In the early spring of the 25th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1899), the glaciers melted and the spring water melted. The magnolias in the Summer Palace bloomed first, white and fragrant, but the ancient Beijing city was still shrouded in a layer of haze.The Forbidden City is like a heavy black coffin pressing heavily on people's hearts, and the weeping willows beside the moat tremble and sway in the cold spring.Some Beijingers vaguely remember the tragic death of the Six Gentlemen of 1898, and some of them still have Tan Sitong's tragic and majestic poems in their minds: "I laugh at the sky from across the sword, and go to Kunlun to keep my courage!" At this time, the common people closed their doors and discussed a strange thing through the window grilles.A woman's screams were heard in Zhao's compound at No. 40 Jixiang Hutong in the middle of the night for several consecutive days.

The owner, Zhao Liu, was originally a servant in the Pregnant Prince's Mansion, but later he took refuge in a brothel in Bada Hutong. He got lucky and earned some money.The big quadrangle he lived in has beautiful corridors and rockery, exotic flowers and rocks, exquisite screen walls, and ancient maple springs, which are very gorgeous.Zhao Liu lived under the emperor's nose, but he dared to privately set up courts and water prisons to torture the poor people.There are five evil angers under him who are very powerful. These five people can learn dragon, tiger, leopard, snake, and crane-shaped boxing respectively, and they are named Wuxing Luquan. They are all foreigners. Dad, wiped out the surname of the ancestors, and changed his name to Zhao Long, Zhao Hu, Zhao Bao, Zhao Snake, and Zhao He.Since Zhao Liu added these five people, he has become even more unscrupulous, rampant and domineering, and does not take the heroes of the world into his eyes.

The news of a woman screaming in Zhao's compound in the middle of the night also spread to a good man in Beijing.The hero is Liang Zhenpu, he is from Houzhong Village in the north of Jizhou City, Zhili Province, and his father opened a clothing store in Dongda City, Beijing.When Liang Zhenpu was seven years old, he asked Qin Fengyi to learn how to play the legs. When he was 14 years old, he went to Beijing to learn how to start a clothing estimation business with his father.Later, Liang Zhenpu's father went to Suwang's Mansion to do business, and in Suwang's Mansion, he met Mr. Dong Haichuan, the chief guard of Suwang's Mansion and the founder of Baguazhang.After practicing Kungfu, Liang Zhenpu set up a field to teach apprentices in a rice tavern in Dongzhushikou outside Qianmen, and he was called "Jiyi Liang" or "Little Braid Liang" in the Jianghu.

Liang Zhenpu is a brave man who is brave and willing to fight against injustices. He usually resents the evil deeds of Zhao Liu, the golden dart.Once Zhao Liu took pickles at the Qianmen "Liubiju" sauce garden and refused to pay, and was severely taught by Liang Zhenpu.Since then, Zhao Liu has kept Liang Zhenpu at a respectful distance.If Zhao Liu is so powerful, how could he be afraid of Liang Zhenpu?It turned out that Liang Zhenpu had a brother named Yin Fu, known as "Shou Yin", who was Dong Haichuan's big disciple. There are also more than 50 brothers including "Glass Cheng" Cheng Tinghua, "Cuihua Liu" Liu Fengchun, and "Thief Leg" Shi Jidong. Some of them work in the palace, and some work in the escort agency.Now that Liang Zhenpu saw that something was wrong with the Zhao Family Courtyard, he decided to unravel the mystery of the Zhao Family Courtyard.That night, he changed into night clothes, covered his face with a black cloth, and walked towards Zhao's courtyard.When he came to the courtyard wall, he first threw a "question stone" and threw it towards the courtyard, but when there was no movement, he moved "Swallow Drilling into the Cloud" and climbed up the wall.In the backyard, there are curved corridors, show rooms, and strange pavilions with stacked stones, hidden among flowers, hidden trees and beautiful bamboos and stones.He floated to the ground, walked along the gravel corridor to the window of a brightly lit wing room, and looked out: Zhao Liuzheng, a golden dart in silk clothes, was sitting cross-legged on the kang, and a seductive woman with half-exposed breasts and cloudy temples Scattered, pounding his back.Sitting across from Zhao Long, the two were talking.

Zhao Liu said: "Since the opening of the Beijing-Han Railway line, the porters in Majiabao outside Yongdingmen have established a foot company, and they have earned a lot of money..." Zhao Long blinked his eyes: "What godfather means is to bring the feet over here?" Zhao Liu stroked his bald head, nodded, drank the tea in one gulp, spit out the tea foam and said, "We have a lot of people, and we know how to do it twice. It’s also convenient for them to turn into this tea foam!” Zhao Long leaned forward: "When will we do it?" Zhao Liudao: "Tomorrow morning..."

