Chapter 2 Chapter 1 The old pickpocket ranks third in the world

If you ask: What industry do you most need to have a pair of dexterous hands? There will be many answers, surgeons, pianists, embroiderers, sculptors, many, many, has anyone thought of pickpockets? Yes, pickpockets. Pickpocket, the most simple and common explanation is: a person who steals property from people—he must steal property from people, otherwise, he is a thief, not a pickpocket. A thief is very different from a pickpocket. A pickpocket needs to steal property from a person, and the person being stolen must be awake. Therefore, it is not easy for a pickpocket to succeed. , to get what you need in the shortest time, and you must have psychological knowledge and know how to divert the attention of others. Someone has studied that the degree to which a pickpocket needs to divert the attention of others is the same as magic. If you cannot divert successfully, you will not succeed .

Pickpockets naturally have to risk being caught on the spot, which requires the courage of an adventurer—knowing that the work they are doing is extremely dangerous, but there must be no panic on the surface. This kind of composure must come from the heart. , but also deliberately pretend to be very calm, a good actor may not be able to do it sometimes. The length of a person's arm is limited, so when a pickpocket is working, he must be very close to the target. Things are on other people's bodies, and in the pockets of other people's clothes, they are all attached to other people's bodies. To retreat safely, during this process, the pickpocket needs to be quick-witted and ingenious, which is beyond the imagination of outsiders.Pickpocketing can even be said to be an art.

If a person can become a successful pickpocket, it should be said that he can become a successful person in any industry. The above is a speech, which sounds very impassioned, and it is also well-quoted with circumstantial evidence, which makes a lot of sense.The speaker was an inconspicuous person, about fifty or sixty years old, with an ordinary face and a medium memory. Even if he saw him twenty times, it would be difficult to pick him out of his memory. When we meet for the first time.I have to ask for your last name. Such an ordinary appearance took great advantage in the industry he was engaged in, just like a dancer was born with slender legs, and a pianist was born with special long fingers.

He is a pickpocket. When such an ordinary-looking person stands beside others, others will not pay any attention to him at all, so it is very easy for him to do it. He is not only a pickpocket, but an old pickpocket. He looks fifty or sixty years old, but his actual age is seventy-two. He keeps exercising to maintain his health and gets facial massage every day to make him look younger. (Look! There is a harsh price to be paid for excellence in any profession, even pickpocketing.) He is in excellent health, and to this day, if pickpockets are tested in the old and traditional way, he is undoubtedly at the top of the class, as he himself calls it, his pickpocketing skills, In China, it ranks third, and in the world, it ranks first—it sounds a bit wrong, but he has his theory. He believes that the industry of pickpockets first occurred in China, so the technology of Chinese pickpockets is still in the world. Above all countries, in China, even if it ranks 183rd, it still ranks first in the world.

(Really, how long has pickpocketing been as a profession? I'm afraid no one can say that, no matter how much a pickpocketer may boast about his own industry, what pickpockets do is stealing , that would make the profession extremely old, since stealing is one of the many evils of human nature.) His name is very dignified, Gu Jiufei, if he has been in the Jianghu for a while, he must know his name, because he is an old-timer among pickpockets, one of the three pickpockets in China (and of course the world). No one wrote Gu Jiufei’s speech for him, it was completely improvised by himself. He has no formal education (he had a strict pickpocket training course), but he likes reading books very much. He read all the books, and over time, relying on his talent and intelligence, he naturally mastered them, and his knowledge was different from ordinary ones.

(He often regrets that if he doesn't like reading so much and spends more time on "business training", he will not only rank third, but definitely rank first. However, when he said this, his knowledge was far behind He is above his peers, and he is very conceited-if his words are regrettable, he is really happy. Not only is he a pickpocket, but he also got into trouble with intellectuals.) There were about a hundred people who listened to his speech, red, yellow, white and black, of all races. There were a few blond girls who were very qualified to become first-class international pornstars, and they were also listening. When his speech came to an end, , warm applause.

(Later, even after his performance, he kissed him passionately. His comment was: Babes look good-you can see them from a distance, but they are too much to stand up close.) More than a hundred people gathered in a big old house, and the owner of that big house was also a pickpocket. At this time, the purpose of so many people gathering was the first 'World Pickpocket Representative Conference' since the history of mankind. Such an unprecedented event, if Gu Jiufei, a veteran of the pickpocket world, is invited to speak, he will naturally be warmly welcomed. After Gu Jiufei spoke, several other people spoke, among which a South Korean representative's speech was the most popular. He said: "Next year in Seoul, there will be a grand and worldwide grand event. Welcome colleagues from all over the world to come to Seoul. Colleagues, we must do our best to help."

