Chapter 10 3. The branch of Tiandihui, which steals from the rich and helps the poor: Jiang Xiangpai

Grandpa was surprised. Zhou Zhenlong was also puzzled, "Master, why is this? He is our lifesaver." Zhang Dancheng still shouted: "Tie it up!" Zhou Zhenlong didn't dare to disobey his order, he rushed up with his two little feet and tied up his grandfather. Zhang Dancheng smiled coldly, and said to his grandfather: "We are not relatives, and you risked your life to save each other. You have no grievances with Sibatou, but you want to light his sky lantern. Don't you think it's strange?" Grandpa felt a beating in his heart, but he didn't say anything.

Zhang Dancheng walked around the heavily tied grandfather, and suddenly pointed to the grandfather's head and said, "You are the beggar who ran away!" Zhou Zhenlong took two steps back in fright, and said in a daze, "Is it... the kid that Sibatou said slipped through the net?" Grandpa closed his eyes and thought: That's all, that's all.Immediately, he said calmly, "Since you have figured it out, hurry up, and I can be reunited with my family." Zhang Dan grew up and said: "Knowing gratitude and not repaying you is not a gentleman, and it will be used as a crime for the ages. I, Zhang Dancheng, have been walking in the rivers and lakes for decades, and I live on a word of righteousness. You saved my life. It would be inhumane for me to kill you." , I will not kill you, but... I will not let you go!"

Zhang Dancheng knew that the child in front of him was too ruthless, letting him go would be like letting the tiger go back to the mountain. The grandfather was imprisoned in this way, and there was an underground cell in the backyard of the hall, which was specially used to detain Ah Bao who made mistakes. In the second week after being detained, a person who specially guarded the grandfather came. He was about fifty years old and was crippled.Grandpa really couldn't figure out why Zhang Dan had to send a crippled old man with so many Po with arms and legs in the hall. I found out later that this cripple is not an ordinary person, he has been with Zhang Dancheng for decades, and he was not with Zhang Dancheng when Sibatou rebelled. After killing a few Abaos, he climbed over the wall and ran away with his lame legs.After Zhang Dancheng returned to the hall, he came back again.

People are lame, but technology is not lame.He is also considered a first-class killer in Tangkou. His skills are not in his legs. His legs were limped to protect Zhang Dancheng when he clashed with gangsters. His most powerful skill is "flying nails". In addition, a nail can be driven into wood, several inches deep.This set of techniques is said to have originated from the "Swallow Gate" in the Central Plains. Later, many rumored versions have evolved the technique of "flying nails" into "flying knives", because "flying knives" are more exciting and moving.In fact, in that era even the "flying ax" could not "flying knives". First of all, "flying knives" were not easy to get. Before the industrial revolution, there was no large-scale blade cutting technology. All flying knives were polished by hand. It takes time and effort to make flying knives as thin as cicada wings. Even if you manage to make a few handy flying knives, they will not be very useful in actual combat, because the throwing knives cannot be retrieved immediately. Kill a few people, and then you have to wait to be killed, and most of the flying knives are usually used secretly, and they run away after they are fired, so the flying knives that took dozens of days to make will be gone in one battle, and they will act next time It has to be re-sharpened, which is not realistic at all.

Nails are easy to come by, but the nails of those days were not the nails of today.Today's nails are called "foreign nails". Like "matches" and "foreign oil", they are imported products that have traveled across the ocean. In ancient times, nails were relatively large and were made by blacksmiths. The diameter is three to four times that of today's nails. .The supply of nails is also relatively large, and dozens of them can be carried at a time. A master with good skills can shoot without missing a beat, and at least a dozen people can be killed in a single fire.The next time you act, you still pack a bag, and you don’t need to worry about tools.

My grandfather said to me, if you didn't see it with your own eyes, you wouldn't believe that there is such an expert in the world, the lame man raised his hand, and the iron nails flew out with a "swoosh", and smashed into the wooden pillar of the prison door with a "collapse" sound. , the grandfather was shocked, and understood why Zhang Dancheng sent such a person to guard him. "Master said that you are his savior and also his sworn enemy. Let me not neglect you, let alone trust you." That's what the lame man said to his grandfather when we met on the first day.

In the beginning, the two were wary of each other. One sat inside the cell door, and the other sat outside the cell door, and they didn't talk much. Later, they got acquainted and gradually began to talk. The cripple's name was Tu Yiming, and he was Zhang Dancheng's first disciple after his debut.After he became lame, Zhang Dancheng basically stopped arranging his outfield affairs.His leg was broken because of Zhang Dancheng, and Zhang Dancheng swore in front of his brothers that he would support him for the rest of his life.In fact, there is no need to raise it at all. Tu Yiming has worked in the hall for so many years, and he has a lot of money, so he is not short of money.

