Chapter 40 Number Worship of Martial Arts Masters

People like the old monk Lu Chengguan can't pass the level of number worship. There is a strange phenomenon: some heroes in the Jianghu have a high regard for fame, money, and beautiful women, but they can't see a few insignificant numbers, and they can't see it all their lives. There are so-called "several great mysteries" in Jin Yong's novels, one of which is "the mystery of the thirteen great monks". It is said that in the early Song Dynasty, a great monk came out of Shaolin Temple, who actually learned the "seventy-two unique skills of Shaolin". The thirteen gates in the village have become legendary.

Who is this monk in the book, and whether he is Xuan Cheng in the book? There are different opinions, and it has become a big unsolved case.But this incident at least shows that numbers can bring great glory.People don't even remember the name of this great monk, but firmly remember the number "thirteen". In the arena, there are many top figures who have been busy and struggling for one or two numbers all their lives.For example, Comrade Yang Dingtian, the leader of the Ming religion, his number of struggle is "four", because no leader has been able to train the "Great Shift of the Universe" to the fourth level for many years; another example is Jinlun Fawang, his number of struggle is "ten" ", because no one in history has been able to practice "Dragon Elephant Prajna Kung Fu" to the tenth level.

A small number can bring them great pride and confidence.The proud number of Tianshan Child Elder is "one", which is known as "there is no need for a second trick to kill"; the proud number of another chivalrous man, Hong Qigong, is "231". Eleven people, none of them are good people; there is also Master Jiumozhi, who is most likely the person with the highest IQ in the village, who advertises that he has mastered all the seventy-two unique skills of Shaolin Temple, and later did not hesitate to practice for it. Obsessed. On the other hand, if one or two numbers are lacking in life, it will make the masters feel seriously aggrieved, and even brood on them for the rest of their lives.

For example, Mr. Shi Huolong, the leader of the beggar gang in the movie, only learned twelve palms from the eighteen palms of subduing the dragon, so his leader was very reluctant and depressed.In the movie, the Crocodile God of the South China Sea has never been satisfied with being "the third son of Yue" all his life, and his greatest ideal is to be the "second son of Yue".Comrade Gongye Gan has always thought of himself as "the second in the palm of the south of the Yangtze River", and has been proud of it for many years. It was not until he met Qiao Feng that he realized the huge gap and realized the cruelty of the truth. The "No. 1 fart in the world" who gives up on himself.

Sometimes, numbers can become a heavy mental burden for masters. Abbot Benyin of Tianlong Temple, a dignified generation of eminent monks, was asked "how many grades he has practiced with one yang finger", he immediately felt very ashamed, "sweat dripped from his forehead", and said that he "only got the fourth grade". ", it seems that the number "four" makes him very embarrassed. Not only masters, but also those little characters in the arena still have number worship.There is a sect with very poor martial arts, called Qingcheng sect, but generations after generations have tried to make up the numbers of family martial arts "Qing character nine hits, city character eighteen broken"; and another very small sect ——Two moves of the "Five Tigers Broken Door Knife" of the 59th Route of martial arts in Qinjiazhai, Yunzhou were lost, so they had to forcibly make up another two moves to make up the number "fifty-nine".

We were even surprised to see that even the most indifferent to fame and fortune in the martial arts world cannot pass the level of number worship. There is an old monk, Chengguan, who is one of the most aloof and indifferent to fame and fortune in all Jin Yong's works, but even he is not immune to the vulgarity. He has always been obsessed with two numbers all his life, and it is hard to let go: one is that he only spends money In forty-two years, he has practiced "One Finger Zen", and his speed ranks third in the history of Shaolin Temple. To be ranked below 70", he "couldn't help being frustrated".

Just a few numbers, why is it so important in the arena?I think probably because it can be used for comparison.With numbers, there is competition, high and low, strength, and victory and defeat among people. One of the characteristics of mediocre people is that they like to turn complicated things into simple numbers, and then compare them happily.In our daily life, we often see similar phenomena, such as "Our country has a lot of people, why don't we go to fight a certain country, we can use three people to fight him off alone" "One of our nuclear submarines can fight off an aircraft carrier in a certain country"" How many billions of foreign debts we have mastered, and we can buy as many and as many territories in other countries," and so on.

This is so similar to a joke in the novel: In the teahouse in Hengshan, those mediocre people were talking loudly: "Have you heard that? Mr. Liu's martial arts are much better than Mr. Mo Da! Because Mr. Liu can stab five geese with one sword, Mr. Mo Da can only stab three heads!" In fact, what can the numbers really represent? That "Thirteen Absolute Monk" Xuan Cheng, known as the "No. 1 martial artist in the past two hundred years" in Shaolin Temple, suddenly had his tendons broken one night and became a cripple; After a few minutes, he was pissed to death by his unfaithful wife; the eminent monk of the Tantric School in the Song Dynasty practiced the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Kung Fu" to the ninth level, but he went mad and danced wildly for seven days and nights and died; Jinlun Fawang finally practiced to the tenth level He was a self-proclaimed "Master Everest", full of ambitions, and wanted to conquer Xiangyang City, but within a few days, he died in battle, and this magical skill was lost.

If the numbers are really that useful, the highest martial arts in Jinyong Jianghu will not be the sweeping monk and Dugu Qiubai, but Mr. Cui Baiquan.He is nicknamed "Golden Abacus" and carries an abacus with him.However, the fact is that he is so good at arithmetic, but his martial arts are pitifully poor. Of course, after all, there are always some numbers that will shock you, beyond your reach. For example, there was an unconfirmed report a while ago, saying that someone "slept all over the Twelve Beauties of Jinling", which surprised me.Because even in the original book, no one can "sleep all over the twelve beauties".Not to mention twelve, no one sleeps until three.Please forgive me for using this verb that doesn't respect women very much in order to corroborate the rumors.

Let's make statistics, among the twelve beauties in Jinling, Baoyu only sleeps one - Baochai; Jialian only sleeps one - Sister Feng; even the emperor sleeps only one - Yuanchun.The highest record in the book may be Jia Rong, and there are only two who survived——Qin Keqing and Sister Feng, and there is still a lot of controversy about whether he slept until Sister Feng. It seems I was wrong.Who says numbers don't make sense?The life of this gentleman is really meaningful.