The speeches of the next few people were relatively boring, and then, representatives from various countries performed pickpocketing techniques representing the styles of various ethnic groups. Finally, there was Gu Jiufei’s performance. A wooden figure made entirely according to the joints of the human body was hung on a shelf, rolled out, dressed in a neat three-piece suit, and hung small steel bells on it in front of everyone. When it was ten, Gu Jiufei raised his hand to stop it, and then announced: "Whoever can pick up property from this wooden man without ringing the bell can enter the house and become a first-class pickpocket."

A few people didn't go up to try it, and some of them made the bell rang loudly as soon as their fingers touched the wooden figure, and some finally lifted their coats, but the bell rang likewise. Gu Jiufei looked sad, shook his head and sighed, and ordered to continue hanging the copper bell. At the same time, he put his hands behind his back, and ordered the translator to translate his words into the language selected by the United Nations. What he said was heartbroken: "Here, already He is an elite pickpocket in the world, but he couldn't even pass the test of ten bells. Hey, pickpocketing is an art, not everyone can be a pickpocket, I hope you will work hard."

The people attending the party saw that there were thirty copper bells hanging on the wooden figures, and most of them (especially the Westerners) took pleasure in their misfortune, deliberately looking at Gu Jiufei to make a fool of himself. Gu Jiufei took a deep breath: "That's enough, thirty bells are enough to open the eyes of the people here." He rubbed his hands, "huh" in the palm of his hand, and blew a breath, but he didn't see any movement, only saw him leisurely approaching the wooden figure as if nothing had happened, and even covered his mouth with his hand, and hit him. a yawn.Beside Wood, turn around and wave outwards, one thing after another will be swung out. A handsome young man runs after him, catches the things he swung out one by one, and lifts them up to let him go. People see—those things were all put into the clothes of the wooden man just now in front of everyone, including banknotes in trouser pockets, wallets in coat pockets, gold pens in shirt pockets, A watch on your wrist, or even a ring on your finger...

