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Chapter 50 1 taels of snowflake silver

In the place of the tomb, beside the stove, there are often hungry ghosts hiding, who will grab food when they see it; their family members steam the steamed buns, bake them in a cage, and take off the pot when they are cooked, and the steamed buns will shrivel and shrink gradually; they are as big as a bowl. It becomes as small as a walnut in an instant. When you eat it, it tastes like gluten, and the essence is gone. I don't know why. I don't know why the hungry ghosts snatch it, so I put it on the steamed buns with a red pen, and it will defeat the ghosts catching the steamed buns; this name is called : Ghost steamed buns. ——Excerpted from Tongyin Eight Volumes of "Wordless Book of Heaven".

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Old BJ has a saying: It is better to lose a hand than to lose an eye.

It's about the ways of thieves and thieves. If you miss it and get caught, you won't lose your (senior) position. If you miss it, you will lose face if you spread it.It can be seen that the eyesight of seeing people's faces is more important than the method of stealing things, so the word "sharp eyes and quick hands" ranks first.

Dare to feel that this thing on Bai Shibao's body was seen as "transparent" by that person, and after a face-to-face meeting, he snatched the note from Bai Shibao's arms. , this person is not Yan Zifei, who else could it be?
"How did you have this note?"

Yan Zifei held the note between two fingers, shook it in front of Bai Shibao, and disappeared out of thin air as if performing a magic trick.

Bai Shibao cupped his hands and said, "My servant, Bai Shibao, was entrusted by a female ghost to seek your help."

Yan Zifei was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "Female ghost?"

"This female ghost's surname is Qu Ming'e. She is from Tianning Town. She was insulted a year ago and hanged herself. After her death, she swallowed her grievances and lost her three souls. She turned into a ghost and hid in the Yepu Temple to find help... ..."

Yan Zifei was surprised when he heard it, and sighed again and again: "No wonder her house has already been deserted!"

Yan Zifei looked around, stretched out his hand to Bai Shibao, and said, "Brother, take a step to speak..."

Bai Shibao followed Yan Zifei into the temple.

This Guandi Temple has only one main hall, and on both sides are storerooms and temple spectators' bedrooms, which are now locked, empty and deserted.In the middle of the hall is enshrined a statue of Duke Wu, which is eight feet high and looks like a long-standing sculptor. The statue is supported by clouds at its feet, surrounded by auspicious clouds, with a ferocious face, a seal with one hand, and a pure blue Guan Gong knife stands majestically.

Bai Shibao saw that Yan Zifei was like a master in this temple, coming and going freely, he thought it was strange.

"The people heard that there is a 'true god' in Nanshan Taoist Temple, so they no longer worship the 'God of War' here..." Yan Zifei picked up a futon and handed it to Bai Shibao.

After Bai Shibao took it, he put it under his buttocks, and the two sat on the floor.

Yan Zifei got straight to the point and asked, "Brother didn't say, who killed Miss Naqu'e?"

Bai Shibao replied: "It is the 'true god' in Nanshan Taoist temple!"

Yan Zifei was stunned for a moment, and said: "Brother doesn't know, this blind Zhang is not a real god, but a fake Taoist priest..."

Bai Shibao nodded.

Yan Zifei gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and said fiercely: "This old pig and dog actually killed my benefactor, I told him to walk around without eating!"

Bai Shibao said: "Nowadays Naqu'e has a grudge that is hard to avenge, hard to complain, hiding in the Yepu Temple but not seeing light, I take this matter on my shoulders, and I have already thought of a way to avenge her..."

"What way?"

Bai Shibao moved closer and whispered something in Yan Zifei's ear, Yan Zifei nodded in understanding.

Bai Shibao added: "It's just that this method needs to use money as bait. After discussing with Qu'e, I came to Guandi Temple to look for you!"

Yan Zifei raised his head and looked at the statue of Duke Wu beside him, and said, "I, Yan Zifei, live in no fixed place. Thanks to the God of Wu Gong, I have a place to stay in Guandi temples in various places..." After finishing Finally, Yan Zifei lowered his head and sighed: "I only regret that my benefactor was framed and couldn't be rescued, and I couldn't see him after death..."

Bai Shibao smiled and said, "What's the difficulty? You can follow me to Yepu Temple tonight and meet her!"

Yan Zifei waved his two arms like dead branches, and said: "No way! My benefactor has not avenged her, how can I have the face to see her? When the matter is settled, I will take the fake Taoist's dog head and go to the night in person. The Bodhisattva worships the benefactor!"

"Are you going to kill that fake Taoist priest?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself: Naqu'e's resentment is hard to get rid of, if he doesn't kill him personally, I'm afraid he won't be able to relieve his hatred.

Yan Zifei asked, "What do you mean?"

"Follow my method, let Qu'e take his dog's life personally after all his money is gone, so as to calm down the resentment in my chest..."

Yan Zifei stood up and said, "Okay, just follow your plan and let them have no talents! Follow me to get the money tonight!"

Bai Shibao asked, "Where do I get the money?"

"I have been in this town for a few days, and I found out that the fake Taoist priest and the county magistrate conspired to defraud the people of their money, and hid a full 1 taels of silver. Tonight, we will go to the county magistrate's house to 'touch' some money and rob him. One sum!"

"Two million taels..."

Bai Shibao's heart skipped a beat, he had never seen so much money in his life.

Yan Zifei smiled and said: "In our business, there is no need to save money and hide silver. Carrying silver with you will cause trouble. I, Yan Zifei, want silver. Where can I not get it?"

