Chapter 26 The Village of Thieves
He seemed to have figured out something,
I laughed three times and died after laughing.
Hetang Village, the river in front of the village is full of lotus flowers.
That year, the river water subsided and the pond dried up. It had been a long time since it rained. A green lotus leaf grew vigorously. The lotus leaf was as tall as a forest, as dense as a forest, the green umbrella was shaded, and the mud had turned into a hard ground. Walking through it, the lotus fragrance seemed like a dream.
The land on the river beach is dry and cracked, and there are dense tadpoles in many potholes. Maybe they will be sunburned in half a day.
Shi Yanxin was still a teenager at that time. After digging lotus roots with his father, he pinched the tadpoles and threw them into the river one by one.
The father asked, "What are you doing?"
Shi Yanxin said: "Save the tadpoles."
My father said: "There are so many tadpoles on the river bank, can you save them?"
Shi Yanxin said: "Save one, it's one."
Every lotus in this world blooms where it should be opened.
Everyone in this world appears where he must appear.
My father dug up lotus roots, cleaned them in the pond, and took him to the county market to sell on a wooden boat.
He sat cross-legged, guarding the stall, watching the people coming and going in front of him, and watching the clouds rolling in the sky. All of this has the meaning of Zen. When he came, the boat was tied under the bridge. He sold out the lotus root on the bridge. The breeze passed through the hollow of the broken lotus root, and the remaining lotus buds would bloom in the future.
Only by leaving the boat can you land on the shore, and only by abandoning lotus can you grow lotus.
The worldly fate has not yet ended, and the love has not been broken, and a lotus seed has become the source of traceability.
Whether in the mud or in the turbid world, it should be like a lotus and not be polluted.
The father said to him: "No matter how poor or hard you are, don't be a thief."
The thieves in the vegetable market are all from Hetang Village. When Shi Yanxin saw a thief, he would call him Uncle Second. Uncle Second waved his hand embarrassedly, pretending not to recognize him, staring at an old man's pocket.
They steal wallets, meat, vegetables, bicycles, and bp machines hanging around their waists.
It was 1999. Young people in the county town were wearing Aaron Kwok-style mid-parted hair that was popular at the time, and their T-shirts were fortified in their pants to reveal the bp machine hanging around their waists. The catchphrase was: Call me if you have something to do. At that time, these songs were sung in the streets and alleys:
"Wait for a thousand years, wait for a thousand years! Wait for a thousand years, I have no regrets! Who is in my ears? Say, love for me will never change..."
"The river flows eastward, the stars in the sky sway the Beidou... I roared when I see unevenness on the road, and I will take action when it's time..."
"Let us be our companions in the world, live freely, ride horses and share the prosperity of the world..."
Time is like flowing water. The vegetable market was expanded into a river, and now thousands of sails have passed.
Shi Yanxin said to his father: "I don't want to sell lotus roots anymore."
The father said, "What do you want to do?"
Shi Yanxin said: "Touch the points, just like them, steal things."
The villagers of Hetang are strong in style, but they are not as good as the poor. The villagers call theft a stolen score. In the surrounding villages, some girls in the family have to ask how many stolen scores there are at the man’s house. If they answer that there are several stolen scores, the woman will like it very much. The more stolen scores, it means that the family must be rich.
The village chief raises chickens and sells eggs at home, but he works hard but can't make much money.
The neighbor renovated the house within a few years, six bungalows, the courtyard wall is more than three meters high, and the large iron gate with red paint is very grand. This is all because the neighbor's two children were stolen in the city. Although the money is unknown, it still makes people jealous.
The village chief said to his son: "Haifei, learn some skills and go and find the score."
The village chief’s son is the thief’s cloak.
That year, Shi Yanxin 2
Ten years old, Shui Yanzi was fourteen years old, and the thief was only six years old. The three of them worshipped a teacher, who was the famous thief in the village.
The King of Thieves once went to university and majored in mechanical manufacturing. During the Cultural Revolution, he was beaten to mental illness, and sometimes bad. Therefore, he did not marry and robbed all over the country alone. He never made any mistakes. When he was old, he washed his hands and refused to do it. He returned to the village to enjoy his old age.
The yard of the King of Thieves' house has no walls or doors. There is a vine tree in front of the house. A cat lies on the root of the tree. There are a few little gourds hanging on the grape trellis. It is not yet mature and is very beautiful. No one dares to steal things from the King of Thieves' house. Many people have seen his skills, and there are endless people who admire famous people.
Shi Yanxin, Shui Yanzi, and the thief cloak stood, and the thief was lying on the rocking chair under the vine tree and shook his body without looking at him.
The thief closed his eyes and rested, and slowly said, "If you don't have the ability, you can't be my disciple."
The three of them were a little nervous and dared not speak.
The thief said: "I won't accept female disciples. The woman is clumsy and can't do this."
Shui Yanzi said, "I am no worse than a man."
The thief said, "Then I will test you."
The thief stood up from the rocking chair, picked up the cat under the vine, untied the bell on the cat's neck, and tied it to the grape branches.
The thief said: "You can untie the bell, don't let me hear the bell ring, I will accept you."
This is a bit difficult. Water swallows are only fourteen years old and are not tall. They can't reach the bell hanging under the grape branches even if they stick out their tiptoes. Moreover, the King of Thieves tied a thorn knot. This knot is easy to tie, but it is difficult to untie. Forest farm workers often tie this kind of knot to pull the wood. When untie the knot, it is not easy to make a sound.
The thief lay on the rocking chair again, closed his eyes and said, "Give you ten minutes."
Shui Yanzi thought hard but couldn't find a way.
