Chapter 507 All in control (Part 1)

Night, by the water, a small pavilion.

On the eaves, there are a few lanterns.

On the table, a pot of good wine.

Murong Xiao sat at the table, pouring himself and drinking.

When he drank only one-third of the wine in the wine pot, the people he was waiting for finally arrived.

That was a masked man wearing a full night clothes.

He is not tall and not quite burly. From a distance, he is even smaller than some women... However, because of this, he has mastered a light skill called "silent and invisible".

As the name suggests, this kind of kung fu, as long as you wear a night outfit, you can almost no trace or hear any movement at night.

Of course, at this moment, Murong Xiao must have seen him.

Because he had slowly walked under the lamp and stood in front of Murong Xiao.

"Mr. Murong, I've been waiting for a long time." His voice looked a little old.

Murong Xiao recognized this voice, his eyes exposed outside the black cloth, and even recognized the wrinkles around the eyes and the gray-white temples...

"Have you brought the things?" Murong Xiao asked calmly.

The masked man paused for two seconds before responding: "I want to talk about the reward again."

"That's just not bringing it." Murong Xiao's voice still sounded very calm.

"Ha...Mr. Murong, please forgive me for your frankness..." The masked man sneered, "If I really bring that thing directly to you tonight, will you let me leave alive?"

"This is what I said..." Murong Xiao said, and I don't know whether it was a sarcasm or a self-deprecating person. "Would a thief be afraid that I am a useless person?"

But the masked man, known as the "Tian Zhe", immediately put away his sneer and replied solemnly: "To be honest, I'm afraid."

He paused: "If you offered me the 'fake death' several months ago, I was just a little scared... Then now, I am very scared."

Some readers may have already understood this, but some may be because our book is a bit slow and I can't remember what's going on for a while. I'll help me to mention it here...

At first, the ring on Sun Yixi's hand was accidentally seen by Ling Shenger on the road outside the capital. It was last year, the autumn of the 20th year of Yongtai.

At that time, I said, "A disaster in the future will also arise..." (Chapter 1 of Volume 7 "The Dragon's Return to Home")

What is the disaster?

In fact, it was not Ding’s covetousness, but Murong Xiao’s plan.

You can find that it was only half a month before Shuangxie came back from Japan that Ding Buzhu learned about the Silkworm Search Ring; then the place in Xinghui Tower... was also what Shuangxie wanted to go to himself; Ding Buzhu had a "try" mentality and asked his men to search Shuangxie's luggage. As a result, he really found the Silkworm Search Ring, and he was still a little at a loss.

But Murong Xiao is different...

Shortly after the news of "seeking silkworms and verbs appearing in the world" entered Tingfenglou's intelligence network, A Xiao attached great importance to it.

This is not surprising. What a priceless treasure is Tiancan Gong for someone like Axiao who has physical defects?

He is a martial arts family with a very smart genius, but he is born with a disability. Can he be willing to do so? Can a person who has studied medical science and even physics without even studying the hope of Tiancangong?

What's more, Murong Xiao believes that today, only his wisdom can break the secret hidden in the silkworm hunting ring that has been hidden for decades, and thus find the Heavenly Silkworm Master.

The appearance of this thing is like God giving him a chance.

During those days, Murong Xiao was asking about Shuangxi's whereabouts, and at the same time, he was already "burying the hand" for his future acquisition of the silkworm hunting ring without knowing it.

And this move is the "death of the thief".

The "Tian Bid" here naturally refers to Yu Wang, but the master who "died a stroke last year" mentioned by Yu Wang, the previous documentary, who said to Ding Buju, was the previous "Tian Bid" Diao Yang.

That is, at this moment, the masked Lao Deng standing in front of Murong Xiao.

要说刁扬这人呢,这大半辈子亏心事那是真没少干,“盗”只是其中的一部分,也是他业务能力最突出的一部分,可以说是他的“工作”；而其他像采花,杀人之类的事儿,才是他的“生活”.

When such people get old, there will naturally be more enemies...

And friends, there are almost no one.

After all, those who come to hire "Thief" only treat him as a tool and will not treat him as a friend.

Therefore, the only person Diao Yang could count on in his later years was a group of disciples he had taken...

But what kind of disciples can a person like him teach?

One day he really couldn't even walk. I'm afraid that before his enemies attacked him, the disciples put the knife on his neck and asked where he had saved over the years.

Diao Yang met a resourceful employer like Murong Xiao in such a state of hopeless retreat and looking like he would die sooner or later.

Murong Xiao gave him a plan to kill two birds with one stone.

First, let Diao Yang design and kill all his apprentices, leaving only the youngest, most innocent, and the best to deceive him to "survival of accidents".

之后,就让这小子(禹望)误以为师父已死,师兄们则自相残杀团灭了(考虑到这帮人平时的德行,这也不难),遂继承“天盗”之名,再任由他把“师父和师兄们都死了”的事儿到处说去.

Then, Diao Yang went to help Murong Xiao secretly find the silkworm ring.

After stealing the checkout, it’s just a job together.

假如一切顺利,刁扬这边,便可以拿着这次的报酬,外加他多年来存下的小金库,来一个“金蝉脱壳”,平稳上岸,此后随便找个地方改名换姓,享受富豪的晚年生活.

