Chapter 1329 — Somewhat Familiar? Of course, you shouldn't underestimate these people either — behind them stand several big shots of the Thief Sect. If anyone dares to lay a hand on them, what they'll face is the ostracism of the entire Thief Sect!
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This ancient Sage of Medicine had been a man of great renown, and he had known no small number of capable people from every walk of life. The mechanisms of his tomb had been designed and built with their help — no ordinary person could ever dream of cracking them!
That night, Wei Zhao sat on the ground cultivating, while Qiu Lingshan and Chen Yuxuan drifted off to sleep. The two of them had to bring both mind and body back to peak condition, to throw everything they had into tomorrow's operation!
"Awake? Eat something, and then we'll go to Old Hei's." Wei Zhao could hear people stirring outside the tent; evidently others among the tomb-robbing crews had woken as well. Whether they had rested well was no concern of his.
"You didn't sleep all night?" Qiu Lingshan asked.
"Mm. Don't ask useless questions. Eat, and let's go." Wei Zhao sounded a little impatient.
Qiu Lingshan did not dare say anything more. She and Chen Yuxuan gnawed a few bites of bread, and then the three of them left the tent.
Sure enough, in Old Hei's tent, Yu Xiaoke, Brother Keng, and James had all arrived. Only Lord Hao had yet to come — being a man of years, his vigor could hardly match that of the young.
"You two great thieves are up this early as well?" Seeing Wei Zhao and Qiu Lingshan approach, Old Hei greeted them with a smile. Ever since hearing Wei Zhao's words in the tent the day before, Old Hei's attitude toward him had grown even more respectful!
"Hmph!" Wei Zhao gave a cold snort. "Was it you who planted the listening device?"
"Haha, my men don't know any better. Don't hold it against them, male thief!" Old Hei laughed heartily, thinking to himself that only the Couple Bandits, with a temperament like theirs, would call a man out on such a thing to his face; anyone else would probably have been too embarrassed to bring it up.
But now that it had been said aloud, everything was much easier to handle — no more need for concealment.
"Now do you think twenty percent isn't too much?" Wei Zhao asked.
"Naturally. If you can lend a hand at the critical moment, I'll give you that twenty percent gladly!" Old Hei said.
"Good that you know it." With that, Wei Zhao paid the others no further attention, found himself a spot, and sat down, seemingly to rest with his eyes closed. Qiu Lingshan sat down beside him, while Chen Yuxuan stood behind them both like a door god.
Yu Xiaoke said nothing either, sitting at the edge of Old Hei's tent drinking eight-treasure porridge. Old Hei had treated her to it; free food was not to be refused — a single can cost the outrageous sum of ten thousand yuan! As she drank, her heart ached: if only that ten thousand had come to her! She could have bought a cartload of eight-treasure porridge, enough to keep the orphans fed for who knew how long!
Two million–plus might seem like a lot, but no one knows the cost of rice and firewood until they must run a household, and Yu Xiaoke knew the orphanage's expenses all too well. Sitting on a pile of two million and doing nothing, it would not last long; many of the children had reached school age — surely they could not be made to drop out?