The grandfather asked him why he didn't take the opportunity to leave the hall and go to another place to live anonymously.Tu Yiming chuckled: "You don't understand. I have been in Tangkou alone for decades, and Tangkou is my home. This relationship cannot be exchanged for money. I am a brother of Tangkou in life, and I am a brother of Tangkou in death. Damn, I'm used to spending time with my brothers. After I'm disabled, although I don't go out on the field anymore, it's still necessary to make suggestions behind the scenes. I can't be idle, and I don't want to eat idle food. It just so happens that you are here, and Master wants I guard you and say you are a dangerous person."

Grandpa smiled wryly in his heart.For a while, my grandfather lived comfortably, with meat for three meals a day, and two sips of rice wine on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year.Zhang Dancheng's move is so perfect, time can smooth everything out, and the anger and depression in the grandfather's heart began to slowly diminish.At night, the grandfather often talked to himself, reminding himself to remember the hatred: Although Zhang Dancheng did not kill his brother and sister himself, he was the person in charge of the hall... If I didn't save them at the beginning...but he didn't kill them now I... Every night, my grandfather would fall asleep with these unthinkable knots. In his dreams, he often went back to the past, back to his parents, and the family was talking and laughing. After waking up, the room was empty and he was in a daze again.

Grandfather also thought about bumping into a corner and dying, but he couldn't figure out why he wanted to die?The family is already ruined, shouldn't he let the incense continue?He also thought about going on a hunger strike, but why did he want to go on a hunger strike?Can the enemy's food not be eaten?Eat enough to live, live to go out, go out to take revenge, not only must eat, but also eat well! Every ten days and half a month, the grandfather would come out of the dungeon wearing shackles, and Tu Yiming would sit in the yard and watch him, with iron nails hidden in his sleeve, and sometimes the grandfather would say: "You don't have to be nervous, I won't run."

