Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 66
Zou Run couldn't help asking: "Master, is it them?"

Ma Cheng was stunned for a moment, with a simple smile on his face.

"The strong man was joking. The birthday card was snatched by those robbers. How did my father and son get it?"

Sun Xin shook his head and said, "We're all smart people, it's better not to go around the corner."

"Zhou Tong is just a bandit leader. Most of the treasures in the cave were hidden by the gangsters during previous robberies. It can only be said that it is a coincidence that it is in the same cave as the birthday card. He only came here to find the treasure. I came here, but I didn't want Li Hu and the others to get him involved in this matter."

"If those robbers really snatched the birthday card, what are they going to do when they come back? Wouldn't it be enough to take advantage of the chaos and leave with everyone? Don't say that with Zhou Tong's skills, there is really someone who can't get away."

"As for the hairpin that Zhou Tong left here, you brought it down the mountain specially to blame him."

Ma Cheng smiled bitterly and said, "The strong man's explanation is also reasonable, but we really didn't take the treasure."

Sun Xin said with a smile: "So you go first, we will wait here for two days to see the scenery, and we will leave later."

When Sun Xin said these words, several people saw that Ma Yier's face was obviously abnormal, and his little hand was tightly clenched on the single knife at his waist. Zou Run, Xie Zhen and Xie Bao finally reacted at this time, and Sun Xin said That's right, the father and son in front of him are the ones who took away the birthday card!
In an instant, the three of them also secretly pressed their hands on the pepper shaker in their arms.

Ma Cheng was still smiling.

"There were so many people on the cliff last night, no one can be sure that they are thieves. How can you be sure that we took the birthday key?"

Sun Xin shook his head and said, "I can see all the people on this side of the cliff clearly. No one has ever gone down the cliff. Those who go down the mountain to report the news can only go down the other side of the cliff."

"I was on this side of the cliff then."

"But your son is on the other side of the cliff!"

Ma Cheng shook his head with a smile and said:
"Brother Sun also heard Wang Naigong's words. They all looked at the clepsydra together and went to sleep at Haishi. Even if my son sneaked down the mountain from the other side of the cliff after everyone slept, it was impossible for him to walk because of his inconvenient legs. He Gu went out and informed people."

"Secondly, even if he has notified people, the interval between when others go to sleep and when you come up is less than a quarter of an hour. How can he run out of the valley to notify people and tell those thieves to take so many treasure chests out of the cave? move out?"

"Time is easy."

"The leak meter is timed according to the volume of water. You just need to take something with a fixed capacity, such as...a water cup."

"When you add a cup of water to the clepsydra while people are not paying attention, the time display of the clepsydra will speed up. After a while, your son can lie to the gamblers that it is the time of the day, and let everyone go to bed."

"Anyway, it rained so hard last night, you can't hear your gambling voice clearly later, who will pay attention to you going to bed two minutes earlier or later?"

"When everyone fell asleep in a daze, your son or yourself would take the cup out of the clepsydra and pour it out. Wouldn't it be invisible?"

"But even if my son goes down into the valley, how can he report the news if he can't get out of the river at all?"

"This, actually... When we found out that the birthday guide disappeared, you didn't transport the birthday guide out at all, did you?"

Ma Cheng's smiling face gradually turned cold.

"It was the big rock that tripped Grandma Wang that reminded me."

"The stone was thrown from the cliff. I thought, who would be bored enough to throw such a heavy stone from the cliff? Shouldn't the stone be smashed even if it was thrown? That stone It’s so complete, someone must have brought it down the mountain on purpose, right?”

"It should be that Ma Yier came down the mountain first, brought the big rock and smashed all the wooden boxes containing the birthday outline. The floating bags of those wooden boxes were soaked in water, and after two days of drying, the paint leather burst. , very loose, and your son is also skilled, lifting such a big stone, he must be able to smash all ten wooden boxes in less than a quarter of an hour."

"After smashing the box, dump all the treasures in the wooden box into the river. The river was already waist-deep due to flooding. The ten boxes of treasures were scattered and poured down. In the dark, the things under the water were black. Where can I see the piece clearly, it should be unnoticed, right?"

