The Lin'an Prefecture's纨绔 (wankus) and the ruffians with flowers in their hair were all stunned.

Then, they burst into laughter.

After all, they just felt that this Jiangnan thief was mocking the court's censorate and playing tricks on the constables. But no one noticed the Jiangnan thief's momentary tension. The heroic young female constable said, "Want to marry me?"

The thief nodded seriously, "Yes."

"If you become my wife, I'll buy you the best rouge and powder."

"With your stolen dirty money?"

The young female constable was blunt.

With a flick of her wrist, she executed a xiujian (削剑) stance. The thief couldn't stand his ground and flipped to the ground, but his movement was truly impressive. When he flipped, it was like a hawk turning over. With a stretch of his long arm, he pulled off the red ribbon that tied the young woman's ponytail.

His movement was dashing and neat, drawing cheers.

The thief was also smug, cupping his fist and bowing to the left and right.

The young woman raised her hand to brush her hair. Her eyes were fierce. With a move of her hand, the green blade easily sliced the red silk ribbon in half. She sheathed her sword, and the scabbard tapped heavily on the thief's brow. She snorted coldly, slightly raising her chin like a proud Jiangnan swallow.

"Hmph, lecher."

The young female constable turned and left.

Leaving behind silence and a stunned thief.

"Hiss... it seems, she really is different..."

"Different from the demure Jiangnan girls."

"Different, different."

An unknown纨绔 (wanku) muttered.

But the thief heard it and was furious, raising his fist and punching him.

"She's mine!"

"It's a rule of the road, I saw her first, so open your eyes!"

So the thief beat up all eighteen gangs of the Jiangnan underworld.

Finally, the bruised and swollen thief kicked the leaders of the eighteen strongholds to the ground, and then vaguely said the above words. From that day on, the size of the city was all that the Jiangnan Road had heard about, the thief who could not be caught by the Six Doors was actually looked at a red-clothed young female constable?

Is there such a thing in the world?

The story became more and more bizarre.

And this Little Sister of Nanxia Zhan Zhao always found traces of the thief.

Perhaps it was the rouge and powder delivered to her door, or even the freshly baked shortbread pastries. But waiting for the thief was often the young female constable's sharp sword and stacks of files. Oh, right, and at most that gnashing of teeth "lecher."

"Sigh... tell me, why doesn't she like anything?"

"I send her flowers, I send her snacks, I send her the best hairpins and silks."

"She doesn't like any of them."

On the pagoda of Jinshan Temple, the thief rested his arms behind his head, crossed his legs, and chewed on a willow branch. The monk next to him put his hands together and silently recited the Diamond Sutra. Hearing this, he opened his eyes, thought for a moment, and said, "Then why don't you send her something she really likes?"

"Something she really likes?"

The thief was thoughtful.

Suddenly enlightened, he patted the monk's shoulder and said, "You're really smart."

"No wonder you can comprehend the Buddha Dharma. By the way, what did you say last time?"

"How is the Buddha Dharma?"

The monk was helpless, just looking at the clouds in the sky, thinking that he had already given the realgar wine to the Xu family benefactor, his eyes were calm, and this time he answered:

"Buddha Dharma is in the hearts of people."

………………

The next day.

The young female constable in red pushed open the door, looking around suspiciously.

She didn't see the flowers picked from the North Mountain.

Very good.

Pushing open the door, there were no freshly baked pastries from Tianwei Zhai on the table, nor any colorful silks and rouge. The girl breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, the constables around her had no objection to this young girl.

This is Little Sister of Nanxia Zhan Zhao, and besides, the current Emperor is tolerant and benevolent.

It is not incomprehensible to have an unprecedented female constable.

They were flipping through the files from this period. Wherever Bao Zheng passed, he would basically dig out the old files from the past and re-examine and revise them. They quickly locked onto a target who had committed a major crime before the new year and then fled.

"It's hard to catch him."

