Chapter 4 3. Legend of Tongkou

The benefits of playing games are high, but the risks are also high, because these people are not ordinary roe deer, they are all monkey spirits who compete one by one. It is not easy for them to be "one". Jump back", or the big "one" becomes big "jujube". At this time, people are usually about to die. As for who dies, it depends on the specific situation. Following the grandfather is the entrustment of life and death.fear death?In the words of my grandfather: "If you are afraid of death, it is better to go home and feed the pigs!" Ah Bao's business is high-risk, high-return, look at the people around Grandpa, which one has not survived many battles and escaped death of!

Let's talk about Dabatou first, that is Tangkou's gold-medal killer, and he does all the murders, dogs, and pigs.Da Batou is the person who has followed his grandfather the longest among the existing Batou.He is very fierce, chubby, with a shaved bald head, skin rash on his head, and his hair itches when it grows, so he never grows his hair. He shaves it every few days, it is shiny, and every time he holds a meeting, His head was covered with sweat, and he looked very hot. My grandfather recruited Dabatou into the army in the 13th year of the Republic of China, which was the second year after my grandfather took charge of Tangkou.Before joining the group, Dabatou was a pig butcher, working for a butcher on the street.After finishing his work one day, the butcher gave him two catties of bacon. Unexpectedly, he ran into a few gangsters on the road who insisted on grabbing the bacon from him. Head angry.Real fights are not as sophisticated as those described in martial arts novels. In real fights, what is useful is what is used, what is practical is what is used.The dam first crushed a person's eggs, then blinded another person's eyes, bit and tore them, and finally smashed a person's head with a brick.As a result, Dam Tou was sentenced to death.

It was widely spread at the time.After hearing this, the grandfather felt that this person was a material, so he paid a lot of money to redeem him for his own use.Grandpa did have a pair of discerning eyes, and Dabatou did not live up to his grandfather's expectations. After he joined Tongkou, he dared to fight and fight hard. When gangsters came to make trouble, he was the first to rush forward and stab people with a knife. Without blinking!There is such a type of people in this world who get excited when they see blood, and Da Batou belongs to this type.Over the years, he has been loyal to his grandfather, and like Erbatou, they belong to his grandfather's guards.

If Dabatou is a person who gets excited when he sees blood, then Erbatou is a person who gets excited when he sees a dead person. Erbatou is a legend.He followed his grandfather when he was 15 years old.It was 1928, on the eve of the Second Northern Expedition, and horror rumors of "the seductress" were spreading in many areas in the south of the Yangtze River.Rumors spread from Nanjing that a little boy was playing with his friends on the street. At this time, a woman walked up, touched the boy's head a few times, and then turned away. As a result, the boy immediately turned pale and his limbs Stiff, eyes fixed and silent, and lost his soul ever since.

This rumor soon spread throughout Nanjing City, and later spread to other areas.As a result, many parents worried that their children would be seduced by the seductress, so they tied red ribbons on their children and put peach leaves in their pockets to ward off evil spirits.Later, it was rumored that the temptress would not spare even adults, so the adults also wore red belts one after another. Later, they simply cut the women's menstrual cloth into pieces and put them in their pockets, for fear that their souls would be taken away by the temptress. . Grandpa just took advantage of this opportunity to make a lot of money by exorcising demons and summoning souls.One day my grandpa was walking on the street, when a boy came across and bumped into my grandpa. The grandpa saw that he was a thief, so he pinched the boy's arm.The grandfather said: "You are young, just do this! Be careful that I will hand you over to a temptress and take your soul away!"

The boy's face turned horizontal, "I'm not afraid!" The grandfather looked at him carefully, and there was indeed no red-headed rope tied all over his body. The grandfather smiled and said, "You are not afraid of death!" The kid said: "Ghosts believe it!" Grandpa liked this guy a little bit, and said, "Why steal the wallet?" The kid tilted his neck: "Hungry!" Grandpa let go of his hand and patted his head: "Follow me." The boy said, "What are you doing? Are you giving me to the temptress?" Grandpa slapped him: "Go eat!"

