C6 Stapling

The Shi Family Residence could be considered the largest courtyard in the city. It was located in the southwest corner of the city.

Entering through the Shi Mansion's gate was the front yard of the Shi Mansion. The road was paved with bluestones, which were as wide as the stone streets outside. After walking fifty steps into the hall of Shi Mansion, Mu Tu saw the main butler of Shi Mansion and two guards of Shi Mansion.

"Stop the messenger, Shi Mansion cannot barge in carelessly." Shi Mansion's butler stopped Mu Tu who was casually strolling around, causing the two guards to stare at Mu Tu without saying a word.

"It's like this. Recently, the Jiang Yang Great Thief King Dao Buting has come to my Guangping territory. I have come under the orders of the county magistrate to search the entire city. I heard that Dao Buting was ruminating at your master's place … "

Although my Master and Dao Buting are cousins, he is a criminal wanted by the officials. If my Shi family finds out about this, we will definitely exterminate him and send him to the county magistrate court. Although Shi Mansion's butler spoke with a tone of righteousness, but his eyes kept rolling and she knew that he was hiding something.

However, since they had received orders from the county magistrate, these guards did not dare to stop Mu Tu from searching the Shi Family courtyard.

Mu Tu followed the bluestone path and walked into the Shi Mansion's rear hall. Before he even entered the door, he heard a man muttering to himself inside, not knowing how much of the rent he would receive from this year's rent.

He was dressed in a red and gold silk clothing, and had silver boots on his feet. He was sitting upright on a sandalwood chair, holding two egg sized Night Pearls in his hand. It seemed like he was drinking tea, and was probably the owner of the Shi Mansion, a ruminator.

Seeing how Mu Tu was dressed, he seemed to be slightly alarmed, and a Night Pearl rolled down his hand. However, it quickly returned to normal.

"Why did you send someone here?" In order to cover up his embarrassment, he took the initiative to ask.

"Master, this is the messenger that the county magistrate sent to search for Dao Buting." Without waiting for Mu Tu to speak, Shi Mansion's butler had already answered.

"Old... This old man has not seen Dao Buting for a long time, I will have to trouble you to look elsewhere! " As he said that, the Shi Mansion Master actually closed his eyes slowly.

Mu Tu looked around the back hall, and realised that other than being a bit too wealthy, there was no other way to hide, so he had no choice but to leave.

He continued to search the east side of the bamboo forest, only to see a simple yet elegant bamboo house. As he prepared to walk over, he heard the annoying voice of the butler of Shi Mansion behind him saying, "Little servant, this is my Young Miss's boudoir, it might be inconvenient to enter, right?"

"It's precisely because I want you guys to be inconvenient that it's convenient for me to act!" Mu Tu muttered on his own, he did not bother to pay attention to the Shi Mansion butler as he pushed open the bamboo door and walked in.

"Chief Steward, what should we do?" Seeing his figure disappearing into the bamboo tower, the Shi Mansion's guard frowned and asked the Shi Mansion's butler.

"All of you wait outside, we can't enter Miss's room without the permission of the Master." The butler shook his head.

"But …" Shi Mansion's guard wanted to say something but hesitated.

"It's hard to say whether we should care about this brat or not based on young miss's personality. All of you, stay alert and keep an eye on him." The Shi Mansion butler looked at his sternly, turned and walked towards the back of the hall, perhaps to report to the Scholar.

Compared to the back room, this bamboo house was extremely simple and excessive. Pure white muslin, green screen, and no extravagance could be seen.

The Shi Mansion's daughter was sitting cross-legged in front of an ancient zither, quietly staring at it in a daze. Even the nine year old Mu Tu felt that this big sister was extremely quick-witted, attracting people to uncontrollably visit her. He stayed silent for a long time.

"May I ask what is the matter, young master?" After a long while, this Shi Family's daughter seemed to walk out from her own world.

"I'm a new constable in Guangyuan City. I wonder if young miss knows anything strange about my family recently." Mu Tu cupped his hands politely towards the Shi Mansion's daughter.

"Exceptional? "Hmm …" It was midnight when a weird sound came from the storage room next door. There should have been no one there, which scared me so much that I didn't even dare to go to bed alone at night. " The Shi Mansion responded with a 'blessings' and no longer spoke, as if he had entered his own world of thought.

Maybe he should go to the neighboring warehouse to investigate. Mu Tu made up his mind, bowed to the Shi Mansion's Qian Jin and cupped his hands to take his leave.

