Chapter 423 The Heroine is a Shaman (Twenty-six)
"Master, he really caught up with us!"
Gu Qingcheng released his spiritual sense and successfully captured the sneaky figure.
"Maybe we are on the same path!" Chi Powang is definitely a good master who is always teaching students.
He said this deliberately just to see how his good disciple would react.
"No! Definitely not! He didn't check the tickets!"
Gu Qingcheng had a delicate and well-behaved face, but spoke very firmly.
"Oh? No ticket check?"
Chi Powang is still teaching.
"Yes! He probably didn't evade the fare, but he didn't buy a ticket for our train at all."
While Gu Qingcheng was observing with his spiritual sense, he was chatting with Chi Powang through secret telepathy.
"Master, he followed us. Oh no, to be exact, he followed our 'luggage'."
Gu Qingcheng came to this conclusion with certainty through careful observation and reasonable speculation.
"It's possible! But whether it's true or not, we'll know once we get on the bus!"
Chi Powang said this, and in his heart he was very satisfied with his good disciple's "growth".
The master and the disciple still bought sleeper tickets, and when they walked into the carriage, they found that there were only two of them.
Of course, the guy who was suspected to be the tomb robber was following behind them not too far away.
Seeing them enter the carriage, he quickly walked outside the carriage, pretended to look for a seat, and leaned his head in to take a careful look.
“It seems to be this carriage!”
The man muttered to himself, but was not sure. He reached into his pocket to take out the train ticket to confirm it again.
"Eh? Where's my ticket?"
The man was quite a showman. He searched his pockets and backpack in panic and frustration, but still couldn't find his ticket, so he ran out to find the conductor.
During this process, neither Chi Powang nor Gu Qingcheng, the master and disciple, spoke a word.
The two of them put away their suitcases and made their beds like ordinary passengers.
At least, on the surface, that's how they looked.
However, the master and the disciple continued to communicate with each other in secret——
"Master, he should have gone to buy a ticket!"
Gu Qingcheng guessed with a firm tone.
I just don't know what that person will say to the flight attendant.
Did you take the wrong train? Or did you not buy a seat ticket? However, no matter what the situation is, as long as you take the initiative to ask the conductor to pay for the ticket after getting on the train, it will not be considered as fare evasion.
"He's quite clever!"
Chi Powang did not continue to test his disciple because Gu Qingcheng already had a lot of "experience in the world".
"Master, he really told the conductor that he got on the wrong train and wanted to get a new berth."
"Huh? I 'saw' his ID card. His name is Hou Xinting."
"...The name really suits the person. He is short and skinny, with a monkey-like face, and his name is also this!"
Gu Qingcheng is like a little child and occasionally tells some harmless jokes.
Chi Powang did not say a word and just watched the whole process.
Although the tomb robber named Hou Xinting was full of evil, the earthy smell he left could be smelled from several meters away.
But there was no blood on his body! In other words, this person had never harmed anyone.
To be honest, it is not easy for these people who have been wandering underground for many years to keep their hands free of blood.
Of course, this does not mean that Hou Xinting is a good person.
Haha, without looking at anything else, just seeing that he found something unusual about the "suitcases" in the hands of Master Chi Powang and his disciple, and followed them regardless, you will know that he is definitely not a good young man with correct values and bottom line.
Chi Powang leaped to the upper bunk, while Gu Qingcheng continued to sit on the lower bunk.
Both of them took out their mobile phones and, like most travelers, leisurely watched videos and enjoyed the journey that was about to begin.
Bang! The door of the carriage opened, and Hou Xinting walked in carrying the "Stanley" fertilizer bag.
Master Chi Powang and his disciple seemed like ordinary people and had a subconscious reaction - they all looked towards the door.
Hou Xinting smiled and nodded, as if to explain something, and said with a little embarrassment, "I was also careless and got on the wrong bus."
Chi Powang and Gu Qingcheng both smiled politely but awkwardly, just like when they met a stranger in public. They were not curious about what the other person was doing, but had to exchange pleasantries with the other person out of politeness.
"Are you going to Luozhou too?"
Hou Xinting, however, was like a community cow. While packing his luggage, he took the initiative to bring up the topic.
"Yeah! Are you going too?"
Chi Powang acted like a qualified ordinary passenger. When the other party took the initiative to talk to him, he just responded casually.
"Yes! I am a collector of antiques in the countryside."
Hou Xinting took the initiative to introduce himself, and did not forget to brag, "Don't look at me as a farmer, I am actually an expert in antique appreciation."
"By the way, my name is Hou Xinting. Because my last name is Hou, people in the circle gave me the nickname 'Hou Ye'!"
Lord Marquis?
What a big tone! Is this a nickname given to you by others, or is it just a shameless self-proclaimed title?
If you ask me, if someone really gave you a nickname, it definitely wouldn’t be “Marquis”, but “Monkey”!
Gu Qingcheng complained like a little child.
Chi Powang: ...my little disciple is so mischievous.
But, bragging? That's not Hou Xinting's purpose.