In an instant, everyone held their breath and there was no sound. At that time, if any one of the thirty copper bells on the wooden man's body made a sound, everyone would definitely hear it. However, the wooden man hanging in the air remained motionless, and the thirty copper bells on his body naturally wouldn't make any sound. During the performance, at most one and a half minutes before and after, the young man's hands were already full of "stolen goods". Gu Jiufei stood still suddenly, his face was not red, he was not panting, and he was still the kind of person who seemed extremely ordinary. Standing with his back to the wooden man, he suddenly turned around and blew a breath towards the wooden man. The wooden man swayed immediately, and the bell rang loudly. Until this moment, everyone waited and cheered like a thunderstorm. Several blond beauties tried their best to print the lipstick on their lips to Gu Jiufei's cheeks. Gu Jiufei closed his eyes slightly and crossed his hands behind his back. , motionless, and never hit the idea of ​​those beauties. When everyone was excited and calmed down a little, Gu Jiufei said: "When I was nineteen years old, the highest record was sixty-six bells, and it lasted for nearly twenty years before I started to regress. Now, fifty bells are still alive. Yes, no matter how many bells there are, you will inevitably make a fool of yourself. Generally speaking, if you have five bells, you will seldom miss it." The pickpockets sighed again, and the young man put back the things he picked off from the wooden man one by one, then turned to Gu Jiufei and said, "I heard from a friend of mine that this kind of wooden man who trains pickpockets, And the thing about hanging copper bells on wooden figures." Gu Jiufei raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, not many people know this training method now, what's your friend's name?" The young man said: "His name is Wesley." Gu Jiufei said "ah", and dragged the boy aside: "Wesley? The son-in-law of Boss Bai?" The boy nodded again and again: "Do you know him?" Gu Jiufei pondered for a moment: "Should have heard of each other. Well...if I want to see him..." The young man obviously never thought that Gu Jiufei would have such a request, and immediately showed a embarrassed expression. The young man naturally knew that I, Wesley, did not meet strangers so casually.Because that young man's name is Wen Baoyu, that troublemaker Wen Baoyu. How did Wen Baoyu and Gu Jiufei get together?A brief introduction is warranted. Completely by accident. (The chances of life, there are many things that happen by chance. And the things that happen by chance can have a huge impact on a person's life, and even change his life.) Wen Baoyu, Hu Hua, and Liang Chenmei went to a very large playground to play.That kind of playground is just the world for people of their age. Liang Chenmei likes that environment very much, and competes with Hu Hua and Wen Baoyu in courage and abilities in all aspects. Liangchen Jingmei has received strict Chinese martial arts training, and naturally has the upper hand in various games. Anyway, Hu Hua and Wen Baoyu are both gentlemen, and they don't care about competing with women, so they are laughing and laughing, and naturally enjoy it. The first time they met Gu Jiufei was in front of a game booth in the playground. The game at the game booth was quite special. There was a "maze" with nine twists and thirteen bends and iron wires. The maze was composed of two lines. Composition, the gap between the two strands of wire, sometimes wide, about five centimeters, sometimes very narrow, only about half a centimeter. The gameplay of the game is to use an iron rod with a diameter of about three centimeters to move between the two strands of iron wire without touching the wires—once they touch the wires, there will be a strange sound, and that is considered a loss. When Wen Baoyu advised Liangchen Meijing not to continue playing for the tenth time, his voice was loud: "Don't waste any more time, no one in the world can pass through the entire maze. See for yourself, there are seven or eight places in the narrowest place, and each place is There is no time, whose hands are so stable?" At that time, it was Liangchen Meijing's turn to play, and after not moving for a long time, there was another strange sound, Meimei immediately said: "I will try again." Wen Baoyu's face was flushed, and he stretched out his hand, snatched the iron rod from Jingjing's hand, and called, "Stop playing." Who knew, he just yelled, and the stall owner of the game booth suddenly raised a slender iron branch, and knocked it down on the back of Wen Baoyu's hand. Although Liangchen Meijing's actions were fast, it was only their own speed. If they wanted them to push Wen Baoyu away, they were naturally a step slower, so with a "pat", the iron technique had already hit the back of Conservatory Yu's hand. The knock was not light, and the back of the hand immediately became red and swollen. Liangchen Meijing, Wen Baoyu, and Nonsense jumped up together, wanting to argue with the stall owner, but the stall owner preemptively attacked him. He was a gangster with a savage face, and it was obvious at a glance that he was not a kind man. , came out, and the four people who usually only said "fuck" or "his grandma's" and thought they had the arrogance to speak vulgar words were stunned, tongue-tied, flushed, struggling to learn to walk, If you want to return a sentence or two, how can you get in half a sentence. Just when they were neither entering nor withdrawing, it seemed that the immediate loss was settled, and the gentleman had no choice but to take revenge. When it was not too late for three years, suddenly behind them, there was an old man's voice: "Okay, I'll beat you up again, and I'll give it to you too!" If you scold me, you should shut up." The owner of the stall was probably used to being arrogant, so he cursed again sharply: "This little bastard, if you stop me from doing business, you should..." It seemed that there was still a series of swear words to come out, but the old man had already handed over a banknote: "I'll play." Once there is business, the swearing will stop. At this time, Wen Baoyu and the other four people realized that the person who stopped the swearing was a very ordinary-looking old man. He also saw that the old man handed over a hundred-yuan banknote. As soon as the stall owner took the banknotes, his expression was extremely cunning: "Old man, children play for ten yuan a time, you can play for one hundred yuan, anyway, as long as you can get through to the end, the winnings will be 100 times." The boss—of course it was Gu Jiufei, murmured: "One hundred times, it was ten thousand yuan that day, you... can you pay it?" The stall owner said angrily: "Of course I can pay for it. For such a big playground, even if I don't have a playground here, I will pay for it." Gu Jiufei nodded again and again: "That's right." Wen Baoyu just ate a heavy one on the back of his hand. At this time, he fell down in pain and received another round of scolding, but the situation is easy to change, and the nature is hard to change. He couldn't help but said: "Old man, don't waste money, no People can get through to the end." The stall owner immediately glared at each other again, Gu Jiufei smiled and said: "Little friend, that's why you are wrong. Bad people do business, such as murdering