Tianzhu: The Record of Foreign Stories in the Republic of China

Chapter 32 Absolute Thief (2)
That afternoon, a gust of wind published a statement in the Evening News:

Hu Yitong broke his promise, and within three days, he himself will take your most valuable thing as a punishment.

When Hu Yitong saw the newspaper, he thought secretly that his most valuable possessions were nothing less than three: one was the seal, the official seal of the police station was in his own hands, and losing the seal was equivalent to losing the official; the other was the handle of the gun. The [-]-gun shell pistol on his body was issued by Shangfeng himself, and the gun is with him; the third thing is his own life.But according to his understanding, a gust of wind takes money and things, and never takes human life, so the target of the other party is very likely to be his official seal and gun.

Hu Yitong couldn't help becoming vigilant, tied his official seal and gun around his waist, and once again mobilized the overall police force to escort him. No matter where he went, there were more than 100 policemen with live ammunition three layers of protection.As long as a gust of wind dares to approach him, he will never escape the police roundup.Two days passed, and the seal and gun handle tied to his waist were still there, so Hu Yitong felt relieved.

The third day was a Sunday, at noon, Hu Yitong's wife was arguing to go to Snoot Western Restaurant to eat Western food.The chief's wife is named Tang Li. She has been married to Lao Hu for more than 20 years and has not given birth to a boy or a girl for him.As the saying goes, there are three ways to be unfilial, and the greatest thing is to have no offspring. Hu Yitong dreamed of having a son to carry on the family line. Seeing that his wife had no hope, he asked for a concubine more than a year ago.Unexpectedly, not long after taking the concubine, his wife Tang Li's belly started to move, and she became pregnant. It has been three or four months now, and her belly is very swollen.Hu Yitong put aside the juicy concubine again, and turned around to offer his wife as a Buddha.This Tang Li has always been very sick, throwing up whatever she eats, but now she suddenly wants to eat western food on a whim, and Hu Yitong naturally agrees.

Director Hu and his wife came to the Snort restaurant under the escort of a group of policemen with live ammunition.Lao Geng had already kicked out the other guests in the western restaurant, and divided the police into two teams, one guarding the restaurant and the other guarding outside the restaurant building.Tang Li chose a seat by the window to sit down, but Hu Yitong didn't dare to sit down. He stood aside and obeyed his wife's orders as if he was serving the old Buddha.

Tang Li ordered a cup of coffee and a steak, and was eating with relish, when she suddenly heard a noise coming from outside the window, she got up and looked by the window, only to see a few dirty little children on the street downstairs. The kids are fighting.One child couldn't beat his companions, so he took out his penis and shot at several children who bullied him with a column of urine.Several children were chased by him and ran all over the ground.Tang Li couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Suddenly, a strange wind blew in from the window, Hu Yitong couldn't help shivering, took off his coat and put it on his wife.At this moment, the restaurant's phone rang, and a waitress came over and told Hu Yitong that someone called him at the service desk.

Hu Yitong secretly felt strange, ran over to pick up the phone, but what came out of the receiver was Gust's strange voice: "Old Hu, have you noticed that your baby is missing?"

Hu Yitong was taken aback, and hurriedly touched his waist. The seal handle and the handle of the gun were both there, and then he breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "I was too careless last time, so I fell into your way. This time , if you want to steal from me, take your life first."

A gust of wind said: "Director Hu, don't be too pretentious, you should go and see if there is anything missing on Mrs. Zun, right?"

Hu Yitong's heart sank, he hurriedly dropped the phone and ran back to his wife, asking, "Have you lost anything?"

Tang Li was a little puzzled, touched her pocket, then flipped through her handbag and said, "I didn't lose anything!"

Hu Yitong breathed a sigh of relief, and thought to himself: So this kid is deceiving me!Before he breathed out, his eyes fell on Madam's stomach, and suddenly he jumped up: "You, your stomach, why is it gone?"

Tang Li was stunned, touched her stomach, and couldn't help screaming "Ah", the big belly that was originally swollen suddenly deflated at some point.Tang Li was taken aback for a moment, then sat on the ground and burst into tears: "My child..."

Hu Yitong seemed to be hit by five lightnings, and when his head was hit, he was stunned, and he secretly regretted in his heart: Why didn't I think that the most valuable things for me were not seal handles and gun handles at all, but the children in my wife's belly Woolen cloth?What puzzled him was that his wife didn't bleed from her stomach, and she didn't feel any pain. How did this gust of wind steal the child from her stomach?Could it be that he is really a godly thief with supernatural skills?
After staying there for a long time, he suddenly remembered that the call just now hadn't been hung up, and hurried back to the service desk to pick up the phone. Sure enough, a gust of wind was still waiting for him on the other end of the phone.Hu Yitong had long since lost his former arrogance, and asked with a guilty conscience, "Gust of wind, what do you really want?"