Shi Yanxin whispered: "Hey, there is a stool by the wall..."
The original intention of the thief was to ask Shui Yanzi to climb onto the grape trellis and untie the bell with slight hands. Unexpectedly, Shui Yanzi received guidance from Shi Yanxin and moved a stool from the wall. Although she had only three legs, she stood on it carefully, pinched the bell tongue with her fingers to avoid making noises, and broke the grape branches with her other hand and successfully untie the bell.
The thief said a little disappointedly: "This is a trick, it's cheating...even if you pass the test."
The thief continued to test the thief's cloak. Perhaps in order to take care of the village chief's son, the test questions were very simple. The stool only had three legs. The thief asked the thief to go to the forest behind the village to cut a piece of suitable willow branches and make stool legs.
The thief's cloak shivered for a moment and his heart was repelled.
The forest was a cemetery, with weeds and some willow trees growing. Almost every tree had a tumor, which looked strange. Even during the day, adults would be timid when they walked into the cemetery, not to mention that it was getting late at this time, and the legend of rural ghosts made a six-year-old child go to the cemetery, which was as terrifying as death was coming to him.
The thief threw him a hatchet and said, "It takes courage to do this business. If you are afraid, go home."
The thief lowered his head and thought for a while, picked up the hatchet, and after half an hour, he came back with a piece of willow branches. He didn't have the courage to go to the cemetery, but cut trees by the river, and was still rubbing outside for a while, calculating the time to return. The child's eyes dodged and did not dare to look at the thief, but he had already thought about how to lie and defend himself.
Shui Yanzi said, "Haifei, you are so brave. You dare to go to the forest, which is full of graves."
The thief's cloak said, "Sister Yanzi, I'm not afraid at all."
Shi Yanxin said: "Have you met a ghost?"
The thief's cloak said: "Brother Yi,
I didn't encounter a ghost, I saw human bones there, white."
The King of Thieves sneered, and said nothing, as if he had seen through his thoughts.
The thief asked Shi Yanxin: "Your father sells lotus roots, but he is an honest man. How could you let him get some points?"
Shi Yanxin said: "Master, I want to do it myself."
The thief said: "Don't call me master first. I haven't agreed to accept you as an apprentice yet. I will test you first. Do you know who the ancestor in this industry is?"
When Shi Yanxin was selling lotus roots, he liked to read books. After reading four classics, he replied: "The ancestor is Shi Qian."
The King of Thieves said: "If you become a disciple, you must kowtow to the ancestor. I watched the TV news that the city's museum is holding an art exhibition, "The 100-One-Eight Generals of Water Margin", and sometimes you can move the portrait. If you steal that painting, I will accept you as your apprentice."
Shi Yanxin has never stolen anything. The first time he was going to the museum to steal things, it was a huge test.
The thief said: "Give you three days."
The King of Thieves put forward a higher requirement, requiring Shi Yanxin to notify the museum before theft.
Shi Yanxin accepted this difficult task. He asked Shui Yanzi and the thief cloak to be helpers. The entire theft process has been mentioned before and will not be repeated. In short, he successfully stole the painting, hung it on the wall of the main hall, placed an incense table, kowtowed and bowed, and formally became a disciple to the thief.
The King of Thieves said: "There are three realms of thieves.
"The first type is stealing, holding a wallet on the bus and carrying a box at the train station. This is a thief, and it's not worth mentioning.
"The second type is a hero, both good and evil, and stealing wealth to help the poor.
"The third type is that the marquis of the country is stolen. There are many people who usurped the throne and seized power in history, including Wang Mang, Cao Cao, Li Shimin, Wu Zetian, and Zhao Kuangyin. They steal a country and stole the prosperity of a lifetime."
Shi Yanxin stole a painting and called the police in the museum. The leader of the Public Security Bureau swore on TV that he would definitely catch the thief.
The thief was furious and said, "Tell this man that I want to steal his police uniform."
The King of Thieves personally demonstrated and took three apprentices to sneak into the home of the leader of the Public Security Bureau at night. He stole the leader's uniform and put it back into the museum booth together. He taught on the spot how to burglary, how to unlock, how to lurk, including dress details and time of committing crimes, carefully guided and taught me.
The King of Thieves asked the three apprentices to learn some basic skills first, such as staring at the incense head to exercise their night vision, clamping bricks with two fingers to exercise their strength, and catching flies with bare hands to practice their reaction ability.
The King of Thieves said that the trick to steal pedestrians is to divert attention. For example, if one person wraps his trousers around the rear wheel of the bicycle, the person who pushes the bicycle will inevitably look back, and the other person can steal the bag in the front basket. If he steals alone, he can throw some change on the ground and then "say your money has dropped", and the person will definitely lower his head to pick up money. At this time, he can take the opportunity to put his hand into his pocket.
After learning the basic knowledge, he then advanced. The King of Thieves taught the unlocking technology in detail. He could open the security door with just chewing gum, open the handcuffs with banknotes, and use the doctor's stethoscope to crack the password and open the safe.
Among the three, Shi Yanxin and Shui Yanzi are the most skilled in their skills, and they are better than those of them.
Because the thief's cloak is still young, he is playful all day long and is often absent-minded, and has not learned much theft technique.
A few years later, the King of Thieves died without a problem, and the process of his death was very bizarre. He took the bus to a place where he sat in the same place. He was a very honest farmer who was already asleep and his pockets were full of bulging. He couldn't help but steal the man's wallet. As a result, it turned out that it was his own wallet. The honest farmer who was sleeping beside him was a fellow traveler. He stole a wallet, but the money he had on his body did not increase by a point.
Chapter completed!