"As for the smashed box, did you dare to float away with the current? It was Li Hu's way of dealing with the sunken ship that reminded you to make such a move, right?"

"And your son stole Zhou Tong's hairpin while he was still going down the mountain and deliberately threw it on the spot to attract people to suspect him."

Ma Cheng's expression gradually became very playful.

Sun Xin said with a smile: "When we went down and saw the box, those treasures were actually soaked in the bend of the stream under the cave. It's ridiculous that we didn't know it in our panic, and we were still jumping on that stream. I jumped up and down several times."

"And when there was chaos on the entire cliff, brother Ma must have run out to inform your accomplices to fish out the treasures that were sunk in the water, and then you immediately went back to the top of the mountain to catch up Li Hu checks the number of people."

"Actually, when we went down to the valley for the second time, those who carried the birthday card had just left, so the footprints they left in the heavy rain were so fresh."

"It was you who drilled the hole in that boat. The people who transported the birthday plan were suspicious and suspected the wrong person. In fact, you have been following them all along!"

Sun Xin pointed to Ma and his son and said:
"You two are the vanguard, and your brothers are not far behind you. It's just that when you walked down the river bank, the two of you in the lead were arrested, so this trick was set up."

"However, even if most of the gold and jewelry shells can be fished out in the dark, most of the rocky beaches are still calm. In the daytime, you must come back to search again with the light."

Sun Xin said with a smile: "If we wait here for a while, maybe we can see your friends coming."

Ma Cheng took a deep breath, and the smile resumed on his face. Finally, he no longer denied Sun Xin's conjecture, but asked directly: "It is possible that someone else did it when you did it like this. How can you be sure that it is us?"

"At that time, this was the only way I could think of to capture the birthday card. It couldn't be a ghost. I suspect you. One is because you reminded Ma Yier to watch the time to sleep. If you didn't remind me, Nobody notices the time."

"The second is to consider that this method must cooperate with those who gamble and those who stand in front of the cliff."

"It was possible for the soldiers to collude with each other. But when the bandits came just now, the soldiers all rushed and fought with them helplessly. If they successfully captured the birthday card, they would not be so risky."

"The two of you are the closest to us in the chaos, and you want to fight out together with our joint forces. If you are so desperate for your life, it is most likely that only you two will be left."

"And you two's martial arts are too hidden, it's hard not to arouse suspicion."

Ma Cheng laughed and said: "When it comes to martial arts, you might as well give way."

Sun Xin shook his head and sighed: "The heavy rain last night was not something anyone could have expected. Without this heavy rain as a cover, the sound of gambling would not be covered up, and the river would not surge. This plan would not be implemented at all."

"So you should have thought of such a meticulous plan immediately when it was raining, but it took me so long to figure it out. I am really inferior to you in this regard."

Ma Cheng laughed loudly, raised his spear and sighed: "I have been teaching at home for several years. I don't think there will be such a smart person in Shandong, but I have a question. If you guessed the whole picture, how dare you ask me for it?" Birthday outline?"

"How do you know that I don't have many people? If I have hundreds of strong men under my command, sir, there are only four people today. If I don't say this, I can spare your life. If I say this, how can we let you go?" go out?"

Sun Xin shrugged, "If you had hundreds of strong men, you would have charged up the cliff and killed us all."

"You don't even dare to confront us head-on. It only shows that you don't have the confidence to deal with the few people on our mountain with a sneak attack. So how many people can you have under your command? Eight?"

When Sun Xin said this number, he saw Ma Cheng's face froze, and he couldn't help smiling bitterly in his heart: It's really eight that he guessed right...

"The eight people are just going to carry the birthday outline to a farther place, so until now those birthday outlines are still nearby, but you can continue to perform this play without changing your face, how courageous you are! It's big enough."

Ma Cheng coughed dryly.

"Sure enough, you are smart, but your excellency has miscalculated one thing."

At this time, Ma Yier suddenly put his fingers between his lips and whistled, and Sun Xin heard a burst of noisy footsteps coming from beside him.

Sun Xin came to his senses in a flash. Looking around, he saw eight people walking out of the forest and surrounded them. His face turned pale instantly.

Sun Xin thought that his helpers should be hiding farther away at this time, but he didn't expect them to be so close in ambush.

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