At this time, Liang Zhenpu, who was hiding outside and eavesdropping, suddenly saw a figure appear on the window paper. He jumped back suddenly, hiding in the dark corner of the room, only to see a figure flashing in the opposite room. "Hey, what a handsome kung fu! Centipede jump, Three Emperors Kungfu!" Liang Zhenpu couldn't help but secretly shouted. Liang Zhenpu jumped up to the roof lightly with a move of "kite turning over", and suddenly smelled the aroma of wine.He bowed his head towards the surroundings, and called softly: "Master Zhang must have arrived, and Zhenpu is here to welcome you!"

Who is the third master Zhang?It turned out to be Mr. Zhang Changzhen, a well-known martial arts master known to all women and children in Beijing. His name is Shouting, and he was born in Shulu, Zhili.He went to a private school, has a bit of literary talent, and possesses unique skills. He usually lives in seclusion and likes to be a hero in the dark.He also worked as a martial artist in the "Yong Lianju Bureau" of the Qing Dynasty. Later, because of the injustice of the poor people, he fell out with the leader of the Lianyong Bureau, so he was dismissed from his post.He likes to drink. He usually wears a white double-breasted short jacket, half-new blue cloth trousers, a pair of mille-soled cloth shoes on his feet, a bamboo birdcage in his left hand, and a long cigarette pouch with a copper pot and white jade mouth in his right hand. With a stooped waist, squinted eyes, skinny, arched back when walking, staggering legs and swaying, with a pair of drunken eyes all day long, going in and out of wine shops, wandering in the market, giving people a feeling of drunkenness.

Zhang Changzhen has two brothers and one brother, the eldest brother Zhang Changfu, the second brother Zhang Changlu, and the younger brother Zhang Changxiang. Because he is good at drinking and ranked third, the world nicknamed him "Drunk Zhang San".Zhang San's kung fu is very strange, he walks on the snow without a trace, hangs like a painting on the wall, his body can rise and fall freely, his body skin can be as soft as cotton, and as hard as iron.But which school, which school of martial arts he is from, and who his master is, no one knows.According to him, there is no need to talk about sectarian issues, martial arts in the world belong to one family, any sect can be practiced as long as they are willing to work hard, and sect disputes are very meaningless.He never talked about martial arts with the world. If someone mentioned things like martial arts, he would leave immediately. The world thought he was a rather secretive figure.His bodyguard guards the courtyard, just to support his family, to kill the rich and help the poor, to restrain the strong and help the weak. He is not the kind of snobbish person who "runs with his shoulders shoulders and earns money at his waist". He is worthy of singing "the song that the hut is broken by the autumn wind" with the old master Du in the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing that "drunk Zhang San" refused to come out, Liang Zhenpu jumped out of the room.At this time, there was a sound of footsteps in the front yard, and he hurriedly stepped aside.Seeing Zhao Hu coming panting, he lifted the curtain and shouted: "Godfather, everything is ready, the carriage is parked at the door." Zhao Liu asked: "Have you negotiated a price with the shopkeeper of Tianxianglou?" Zhao Hu spat and said, "The old miser finally nodded." Zhao Liudao: "Okay, do it quickly." Zhao Hu lifted the curtain and went out again. Liang Zhenpu felt that something was wrong, so he followed Zhao Hu.

Passing through the Moon Gate of the Erdaoyuan, one came to the west wing and one side room. Zhao Hu opened the door and went in, only to hear the water "squeak" and the stench tangled in his nostrils.There is a girl locked in a wooden cage in the water. The girl is wearing a lotus color tight-fitting button-up button-up shirt and a pair of water-green trousers.Because of all the torture, his face was pale and his clothes were disheveled.Zhao Hu stepped forward and dragged the girl and said: "There are golden beds and jade clothes, and delicacies from mountains and seas are not uncommon. This time it will be good. I will tell you to go to that ghostly place in Bada Hutong, so that your butt will have sores!"

