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Chapter 19 The Laughter Under the Gallows (1)
The vampire started the next story.

My esteemed majesty (Betar politely calls King Vikram), on the west coast of Bratt's territory, there is a country called Malaya, and in this country there is a city called Chetrataya, the king It's Landsill.

This king is very young, so many of his life conditions are the same as other princes: he is at the age when he is young and frivolous, and we generally call this kind of person a Sava Rais young man (meaning, a person who has experienced all the flavors) , It can also be said that he is a person who enjoys pleasure in time.); The implication is that he likes to make a fuss about eating and drinking, likes a life of luxury and money, has a dissolute and chaotic relationship, and has aristocratic and greedy thoughts.

When he was 30 years old, he suddenly became a different person and began to pay attention to the governance and reform of the country. With his enthusiasm, he suddenly became the most beloved king of the people in a relatively short period of time. An example for the kings of all ages to follow.In that era, it was commendable to have such a king, because the vast majority of Brahmin nobles lived a luxurious life from a very young age, and this state of life accompanied them until they were old. It is a pity Never felt like waking up from a dream.

There is a man named Gan Shaka, who is the chief of the local police. Everyone knows that he is impartial and law-abiding.His style made him never embezzle and accept bribes even in his most prominent period.He is kind, humble, and treats everyone the same. He never deliberately punishes a good person, and of course he doesn't wait for an opportunity to let a bad person go.He didn't yell at or even punch and kick prisoners like other police chiefs.Therefore, the people of the whole place love and support him very much.

In recent years, there have been more and more local thieves. Thefts happen frequently. People are afraid every day. They dare not sleep at night and dare not go out during the day. They are afraid that their homes will be stolen by thieves. They live in fear and have no sense of security. .Later, some businessmen were also robbed many times.Finally, people couldn't take it any longer, so they came to the police station where Gan Shaka was.

"Director, the thieves are too rampant, we really can't survive in this city."

"What's going on, everyone sit down and talk slowly. I assure everyone that similar incidents will never happen again in the future. I will take certain measures against these thieves and will never let them go unpunished. Please believe me. "

Therefore, Gan Shaka called all his subordinates and held an emergency meeting to discuss how to do a good job of prevention.He asked his subordinates to pay special attention to night duty. Anyone entering or leaving the city must be registered, and every suspicious person in the city must be strictly checked.In addition, he has installed a tracking system in every community and street intersection. Once a suspicious person appears, the tracking system will send out an alarm, so that the thieves can't escape.

In the end, he also selected the best policemen from all the policemen in the city to form a patrol squad. When arresting thieves, they can kill first and then act later.

Afterwards, the city's police patrolled 24 hours a day, but even so, they did not stop the thieves.A few days later, all the businessmen gathered in the chief of police's office again, and they said to him dejectedly: "You are the incarnation of justice! Although you have established a thorough patrol system, thieves are still banned repeatedly, and they are more rampant than before. , do they have their accomplices in the police?"

Afterwards Ganshaka brought some representatives of the merchants to the palace and came before the king.They presented a petition to the king.The king was deeply sympathetic to the suffering of the people. Before they left, the king comforted him: "Please rest assured, I will call all the ministers to discuss this matter tonight, and I will give you a satisfactory answer tomorrow. I hope the gods will bless you , we will come up with a good measure.”

Once, a poet wrote Landseer in a poem like this:

A person who is not very bright and quick-witted will go from one extreme to the other.

Although the people respected this wise king very much, he was never satisfied and continued to reform the country, so sometimes he would do a lot of unnecessary things.

In the dark night, when you can't see your fingers, there is no one on the street, and the king is preparing his plans for the night.He decided to disguise himself and sneak into the streets to see just how rampant the thieves were.First of all, he used disguise technique, painted his face with a special kind of paint, glued the mustache upwards, facing the direction of the eyes, and divided the beard on the chin into two, with the ends of the beard facing the ears. Stretched out, the hair is fluffy and disheveled.In this way, even the guards around him are hard to recognize, let alone thieves.After that, he quickly put on a set of poor people's clothes, tied a grass belt, took a sword, and slipped out of the palace quietly.

The night was getting darker and darker, and King Landsil walked around the city for several hours, but he still didn't see a single suspicious person.However, just when he was wondering, suddenly a homeless stray dog ​​appeared in his sight.The dog always looked around, and after a while, it lay down under the corner of the family's wall.He walked towards the puppy, when suddenly a person jumped out and asked him loudly, "Who are you?"

"I'm a thief, what about you?" Landseer replied.

"Me too," he said excitedly when he heard what the king said, "would you like to do it together tonight. But, judging by your timid look, you must be a novice. How about four or six?"

"Exactly, I haven't been in the industry for long. Novice, please take care of me." The king bowed his head and whispered, "We'd better not do something big, I'm afraid of the shining of Olivier (referring to the moon), and the police chief , they'll spoil our business. If he catches us, we're finished."

"Okay, a coward like you can still be a thief," the thief looked at him with disdainful eyes, "Let's go and do it, don't always be afraid of wolves and tigers."

After that, the thief and the king started their work.But after a while, a large group of thieves' brothers gathered together.Before stealing, they drank happily, then painted black sheep oil on their faces, and kept chanting incomprehensible spells in their mouths, so that they would not be found even in the dark. Some carried golden darts, which were said to pray to the god of robbers (the god of robbers was a mixed name of the gods of Katikeya, war and Mercury, and his name was "Carya Vedya"). ", which means "thief's guide" in English. In Indian dramas, the typical image of robbers is generally designed according to it), and then took out the tools to pry the house, ready to start action.At this moment, the miraculous ointment on their faces seemed to make them invisible, but of course no weapon could hurt them.

