Simultaneous time travel starts from the flower age

Chapter 7: The Master Thief Zongwu Zhang

Although it was spring in Yuzhou City at this month, Zhang Fan, who was standing on the river bank, couldn't help but tighten his clothes when the wind blew. He was wearing only one piece of clothing, and Zhao Youtian didn't even bother to bring him some clothes.

Wait, single clothing, look at the environment, mountains, forests, fields, it seems that it is not too much to get a lucky suit, I have to borrow some clothes first.

Zhang Fan thought about it and sneaked towards the town where Mr. Li was. Looking at the lights in the distance, it seemed like it would only take a moment to turn on. He also had to put on some clothes. It was really cold.

After finishing all these things, the moon was full and there seemed to be a few dark clouds. Zhang Fan hid the stolen clothes under an old willow tree outside the village. He looked like a mountain ghost in his lucky clothes. The direction of the old willow tree was definitely not towards Yuzhou City, but towards the river. If he went north along the river for 2 or 3 days, he would reach Hejiang County under the jurisdiction of Yuzhou. He didn't know if there would be any Hejiang meat slices to taste.

After doing all this, Zhang Fan went back into the town, but he saw a few stealthy figures walking in the woods outside the town, so he stopped. He was not afraid, but he was wearing a camouflage suit, so how could these people guess what he was like? Even if they guessed and saw him, they would surely not believe it.

"You guys hide in the woods and wait for the signal from the Third In Command, then we'll rush in together," Zhang Fan vaguely heard the man in the middle say.

"Brother, how long will it take? The brothers have been waiting from midnight to midnight, and you are not allowed to light a torch or drink a glass of wine. The wind in the forest is very cold."

"Why are you in such a hurry? You can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The Third Boss said, just wait for the signal."

"Hehe, I want to eat tofu. After I'm done with this, I'm going to Hejiang to find the tofu beauty in the north of the city to eat tofu." He sounded shifty and mean.

Zhang Fan stopped observing, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with the bandits when they broke in. The first thing that Jin Datou asked him to do must not be messy. After all, it was a cult. He had seen and heard before that people who messed up would suffer a lot.

Taking advantage of the night, Zhang Fan successfully slipped into the town. Mr. Li's family did have someone to guard the house. There were bandit problems in Jinyun Mountain recently. At this time, there were people guarding the front and back doors. I wonder if there were people patrolling the yard.

The Li family was a well-known wealthy family in Yuzhou city. It was said that a few years ago, there was a great war between Li Yang and Bei Mang in the north. In order to avoid the war, the whole family crossed the thousand-mile Anyang Lake, and floated on the Anyang Lake for three days on several fishing boats. Then they bought more than 3 acres of land in Bei Town in the north of Yuzhou city. Several villages around Bei Town were tenants of his family.

Not long after, Zhang Fan took advantage of the dark clouds blocking the moon and quietly climbed into the courtyard. As soon as he landed, he went into the garden, blending in naturally with the surrounding scenery.

Zhao Youtian also gave Zhang Fan a picture of Li's house. Zhang Fan compared it and found that it should be the backyard garden. The house in the middle should be the ancestral hall of the Li family. The study should be on the left after leaving the garden, and it is a two-story building on the right side of the artificial lake in the middle courtyard.

When he arrived at the middle courtyard, he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. The lights in the middle courtyard were dim, but the courtyard was full of people. There were 7 or 8 tables in the courtyard. Without counting them carefully, there were at least dozens of skilled knife-wielding people sitting there, eating meat and drinking wine without making much noise. It seemed that Mr. Li was relaxed on the outside but tight on the inside. It seemed that Mr. Li had some tricks up his sleeves and was just waiting for the Black Wind Village to come. He must have hidden people in the backyard. Fortunately, he was wearing a ghillie suit all the way, otherwise it would be hard to say.

Zhang Fan hid between three tree balls in the garden. Fortunately, this location was on the right side of the small lake. There was a circle of corridors built on the lake, which also connected to the study.

I was so shocked that even though the lake was big enough, the noise was too loud and would attract attention. Fortunately, I had the ghillie suit, because at first glance, it was just a pile of leaves and grass.

Crawling along the outside of the corridor, Zhang Fan reached the other side of the study. There were also several windows on this side facing the rockery, and a bunch of bamboos were planted.

Zhang Fan followed what he had seen in TV dramas. Although there was no light in the house, he still wet his hand with some saliva, carefully opened the window to see if there was anyone, took off his ghillie suit and spread it flat on the garden, revealing the coarse linen clothes he had stolen before, and put a simple mask on his face. He rolled over, landed on the ground, and entered the house almost without any sound.