The girl clung tightly to the wooden fence and murmured, "I... won't go!" Zhao Hu grabbed the girl's chest and raised his fist: "You bastard, you have to go if you don't want to go! Don't fucking toast and eat your fist!" Just as Zhao Hu raised his fist in the air, he felt a burst of pain , blood dripped down.Looking up, a shiny plum blossom needle was nailed to the fist.Liang Zhenpu behind knew that Zhang San did it, and secretly applauded.He rushed towards Yi Yin and grabbed Zhao Hu and said, "Don't move, you will die if you move!"Pressed by Liang Zhenpu, he had to confess one by one. It turned out that this girl was called Yu Yunniang, and she was the daughter of Yu Jiwen, a Ningxia Tang Pingquan master.Yang Ping Quan, also known as Tang Ping Seven Forms, is a housekeeping technique of the Hui people.The rule of this boxing school is to pass on to sons and not to daughters, and it will soon be passed on to other ethnic groups, so there are not many people who know this kind of boxing.Last year, Yu Ji heard that his good friend "Da Dao Wang Wu" was implicated in the Reform Movement of 1898 because of his deep friendship with Tan Sitong, one of the six gentlemen of the Reform Movement of 1898. He was worried, so he said goodbye to his family and went to Beijing Yuanshun Escort Bureau to find Da Dao Wang Wu.But Yu Jiwen went there for a few months and there was no news. Because Yu Yunniang missed her father, she went to Beijing alone to find her father.A few days ago, he walked to the West Fourth Archway and asked passers-by the way to the Yuanshun Escort Bureau outside the front door, and Zhao He happened to overhear him.Zhao He saw that she was born with bulging nose and eyes, and she was quite beautiful, so he wanted to lure her into the Zhao family compound as a gift to his godfather Zhao Liu.So Zhao He tricked Yunniang into Zhao's compound with sweet words.When Zhao Liu saw Yunniang, he was overjoyed and wanted to take Yunniang as his concubine.Of course Yunniang refused, she raised her hand and hit Zhao Liu.Zhao Liu became angry and made people beat Yunniang day and night to force her to submit, but Yunniang insisted on not obeying.Zhao Liu had no choice but to sell her to Tianxianglou Brothel in Bada Hutong. Liang Zhenpu was filled with righteous indignation when he heard this. He put Zhao Hu in a wooden cage, stuffed a rag into his mouth, and tied him to a wooden stake.Just as he was about to take Yunniang out, another person squeezed in at the door, smelling of alcohol, he stepped forward and hugged Yunniang, humming: "Brother Hu, don't send her out yet, let us also..." As he spoke, he kissed Yunniang's chest indiscriminately.It was Zhao He who came, and Liang Zhenpu was about to go forward to catch Zhao He, when he saw a column of wine sprayed from outside the door, hitting Zhao He's neck, Zhao He loosened his hands and collapsed on the ground. Liang Zhenpu knew that "Drunk Zhang San" was helping him secretly, so he hurriedly looked at Yun Niang who was puzzled, and the two came out one after another.When I came to the door, I saw two nurses slumped on the ground, snoring, a carriage parked in front of the door, and the driver was taking a nap on it.Liang Zhenpu helped Yunniang into the carriage, and shouted: "Let's go!" The coachman raised his whip, and the horses of the two districts began to trot, and Liang Zhenpu strode like a shooting star behind the carriage. The carriage passed through Xidan and came to Qianmen Street, Liang Zhenpu told the coachman to stop, stuffed some silver taels into his hand, and the carriage left.He took Yunniang to a yellow tavern at the entrance of Dongzhu City. This tavern had a small appearance, a few tile-roofed houses, and an apricot yellow wine flag hung high above the front door of the main room.This is the tavern, and it is also the place where Liang Zhenpu taught apprentices. Liang Zhenpu's disciple Li Guotai and others knew that the master had returned safely, and brought back a Hui girl, and they all surrounded him.Liang Zhenpu came to the backyard and told the whole story.Liang Zhenpu took a cup of hot wine from Li Guotai and drank it down, sighing: "This trip is thanks to Mr. Zhang's secret power. He hit Zhao Hu with a plum blossom needle, and knocked down Zhao He with a spray of wine. God doesn't know. Unknowingly helping me smoke down the two nursing homes at the door, he is so helpful, yet he refuses to show his face, what a hero!" Everyone also praised him.Li Guotai said: "When it comes to Zhang Sanye's martial arts, there is no one in the martial arts circle in Kyoto who does not give a thumbs up. He is elusive and invisible, and his traces are erratic. His Three Emperors Kung Fu is said to be passed down by Dou Erdun, a green forest hero 'Iron Arhat' during the Qianlong period. Yes." Another disciple said: "Mr. Zhang has the spirit of 'the son of heaven can't get off the boat, since Yunchen is the fairy of wine', no matter which high-ranking official worships him, he will be drunk and treat him proudly. .” Hearing this, Liang Zhenpu said suddenly: "Guotai, you and your brothers quickly find the three jars of the oldest rice wine and put them in the yard. This is my way of thanking Mr. Zhang." After Li Guotai and a few brothers went out, Liang Zhenpu asked someone to tidy up a spare room in the backyard, and placed Yun Niang to live there temporarily, and then he went back to the room to sleep. On the second day, Liang Zhenpu was awakened from a deep sleep, and Li Guotai barged in out of breath: "Master Liang, do you think it's strange? Someone drank the three jars of good wine placed in the courtyard!" Liang Zhenpu came to the courtyard in a hurry, and saw three wine jars slanted on the ground, the jars were empty, and there was no trace on the ground.Li Guotai yelled: "Master Liang, there is a note on the jujube tree!" Liang Zhenpu turned his head and saw that there was indeed a plum blossom needle on the trunk of the jujube tree in front of the East Chamber, and a note was hanging on the needle.With a move of "Eagle Strikes the Sky", he took off the slip of paper, on which was written a small poem: "An old horse in the rivers and lakes lives in a common people's house. Whoever loves Jinyi Castle, his ambition is galloping to kill." Liang Zhenpu looked at it , with a slap of the palm: "Ah, this is left by Mr. Zhang. He must have drunk the wine I gave..."