Chapter 86: The Sudden Appearance of the Fire Spirit (1)

  Inside the Wang family's compound, in the courtyard where Zhang Siye lived, one room had its doors and windows tightly locked. Outside the door stood seven or eight hook-handed soldiers, their eyes fixed intently without blinking, fully alert. Three leopards also appeared, their spirits high, pacing back and forth in the yard, constantly raising their huge heads to look around.

  Inside the house, on a table made by joining two tables together, lay the naked body of Hua Mulan. Zhang Siye and two hook-handed soldiers stood at her feet, holding candlesticks to illuminate her corpse. Zhang Siye was intently watching Mr. Zhou, who was carefully pressing and feeling around Hua Mulan's back.

  Mr. Zhou's hand stopped, his fingers on the waist of the gray 'hair' louse, and he bent down to observe carefully. On the spine of the gray 'hair' louse, there was a small blood stain. Mr. Zhou said in a low voice: "Found it!"

  "Is this a bloodstain?" Mr. Zhou asked, pointing to the spot.

  Mr. Zhou said: "It's like a very fine needle piercing into the body and staying there."

  "Exactly! Judging from this bloodstain, it should be a very deep stab wound. Looking at the location, it's precisely between the vertebrae of the spine. With one more needle, it could have pierced into the spinal cord and poisoned him."

  Mr. Zhou nodded and said, "Zhang Siye, do you still remember what Hei Sanbian said when we captured him in Fengtian?"

  Zhang Siye murmured: "You're saying that Hei Sanbian said he had been pierced by Huo Jia's Huoyao needle, and as a result, every time he has an episode, it's worse than death?"

  Mr. Zhou said, "Right! Unfortunately, we didn't have time to see where the Huo family's Wednesday needle was before chasing after the thieves out of the city. Otherwise, we would have been able to determine whether it was the Huo family who killed the gray 'hair' louse, and the relationship between the Wang family mansion and the Huo family would be clear!"

  Zhang Siye doubted: "If it was indeed the Huo family who killed Hui 'Mao' Shi, but how did they do it? There wasn't anyone else approaching Hui 'Mao' Shi."

  Mr. Zhou said: "I'm afraid there is a secret passage mechanism in this courtyard where we live."

  Zhang Siye said: "Isn't Wang Xing afraid that we will find out?"

  Mr. Zhou said, "I'm afraid this Wang's Fort is a huge den of thieves! We don't have any evidence now, and even if we tell Wang Xing about it, he won't admit it, but instead will bring us deadly trouble!"

  "Damn it, Wangjia Fort, Wangjia Mansion, damn thief! You've bullied me to my head! 'Niang' 'niang', I'll overthrow them!"

  Mr. Zhou said, "It's not going to end, this is Shanxi, not Fengtian. Moreover, we are in the light, they are in the dark, we can only continue to pretend to be foolish and secretly investigate what will happen here! As long as we can find out where Yan Jing Tian is, we will leave immediately! We must not stay here for long!"

  "Think back to the good old days in the Qing dynasty, our Wind God Capture could conquer the world! When did we need to pretend to be stupid and hide from others? Alas, let's not mention it!"

  Mr. Zhou said, "Now it's called the Republic, but in fact it's a world of heroes vying for power, and the greater the chaos, the more bandits thrive. From the late Qing dynasty onwards, in just a few decades, how many famous big thieves have emerged! Even Zhang Zuolin, Zhang the Great Marshal, is also full of thieving spirit!"

  Zhang Siye said with a gloomy expression: "Thieves of the people, thieves of the world! Heaven and earth are the thieves of all things. All things are the thieves of man. Man is the thief of all things. When the three thieves are in harmony, the three talents are at peace."

  Mr. Zhou nodded, bent down again to examine the body of the gray 'hairy' louse more closely, but suddenly heard a loud barking from the courtyard!

  Zhang Siye and Mr. Zhou were stunned, Zhang Siye cursed: "It seems that the thief has found the 'door'! Computer check access"

  Zhang Siye and Mr. Zhou quickly walked out the door, only to see the leopard dog going crazy, grabbing onto the wall and trying to jump up. The hook-handed soldiers were all armed, positioning themselves, ready to take action.

  Zhang Siye rushed out of the house, a hook soldier came forward to report: "Zhang Siye, just now there was a thief on the roof! Let the leopard dog find it, it's outside the courtyard wall, do we chase or not?"

  "Old Zhang said: 'This is someone else's house, we can't take action! What did you see clearly?'"

  Hooker soldier replied: "That person's movements are extremely fast, jumping from the rooftop, vaguely recognizable, is a bald monk wearing kasaya."

  Mr. Zhou exclaimed: "A monk?"

  Zhang Siye walked a few steps forward and shouted: "You bastards, stop yelling! Come here!"

  The dogs were very obedient and stopped barking, still growling angrily as they walked to Zhang Siye's side.

  "Old Zhang the Fourth shouted out, 'You scoundrels from which region, come out and let's have a look!'"

  "Amitabha! What a fierce beast!" A Buddhist chant came, and suddenly a person stood up on the wall, wearing a tattered gray monk's robe, with an unclear face, standing straight on the wall like a wooden stick, swaying slightly from side to side, as if it could be blown away by the wind.

  The leopard dog was about to rush over again, and Zhang Siye growled: "Don't move!"

  The leopard dog stood still, unwilling to give up, no longer rushing forward, propping itself up with its front paws, and constantly growling.

  "Who are you?" Zhang Siye shouted from the top of the wall. "Report your name and title!"

  The monk said: "My Buddhist name is Kǔ Dēng. Zhang Siye, the Wind Chaser, has long admired your great reputation."

  "Zhang Siye said: 'What are you doing here? Are monks also thieves now? What kind of logic is this?!'"

  "Amida Buddha, can't a monk be a thief? What kind of logic is that? I just came here to take a look, nothing else! But seeing all of you, I suddenly understood something. Thank you everyone! Farewell!" As soon as the words left Kuto's mouth, his body swayed and he jumped off the wall, disappearing without a trace.

  Ku Deng and the monk had just left when they heard the sound of gongs shaking the sky from within the Wang family's large courtyard. The guards and escorts from various places were shouting loudly: "Thieves! Thieves! Catch the thieves!" Instantly, the Wang family's large courtyard was thrown into chaos.

  "Only now you know there's a thief? It's too late!"

  Mr. Zhou slowly said: "What a fierce thief and monk, if the monk is a thief, I'm afraid the world has really gone bad..."