After hearing this, Bai Shibao finally understood. He thought that today was an eye-opener. He was a little excited to steal money with the famous thief Yan Zifei, so he urged, "Why wait until night? The place is full of ghosts and ghosts, when I took the note from my arms just now, I didn't find it at all!"

Yan Zifei shook his head and said: "As the saying goes: Steal the darkness but not the white, steal the wind and never steal the moon, steal the rain and never steal the snow; the daytime will be very easy to see, and it is easy to reveal whereabouts. I am alone. It's fine, but you can't hide!"

Bai Shibao suddenly showed a look of shame, and said, "To be honest, my legs are weak when I climb upstairs, and I can't climb walls and steal holes..."

Yan Zifei smiled and said, "Don't worry! You don't need to climb the window beam, I have a way to let you go through the door openly!" As he spoke, he swept his finger over his ear, and a copper strip came out with his finger, and said to Bai Shibao: "Use This thing will set you free to come and go..."

Bai Shibao was amazed to see that the swallow's flying skills were as fast as lightning, and he didn't see where it came out of. He was shocked and said, "It's really amazing, moving objects out of thin air, is it possible that brothers can also practice magic?"

Yan Zifei shook his head, and swiped his hand around his ear again, removing the copper bars in his hand.

Bai Shibao was fascinated by watching, unable to guess the reason.

Yan Zifei slowly dug in his ears with his fingers, pulled out the copper bar, and said with a smile: "You're laughing, practicing my swallow skills, besides the word 'quick', I also need to open 'six paths and two doors'." !"

"Six paths and two doors?"

"That's right! The hands are two 'secret doors', which need to be practiced to open and close freely, and the 'six ways' are the six holes on the body, in which you can hide things..."

Bai Shibao gasped, his whole body tensed up, his face felt hot, and he asked, "Why did you come here?"

Yan Zifei laughed and said: "If you commit a crime, the officers and soldiers will catch you straight, and you will be stripped naked, and your money will not be exposed? You have to hide in the 'dry road'!" After finishing speaking, Yan Zifei pointed his finger point down.

"How much can you hide?"

Yan Zifei stretched out five fingers and said: "It's really not easy. The kung fu of 'dry road clamping silver' has to be practiced hard since childhood. First, some small beans, eggs, etc., later turned into potatoes, eggplants, sweet potatoes, and then practiced. After a long time, you can exchange it for snowflake silver; it’s not easy! I only have five ingots of ten taels of silver!”

Bai Shibao said in shock, "Ah! Isn't that 50 taels?"

Yan Zifei smiled and said: "It's not a big deal, the key is to refine one's breath, learn how to hold one's breath, otherwise you will lose your breath in front of officers and soldiers, but you will be nothing but fools..."

Bai Shibao opened his mouth wide, his eyes were wide open, it turned out that every profession has its own 'doorway'...

Yan Zifei glanced at Bai Shibao and said, "My family fortune has been revealed, should my brother make his debut?"

"I?"

Bai Shibao thought to himself that this Yan Zifei is really a strange person, so there is no need for me to hide this little wealth.

Bai Shibao took out a stack of charms from his bosom and said, "To be honest, I am a disciple of the Yin-Yang sect. I travel between the Yin and Yang realms by means of my spells. Integrate, you can be regarded as half a Taoist priest..."

Yan Zifei said in surprise: "Sure enough, there is such a strange method in the world, I really admire it!"

Bai Shibao laughed and said, "Compared to my brother's 'hard work', it's still far behind."

Yan Zifei saw that it was still early, so he pulled Bai Shibao and said, "My brother and I hit it off, it's still early, why don't we go have a drink and leave when it gets dark..."

Bai Shibao didn't have anything else to do, so he cupped his hands and said, "Brother, I'm sorry!"

Yan Zifei took Bai Shibao out of the Guandi Temple, waved his hand to close the temple door, and gently picked the door crack with his fingers, only to hear a slap, the temple door crossbar got stuck from inside, and the door was locked.

Bai Shibao thought, is there any place in the world that this person can't go to?
Yan Zifei wrapped up his jacket, was as thin as a dead tree, walked down the mountain with Bai Shibao on two slender legs.

Yan Zifei suddenly asked Bai Shibao: "By the way, brother, I saw that there is a name on the roll in your arms that looks familiar?"

Startled, Bai Shibao hurriedly touched the scroll on his body, and asked suspiciously, "When did brother read this scroll of mine?"

Yan Zifei smiled and said, "When we first met, when I showed you the way..."

Bai Shibao was stunned. In just a few short sentences, he unexpectedly read the scroll in my arms without anyone noticing it. The speed is really staggering.

Who made him a famous snitch in the Jianghu!It's not surprising that he can do such a kung fu!

Bai Shibao came back to his senses for a while, and asked, "Which name is brother talking about?"

Yan Zifei said: "Dai Zong!"

"Dai Zong?"

"That's right, I've heard of Water Margin in the theater, and there's Dai Zong, a supernatural protector in it, who learned a Taoist technique, attaching a armored horse to his legs, so that he can travel hundreds of miles magically. Ling Cong, I don’t know if it’s the same person recorded in your volume?”

Startled, Bai Shibao unfolded the scroll and found that the third name recorded was the word 'Dai Zong'.

Bai Shibao shook his head and said, "I don't know about this, but there are many people with the same name in the world, maybe it's just the same name."

Yan Zifei smiled, didn't say much, and dragged Bai Shibao to Tianning Town.

The two just wait until dark...

(End of this chapter)