In the end, they came back laden with spoils.At this time, the thief said to the king: "My dear brother, let us take you to a place where many people are waiting for us to drink the palace wine."

King Landsill decided to go deep into the tiger's den and search for the secrets of these thieves.Along the way, his companions were very satisfied with his performance tonight, and kept praising him for having the wisdom root of a robber.The thieves taught him to whistle one after another, saying that it was a code signal for each other, and ordinary people could not understand it at all.The thieves also gave him part of tonight's spoils.

After a while, they arrived at the city gate.To the king's surprise, after the thieves knocked on the city gate a few times, someone opened it immediately.When they were about to reach the forest at the foot of the mountain, the robber stopped suddenly and did not move on.Then only two loud whistles were heard, and the whistles hovered over the jungle, breaking the original silence of the night.After that, two owls hooted miserably in the distance, and the signal was connected.After the thief heard the code, he immediately howled like a jackal in response to the other party.Afterwards, a few men in armor and weapons in their hands came out of the jungle swaggeringly, and one of them went directly to the king and exchanged signals with him.

After that, they hit the road together.Along the way, King Landseer paid close attention to every detail. Not only did he record the scattered objects on the ground, but when he entered the forest, he also deeply noted the daggers on every tree. Make a mark.

After passing through the thorny path, a tall vermilion building appeared in front of my eyes. It was erected on a clearing in the dense forest, very conspicuous.The thief walked straight over, knelt on the ground, and began to bow and salute.Afterwards, he removed a handful of grass, and suddenly a floor trap appeared, and the two men came and removed it together.At this time, a stream of clear spring water miraculously emerged from the trap door, and a noisy sound was vaguely heard from below.

"This time, I'll show you well," the thief said, reaching out to take out a small bamboo ladder, "Come on, brother!" Before he finished speaking, he disappeared with a bag of very valuable things.

Then, the king also disappeared.After a while, they came to a hall, which looked like a hall, but was actually just a hole.The hall has a strange landscape, the dark wall, every distance there is a torch, the light of the torch illuminates the whole hall, the king carefully observed this strange hall.This place is like the underworld, the faint fire makes it more gloomy and terrifying, and it will make you feel the presence of will-o'-the-wisps.All kinds of blankets were piled up on the floor of the hall, including tapestry-like tapestries and rough cushions. There were also many jewels, wallets, weapons, wine glasses, and many luxury items beside them.It's a hell here, although there are many valuable items.

Passing through the hall, the thieves led King Landsill to another hall, which was full of thieves, and it turned out that this was their old den.Tonight, there will be a grand carnival party here.In order to participate in this carnival, many thieves began to dress themselves up carefully. They changed the tattered clothes they wore when stealing, washed the blood on their bodies, combed their dirty hair like felt, and finally painted their bodies with cocoa fragrance. of oil.All the thieves gathered here, it was a great gathering of the evil gods Katikeas and Behavani (Behavani is one of the many goddesses of destruction and the wife of Lord Shiva).Among these thieves are assassins with daggers (they always tie the daggers with a rope and hang them around their waists), and there are evil dehatuyas (referring to those unfortunates who have been anesthetized to death by mandala seeds). man), he was very different, always hanging his little pockets under his arms.There is also the kind of hooligan who often wears a deadly silk scarf around his neck.King Landseer thanked the thief from the bottom of his heart, for he had brought him here.Unfortunately, he said that many of these robbers were from his palace, including his ministers, guards and patrols.

The thieves suddenly wanted to take him to meet a very important person who was said to be the leader of their gang of thieves.When the king entered a secret room, all the people began to applaud, as if to welcome him, and he nodded politely to all the thieves.Immediately afterwards, he gave a brief self-introduction, and then talked with everyone about the robbery.Afterwards, everyone went to the carnival.The thieves flocked to pick their favorite seats, so the carnival began, and everyone began to eat, drink and have fun.

In the blink of an eye, several hours passed, the torches were almost burned out, and everyone was full of food and drink, and fell asleep for a while.The thieves fell asleep in the hall, and some of them were still awake, sitting against the wall, yawning constantly, and smoking opium and marijuana.After a while, I fell asleep.

At this time, a maid came into the hall, and she recognized the king at once, so she whispered: "King! Why are you with these villains? Get out of here, or you will run away when they wake up." It's too late. They are all cruel and will kill you."

"But I don't know which way to go," Landsill said.

The kind maid took him out of the hall and showed him the way to escape.He stepped carefully over the sleeping and snoring thieves, almost lightly, for fear of waking the thieves.After finally finding a ladder, he exhausted all his strength to lift the heavy work. He finally came out, and then he let go of a hanging heart.Before entering the forest, he placed another branch to mark the spot, and carefully placed a handful of grass at the entrance.

Soon, King Landseer returned to the palace, he immediately changed his clothes, and now he returned to his original appearance.At this time, the merchants came again and cried to him about the misfortune that had happened to him that night.

"Your Majesty the King! You told us yesterday that you would take measures to deal with these thieves, and you comforted us that everything would be fine. However, our property was looted by thieves again."

"I swear again that this time they will not be able to escape, and they will be punished severely. So the merchants left, and the king sighed.

Immediately afterwards, the king began to think about the next step.He summoned the best archers in the city, and they were always ready to sneak into the lairs of thieves and catch them at the king's word.According to the thieves' original plan, they would have successfully completed their mission tonight, holding a carnival party in the hall, and then sleeping soundly, without any precautions at all.So the king ordered the soldiers to be fully armed and marched into the forest.

(End of this chapter)