Grandfather stopped by a wonton restaurant across the street and bought him a bowl of wontons. The boy ate it up in two or three bites. He was not afraid of being hot, so he bought another bowl for him and ate it up quickly. Grandpa Smiled: "How many more bowls can you eat?" The boy said, "If you can afford it, I can eat it." Grandpa waved his hand and said, "Okay! Shopkeeper, here are ten bowls!" The kid loosened his belt and began to sizzle, eating a total of twelve bowls.Grandpa smiled, knowing that this is a talent! It was only later that I learned that the boy's parents had died early, and he had been living on the streets since he was 8 years old, and his grandfather planned to keep him.A few years later, he became the well-known Erbatou in Abao circle.Grandpa's eyes are really poisonous, he can see the most valuable side of a person at a glance, grandpa has taken a fancy to Erbatou's courage.

When I first met my grandfather, Erbatou refused to accept his training. It was not easy to turn a street thief who was used to casual behavior into a well-behaved Abao.Grandpa beat him often, and he didn't cry when he beat him, as if he wasn't the one who was beaten. In the end, the grandfather lost his mind and said: "You go!" He began to give in, and he had nothing to eat without his grandfather.Later, Erbatou gradually convinced his grandfather, because his grandfather was ten thousand times smarter than him, and every time he opened his mouth, his grandfather knew what he was going to fart.

Erbatou is very courageous and dares to do anything.Especially when playing "Zha Fei Shu", he is really good at it. "Zafei" is a slang word in Abao circle, which means pretending to be a ghost.The more superstitious the common people are, the more market there will be for "Zafei". Before the official "Zhafei", Grandfather had tried to test his courage. The grandfather told him: "Didn't you say that you are not afraid of ghosts? I heard that a beggar died of starvation in the ruined temple in Sanligang outside the city. Go and take off his clothes tonight and give them to me when you come back."

Er Batou said: "What's so difficult about this? It's not that I haven't done this before. When the cold was unbearable before, I even took off the shrouds of the people who had just been buried." After finishing speaking, he was about to set off. The grandfather said: "Wait a minute. I heard people say that people who starve to death will become hungry ghosts after death. They will open their mouths in the middle of the night. If you feed him something, he can still eat. I don't know if it is true or not. You When you go, bring a bowl of rice and feed that beggar to see if he can open his mouth."