A gust of wind said: "My purpose is very simple. If you let those children go, I will give you back the things you stole. From then on, you will be your chief and I will be my thief. We will not violate the river."

Hu Yitong almost fainted out of breath: "The child in my stomach, can I return it after being stolen?"

A gust of wind said firmly: "If I can steal it, I can pay it back."

Now that Hu Yitong is here, he would rather believe in what he has than nothing.Putting down the phone, he immediately ordered Lao Geng to release all the thirty or so children he had caught, and not to make things difficult for them again.Lao Geng received the order and hurried downstairs.After a while, he came back and reported that the group of children had been released.

Hu Yitong nodded, seeing his wife's belly was still flat, and the child hadn't been "returned" by a gust of wind, and his heart ached as if a piece of flesh had been cut.If I had known that Guafeng was so powerful, I shouldn't have touched him in the first place.

Hu Yitong withdrew all the police guards around him, and returned home dejectedly, only to see a maid from the concubine's room rushing out to report to him: "Master, there was a strange wind blowing in the room just now, Second Mistress felt sick. Feeling unwell, please come to the doctor to have a look, the doctor said that Second Mistress is pregnant..."

"What? There is such a thing?"

Hu Yitong was surprised and delighted, and almost bumped his head against the door frame.

【postscript】

The story told in this novel is what the author Yue Yong heard from his grandfather.When the story happened, Yue Yong’s grandfather was only in his teens. Whether the people and events in the story were real people or just rumors has been going on for decades, and the grandfather and his old man are still unclear. up.However, about the person and events of "Gust of Wind", there is indeed a record in "Xiu Lin County Chronicle": The bandit comes and goes like the wind, and the robbers are skilled in stealing.

As for whether he can really eat a diamond brooch without the person knowing it, and then sit on the toilet and pull it out, or steal an unborn baby from the mother's womb without a trace? Go, put it into another woman's stomach, to be honest, Yue Yong doesn't know.

After Yue Yong finished writing this novel, he took the manuscript as usual and asked Lao Cai, who is the curator of the museum, to "advise".Lao Cai honestly and unceremoniously "taught" Yue Yong once.Holding Yue Yong's manuscript in his hand, he laughed and said, "As writers, you really know how to play tricks. A very ordinary thing, when you write it like this, it becomes complicated and mysterious."

Yue Yong was not convinced, and said: "What I wrote is about strange people and strange things. How come it becomes commonplace when you come here?"

Lao Cai said: "The diamond brooch was actually a gust of wind that sneaked into Hu Yitong's house before the police were on guard before he got off work and threw it into the toilet. Do you think it's simple or not?"

Yue Yong almost choked, and asked him again: "What about the child in Hu Yitong's wife's stomach?"

Lao Cai chuckled and said, "Do you think a gust of wind can really take a child out of a mother's womb without a sound? If that's the case, wouldn't all pregnant women with dystocia be invited to go? Actually, this nonsense Yitong’s original wife, Tang Li, is a shrew and a jealous woman. She herself suffers from infertility and can’t bear children, and she doesn’t want to watch other women give birth to her husband’s favor. In fact, Hu is actually pregnant. Yitong’s concubine, but she was threatened by Tang Li and dared not tell Hu Yitong, so she could only tie her stomach tightly with a wide belt to prevent others from seeing the clue. But Tang Li stuffed a pillow into her clothes and pretended to be pregnant, waiting for When the concubine gave birth to a child, she snatched the child and said it was her own. Coincidentally, the concubine that Hu Yitong begged for was the daughter of a friend of Guafeng. With a clever plan, he not only rescued his apprentice, but also defeated Hu Yitong's arrogance, and even helped his old friend's daughter get angry. Just an embroidered pillow."

Yue Yong was stunned for a moment, this is really a piece of paper in the world, it is not worth a penny if it is broken!But Yue Yong was convinced in his heart, but he refused to accept it in his mouth, so he said: "Old Cai, don't be fooled, you are not a gust of wind's apprentice, how do you know the mystery?"

Lao Cai was really happy this time, grinning, and said: "I am not Guafeng's apprentice, but my grandfather is! My grandfather was one of the thirty or so children rescued by Guafeng from the police station. When he was alive, , can tell me the story of a gust of wind.”

(End of this chapter)