On Murong Xiao’s side, he bought a stolen goods from a “person who no longer exists” and had no need to investigate.

So, the two hit it off, Diao Yang acted according to the plan, and the first half of the plan went smoothly.

But when it was time to find the silkworm ring, the situation changed - when Diao Yang handled the part of his "fake death", Murong Xiao received news... Sun Huang and the two guys had already gone abroad.

This is called human calculations worse than God's calculations. Murong Xiao could not have known at that time that the moment of Shuangxiu revealing the search for silkworm ring was on his way to Japan under the emperor's secret order. When he planned to make a move, he was no longer in the Central Plains. Then you can't let Diao Yang chase him overseas and steal it?

Later, after waiting for half a year, when Murong Xiao finally received news about Sun and Huang, the two guys knew the value of the silkworm hunting ring and had been under the secret surveillance of the Youji Gang and the protection of the abbot for a long time... How else do you do that Diao Yang?

Fortunately, Murong Xiao’s original plan to kill two birds with one stone was quite solid.

He can't steal things for the time being, so he can wait. Anyway, Diao Yang can be played at any time, and the later he plays it, the less anyone wants it.

Everyone knows what happened later...

When Shuangxie also came to Cangzhou, Murong Xiao knew that his opportunity had come.

Although Sun Huang used the "Striving for the Winning Cup" to turn the silkworm search ordination into darkness and light, he once forced Murong Xiao to a desperate situation, but he still found a dangerous path in the cracks.

However, this road is really tortuous...

First of all, Murong Xiao knew from the day the rules of the competition were announced that on the day of the competition, the "prize table" next to the ring must be a fake, and the real thing was definitely elsewhere.

So, the day before the game, he went to ask his father a question - "Dad, do you want Tiancangong?"

This question sounds like nonsense at first glance, but in fact there are too many hidden meanings.

Murong Shu knew that with his second son's intelligence, he was definitely not asking about the "first level", that is, whether he wanted to, nor the "second level", that is, whether he wanted to use some means to win the game...

Murong Xiao asked about the "third level", that is, whether he wanted to get the silkworm hunting ring through off-site means.

Murong Shu... said with a conscience, but he couldn't, because he had been "prevented" long ago.

This matter has to start a few days ago.

After the Baquan Sect negotiated with the Murong family, weren’t there a few days left? Huo Ming, Murong Shu and Sun Huang gathered together for a meeting every day?

Everyone thought that they were discussing competition-related matters fiercely every day.

Indeed, 99% of the time, they are discussing these things.

But, as the last meeting was coming to an end, Shuangxie suddenly mentioned something: "Although when the rules were announced to the public, we would say that the prizes on the day of the competition would be placed next to the ring, but at this moment, now... with the four of us knowing, let's hide the real silkworm hunting ring under the floor of this room, how about it?"

Huo Ming and Murong Shu were both confused by this idea at first, but after thinking about it carefully, they realized that this idea was actually very clever.

The place where they held the meeting that day was the Cangzhou branch of the Douquan Sect, which was the original "Huo Family Martial Arts Hall".

Then this room is a relatively high-end reception room, and the usage rate is not high. If you find a floor in the corner and hide something in it, I am afraid that no one will notice it if it has been left for ten years.

As long as the four insiders don't say anything out, no one would have thought that such an important thing would be hidden in such an unattended...a random and safe place.

The most important thing is that the four of them, or the three parties, have formed a relatively small-scale relationship, mutual supervision and mutual restraint.

Therefore, even if Murong Shu now knows where the silkworm ring is really looking for, he cannot tell his son.

To put it bluntly, it is not difficult for you to steal the ring from under the floor today. The difficult thing is that the whole martial arts world knows that you stole it tomorrow, and then use this as an excuse to team up and fuck you. What should you do?

"Xiao'er, I think you can guess that the ring on the prize is fake, but... I can't tell you where the real silkworm ring is." Murong Shu hesitated for a moment and replied.

"Oh?" After hearing this, Murong Xiao conjectured a lot.

"You say 'where', not 'who', which means that the ring is hidden somewhere, not carried on someone'," Murong Xiao continued, "and you know, but you can't say that there are probably only a few insiders when hiding something, so once the thing is lost, your suspicion will be very high, right?"

When Murong Shu heard his son's words, his scalp was numb: "Xiao'er, since you have thought of this, you shouldn't ask any more. If you really guess something... something happened, I'm afraid my father couldn't explain it clearly and couldn't help it."

"Yes." Murong Xiao nodded, "Don't worry, I won't move the so-called 'true silkworm search ring' you know, because that must be fake."

When Murong Shu heard this, his expression changed: "What?"

After blurting out the shocking question, Murong Shu realized it later that his son seemed to have already been on the "fifth floor".

And A Xiao just continued calmly: "If I were from the Hunyuan Star Gate, I would do this...

"I will first talk about a place where all three parties are present, and then in an occasion where only two parties are present, I will take out a fake that looks more real and tell the other party... When all three parties are present, the ring I took out was actually fake. Now I will only tell you one person, where it is really, so we can be careful of the other party's one hand.
To be continued...