There is a faint scent of sandalwood in the study. The window faces the main door. The desk is on the left side of the door, and there is a long table on the right side. There are some antique shelves and bookshelves around the back.

Zhang Fanzang tried moving around, the vase, the inkstone, the legs of the table. If he hadn't known it was a dark room, he would have wanted to climb up onto the beams to look for it, but still there was no movement.

Zhang Fan looked at the portrait behind the desk. It was a picture of boating on a lake with several small boats. There seemed to be people on the boats pointing their fingers to the sky as if they were saying something. There was also a pagoda standing in the lake. On the shore, there was a shepherd boy holding grass in his mouth and an old man playing a musical instrument. Some of the words were unrecognizable.

Zhang Fan looked at it, and with an idea in mind, he quietly took down the painting. Inside was actually a statue of a general standing on his horse with a sword in hand. In front of the statue was a small incense burner. The sandalwood scent should have come from here.

This must be the mechanism. Thinking of this, Zhang Fan immediately turned it. This is also because the person who designed the mechanism did not want people to know that there was a secret room in the house, so there was no loud noise when the mechanism was activated. After turning the general statue, Zhang Fan looked around. In the corner of the house, a floor tile sank down, just a passage for people to pass through, and the antique shelf above did not move. This technology was praised by the eighth-level technician.

Going down to the dark room, the dark room was not big, not even as big as the study upstairs. Opposite it stood a life-size statue, but it was different from the statue of the general. It was a majestic old man wearing a crown, armor, and a real black silk robe inlaid with gold edges, which was very impressive.

In front of the statue there is a stone altar and a bronze sacrificial tripod with incense sticks in it. It seems that the owner may have left not long ago. The three cushions in front of the altar are still warm to the touch.

Zhang Fan looked at the altar. There was a wooden box wrapped in red cloth in front of the bronze tripod. When he opened it, he found a jade pendant. He did not linger any longer. The villain died because of talking too much and causing trouble. Zhang Fan put the jade pendant in his pocket and turned to leave.

When Zhang Fan went up to the study, he heard shouts and screams outside.

"Brothers, take over Li's house. Each of you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver. Charge in immediately." From the sound of this voice, it should be the third in command who took the lead just now.

"The Third Master has an ambush!"

"You bandits are despicable. You are just a piece of trash below the second rank, and you dare to attack my Li family? Come and die quickly." I don't know who dares to say that, but he must be a master above the second rank.

It was the Black Wind Village that attacked, but this matter had nothing to do with Zhang Fan.

Zhang Fan turned over and walked out of the house, quickly changing into a camouflage suit. He didn't dare to go back the same way he came, so he climbed over the wall using bamboo, making some noise.

"Master, there is someone behind us. Someone broke into the study."

"How brave! Bring a few people with you."

But Zhang Fan could no longer be found at this moment. As soon as he walked out of Li's residence, he went straight to the old willow tree outside the town. However, his body covered with flowers, plants and leaves did scare some of the townspeople.

At this moment, it was just dawn and Zhang Fan was already waiting at the ferry outside Yuzhou City. Not far across the ferry was the Jinzi Gate of Yuzhou City, which was just south of the city.

Before Zhang Fan left Bei Town, he took a long detour and changed into other clothes he had prepared before coming here. On the way, he found a wine stall in the south and bought a few bowls of wine to drink. He was drunk and waiting here for the supplier of meat and vegetables to deliver today. He wanted to get a ride and he had found an excuse. He was out visiting friends and got drunk. What happened in the north had nothing to do with him.

After entering the city gate, he looked at the waiter who came to pick up the goods without saying much, and leisurely sat in the delivery ox cart back to Yunlai Inn. The waiter just thought that the shopkeeper was in a good mood today and came out occasionally to take a look. After all, for a nouveau riche like Zhang Fan who made a fortune, it was okay to be a little dissolute.

After returning to Yunlai Inn, Zhang Fan sat down at a table by the window on the second floor and asked the waiter to make him a pot of tea. He then went to the breakfast stall on the street and ordered a few baskets of meat buns. People coming and going could see this position. Zhao Youtian said he would wait for him at the inn, but there was no one in the inn at the moment, so he had to wait.

Zhang Fan was busy all night and had no sleepiness. The strength of the barely first rank was helpful to his spirit. Besides, even if an ordinary person knew that there would be a noble person to help him the next day, would he be able to sleep?

While eating big meat buns and drinking tea, the street outside suddenly became noisy. It turned out that the news of Black Wind Village's night attack on Li's house in Bei Town had spread.

Zhang Fan was also very carefree. He pretended to be shocked and went downstairs to chat with neighbors and passers-by. He would be unsociable if he didn't eat melons.

　Come on! Keep going!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)