Erbatou laughed: "You're talking nonsense. How can such a thing happen!" At night, the dim moonlight shrouded the old city.Er Batou wrapped a small bowl of rice in a cloth, put it on his waist, and set off under the moonlight. It was a mountain temple that had been left unattended for a long time. The wooden door had several holes, and Erbatou walked for an hour to get there.There was silence all around, with occasional crickets chirping. Er Batou regained his composure, pushed the door open, but the hinge was broken, and when he pushed harder, the door creaked and opened, and a funeral smell of a dead person came over his face.After a person dies, there will be a special smell from the body, commonly known as funeral gas. This smell is very special, sweet and fishy, ​​and it travels far, so crows can always find it. Erbatou found the corpse in the dark, took advantage of the few rays of moonlight from the crack of the door, and began to take off the clothes, suddenly remembered the bowl of rice on his waist, quickly untied the cloth, took it out, picked a handful of rice with his hands, and stuffed it into the corpse mouth, thinking: "It would be strange if you could eat!" Unexpectedly, the corpse really opened its mouth, opened it slowly, and let out an uh sound, Erbatou suspected that he was delusional, blinked vigorously, and it was indeed opened.Er Batou tremblingly stuffed the rice into the corpse's mouth, and the corpse chewed slowly.Erbatou was dumbfounded, his scalp went numb for a while, seeing that the corpse had finished chewing the rice, he swallowed it with a grunt, and opened his mouth again with an uh sound, Erbatou went crazy. "Fuck you!" He threw the bowl directly at the corpse's face!The corpse sat up suddenly, wailing loudly.Erbatou ran out and ran back to the city in a hurry. Grandfather was waiting for him, and when he came back sweating profusely, he asked, "Where are the clothes?" Er Batou was out of breath, and said: "It's broken, it's broken, it's real, I ate it, I really ate it..." The grandfather laughed loudly and said, "You can feed him when he eats. He died of starvation, and you will gain merit by feeding him." Erbatou said: "It's so weird! I saw him open his mouth to eat, so I threw the bowl on his face, and he sat up..." Grandpa was taken aback: "Did you hit him on the face?" Er Batou said, "Well, I ran away after smashing it." Grandpa said: "Wait." Erbatou said, "What are you waiting for?" Grandpa said: "You will know in a while." About half an hour later, Dabatou came from outside the house, his face was covered with blood, Erbatou was startled: "Brother, what's wrong with you?" Da Batou was furious: "Ask me again! You're too fucking cruel!" Grandpa smiled: "Go and wash it." This is a game, the beggar who died of starvation was pretended by his grandfather, and the real dead person has been removed by Dabatou, but no one thought that the second Batou would become angry and smashed dam head.From then on, a deep scar was left on Da Batou's face, but the grandfather became more and more satisfied with Erbatou. Compared with Dabatou and Erbatou, Sanbatou is a gentle and knowledgeable Abao.There is nothing he doesn't know about astronomy, geography, yin and yang, and gossip. He is also familiar with "Mencius", and he speaks well, with a brilliant literary talent.This kind of sanctimonious wolf in human skin is the most terrifying. The grandfather I met in Sanbatou in 1930. Before that, he was a fortune-telling liar in the countryside. He knew some theories and was good at making money. One day he went to the city to cheat. Fortune teller!Da Batou suggested to the grandfather to cut him up, and the grandfather said, "Let's see." The grandfather sent several people to find out his depth, and a few little feet came back and said that this boy is so beautiful that the common people have been deceived. Grandfather decided to meet him in person.When he arrived at his booth, the grandfather saw that this man was only in his early twenties, with a fair face, wearing a long gown, and a personable demeanor.The grandfather deliberately gave him a loophole and asked him to make money. The boy thought he had met a big roe deer. He talked nonsense, and the grandfather nodded repeatedly. Finally, the grandfather gave him a few silver dollars and said: I don’t bring much money today, you can go home with me to get it, and I happen to see my house and adjust the feng shui, I will definitely thank you very much!" Sanbatou hurriedly closed the stall, happily followed his grandfather home.The result can be imagined, as soon as he entered the door, he was tied up by a few little feet, and the dam head gave him a slap when he went up, "You don't even find a place to shit!" Sanbatou was stunned, but he knew in his heart that he must not admit that he was a liar. He said dejectedly: "Sir, why is this? I am a little fortune teller, and I came to Guidi just to ask for a meal." , I don’t know how to offend you!” Erbatou, who was standing by the side, finally couldn't bear it anymore, went up and kicked him, and then slapped the back of his head with his hand: "You pretend again! You pretend to me again!" Sanbatou said with tears in his eyes, "Master, please forgive me. The younger one is a fortune-teller. If the calculation is not accurate, the younger one will refund the money. Master, don't beat me. I have a seventy-year-old mother and a three-year-old child!" Erbatou winked at Dabatou, and Dabatou pulled out the pig-butcher knife from his waist, and walked in front of Sanbatou: "I'll cut off your tongue right now, and I'll let you pretend!" Sanbatou cried and shouted to his grandfather: "Master, you should say something! Is the little one not accurate for you? Wasn't it good just now? Master!" Grandpa waved his hand, and Dabatou stepped aside with a knife.The grandfather walked up to Sanbatou, held out his thumb, and said, "Brother, you are really pee-like! (In local dialect, it means kind.)" Sanba was startled, "What pee, master?" Grandpa nodded and said, "Talent." Sanbatou still