The old constable stroked his beard and said, "Those who commit major crimes wish their parents had given them four legs. They've already run far away. If they can't be caught when the crime occurs, it's hard to catch them."

The girl frowned.

She really wanted to say that he must be caught, but she also knew that Lord Bao and her Senior Brother were just touring officials and couldn't stay here for too long. But she didn't like just letting him go. Just then, there was a knock on the door.

The constable suspiciously opened the door and then shouted, staggering back a few steps, almost falling on his butt, stuttering and unable to speak. The young female constable raised her eyebrows, put her hand on her sword and strode out, but saw a strong man tied up and thrown directly at the door. He looked exactly like the wanted criminal.

He was wearing clothes made of Suzhou silk.

With a crash.

The girl's eyes widened, and she saw a person hanging upside down from the crossbeam in front of the constable's room.

The thief sat on the crossbeam, his knees bent and holding the crossbeam, dangling upside down.

"Yo, Constable Jue, good morning."

The girl took a step back, raised her hand and pressed her sword, still a little disbelieving.

"You caught him?"

"Yeah, this old boy runs fast, but how can he win against me? As the saying goes, you rely on friends when you're in the martial world. I have many friends. I've been guarding him for a long time, and finally I caught him."

The red-clothed girl looked at the thief's smug look and gritted her teeth.

"This is an important place in the government office."

"Yes, yes, yes, an important place in the government office, you can't just enter it."

The thief swayed and stood firm again, then took out a flower from his arms, "A flower from the back mountain of Hanshan Temple in Suzhou, here you go." He leaped nimbly, reached out and climbed, and had already flown onto the roof. The girl lowered her eyes, suddenly the thief's head popped out again, with a willow branch in his mouth, and said:

"Why aren't you calling me a lecher today?"

The girl couldn't bear it any longer and drew her sword.

………………

In the days that followed, everyone who committed crimes in the entire Jiangnan Road felt uneasy.

I don't know which damned person offended that thief.

Now he doesn't send food and silk anymore, and every day he catches a wanted criminal and sends him to the government office. It's probably randomly selecting a lucky wanted criminal as a gift. He's even familiar with the gatekeepers of the government office now, and he even went there for morning tea this morning.

Where in the world is there such a reason.

"...That's about it, the files here have also been processed."

"There are still some things left."

The young female constable explained the files to Bao Zheng and her Senior Brother. Lord Bao was drinking and chatting in a low voice with Mr. Gongsun next to him. There, Nanxia Zhan Zhao quickly walked over and whispered, "Junior Sister Jue, you seem to be getting close to that thief, Dao Yuan. Could it be that you really intend to..."

The girl frowned and said, "Why does Senior Brother think of me like that?"

"How to pacify this person is your business. How can you make a joke out of a girl's important affairs?"

His tone was stern and sharp, and then softened slightly, saying:

"I just think that this person doesn't seem to be as the officials of the Six Doors say."

Zhan Zhao smiled: "He wasn't originally."

The young female constable was reading a book in her room at night. Unlike ordinary girls, she could read poetry. Recalling what the constable had done these days, her prejudice against this person seemed to have become a little smaller. Perhaps, this person's actions, the name of the thief, also had other reasons. After all, there were many legends of a chivalrous thief in the neighborhood.

She read a few pages of poetry, blew out the lamp, and lay down to sleep.

But after only half an hour, she heard a series of sounds at night.

It seemed that someone was arguing and someone was chasing.

The girl suddenly opened her eyes and heard the shouts in the wind, which was catching a thief. She jumped up, put on her tights, put the sword in her hand, opened the door, and with the help of the starlight, she could see a figure leaping nimbly on the eaves of Lin'an Prefecture. Under the moonlight, she could see clearly that it was the thief who had just changed her mind slightly.

He really has a thief's nature!

The girl couldn't help but snort coldly, holding her sword. Although at the moment of holding the sword, she had an impulse, it seemed that if she held hands, she could control the flowing wind, but she still held up the sword that she had learned since she was a child, and then jumped out of the room, unfolded her body, and chased after the thief's figure.

