in horror.
Other Taoist priests from the second and third generations may not know the importance of this book.
But as the five generations of disciples of Hanshan Zhenren, they had studied this spiritual book with their master, and naturally knew the peerless rareness of this treasure. There are thousands of volumes of secular Taoist scriptures, which is hard to compare with this spiritual book.
"My brothers and sisters, don't panic. The spiritual book is stolen. It's just a cup of tea. The thief has just succeeded. He will definitely not escape in such a short time!"
Director Qinghe calmed down.
I think he is a Qinghe Taoist who has been in the world for twenty or thirty years and has experienced many strong storms. Although he suddenly suffered from chaos, he was not confused. He said in a deep voice: "The second generation of disciples obey the orders, two first-class masters will lead a team of people to chase them separately!"
"yes!"
In the Hanshan Taoist Temple, twenty middle-aged and young Taoist priests raised torches and came out one after another from the main entrance and side door, and led many young Taoist priests to chase them out wildly.
Because they didn't know which direction the thieves fled, they divided into eight groups and chased them in different directions.
There are not many Taoist priests in Hanshan Taoist Temple, only more than one hundred people.
After such a scattering, there were only more than a dozen Taoist priests on each road. If you encounter a fork in the road and continue to spread out, your hands will be even more exhausted.
If you walk away for miles, you are afraid you won’t even see a personal figure.
...
The Taoist priests from Hanshan Taoist Temple went to chase each other. A small stick of incense was passed by, but no Taoist priests chased the thief.
However, a rather suspicious clue was found, and the Taoists quickly reported it to Taoist Principal Qinghe.
That is, outside the backyard wall of the Taoist temple, some very suspicious blood marks were found. They went towards Ximen Wharf and disappeared by the river.
To be continued...