Whenever at this time, Tu Yiming would smile and say: "Others won't, you will, dare to kill two people at the age of 15, light a sky lantern for one person, if I'm not careful, I don't even know how I died .” In fact, Tu Yiming liked his grandfather from the bottom of his heart. He often said to his grandfather: "Son, if you are not our enemy, then we will definitely become good brothers. Don't think about revenge all day long, just say something To be fair, Master didn't know that they were your brother and sister when he was playing the game, and when Sibatou was wandering in the street, he happened to meet you..." "Don't mention it again!" Grandfather interrupted him. "I'll mention it if you don't want to mention it. Let me tell you, the master has sent people to the temple to bring back the clay figurines of your younger brother and sister's bones. He bought two large coffins, buried them, and erected a monument. He sent people every month. Burn the paper. Now the brothers at the hall are all advocating killing you, but the master just shouldn't..." "Stop it! You lame!" Grandfather scolded. Tu Yiming chuckled, "You kid, if someone says that about me on the street, I'll blow his throat with a dart." Grandpa couldn't get angry with this guy, "How long is Zhang Dancheng going to keep me locked up?" Tu Yiming shook his head, "Maybe, maybe a few years, maybe a dozen years, maybe a few decades, as long as the master is alive, unless the old man is dead, he will not be let go. You are the enemy of our entire church. If you come out, we won't be able to live. So, I guess you will die of old age here. Isn't that good? There is food and drink, and when you grow up, the master may find you a girl ……Ha ha……" Grandfather was confused for a while, is this the way it is in this life? Day by day, my grandfather has made up his mind to survive. After eating every day, he stretches his arms and kicks his legs in the cell, and sometimes stands on his head to exercise his physical strength and endurance.When Tu Yiming was bored, he would go up to it, sit in the courtyard, drive nails into the big tree one by one, then limped over, pulled them out, limped back, and Hit, go over, pull out again. Once, the grandfather said to Tu Yiming: "Hey, why don't you teach me how to make iron nails?" Tu Yiming narrowed his eyes, and said with a smile, "You think I'm an idiot? I taught you, one day you hit me in the head with a dart, I want to die?" The grandfather also laughed: "Take the heart of a villain to measure the belly of a gentleman!" Humans are emotional animals, they will develop feelings over time, and mutual defenses will also be reduced.Once when Tu Yiming came, he sighed, and his grandfather took the opportunity to ask, "What's wrong?" Tu Yiming said: "Master lost his temper! Almost missed the game! These bastards are too greedy!" Grandpa smiled: "Tell me." Tu Yiming glanced at his grandfather, and his grandfather smiled again: "I'm already a member of the public, I can't run away, and I'll rot in my stomach if I hear it, don't be so nervous." Tu Yiming let out a long sigh: "Forget it. The current Ah Bao team is different from before..." The grandfather asked: "Why is it different, aren't they all liars?" Tu Yiming shook his head: "I lost my way, I lost my way." Grandpa said, "What's wrong with a liar?" Tu Yiming's face sank: "What do you know! We "Jiang Xiangpai" worship the sky as our father, and the earth as our mother. We pass under the bridge with love and righteousness, and die under the knife without justice. Proof, greedy for money, lustful retribution! What kind of way do you say a liar has? Master knows that you will kill him, but he does not kill you, but raises you, this is the way!" The grandfather was taken aback, and immediately said: "Then killing is also the way?" Tu Yiming said: "Killing bad people is the way, killing good people is breaking the way." Grandfather pondered for a moment, "What about killing innocent people?" Knowing that his grandfather thought of his younger siblings again, Tu Yiming bowed his head for a moment and said, "This is wrong. Sometimes it's hard for people to control themselves, and sometimes they can't take care of so much for the sake of others..." When the grandfather heard this, he became angry: "I can't take care of it? If I can't take care of it, I will kill innocent people indiscriminately? They are all children, and they don't understand anything. I have no grievances or enmity with you!" Tu Yiming was also angry: "Who knows that those are your younger siblings? Look at how many beggars there are on the street! Either starve to death, or freeze to death, sooner or later! Just now, just tonight, how many beggars have frozen to death , do you know! Can you manage it? This is a cannibalistic world! They are not eaten by Po, but also by this world!" Grandpa said coldly: "Is this your way?" Tu Yiming sighed and said, "Do you think Master doesn't repent? Do you know how much money the hall gives out to help the poor every year? Do you know how many soups and medicines Master gives out every year? Do you know that people in these ten miles and eight villages Take Master as a living Bodhisattva? Is it not worth the lives of a few beggars for the food and clothing of a large group of people?" The grandfather said, "What if the dead person is your daughter or your son?" Tu Yiming fell silent. Grandfather said: "They are all raised by father and mother, and they are all the heart and soul of parents." Tu Yiming said: "You don't know, Master is good. You look at the few halls in other provinces, what have they become? Swindling money and sex, burning, killing, prostitution, and looting. They do all sorts of evil, you beast!" Grandfather said: "You are similar to animals." Tu Yiming was furious: "You..." He raised his right hand. The grandfather said: "You want to hit me? Beast! Be a beast! Beast!" Tu Yiming looked at his grandfather, and silently retracted the nail in his hand into his sleeve, "I'm not as knowledgeable as you!" Both of them were silent for a long time, and Tu Yiming said, "You can hate if you want, but let me tell you, the real Po is not an animal! Fang Zhaoyu, one of the five patriarchs of Hongmen, founded the 'Jiangxiang sect' 'At that time, echoing with heroes from all walks of life, robbing the rich and helping the poor, fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, the common people all applauded secretly! After the death of the patriarch, all the disciples of the four major houses of Qian, Kun, Kan and Li obeyed the teacher's instruction , with kind thoughts in mind, not greedy for money, not greedy for sex, punishing evil and promoting good, robbing the rich and helping the poor." The grandfather was silent. What he said was true, because the ancestors of the grandfather were also members of the Tiandihui, and the Tiandihui was Hongmen. However, the branch of "Jiang Xiangpai" is gradually drifting away from the world, and grandpa seldom mentions it. Seeing that his grandfather was silent, Tu Yiming didn't know what he was thinking, "Why didn't he speak?" The grandfather pondered for a long time, and said with a heavy heart: "Actually... my ancestors were also members of the Heaven and Earth Society..." This sentence was like thunder, shaking Tu Yiming's body. In his eyes, grandfather is just a beggar of unknown origin. Zhang Dancheng asked him to ask his grandfather's real name and life experience before, but grandfather did not say anything. They had no choice but to stop asking.Unexpectedly, they came out of the same door! In feudal society, the most important thing is to recognize ancestors and return to their ancestors. Tu Yiming hurriedly asked for details, and his grandfather explained in an orderly manner, how his ancestors rebelled against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, and how they joined the Taiping Army, etc., but did not talk about his father. Son. This was enough to make Tu Yiming dumbfounded. He asked timidly, "Boy, do you know what characters are used in your life? Or, do you know what characters are used by your father?" The so-called what character is the fixed character in the name given by each person in the feudal genealogy, generally referring to the character in the middle, which directly reflects a person's seniority.These characters were established by the ancestors at the beginning, and the order was set, and they were passed down from generation to generation. For example, if a person whose surname is Zhang happens to occupy the word "cloud" in his generation, then he and his brothers will be called "cloud". What about Zhang Yun, such as Zhang Yunshan, Zhang Yunteng, Zhang Yunlie, etc., if the next generation has the word "Qing", then the middle of the next generation of these people is "Qing", such as Zhang Qingwen, Zhang Qingcai, etc.People of the same clan can tell who is older and who is younger just by looking at their names. Seniority is the foundation of the principles of ethics, and the three cardinal guides and five constant principles are the cornerstones of thinking in the entire feudal society. Therefore, to mess up the seniority is treason. Beating and scolding the elders, killing the elders, and adultery with the elders are even more heinous crimes. Grandfather remembered the characters of his own generation, he took the word "Guan" and his father took the word "Lin". Grandpa told the truth.The report didn't matter, Tu Yiming's legs were weak, and he ran to report to Zhang Dancheng.