
Nine Pounds of Thieves
by Gu Tianyi
About This Novel
One dawn in May of the thirty-eighth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Qingyun Temple on Daji Mountain. Ma Yu, a veteran, heard a baby crying outside the door, so he went out to check and saw that the fat baby boy in the willow basket on the ground was very cute. The baby boy only had a small quilt and a handkerchief embroidered with his birth date. Because he weighed nine pounds when he entered the temple, the Taoist named him Jiujin. Fifteen years later, the old man became seriously ill. When he was dying, he told Jiu Jin to go to Wudang Mountain to find the real person Zhang Hao to report his funeral, and then left to the west. With the help of local villagers, they buried Master Jiujin and took their three children with them on a journey of more than 2,000 miles. From then on, the legend of the nine-pound thieves spread across the country and across Kyushu.
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