Chapter 075 – Make Friend Become Famous! (1/2)

075 – Make friend become famous!

“Ah, I can't find my purse—-My purse is gone—-”

From the inside of one of the cabins came a sharp noise like the wailing of a pig.

The noise punctured the peace of the s.h.i.+p; countless guests were awakened from their sleep.

“Mines too, my purse is also gone—–”

“There's a thief on the s.h.i.+p, go report this to the authorities ——”

Sounds of doors being pushed open, disheveled students with face filled with anger were yelling across the s.h.i.+p.

“Boatman, boatman, hurry get the person in charge to come here——” Zhang Linpu hurriedly tied up his belt stumbling out of his room shouting: “The one-hundred gold coins inside my bag was stolen, you've got to retrieve it back for me. Otherwise—-I won't let it go.”

“Exactly and my fifty gold coins—–”

“My one hundred twenty—–”

——-

Li Muyang opened his eyes, after listening and clearly understanding the commotion outside, the first thing he did was touch the crotch of his trousers.

Fortunately, the gold coins were still there.

So he closed his eye, preparing to go back to sleep. This was his first time to be away from home and the first time he left his family; last night he lied in bed thinking of all sorts of worries, it was not until the second half of the night that he eventually fell asleep for a short moment.

It was still dark outside, a faint shadow of the moon still hanging in the sky, but he was already awakened?

Suddenly, he leaped out of bed, pulled out his luggage from under the deck and frantically searched for a while.

He couldn't find anything.

The hidden bags full of gold coins all vanished.

Luo Qi divided the gold coins into several smaller amounts; each bag was hidden inside his clothes, boxes of food or books. All of them have been taken, yet the luggage was still in the exact same place, just like no one has ever moved it at all.

A mysterious thief!

Li Muyang pushed open the door, outside was already a scene of noisy confusion.

Zhang Linpu and other scholars of Jiangnan who also lost their purse were all shouting across the s.h.i.+p, while a middle-aged man with a triangle hat was trying very hard to explain to them but they won't listen at all, instead pulled the middle-aged man's arm and lapel demanding the boatman to compensate their losses.

“Gentlemen, gentlemen——please hear me out, please listen to my words.” The man with the triangle hat bowed incessantly. “Now the pa.s.senger s.h.i.+p had already entered into the fowl crying lake area, this is the most dangerous place and the most likely place for lake bandits to appear. Even if the thieves stole all the money it's highly unlikely they would disembark here.”

“The s.h.i.+p would continue to sail and not dock at any place. So, I'm certain that d.a.m.n thief must still be on the s.h.i.+p. If you give me some time, I can organise a group of people to search every cabins and each compartments. The money stolen is no small amount, even if the thieves want to hide it on the s.h.i.+p it's not an easy task. If we find the money, then would that not lead us to the thief? At that time I can give everyone an explanation.”

After carefully listening, Zhang Linpu also thought it was reasonable. He loosened the boatman's collar, turned around to face his fellow scholars and asked: “What do you guys think?”

“Search. We must search.” With grief and indignation across the crowd's face, they said in a loud voice. Money is just an object, but it's also an life saving object. They just left home and all their money had been stolen. What would they live on in Tiandu?

Seeing Li Muyang walking out of the cabin, Zhang Linpu asked: “Li Muyang, were any of your stuff stolen?”

“My two hundred and ten gold coins were stolen.” Li Muyang said aloud.

Everyone was speechless; they had no idea that Li Muyang would bring such a large amount of money to study.

“Is this true?” Zhang Linpu was in disbelief.

“I was lucky to achieve first place in the exams, the lord of the city rewarded me with two thousand gold coins. Mother wanted me to take half of it to study, so I won't suffer outside. I thought I wouldn't use that much, so I only brought two-hundred and ten gold coins.” Li Muyang explained. He must not let anyone know of the little packet in his pants no matter what, this is his money to survive.

“——–”

The entire crowd stared at Li Muyang while pondering, how did this a.s.shole achieve first in the exams?