parents, so keep your voice down. Let me see if I am old enough and my hands are steady enough." He said, and took the iron rod. At this time, due to the vicious abuse of the stall owner, many people were already attracted, and his sudden appearance was full of drama. Moreover, the one-hundred-fold winnings was another big sum in the game field, so let's take a look. Yes, hundreds of people gathered around to watch. Wen Baoyu also wanted to speak out, to persuade the old man not to play, and the beautiful scenery was on both sides of him, sandwiching him in the middle, one by one talking to him: "The old man does not seem to be an ordinary person." Wen Baoyu refused: "How do you know?" They said: "We have practiced martial arts before, and we can hear his breathing. It is long and slender, which is very different from ordinary people. He must have a very high attainment in calming the breath. He is watching the stall owner bullying others. Too fierce, come out for us." Wen Baoyu was skeptical. At that time, Gu Jiufei had already started playing games.When ordinary people move the iron rod, they are always slow and careful, lest they touch the upper and lower iron wires, but he is steady and fast, as if nothing happened, and in the blink of an eye, he has already passed halfway. The face of the stall owner changed color, and he shouted loudly: "Everyone applaud, cheers." He wanted to use this to distract his opponent, but what kind of skill was Gu Jiufei, in the blink of an eye, nine out of ten of them had been completed, the owner of the stall was in a hurry, and he couldn't shake the maze. Liang Chenmei had already seen that the hooligan was up to no good, and immediately popped out a small steel ball and shot it on the crook of his leg. Just when the hooligan couldn't stand still and fell to the ground, the audience gave thunderous applause, and Gu Jiufei had passed the entire maze. When the hooligan stood up, his face was so ugly that it was naturally to the extreme. Wen Baoyu was so excited that he ran over to Gu Jiufei, grabbed his hand and looked at it, saying incessantly: "Impossible, impossible." Although they met once by chance, they really got to know each other a few days later--at that time, the crowd suddenly became chaotic, and some unknown people rushed in, and all of a sudden they were crowded and scattered. Greenhouse Yu and the others gathered at the entrance of the playground, and when they went in to look for the "stranger from the rivers and lakes", they were nowhere to be found. They did refer to the old man as "a stranger in the rivers and lakes", and they mentioned it to me, and I said: "There is a possibility that this old man is used to playing this kind of game. He may have played this kind of game before." booth, so you are familiar with it, and it is naturally handy." It can be seen that the four of them do not quite agree with my statement, but it is difficult to refute it. This was an extremely common thing, if not for the second encounter, the matter would not have progressed further. As early as more than half a month ago, Wen Baoyu was overwhelmed with joy, talking nonsense, beautiful scenery on a good day, ghostly, chirping, and talking non-stop, but when he saw me, he didn't say anything, I knew he wanted to Lead me to ask him what happened. However, I held back and didn't ask him at all. Later, he couldn't bear it anymore and announced his "extraordinary good news" to me-his parents decided to travel to Europe for a period of one month. Seeing how happy he was, I couldn't help sighing, feeling that being a parent is really not easy.From the standpoint of parents, they all feel that they are doing their best to take care of their children, but they never imagined that it would be great news for their adult children to see their parents traveling far away. I sighed and said, "Xiaobao, don't act so happy in front of your parents, they will be sad." Wen Baoyu was in a dilemma: "Don't be too sad, otherwise, they will think that I don't want them to travel far away, and if I cancel the plan, they will be in trouble." I said, "Yes, it's better to be natural." Unexpectedly, these words were heard by Bai Su, and she scolded me: "Why are you talking like this to the child?" I smiled wryly: "Didn't you see that Xiaobao is really happy? His family controls him too strictly." Bai Su disagreed: "That's still called Yan?" I thought about it for a while: "Xiaobao is not an ordinary child, he is very independent. His parents know that they can't control him, but they still try their best to fulfill their responsibilities. Xiaobao's situation is difficult enough." Bai Su also let out a sigh of relief: "At least for a month, I can breathe a sigh of relief." She couldn't help but smiled at me and made a grimace. Parents travel far away, children are sent to the plane, there are a lot of relatives and friends, the plane is about to take off, and Wen San, who is so fat that he has almost become a column, grabs Xiaobao's hand and refuses to let go. , eyes moistened, Wen Baoyu made at least three hundred guarantees before he entered the gate as if he was parting from life and death. (Wen Baoyu said to people afterwards: I was only afraid that I would be killed on the plane - Wen Baoyu exaggerated, of course he was not sure.) As soon as his parents entered the gate, Wen Baoyu turned around, raised his breath and moved forward, three times and two times, and threw the rest of the relatives who were sent to the plane behind him. He has been with Liangchen Meijing for a long time, and he has learned some light kung fu and body skills. Although he is like a ghost, and he is still a thousand miles away, he is very sensitive in his actions, which is true.At that time, he just wanted to avoid his aunts and aunts, so he squeezed in many places and weaved through the crowd. Seeing that he could leave the airport building, he suddenly shouted loudly and his arm was twisted. At the same time, someone shouted: "Pickpocket, pickpocket!" Wen Baoyu never thought that he would be mistaken for a "pickpocket", and he kept looking around until he saw the middle-aged man who caught him, angry and vicious Staring at him, he burst out laughing and said, "Let go of me, you made a mistake." The middle-aged man refused, and during the entanglement, the police had already arrived. When he arrived at the police office at the airport, Greenhouse Yu was very willing to accept the search. By his side, of course, the middle-aged man's lost purse was not found, but in his purse In the middle, he found his passbook, and the eight-figure deposit in the passbook made the middle-aged man and the police officers dumbfounded. (That is the money Wen Baoyu sold some of the items in the house in order to maintain the big house left by Chen Changqing for research. He has a huge amount of money, but he has never used it indiscriminately. So, I say he is a very independent spirit young people.) The police officer sent him away respectfully, and Conservatory Yu heard the conversation between the two police officers.One said: "It's strange. These days, there have been more than ten cases of pickpocketing every day, but none of them have been caught." The other said: "Yeah, it looks like the top pickpockets from all over the world have gathered here." (The police officer was only joking, of course, but he was telling the truth── Really, the world's top pickpockets are all gathered together. )