Chapter 308 Yiren's Expectation
After a good sleep, all the fatigue from days of traveling was swept away.
Li Nuo got up from the bed and stretched.
Looking through the window, I saw Yiren still practicing in the yard.
This small courtyard not only provides better privacy, but also serves as a place for practicing martial arts.
Li Nuo walked to the yard. Song Yiren looked back at him and said, "You're awake."
It was still early, Li Nuo stretched his body and said, "Do you want to go out for a walk?"
Song Yiren was thinking the same thing, so she put away her sword and said, "Okay."
She glanced at Li Nuo and reminded him, "But before you go out, you'd better wash your face. Your face... is a little dirty."
Li Nuo didn't think much about it. He drew a bucket of water from a well in the corner of the yard and washed his face.
Then the two walked out of the embassy together.
The prosperity of Zhao State's capital was similar to that of Chang'an, but the overall feeling it gave was very different.
The most direct feeling is that the streets of Chang'an are very clean and tidy.
The streets of Zhao State can only be described as dirty and messy.
However, this is also because of the "Health Management Regulations" promulgated at the beginning of this year. Before that, the sanitary conditions in Daxia were not much better than those in Zhao.
The people of Chang'an initially complained about this, but later began to actively defend it.
In addition, while walking with Yiren, Li Nuo also discovered several places where free porridge was distributed.
Every soup kitchen has a different royal flag hanging on it.
This kind of scene is rarely seen in Daxia.
Even if these princes of Zhao are just putting on a show, the people of the capital can at least get some real benefits.
Compared with Zhao State, Daxia's regency system was just a form in name only.
The princes fought for power by using the simplest means of forming cliques and attacking dissidents.
Yiren saw a unique silver hairpin on the street, put it on her head, and asked Li Nuo, "Does it look good?"
Li Nuo nodded and said, "It looks good."
With this face of hers, she would look good even if she stuck a chopstick on her hair.
Li Nuo paid the money and bought the hairpin as a gift to her.
Yiren shopped as she went along, while Li Nuo was responsible for carrying the bags and paying.
Song Yiren bought a bag of pastries. She turned around and saw Li Nuo's hands were full of things, so she took the initiative to pick up a piece of pastry and feed it to him. Li Nuo opened his mouth naturally.
She skipped along the way, feeling more relaxed than ever before.
There were only the two of them here, so they finally didn't have to practice with Song Jiaren on odd and even days.
Here, he was hers alone.
Li Nuo was shopping with his beloved Yiren, who was in high spirits, when he suddenly felt something in his heart and looked towards a certain place on the street.
At the street corner ahead, a woman holding a child was walking hurriedly, not noticing at all that when she passed by a short man, a cloth bag around her waist disappeared silently.
From a thief's professional perspective, this person's choice of target and grasp of the timing of cutting the hair were extremely accurate.
If he were to give a score to the smooth flow of his actions just now, out of a full score of 100, Li Nuo would give him more than 80. This man is a natural born thief.
After the short man succeeded, he took a few quick steps and weighed the cloth bag in his hand. He was not very satisfied, as he had obviously stolen from a poor guy.
Just as he was about to look for his next target, he was suddenly kicked from behind. He staggered and fell at the entrance of an alley on the street.
He was hit hard by the fall. When he turned around, he saw a handsome young man.
He was about to speak when the man spoke first, "You bastard, there are ten things a thief should not steal, but you didn't take it to heart at all. Didn't your steward teach you when you entered the sect?"
The short man's heart skipped a beat. Who on earth could that person be? How could he not only know how to rob a door, but also know the ten things not to do when robbing a door?
He looked at the young man and asked nervously, "May I ask which senior in the sect you are?"
The young man did not answer his question, but said: "Since you have entered the Thieves' Sect, you must abide by our rules. I will forgive you this time, but if you dare to do it again next time, you will be punished according to the sect's rules!"
The short man knelt on the ground, kowtowed and said, "Disciple, I understand!"
The young man said, "Remember, there is a code of conduct for thieves. I have confiscated the things you stole. Go back and copy the ten rules of thieves not to steal a hundred times. Do you hear me?"
The short man kowtowed repeatedly, saying: "I know, I know..."
When he looked up, the young man had disappeared.
He stood up and touched his waist, only to find that the purse he had just stolen was missing. Not only that, his own purse was also missing!
There was a look of shock on his face. As a veteran thief, his skills were not inferior to those of the foreman, yet his purse was stolen silently. The other party must be a master of thieves.
I'm afraid only those who are above the rank of abbot have this skill.
Feeling extremely anxious, he immediately walked out of the alley and left in a hurry...
On the street in Zhao State, Li Nuo returned the small cloth bag to the woman and said, "Sister, your purse fell off. Count it and see if there is any money missing."
The woman took the purse, opened it and looked at it. She burst into tears of gratitude and said, "Thank you, thank you so much. This is the money to buy medicine for my child. I borrowed it for a long time. If I lose it, I really don’t know how to live…"
Li Nuo handed her another purse and said, "Take this money too."
The woman waved her hands and said, "No, no, no, I can't have it."
Li Nuo stuffed the purse into her hand and said, "Take it."
The woman moved her lips, but she didn't refuse in the end. After accepting the money bag, she knelt on the ground with her son and said, "Thank you, benefactor. May God bless you and your wife, and may you live a healthy and healthy life, grow old together, and have many children and grandchildren..."
Song Yiren was just standing beside Li Nuo and watching. After hearing this, she was stunned for a moment, took out a silver ingot from her arms, stuffed it into the woman's arms, and said, "Use this money to buy medicine for the child..."