pretended to be confused: "Master, are you talking about me? I'm just a little fortune teller..." As soon as the grandfather raised his hand, a flying nail hit Sanba's left ear, and a hole was pierced in the ear instantly, and a small piece of flesh on the tip of the ear was knocked off. Sanba's head hurt so much that he yelled, "Master , I say! I say!" The grandfather shouted loudly: "Tie number?" "Xue Jiaren!" "West handle?" "Xuzhou Pei County!" "Master dad?" "Top Water Wind!" "Can it be loaded?" "Wow!" "Split the party?" "Don't dare!" Dabatou and Erbatou looked at it, and it was grandpa who was very powerful, and he took care of this kid in a few strokes.This conversation is all A Baoquan's slang. "Biehaoer" is asking what his real name is, "Wobing" is asking where he is from, "Master Dad" is asking who his leader is, and "Dingshuifengzi" is unorganized and running around committing crimes, " "Kanzai" is to ask how many years he has been in this industry, "Wang" means the number "three", and "whether to split the party" is to ask whether he has killed anyone. The ancestor looked at his eloquence and courage, especially his madness of his duel and dying, and made his grandfather feel indispensable. Grandpa smiled and said, "Follow me." Sanbatou had already understood the few slang words from his grandfather earlier, he was a fellow and a master at the same time.These years, Sanbatou has been fighting alone. Although it can solve food and clothing, it is always unsuccessful. There is no one behind it, and it dare not do big things. Now it has finally found an organization.Sanbatou followed his grandfather in this way. Of course, he was not Sanbatou at that time, and he was promoted to Sanbatou only after the eldest son of Tangkou died of illness. Compared with the first three Batou, the fourth Batou is always boring and not talkative, but he is the "technical strategist" of the whole hall. In today's words, he is a talent in science and engineering. , especially for the big "Zafei" game, he is the one who prepares the props.He can mix cinnabar and yellow phosphorus in a certain proportion, and use this blender to draw symbols, and the symbols can shine in the dark.He can use alum to concoct a strange potion, dip it in this potion and write on paper, and after writing, he can't see anything, and then burn it with fire, the paper will turn black, and the writing will appear.I heard from everyone that Sibatou was snatched from the Japanese by my grandfather, and was once trained as a successor. Moreover, my grandfather personally matched him and found him a beautiful girl named A Bao with great powers. As a wife, I really envy others, but people are not as good as God, and many changes later caused Sibatou's spirit to be greatly stimulated, and the whole person became depressed. Wubatou and Sanbatou belong to the same category of people, and they are also knowledgeable Po.It is said that he is proficient in wind and water, facial features, and celestial phenomena. I don’t know if he really understands it or not. Anyway, after I entered the industry, I saw him standing on the top of the mountain several times, looking up at the sky, very engrossed.His greatest ability is to be able to draw the dragon veins (mountains) of the whole country exactly. Every time before doing a Fengshui bureau, he can answer where his grandfather asked him, which laid the foundation for Tangkou's Fengshui bureau every time. Solid theoretical foundation. Liubatou is known as "Fengzishou". "Fengzi" is a slang term, which means horse. It is said that this nickname was given to Liubatou by his grandfather, because Liubatou is good at light work, and he is responsible for contacting informants, underworld public relations and doing spot work before the game, just like A tireless horse, hence the nickname. "Feng Zishou" has high martial arts skills, and is good at light work and "Zonghe Boxing".When it comes to lightness kung fu, it is actually not as magical as it is in the legend. What "go two or three miles, four or five feet away from the ground", that is Monkey King, not a human being.All people have weight and must abide by the gravity of the earth.The so-called lightness skills are actually more agile and faster than ordinary people, and they can climb trees and walls swiftly.The general training method is to tie sandbags on the legs, and then insist on running every day or jumping up from a small pit. As the weight of the sandbags increases, people's endurance will become stronger and stronger. After removing the sandbag, the whole leg feels relieved, and the wind blows under the feet when running, and the whole person feels very light! "Seventy-Two Arts of Shaolin" has a special record on the practice of light kung fu. "Feng Zishou" is really good at lightness kungfu. The wall is more than two feet high. He used his strength with one step, and with a run-up, his toes slid across the wall.In addition, he modified his ancestral "Zonghe Fist" by adding the toughness of "Hong Fist".Grandfather often said that "Feng Zishou" is a martial arts genius. "Feng Zishou" was born in the tenth year of the Republic of China, and his uncle was the backbone of Wang Yaqiao's "Ax Gang".According to Erbatou, "Feng Zishou" was only 14 years old when he was with his grandfather, and his grandfather pulled him into the club because he liked the social connections behind him. The last Batou is Qibatou, who also has a nickname - "Immortal Hand".He entered the industry late, and has the lowest qualifications among all Batou. He used to be Erbatou's little foot, but because of his cruelty and superb Zafei skills, before I entered the industry in 1948, he had just been recommended by Erbatou to become the seventh ba head. "Immortal Hand" has wicked eyebrows and mouse eyes, and when looking at people, the eyeballs roll around. These Batou people are very powerful, they can be called dragons and phoenixes among the people, but don't forget, they all bow their heads and ears to their grandfather, you can imagine how powerful the grandfather is.