Chapter 288: The Thief Patronizes
Late at night, everyone was full of wine and food, and sat at the table drunk, chatting with each sentence.
"Qinglan, you take care of everyone." Xue Jinyi instructed: "I helped the King of Chu to rest." ”
"Princess, please rest assured." Qinglan nodded.
Xue Jinyi helped Pu Yangxuan into the house, and as soon as she closed the door, the drunken King of Chu opened his eyes instantly, his inky black eyes were clear, without the slightest drunkenness, if he hadn't been close to him, he would smell some wine, and she even suspected that this man was drinking all water tonight.
"Looks like I thought I couldn't bet with you on who drank too much."
Pu Yangxuan approached her, "How can I be willing to let Ah Jin get drunk and don't know anything......"
There seemed to be a deep meaning in his words, Xue Jinyi glared at him viciously, and turned his head to look at the crack in the window.
Pu Yangxuan looked at the crack in the window, "It depends on what happens tonight." ”
In the courtyard, Qinglan and Qingzhi helped the drunk craftsmen to rest.
Liu Yang shook his head at his younger siblings who were already drunk and crooked, "I can't drag them back, please trouble Miss Qinglan to let them rest here." ”
"There have always been their bunks here, Miss Liuyang, please rest assured."
"Okay." Liu Yang left the shop in a dashing manner, no longer caring about her younger siblings.
"Liu Xin, Miss Liujiang?" Qinglan nudged them gently.
Liu Jiang waved his hand and shouted indistinctly: "No, come back, have three more drinks with me!" I don't believe I can't drink you......"
"No, girl, you can't drink anymore, you're going to make a mistake." Liu Xin hurriedly persuaded.
Qinglan smiled: "Don't worry, isn't it very peaceful in the shop these days?" I don't think anyone will trouble us, we are too worried, isn't this so happy today, let's rest early when we are happy, right? Don't think about anything else. ”
"Don't think about it, don't you think about it......"
Qinglan said affirmatively: "Yes, no. ”
Liu Xin nodded, "That's good......" and then fell down on the table, snoring and falling asleep.
Liu Jiang smirked "hey, hey, hey", "Liu Xin, you're such a waste, you're not going to get drunk in just a few sips?" ”
"Miss Liujiang, we'll help you go to rest." Qinglan and Qingzhi took a lot of effort to help the brother and sister into the house to rest.
After settling everyone, they hastily cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, then blew out the lights and went to rest.
There was silence in front of and behind the shop, save for the sound of laughter coming from a tavern not far away.
Two moments later, a black shadow fell in the backyard, he was like a ghost, he did not make a sound between landing and walking, he jumped to the back door of the front room in three or two steps, quietly opened the window and looked at it a few times, and after hearing the snoring sound one after another, he swept quickly to the backyard and opened the window of a room.
He saw clearly on the wall that it was this room that the king of Chu and his wife entered.
The room was dim, but his eyesight was good, and he could vaguely see that the bed tent was lowered, and on the pedals were two pairs of shoes that were messy, and it seemed that they had drunk wine to make them happy.
Then there will be no accident happening.
The thief smiled silently, but unfortunately the tent was in the way, and he couldn't see anything.
He shook his head, walked quickly to the door of the storeroom, and looked at the lock on the door with disdain, which was good, but still a piece of scrap metal in his eyes.
He spat out a silver needle from his mouth, smashed it into the keyhole, and with three or two clicks, the lock opened.
The thief triumphantly kicked open the door, strode into the storeroom, looked at the empty room, "tsk", and then walked quickly to a corner of the room, removed the cabinet above, and easily removed a stone slab, revealing a small and small dark compartment inside.
The dark grid was also empty, but he was not disappointed at all, and his palm carefully touched every part of the dark grid.
The place where the palm of the hand touched was flat and neat, and there was nothing unusual about it.
He touched it around again, and finally felt something strange in a corner.
It's a depression that's hard to notice.
A master like him was almost deceived.
The thief shook his head, his fingertips exerting force, and the depression instantly appeared several cracks, and then shattered, revealing the keyhole behind it.
This lock...... He tried it with a silver needle first, but didn't open it.
Forget it, just make that little money, why bother yourself.
The thief took out a small bag embroidered with lotus flowers from his arms, took out a key from it, inserted it into the lock hole, and turned around, easily opening the secret behind the dark grid.
The slate made a soft "click" and then slid down, revealing a stone staircase.
The thief jumped in swiftly, pulled out a fire fold, and lit a lamp next to him.
The dim candlelight dispersed, and he saw six boxes neatly stacked in the cellar, the same number as the person had told him, and he jumped to the boxes, and opened a box with some paper-wrapped contents stacked inside.
Curiously, he picked open a packet, took some of the powder inside, rubbed it between his fingers a few times, and put it under his nose to smell it.
"It's ......," he was surprised, and then pulled out a bag and stuffed it into his arms, "It's a good thing." ”
He was so happy that he sold it, and the money he earned could not be opened for a month.
The thief picked up a box, although he was small, but his strength was amazing, and the heavy box seemed to weigh only a leaf in his hand.
He slipped up the stone steps, and was about to lift his feet to go up, when suddenly there was a "click", and a cool breeze blew above his head, blowing out the little lamp, and the surroundings were plunged into complete darkness.
The thief was shocked, and the slate was set aside, and it was impossible to put it back in any way, unless someone did!
Could it be that another master is here, otherwise how could he not be aware of the movement outside?
The thief's heart beat like a drum, and he calmed down, put down the box, and went up the stone steps, his ears pressed to the stone slab, and listened to the movement outside.
There wasn't a lot of movement outside.
What's going on?
I waited and waited, but there was still no movement.
The feeling of ignorance made the thief a little panicked, according to his skills, he had never encountered such a thing!
Suddenly, a thin slit was uncovered in the slate, and a reed pole came through the crack, and before the thief could see clearly, a wisp of white smoke came to his face.
A strong fragrance entered his nose, and the thief secretly screamed "not good", trying to guard against it but it was too late.
His mind was dizzy, his eyes rolled, he fell down the stone steps, and fainted.
After a while, the stone slab was slowly removed, and the bright lights fell, and then a bunch of men and women's faces were revealed in the dark grid, one was Xue Jinyi, and the other was-
A black mask.