short series

The Thief Den Scholar

share time: 2026-02-20 06:08:15

Kou Xiaochuan, the young leader of Koujia Village (a den of thieves), grew up memorizing his family's "thief's mantra" by heart, but hid a tattered copy of The Analects under his pillow—his ultimate dream is to pass the imperial exam and turn the "thief den" into a "scholarly family." But everyone in the village laughs at him: "A thief's kid wanting to wear a scholar's robe? Harder than stealing the emperor's jade seal!" Even his father chased him half the mountain with a whip: "Our Kou family has lived by stealing for generations—how dare you shame us?" Until a stranded old scholar came to the county town. Kou Xiaochuan secretly hid him in a cave behind the village, stayed up all night copying books and begging to learn. But just as he was starting to grasp the "zhi hu zhe ye" (classical Chinese phrases), the government posted a notice: "Arrest the grain robbers from Koujia Village." Worse still, the old scholar's look at him seems to hide an unspoken secret...

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