As he walked out of the bamboo door, he saw two guards hastily following him. When he walked to the entrance of the warehouse, he discovered that there was a large lock hanging on the door; it was impossible to open without a key. He turned around and saw that the nurse was a little nervous, but no one came forward to help open the door to the warehouse. He could only go back to the back hall and ask for more food.

"You actually want to search my Shi family warehouse?" Master Shi was shocked and angry. "This is impossible."

Mu Tu thought back to what he had seen this time and realized that it was very likely that Dao Buting was hiding inside the Shi Mansion's warehouse, "Old Master Shi, this is only an order from the authorities and the county magistrate. "Give me the key!"

"You … My Shi Mansion does not welcome you, I'll trouble you to go out. Master Shi clapped his hands and saw Shi Mansion's butler bringing someone in.

As he spoke, he was about to forcefully chase Mu Tu out, only to see the Shi Mansion butler grab Mu Tu's arm with a small grab, and was dodged by Mu Tu using the swimming movement, a nearby guard actually wanted to sneak in an attack on Mu Tu from behind, but was cut off by Mu Tu on his arm.

"Yes …" If you have something to say, just say it. " He originally thought that Mu Tu was only a child who was half grown up, but he never expected that he would be so ruthless. Isn't it just a warehouse key? I'll just give it to you.

As he said that, he took out an iron key from his waist and placed it on the table respectfully, indicating for Mu Tu to take it.

Mu Tu stepped forward and retrieved the key. The swimming movement cleared a space in the back room and then flew towards the Shi Mansion's warehouse. He opened the door and found a bunch of things inside, as if there was nothing abnormal.

It was just that the strange appearances of those people from before caused Mu Tu to be unable to hold back from probing in detail. After a while, behind a bookshelf, Mu Tu discovered that there seemed to be a hidden entrance here.

Mu Tu looked around, only to realize that the people from the Shi Mansion did not come in. He turned around and entered the cave, only to realize that this was the cellar of the Shi Mansion.

"Phew", the light in the cellar lit up, and a burly man hid inside, "I didn't expect to hide so deep and was found by you dog-officials. Since I can't hide and I can't escape, you little constable, come on!" Your grandpa, the King of Thieves, has been living in the martial arts world for so long. "

Heavens, I didn't expect you to be here! Mu Tu felt as if there were ten thousand mud horses galloping in his heart.

There was no place to hide nor place to hide, so Mu Tu could only pull out his Twilight Knife and be on guard.

Dao Buting's two hands clenched into a fist, an attack of Taizu's long fist, aimed straight at Mu Tu, causing smoke and dust to rise wherever the fist wind blew, Mu Tu immediately dodged, his body moving, his blade striking towards Dao Buting's hip.

Dao Buting was an experienced martial artist, his movements were agile, the Absolute Saber was actually being twisted by him in a strange posture. Mu Tu anxiously stabbed the Twilight Knife into the ground, using the handle of the blade as his foot and the tip of the blade as his foot. He then leapt into the air and slashed at Dao Buting who was on top of his head with his blade, causing the dust and shadow raised by the Twilight Knife to be blocked by the light beam, which blinded Dao Buting, and successfully cut Dao Buting's waist with the blade in the sky, causing him to fall to the ground and not get up.

"If I hadn't suffered serious internal injuries from being hunted down in recent days, how could I have been so weak? I would never have thought that after so many years of roaming the martial arts world, I would fall at the hands of a little constable today." Dao Buting held onto his waist, and fainted after a few harsh words.

While speaking, Head Constable Cai had already rushed over with his men, "Well done, I didn't think that you would have caught the thief king Dao Buting. "Kid, are you hurt?"

Mu Tu's face turned slightly pale, he retracted the right hand that was holding onto the blade, and saw that half of his body was trembling uncontrollably, he laughed lightly, and said, "No …" Then he fainted.

Head Constable Cai hurriedly pulled him into his embrace, and realized that Mu Tu's right hand was cracked and his body was bruised from the wind caused by the punches, with blood faintly flowing out. Angry inwardly, Dao Buting lifted his leg and stomped on the unconscious Dao Buting's right hand. He groaned under his breath, but was still unable to wake up.

"Hmph, take him away," a few yamen runners stepped forward and carried Dao Buting away. From the extremely depressed and dissatisfied tone of the Head Constable Cai, it was not hard to imagine how miserable Dao Buting's prison life would be in the future.