But just when she thought that this thief was going to do something with this huge sum of money, she found that he went straight to a remote place in Lin'an Prefecture. This place was far less prosperous than the central area. After nightfall, in the mansions in the center of the city, there were many flickering candlelight, like stars. The large and thick candles with fine texture were covered in lampshades, which could illuminate the ground.

But here it was very quiet and dark, as if she had come to the wilderness. It was a family that was reluctant to light candles.

She saw the thief stretch out his fingers, cut the silver into small pieces, and then flicked them into those poor people. He walked all the way, having a great time, and finally exhausted all the stolen property. He sat cross-legged on an old tree on the edge of Lin'an Prefecture and said lazily, "I've been following all night, come out."

The red-clothed girl thought for a while, put her sword back into its sheath, and then walked out of her hiding place.

"Isn't this Constable Jue?"

The thief was lazy.

The young female constable said, "Robbing the rich and helping the poor?"

"Personal hobby."

"Why hide in those corners?"

"This way they will think they lost it themselves, and they won't feel like they're being helped."

The thief spread his hands: "The common people also want face."

The young female constable was silent for a while, and said, "But your robbing the rich is also theft, which is a violation of the Song Dynasty's criminal law."

"Tsk, I'm just taking back what they should spit out." The thief rested his hands behind his head and replied, "Look at what kind of lives these people are living. They work diligently but that's all. This is just in Lin'an Prefecture. If you go to the villages and towns everywhere, how many land mergers are there? Which noble minister in this Song Dynasty does not occupy thousands of acres of land?"

"You only protect these nobles and wealthy merchants, but you don't care about the common people."

"The rich have fields that can be seen everywhere, and the poor have no place to stand."

"You constables can't do things, I can also do it myself. At least, I still have my skills and a sword." He sat up straight and said recklessly, "For the lords in the court, the prime ministers, and that official, are the foundation of this Great Song."

"But to me, this Jiangye thief, they are nothing. Every landscape in this Jiangnan, the charcoal-selling old man, the flower-selling little girl, the soup-making young brother, these are the Great Song, and that's why I think this Great Song Dynasty is flavorful."

The young female constable opened her mouth, unable to refute.

These are also things that Bao Zheng has repeatedly regretted.

She was silent for a long time and said, "But why does a thief like you do this kind of thing?"

The thief was stunned.

After a while, he hesitated and said, "I don't know either."

Losing his memory and changing his personality only turned him from an above-board crouching tiger into a sword in the night.

Even if I forget everything, even forget me, at least I will definitely find you, and in the end he just shook his head and said, "I just did it if I wanted to, I won't say it anymore, cough cough, Miss Jue, today the scenery is boundless, a beautiful day, you and I are here, why don't you..."

"Don't even think about it!"

The girl raised her eyebrows and refused decisively.

The thief scratched his head.

"Not even a little chance?"

"Unless you can take the stars from the sky."

She originally intended to make the other party give up, but who knew that the thief suddenly rejoiced and clapped his hands:

"Take the stars, right!"

"Okay, three days later, still here, I'll show you!"

"You..."

Before the young female constable could speak, the thief touched his toes and flew away.

Three days later, the girl felt a little uneasy in her heart. Although she knew that it was definitely impossible, what if? What if? This made her a little absent-minded. When she passed by the road, she didn't even have time to hear the conversations of the people around her.

She just heard that a very famous pharmacy seemed to be closed today. There were rumors that they heard Dr. Xu's screams, but the beautiful woman just said that her husband was not feeling well. Tonight, she hesitated for a long time, even though she had already gone to bed, she finally got up.

"Hmph, let's see what he can do?"

Holding her sword, she flew out and arrived at the place where she had met that day.

She waited all night.

Today, the thief never showed up.

ps: Today's second update...

It will probably end tomorrow.