"I know! Master, he is just testing the waters."
"I deliberately said my nickname in the underworld just to see our reaction."
"If we were also tomb robbers, or engaged in an industry related to tomb robbing, we would have heard of the name of 'Houye'."
"If we don't react to the word 'Marquis', it means we are not his kind."
When Gu Qingcheng heard what her master said, she quickly responded positively.
"Yeah!" Chi Powang responded approvingly.
Although Hou Xinting looks enthusiastic and reckless, he actually acts very cautiously.
He was just testing the waters with a nickname, just trying to find out the details of the master and his apprentice! If they were "the same kind", Hou Xinting would continue to ask questions.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
He probably not only wanted the treasures in Chi Powang's "suitcase", but also wanted to know where this pair of "colleagues" made their fortune.
If it wasn't a tomb robber, that would be easy to deal with.
Hou Xinting will continue to test whether Chi Powang and Gu Qingcheng are ordinary people and whether they know whether the item in his suitcase is a "treasure"...
If there was no danger, Hou Xinting would have taken advantage of the situation to steal.
"My Lord? That's quite impressive!"
Gu Qingcheng looks like a cute, adorable, and worldly-wise kid.
After listening to Hou Xinting's introduction, she was not at all on guard. "My name is Gu Qingcheng, my nickname, nickname——"
Well, kids, after all, tend to have some childish competitive mentality.
She looked at Chi Powang, "Master, what is my nickname?"
Chi Powang: ...This disciple really started acting.
However, Chi Powang has not yet given his disciple a Taoist name.
"Yunhua, please. The place where I found you is called Yunhua Mountain, so you can just be called 'Yunhua'."
Chi Powang replied seriously.
Gu Qingcheng: ...I suddenly discovered that my master is terrible at naming. What should I do?
Gu Qingcheng had to be thankful that the mountain where she woke up was called Yunhua Mountain, and not Jitou Mountain, Dadugou, or Juhualing.
"Thank you, Master! My Taoist name is Yunhua!"
Gu Qingcheng held back her complaints and thanked him in a cute way.
Hou Xinting: ...These two youngsters really know how to have fun! They are teenagers, wearing Taoist robes, which is fine, but they actually role-play as master and apprentice.
Hou Xinting once again confirmed that these were the two middle school boys.
Maybe it’s because I read some online novels and I tried cosplay out of curiosity!
In fact, we can’t really blame Hou Xinting for “underestimating the enemy”—
First of all, Chi Powang and Gu Qingcheng’s faces were too deceptive.
Young, good-looking, clean and innocent, just like the silly son and daughter of a landlord.
Secondly, the way Chi Powang and Gu Qingcheng address each other is too, too "confusing".
Even if the two of them called each other "senior brother and junior sister", Hou Xinting would think more: Maybe they really are disciples from a Taoist temple or a Xuanmen sect!
Yet, these two people, with the same childish faces, one calls him "Master", while the other pretends to be mature and calls him "Disciple"!
This, this isn't just children playing house, then what is this? "Let me see, they must have accidentally found a treasure and didn't know its value, so they just put it in the suitcase!"
After some questions, Hou Xinting had a rough idea of the identities of Chi Powang and Gu Qingcheng, and why they took the baby out.
Since they were just two ordinary little brats, and since he had met them, hehe——
Hou Xinting became more enthusiastic once he had a plan.
He also took out a few pieces of jade from the fertilizer bag and said, "See? This is the best white jade."
"Luozhou, there is an underground auction in the next few days."
"Little brother, little sister, you and I get along very well, and we are both on the way, so I am telling you this, but you must not tell anyone else."
Chi Powang glanced at Gu Qingcheng.
Gu Qingcheng understood, and pretended to be curious and said, "Is there really an underground auction? Is it the kind described in treasure appraisal novels?"
"So many treasures that cannot be seen in public can be auctioned there?"
When Hou Xinting heard Gu Qingcheng mention "treasure appraisal novels", he felt more and more that these two half-grown children were just middle school boys who started to have wild ideas after reading a few online novels.
"That's right! It's the kind described in novels! In fact, not only antiques and collectibles, but also many strange things can be auctioned."
"You think it's strange because you don't know it! But there are other people who know it!"
"Sometimes, a seemingly insignificant piece of broken stone or scrap metal can be worth hundreds of thousands or even millions!"
Hou Xinting advocated it desperately.
Gu Qingcheng seemed to be bewitched, and hurriedly looked at Chi Powang excitedly, "Master, our—"
As for Chi Powang, seeing that his disciple had become addicted to acting, as a good master who doted on his disciple, he could only cooperate.
He pretended to be anxious and shouted to Gu Qingcheng, "Disciple! I am a little thirsty. Go get me some hot water."
This was because he was afraid that his disciple might let the cat out of the bag, so he interrupted him on purpose.
Tsk tsk, you are young after all. You think you are cautious, but in fact, all your secrets have been known by others.
Hou Xinting didn't show it on his face, but he was thinking proudly in his heart...
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