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Moon thief?

Tao Mo carefully recalled the woman who passed him by at that time. She was wearing an apricot-colored long skirt, she was young, and she had a strange golden hairpin pinned to her head, but she didn't see her specific appearance clearly.This woman is actually the wanted moon thief?Recalling the ugly appearance in the picture scroll again, Tao Mo suddenly felt a little disbelieving: "Then why did the Moon God stealthily stare at the waist pendant? I only heard that they robbed the Chengxu Palace at night, and I never knew that they treated ordinary Jianghu people I am also interested in my personal belongings."

Hearing about Chengxu Palace, Bai Wangyan's brows were furrowed even tighter, and he could not help clenching his hands on the table into fists, but he still answered lightly: "I don't know, a thief is a thief. Anything of value will be taken. Or, is it possible that you also believe in the theory of righteous thieves?"

Seeing his strange expression, Tao Mo hurriedly waved his hands and said, "No, I'm just a little strange."

"That piece of jade pendant is the top-grade Kunshan white jade, which is priceless." Bai Wangyan's expression eased a little, he took another sip of his tea, and continued, "But that piece of jade, no one will be so stupid as to sell it. .”

"Will no one sell it? What does that mean?" Tao Mo asked doubtfully.He knew that piece of white jade was as moist as suet, but he never thought that this thing was so valuable!When Bai Wangyan saw him for the first time, he was able to gift this expensive jade pendant to him, and his heart felt warm again.But remembering that the jade pendant had been stolen now, the warm water immediately cooled down.

It hurts my heart.

Bai Wangyan glanced at him quickly: "The more inestimable valuables are, the harder it is to get rid of them." Afterwards, he pondered for a moment, and murmured, "I've spotted this jade pendant, maybe I want to..."

"What?" Seeing his strange expression, Tao Mo couldn't tell whether he was frightened or worried for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "Where are you going to sell it? If you know the way to sell the stolen goods, maybe you can stop it halfway." !"

Bai Wangyan didn't answer quickly. He rolled his eyes and finally said slowly: "If you really want to sell it, you can only go to the ghost market..."

"Ghost city?"

After a moment of hesitation, Bai Wangyan lowered his eyes slightly, but just shook his head: "It's difficult."

"What's so difficult about this!" Tao Mo said anxiously, "It's good if I can get it back!"

Bai Wangyan raised his eyes and shook his head: "There is little hope. When you and I first came to the imperial capital, you are not those squirrels, and you can't even touch the door of the ghost market. This ghost market is originally a black market for those thieves to sell their stolen goods. There is a mixed bag of fish and dragons inside, there is no informant, and you don’t even know when it will open.”

"I'll look for it." Frowning, Tao Mo answered without hesitation, "Master Ge will always tell me about this." After speaking, he quickly stood up from the chair and walked out the door.

"Are you going to ask Ge Baiyou?" Bai Wangyan suddenly became anxious, and he grabbed Tao Mo who was about to step out, "No!"

Being yanked by Bai Wangyan, Tao Mo was a little confused: "Why not, why are you so strange today?"

The hand clutching Tao Mo's wrist hangs down, and Bai Wangyan quickly walks in front of Tao Mo, blocking him from the door with a gloomy expression: "You can't tell Mr. Ge about this." He took a deep breath , sighed: "If you lose it, just lose it, that jade pendant..."

Seeing Bai Wangyan showing such a slightly unwilling and worried expression, Tao Mo felt for a moment that this jade pendant did not seem to be any ordinary jade pendant, and it was not like the "invaluable" jade pendant that Bai Wangyan said. There is a deeper meaning, but he recalled the jade pendant that he had always cherished close to him, but he couldn't tell what was so special about it.

Under Bai Wangyan's insistence, the loss of the jade pendant had to be abandoned.

But Tao Mo was still secretly worried, and even tossed and turned for several nights, unable to sleep.He tried to recall the woman's face, but he still couldn't remember clearly. He only remembered that it was an apricot-colored dress, with a slim figure and a very special gold hairpin in her hair. The woman suddenly disappeared into the sea of ​​people. Among them, there are no other clues.In the dream, the woman in the apricot dress floated into the peach blossom forest, while another voice like a silver bell was calling his name.

"Ah Mo, does my hairpin look good?" The girl's voice echoed in the deserted peach forest.

"I picked this up in the woods. Look, it's golden, with beautiful red stones on it!"

The clear and clear voice was spinning around in the peach forest, but the girl was nowhere to be seen, so that the sweet laughter that surrounded my ears was so creepy...

When Tao Mo suddenly opened his eyes, what caught his eyes was a crescent moon outside the window.Panting quickly, he raised his hand to wipe off the cold sweat on his forehead. Waking up in the night had already accompanied him for most of his years... When he first arrived at Qiulian Mountain, he was haunted by nightmares almost every night. He couldn't fall asleep, and later learned art from a teacher, and seemed to have found his own destination. At any rate, he no longer dreamed of the past, but the good times didn't last long, and the sword of Qiushui changed. It is much richer.

The nightmare keeps growing with experience, if he knew that he was facing a despair, he should not have accepted this extremely short time of happiness in the first place.But if Tao Mo was really allowed to choose, he only felt that he would go the same way.

Moving forward amidst the scars is the process of life.

The person next to the pillow moved suddenly, half-opened his eyes and looked at him, and asked softly, "Are you trapped by a nightmare again?"

Before Tao Mo could answer, the half-asleep Bai Wangyan stroked his cheek and murmured, "Don't be afraid, it's fine, I'm here..."

The voice gradually died down, and when Tao Mo was about to reply, he found that the man had fallen asleep again, but his arms were still wrapped around his shoulders arrogantly, as if he was afraid that Tao Mo would run away.Tao Mo looked at Bai Wangyan's peaceful sleeping face, then at the arm on his shoulder, finally he didn't move a bit, and closed his eyes again.

"What? Brother Tao, have you seen that thief who is holding the moon!"

Lou Yueming, who had managed to be clean and tidy all day, now regained his appearance of a mad Taoist priest. His disheveled hair covered those sharp eyes that looked like cold stars, and he wore a tattered Taoist robe, looking like a monkey. Squatting on a chair and eating melon seeds.With such virtues, no one would believe that he was the third disciple of the Chongxuan sect who shocked the frost and snow with a sword.

The sword idiot was eating melon seeds, while looking at Tao Mo with a smile as if he was watching a play. On the table in front of him was the painting of Gu Fan Gu Mengdie - the ugly and tragic portrait of the thief who picked up the stars and the moon .

Seeing him watching a play, Tao Mo immediately didn't want to continue, but thinking about the face of an acquaintance who worked together, he nodded reluctantly: "En."

"Qinggong is better than you," Lou Yueming nodded thoughtfully, "It's a character."

Seeing Lou Yueming's foolish behavior, Yun Yueyu couldn't help but frowned, but he still didn't say the reprimand. He turned to Tao Mo and asked softly, "I'm sorry, may I ask Tao Shaoxia... how did he meet that Lanyue?" Dear thief, did you lose any property unfortunately?"

"It's not about belongings, it's just that I lost a cheap jade pendant." Bai Wangyan replied casually.