The woman thanked him profusely again, picked up the child, and left, looking back every few steps.
Li Nuo looked at Yiren and said, "Take your things and go back first. I have something to do."
Song Yiren asked, "What's the matter?"
Li Nuo said: "Wait for me at home, I will tell you when I get back."
Song Yiren didn't ask any more questions, nodded, and said, "Then I'll wait for you at home."
After Yiren left, Li Nuo walked on the streets of Zhao State and soon caught up with a short figure.
I never thought that there were thieves in Zhao State.
The thief's technique just now was very sophisticated, which was not something that a thief could master. Moreover, his hair-cutting technique was exactly the same as that of the disciples of the Daxia Thieves Sect.
This made Li Nuo certain that he was a disciple of the Thief Sect the moment he saw him for the first time.
Just like he could judge the opponent's faction by the martial artist's moves, as soon as these thieves made a move, Li Nuo knew whether they had received professional training.
Apparently, there were also thieves in Zhao State.
If we can follow the clues and eliminate the thieves in Zhao State, our lifespan can be increased by at least a thousand days.
Although the life span of each of these thieves is not much increased, they are outnumbered.
With his cultivation level of the fourth realm, he can catch hundreds of thieves without encountering a bottleneck in cultivation like last time, and of course he will not encounter a bottleneck in lifespan either. The gains will be far greater than the time in Chang'an.
Zhu Liu was walking on the streets of Zhao State. When he came to an alley, he looked back and did not find anything unusual, so he walked into the alley with confidence.
Today was really a ghost day. Not only was the stolen purse confiscated, but even my own purse was taken away.
He didn't feel sorry for the money.
Money is something outside of one's body. If he loses it, he can always steal it back.
But he was amazed at the way the senior took away all his belongings silently.
If a thief is this good, can he be called a thief saint?
Fortunately, the senior was one of our own and let him go, otherwise he would definitely have been sent to the government today.
Considering the amount of money he stole, if it were all discovered, he would probably be exiled...
Zhu Liu turned seven or eight turns in the alley before arriving at a dilapidated courtyard.
It was daytime, and other colleagues in the base should be working outside. Zhu Liu walked into a room, borrowed paper and pen from the clerk, sat in the yard, and began to copy the Ten Things Not to Steal.
Do not steal from the old, do not steal from the young, do not steal from the sick, do not steal from the disabled, do not steal from the poor, do not steal from the kind, do not steal from the beggars, do not steal from the lonely and widowed, do not steal from officials, and do not steal from the powerful.
In fact, when he first started, the manager in charge of him told him all this.
But rules are rules, and whether they are followed or not depends on the actual situation.
How can you achieve good results if you don’t steal this or that?
Without performance, there is no way to get promoted. If you have the worst performance for three consecutive months, you will be directly expelled from the thief group.
At the beginning, Zhu Liu also agreed with the principle of "even stealing has its own code of conduct" in his heart, but after two consecutive months of the lowest performance, he had to bow to reality and completely abandoned his ideals at the time.
Although the senior didn't know whether he would copy these or not, Zhu Liu still chose to keep his promise.
As time passed, several figures came in one after another and handed the stolen goods to the clerk who was responsible for counting the property. When they saw Zhu Liu copying the Ten Things Not to Steal in the courtyard, they all expressed their confusion.
"Zhu Liu, what are you doing when you have nothing to do? Why are you copying these?"
"Did you steal any fat sheep today? Why are you so free?"
"He's so interested, he must have done something big..."
…
Outside this stronghold, in the corner of an alley, Li Nuo leaned against the wall and watched another figure walk into the courtyard.
He is no longer the same person he was last year, and he doesn't need to go undercover and steal the door himself.
Li Nuo knows the operating mechanism of the thief's door better than anyone else.
There is no use in finding this stronghold.
He needed to find the person in charge of this stronghold, and then work his way up from bottom to top, to find the abbot who was in charge of him, the Dharma protector who was in charge of the abbot, and the messenger who was in charge of the Dharma protector.
After finding the messenger of the Thieves' Sect, you will be able to know the identities of all the protectors, chiefs, and managers from top to bottom. As long as all the managers are caught, the lower-level thieves will have nowhere to hide.
Li Nuo waited for a long time, but the manager of this stronghold did not show up.
So he went back to the embassy first. Yiren had been waiting for him in the room for a long time. After Li Nuo walked into the room, she couldn't wait to ask, "Where have you been?"
Li Nuo told her about the discovery of the Zhao State thief's door.
When Song Yiren heard this, her eyes lit up slightly.
Sister Phoenix said that Li Anning and he pretended to be a couple for a few days when they were eliminating thieves, and then they got together.
She looked at Li Nuo and asked, "Are you going to catch them?"
Li Nuo nodded and said, "Just think of it as a gift to the fourth prince of Zhao State. It will also help improve your cultivation."
Eradicating thieves can be considered a political achievement. If we can emulate Da Xia and set up an anti-theft department to continuously supply anti-theft talents to all parts of the country, it will be an even greater achievement. Not only can it be counted as the political achievement of the Fourth Prince, but Li Nuo can also gain additional cultivation growth from it.
Let’s not talk about other things for now. As long as he can accomplish this one thing, his trip to Zhao State will not be in vain.
Song Yiren straightened her chest and said, "I'm ready!"
Li Nuo asked in surprise: "What have you prepared?"
Song Yiren looked at him and said expectantly, "Pretending to be a couple with you, didn't you and Li Anning pretend to be a couple to solve the case before? In order to solve the case, I can also make some sacrifices..."
(End of this chapter)
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