The goblin in the palace is on top

Chapter 16 The Thief
The thief under the mask turned out to be Huitou, a second-rank Buddhist monk who once recruited Wu Shiyi to burn demons outside the Huguo Temple, and even beat him with nonsense several times.

Huitou is Haichan's apprentice.He is also an eminent monk of Huguo Temple.It stands to reason that this kind of burglary should not be done.

So Wu Shishi was a little surprised when he saw the other party's face.

Also out of surprise, Wu Shiyi fetched a bowl of mung bean soup and splashed it on the opponent's face.

"what!"

Following this burst of stimulation, Huitou opened his eyes suddenly.After seeing Wu Shishi, he struggled hard.

But his hands and feet were bound tightly by the demon hand with sheets.

"Stop barking, it's easy to attract people."

Wu Shiyi said coldly, "You are from Huguo Temple. You are shameless, but Huguo Temple and Master Haichan still have shame."

"..."

After hearing what Wu Shiyi said, Huitou immediately stopped struggling, as if thinking of something.

Then he told Wu Shiyi with a smirk on his face: "Hmph! Since you know that I am an eminent monk of Huguo Temple, then let me go honestly. Otherwise, I will make you unable to eat, and walk around!"

"..." Wu Shishi felt that this person had misunderstood what he said earlier.

In order to prevent the misunderstanding from deepening, Wu Shiyi asked Huitou, "Tell me first, what are you stealing from me? I am a boy who burns demons, what should you worry about?"

When asked, Huitou snorted coldly: "The Buddha came to you to tell good fortune. You don't know how to be grateful, and dare to ask questions?"

"I dare not...but it dares!"

While speaking, Wu Shiyi re-lit the mung bean soup and added firewood.

When the mung bean soup was smoking for the second time, Wu Shiyi told Huitou with a smile: "Since the great monk is preaching blessings, I will treat you naturally. Here I will pour soup for you to relieve the heat."

"what!"

Huitou looked at the mung bean soup that was gradually heating up, and hesitated for a second.

Afterwards, he didn't ask himself, and confessed his purpose of coming here.

As soon as the thief opened his mouth, Wu Shiyi was startled.

He came here to steal the ultimatum given to Wu Shiyi by Haichan.

In the Daxing Dynasty, the ultimatum that symbolizes the identity of a monk is indeed a good thing.

With this ultimatum, find another temple to place an order.It is the official status of a monk.

With this level of status, you can enjoy the state subsidies of "seven households raising one monk" and the preferential policy of no taxation, and you can be punished lightly if you commit a crime.

These benefits are of great significance to some outsiders, wealthy businessmen, and gentry.

Therefore, those well-to-do families with money but no power will try their best to get such a certificate and become a "fake monk" to avoid expropriation.

So come and go.The degree certificate of the temple has become a scarce commodity that can be bought and sold.Indistinctly, together with the official banknotes and the flying money circulated among the people, it became one of the three major currencies supporting the Daxing Dynasty.

Moreover, the value of the certificate is higher than that of treasure notes and flying money.

Like the gold medal certified by Baoguo Temple and Xuanzhengyuan in Wu Shishi's hand, it can be sold for a good price of "three hundred guan".

Three hundred guan, that is the income of a family of four in Daxing Dynasty for 50 years.

In terms of weight conversion, this is greater than the gold content of real gold.

After hearing this, most of the confusion in Wu Shiyi's heart became clear.

But he continued to ask the thief monk Kong Dun and said: "The great monk is a monk of the Huguo Temple. It stands to reason that he also has a degree?"

The master looked at the mung bean soup that rolled away again, with a stream of smoke.He replied honestly: "My certificate...is also bought."

It turns out that there are two ways for ordinary people to obtain degree certificates, namely, the debate examination and buying and selling.

This Huitou master is following the latter.

In his early years, this man joined the army and served as a small official in the Buku Camp of the Imperial Army. He is a second-rank martial artist.

After returning to his home, he did not do his job properly, relying on his skills to sneak around, bully the market, and become the local hegemony.

One day later, the thief stole the "General Xuanyong's Mansion", a wealthy family that shouldn't be messed with, and was arrested.

According to the law, the thief should cut off his hands and feet.

Cutting off hands and feet is equivalent to becoming disabled, and naturally no one would like it.

So he scattered all his family wealth and communicated from top to bottom, and finally escaped the physical punishment by relying on the certificate he bought.Enter Huguo Temple to settle down.

In Huguo Temple, Huitou was very popular with monks and masters because of his glib skills acquired in the society, and he could be said to have both ways.

As he gained power, Huitou picked up those stinky habits of sneaking around again, often stealing the pilgrims' finances while they were offering incense.

After repeated successes, Huitou's addiction to stealing and courage grew stronger and stronger.

That's why after seeing the high-level certificate Wu Shiyi had obtained, he finally couldn't resist the impulse and went on this trip to the next three deaths.

After saying this, Huitou still didn't forget to yell angrily: "Boy, if you let Grandpa and me go, I will definitely give you a good word in front of Kong Chan. If you don't let me go, we will die, and it will be no good!"

After finishing speaking, Huitou warned again: "I am the second rank of both Buddhism and martial arts, black and white double killing. When I release my gong, I will scare you!"

"..." Wu Shiyi pondered for a while after hearing Huitou's thief monk's words.

Then a weird smile crossed the corner of his mouth.

That smile made Huitou's heart tremble.

He thought Wu Shiyi was going to kill him.

But in the next second, Wu Shishi loosened the rope that bound Huitou, and helped him up again.

Then, under Huitou's vigilant and astonished eyes, Wu Shiyi bowed and said: "The great monk and I have a good relationship, and we will talk about Buddhism late at night and spread blessings. I can have some insights. I hope the great monk will go well all the way."

After finishing speaking, Wu Shishi emphasized again: "You can go through the main entrance! I'll lead you out so that no one else will be suspicious."

Huitou was a little startled at first.But then he arrogantly thought that Wu Shiyi was intimidated by his own aura.

He was smug, but he didn't think about it carefully. Can he, a living person with a mortal body, bear the bows and blessings sent by a boy like Wu Shiyi?
After gladly accepting the worship, the other party waved: "You are sensible. I will definitely praise you with Master Haichan later!"

After saying this, Huitou walked towards the main entrance.

Just when Huitou reached the threshold, Wu Shishi saw the opportunity, took a handful of mung beans, and threw them on the ground!

These mung beans are wonderfully sprinkled.Even though Huitou had the skill of a warrior, he couldn't dodge it, slipped and fell, and hit the threshold on the back of his head.

"Boom!"

With the sound of bone cracking, Huitou vomited white foam.

The whole world is quiet.

Wu Shiyi once again verified his hexagram.

After knowing Huitou's bad deeds, Wu Shiyi has made up his mind to punish him instead of Buddha.

So, he concentrated his mind and started a "asking the sky to buy divination".

And so while bowing, Wu Shishi saw a mung bean left on the ground.

The mung beans were trampled to pieces at some point, like brains splashed out of a human brain.

Wu Shiyi had an epiphany.

Therefore, Huitou was severely concussed by the mung bean splashed by Wu Shiyi skillfully, and he was either dead or disabled.

Huitou is a ruthless person.It's a pity that he provoked someone more ruthless.

In front of the third-rank Confucian hexagram masters, the second-rank Buddhist and martial arts can only be crushed.

All struggles, in the face of forecasting, seem so pale and powerless.

After being crushed, Huitou finally could stand Wu Shiyi's worship.

After finishing Huitou, Wu Shiyi turned his head and looked at the banshee's hands lying on the bed.

With a knowing smile, Wu Shiyi called out: "Yu Shou, it's your turn to live!"

(End of this chapter)